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Three Must Haves for the Virtual Data Center by Compellent
virtualization, and create a true virtual data center, IT departments need a holistic storage solution that allows fully shared resources, easy and automated storage classification and migration and complete data protection. Read this white paper for three "must haves" to achieve those objectives. Traditionally, data centers have attempted to respond to growth...
A Strategic Blueprint to Increase Return on Assets: A Global Financial Institution Case Study by Hitachi Data Systems
global financial institution embarked on a data center consolidation and reclamation project that spanned nearly 2000 servers and 76 EMC arrays. The results included US$4 million in savings by reducing physical storage capacity 40 to 60 percent. One of the world's leading global financial institutions (GFI), distressed by the economic downturn and challenged with...
Virtualization: Optimized Power and Cooling to Maximize Benefits by APC
is an undisputed leap forward in data center evolution - it saves energy, increases computing throughput, frees up floor space, and facilitates load migration and disaster recovery. With these benefits though, come new challenges to the power and cooling infrastructure. Virtualization is an undisputed leap forward in data center evolution - it...
HSN Case Study on Achieving a Zero-Downtime Oracle Siebel CRM Migration by GoldenGate Software, Inc.
has been a long-time user of Oracle Siebel's call center application - serving as the central repository that processes and maintains HSN's orders, including all inbound customer orders from the website, automated Interactive Voice Response (IVR), and call center, as well as ongoing maintenance of all customer information. They needed to upgrade their Oracle Siebel...
Migrating Millions to IP: A Mission Impossible? Not with a Migration Control by Alcatel-Lucent
their existing networks to IP is the migration of customer lines from the legacy infrastructure to a next generation environment. The solution is to put in place airtight processes and procedures that protect against cost overruns and customer churn caused by services outages. This is where a Migration Control Center (MCC) comes into play. The MCC functions...
Case Study: BCEE Luxembourg - Document Migration and Simplified Workflow by Xenos Group Inc.
The Banque et Caisse d'Epargne de l'Etat, Luxembourg (BCEE) is one Luxembourgs leading financial institutions. BCEE's mission is to offer their clients optimum service while promoting the economic and social development of Luxembourg. Read this case study to learn how BCEE adopted Xenos's d2e document transformation solution to manage.. The Banque...
E-Guide: Best Practices for Data Center Design and Maintenance by Dell, Inc. and Intel
you will gain insight into best practices for data center design and maintenance in today's down economy. In this expert E-Guide, brought to you by SearchDataCenter.com and Dell, you will gain insight into best practices for data center design and maintenance in today's down economy. Explore expert tips for determining where and how to build your next data center and...
The Green Data Center 2.0: Energy Efficient Computing in the 21st century by Hewlett Packard Company and Intel
Chapter 4 of the eBook, Green Data Center, picks up where the other previous chapters left off in the plan for going green in the data center. This chapter takes a step back and looks at the project from a holistic point of view for creating a green and energy efficient data center. Chapter 4 of the eBook, Green Data Center, picks up where the other previous...
Migrating SQL 2000 to SQL 2008- a Dell Deployment Guide by Dell, Inc.
recommend for a tested and validated migration of SQL Server 2000 databases to SQL Server 2008 on the Dell PowerEdge R900 server and Microsoft Windows Server 2008 Enterprise. The Dell PowerEdge R900 is an excellent server for upgrading mission critical database applications from Microsoft SQL Server 2000 to SQL Server 2008. Windows Server 2008...
Nehalem EP Virtualization Animation by Intel Corporation
demo will outline key features such as flexible data migration, I/O management, how it processes network overhead tasks such as packet sorting, grouping, and routing. Intel Xeon Processor 5500 series include many features including flexible virtualization. Data centers need to quickly migrate applications across a mix of server generations to meet IT and...
Carphone Warehouse Creates 'ERP for IT' - A Tideway Case Study by Tideway Systems
Carphone Warehouse accelerate several key data center initiatives. The Carphone Warehouse is Europe's leading independent retailer of mobile phones and services, with over 2,400 stores in 9 countries. Carphone Warehouse had a bold vision, to create an internal 'ERP for IT' -- a single system of record that would provide greater control over the IT estate while reducing...
Integrated Infrastructure and Performance Management for Virtualized Environments by CA
environments to decrease costs, consolidate data center space and reduce environmental impacts. This paper describes a comprehensive set of CA tools for managing virtual environments. Enterprises, government agencies and service providers are increasingly employing virtualized environments to decrease costs, consolidate data center space and reduce...
Cost-cutting strategies for a virtualized data center: Performance and capacity management tools by Dell, Inc. and Intel
capital expenditures for your virtualized data center. With limited resources and budgets, midmarket IT staffs are often handling multiple projects and not able to proactively anticipate and address problems in the data center. In part three of this podcast series on cost-cutting strategies for a virtualized data center, hear from Laura DiDio, Principal at...
Using Thin Provisioning to Your Best Advantage in the Data Center by Storage Decisions
about how it works and how to best use it in the data center. One reason is that no two vendors accomplish thin provisioning in the same way. Another reason is that thin provisioning serves disparate business needs ranging from capacity management to virtualization support to the green data center and more. This variety of usages makes for a powerful technology but a...
Data Center of the Future: Virtual Tradeshow Event by Cisco Systems, Inc.
Please join us for a Data Center of the Future virtual event on Wednesday, July 15, 2009, where you will learn best practices and strategies for simplifying operations and data center infrastructure consolidation. Please join us for a Data Center of the Future virtual event on Wednesday, July 15, 2009, where you will learn best practices and...
Cisco, EMC, VMware Virtualizing Exchange 2007: A Validated Architecture by Cisco, EMC, & VMware
is down, business critical communication and data is offline. Now, a single best -of- breed solution exists that will help you protect information, simplify deployment and management, and derive the most value from your e-mail information in a predictable, reliable, and accelerated manner.

