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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...
Green IT: beyond the data center -- How IT can contribute to the environmental agenda across and beyond the business by Accenture
energy savings has tended to focus narrowly on data center operations. The other is an upsurge in marketing of IT hardware and systems that consume less energy while delivering the same processing capacity.

...is just the start In our view, this focus is not wrong, just incomplete. It risks missing some major opportunities, because the real environmental agenda for the CIO can be-and...
Using enterprise architecture to develop a blueprint for improving your energy efficiency and reducing your carbon footprint by IBM
How does improving the energy efficiency of our data center impact the rest of the organization? What processes need to be changed as a result? What is the long-term impact on our customer service? Are the results consistent with our business goals overall? How do we embrace being green as a long-term initiative versus a short-term fad? That's where enterprise architecture (EA...
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...
Hitachi IT Operations Analyzer: Root Cause Analysis for Supporting Fault Identification by Hitachi Data Systems
is a powerful, proven approach to simplifying data center management, with comprehensive performance and availability monitoring of up to 250 server, network and storage nodes. Hitachi Data Systems introduces Hitachi IT Operations Analyzer software with unique Root Cause Analysis functionality. The IT Operations Analyzer is a powerful, proven approach to...
Operations Energy Management: From the Data Center Through Facilities by CA
close attention to their energy uses. A typical data center can use 30 times more energy per square foot than ordinary office space. Large facility equipment such as HVAC systems and chillers can account for the majority of power usage in some industries. Can technology be used to dramatically reduce energy usage and get this precious cost once and for all under control?

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Data Center of the Future: Virtual Tradeshow Event by Cisco Systems, Inc.
Please join us for a Data Center of the Future virtual event on Wednesday, July 15, 2009, where you will learn best practices and strategies for simplifying operations and data center infrastructure consolidation. Please join us for a Data Center of the Future virtual event on Wednesday, July 15, 2009, where you will learn best practices and...
Data Center Automation - Facing the Air of Change by Wipro Technologies
IT organizations still perform a majority of Data Center administration tasks manually. Today, manual techniques are obsolete as Information Technology is required to manage complex multivendor infrastructures cost-effectively. There is one way to meet this challenge and that is Automation. Are you still depending on manual Data Center management techniques?

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Podcast: Data Centres - The New Centre of the IT Universe by Oracle Corporation
considered before you can achieve an efficient data center, and in turn, improved IT and business operations. There are growing pressures on data centres from management to reduce costs both in terms of direct costs and with respect to indirect costs such as energy savings. On the other hand those same data centres are also under required to improve the service that is...
Strategies for Optimizing IT Operations and Enabling Comprehensive Compliance by CA
greater operational efficiency. Spiraling data center costs and the need to demonstrate compliance with multiple and evolving regulations are issues that continue to challenge CIOs and IT professionals - especially during economic downturns.

But, optimizing IT operations and ensuring compliance is inhibited by a similar set of issues, namely: reactive...
Working Smart in IT Operations: The Case for Consolidated Operations by Hewlett-Packard Company
This paper explores the problems IT operations can encounter in coordinating the activities of application and infrastructure specialist teams, and it proposes an approach-- consolidated operations-- designed to get incidents to the right person with the right information fast so problems can be resolved quickly, with no duplication of effort. After the...
Driving Efficiency and Green Efforts Within Your Data Center by Data Domain
ESG analyst Brian Babineau examines how data deduplication can effectively contain the costs associated with massive data growth, improve capital and operating efficiencies and bolster green initiatives. While IT executives are buffeted by a multitude of demands, dealing with annual data growth of up to 60% is at or near the top of the list. In this...
The New Centre of the IT Universe by Oracle Corporation
considered before you can achieve an efficient data center, and in turn, improved IT and business operations. There are growing pressures on data centres from management to reduce costs both in terms of direct costs and with respect to indirect costs such as energy savings. On the other hand those same data centres are also under required to improve the service that is...
Network and Voice Management Software from CA by CA
It is critical to South Field's success that its data center management teams quickly identify and repair data faults. CA's Spectrum can immediately detect the change in configuration. Please view this video for more examples of how CA benefits South Field. Like any global enterprise, South Field Financial experiences IT faults that create issues throughout the system...
Protecting Server Data in Small and Medium-sized Businesses (SMBs) by Iron Mountain Digital
protect server data outside a centralized data center and focus on specific needs and requirements for SMBs. This paper will help you examine current methods of server data protection, and steps in evaluating disk-based server backup solutions for SMBs designed to optimize server programs, including:

