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Whitepapers
Keep unwelcome activity away from your data
Jul 2009
During times of economic uncertainty, security threats can rise. Midsize companies need a way to easily and cost-effectively manage threats, whether they originate inside or outside the business....
Provided by IBM
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Resource Center
Protect your patient data and your budget at the same time
Jul 2009
Healthcare providers have an obligation to protect patient data from internal and external threats. But they still need immediate access to that critical data, 24x7. Find out with this e-kit how...
Provided by IBM
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White Papers
Designing Green Datacenters
Jul 2009
Until the knock of environment friendly concepts and public concerns, traditional datacenters had fixed their eye on maximum uptime. Times have changed and datacenters are concentrating on...
Provided by vishalvasu.com
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Case Studies
Distributor Uses Virtualization to Reduce Disruptions and Costs, and Double Efficiency
Jul 2009
Based in San Antonio, Texas, SPFM is a distributor of medical equipment, health and beauty products, and specialty food items. The company needed to modernize its IT infrastructure to accommodate...
Provided by Microsoft
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Case Studies
Hoster Uses Hyper-V to Provide Servers on Demand and Boost Profitability by 55 Percent
Jun 2009
PoundHost is a fast-growing hosting service provider in Maidenhead, United Kingdom, that embraced server virtualization as a way to curb hardware costs and lower hosting prices. However, the high...
Provided by Microsoft
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White Papers
Tomorrow's Enterprise Data Center Today: Simplify, Scale, and Protect Investments With End-to-End Solutions From IBM and Cisco
Nov 2008
IBM and Cisco solutions for the data center enable IT departments to scale to meet increasing business demands with a low TCO. Evolving to a dynamic infrastructure reduces capital and operating...
Provided by Cisco Systems
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White Papers
Strategies for Optimizing IT Operations and Enabling Comprehensive Compliance
Jun 2008
Spiraling data center costs and the need to demonstrate compliance with multiple and evolving regulations are issues that continue to challenge CIOs and IT professionals - especially during...
Provided by CA
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White Papers
Where to Next?: How to Harness Your Business Potential and Enhance Your IT Strategy
Aug 2008
Managed hosting can enable business agility in the market place and allow focus on core competencies whilst experts are on hand and managing back end operations for online presence. No matter what...
Provided by DediPower Managed Hosting
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White Papers
Virtualization: Take Back Your Data Center
Jun 2009
As one of many IT solutions, virtualization can help enhance infrastructure performance. When combined with security and communications solutions, one of the world's most reliable networks, and...
Provided by Verizon
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White Papers
Data Center Management: Managing Data Center Change for Optimization and Risk Reduction
Sep 2008
Unisys understands today's data center challenges. Infrastructure complexity is escalating at an unprecedented rate as a result of increase in managed devices, composite applications, security...
Provided by Unisys
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White Papers
A Layman's Explanation of the Role of IT Racks in Cooling Your Data Center
Jun 2009
Unless it is an actively cooled rack (i.e. one with a cooling coil, which looks like a radiator), the rack is a passive player in the thermal system. The amount of IT systems the rack can "Cool"...
Provided by Dell
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White Papers
NetApp SANscreen: Optimizing the Virtualized Data Center
Apr 2009
Today's business environment is more challenging than ever before. Global market conditions are subject to rapid change while compliance and regulation issues continue to be more demanding on IT....
Provided by Enterprise Strategy Group
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White Papers
Virtualization Beyond the Data Center: Increase Network Infrastructure Utilization and Efficiency to Reduce Operational Costs
Apr 2009
The concept of virtualization has gotten renewed attention with the advent of server virtualization in the data center, enabling organizations to simplify management and optimize performance of...
Provided by Cisco Systems
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White Papers
Strategies for Solving the Datacenter Space, Power, and Cooling Crunch
Feb 2009
Driven by the need to continually deploy new applications and support a larger number of internal and external customers, IT organizations everywhere are finding themselves in a space, power, and...
Provided by Sun Microsystems
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White Papers
Easing the Space, Power, and Cooling Crunch With Green Internet Datacenter Re-Design
Jan 2008
Most large corporations, including communication carriers, are evaluating how to be environmentally friendly as a good public-relations gesture as well as a business choice that is essential to...
