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Reducing Complexity by Simplifying the Enterprise Data Center Network by Juniper Networks, Inc.
can centralize and consolidate the data center environment, allowing IT administrators to oversee and manage resources in fewer locations while still providing global access and reducing operating costs. While innovations in server virtualization have enabled significant consolidation improvements, these techniques do not address the...
Podcast: How to Green Your Data Center from the Server Out by Dell, Inc. and Intel
trends and economics of greener computing. Data center complexity and the ever-growing number of servers are the primary drivers of increased energy consumption, making them the most important targets for energy efficiency efforts. In this webcast and podcast, virtualization and blade server expert and industry analyst Barb Goldworm discusses the drivers, impacts, trends...
How to Green your Data Center from the Server Out by Dell, Inc. and Intel
trends and economics of greener computing. Data center complexity and the ever-growing number of servers are the primary drivers of increased energy consumption, making them the most important targets for energy efficiency efforts. In this webcast, virtualization and blade server expert and industry analyst Barb Goldworm discusses the drivers, impacts, trends and...
FCoE: Coming to a Data Center Near You: Hot Spots by Storage Magazine
over Ethernet (FCoE) has the potential to reduce data center complexity and make the world a little greener by decreasing the number of cards, cabling and network devices in the data center...
Transcript for Data Center Consolidation by Hewlett-Packard Company
This White paper describes about the data center capacity challenges; and how data center consolidation and centralized management of IT resources can offer huge savings and reduce strain on IT resources. Server and storage utilization is low, power and cooling costs are skyrocketing, Disaster Recovery and Business Continuity are nearly impossible, and...
How to Collapse Tiers in the Data Center Network by Juniper Networks, Inc.
on how to collapse switching tiers in the data center network with a two-tier switching architecture from Juniper Networks. When data center consolidation is used to centralize servers and applications from remote sites, providing adequate rack space and power becomes a real challenge. This webcast explores a technique to circumvent oversubscription...
Webcast: Data Center Automation & Virtualization by CA
will provide insight on the top challenges of Data Center Automation and Virtualization that Data Center Managers are facing today. It is not surprising that the recognized benefits of Virtualization and Data Center Automation are accompanied by significant challenges in IT management. The ability to successfully address those challenges can mean the...
eGuide: Managing Power Consumption in Today's Data Center by Dell, Inc. and Intel
s power consumption with its performance. Data center managers want to decrease power consumption in their IT shops, but how much of their efforts are actually paying off? Measuring energy efficiency is tricky, especially since most IT business units don't pay the power bill. And, the scarcity of virtual benchmarks in place means that virtualization adds...
Virtualization and Automation Drive Dynamic Data Centers by CA
Learn how virtualization and automation in the data center will lead to better customerexperience, reduced environmental impact and increased capacity for future services. Adopting a dynamic data center model addresses the problems of over- and underprovisioning resources associated with a lack of automation. You gain operational efficiencies, control costs...
IT Briefing: Microsoft Infrastructure Optimization: Extending the Power of System Center Operations Manager by Quest Software
physical and virtual IT environments across data centers, desktops, and devices. Dealing with complexity in today's dynamic IT infrastructure is the single greatest challenge faced by IT Managers and support personal. This IT Briefing will help IT professionals with systems management issues including managing the physical and virtual IT...
Benchmarking Your Virtualization Stage: Compare Your Progress to Other IT Departments by Agilysys-Sun Technology Solutions
You've implemented virtualization in the data center, but are you maximizing its benefits? This white paper draws upon a survey of your IT peers to show the typical challenges and progress of IT shops around virtualization. The survey shows that virtualization has become standard in the data center, but technical complexities, skill set deficiencies, and cost...
HP Non-Stop Multi-core Architecture by Hewlett-Packard Company
45;for power consumption demands and to cool the data center-and the list continues to grow. Businesses want a flexible, high-performance server platform that can provide a single solution to all these challenges.

In this white paper learn more about the new HP Integrity NonStop BladeSystem, which personifies HP's Blades Everything strategy by using the...
Increase Utilization, Decrease Energy Costs With Data Center Virtualization by Hewlett-Packard Company
This webcast explores answers to some of the key questions around getting started with virtualization. It addresses cost savings, weighing benefits vs. risks, transitioning from older platforms to new ones, best practices and more. Many organizations are turning to virtualization technologies that facilitate consolidation and increased...
An Overview of PAN Manager by Egenera, Inc.
software (PAN Manager) to dramatically reduce data center complexity and deliver an agile, highly-available infrastructure. You need a data center optimization strategy that ensures high availability, simplifies operational complexity, adapts to your existing environment, and delivers a secure and responsive computing infrastructure - all while lowering TCO.

