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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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White Papers
Data Center Fabric: Native Fabric Connectivity for Today's SANs Center Fabric Technology
Sep 2008
Brocade is committed to providing native fabric compatibility throughout its integrated family of Storage Area Network (SAN) platforms. This means that SAN users can expand their existing SANs and...
Provided by Brocade Communications Systems
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White Papers
Optimizing the Data Center: New Dell Servers and the Dell Energy Smart Architecture
Jun 2009
The Dell Energy Smart architecture, including new 11th-generation Dell PowerEdge servers, provides a comprehensive, system-wide approach to balancing performance with energy efficiency. By...
Provided by Dell
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White Papers
Mission-Critical Workloads for Windows Servers : How NEC Supports IT Best Practices
Aug 2009
IDC's Views: Mission-Critical Workloads for Windows Servers: How NEC Supports IT Best Practices Within the typical enterprise-class datacenter, delivering mission-critical workloads with...
Provided by NEC
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White Papers
Coping with SAN Storage Frustration Caused by Server Virtualization
Jan 2009
Coping with SAN Storage Frustration Caused by Server Virtualization Server virtualization is clearly one of the breakout technologies in the first decade of the 21st century. The results are...
Provided by NEC
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White Papers
Unisys Real-Time Infrastructure (RTI): Automation and Virtualization in the Data Center - Financial and Operational Value Study of RTI Implementations Utilizing Unisys Infrastructure Management Suite
Oct 2008
Unisys Real-Time Infrastructure (RTI) solutions allow customers to enable business-driven IT with massive reductions in costs and risk. The following case study showcases customer value through...
Provided by Unisys
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White Papers
Cisco Nexus 5000 Series Architecture: The Building Blocks of the Unified Fabric
Jan 2009
Cisco has designed the Cisco Nexus 5000 Series Switches to be the best solution for high bandwidth, low-latency, and access-layer switches for rack deployments. In the context of I/O...
Provided by Cisco Systems
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White Papers
Dell Storage Selection Guidelines for Oracle Databases
Aug 2008
Dell strives to simplify IT in order to reduce complexity in data centers and has a broad storage product portfolio to meet database customers' needs. These storage selection guidelines will help...
Provided by Dell
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White Papers
CA Resource Management Suites Address the Challenges of Optimizing the Online Mainframe
Sep 2008
Billions of eBusiness and supply-chain dollars depend on highly available, high performance mainframe applications and subsystems. Millions of people access and analyze petabytes of structured...
Provided by Ptak, Noel & Associates
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White Papers
Operations Energy Management: From the Data Center Through Facilities
Oct 2008
There is no doubt that energy costs are an all time high and are now so appreciably high that it affects the bottom line profitability of many companies, especially those in the IT or voluminous...
Provided by CA
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White Papers
Enabling The Virtual Data Center
Jan 2009
Virtualization has become an essential data center technology, allowing IT administrators to consolidate server infrastructure and reduce costs while enhancing service levels. Today, many...
Provided by Dell EqualLogic
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White Papers
SQL Advanced Protection Fast Recovery with Dell EqualLogic Auto Snapshot Manager
Jan 2009
Microsoft® SQL Server is the fastest growing RDBMS solution and supports a vast range of business critical applications. Dell EqualLogic™ PS Series iSCSI SANs provide the optimal storage...
Provided by Dell EqualLogic
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Case Studies
Maxnet Improves Power and Cooling Capacity Tenfold and Saves a Projected $1 Million NZD a Year With Dell Blades and APC Hot Aisle Containment
Jun 2009
Global trends toward blade server and virtualization platforms have dramatically increased data centres' power and cooling demands. Maxnet wanted a power and cooling solution that would enable it...
Provided by Dell
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Case Studies
HP Relocation Team Delivered a Seamless Move for BBC Worldwide
Jun 2009
BBC Worldwide is the commercial arm of the BBC. It manages seven operating businesses - Global Channels, Sales & Distribution, Content & Production, Magazines, Home Entertainment Global Brands and...