Provided by Sun Microsystems
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White Papers
Transforming Business-Critical Infrastructure Through Migration to Itanium-Based Servers: A Decision-Maker's Guide to the Benefits, Challenges, and Available Resources
Nov 2008
Itanium-based servers are changing the face of business-critical computing by delivering enterprise-class scalability and availability on an industry-standard computing architecture that is more...
Provided by Intel
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White Papers
Increasing Storage Efficiency and Reducing Costs in the Data Center Through Effective Capacity Management
Jun 2009
Despite a faltering global economy and flat or reduced IT budgets, data growth continues unabated. Such growth presents a major challenge for storage administrators as they need to accommodate it...
Provided by Enterprise Strategy Group
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White Papers
LDoms I/O Best Practices Network Availability With Logical Domains
Sep 2008
Virtually every server in a modern datacenter depends on network connectivity in order to access resources and provide services to clients. The best practice for enhancing network connectivity is...
Provided by Sun Microsystems
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Webcasts
Architecting for the Cloud: What's Possible Today' What's Practical Tomorrow'
Jun 2009
Cloud is not the latest marketing buzzword, but rather a serious and emerging datacenter architectural framework. This webcast identifies the technology and business process frameworks necessary...
Provided by VMware
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Webcasts
AMD Powers Efficient Datacenters: Comparing Power Consumption
Jan 2009
When server efficiency matters, it's not enough to compare spec sheets. AMD delivers power efficiency at three real-world workloads. This webcast throws light on power management in data centers.
Provided by AMD
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Webcasts
New Performance Enhancements in VMware vSphere 4
Jun 2009
VMware vSphere 4 includes key changes that will enhance the scalability, efficiency and performance maximums as compared to previous versions of VMware Infrastructure. The presenter explains these...
Provided by VMware
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Webcasts
What's New in BMC BladeLogic Operations Manager
Jul 2009
The attendee of this webcast will learn more about the latest releases across the BMC BladeLogic product family and how one can benefit from these improvements to maximize the full value of the...
Provided by BMC Software
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Webcasts
Get Real - Embrace the Virtual Data Center With BMC Software and VMware
Jan 2008
As the business continues to grow, the data center cost and complexity also grows with it. To meet these business demands, IT departments who have turned to virtualization report increased...
Provided by BMC Software
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White Papers
How Veritas Storage Foundation Complements Microsoft Windows Server: Enhancing the Data Center
Mar 2009
Microsoft introduced several new storage management features in Windows Server 2003. In Windows Server 2008, they extend functionality to include the ability to shrink partitions and volumes...
Provided by Symantec
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White Papers
Veritas Storage Foundation and Thin Provisioning: Rationale, Configuration and Benefits
Mar 2008
Modern datacenters are constantly asked to do more with less. Thin provisioning promises to let them do so. It is a mistake to stop there, however. As it has discussed, thin provisioning can be...
Provided by Symantec
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White Papers
Open Source in the Next Computing Wave
Jan 2009
Open source software has been both benefactor and beneficiary of the "Internet wave" of computing during which large-scale, network-connected computing architectures built from relatively...
Provided by Illuminata
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White Papers
Reducing Data Center Cost with an Air Economizer
Aug 2008
To challenge established industry assumptions regarding data center cooling, Intel IT conducted a Proof of Concept (PoC) test that used an air economizer to cool production servers with 100...
Provided by Intel
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White Papers
Data Center Manageability Interface (DCMI) Specification
Aug 2008
The Data Center Manageability Interface (DCMI) specification explicitly addresses the unique requirements of server platform management within Internet Portal Data Centers (IPDC) and other High...
Provided by Intel
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White Papers
Dynamic Power Optimization for Higher Server Density Racks - A Baidu Case Study With Intel Dynamic Power Technology
Apr 2008
Intel's Digital Enterprise Group partnered with Baidu.com conducted a Proof Of Concept (POC) project using the Intel Dynamic Power Node Manager Technology (Node Manager) to dynamically optimize...
Provided by Intel
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White Papers
Intel Microarchitecture and 10 Gigabit Ethernet Transforming the Data Center
Mar 2009
A transformation is taking place in the data center, with more powerful compute resources available, IT managers are using virtualization to consolidate more applications onto fewer physical...