Working together, Cisco, EMC, and VMware have developed and tested an...
Right-sizing Primary Data by Storage Decisions
methods for reducing and managing the data footprint on primary storage will be described -- including tools and techniques. Most companies allow far too much data to reside on expensive primary storage, often the result of business units or government compliance regulations insisting that the data is always available. However, there are ways to reduce...
Automate Virtualization in Your Data Center by Hewlett-Packard Company
and other benefits, looks at the challenges for data center management that virtualization introduces, and explains why most current approaches to virtual system management fall short. Virtualization by definition is a technology that creates abstract versions of physical environments. As a result creating a virtual environment can be both disruptive and...
Airports Use Network Virtualization to Consolidate and Scale Operations by Cisco Systems, Inc.
over a converged network and keep pace with data center growth and demanding cluster applications.

The Cisco Catalyst 6500 Series Switch with Supervisor Engine 720-3BXL enabled Unique at Zurich Airport to successfully implement network virtualization using MPLS VPN technology. By moving away from the legacy approach using campuswide Layer 2 VLANs, the...
IT Briefing: Cisco, EMC, VMware Virtualizing Exchange 2007: A Validated Architecture by Cisco, EMC, & VMware
The joint design makes it possible for data centers currently considering a migration to Exchange 2007 achieve:

  • Efficient, secure, and highly available deployments utilizing Cisco networking technology
  • Disaster recovery protection with advanced server and storage connectivity based on EMC storage and replication capabilities
  • The benefits of a
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Practical Recommendations for Data Migration - A White Paper by Bloor Research by Talend
Data migration can be defined as transferring of data between storage types, formats or computer systems, it is required when organizations or individuals change computer systems or upgrade to new systems. Founded in 1989, Bloor Research is one of the world's leading IT research, analysis and consultancy...
Dell PowerEdge R610 Server - Core enterprise rack server built for space-constrained environments running mainstream business applications by Dell, Inc. and Intel
Dell Poweredge T610 Server. This server is a key data center building block for IT professionals seeking the highest level of performance, availability, and expandability in a 2-socket server. The Dell PowerEdge R610 is a general-purpose Intel-based 2-socket 1U server is ideal for corporate data centers and remote sites that require a dense, highly available single - or...
McAllen ISD simplifies its messaging, storage and backup infrastructure while reducing power and cooling requirements by a projected 86% by Dell, Inc.
Check out this case study to see how Dell teamed up with Mc Allen Independent School District to simplify its messaging, storage, and backup infrastructure while reducing power and cooling requirements by a projected 86%. CHALLENGE

McAllen Independent School District (MISD) needed to consolidate two separate, legacy email systems and improve the...
Eliminating Database Downtime When Upgrading from Oracle 8i or 9i to 10g or 11g by GoldenGate Software, Inc.
used are GoldenGate Software's Transactional Data Management (TDM) software and Oracle's Cross Platform Transportable Tablespace feature. Oracle 8i and 9i database customers face urgency to upgrade to Oracle 10g or 11g, particularly where more business-critical applications are supported. In many cases, cross-platform migrations may also need to occur along...
Virtual Data Center E-Zine - Volume 10 by Virtual Data Center E-Zine - Volume 10
Renewed interest in data centers is presenting a unique challenge to IT professionals who must do more with less. Read in this latest issue how to use server virtualization to boost utilization while saving money. Renewed interest in data centers is presenting a unique challenge to IT professionals who must do more with less. Read in...
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CMDB pitfalls in the current IT environment by Jasmine Noel, Contributor
SQL database
Many people start off assuming that CMDB data is nothing more than a list of assets and attributes; but nothing is further from the truth. The DB part of the name makes people think it's like Oracle or SQLServer -- a thing that can be bought and installed, and once the data is loaded takes care of itself. This assumption needs to be corrected at... More...
Hash table how-tos for mainframe programmers by Robert Crawford, Contributor
I like to put referential data into external tables. It makes programs easier to maintain and it's much safer to change a table than logic. The only catch is that system level code, particularly in exits, must be very efficient. You wouldn't want to do a linear search of a fifty entry table for every file I/O as that would tend to... More...
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HP's new server aims for cloud, Web 2.0 apps by Bridget Botelho, News Writer
of users, Martino said..

BigStockPhoto.com, a website that lets users upload and download photos, supports between 10 million and 20 million pages of content monthly. Its compute needs are less aggressive than the large scale-out companies HP targets with this system, but like the bigger Web 2.0 companies, BigStockPhoto is "growing constantly, so a... More...
Grow a green business: Cut costs and improve energy efficiency with green IT by Erin Kelly
the challenges businesses may face and offers energy-saving solutions. A free download of Chapter 1 of The Greening of IT, "The Importance of Green IT," is available for review.

Chapter 1 states many companies talk about reducing their total energy requirements, but are not actually going green where it counts. Why do you think this is true, and how can your... More...
IBM doubles refund for Sparc migrations: News in brief by Mark Fontecchio, News Writer
could save about 4% on a server's power consumption.

The updates also include a way to download HP-UX from high-bandwidth replicated servers to reduce deployment time and allows users to update the operating system while still online, needing only a standard reboot to switch to the new version.

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