Provided by Hewlett-Packard (HP)
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Case Studies
Efficiencies Enable Two Administrators to Manage 200,000 End Users Worldwide
May 2009
HP wanted to reduce the administrative costs to manage HP's client environment while simultaneously improving quality of service. HP automated management of the client environment, including...
Provided by Hewlett-Packard (HP)
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Webcasts
Don't Gamble With Your Recovery: Three IT Strategies to Keep Your Business in the Game (Part 1 of 4)
Aug 2009
Building out an overall recovery strategy can't just be a roll of the dice. It's no longer enough to have an "In case of emergency" disaster recovery plan that just sits on the shelf. Now there is...
Provided by Symantec
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Webcasts
The Cure for the Overloaded Data Center - Leveraging Assets in Dual Data Centers for SAP Environments
Jul 2009
The attendee of this webcast will learn how to relieve these pressures and gain more productivity from the EMC infrastructure by improving refreshes of the SAP environment for non-production...
Provided by EMC
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Webcasts
Managing the Virtualized Data Center
Jul 2009
Virtualization is not just a consolidation technology. With a new approach to people, process, and technology, it can be the catalyst to change data center management once and for all. As one move...
Provided by EMC
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Webcasts
The Future of Enterprise IT - Future Proofing Converged Architectures - Part 2
Jul 2009
The presenter of this webcast will discuss the architectures and solutions that will comprise the converged data center. The attendee of this webcast will learn which technologies are enabling...
Provided by EMC
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Webcasts
The Future of Enterprise IT: Technology Convergence: Transforming Data Center Infrastructure - Part 1
Jun 2009
The presenters of this webcast discusses on transforming data center infrastructure. The presenters will explore key challenges related to resource allocation, interoperability, migration, energy...
Provided by EMC
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Webcasts
Growing Your VMware Deployments With EMC Symmetrix V-Max
Jun 2009
The attendee of this webcast will learn more about Symmetrix V-Max, the new Symmetrix Virtual Matrix Architecture, and powerful new software capabilities that accelerate the transition to a...
Provided by EMC
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White Papers
Sustainable Operation and Management of Data Center Chillers Using Temporal Data Mining
Jul 2009
Data centers are a critical component of modern IT infrastructure but are also among the worst environmental offenders through their increasing energy usage and the resulting large carbon...
Provided by Association for Computing Machinery
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White Papers
Using NetApp SnapMirror Async With Cisco Wide Area Application Services for Data Center Replication
Oct 2008
Many enterprises use NetApp SnapMirror Async for data protection, replication, and business continuance over a wide range of distances and transports. By copying only changed blocks, SnapMirror...
Provided by Cisco Systems
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White Papers
Using Oracle Data Guard With Cisco Wide Area Application Services for Data Center Replication
Oct 2008
Oracle Data Guard is one of the most effective and comprehensive data protection and disaster recovery solutions available for enterprise data. The solution offers protection for Oracle Databases,...
Provided by Cisco Systems
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White Papers
Improving IDC Cooling and Air Conditioning Efficiency
Aug 2008
With the demand for Information Technology (IT) equipment increasing year by year and data centers with densely packed IT equipment experiencing dramatic jumps in power consumption, energy-saving...
Provided by Fujitsu
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Whitepapers
Energy Efficiency in the Data Center: Exploring the Inherent Compatibility of Green Initiatives and Corporate Profitability
Sep 2008
There was a time, not long ago, when the primary responsibility of the IT infrastructure and those who ran it was to provide continuous availability. Perpetual uptime. Unrelenting reliability....
Provided by Hewlett-Packard (HP)
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Whitepapers
Rethinking Server Virtualization: Breaking Performance and Manageability Barriers
Apr 2009
Virtualization opens up a new range of possibilities for data centers. These include higher server utilization with lower costs, the economies of server consolidation, and high availability and...