Provided by Intel
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White Papers
Deploying Higher Level Building Blocks for Web 2.0 and Cloud Computing Datacenters: How Tightly Coupled Data Access Appliances Simplify Scaling, Decrease Business Complexity, and Cut TCO
May 2009
Today's Web and cloud computing datacenters have reached a critical juncture as exploding demand for their services has collided with existing architectures and technologies. These datacenters...
Provided by Schoonover Associates
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White Papers
The State of Data Center Cooling: A Review of Current Air and Liquid Cooling Solutions
Mar 2008
This paper provides basic guidance for selecting the right cooling methodology for multiple types of data center projects, as well as varying densities of new servers. It focuses on proven cooling...
Provided by Intel
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White Papers
Increasing Data Center Efficiency Through Metering and Monitoring Power Usage
Jun 2009
To increase data center energy efficiency at one of older data centers in India, Intel IT's Data Center Services group collaborated on a technology study with the IT compute organization and Intel...
Provided by Intel
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White Papers
Maximize Data Center Flexibility Today and Tomorrow With Intel Virtualization Technology (Intel VT) FlexMigration Assist
Aug 2008
With the advent of virtualization technology, data centers worldwide have been going through a revolution in design. Virtualization enables multiple operating systems and applications, also known...
Provided by Intel
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White Papers
Driving 10 Gigabit Ethernet Adoption in the Data Center
Apr 2009
Intel and Extreme Networks are two companies leading the evolution to 10 Gigabit Ethernet adoption, Intel 10 Gigabit Ethernet Server Adapters provide fast and reliable connections for...
Provided by Intel
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White Papers
A Superior Hardware Platform for Server Virtualization: Improving Data Center Flexibility, Performance and TCO With the Intel Xeon Processor 5500 Series
Mar 2009
Server virtualization is helping IT organizations improve data center productivity in fundamental ways. It lets consolidate multiple operating systems and applications per physical server,...
Provided by Intel
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Whitepapers
Data warehousing with DB2 family for IBM System z customers
Aug 2009
Discover the unique support for data warehousing and business intelligence offered by the IBM® DB2® portfolio. This white paper shows how an IBM System z® server, integrated with the IBM DB2...
Provided by IBM
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White Papers
Cisco MDS 9000 Family Advantages in VMware Environment
May 2009
Virtualization brings numerous advantages to the data center, i.e. more efficient resource utilization, decreased level of management complexity, lower power and cooling demands, etc. However, it...
Provided by Cisco Systems
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White Papers
DELL Best Practices Guide for Rack Enclosures
Feb 2009
The Dell PowerEdge Rack Enclosures are offered in two sizes, 24U (2420) and 42U (4220). The Dell 2420 and 4220 Rack Enclosures are designed to hold and protect server, network, and data storage...
Provided by Dell
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White Papers
Data Center Fabric: Leveraging 8 Gbit/sec Fibre Channel End to End in the Data Center
May 2008
Speed increase in Brocade switching platforms is one of many advantages from Brocade's next generation ASIC family. Higher speed in the data center brings the immediate benefit of...
Provided by Brocade Communications Systems
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Whitepapers
Maximizing Your Infrastrcuture through Virtualization
Oct 2012
Whether you're looking to use less power, reduce your infrastructure or simplify infrastructure management, virtualization is the key to meeting your needs. With HP's Blade System you can...
Provided by HP and Intel®
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Whitepapers
HP Reference Architecture for Client Virtualization
Oct 2012
In today's "need it now" marketplace, enterprises are not only searching for ways to improve user experience but also the ability to scale their solutions over time. Enterprises are also looking...
Provided by HP and Intel®
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Webcasts
Backing Up Enterprise Applications: Transaction Consistency Is Key
Jan 2012
In this webcast, the presenter will start talking about what are volume shadow copy services? What is this thing that's called VSS? The presenter also explains about the backing up enterprise...
Provided by Vee Software
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Webcasts
Dell Modular Data Centers Blow the Walls Off Containers
Jan 2012
In this webcast, the presenter going to discusses about the Dell modular data centers. The presenter also discusses about how one can have a fully operational data center in about 30 days, with...
Provided by Dell
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Webcasts
Dell Cloud With VMware VCloud Datacenter Service
Jan 2012
Customers are struggling to meet peak IT demands and issues about facing the storage management. In this webcast, the presenter going to give an overview about the Dell cloud with VMware v-cloud...
