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Data Center Design and Infrastructure Chapter 1: Site Selection and Design by Hewlett-Packard Company
any company. This first chapter in a three-part Data Center Design and Infrastructure guide focuses on site selection and data center design elements. Our experts address such key questions as:

  • Where should you locate your data center facility?
  • What kind of design strategy should you employ?
  • How can you create an environment-friendly data center and still cut costs?
  • What are the latest
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Data Center Design and Infrastructure Chapter 3: Data Center Cooling Search Data Center by Hewlett-Packard Company
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 Infrastructure guide delves into this issue, exploring the liquid cooling debate and special requirements for blade servers...
Data Center Design and Infrastructure Chapter 2: Data Center Power Management by Hewlett-Packard Company
and avoid elect... Chapter two of this three-part Data Center Design and Infrastructure All-in-One Guide focuses on power management. The articles explore 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 electrical downtime. Topics addressed include:

  • The kVA/rack limit
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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...
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 -- not to...
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 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...
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...
Data Center Projects: Standardized Process by APC
involving new construction or upgrades to the data center’s physical infrastructure - the power, cooling, and other physical systems that house and protect the data center’s IT equipment. As the design and deployment of data center physical infrastructure moves away from art and more toward science, the benefits of a standardized and predictable...
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...
HotSchedules Customer Case Study by Dell and Microsoft
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 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...
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...
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
is causing people to not only consider the design and form factor of their data centers, but also location. Proximity to clean, reliable and low cost energy is now a major consideration.

2) The second driver is high-energy costs. Total electricity cost for a typical high-density data center is 42% of OPEX.

3) The third driver is the resource shortage. The pool of...
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...
Energy-Efficient Performance for the Data Center by Intel Corporation
capacity without adding servers to the data center. This white paper discusses how virtualization can provide high performance, energy efficiency, and lower operational costs in the IT infrastru... Consolidating four physical machines into one running four virtual machines (VMs) creates a more energy and cost efficient infrastructure. IT engineers face...
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...
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...
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...
Evaluating Data Center High-Availability Service Delivery by FORTRUST LLC
As a world-class high-availability data center services provider, FORTRUST has worked closely with companies of all sizes to make sure they're making the right choices for their businesses. In doing so, FORTRUST has answered a lot of questions to help companies make decisions. Leveraging this experience, FORTRUST has compiled a list of questions...
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...
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...
Quantum DXi 7500 Support for Veritas NetBackup 6.5 VTL-Direct-to-Tape Feature from Symantec by Quantum Corporation
The DXi7500 is the disk backup and remote replication system for data centers where a premium is placed on scalability, performance, high availability, and flexibility. The DXi7500 is the disk backup and remote replication system for data centers where a premium is placed on scalability, performance, high availability, and...
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...
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Use Nagios to trend and troubleshoot performance issues by Kyle Rankin, Contributor
monitoring tools to track system performance in your data center and use graphs to troubleshoot bottlenecks on I/O-bound or CPU-bound systems... More...
System administration skills are key to data center jobs by Robert Rosen
power usage, backup power, hardware, software, data center design, etc. Those are exciting things to do. The key is to find the best career path.

Data center operators overtaken by automation
Everyone used to come in as an operator, which was considered entry-level. But the need for operators has dropped so much that there really aren't a lot of those people... More...

Agentless monitoring improvements make it competitive with agent-based solutions by Richard Ptak, Contributor
of this changing any time in the immediate future.

Data center staff will have to understand their own operational needs to know which technology will best meet their needs and when. They will as well as take special care to perform due diligence to understand the implementation technology as they promote their solutions.

The trend in the market... 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 condition... More...

CA announces Mainframe 2.0 by Mark Fontecchio, News Writer
use for less 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... More...