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Case Studies
DataCenter S.A. Improves Its Information and Transaction Services With a Robust IT Infrastructure
Dec 2008
Datacenter S.A., headquartered in Bogota, offers information services to companies in the gaming and state lottery industries. It also contracts with other operators to provide added value for its...
Provided by Oracle
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Whitepapers
Data Centre Assessments: The First Step to Optimisation
Mar 2009
Data centres are large, important investments that, when properly designed, built and operated, are an integral part of the business strategy driving the success of any organisation. Yet the...
Provided by Hewlett-Packard (HP)
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Whitepapers
The New Reality of Balance and Optimisation in Planning Green Data Centres
Jan 2009
The recent release of the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) study on data centre energy efficiency is adding fuel to the fire in the research and development of new ways to reduce energy...
Provided by Hewlett-Packard (HP)
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Whitepapers
HP Storage Essentials: Delivering on the Promise of Storage Automation
Aug 2009
Today's IT service is very complex. To support the agility and performance goals demanded by the business, IT needs to automate the processes that manage the IT service infrastructure. Without...
Provided by Hewlett-Packard (HP)
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Whitepapers
Bringing the Edge to the Data Center - A Data Protection Strategy for Small and Midsize Companies With Remote Offices
Aug 2009
Small and midsize businesses with remote offices need data protection strategies that are closely aligned with their business priorities, IT infrastructure, and regulatory requirements for data...
Provided by Hewlett-Packard (HP)
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Whitepapers
HP Data Center Management Architecture: Adaptive Infrastructure Supply Chain
Jun 2009
Infrastructure virtualization has provided significant benefits to IT - allowing resource utilization to increase significantly and reducing the cost of many time consuming steps in the deployment...
Provided by Hewlett-Packard (HP)
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Whitepapers
The New Reality of Balance and Optimization in Planning Green Data Centers
Jan 2009
Even though the industry has taken a major step forward in looking at energy efficient data centers, there still is a lot of work to do. Given the specialized and critical nature of these...
Provided by Hewlett-Packard (HP)
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Whitepapers
The Green Data Center: Cutting Energy Costs for a Powerful Competitive Advantage
Apr 2008
After an intensive study of server and data center energy efficiency for Congress, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) reported that the U.S. data center industry is in the midst of a...
Provided by IBM
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Webcasts
A Breakthrough in Service Delivery for Data Center Workloads
Sep 2009
Success in the new smarter planet demands reduced cost of ownership, more collaboration, higher profitability and increased reinvestment into your IT infrastructure. Transforming the data center...
Provided by IBM
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White Papers
Email Archiving: a Business-Critical Application
Jul 2009
Today's businesses are especially vulnerable to accidental email loss, compliance demands, and the threat of e-discovery. Yet these same companies often have the fewest resources for combating...
Provided by MessageLabs, now part of Symantec
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White Papers
Journal of Management Excellence - Creating Value
Feb 2009
The principles underlying TVI are as old as control theory. Accountants audit a company by aligning money, information, and the flow of goods—or core business processes, in more modern terms. It...
Provided by Oracle
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White Papers
VL2: A Scalable and Flexible Data Center Network
Aug 2009
To be agile and cost effective, data centers should allow dynamic resource allocation across large server pools. In particular, the data center network should enable any server to be assigned to...
Provided by Association for Computing Machinery
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White Papers
CAFE: A Configurable PAcket Forwarding Engine for Data Center Networks
Aug 2009
Recently, Data Center Networking (DCN) has attracted many research attentions and innovative DCN designs have been proposed. All these designs need specialized packet forwarding engines due to...
Provided by Association for Computing Machinery
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White Papers
Why Should We Integrate Services, Servers, and Networking in a Data Center?
Aug 2009
Since the early days of networks, a basic principle has been that endpoints treat the network as a black box. An end-point injects a packet with a destination address and the network delivers the...
Provided by Association for Computing Machinery
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White Papers
Understanding Data Center Traffic Characteristics
Aug 2009
As data centers become more and more central in Internet communications, both research and operations communities have begun to explore how to better design and manage them. This paper presents a...