Take data...
Microsoft Infrastructure Optimization: Extending the power of System Center Operations Manager by Quest Software
physical and virtual IT environments across data centers, desktops, and devices. Dealing with complexity in today's dynamic IT infrastructure is the single greatest challenge faced by IT Managers and support personal. This webcast will help IT professionals with systems management issues including managing the physical and virtual IT environments...
Transcript: Increase Utilization, Decrease Energy Costs with Data Center Virtualization by Hewlett-Packard Company
describes about the virtualization, data center transformation and IT challenges that are driving virtualization and data center transformation. Many organizations are turning to virtualization technologies that facilitate consolidation and increased utilization. However, implementing virtualization solutions must be approached and planned...
Podcast: Why Blades? by Dell, Inc. and Intel
servers with Intel Xeon Processors address data center pain points by delivering one of the most manageable, flexible, and energy efficient blade server products on the market. Designed from the ground up to help customers be more efficient with their time, budget, power consumption, data center resources, and performance, Dell's blade solution allows users to focus on...
Why Blades? by Dell, Inc. and Intel
servers with Intel Xeon Processors address data center pain points by delivering one of the most manageable, flexible, and energy efficient blade server products on the market. Designed from the ground up to help customers be more efficient with their time, budget, power consumption, data center resources, and performance, Dell's blade solution allows users to focus on...
Complete Data Protection for VMware Virtual Infrastructure by Hewlett-Packard Company
effective backup strategy in the virtualized data center. Perks of this approach include:

  • Reduced RPO and RTO: application data is restored in minutes, and VM backups are more granular than SAN backups
  • Reduced complexity of backup strategy: backups are automated and managed through a simple interface
  • Disaster tolerance through across-site replication
Effectively Securing Virtualized Data Centers by Apani
large organizations, securing virtualized data centers is a major concern. Server virtualization offers several benefits including better total cost of ownership, increased operational efficiencies and more flexible management capabilities. But server virtualization may also increase security risks. Virtual machines (VMs) themselves are no less...
The Virtual Machine Aware SAN by Cisco Systems, Inc.
improvements virtualization brings to the data center, the proliferation of virtual machines also introduces new challenges for the SAN, including problems related to loss of visibility, security, traffic isolation for applications, quality of service (QoS), performance monitoring, and management complexity.

This white paper reviews these setbacks and explores...
IBM System x Enterprise Servers in the New Enterprise Data Center by IBM and Intel

IBM System x enterprise servers help you manage complexity and give you the flexibility to grow with your needs. Proven mainframe-inspired technologies, combined with consolidation and advanced virtualization solutions that expand on demand, result in superior performance, high scalability, unmatched flexibility, and superior efficiency.

See how...
Data Center Automation and Virtualization by CA
This webcast will provide insight on how to Gain Confidence and Control with Service Management and how IT can provide greater business value. Understanding the complexities of Service Management is fundamental to delivering IT Services with control and confidence. There are many ways to begin Service Management and this webcast series will...
Improving Disaster Recovery with Virtualization by VMware, Inc.
set of IT services while reducing the cost and complexity of disaster recovery. Implementing disaster recovery plans for important IT services is a requirement for organizations today. However, most organizations find themselves unable to implement a disaster recovery plan that fully meets their needs for more than, at best, a select few applications due to a...
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Are you operationally ready to recover from a nondisaster? by Bill Peldzus, Contributor
more apparent: Most customers don't have their current data center in an acceptable state of operational recovery readiness.

This situation becomes even more obvious with plans that pursue an aggressive recovery time and/or recovery point objectives. When referring to operational recovery readiness, I'm specifically talking about the ability to... More...

Negotiating a successful data center outsourcing arrangement by Brad Peterson
The following presentation was given at Data Center Decisions Spring 2005 in New York.

Data center outsourcing can be a way to save money, improve service and focus on your core business. However, it can also be a way to increase costs, lose control of your company's central nervous system and increase business risk. Structuring and negotiating... More...

Disaster recovery on the mainframe: New options for site recovery by Robert Crawford, Contributor
For the maximum benefit and fastest recovery each data center should be a "hot-hot" split of the production workload.

DASD vendors have added synchronous data replication over limited, campus-wide distances, which are designed so that a write to a primary disk will be replicated to an alternate volume in another box. Since it is synchronous, the system... More...

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Experian drills backup water supply to cool data center by Mark Fontecchio, News Writer
Experian, which relied on city water to supply the chillers that cool its McKinney data center.

"We lost all city utility as far as water pressure," said Russ Burlew, the data center facility manager. "It took three and a half days to repair that line, and we were without water. We had vendors come in with water trucks and pumps to keep our tower full."

"When everyone talks... More...

After Transitive acquisition, will IBM shed translation software beneficial to competition? by Bridget Botelho, News Writer
what you think about the story; email Bridget Botelho, News Writer. And check out our data center blogs: Server Farming, Mainframe Propellerhead, and Data Center Facilities Pro.

IBM plans to acquire Transitive Corp., whose translation software enables applications to run on various combinations of CPU and OS. But will IBM continue to enable translation for non... More...
CA announces Mainframe 2.0 by Mark Fontecchio, News Writer
software giantCA announced its Mainframe 2.0 iniative, which aims to untangle the complexity of mainframe management.

Chris O'Malley, the head of CA's mainframe business unit, said Mainframe 2.0 strives to make its mainframe management software easier to use for less experienced IT staff, to create greater uniformity among products, and to provide a service... More...