Provided by Dell
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Whitepapers - Video
Gartner Research Video: Primary Market Trends that Impact Data Centre Security Today
Oct 2012
Today's data centres feel the increasing weight of virtualisation and cloud computing. But many of the available virtualisation security solutions are not designed for today's dynamic IT...
Provided by Trend Micro Australia
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Whitepapers
Reconfigurable Bandwidth Service Based on Optical Network State for Inter-Data Center Communication
Aug 2012
The geographically distributed data centers for the rapid growth of worldwide cloud service bring the demand of massive inter-data center information exchange. Considering the capacity and costs,...
Provided by Institute of Electrical & Electronic Engineers
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Whitepapers
ESG Whitepaper - VMware's vSphere Storage Appliance: High Availability for Small IT Operations
Oct 2012
Learn how small and midsized businesses are increasingly adopting virtualization to deliver consolidation, improve data back up and disaster recovery and increase security with an in-depth new...
Provided by VMware
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Whitepapers
Forrester WP - Lessons Learned From The 2011 Japanese Crisis
Oct 2012
Earthquakes, tornadoes, monsoons, hurricanes, flooding, and other severe natural disasters have brought alarming devastation to regions around the world over the past several years. As the human,...
Provided by VMware
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Whitepapers
ESG Whitepaper - vCenter Operations: Enabling Administrators to Morph into Managers by Leveraging Real-time Analytics and Automation
Oct 2012
Traditional approaches to infrastructure operations management are incapable of keeping up with highly dynamic virtual environments. VMware announced an extension of its management solutions aimed...
Provided by VMware
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Whitepapers
TDWI Checklist Report: Consolidating Data Warehousing on a Private Cloud
Oct 2012
Recent years have seen growing interest in various approaches to clouds and server virtualisation. So far, most cloud use cases focus on application servers. Yet, there are many reasons user...
Provided by Oracle
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Whitepapers
Express tape storage solutions from IBM. Solving midsize business backup and archive challenges
Oct 2012
This solution brief discusses the backup and archive challenges that SMBs face and how tape storage solutions from IBM help companies cost-effectively ensure continuous operations, solve backup...
Provided by IBM
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Whitepapers
Flexible, scalable businesses with Linux and IBM System x
Oct 2012
Great return on investment, operational flexibility and an enhanced ability to grow mission-critical systems are some of the reasons businesses and governmental agencies are turning to open source...
Provided by IBM & Intel
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Whitepapers
Web Applications & Operating Cost of Data Center
Sep 2012
Traditionally, organizations use their own data centers to communicate with their users/customers through information technology. Business team of the organization achieves this by funding the...
Provided by Academy & Industry Research Collaboration Center
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Whitepapers
WideArea Route Control for Distributed Services
May 2010
Many distributed services would benefit from control over the flow of traffic to and from their users, to offer better performance and higher reliability at a reasonable cost. Unfortunately,...
Provided by Princeton Software
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Whitepapers
A Smart Pre-Classifier to Reduce Power Consumption of TCAMs for Multi-Dimensional Packet Classification
Aug 2012
Ternary Content-Addressable Memories (TCAMs) has become the industrial standard for high-throughput packet classification. However, one major drawback of TCAMs is their high power consumption,...
Provided by Association for Computing Machinery
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Whitepapers
'Cool' Load Balancing for High Performance Computing Data Centers
Jun 2012
As the people move to exascale machines, both peak power demand and total energy consumption have become prominent challenges. A significant portion of that power and energy consumption is devoted...
Provided by Institute of Electrical & Electronic Engineers
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Whitepapers
Green Cloud Computing
Sep 2012
Cloud computing is offering utility oriented IT services to users worldwide. It enables hosting of applications from consumer, scientific and business domains. However data centers hosting cloud...
Provided by International Journal of Computer Applications in Engineering Sciences (IJCAES)
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Whitepapers
IDC Report: Entry-Level Solutions for Private Cloud Deliver Rapid Returns
Oct 2012
Pressure to deliver value and validate deployment makes the move to a private cloud challenging. Learn how Cisco entry-level automation helps you ramp up cost effectively and pave the way for more...
Provided by Cisco
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Whitepapers
IDC: Automated Provisioning and Orchestration are Critical to Effective Private Cloud Operations
Oct 2012
Private clouds create IT challenges that can limit increases in production, even hinder agility. Find out why enabling self-service and automated end-to-end provisioning with Cisco Intelligent...
