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Maximizing Data Center Investments for Disaster Recovery and Business Resiliency by Compellent
site selection, and site recovery. Building a data center is a massive investment. It requires investment in real estate, reinforced facilities, raised floors, state-of-the art power and cooling, and IT infrastructure such as networks, servers, and storage -- not to mention the experienced data center staff to manage it all. Firms build new data...
Speeding Business Innovation by Hewlett-Packard Company
In this white paper, learn how data center transformation can help your organization outsource applications and shift spending from maintenance and management to projects that support business growth and innovation. According to the Data Center Institute, by 2010 more than half of all data centers will have to relocate to new facilities or...
Brochure: Data Center Transformation by Hewlett-Packard Company
This paper looks at the approach to Data Center Transformation and how centers reduce costs, manage risks, and support business growth. It highlights data center managers and how HP is helping its customers address them. Not all data centers are ready for the challenges of the global marketplace including environmental concerns, disruption of critical...
Building a Reliable and Dynamic Data Center with PAN Manager by Egenera, Inc.
The dynamic data center is within reach today, but how it is achieved and how well it performs can vary widely from among the many approaches being offered. This paper looks at the requirements for the dynamic data center and how to get there. Leading IT managers are taking steps toward a more dynamic data center by implementing...
Meeting the Power and Memory Demands of Today's Data Center by Spansion, Inc.
of ownership in x86 data centers. Cost, power, and data center cooling and space will continue to worsen if no changes are made to the current data center infrastructure. In fact, an estimated 10 power plants must be built over the next few years to accommodate the growing power usage in data centers. This webcast reviews a memory technology that enables memory capacity up to...
HP Data Center Transformation Case Study by Hewlett-Packard Company
HP launched an IT transformation program with a focus on five initiatives: global data centers, portfolio management, technology workforce effectiveness, building a world-class technology infrastructure... In 2005, Hewlett-Packard faced many of the same challenges its customers face in their business technology infrastructure. The company had too many...
An Inconvenient Balance? Can the Data Center Go Green without Stifling Corporate Growth? by Crossbeam Systems
technologies that can positively impact the data center's energy consumption without sacrificing performance, and exactly how to calculate the energy and cost savings. Enterprise IT organizations are mercilessly put in the spotlight to save the day and provide the business with both bottom line cost improvements and top line company competitiveness, all...
Tideway Foundation ™ Community Edition 7.1.7 by Tideway Systems
estate helps take cost and risk out of critical data center projects. Product Type: Discovery and Dependency Mapping

Target User: IT Managers, System Administrators and Configuration Managers

IT Problem: Tideway automatically maps physical & virtual servers, applications and dependencies to provide an actionable baseline of your infrastructure. This 360-degree...
Government Data Center Network by Juniper Networks, Inc.
44; technologies and products that support data center architects and engineers responsible for answering the requirements of designing government agencies' data center networks. Government agencies are turning to next-generation data centers that enable reduced operational cost and deliver transparency to citizen services through an open...
HP and Cisco Data Center Solutions by Cisco Systems, Inc.
of collaborating to deliver successful data center solutions. This brochure provides an overview of Cisco's industry leadership in networking infrastructure with HP's world-class leadership in IT solutions. HP and Cisco share a long history of collaborating to deliver successful data center solutions. Our alliance combines Cisco's industry...
Hyper-Efficient Operations for the Next-Generation Data Center by Oracle Corporation
building and operating the next-generation data center using advances in virtualization. Join Oracle CIO, Mark Sunday, and Oracle Chief Corporate Architect, Edward Screven, as they share best practices for building and operating the next-generation data center using advances in virtualization, Linux, high-performance application architecture...
Rack Powering Options for High Density by APC
is replaced 5 or more times during the life of a data center in a piecemeal manner. This situation requires a rack enclosure power distribution system that can cope with the changing requirements. Key requirements of an effective rack power distribution system were described, which suggest a practical rack enclosure power architecture that can meet the...
The Profit-Minded Contact Center - Building an ROI Case for Customer Interaction Solutions in Financial Services. by Portrait Software
multi-channel interaction, delivering a full-spectrum view of the customer and providing real-time guidance to agents, Customer Interaction Optimization solutions will take contact centers to the next level of performance.

This whitepaper shows you how contact centers can deliver differentiated customer service, build more profitable...
It's Easier Being Green: The business Case for Green IT by Hewlett-Packard Company
illustrates the case for transforming your data center with a green initiative. It has tangible examples and tactics that show how to realize cost savings, reduce strain on IT resources and retain better business continuity & availability. Many companies are projected to spend more on energy than hardware over a three year cycle. This is just one of the many reasons...
Creating a Green Data Center to Help Reduce Energy Costs and Gain a Competitive Advantage by IBM
The data center is often the engine that drives the growth of the enterprise, and energy efficiency is the key. IBM has a decade of experience in owning and managing eight million square feet of data centers around the world. And we've been working closely with our clients the past year in implementing energy-efficiency...
Securing the Benefits of Virtualization by Stonesoft Inc.
be an afterthought in the transformation of the data center. Companies are rapidly adopting virtualization, incented by the tremendous benefits it brings to static and inflexible data centers. Virtualization offers better utilization of server resources but also, more importantly, it creates an agile application platform that business can use to accelerate...
Security Implications of the Virtualized DataCenter by F5 Networks
own, & are quickly moving into the enterprise data center & becoming a universal tool for all people & groups within IT departments everywhere.