Provided by Association for Computing Machinery
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White Papers
Power In, Dollars Out: How to Stem the Flow in the Data Center - Server Power Considerations for IT Administrators
Nov 2008
This paper provides a comprehensive analysis of the server power landscape for Information Technology (IT) administrators. It explains the effect of server power usage on Total Cost of Ownership...
Provided by Microsoft
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Whitepapers
Dynamic Infrastructure Helping Build a Smarter PlanetDelivering Superior Business and IT Services with Agility and Speed
Sep 2009
In this smarter world, we need our infrastructure to propel us forward, not hold us back. This infrastructure becomes instrumented, interconnected and intelligent to bring together the business...
Provided by IBM
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Whitepapers
Creating a Dynamic Infrastructure through Virtualization
Sep 2009
In almost every case,the transformation to a dynamic infrastructure will involve virtualization.Many IT professionals think of virtualization specifically in terms of servers.IBM,however,has a...
Provided by IBM
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Downloads
Optimization Pack
Jan 2009
Virtualization success is all about balancing resource utilization and VM performance. VKernel's new Optimization Pack contains three powerful new applets (Wastefinder, Rightsizer, Inventory) that...
Provided by VKernel
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White Papers
Buy or Lease Your Own Data Center?: Think About It
Aug 2009
Before a company buys the data center, however, it will want to consider some of the factors not often assessed versus the favorable events listed above. There is a big difference between running...
Provided by IBS
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White Papers
Managing IT Infrastructure With Template-Based Provisioning
Sep 2009
The ideal approach is one in which all underlying physical IT data center resources and their interdependencies can be manipulated in software-defined templates. The entire application or service...
Provided by Liquid Computing
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Whitepapers
Mastering Virtualized Environments
Sep 2009
Data centers are growing rapidly in size and complexity. At the same time, competitive and economic pressures are making cost control even more critical to the overall success of data center...
Provided by IBM
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Whitepapers
Automated Workload Scheduling
Sep 2009
IT professional are increasingly challenged by the number of jobs and workloads created by company growth and expansion. Existing workload scheduling solutions are often inadequate and there is...
Provided by IBM
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Whitepapers
Deploying and Managing Windows Server 2008 R2 with Microsoft System Center
Jan 2009
Microsoft System Center supports organizations as they deploy and use Windows Server 2008 R2. System Center optimizes the deployment and management of Windows Server 2008 R2 by, automating...
Provided by Microsoft
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Tools & Templates
Green IT Impact Calculator
Sep 2009
Quantify the Impact of Green IT Virtualization Investments. Welcome to the Green IT Impact Calculator. This worksheet enables you to estimate the impact of virtualization investments to drive...
Provided by Dell
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White Papers
Unlock Your Hidden Data Center
Jan 2008
Kevin Smith, Enterprise Solutions Marketing Manager at Dell, explains why organizations need to consider energy use in their data center, reasons to "go green", as well as practical ways Dell...
Provided by Dell
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Case Studies
Virtualized Storage and Windows Server® 2008
Dec 2008
Storage virtualization is nothing new, but what is new and exciting with regard to storage virtualization and Windows Server® 2008? In this podcast, Computerworld Vice President Bill Laberis poses...
Provided by Dell
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Case Studies
NetBenefit: Hosting Provider Uses Virtualization to Expand Services and Reduce Costs
Sep 2008
NetBenefit is a leading provider of managed hosting services in the United Kingdom. Faced with ever more expensive London data center costs, the company was looking for ways to expand the hosting...
Provided by Dell
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White Papers
The Intelligent Choice for Microsoft® Windows Server Virtualization
Sep 2008
Dell has partnered with Microsoft to create several validated reference configurations, -profiled here -for Microsoft Hyper-V and SCVMM. Each offers a single source for fully tested hardware,...
Provided by Dell
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Webcasts
Consulting Expertise for the Virtual Data Center - Accelerating Your Journey to the Private Cloud
Sep 2009
Many organizations today want to do more than just virtualize their applications - they want to fundamentally transform how IT operates so they can deploy applications faster to get to market...