Provided by Hewlett-Packard (HP)
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Whitepapers
Data Center Provisioning Automation With ProCurve Data Center Connection Manager
Jan 2009
The data center landscape is evolving at a rapid pace. New technologies are emerging in all facets of data center technology areas, enabling increasingly complex application environments. Growing...
Provided by Hewlett-Packard (HP)
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Whitepapers
Green Networking in the Data Center
Jun 2009
Today, advanced technology ecosystems are what fuel business. This surge of technology is one that presents new capabilities but greater challenges as companies look to meet their business needs....
Provided by Hewlett-Packard (HP)
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Whitepapers
Data Center Improvements for Long-Term Savings
Oct 2008
There is a tremendous difference between data center improvements and simple space expansions. For true hard-dollar savings, data center improvements must include identifying redundancies so...
Provided by Hewlett-Packard (HP)
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Whitepapers
The Multi-Tiered Hybrid Data Center: An Innovative Design Model for Cost Reduction and Facilities Optimization
Mar 2009
By helping today's enterprises work within tightened budgetary constraints and realize more cost-effective and energy-efficient operation - while accommodating their continuing need to house...
Provided by Hewlett-Packard (HP)
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White Papers
Optimizing the Datacenter for Cost and Efficiency
Apr 2009
The days of buying servers based on speeds and feeds alone are fast fading away. The changing dynamics of the datacenter are driving customers towards new criteria in selecting the products and,...
Provided by IDG (International Data Group)
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White Papers
Data Center Power and Thermal Management Using Intel Data Center Manager Software Development Kit
Jul 2009
Power and cooling literally constitute a burning issue in data centers today. According to IDC1, while data center CapEx costs have moderated, OpEx costs are on the upswing, and a major component...
Provided by Intel
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Case Studies
How IBM Supported Kika/Leiner's Branding Strategy With a Green Data Center
Nov 2008
European furniture retailer kika/Leiner Group is going green. Its stores and furniture products are designed and branded to appeal to increasingly green-conscious consumers in its home country of...
Provided by Forrester Research
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Tools & Templates
IDC ROI Calculator for IBM Tivoli Netcool
Aug 2009
This ROI calculator from IDC will help you quickly and easily understand the average annual benefit that you may be able to achieve using IBM® Tivoli® Netcool®. The tool and underlying...
Provided by IBM
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Whitepapers
Citrix XenDesktop Architecture and Implementation on ProLiant Servers
Oct 2008
The goal of this integration note is to describe Citrix XenDesktop technology, architecture, and implementation on ProLiant servers. The audience is both internal and external customers. Desktop...
Provided by Hewlett-Packard (HP)
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Whitepapers
HP Adaptive Infrastructure: Delivering a Business-Ready Infrastructure to Optimize Business Outcomes
Jun 2009
Given the current economic climate, every business is placing a sense of urgency on its IT infrastructure to be more agile - while managing costs more tightly - to react quickly to emerging market...
Provided by Hewlett-Packard (HP)
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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 Dell Software
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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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Case Studies
Gartner Case Study
May 2012
Security is one of the top concerns facing an enterprise moving data to the cloud. This case study, published by analyst firm Gartner* details the lessons learned by a financial services early...
Provided by SAVVIS
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Case Studies
Munder Capital Management: Investment Firm Embraces Cloud Computing to Achieve Growth Goals, Reduce Costs
Apr 2012
Munder Capital Management understands clearly that being a world-class investment firm requires a world-class IT infrastructure. That's why it virtualized its data center in 2008 and is now...
Provided by Microsoft
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Case Studies
Handelsbanken: Bank Limits IT Staff Costs as Business Expands by Upgrading Management Software
Jul 2012
With a longstanding history in Sweden, Handelsbanken is quickly establishing a presence across Europe. The bank's continued growth has resulted in a need to deploy more servers to support various...
Provided by Microsoft
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Case Studies
SJR State College IT Group Examines Options and Builds IT Road Map in Mainline Discovery Workshop
Aug 2012
St. Johns River State College's was facing a number of challenges. These included the college's rapid growth rate resulting from new offerings of web-based instruction, which provided the impetus...
