Data Center Networking

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...

highly 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...

an improved method for measuring TCO for data center and network room physical infrastructure, and provides examples on how to relate these costs to the overall IT infrastructure and evaluate cost control strategies. It is argued that the largest cost driver is shown to be unnecessary, unabsorbed costs resulting from the over-sizing of the...

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...

Cassatt Active Response, Data Center Edition enables administrators to control multiple networks, as well as to set policies to safely, and systematically power any physical or virtual servers on and off and pool their computing resources. Cassatt Active Response, Data Center Edition is an innovative software solution for intelligently...

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...

strategy of incrementally building new data centers was not best suited to meet the business objectives. For a company of HP’s size and global reach, it became apparent that a more centralized approach was needed to allow for better prioritization of technology requirements and investment. The transformation initiative aimed to simplify, standardize...

This green data center e-book serves as an all-in-one guide to lead you through the process of creating an energy-efficient data center. Today's average data center is 12 to 15 years old, reaching end of life, and unable to meet today's power demands. Studies show that data center power requirements are increasing by 8% per year on...

Agency’s (EPA’s) newly released report on data center efficiency, unless the nation changes the way it designs, builds and operates these energy hogs, annual data center electricity costs, which have grown twofold since 2000, are predicted to reach $7.4 billion in 2011. Data centers now consume roughly 1.5 percent of the nation’s electricity, or about 60 billion...

According to the Data Center Decisions 2008 Purchasing Intentions Survey, server selection and disaster recovery (DR) are front-burner issues for data center decision makers. According to the Data Center Decisions 2008 Purchasing Intentions Survey, server selection and disaster recovery (DR) are front-burner issues for data...

technology for enabling unified I/O in the data center. Cisco is committed to developing, supporting, and promoting the FCoE technologies required to facilitate this transition in a smooth, evolutionary way. As is the case with any new networking technology, adoption of FCoE-based storage networking will be evolutionary and will happen in phases: FCoE server...

with operating, equipping and constructing data centers. The project aimed to identify demonstrations for each of the three main categories that impact data center energy utilization: • Operation & capital efficiency • Equipment (server, storage & networking equipment) • Data center design & construction (power distribution & transformation, cooling systems...

people to think about transforming their data centers. This white paper describes about the convergence of two significant trends that we are seeing across our client base, and also the four specific drivers that are causing people to think about transforming their data centers. Two significant trends that we are seeing across our client base are: 1...

as the number of applications and the amount of data grows. At current rates of growth the current methods will take IT headlong into a wall. On August 6, 2007, F5 Networks announced its intention to buy Acopia Networks for $210M cash. The acquisition has raised some eyebrows in the investment community due to lack of understanding of how the technologies of these two...

solutions such as team collaboration, data records management, document management and publishing, and dynamic score-carding. The growth rate is increasing, with adoption of Office SharePoint Server 2007 which provides increased functionality at somewhat higher resource costs (server CPU, memory, network, etc.) than SharePoint 2003. Many organizations...

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...

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...

behavior of a "greenfield" or existing data center, allowing for easier and more complete understanding of this behavior. Thermal Zone Mapping (TZM) is a visualization tool developed to present in graphical format highlevel thermal metrics developed by HP and targeted for use as part of the HP Data Center Thermal Assessment service. This tool uses data...

and total cost of ownership in x86 data centers. Cost, power, and data center cooling and space are expected to continue worsening in the years to come if no changes are made to the current data center infrastructure. It is estimated that at least 10 power plants must be built over the next few years to accommodate the growing power usage in data centers in...

Protection Agency (EPA) and others show that data center energy use has more than doubled since 2000. The high energy consumption--and low energy efficiency--of data centers is a growing problem. Studies from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and others show that data center energy use has more than doubled since 2000. Other studies show that “relatively...

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...

us and learn more about HP's proven approach to data center consolidation. More organizations are looking at business and IT transformation initiatives, and within that context data center consolidation and centralized management of IT resources. Computing resources have proliferated over the years due to distributed computing architectures, low costs...

HP can put to work to help you transform your data center: consolidation, virtualization and automation. In an effort to keep pace with demand, data-center costs are going up even while valuable technology resources are underutilized. For aging data centers, the problems are even worse. They consume too much power, are hard to cool, need too much floor space, and are...

virtualization solution, will bring your data center to unprecedented levels of manageability. This paper gives an overview of how. 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...

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...