Provided by Cisco
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Whitepapers
Smart Grids: A New Framework for Efficient Power Management in Datacenter Networks
Jul 2012
The energy demand in the enterprise market segment demands a supply format that accommodates all generation and storage options with active participation by end users in demand response....
Provided by The Schwa
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eBooks
IBM System x eGuide
Oct 2012
Whether you have implemented virtualization already or not, a private cloud solution based on IBM System x servers built on Intel® Xeon® processors will deliver immediate and impactful...
Provided by IBM & Intel
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Whitepapers
Capitalize on a highly available virtualization reference architecture
Oct 2012
Struggling with how to achieve consistent uptime? Address the challenges that can potentially cripple services and applications, while reducing data center costs and increasing workload...
Provided by IBM
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Whitepapers
Delivering Worry-Free Storage
Oct 2012
For small and midsize businesses, the challenge of building an IT storage infrastructure that is both effective and affordable can be daunting: the amount of information these organizations need...
Provided by IBM
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Whitepapers
IBM® System x M4 servers deliver compelling performance and energy efficiency
Oct 2012
The M4 generation of IBM's System x servers featuring Intel's E5-2600 processors brings compelling benefits to datacenters, even where existing servers are a just few generations old. Processor...
Provided by IBM & Intel
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Whitepapers
IBM System x® x86 servers: Delivering customer satisfaction by excelling in hardware and support
Oct 2012
Leading IT Industry analysts Technology Business Research (TBR) conducts quarterly x86 Server Customer Satisfaction (CSAT) studies to identify what factors are most important to small and midsize...
Provided by IBM & Intel
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Whitepapers
Enterprise Cloud Infrastructure on SPARC-An Oracle Optimized Solution
Oct 2012
The Oracle Optimized Solution for Enterprise Cloud Infrastructure on SPARC addresses one of the key challenges in deploying a virtualization infrastructure. IT organizations often spend multiple...
Provided by Oracle
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Whitepapers
White Paper: Business Transaction Management
Oct 2012
Companies build applications to support their business goals, so it's no wonder that business people expect to know how the applications are performing -- their success depends on it. But business...
Provided by Compuware
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Whitepapers
Energy Efficiency in Data Centers and IT Industry Obtaining Efficient Performance by Optimum Loading and Harmonics Mitigation
Jun 2012
As the trend shifts from paper-based to digital information management, IT & Datacenter have become common and essential to the functioning of business systems. Datacenter is a facility that has...
Provided by International Journal of Emerging Technology and Advanced Engineering (IJETAE)
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Whitepapers
Data Sanitization Solution Brief
Aug 2012
When you retire or upgrade your computers, servers, and storage arrays, it's critical to take steps to protect the confidential information contained on those systems. HP helps you address an...
Provided by Hewlett-Packard (HP)
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Whitepapers
HP Factory Express Customization, Integration, and Deployment Services
May 2012
HP Factory Express Optimized Integration can extend your resources and accelerate business results by providing predictable and tested IT solutions tailored specifically to your needs and built to...
Provided by Hewlett-Packard (HP)
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Whitepapers
Examining Bandwidth Provisioning on Cloud Computing and Resource Sharing Via Web
Oct 2012
Cloud computing works on the basis of multiple server based resources via a digital network over the web. The cloud service providers allow users to charter computing resources from the extensive...
Provided by INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF ENGINEERING SCIENCE & ADVANCED TECHNOLOGY
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Whitepapers
HP Networking Blog Article
Apr 2012
Contemporary data center networks designed to support siloed IT architectures simply aren't designed meet the performance, security, availability and agility requirements of cloud. As you turn to...
Provided by Hewlett-Packard (HP)
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Whitepapers
HP FlexFabric Reference Architecture: A Technical Whitepaper
Apr 2012
Tomorrow's virtualized data center demands more agile, efficient, and scalable networking solutions. This white paper reviews data center trends and describes HP solutions for building...
Provided by Hewlett-Packard (HP)
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Whitepapers
Whitepaper: HP Virtual Application Networks
Apr 2012
New IT Trends Impact the Network - To be successful, modern businesses must be extremely agile and IT plays an ever-increasing role in enabling that nimbleness. Enterprise Strategy Group (ESG)...
