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Networking the Modern Data Center by SearchNetworking.com
and where people work top the list of reasons why data center design is changing at a rapid pace. This transformation places pressure on network architects to select and implement an infrastructure that can stand the test of time and emerging technology. This E-book takes a close look at the issues surrounding network planning, including scalability and flexibility, green IT...
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 discover how to...
IDC: Next - Generation Power and Cooling for Blade Environments by Hewlett Packard Company and Intel
play a central role in reducing overall data center operating expenses and improving flexibility and control of infrastructure resources. They also differentiate HP BladeSystem both from competitive blade offerings and from rack-optimized servers.

In this technical brief, IDC examines HP Thermal Logic, a holistic approach to improving power and cooling...
Dell's New PowerEdge R610 - the 1U, 2 socket High Efficiency Machine by Dell, Inc. and Intel
R610 is a key building block for today's data center. Designed for versatility and high performance, it provides many of the virtualization, system management, and energy-efficiency features you need now and the scalability necessary to change as your business grows. The Dell PowerEdge R610 is a key building block for today's data center. Designed for versatility...
The Multi-tiered Hybrid Data Center: An innovative design model for cost reduction and facilities optimization by Hewlett-Packard Company
tiered hybrid design can help you build the data center of the future. Today's businesses need to work within a tight budget while accommodating their continuing need to house higher-and lower-tiered technology systems and applications within the same facility. Read this white paper to learn how the HP multi-tiered hybrid design can help you build the data center of...
Transforming a Global Data Center Environment by Hewlett Packard Company and Intel
purchases. This white paper will cover Global Data Center Environment Strategies such as:

  • Consolidating data centers, concentrating computing resources into fewer large, highly efficient hub data centers, and closing other local data centers
  • Accelerating server refresh, while implementing grid computing and server virtualization to increase utilization, and
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Implementing Energy Efficient Data Centers by APC
the electrical power costs over the life of a data center may exceed the costs of the electrical power system and IT equipment, electrical power usage is not a typical design criterion for data centers, nor is it effectively managed as an expense. Some reasons for this situation are as follows:

  • Billed electrical costs are not clearly linked to any particular decisions
    • ...
    Dell PowerEdge Energy Smart Servers -- The Smart Choice for Optimizing your Data Center by Dell, Inc. and Intel
    helps customers worldwide solve their power and cooling challenges and meet the demands of business growth with industry-standard solutions. They offer solutions you can deploy right now, as well as the right mix of tools, partnerships, and services to help you get the most from your existing infrastructure. Dell's end-to-end approach helps customers worldwide...
    Cost-cutting strategies for a virtualized data center: Blade servers by Dell, Inc. and Intel
    and optimize performance in your virtualized data center. Listen to this expert podcast to learn more about how you can consume less power and cut cooling costs. Analysts are reporting that the newest blade servers are helping companies decrease power consumption and improve performance in the data center. In part two of this podcast series on cost-cutting strategies...
    Modular Systems: The Evolution of Reliability by APC
    is an established technique for organizing and simplifying a complex system. In data centers, modular design has already taken root in new fault-tolerant architectures for servers and storage systems. The mission of this paper is to illustrate how modularity delivers a profound reliability benefit: fault tolerance Nature proved early on that in complex...
    Dell PowerEdge T610 Server - All-in-One 2-socket tower for small-to-medium size businesses and remote offices by Dell, Inc. and Intel
    he Dell PowerEdge T610 server is a key data center building block for IT professionals seeking the highest level of performance. Read this article to learn more about the technical aspects of the Dell PowerEdge T610. The Dell PowerEdge T610 server is a key data center building block for IT professionals seeking the highest level of performance, availability...
    Secrets to Successful DR and Continuity Planning by Compellent
    Recovery is a fundamental consideration in data center design and build-out. DR can be difficult to accomplish in today's IT environment and as the demand for 24/7 online data availability becomes an expectation, organizations are taking steps to enact data centers that exceeds tradition DR preparedness.

    This webinar reviews several enabling technologies that greatly...
    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...
    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...
    Speeding Business Innovation with HP Data Center Transformation Solutions by Agilysys Technology Solutions Group
    HP Data Center Transformation solutions accelerate some of today's most important technology initiatives: enabling consolidation, improving energy and space efficiency, and enhancing business continuity and availability. Data center transformation helps your organization shift spending from maintenance...
    Virtualization Jumpstart Program by ePlus Technology
    with a meaningful introduction to implement and support a virtualized environment. This four-day program includes the installation and configuration of a working VMware environment with one-on-one training from a VMware Certified Professional (VCP). The ePlus Virtualization Jumpstart Program provides you with a meaningful introduction to implement and...
    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...
    Five Steps to Successful Data Center Consolidation by BMC Software, Inc
    saving an estimated $10 million dollars in data center costs. The term “data center consolidation” can mean different things to different people, from simply reducing the number of physical servers in an isolated location to reducing the global footprint of a company's entire infrastructure (including applications and software licenses, etc.).

    One goal of a...
    The Complete Data Center Solution by ePlus Technology
    Are your data center needs outgrowing your space and capacity? Are you planning to consolidate data centers or branch office servers? ePlus can help transform your facility into a next-generation data center that will accelerate your business. Read this paper for details. Are your data center needs outgrowing your space and...
    Not "Just a Switch" Anymore -- Data Center "Backbone" Architectures by Storage Decisions
    have revealed their visions of a unified data center network infrastructure. It sound good, but what are the ramifications for the storage networking infrastructures you have in place. Explore this presentation to learn more. The leading switch vendors have revealed their visions of a unified data center network infrastructure. It sound good, but what are the...
    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...
    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...
    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...
    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...
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    the last few months I've been extolling the splendor and majesty of CPSM's Rexx interface. This month I'll go over a really useful example shipped by IBM in library SEYUCLIB. I chose PNEWCOPY because it shows how to work with result sets and the way CPSM values get into Rexx variables.

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    Need help turning on security for CICS Transaction Server by Robert Harris
    I am new to the mainframe and CICS. Right now, we are trying to turn on the security of CICS Transaction Server. When we enter CICS, even without sign-on, we can do everything we want. But if we type 'CESN', the System gives a message like 'DFHCE3547 Security is not active. Sign-on cannot be performed.'

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    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...
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    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...
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    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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