Provided by Mainline Information Systems
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Case Studies
Virtual Success in the Healthcare Provider Market
Sep 2012
This white paper is presented by IDC Health Insights and sponsored by NetApp. The objectives were to gain insights into: The decision-making process for investment in desktop virtualization by...
Provided by NetApp
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Whitepapers
A Fault-Tolerant Network Architecture for Modular Datacenter
Apr 2012
Modular DataCenters (MDCs) use shipping containers as large pluggable building blocks to construct mega-datacenter, and each container encapsulates thousands of servers. MDC's "Service-free" model...
Provided by Science and Development Network (SciDev.Net)
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Case Studies
North Shore Credit Union Case Study
Aug 2012
Learn how North Shore Credit Union stays lean and agile using a hosted, secure, and private cloud solution based on HP Converged Infrastructure technologies. Their HP environment has been up 100...
Provided by HP & Intel® Xeon® Processors
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Whitepapers
Cloud-based email archiving: A practical guide
Sep 2012
How cloud-based email archiving solutions can meet the regulatory and business requirements of long-term message storage, while offering clear financial and operational advantages over in-house...
Provided by Mimecast
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Whitepapers - Video
SquareTwo Financial Video
Sep 2012
SquareTwo Financial doubles its application performance from its Oracle Exadata and Oracle Exalogic implementation. Engineered solutions provide better performance, lower cost, and reduced risk....
Provided by Oracle
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Whitepapers
High-Speed, Short-Latency Multipath Ethernet for Data Center Area Communications
Oct 2008
In this paper, the authors propose a simplified multi-path aggregation scheme, Ethernet with Flow Label for Multi-Path, called EFL-MP. There are several aggregation schemes, such as Link...
Provided by Institute of Electrical & Electronic Engineers
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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
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Webcasts
Net Talk: Sun Modular Datacenter S20
Jan 2010
Now Sun Modular Datacenter (Sun MD) radically changes the way datacenter capacity is deployed by delivering a virtualized self-contained datacenter in a shipping container; ready to be sent and...
Provided by Sun Microsystems
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Webcasts
Eco Innovation Initiatives for Government
Jan 2010
In today's world there is a growing need for governments to innovate on an ecological level and be ecologically responsible. This webcast takes a look at some of the products and initiatives Sun...
Provided by Sun Microsystems
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Webcasts
TechNet Webcast: Dynamic Data Center Alliance: Connecting Partners to the Enterprise Market (Level 100)
Jan 2010
Designed as a benefit specifically for partners who are creating cloud and virtualized services using the Microsoft Dynamic Data Center Toolkits, the Microsoft Dynamic Data Center Alliance is...
Provided by Microsoft
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Webcasts
TechNet Webcast: Thrive Live! Reducing IT Costs With System Center Data Center Management (Level 200)
Jan 2010
IT professionals are responsible for ensuring their data centers deliver services that not only meet their service level agreements but do so in the most cost effective way possible. Microsoft...
Provided by Microsoft
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Case Studies
BMC Software Case Study: Edmunds.com
May 2009
Fast responses like that make Edmunds.com the premier Web source for automotive information. The more quickly and efficiently its systems operations group can develop, test, deploy and maintain...
Provided by BMC Software
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Case Studies
BMC Software Case Study: Virgin Media
Apr 2009
Like any organization in the current financial downturn, Virgin Media needs to bring its data center management costs under control and still meet the reliability and time-to-market requirements...
Provided by BMC Software
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Case Studies
BMC Software Case Study: Dada S.p.A
Dec 2009
Dada refers to itself as 'The Music Movement' - an online community where individuals can network socially and share their musical tastes. However, few markets are growing and changing as quickly...
Provided by BMC Software
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Case Studies
BMC BladeLogic Keeps Airport Flying During Data Center Move
Apr 2009
Operational Services GmbH & Co. wanted to move about 125 mission-critical applications to new data center - and move half of them to new hardware - with minimal downtime. After a detailed survey...
