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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...
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...
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.
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. While innovations in server virtualization have enabled significant consolidation improvements, these techniques do not address the...
The VDC Maturity Model - Moving up the Virtual Data Center Stack by F5 Networks
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...
Data Center Projects: Growth Model by APC
effective way to develop a capacity plan for a data center or network room. Long term data center or network room capacity planning may seem impossible in the face of evolving IT technology and business requirements. Nevertheless, data center facilities have a lifetime that may span many generations of IT equipment, so planning - or lack of planning - can have a...
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...
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 --...
Virtual Data Center eZine - Volume 5 by Virtual Data Center eZine - Volume 5
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 center...
HP Data Center Transformation Case Study by Hewlett-Packard Company
program with a focus on five initiatives: global data centers, portfolio management, technology workforce effectiveness, building a world-class technology infrastructure... In 2005, Hewlett-Packard faced many of the same challenges its customers face in their business technology infrastructure. The company had too many individual data centers-85 in total-too...
Taneja Report: F5's Acquisition of Acopia Networks & the Vision of the Next Generation Data Center by F5 Networks
to understand the vision of the next generation data center. We describe that in the following pages, and look at how we believe F5 will position Acopia Network's technologies to gain a strategic advantage over its competitors...
Keeping Your Head above the Cloud: 7 Data Center Challenges before Going Virtual by F5 Networks
This White Paper details seven data center challenges before deploying a virtual data center. Virtualization machine platforms are the simplest way to implement virtualization, but this disruptive technology requires a re-architecting of the existing data center. This white paper shows you how to achieve a seamless migration by avoiding these...
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...
Rack Powering Options for High Density by APC
rack enclosure power consumption in the data center or network room varies widely and is expected to grow in the next few years. Rack enclosure equipment is replaced 5 or more times during the life of a data center in a piecemeal manner. This situation requires a rack enclosure power distribution system that can cope with the changing requirements. Key...
Fibre Channel over Ethernet Storage Networking Evolution by Cisco Systems, Inc.
for the server, enables unified I/O in the data center. Data center administrators can now begin consolidating infrastructure to achieve economic benefits. IT departments can take advantage of what Cisco FCoE storage networking can offer today and be prepared to gain additional benefits from operational efficiencies and performance enhancements as the unified...
The Green Data Center: Energy-efficient Computing in the 21st Century: Chapter 1, 2008 Update by Rackable Systems
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 average...
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...
Virtualization Defined - Eight Different Ways by F5 Networks
whitepaper focuses on virtualization in the data center. What does "going virtual" really mean in today's IT world? Virtualization as a concept is not new; computational environment virtualization has been around since the first mainframe systems. But recently, the term "virtualization" has become ubiquitous, representing any type of process...
Deploying F5 Networks BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager with WebAccelerator for Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 by F5 Networks
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...
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...
Data Center Transformation by Hewlett-Packard Company
This paper looks at HP's approach to Data Center Transformation and how it can help enterprise data centers reduce costs, manage risks, and support business growth. In today's connected global marketplace, data centers are more important than ever. Customers expect to purchase products and access services 24x7. So any downtime-planned or...
Building a Reliable and Dynamic Data Center with PAN Manager by Egenera, Inc.
The dynamic data center is within reach today, but how it is achieved and how well it performs can vary widely from among the many approaches being offered. This paper looks at the requirements for the dynamic data center and how to get there. Leading IT managers are taking steps toward a more dynamic data center by implementing...
Tideway Foundation ™ Community Edition 7.1.7 by Tideway Systems
estate helps take cost and risk out of critical data center projects. Product Type: Discovery and Dependency Mapping

Target User: IT Managers, System Administrators and Configuration Managers

IT Problem: Tideway automatically maps physical & virtual servers, applications and dependencies to provide an actionable baseline of your infrastructure. This 360-degree...
Meeting the Power and Memory Demands of Today's Data Center by Spansion, Inc.
of ownership in x86 data centers. Cost, power, and data center cooling and space will continue to worsen if no changes are made to the current data center infrastructure. In fact, an estimated 10 power plants must be built over the next few years to accommodate the growing power usage in data centers. This webcast reviews a memory technology that enables memory capacity up to...
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Improving data center cooling capacity with chilled water plants by Mike Flaherty, Contributor
Expert presentations at the recent AFCOM and Data Center Decisions conferences, as well as banter during breaks at the conferences, frequently dealt with data center capacity limitations and their effect on new facilities. Running out of any capacity - processing power, electrical power, floor space or cooling - drives the need to construct new... More...
Uptime Institute Symposium 2007 Special Report by Matt Stansberry, Site Editor
Institute Symposium on the Invisible Crisis in the Data Center -- power consumption. SearchDataCenter.com co-moderated sessions at the event and reported on the news and findings. Leading the special report, we have a Q&A with energy efficiency design expert Amory Lovins from the Rocky Mountain Institute. Lovins gave the keynote address at the... More...
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Experian drills backup water supply to cool data center by Mark Fontecchio, News Writer
as you see fit," Burlew said. Not every part of the country has that luxury, and even that area of Texas might not in the near future. Burlew said the 17 counties served by the Woodbine Aquifer are in negotiations to form a consortium that would regulate access to the aquifer. Luckily, the Experian well has already been dug and, should regulatory changes be made... More...
With IBM blades and VMware, firm shrinks data center footprint, cost by Bridget Botelho, News Writer
upgrade. Prudential used Sun Microsystems Inc. storage, but "Sun's SAN [storage area network] was a generation or two old and to gain access to shared drive we had to map it. We wanted to put financial software on the SAN for employees to access without having to map them through a server," Friemann said.

He switched to NetApp SAN to avoid the mapping issues. And... More...

Data center site selection: An art and a science, says Digital Realty Trust by Bridget Botelho, News Writer
its neighbors too. Is there a chemical plant next door? Is a nearby residential area under construction that will strain future resources? These factors all affect the success of the data center, he said.

Those responsible for choosing a data center site also need to have a certain mindset: that is, that the site should support the company's IT... More...