  • Differences between tape-based vs. disk-based
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Deploying High-Density Zones in a Low-Density Data Center by APC
equipment without impacting a low-density data center. New breakthroughs in power and cooling technology allow for a simple and rapid deployment of self-contained high-density zones with an existing or new low-density center. This white paper explains how the independence of these high-density zones allows for predictable and reliable operation of high-density...
Storage Magazine April 2009: The State of Replication by SearchStorage.com
Data replication has taken center stage in hot storage technologies and is a fundamental component of DR and backup and recovery operations. This issue's cover story explores where best to deploy replication: in the array, network or servers. Plus, check out features on power-smart disk systems, value-based data...
Airports Use Network Virtualization to Consolidate and Scale Operations by Cisco Systems, Inc.
over a converged network and keep pace with data center growth and demanding cluster applications.

The Cisco Catalyst 6500 Series Switch with Supervisor Engine 720-3BXL enabled Unique at Zurich Airport to successfully implement network virtualization using MPLS VPN technology. By moving away from the legacy approach using campuswide Layer 2 VLANs, the...
Modular Systems: The Evolution of Reliability by APC
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 systems, modular designs are the ones...
Meeting Economic Challenges Through Accelerated Virtualization by Dell, Inc.
the costs as well as improve efficiency of the data center. With the current economic state the way it is CIOs must rethink how they manage IT costs and operations. Identifying and addressing hidden costs can help organizations adjust to lean times and position themselves for success. This white paper will take a closer look at how virtualization can help cut down the...
Server Infrastructure Optimization: Best Practices to Reduce IT Operational Costs by Microsoft
serve the business.

Microsoft solutions help data center administrators improve the efficiency of their organization at the core infrastructure level, allowing more human and financial resources to be available for IT innovation.

This paper shows IT managers how organizations can reduce costs and improve their IT efficiency by optimizing their core...
Unleashing the Power of Virtualization by Cisco, EMC, & VMware
Symmetrix V-Max, purpose-built for the virtual data center.

Join us to learn how you can leverage these latest innovations to unleash the true power of virtualization in your data center.

IDC Research: Hitachi IT Operations Analyzer Delivers Performance and Availability Reporting for IT Generalists by Hitachi Data Systems
productivity. Hitachi's recently released IT Operations Analyzer offers IT generalists a high-level view into the status of server, storage, and network infrastructure performance, availability, and interdependencies. This type of product can help IT staff better identify service degradations before they impact end users. It can also speed up problem resolution...
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Selecting a winning data center design team: Data center construction runbook, Chapter 2 by Karim Khan, SearchDataCenter.com
This is the second chapter in our data center construction runbook. Each chapter will outline a specific aspect of data center design, walking you through the step-by-step process of a data center build-out. Chapter 1 focuses on data center site selection, and Chapter 3 is on selecting a general contractor.

Conceptually, designing a... More...

Mainframe change management tools ease compliance burden by Richard Ptak, Contributor
Data center operations lie at the heart of business service delivery. The influence of data center operations, as they directly control and impact business success, extends across the full range of business services. Centered on the mainframe, but including distributed operations, this infrastructure... More...
Will liquid cooling work for high-heat producing hardware? by Vali Sorell, PE and Terry Rodgers, CPE
of liquid cooled solutions for today's high-density data centers.

Unfortunately, with the exception of some uncommon, specialized hardware systems and, surprisingly, many laptops, there are currently no true liquid cooled hardware components available on the market. A select number of supercomputers and old legacy mainframes employ liquids... More...

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HP's new server aims for cloud, Web 2.0 apps by Bridget Botelho, News Writer
of users, Martino said..

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...
Grow a green business: Cut costs and improve energy efficiency with green IT by Erin Kelly
the challenges businesses may face and offers energy-saving solutions. A free download of Chapter 1 of The Greening of IT, "The Importance of Green IT," is available for review.

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...
IBM doubles refund for Sparc migrations: News in brief by Mark Fontecchio, News Writer
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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