Provided by Hewlett-Packard (HP)
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Case Studies
RUAG Achieves 93% Backup Time Savings, 50% Recovery Time Savings and 30% Storage Savings with Quest NetVault
Oct 2012
How much time can Quest NetVault save you? In this case study, learn about RUAG Services, and its need for a cross-platform backup solution for virtual and physical and virtual environments. Then,...
Provided by Quest Software, now a part of Dell
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Whitepapers
TDWI Best Practice Report: Big Data Analytics
Oct 2011
Big data analytics is the intersection of two technical entities that have come together. First, there's big data for massive amounts of detailed information. Second, there's advanced analytics,...
Provided by EMC
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Whitepapers
Combine Big Data and Advanced Analytics for Competitive Advantage
Oct 2012
Big Data presents big opportunities for an organization. This EMC Perspective discusses how to use big data analytics to discover opportunities that were previously not addressable. The document...
Provided by EMC
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Whitepapers
EMC's Enterprise Hadoop Solution
Feb 2012
Faced with the challenge of managing data that is growing at an almost overwhelming rate, most organisations regard managing data growth, provisioning storage, and performing fast, reliable "big...
Provided by EMC
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Whitepapers
Colocation White Paper: Seven Things to Look for in a Colocation Provider
Jan 2011
This whitepaper, "Seven Things to Look for in a Colocation Provider" by Bryan Doerr, Chief Technology Officer, Savvis, will help guide you through what you need to know when looking for a...
Provided by SAVVIS
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Webcasts
Video: "Taking a Seat at the Executive Table: The Reality of Virtualization"
Dec 2009
This year, for the first time, the number of virtual machines is on track to exceed the number of physical machines shipped. The reasons are clear -- data center cost reduction and greater...
Provided by Hewlett-Packard (HP)
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Whitepapers
EMA Faster Better cheaper: IT Operations with Event Consolidation and Process Automation
Aug 2009
Get the latest insight as EMA shares research focused on the top 5 issues driving CIOs to invest in better data center management and one key to solving many of these top level issues.
Provided by Hewlett-Packard (HP)
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Whitepapers
Quantifying the benefits of HP Server Automation white paper
Dec 2009
IT organizations can capture the expertise of their best IT staff and leverage this expertise across numerous servers, server types, and data centers. With HP Server Automation, HP customers have...
Provided by Hewlett-Packard (HP)
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White Papers
USB and K-V-M Switches: The Rise of USB in the Data Center - The Implementation Can Make The Difference
Aug 2008
The past 12 years have seen the Universal Serial Bus (USB) grow from pipe dream into the de facto standard to power devices such as peripherals, portable memory devices, video game consoles, PDAs...
Provided by ATEN Technology
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Case Studies
Siemens Cuts Data Center Costs, Boosts Business Agility, With Server Virtualization
Nov 2009
Siemens IT Solutions and Services Thailand (SIS) is a leading provider of SAP application management services and IT infrastructure services. To cope with the economic downturn, SIS set out to...
Provided by Microsoft
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Case Studies
Intel Helps Design and Deploy a Data Center That Packs 25 Percent More Servers Into 56 Percent of the Space
Aug 2009
For Humana, technology is vital for providing information and a full array of health benefit services to members. To replace an outdated facility, the company worked with Intel to design a...
Provided by Intel
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Case Studies
COSCO Container Lines Leverages NetApp to Build a High-Performance Data Center
Apr 2009
China Ocean Shipping Company (COSCO) Container Lines Co., Ltd. is a leading global comprehensive container line service provider, with customers all over the world. China Ocean Shipping Company...
Provided by NetApp
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Case Studies
Avanade Uses Hyper-V With NetApp to Speed Server Provisioning, Boost Test/Development, Build DR Site
Mar 2009
Because it's located just across the lake from Microsoft, it should come as no surprise that Seattle-based Avanade has become a leading global technology integrator that helps companies achieve...
Provided by NetApp
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Case Studies
Sirius Helps Kerzner Gain Speed and Reliability by Standardizing on NetApp
Jan 2009
Kerzner International is a leading international developer and operator of destination resorts, casinos, and luxury hotels. Kerzner's flagship brand is Atlantis, which includes Atlantis, Paradise...
Provided by NetApp
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Case Studies
Steeltec Builds a Resilient Virtualized Infrastructure for SAP ERP With IBM BladeCenter
Jul 2009
Following a near-disaster at a manufacturing site, a comprehensive review by Steeltec management highlighted the business risks inherent in operating a single data center. Steeltec wanted to...
