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Opportunities and Challenges with the Convergence of Data Center Networks by Juniper Networks, Inc.
This white paper presents an approach to data center convergence that rethinks the network from the ground up to provide a long-term, future-proof strategy and develop a converged data center fabric with the flexibility to scale to super data centers while driving down the cost and complexity of managing the data center information infrastructure.

Legacy...
Green Networking in the Data Center by Arrow/HP ProCurve
centers; addressing the issues surrounding data center power, cooling and efficiency,with an emphasis on how specific networking tools and strategies can help address these issues.

This movement toward greater environmental concern impacts every department and function in a company and IT is no exception. Many industry analysts, such as Gartner, have cited "Green...
Green Networking in the Data Center by Hewlett-Packard Company
centers; addressing the issues surrounding data center power, cooling and efficiency, with an emphasis on how specific networking tools and strategies can help address these issues.

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...
Data Center Bridging: Extending Network Standards by Dell, Inc.
brief we provide an overview of the reasons Data Center Bridging (DCB) is being developed and how it can improve networking in the data center for applications, servers, and storage.

Data Center Bridging is a new network standard that can bring to networks the same consolidation benefits that storage and servers have enjoyed in recent years - higher utilization rates...
Force10 Networks Dynamic Cloud Infrastructure Building the Cloud – Dynamic Optimization of the Virtualized Data Center by Force10 Networks
The data center has been, and continues to be, one of the key resources of innovation helping businesses become more agile and efficient while reducing total cost of ownership (TCO). This application note explores the means by which existing data center assets can be repurposed to increase utilization, and improved...
10 Gigabit Ethernet: Unifying iSCSI and Fibre Channel in a Single Network Fabric by Dell, Inc.
The advent of 10 Gigabit Ethernet (10GbE), Data Center Bridging (DCB), and Fibre Channel over Ethernet (FCoE)offers enhanced performance and throughput for connecting networked storage to servers. Whether using the Internet SCSI (iSCSI) or Fibre Channel protocols, organizations have a clear path for unifying a network fabric in 10GbE environments.

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Sun Microsystems & Force10 Networks Collaborate to Bring Network Automation to the Masses by Force10 Networks
Download this white paper to see how Sun's Crossbow, coupled with Force10's FTOS, provides an end-to-end standards-based approach to virtualization and automation.

Data center managers have been dealing with data center sprawl for years as they have attempted to balance the ever-increasing demands of application complexity with the "I need it now

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10GbE and FCoE and DCB: Ready for the Evolution of SAN Fabrics? by Dell, Inc.
article will provide an overview of the reasons Data Center Bridging (DCB) is being developed and how it can improve networking in the data center for applications, servers, and storage.

As economic conditions recover in 2010 many organizations will be looking to evolve their IT operations with new datacenter technologies while enhancing business processes. Server and...
Energy Logic: Reducing Data Center Energy Consumption by Creating Savings that Cascade Across Systems by Emerson Network Power
is a vendor-neutral roadmap for optimizing data center energy efficiency that starts with the IT equipment and progresses to the support infrastructure. This paper shows how it can deliver a 50 percent or greater reduction in data center energy consumption without compromising performance or availability. A number of associations, consultants and vendors have...
Data Center Consolidation & Business Continuity by Blue Coat
continuity.

When enterprises undertake data center consolidation projects they’re trying reduce the corporate footprint by reducing the number of physical centers while maintaining existing service levels and availability. This reduces the number of sites, servers, and operating systems supported (thereby lowering hardware, licensing, and management...
TechWiseTV: Unlocking the Potential of Virtualization by Cisco Systems, Inc.

How can you restore law and order in the data center? More important, how can you eliminate the downsides of virtualization so you can realize its full potential?

Special co-host and data center expert Steve Phillips joins the TechWise team to show you how the new Cisco Nexus 1000V and Cisco VN-Link enable you to automatically empower virtual servers with the same...
Unified Physical Infrastructure℠ (UPI) Strategies for Smart Data Centers by Panduit
with deploying a Vertical Exhaust System in the data center, and its impact on the data center physical infrastructure. An example scenario is presented to demonstrate the cost savings that may be achieved by deploying a VES in a typical data center environment.

Business management applications and rich collaboration software for both employees and customers...
Understanding Data Centers and Cloud Computing by Global Knowledge
organizations continue to manage internal data center, many business managers are able to increase service levels, cover more users, and lower response times by outsourcing their out-dated server farms to third-party data centers and cloud computing providers. This white paper will define data centers and explore cloud networking.

Competitive business...
Building a Cloud-Ready Data Center Network by Juniper Networks, Inc.
Hype or no hype, cloud computing is a reality. Read this whitepaper to learn what you need to do to get your network and IT infrastructure ready. As talk of cloud computing swirls through the IT atmosphere, IT executives are sorting fact from fiction while trying to figure out what the new cloud computing model means for their organizations. Though...
Hitachi Consulting Sees Its Way to Application Control with Blue Coat by Blue Coat
applications, files and data in its Dallas data center to serve employees in all locations. To simplify serviceability in its branch offices, servers were limited, and a consistent network infrastructure was deployed across all offices to access centralized resources.

Over the years, Hitachi Consulting acquired companies and consolidated the associated...
Virtualize Network Connections and Capacity—From the Edge to the Core by Hewlett-Packard Company
and compliance.