Provided by EMC
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Webcasts
Securing the Virtual Data Center With RSA, the Security Division of EMC
Aug 2009
Virtualization delivers tremendous flexibility in how IT resources are deployed and used - resulting in operational and cost efficiency. The presenter will give an outline of the common security...
Provided by EMC
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Webcasts
Achieve End-to-End Maximized Performance by Consolidating Your Data Center - Part One
Aug 2009
EMC and Brocade have partnered to bring a webcast series that highlights joint solutions for the next-generation data center, utilizing technologies available today. Organizations increasingly...
Provided by EMC
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Case Studies
Passing the Data Center Litmus Test
Dec 2008
Having developed the very first 100 percent Web-based time tracking solution, Timesheet, Austin-based Journyx knows first hand the importance of having a reliable data center backing up company?...
Provided by Core NAP
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Case Studies
Small Data Center Service With Big Data Center Capabilities
Dec 2008
When RipCode - the first company to address video transcoding as a true network appliance - identified the need for a hosted data center environment to place its products for client trials and...
Provided by Core NAP
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White Papers
Windows Azure and ISVS: A Guide for Decision Makers
Jul 2009
Why should an Independent Software Vendor (ISV) care about cloud computing? The answer is simple: Using the cloud has the potential to increase an ISV's revenues and/or decrease its costs. Running...
Provided by Microsoft
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White Papers
Utility Analysis for Internet-Oriented Server Consolidation in VM-Based Data Centers
Jul 2009
Server consolidation based on virtualization technology will simplify system administration, reduce the cost of power and physical infrastructure, and improve utilization in today's...
Provided by Wayne State University
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White Papers
Oracle Real Application Testing 11g Release 2
Jan 2009
Change is relentless in today's rapidly evolving IT environments. But it doesn't have to be difficult for data center managers and administrators. Oracle Real Application Testing helps...
Provided by Oracle
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White Papers
A Quick Primer on Data Center Tier Classifications
Oct 2009
Today, a number of companies are either consolidating their data centers or implementing new data center projects. Their decisions are often based on the appropriate "tier level" of the IT...
Provided by Switch and Data
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White Papers
Information-Centric Security for the Virtual Data Center
May 2009
Marrying the flexibility and agility of virtualization with the needs of the contemporary enterprise for information security, privacy and compliance demands that more intelligence and...
Provided by RSA Security
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White Papers
Incorporating Data Loss Prevention Into Daily Business Operations: How Microsoft Did It
Nov 2007
In retrospect, it is clear that setting well-defined and achievable objectives from the start, creating data-handling guidelines built from existing policy, devoting a significant amount of time...
Provided by RSA Security
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Whitepapers
Leveraging Stored Energy for Handling Power Emergencies in Aggressively Provisioned Datacenters
Mar 2012
Datacenters spend $10-25 per watt in provisioning their power infrastructure, regardless of the watts actually consumed. Since peak power needs arise rarely, provisioning power infrastructure for...
Provided by Association for Computing Machinery
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Whitepapers
Carbon-Aware Energy Capacity Planning for Datacenters
Jun 2012
Datacenters are facing increasing pressure to cap their carbon footprints at low cost. Recent work has shown the significant environmental benefits of using renewable energy for datacenters by...
Provided by The Pennsylvania State University
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Whitepapers
Harness IT with Mission-Critical Converged Infrastructure
Feb 2011
Data center sprawl has been the enemy of IT innovation for far too long. Over the past 20 years, IT infrastructures have been built ad hoc with a labyrinth of teams, tool, and processes. The...
Provided by HP and Intel®
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Case Studies
Mercury: Interactive Riverbed Steelhead Appliances Reduce Backup Windows by 75%
Jun 2009
Mercury Interactive is the global leader in Business Technology Optimization (BTO), is one of the largest enterprise software companies in the world. Mercury Interactive wanted to ensure that...
Provided by Riverbed Technology
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Whitepapers
The Tod Point Group: IBM Storwize V7000 Unified Provides Enterprise-Class Value in a VMWare Environment
Jun 2012
Server virtualization from VMware provides a powerful environment for consolidating a large number of physical servers, thereby delivering cost savings, asset optimization and enhanced flexibility...