Provided by BMC Software
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Case Studies
BMC Software Case Study: GAVI
Jun 2008
Until recently, GAVI was using a mixture of different tools for performance management and capacity planning on these z/OS host systems. There was a long and successful history in using BMC...
Provided by BMC Software
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Whitepapers
Cost Model for Planning, Development and Operation of a Data Center
Jun 2005
The emergence of the compute utility and growth in data center based compute services necessitates an examination of costs associated with housing and powering the compute, networking and storage...
Provided by Hewlett-Packard (HP)
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Whitepapers
Effective Asset Management in an Uncertain Economy
Dec 2009
As data center costs continue to rise, green is the word of the day. What it means is cost savings through consolidation and lower energy usage, as this white paper shows. See the role energy...
Provided by IBM
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Webcasts
Dynamic Virtual Clients
Jan 2010
Dave Buchholz and Clyde Hedrick from Intel explain how Intel IT is considering implementing Dynamic Virtual Client (DVC) technology that will provide a more robust and flexible platform that users...
Provided by Intel
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White Papers
Disaster Recovery Time Objectives: Meeting Your Business Requirements
Aug 2005
If you are an IT disaster recovery manager, you most likely have disaster recovery plans in place that provide for recovery of critical business applications and the systems to support those...
Provided by Sun Microsystems
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Webcasts
WEBCAST: POWER7 Announcement, The Next Generation Power Systems
Feb 2010
IBM introduces the next generation Power Systems™ — the first of a family of systems and storage designed to meet the demands of a smarter planet. From the chip and virtualization capabilities all...
Provided by IBM
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White Papers
Managing Carbon Reduction Across Your Data Centre Assets
Nov 2009
Many organisations will find that they fall under the UK's new Carbon Reduction Commitment legislation (now known as the CRC Energy Efficiency Scheme). With IT constituting a large part of many...
Provided by Quocirca
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Webcasts
HP� Data Vault Series
Jan 2010
Official Site: Store, Protect, and Share Data for Your Small Business.
Provided by Hewlett-Packard (HP)
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Webcasts
Data Vault Storage
Jan 2010
Affordable & Comprehensive Data Management for Your Small Business.
Provided by Hewlett-Packard (HP)
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Webcasts
HP� Network Data Storage
Jan 2010
Boost Productivity w/ Shared Local And Remote Network Data Storage.
Provided by Hewlett-Packard (HP)
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Webcasts
From Batch Processing to Workload Automation
Jul 2009
Batch scheduling . . . on the mainframe and far beyond. When we say "batch scheduling", you may think "mainframe". But workload automation solutions are available now that can coordinate batch...
Provided by BMC Software
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White Papers
Achieving a seamless transistion: managing your data centre migration
Oct 2005
Any data centre migration is a complex and potentially disruptive undertaking that involves thorough planning and execution. Global Switch has identified the key issues and has created a checklist...
Provided by Global Switch
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White Papers
Double-Take Workload Portability:X2X Sever and Storage Migration Solutions
Apr 2009
Double-Take Move provides migration functionality that dramatically reduces the impact and risk of migrations in the data center and across any geographic distance. Double-Take Move has a patented...
Provided by Double Take Software
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White Papers
Disaster Recovery Planning with Virtualization Technologies
Oct 2009
Leveraging real-time replication and application availability for disaster recovery using solutions from Double-Take Software is a cost effective way to ensure that mission-critical application's...
Provided by Double Take Software
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White Papers
Network Booting Cuts Administration Costs and Improves Security - Workstations all in Sync
Feb 2010
The greater the number of users being administered in a network, the more important it becomes to standardise. Replacing the operating system in the PC's with centralised management of operating...
Provided by Double Take Software
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White Papers
NEXT GENERATION BACKUP - ROBOtechnology
Feb 2010
In a survey conducted in 2005 by the Ad Council, most businesses agreed that emergency preparedness is important, yet only 39% said their company had a plan in place. In companies with distributed...
