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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...
Implementation Guide: Using a High Performance Network Backbone to Meet the Requirements of the Modern Enterprise Data Center by Juniper Networks, Inc.
efficient, secure, scalable and flexible data center network. Data center managers are challenged with designing data centers that centralize servers and applications while keeping them accessible from a variety of locations. This white paper shows you how to create a best-in-class virtualized network environment that uses open standards-based and industry-accepted...
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, increase...
Simplifying the Data Center Network Webcast by Juniper Networks, Inc.
This webcast discusses what's happening in the data center today, including Juniper's vision to address data center challenges and gain an understanding of data centers in terms of the new architecture. This webcast discusses what's happening in the data center today, including Juniper's vision to address data center challenges and gain an understanding of data...
Reducing Complexity by Simplifying the Enterprise Data Center Network by Juniper Networks, Inc.
growing problem of complexity and sprawl in the data center network. This white paper discusses how organizations 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...
Data Center Design and Infrastructure Chapter 1: Site Selection and Design by Hewlett-Packard Company
Data center facility planning and design is one of the most complex and important undertakings for any company. This chapter focuses on site selection and data center design elements. Data center facility planning and design is one of the most complex and important undertakings for any company. This first chapter in a...
Avoidable Mistakes that Compromise Cooling Performance in Data Centers and Network Rooms by APC
examines various mistakes that compromise data center colling systems, explains their principles, quantifies their impacts, and describes simple remedies. Most data centers and network rooms have a variety of basic design and configuration flaws that prevent them from achieving their potential cooling capacity and prevent them from delivering cool air where...
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...
Data Center Design and Infrastructure Chapter 3: Data Center Cooling Search Data Center by Hewlett-Packard Company
Recent studies show that your data center could be wasting up to 60% of its cooling capacity. This final chapter in a three-part Data Center Design and Infrastructure guide delves into this issue. Recent studies show that your data center could be wasting up to 60% of its cooling capacity. This final chapter in a three-part Data Center Design and...
Data Center LAN Connectivity Guide by Juniper Networks, Inc.
introduces the issues related to changing data center needs and presents design considerations and recommendations for data center LANs. Today's IT organizations are need a data center LAN design that meets the growing performance demands of users and network-centric applications from a variety of locations. It must also economically scale and flexibly...
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...
Data Center Design and Infrastructure Chapter 2: Data Center Power Management by Hewlett-Packard Company
This chapter focuses on power management in the data center. Learn about the mounting pressure on data center managers to find more reliable-and yet less expensive-ways to power IT infrastructure, achieve energy savings, and avoid elect... Chapter two of this three-part Data Center Design and Infrastructure All-in-One Guide focuses on power management. The...
Leveraging VMware Server Virtualization for High Availability and Reduced Risk by Juniper Networks, Inc.
considerations typically associated with the data center environment also these design are based on Juniper Networks EX 4200 series switch with Virtual Chassis technology. This white paper explores a technique for a highly scalable, reliable virtualized data center that provides high availability, supports current and future applications, and reduces risk and...
Re-examining the Suitability of the Raised Floor for Data Center Applications by APC
Many of the reasons for the raised floor in the data center no longer exist, and the problems associated with raised floors suggest that their widespread use is no longer justified or desirable for many applications. The raised floor has been ubiquitous feature of data centers, but the recent convergence of telecommunications and IT systems has led to questions of its...
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...
Critical Facilities Services by Hewlett-Packard Company
of large enterprises will face a shortage of data center floor space.

In short, data center requirements worldwide are rapidly increasing, fueling a demand for new "greenfield" or upgraded facilities with energy-efficient power and cooling technologies and modern, spacesaving layouts that provide operational continuity.

In this white paper, read how to meet the...
Monitoring Physical Threats in the Data Center by APC
administrator to fill critical gaps in overall data center security, and to keep physical security aligned with changing data center infrastructure and availability goals...
Transform Your Data Center Into An Energy-Efficient Operation by Insight and Sun Microsystems, Inc
Data center growth has led to sprawling server, storage, and supporting infrastructure. This white paper describes how to achieve better utilization and more eco-efficient systems energy-efficient systems with virtualization technologies. Data center growth in number of users, applications, and data, have all led to...
Maximizing Data Center Investments for Disaster Recovery and Business Resiliency by Compellent
disaster recovery considerations in data center design and build-out-- site integrity, 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 --...
Achieving 23-30% Total Power Savings With a Server Rack Designed for Excellence in Power Efficiency by Intel Corporation
time.

Many of these "small" changes are things data center managers can do today. Specifying best-in-class, energy-efficient components in everything from server processors to PSUs and memory modules can go a long way to saving energy and reducing TCO. So can utilizing power optimization features and settings. Other changes, such as DC power components,...
HotSchedules Customer Case Study by Dell and Microsoft
Hot Schedules needed to design and deploy a new data center infrastructure that could accommodate rapid annual business growth while also controlling hardware acquisition and power consumption costs. In this case study read how Hot Schedules needed to design and deploy a new data center infrastructure that could accommodate rapid annual business growth while...
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...
Humidification Stratiegies for Data Centers and Network Rooms by APC
and data centers. Controlling humidity in the data center is crucial to ensuring high availability, but measuring humidity to avoid hidden costs is a challenge. This white paper explains how humidity affects equipment, reviews design guidelines for new and existing computing installations, and offers alternative methods to achieve desired humidity.

Read on for...
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IBM z10 mainframes and event-driven architectures: Pull the trigger by Wayne Kernochan, Contributor
oriented architecture (SOA) that spans an enterprise network using standardized software interfaces.

The basis of a SOA is often an enterprise service bus (ESB) that acts to route calls from Web service consumer code (e.g., a Web browser), to Web service provider code (e.g., enterprise applications). This means that the ESB can see events flying back and forth... More...

Joe Clabby's Brazilian mainframe adventure travel log by Joe Clabby
exploit bladed Cell processors. This is a very unusual design, especially because everybody knows that mainframes are "old technology" -- right?

Mr. Teles explained that Hoplon chose this design to give the company a distinct competitive advantage. The mainframe's strong transactional capabilities allow Hoplon players to interact with each other... More...

Optimizing VSAM datasets on the mainframe: Specific recommendations by Robert Crawford, Contributor
be better than providing an alternate access path to data?

The problem is the alternate access comes at a price. If the AIX is set up to be an "upgrade" set, each update to the base cluster results in more I/O in the AIX. What's more, because AIX data is structured around alternate keys, they are hard to tune and may quickly become poor performers due to control... 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...
Running Linux and z/OS on a single mainframe poses no problem by Mark Fontecchio, Nes Writer
Linux mainframe have more to do with politics than with technology.

"Most large data centers have mainframes with z/OS, and just about all organizations have Linux stuff that is a candidate for consolidation," said Wayne Kernochan, a senior research analyst at Aberdeen Group. At the same time, Kernochan explained that there is a lot of "graying of the... More...