Provided by IBM Corp.
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Whitepapers
Forrester: Total Economic Impact Study of IBM Storwize V7000
Jun 2012
In June 2011, IBM commissioned Forrester Consulting to examine the total economic impact and potential return on investment (ROI) that enterprises may realize by deploying Storwize V7000. The...
Provided by IBM Corp.
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Whitepapers
Edison: Competitive Management Cost Study: IBM Storwize V7000 vs. EMC VNX5500 Storage Systems
Jun 2012
As it has been the trend over the last decade, organizations must continue to deal with growing data storage requirements with the same or less resources. The growing adoption of...
Provided by IBM
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Whitepapers
Predico: A System for What-If Analysis in Complex Data Center Applications
Sep 2011
Modern data center applications are complex distributed systems with tens or hundreds of interacting software components. An important management task in data centers is to predict the impact of a...
Provided by University of Massachusetts
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Whitepapers
Applications of Data Mining in the Management of Performance and Power in Data Centers
Dec 2009
Performance and power issues are becoming increasingly important in the design of large data centers for supporting a multitude of services. There are many perspectives of addressing these issues...
Provided by Pennsylvania State University
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Whitepapers
MROrchestrator: A Fine-Grained Resource Orchestration Framework for MapReduce Clusters
May 2012
Efficient resource management in data centers and clouds running large distributed data processing frameworks like MapReduce is crucial for enhancing the performance of hosted applications and...
Provided by Pennsylvania State University
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Whitepapers
Remedy: Network-Aware Steady State VM Management for Data Centers
May 2012
Steady state VM-management in data centers should be network-aware so that VM migrations do not degrade network performance of other flows in the network, and if required, a VM migration can be...
Provided by International Federation for Information Processing
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Whitepapers
Gecko: A Contention-Oblivious Design for Cloud Storage
May 2012
Disk contention is a fact of life in modern data centers, with multiple applications sharing the storage resources of a single physical machine. Log-structured storage designs are ideally suited...
Provided by Microsoft Research
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Whitepapers
Less is More: Trading a Little Bandwidth for Ultra-Low Latency in the Data Center
Feb 2012
Traditional measures of network goodness - goodput, quality of service, fairness - are expressed in terms of bandwidth. Network latency has rarely been a primary concern because delivering the...
Provided by Stanford University
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Whitepapers
HP's Rx For Data Center Networks
Dec 2010
HP's modular data center product portfolio supports simplicity through streamlined network designs and centralized management; enhances agility with high performance, security, and accelerated...
Provided by HP and Intel®
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Whitepapers
Taking Advantage of Multicore/Multiprocessor Technologies to Meet Today's Storage Needs
Jun 2012
Data growth is not only driving up storage costs, but also transforming performance and efficiency requirements for storage systems. If you're looking for new storage solutions that can address...
Provided by Oracle
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Whitepapers - Video
Oracle Fact Finders Video Series - Episode 2: Improving Storage Utilization
Jun 2012
Is your storage infrastructure keeping up with data growth and performance demands? Oracle's Aaron Newcomb finds the answers to help you grow your storage environments while maintaining optimal...
Provided by Oracle
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eBooks
Transforming Enterprise Cloud with IBM System z
Jun 2012
Over the past few years, cloud computing and virtualization have transformed data centers throughout the world. But cloud computing and virtualization are not without their disadvantages,...
Provided by IBM
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Whitepapers
Q&A: Extending datacentre capabilities across the network
Jun 2012
What are the key factors affecting today's networks? How will the cloud impact how organizations build their networks? Brocade CMO John McHugh explains the common challenges organisations face...
Provided by Brocade
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Whitepapers
How cloud computing poses challenges for networks
Jun 2012
Today's cloud-based infrastructures and complex datacentres need networks that are capable of carrying multiple types of data, each with different types of requirements. How does one go about...