There are two primary types of platform virtualization: transparent & host-aware (often referred to as paravirtualization). Transparent virtualization is implemented so that the guest is not aware that it's running in...
Site Selection for Mission Critical Facilities by APC
When selecting a new site for a data center or evaluating an existing site, it is important to understand all potential risks associated with that site. Read this white paper to learn techniques for evaluating and mitigating a site's risk factors. When selecting a new site or evaluating an existing site, there are dozens of risk factors that must be...
The VDC Maturity Model - Moving up the Virtual Data Center Stack by F5 Networks
The goal of virtualization in the data center is to help the enterprise achieve a business goal, whether that goal is consolidation, reduced management and head count costs, disaster recovery, or even "going green." The goal of virtualization in the data center is to help the enterprise achieve a business goal, whether that goal is consolidation, reduced...
HP Virtualization with Intel and VMware: End-to-end Virtualization of IT Resources by VMware, Inc.
platform for building a complete virtualized data center solution. The VMware partnership and technical collaboration with HP and Intel enables your organization to deploy a reliable and scalable platform for building a complete virtualized data center solution...
Thermal Zone Mapping by Hewlett-Packard Company
used to optimize the placement of equipment in a data center, investigate failure scenarios, and make sure that a proper cooling solution has been achieved.

In this briefing, learn how Thermal Zone Mapping is a novel way of representing and visualizing the environmental behavior of a "greenfield" or existing data center, allowing for easier and more complete...
Virtualization from the Datacenter to the Desktop by Microsoft
focused on consolidating resources in the data center, virtualization now has applications across the IT spectrum, driving down costs and improving agility. This paper looks at the role virtualization should take in an optimized IT infrastructure, and presents a set of principles and best practices to help you build a comprehensive virtualization...
Data Center Projects: Growth Model by APC
and effective way to develop a capacity plan for a data center or network room. Long term data center or network room capacity planning may seem impossible in the face of evolving IT technology and business requirements. Nevertheless, data center facilities have a lifetime that may span many generations of IT equipment, so planning - or lack of planning - can have a...
Transcript: It's Easier Being Green: The Business Case for Green IT by Hewlett-Packard Company
electricity cost for a typical high-density data center is 42% of OPEX.

3) The third driver is the resource shortage. The pool of qualified senior technical management professionals will shrink by 45%. Like the scarcity of energy there is a scarcity of people with the engineering process and management skills to most efficiently run data centers.

4) The fourth driver is...
Data Center Transformation by Hewlett-Packard Company
This paper looks at HP's approach to Data Center Transformation and how it can help enterprise data centers reduce costs, manage risks, and support business growth. In today's connected global marketplace, data centers are more important than ever. Customers expect to purchase products and access services 24x7. So any downtime-planned or...
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Protecting your data center from real show-stoppers: Preparing a disaster recovery plan by Bill Peldzus, Contributor
of your overall business continuity plans (BCP), your data center DR plans must accommodate and address both the technical and non-technical aspects of a disaster event. Too often, under real recovery situations, the non-technical elements bring your recovery to a screeching halt. Here are a couple of examples that can be learned from.

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Mainframe New Year's resolutions by Robert Crawford, Contributor
for me, of course. I gave up the trying to improve myself a few years ago. This time I'm going to make resolutions for the IT industry. Besides, it gives me a chance to complain.

IT executive management

"We resolve to understand the true costs of offshore outsourcing."

On the surface, offshore outsourcing sounds like a good deal for the unabashedly... More...

Mainframe change management tools ease compliance burden by Richard Ptak, Contributor
Data center operations lie at the heart of business service delivery. The influence of data center operations, as they directly control and impact business success, extends across the full range of business services. Centered on the mainframe, but including distributed operations, this... More...
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Experian drills backup water supply to cool data center by Mark Fontecchio, News Writer
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The unknowns of well drilling and other backup-water options
Robert McFarlane, a data center design expert and a principal at New York-based Shen Milsom & Wilke Inc. , said that well drilling is an uncommon way to get backup water for a data center, because there are so many question marks.

"The problem with well water is that, until you reach it, you don't know what... More...

CA announces Mainframe 2.0 by Mark Fontecchio, News Writer
experienced IT staff, to create greater uniformity among products, and to provide a service to remove mainframe burdens.

Rich Ptak, an analyst at Ptak, Noel & Associates, believes that CA's initiative is a good idea.

"It's a step in the right direction," Ptak said. "CA is in competition with mainframe-focused tools from BMC and IBM. They're all working hard to... More...