Provided by Double Take Software
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White Papers
Ensuring the Availability of Blackberry Enterprise Server
Feb 2010
Your entire team's productivity has been increased with BlackBerry handhelds - but what if the server and software that powers these devices goes down? Wireless email is arguably the greatest...
Provided by Double Take Software
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White Papers
Real-Time Protection for Hyper-V
Oct 2009
Server virtualization is a hot topic in the IT world because of the potential for providing serious cost savings for customers. To provide disaster recovery for virtual machines running on a...
Provided by Double Take Software
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White Papers
Reducing the Costs and Risks of Branch Office Data Protection
Dec 2009
What Does Downtime and Lost Data Cost Your Organization? Well-prepared businesses know that deploying the right resources, processes and technology to protect key information and minimize downtime...
Provided by Double Take Software
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White Papers
Six Data Protection Tips for SMBs
Feb 2010
Just like major corporations, small and midsize businesses (SMBs) are increasingly reliant on the critical data stored on their servers. Limited resources and vulnerability to interruptions put...
Provided by Double Take Software
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White Papers
A Practical Guide to DR Planning: The basics of getting started
Feb 2010
Business Continuity When you think about your disaster recovery plan, does your tape backup system come to mind? Does the mere mention of disaster recovery make you a bit nervous? If so, you're...
Provided by Double Take Software
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White Papers
Protecting and Enhancing SQL Server with Double-Take® Availability
Feb 2010
With its ease of use, scalability, reliability and broad industry support, Microsoft® SQL Server® is the solution of choice for many customers. While SQL Server 2008 offers options for improving...
Provided by Double Take Software
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Research
Your Best Tape Backup Encryption Options
Sep 2005
Following the highly publicized losses of backup tapes containing sensitive information about firms' customers, many organizations are examining their own policies and technology options for...
Provided by Forrester Research
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Presentations
Simplify your data center and reduce costs with the Cisco Unified Computing System
Mar 2010
The Cisco UCS C-Series Rack-Mount Servers unlock the potential of your data center to bring computing, networking, and virtualization together. Learn how you can incrementally build a unified...
Provided by Cisco Systems, Inc.
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White Papers
Novell Holds Down Data Center Costs With PlateSpin Workload Management Solutions
Jun 2009
Virtual server technology is becoming mainstream in many enterprise data centers. In addition to using the technology to improve server utilization by consolidating workloads, IT leaders are also...
Provided by IDG (International Data Group)
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White Papers
PortLand: A Scalable Fault-Tolerant Layer 2 Data Center Network Fabric
Aug 2009
This paper considers the requirements for a scalable, easily manageable, fault-tolerant, and efficient data center net-work fabric. Trends in multi-core processors, end-host virtualization, and...
Provided by Association for Computing Machinery
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White Papers
Creating the Green Data Center: Simple Measures to Reduce Energy Consumption
Mar 2008
There are many ways to reduce cooling requirements for data centers. Improving cable management, stopping air leakages, removing cable dams under the floor, choosing smaller diameter cable to...
Provided by ADC Telecommunications
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White Papers
Powering Linux in the Data Center
Jul 2009
Many IT professionals are drawn by the economy that Linux brings to the data center but are concerned about the potential risks that arise from trusting their business to "Free" software. For...
Provided by Symantec
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White Papers
Accelerating Development and Troubleshooting of Data Center Bridging (DCB) Protocols Using Xgig
Jul 2009
The new Data Center Bridging (DCB) protocols provide important mechanisms for enabling priority and managing bandwidth allocations between different types of traffic. However, given their...
Provided by JDS Uniphase
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White Papers
Delivering Improved Energy Efficiency for the Datacenter
Sep 2008
In today's business climate, with growing global awareness of environmental issues and rising costs of energy, enterprises and vendors alike are responding by looking for new ways to build and use...
Provided by IDG (International Data Group)