Provided by Brocade
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Whitepapers
Paycor Tackles Peak Workloads with Newest HP ProLiant Servers
Jan 2011
Plenty of servers and hardware companies promise the world when you're thinking about buying, but typically, when everything is out of the box and set up, your lofty expectations are greatly...
Provided by Hewlett-Packard (HP)
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White Papers
Leveraging real-time analytics and automation
Jun 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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White Papers
Storage System Architecture for Data Centers of the Future
May 2012
Storage system architecture for data centers of future aims to address a few areas of critical importance to the design of storage systems for data centers of the future. With the massive amounts...
Provided by AICIT
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Whitepapers
Wikibon ROI Study: Business Case for Unified Storage Consolidation for Microsoft Windows Installations
Jun 2012
Unified storage has been a hot topic of discussion in the storage business for the last 18-24 months. The discussion has largely focused on which vendors offer which products and functionality,...
Provided by NetApp
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Whitepapers
Seven Tips for Troubleshooting VMware vSphere5
May 2012
Here are seven tips for working with vSphere, including: Logging in via Command Line, dealing with connection problems using ssh to an ESXi host; network performance issues; possible storage...
Provided by Global Knowledge
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Whitepapers
HP Converged Storage: Storage Efficiencies that Unlock Green Savings
Dec 2011
Many factors are causing IT organizations to look at their environmental scorecards. The rising worldwide demand for power, inherent complications of power creation and usage, the ongoing debate...
Provided by HP and Intel®
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Whitepapers
HP Technology Services for Storage Solutions
Oct 2011
Built from years of experience, HP's approach to storage transformation follows a model that leverages a range of consolidation and virtualization solutions and delivery models to improve upon...
Provided by HP and Intel®
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Whitepapers
IDG Tech Dossier: Converged Storage - Utility Storage: The Ideal Platform for Virtual and Cloud Computing
Jun 2012
Server virtualization has transformed corporate IT, companies have enjoyed major cost savings and have gained flexibility and efficiency. But this has also led to a proliferation of virtual...
Provided by HP and Intel®
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Whitepapers
ESG Lab Review: HP 3PAR Peer Motion Software
Dec 2011
This ESG Lab review sponsored by HP + Intel documents hands-on testing of HP 3PAR Peer Motion Software's distributed volume management with a focus on federated workload balancing, asset...
Provided by HP and Intel®
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Whitepapers
InfoWorld: Converged Storage - A Next Gen Virtualized Architecture
Jun 2012
Organizations need a strategy for rearchitecting storage so that it enables, rather than constricts, the delivery of IT services. According to HP, it's all about Converged Storage, which breaks...
Provided by HP and Intel®
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Case Studies
Cisco on Cisco: Cisco Unified Communications on Cisco Unified Computing System
Mar 2011
Rapid growth in Cisco's employee user base combined with new ways of working put additional processing demand on the IT department's communication services. Their challenges are to provide...
Provided by Cisco
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Case Studies
Electrical Wholesaler Transforms Data Center With Cisco Solutions
Apr 2012
Van Meter, has continued to build on its rich tradition of innovation and service-first business culture to expand its footprint. Their challenges are to achieving greater value from data center...
Provided by Cisco
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Case Studies
Cloud-Based Virtual Data Center Helps BT Improve Performance, Scalability, Efficiency, and Customer Satisfaction
Aug 2011
BT operates in 170-plus countries and serves more than 18 million customers. Their challenges are current VDC solution lacked scalability and flexibility and needed new solution that accelerates...
Provided by Cisco Systems
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Case Studies
I/o Data Centers
Oct 2010
i/o Data Centers designs, engineers, and delivers data center as a service to the world's largest enterprises. They need solution for rapidly growing customer base required the automation of key...
Provided by BMC Software
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Webcasts
VimpelCom Success: Data Center
Jan 2012
In this webcast, the presenter explains about Symantec storage management, data protection, and high availability and tells about the solutions to drive down capital and operating costs while...
Provided by Symantec
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Podcasts
Managing VMware and Your Enterprise Infrastructure
Jan 2012
The VMware Virtual Datacenter Operating System is now an integral part of the enterprise infrastructure for many customers and needs to be managed alongside other infrastructure in the...