Provided by IBM
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Whitepapers
A Blueprint for Reducing Energy Costs in Your Data Center
Jun 2009
This white paper gives one a blueprint for reducing those data center energy costs. First, one need to determine how much energy is being consumed in each corner of data center. One next needs to...
Provided by Hewlett-Packard (HP)
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Whitepapers
Manage Energy and Reduce Risk in the Data Center With IBM Tivoli Software and Eaton Power Xpert
Dec 2008
This white paper describes the benefits of an integrated energy management offering and discusses the role of Tivoli software and Eaton Power Xpert. Specifically, it describes how configuration...
Provided by IBM
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Webcasts
Device/Port Control and Data Encryption within Microsoft System Center
Dec 2009
Today's global enterprise is more mobile than ever. Data can be transferred via removable storage devices quite easily, enhancing productivity but also introducing risk such as data loss and...
Provided by Lumension
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Webcasts
TechNet Webcast: Dynamic Data Center Toolkit for Enterprises: Enabling the Foundation for Private Cloud (Level 300)
Dec 2009
One can build the foundation for a private cloud infrastructure on Windows Server 2008 R2 Hyper-V and Microsoft System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2008 using the Microsoft Dynamic Data Center...
Provided by Microsoft
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Webcasts
Virtualization 101: Refreshing Servers in Your Datacenter With VMware and HP
Nov 2009
By combining HP ProLiant G6 servers, HP virtualized storage systems and VMware vSphere 4, one can refresh the IT environment with an advanced yet simple end-to-end virtualized architecture that...
Provided by VMware
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Webcasts
Application Retirement for Better Oracle Performance
Oct 2009
Any organization can save money by archiving old data and retiring applications that are no longer needed. The attendee of this webcast will learn how EMC IT, using Informatica's data archive...
Provided by EMC
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White Papers
Building a Data Center for Cloud Computing: Transform Your Storage Environment to Cut Costs and Increase Efficiency
Feb 2009
This paper describes the steps required to begin building next-generation data center. It describes the elements of this new dynamic data center infrastructure as well as specific cost,...
Provided by NetApp
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White Papers
Unified Storage Architecture Enabling Today's Dynamic Data Center
Oct 2008
The traditional model in the storage industry is one with multiple, incompatible storage architectures with incompatible processes requiring lots of experts. Because integration between...
Provided by NetApp
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White Papers
Scale-Out Storage and the Dynamic Data Center of the Future
May 2008
This paper describes the requirements for scale-out storage in the enterprise in terms of resiliency, scalability, manageability, and other factors. It also discusses the current state of NetApp...
Provided by NetApp
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White Papers
Enterprise VTLs: Strategic for Large-Scale Datacenters
Dec 2008
Enterprise datacenters have built up extensive investments in large-scale tape infrastructures. Valuable corporate information resides there, and policies and processes have been developed to...
Provided by IDG (International Data Group)
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White Papers
N-Port Virtualization in the Data Center
Mar 2008
As customers change their data center architectures to further consolidate data center resources, network-based technology must continue to change to help design and manage the number of devices...
Provided by Cisco Systems
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White Papers
Unified Computing Overview
Mar 2009
Virtualization has created a market transition in which IT departments are trying to reduce costs and increase flexibility. Despite this, IT organizations are constantly working against existing...
Provided by Cisco Systems
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White Papers
Energy-Efficient Unified Fabrics: Transform the Data Center Infrastructure With Cisco Nexus Series
May 2009
The Cisco Nexus family of products gives data center designers the opportunity to transform data center infrastructure from an Isolated Fabric Topology (IFT) to a Unified Fabric topology (UFT)....
Provided by Cisco Systems
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White Papers
Environmental Sustainability in the Public Sector: Take Advantage of the Network
Feb 2009
The IP network can significantly enhance environmental sustainability in government and education. Progress has been hampered by murky definitions and confusion about priorities. Is the main goal...
Provided by Cisco Systems
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White Papers
Implementing Green I.T.: Eleven Ways I.T. Can Lower Power Consumption, Reduce Costs & Eliminate Waste
Feb 2009
The beauty of pursuing a green IT strategy is its multifaceted benefits. Consolidating the data center, purchasing more energy-efficient equipment and deploying applications such as video...