The fundamental nature of data center computing is rapidly changing. The traditional model of separately provisioned and maintained server, storage, and network resources are constraining data center agility and pushing budget envelopes to the limit. IT organizations recognize that these static pools of isolated resources are being...
Unified Physical Infrastructure (UPI) Strategies for Thermal Management by Panduit
to close raised floor cutout spaces and improve data center cooling efficiency. Solutions that achieve the highest level of sealing effectiveness support network uptime goals by contributing to maximum cooling efficiency and providing superior cable management. One of the core issues affecting data centers is the ability to cost-effectively cool active...
10 Gigabit Ethernet Virtual Data Center Architectures by Force10 Networks
consolidated, virtualized, and SOA-enabled data centers based on the ultra high port-density 10 GbE switch/router products of Force10.

Consolidation of data center resources offers an opportunity for architectural transformation based on the use of scalable, high density, high availability technology solutions, such as high port-density 10 GbE switch

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Application Delivery Controllers: Moving toward the application-centric network by F5 Networks
The data center has evolved, and so have the requirements placed on the network. Read this Pocket E-Guide to find out what you need to do to respond to these evolving changes. The data center has continued to evolve, and so have the requirements placed on the network. Not long ago, it was enough for the networking group to provide load...
Untangling the Data Center with Unified Fabric by Cisco Systems, Inc.
how unified fabric can be utilized to improve data center management. Discover the benefits of unified fabric, and learn how your organization can migrate to this data transport technology incrementally to preserve your existing data center investments.

Data centers are rapidly reaching a tipping point. The trend to server virtualization, combined with massive...
Transformer UPS vs. Transformerless UPS: Balancing High Levels of Availability with Efficiency by Emerson Network Power
Today's IT, facilities and data center managers face the daunting challenge of maintaining a high availability data center while simultaneously increasing energy efficiency. Learn how Transformer-based UPS designs are proven topologies for achieving high efficiency without compromising availability in large enterprise data center...
Fibre Channel Essentials by Global Knowledge
of any major enterprise network, the corporate data center has evolved into an integral and highly complex environment. The data center is now important enough to be a separate strategic focus for Cisco and many other networking companies. The demand is high for skilled personnel in this area. But the objective of this white paper is not to describe the design or...
Hitachi IT Operations Analyzer: Root Cause Analysis for Supporting Fault Identification by Hitachi Data Systems
is a powerful, proven approach to simplifying data center management, with comprehensive performance and availability monitoring of up to 250 server, network and storage nodes.

Hitachi Data Systems introduces Hitachi IT Operations Analyzer software with unique Root Cause Analysis functionality. The IT Operations Analyzer is a powerful, proven approach to...
Cisco MDS 9000 Family Virtual SANs Advantages by Cisco Systems, Inc.
VSANs) in 2002 to address these issues in the data center. Today's data centers are faced with many challenges such as consolidation, resources optimization, power, cooling, cost reduction and more. Cisco foresaw these requirements and developed Virtual Storage Area Networks (VSANs) in 2002 to address these issues in the data center.

By using VSANs, customers can...
Focused Cooling Using Cold Aisle Containment by Emerson Network Power
measures such as sealing moisture out of the data center and improving air flow, aisle containment to prevent the mixing of hot and cold air stands out as a method that can dramatically reduce energy costs, minimize hot spots and improve the carbon footprint of data centers.

 

While either hot aisle or cold aisle containment systems can be installed and are both...
Related Tips
Should you comply with Article 645 of the National Electrical Code? by Kevin Meyer, PE, and Christopher Johnston, PE
A major consideration in the design of a data center is whether the Information Technology Equipment (ITE) space will comply with Article 645 of the National Electrical Code (NEC). Article 645 covers equipment, power supply wiring, equipment interconnecting wiring, and grounding of information technology equipment and systems. Chapters 1... More...
Using ITIL to bridge the IT-facilities gap, boost data center efficiency by Dave Rosenberg and Tony Ulichnie, Contributors
and framework can be applied to all facets of the data center on both the IT and the facilities sides, it can help both sides of the data center to communicate and shrink the IT-facilities divide.

IT is focused on maintenance and rolling out new applications, and ensuring that changes and problems don't disrupt service. As a result, IT may not be aware of... More...

Turn to collaborative tools for systems performance management by Michael Coté, Contributor
the firewall, pulling in help from outside of the data center payroll.

Sharing configuration
In the broadest sense of the term, here configuration means settings, customizations, reports, alert thresholds or anything that customizes how a given piece of IT management software is used.

By far, the most popular shared configuration is around reports... More...

Related Articles
IBM's Nehalem EX-based systems to boost x86 server memory capacity by Mark Fontecchio, News Writer
higher licensing costs because the chip has eight cores. VMware's multicore pricing and licensing policy states that costs can increase with servrers running on chips with more than six cores.

More server memory capacity; too much of a good thing?
Kenny Coleman, a VMware administrator at a Louisville area nonprofit, said the extra memory capacity seems... More...
Virtualization and memory complexity frustrates IT pros by Mark Fontecchio, News Writer
How VM memory issues arise
The ESX hypervisor inspects memory pages loaded by guest operating systems running in virtual machines. When it finds identical memory pages, it saves a copy of the page and then creates a pointer to it for the virtual machines. Duplicate memory pages are common in highly virtualized environments; if someone runs 20 copies of Windows Server... More...
New federal data center energy-effiiciency guidelines on tap by Mark Fontecchio, News Writer
The federal government and major industry groups are on the cusp of developing widely accepted standards for measuring a data center's energy efficiency.

Along with the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) is working with six data center industry groups... More...