Provided by VMware
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Podcasts
Disaster Recovery in the Datacenter
Jan 2012
In this podcast, the speakers explain about the Disaster Recovery in the Datacenter. The speakers also explain about how to manage the enterprise datacenter with VMware Virtualization Disaster...
Provided by VMware
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White Papers
Optimization of Energy and Emissions in High-Performance Grid Computing Data Centres
Mar 2012
At an early stage of information and communications technology and high-performance computing, performance and reliability were two important factors in research and development. It was highly...
Provided by IARIA
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White Papers
An Extension of RankBoost for Semi-Supervised Learning of Ranking Functions
Nov 2011
The purpose of this paper was a semi-supervised learning method of alternatives ranking functions. This method extends the supervised RankBoost algorithm to combines labeled and unlabeled data....
Provided by IARIA
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White Papers
The Limitation of MapReduce: A Probing Case and a Lightweight Solution
Jul 2011
MapReduce is arguably the most successful parallelization framework especially for processing large data sets in datacenters comprising commodity computers. However, difficulties are observed in...
Provided by IARIA
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Whitepapers
IBM PureFlex System for consistent SAP solution hosting and management
May 2012
With the architecture, operating system and virtualization technologies you need supported by built-in patterns of expertise, an IBM PureFlex System infrastructure offers an integrated, flexible,...
Provided by IBM
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White Papers
Going "Green" With Brocade Extraordinary Networks
Jun 2009
As today's IT organizations face the critical challenges of continued data growth and limited data center energy resources, they are turning to more energy-efficient devices to help them reduce...
Provided by Brocade Communications Systems
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White Papers
The Next Data Center Understanding and Preparing for Tomorrow's Technologies
Apr 2009
What many in the IT industry thought would never come is now knocking on the data center door. Technologies like 40 and 100 Gigabit Ethernet, Fibre Channel over Ethernet, IP convergence and server...
Provided by ADC Telecommunications
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Webcasts
TechNet Webcast: Dynamic Data Center Toolkit for Hosters: Foundation for a Partner-Hosted Cloud (Level 300)
Nov 2009
Windows Server 2008 Hyper-V and Microsoft System Center empower hosters to deliver managed hosting, cloud services, and on-demand virtualized IT infrastructures. The Dynamic Data Center Toolkit...
Provided by Microsoft
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White Papers
Measuring the Business Value of Green Datacenters
Sep 2009
Today, policy and business leaders are reaching a consensus that industry must address rising GreenHouse Gas (GHG) emissions. Leading enterprises are now turning to the practical challenge of...
Provided by IDG (International Data Group)
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White Papers
Understanding Network IO Virtualization(IOV) and Its Application in the Data Center and Network Infrastructure
Sep 2009
In today's network environment, servers and appliances in the data centers, as well as control plane and application layer functions in infrastructure equipment, are increasingly being built...
Provided by Netronome Systems
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White Papers
Effect of Virtualization on the Data Center
Apr 2009
Virtualization technology adoption is rapidly increasing in data centers as businesses strive to improve reliability and availability, but more importantly reduce IT costs and improve resource use...
Provided by Smart Mobile Solutions
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White Papers
Data Center Fabric for Cloud Networks: Laying the Foundation for Next-Generation Cloud Infrastructures
Oct 2009
Legacy network architectures are inhibiting today's data centers as IT organizations continue the struggle to keep up with the burgeoning growth of Internet-enabled application services, servers,...
Provided by Juniper Networks
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White Papers
vManage: Loosely Coupled Platform and Virtualization Management in Data Centers
Jun 2009
Management is an important challenge for future enterprises. Previous work has addressed platform management (e.g., power and thermal management) separately from virtualization management (e.g.,...
Provided by Association for Computing Machinery
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White Papers
Reduce IT Costs by Simplifying and Improving Data Center Operations Management
Oct 2009
If one's IT organization is like most, one must achieve what may seem to be contradictory objectives: deliver higher levels of service and reduce costs. Many IT executives are discovering they can...