Provided by CDW
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White Papers
Data Center Interconnect: Layer 2 Extension Between Remote Data Centers
Jul 2009
Cisco recommends retaining Layer 2 domains within each data center. However to meet new application framework requirements or for migration purposes, an enterprise may have to extend Layer 2...
Provided by Cisco Systems
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White Papers
"In the Cloud" Information Technology Creates New Opportunities for Network Service Providers
Aug 2008
For the past several years, incumbent telecommunications Service Providers (SPs1) have faced a decline in core legacy revenues, such as fixed-line voice and legacy packet data services in the...
Provided by Cisco Systems
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White Papers
Priority Flow Control: Build Reliable Layer 2 Infrastructure
Jun 2009
This paper describes Priority Flow Control (PFC), one of the functions of IEEE 802.1 Data Center Bridging, introduced to address reliability at Layer 2 on the Ethernet medium. PFC enables lossless...
Provided by Cisco Systems
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White Papers
Data Center Top-of-Rack Architecture Design
Feb 2009
Data centers are undergoing a fundamental shift. Application developments and server virtualization are causing IT to seek a more flexible, efficient, and available infrastructure that can...
Provided by Cisco Systems
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Webcasts
Responding to Today's Demands with a Dynamic Infrastructure
Jan 2010
Listen to this webcast to hear IBM executives and clients discuss a host of new offerings that deliver and support a dynamic infrastructure. Register and receive a complimentary e-kit.
Provided by IBM Corp.
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White Papers
Backups: Band-aids or Solutions? The Case for Cloud Archiving Storage Switzerland
Jan 2010
As data volumes have grown and retention requirements grow more complex, a host of quick fixes for backup, such as data deduplication, have arisen. Yet these band-aids do not remedy the core...
Provided by Iron Mountain
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Downloads
Paragon Drive Backup 10.0 Server Trial
Jan 2010
This highly-rated tool set for backup and recovery provides powerful features to effectively protect valuable company data and systems. Experienced Windows users, Boot Camp users, system...
Provided by Paragon Software
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White Papers
Optimize Performance of Data center to Data center Traffic
Dec 2007
Through a combination of server consolidation and organic data growth, traffic between datacenters is growing at an accelerating rate. Worse, protocol limitations and tiered bandwidth pricing...
Provided by Blue Coat Systems
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White Papers
Retrofitting Data Centers: Overcoming Budgetary Restrictions Successfully
Dec 2009
In 2007 one could probably get any one of those three functions approved with comparatively minimal questions. Today it's probably fair to say ordering $20,000 in equipment is like walking across...
Provided by SharkRack
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Whitepapers
BrownMap: Enforcing Power Budget in Shared Data Centers
Dec 2009
Shared data centers that use virtualized servers as building blocks (e.g., clouds) are emerging as an exciting technology that provides a computational platform for customers without incurring a...
Provided by IBM
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Webcasts
Solid State Drives - Improving Data Center Economics and Bringing New Capabilities
Jan 2010
The newest generation of Sun systems with Solid State Drives (SSDs) will help improve the economics of the data center by offering lower data center power usage, improving performance, lowering...
Provided by Sun Microsystems
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Case Studies
Dell Helps Nordic ASP Build Norway's Greenest Datacentre, Reducing Energy Consumption by Up to 40 Per Cent
Dec 2009
Ikomm wanted to build Norway's greenest datacentre to manage massive data growth, minimise carbon emissions and lower energy costs. Ikomm worked with Dell Global Infrastructure Consulting Services...
Provided by Dell
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Webcasts
Energy Efficient Data Center: The Role of Modularity in Design and Deployment
Jan 2010
The attendee of this webcast will learn how to create a state of the art enterprise data center by combining best of breed modules to yield performance and efficiency across the board. This...
Provided by Sun Microsystems
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Webcasts
How to Create the Energy Efficient Datacenter: The Role of Modularity in Design and Deployment
Jan 2010
The attendee of this webcast will learn how to create a state of the art enterprise datacenter by combining best of breed modules to yield performance and efficiency across the board. This webcast...
Provided by Sun Microsystems
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Webcasts
Virtualization: Driving Greater Data Center Efficiency
Jan 2010
The presenters of this webcast discuss the challenges and solutions that come along with Virtualization. The presenters will cover market trends in virtualization end-to-end virtualization...
Provided by Sun Microsystems
