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IT Briefing: Microsoft Infrastructure Optimization: Extending the Power of System Center Operations Manager by Quest Software
help you learn how to unleash the power of System Center Operations Manager 2007 for your heterogeneous environment...
Microsoft Infrastructure Optimization: Extending the power of System Center Operations Manager by Quest Software
help you learn how to unleash the power of System Center Operations Manager 2007 for your heterogeneous environment.
Enabling End-To-End IT Management with Microsoft System Center and Quest Software by Quest Software
In this white paper, Enterprise Management Associates discuss how Quest can expand the power of Microsoft System Center for true end-to-end IT management. One of the greatest challenges facing IT managers today is controlling complex IT infrastructures - and doing it within a tight budget. And a lack of centralized support for numerous...
System Grounding and Ground Fault Protection for Data Centers by Square D Critical Power Competency Center
protection and how it is implemented. Proper data center operation requires effective installation and maintenance of bonding and grounding systems. This white paper guides you though the basics of designing a bonded and grounded system, including National Electrical Code (NEC) requirements and installation and common construction issues. You'll also receive...
Geographic Factors for Data Center Site Selection by FORTRUST LLC
advantages inherent in establishing data center operations in Colorado, addressing major events and probabilities of natural disasters. Any company in the midst of a data center site selection process commonly finds itself with a number of factors to consider. The site selection process is key for most companies, not only because the selected site/provider will be...
Using VMware® ESX Server System and VMware Virtual Infrastructure for Backup, Restoration, and Disaster Recovery by Hewlett-Packard Company
and DR plan is crucial to successful data center operations. This white paper reviews the benefits and disadvantages of several approaches that leverage VMware to do so, enabling you to select the one that's right for your organization. Read on to learn how you can use VMware to do the following:

  • Access and manage virtual desk files
  • Back up the service console
  • Create backup
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Operations Energy Management: From Data Center through Facilities by CA
the amount of energy used to power and cool the data center. Rising energy costs are driving IT and facilities managers alike in all types of organizations to come up with new and innovative ways to reduce the amount of energy used to power and cool the data center. Using information technology solutions to better manage the data center offers a new perspective and fresh...
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...
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 --...
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...
Strategies for Optimizing IT Operations and Enabling Comprehensive Compliance by CA
enterprise goal of simplifying the daily operations of today's data centers and ensuring comprehensive compliance with regulations plays a huge part in running a cost-effective and risk-free business. The combined enterprise goal of simplifying the daily operations of today's data centers and ensuring comprehensive compliance with regulations...
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...
Data Center Demo (Flash Educational Tool) by Square D Critical Power Competency Center
components and operation of a typical Tier IV data center power system. Interactive tool demonstrates the components and operation of a typical Tier IV data center power system...
The Move to a New Enterprise Data Center by IBM
are driving enterprises to transform their data centers--shifting from an operations-focused orientation to a more responsive, service delivery orientation. Learn more. In this paper, Clabby Analytics explores the market trends that are driving enterprises to transform their data centers--shifting from an operations-focused...
An Overview of PAN Manager by Egenera, Inc.
software (PAN Manager) to dramatically reduce data center complexity and deliver an agile, highly-available infrastructure. 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 while lowering TCO.

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Deploying F5 Networks BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager with WebAccelerator for Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 by F5 Networks
performance is the use of a class of Traffic Management Device commonly referred to as a WAN Accelerator. This paper details the results of using one such solution. Organizations are using Microsoft® Office SharePoint® Server 2007 to deploy intelligent portals that provide connectivity between people, processes, customers, and intellectual capital...
Better Manage Your Operations to Reduce Costs and Support Environmental Sustainability by CA
of insight and control to operations energy management.

The benefits of this new approach to energy management are clearly cost and sustainability. With cost improvements, businesses can stay more competitive and profitable, especially in intensive energy-use industries such as IT and retail. As importantly, improving energy usage is critical to the...
Hyper-Efficient Operations for the Next-Generation Data Center by Oracle Corporation
building and operating the next-generation data center using advances in virtualization. Join Oracle CIO, Mark Sunday, and Oracle Chief Corporate Architect, Edward Screven, as they share best practices for building and operating the next-generation data center using advances in virtualization, Linux, high-performance application architecture...
Virtualization and Automation Drive Dynamic Data Centers by CA
Learn how virtualization and automation in the data center will lead to better customerexperience, reduced environmental impact and increased capacity for future services. Adopting a dynamic data center model addresses the problems of over- and underprovisioning resources associated with a lack of automation. You gain operational efficiencies, control costs...
Five Ways to Ensure Your Virtualization Initiatives Effectively Support Applications and End Users by Quest Software
application owners, operations managers and data center managers ensure their virtualization initiatives effectively support applications and end users. Many organizations that implement virtualization do not fully realize these benefits. Their efforts are hampered by poorly performing applications that fail to meet service levels and the needs of end...
Inquiry Spotlight: Server Virtualization, Q3 2008 by NetApp
inquiries Forrester's IT infrastructure and operations team answered on data centers, servers, and virtual appliances in 2008 to date, 72 were specifically in regard to server virtualization. As organizations continue to deploy server virtualization, questions have shifted from "if" to "how." Out of all 220 inquiries Forrester's IT infrastructure...
Virtualization: Fueling the Next Stage of IT Innovation & Virtualization Changes Virtually Everything by Microsoft
flexibility to move data and workflows from one data center to another and the flexibility to respond to the needs of their changing business.

It also examines the move towards desktop virtualization -- how desktop virtualization will change how we work with information; how information will become available no matter where we are or what device we happen to be...
Quantum DXi 7500 Support for Veritas NetBackup 6.5 VTL-Direct-to-Tape Feature from Symantec by Quantum Corporation
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 flexibility.

The DXi7500 is designed to...
Sun™ xVM Virtualization Portfolio: Enabling Dynamic IT from the Desktop to the Datacenter by Sun Microsystems, Inc.
as simplified management of the virtualized data center. Read on to learn about a simple way to do the following:
  • Run multiple systems and services securely and reliably in one cost-effective physical environment running the Solaris, Windows, or Linux operating system
  • Simplify operations through unified management of physical asset and virtualized environments
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Chilled-water production optimization for data center cooling by Mike Flaherty, Contributor
concept of optimizing chilled-water production for data center cooling. He outlines the optimal configuration of the water chiller system, control strategies, and equipment selection in this first part of a three-part series.

While no one cools a data center with gasoline, the $4 per gallon price tag should serve as a wakeup call to data center operators... More...

Flexible process automation increases effectiveness, prevents IT headaches by Jasmine Noel, Contributor
improvement approach to processes. IT's service management processes must be able to adapt to changes in expectations, architecture, technology and tools. ITIL processes that have been implemented and automated without anticipating change spell trouble with a capital T.

You need only look at the history of business process re-engineering for... More...

Mainframe capacity planning: More than MIPS by Robert Crawford, Contributor
planning is a well understood, strategic exercise. But data center managers need to consider strategic versus tactical performance planning to keep high-priority workloads running without problems... 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...

CA announces Mainframe 2.0 by Mark Fontecchio, News Writer
its Mainframe 2.0 iniative, which aims to untangle the complexity of mainframe management.

Chris O'Malley, the head of CA's mainframe business unit, said Mainframe 2.0 strives to make its mainframe management software easier to use for less experienced IT staff, to create greater uniformity among products, and to provide a service to remove mainframe... More...