Provided by BMC Software
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White Papers
Reduce Risk: Three Best Practices for Integrating Change and Compliance in the Data Center
Oct 2009
How can IT executives remain responsive to the varying needs of the business, in spite of frequent changes to the IT infrastructure that impact stability and control? And how can they accomplish...
Provided by BMC Software
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White Papers
Extreme Computing: HP's New Blades Target HPC, Cloud Computing, and the Next-Generation Datacenter
Jun 2008
HP understands that blade-based systems will not meet the requirements of all users; therefore, the company includes the BladeSystem c-Class as an option in its overall Unified Cluster Portfolio....
Provided by IDG (International Data Group)
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Whitepapers
Symantec VCS Replication Agent Integration With HP XP24000 3DC Architectures
Jan 2010
In today's world, prudent IT administrators prepare to recover from two types of disasters as part of a complete Business Continuity and Availability (BC&A) plan. The first is a localized...
Provided by Hewlett-Packard (HP)
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Whitepapers
Optimizing the Data Center With Server Application Optimization
Feb 2010
As storage and network administrators continue to deploy more IO intensive tier-1 applications, powerful servers to support these applications, and virtualized environments to consolidate...
Provided by Hewlett-Packard (HP)
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Case Studies
Holding Company Enhances Availability and IT Services, Cuts Costs With Virtualization
Feb 2010
Founded in 1834, Ayala Corporation is a renowned, highly diversified holding company based in the Philippines. Committed to using advanced technologies to help maximize business investments and...
Provided by Microsoft
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Webcasts
Stay Ahead of the Curve with New System x and BladeCenter Servers
Mar 2010
With the portfolio of Intel® Xeon® processor-based rack, blade and iDataPlex servers from IBM System x and BladeCenter, your business has access to even more processing power, memory, storage and...
Provided by IBM
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White Papers
Intel IT Data Center Solutions: Strategies to Improve Efficiency
Sep 2009
Over time, Intel IT has evolved the strategies to optimize the data center infrastructure to respond faster to business needs while enhancing the services and value IT brings to the business. The...
Provided by Intel
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White Papers
Increasing Data Center Efficiency With Server Power Measurements
Jan 2010
Intel IT defined methods for analyzing computing energy efficiency within the design computing environment, using measurements of actual server power consumption and utilization. Intel used these...
Provided by Intel
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White Papers
Increasing Efficiency With Data Center Investment
Oct 2009
An efficient IT infrastructure plays an essential role in enabling federal agencies to support the government mission. Yet today, many agencies struggle with outdated data center technologies that...
Provided by Intel
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White Papers
Data Center Optimization: Three Key Strategies
Jun 2009
Data center managers face a lot of challenges over the next few years. In many facilities, three pressing problems need to be solved nearly immediately: limited power, increasing cooling demands,...
Provided by Sun Microsystems
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White Papers
Optimizing I/O Virtualization: Preparing the Datacenter for Next-Generation Applications
Sep 2009
Rapid adoption of virtualization technology in the x86 server market is bringing a wider array of applications into the virtualized IT infrastructure. Driving this adoption is the need to fully...
Provided by IDG (International Data Group)
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White Papers
Accelerated Server Refresh Reduces Data Center Cost
Jun 2008
Like most IT organizations, Intel IT faces the challenge of accommodating ever-increasing compute requirements within data center space, cooling, and power constraints. Most of the server...
Provided by Intel
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Whitepapers
Implementing the Poughkeepsie Green Data Center: Showcasing a Dynamic Infrastructure
Jun 2009
The IBM Design Center Data Center in Poughkeepsie, New York, was running out of cooling capacity and needed to address continuing IT growth requirements. Innovative change was required and...
Provided by IBM
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Whitepapers
Building an Efficient Data Center With IBM IDataPlex
May 2008
Demand for data center compute capacity has been steadily growing over the past few years with existing as well as emerging technologies such as Web 2.0, online gaming, Social Network Analysis...
Provided by IBM
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White Papers
Securing the Data Center
Mar 2008
In the dispersing enterprise, the spread of service-oriented architectures, rich internet applications, and virtualization dictate that data center security reshape itself. To secure a dynamic...
Provided by Nemertes Research
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White Papers
Enabling Datacenter Automation With Virtualized Infrastructure
Aug 2008
This paper analyzes the impact and opportunities that virtualization offers for human- and technology-based process workflows. As virtualization adoption increases across domains (e.g., server,...
Provided by VMware
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White Papers
Automating the Virtual Datacenter
Feb 2008
IT organizations are under significant pressure to create, deliver and maintain flexible IT services that enable the business to respond quickly to changing business conditions. This growing need...
Provided by VMware
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White Papers
Virtual SMB Data Center in a Box?
Apr 2009
VMware makes it easy to assign system resources to a particular workload to ensure it has enough capacity to handle business needs. It can reassign resources to handle workload spikes, giving a...
Provided by Gabriel Consulting Group
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White Papers
Is It Possible Your Data Center Has Twice the Amount of Air Conditioning It Needs?
Jun 2009
IT loads are still often sized to nameplate or by using some experience based fudge factor applied to the nameplate value. One should always use vendor calculator tools if they exist. It is not...
Provided by Dell
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White Papers
Scalable Windows Servers in the Datacenter
Jan 2009
This paper focuses on HP Integrity servers running the Microsoft Windows server operating environment and mission-critical workloads (e.g., ERP, CRM, and databases). Often the result of...
Provided by IDG (International Data Group)
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White Papers
Automating Datacenter Management: Consolidating Physical and Virtualized Infrastructures
Apr 2008
The deployment of virtualization technology for datacenter consolidation, cost reduction, and improved agility continues to accelerate datacenter adoption, spanning server, and storage,...
Provided by IDG (International Data Group)
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Whitepapers
Data Center Power Control: Usage Recommendations
Nov 2009
HP Insight Control power management with the new feature Data Center Power Control enables customers to take control of their data center. This functionality allows data center managers to define...
Provided by Hewlett-Packard (HP)
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Whitepapers
The Data Center of the Future: Adapting to 21st Century Customer-Driven Demands
Jan 2010
With virtualization technologies becoming mainstream and adoption rates rising, traditional data centers have transformed into virtual data centers, where technologies are virtualized to provide...
Provided by Hewlett-Packard (HP)
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Managing Storage in the Virtual Data Center
May 2009
As server virtualization technologies like VMware get deployed in data centers, the increased complexity of the IT service makes storage management very challenging. HP Storage Essentials is a...
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The Benefits of Datacenter Transformation With HP
Mar 2009
HP's transformation solutions cut across every aspect of the datacenter. Customers can choose from a comprehensive set of hardware, software, and services that can be tailored to support a wide...
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Improved Data Center Efficiency - Incorporating Air Stream Containment
Feb 2009
To sustain growth, data centers are facing the challenge of supporting computer equipment with higher densities in kilowatts per rack and managing the environmental impact. Initiatives are being...
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Improved Data Center Efficiency - Incorporating Air Stream Containment: The Cold Aisle Containment Advantage
Oct 2009
To sustain growth, data centers are facing the challenge of supporting computer equipment with higher densities in kilowatts per rack and managing the environmental impact. Initiatives are being...
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Orchestration for the Business-Driven Data Center: Connect IT to Your Organization's True Needs
Oct 2009
Orchestration, though still a fairly new concept to most people, should not be overlooked in the rush to adopt new trends such as cloud computing or focusing on cost reductions, as all companies...
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Introducing Logical Servers: Making Data Center Infrastructures More Adaptive
Jul 2008
This paper describes the HP strategy and long-term vision for logical servers to make a data center infrastructure more adaptive. Products based on logical server technology will be implemented in...
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Power Management of Datacenter Workloads Using Per-Core Power Gating
Sep 2009
Dynamic Voltage and Frequency Scaling (DVFS) is one of the most successful power management mechanisms provided by modern processors. Nevertheless, the efficacy of DVFS is limited by its dynamic...
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Data Center Assessments: The First Step to Optimization
Mar 2009
Data centers are large, important investments that, when properly designed, built, and operated, are an integral part of the business strategy driving the success of any enterprise. Yet the...
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