Data center standards and metrics

installed is driving the biggest global boom in data center construction history. The OpEx and CapEx costs of these new data centers are creating significant financial challenges for many IT intensive enterprises. This session identifies the three primary drivers of ever increasing facility costs and identifies the three strategic actions required by CFOs and...

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...

IT managers are evaluating the performance of a data center by tracking power measurements of the overall data center including both IT equipment and infrastructure to determine Power Use Effectiveness (PUE) and Data Center Infrastructure Efficiency (DCiE) ratios. Some of the most useful benchmarks and metrics are provided in this article along with descriptions to...

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...

session will look at various techniques and strategies to optimize either on-line active or primary as well as near-line or secondary storage environment during tough economic times, as well as to position for future growth. Throw out the "green" buzzword, and you're still left with the task of saving or maximizing use of space, power, and cooling while...

the steps to improve energy efficiency in the data center. First, learn about reliable metrics for comparison of energy-efficiency performance. Next, explore techniques that enable you to do the following:

• Reduce energy usage for non-compute functions
• Provide fine-grained component power management
• Enable modeling airflow to identify and address key airflow

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this paper to learn how with a next-generation data center based on the HP Adaptive Infrastructure and Oracle Grid Computing, you can meet your availability and your agility goals. We've all seen the dire statistics on the damage a natural or human-caused disaster can inflict on a business. But even small, every-day disruptions to business services that are tightly woven...

needs improvement? You must have definitive standards and metrics, consistently applied, to make this judgment. Treat quality as a deliverable, establishing thresholds against which your organization must measure up prior to each release.

One option to meet your code quality analysis challenges across all levels of the organization is CodePro AnalytiX™, a...

in SQL Server performance has a noticeable and immediate impact on business productivity. Database administrators need to proactively manage their SQL Server environment by identifying and fixing issues before end users are impacted. Product Type: SQL Server performance monitoring

Target User: Database Administrator

IT Problem:
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by continually protecting your O/S, application and the data. Standard backup tools do not protect all three entities in unison. Protecting the entire system will dramatically reduce RPO and RTO metrics. This is called “Continuous Application Protection” or CAP.

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lifecycle with a proven approach to archiving and retrieval options with standard SAP and PBS add ons. Learn how one company is managing data with archiving today, their challenges, and how they built their archiving strategy. Companies using SAP are experiencing more data growth than ever - whether it be systematic or through acquisitions. Keeping...

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...

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...

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...

Listen to top green data center experts, as they help you properly identify your current energy efficiency issues and show you the next steps toward increasing your data center performance without breaking the bank. This year, we all are facing the need to cut costs without sacrificing performance. As energy costs are rapidly rising, data...

where people work are all changing the way the data center should be designed. This e-book examines the issues and offers strategies for developing a data center network that will stand the test of time and emerging technology. Read on to learn more. Virtualization, the convergence of data and storage networks, and the evolution of how and where people work top the list of...

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...

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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look at how to master the climate control for the data center. Organizations are creating more heat in smaller places which in turn requires efficient and effective climate control. Read this paper to learn more about how to properly cool your data center. This SearchDataCenter.com eBook takes a look at how to master the climate control for the data center. Organizations...

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...

capital expenditures for your virtualized data center. With limited resources and budgets, midmarket IT staffs are often handling multiple projects and not able to proactively anticipate and address problems in the data center. In part three of this podcast series on cost-cutting strategies for a virtualized data center, hear from Laura DiDio, Principal at...

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...

In this presentation, we'll look at the advantages/disadvantages of integrating solid state drives in traditional storage systems. The presentation will also describe new techniques that solid state vendors or using to make this integration more effective. In this presentation, we'll look at the advantages/disadvantages of integrating solid...

about how it works and how to best use it in the data center. One reason is that no two vendors accomplish thin provisioning in the same way. Another reason is that thin provisioning serves disparate business needs ranging from capacity management to virtualization support to the green data center and more. This variety of usages makes for a powerful technology but a...

44; saves capital cost, reduces weight, and increases electrical efficiency. This paper describes this distribution architecture and quantifies the benefits. High density server installations where racks can draw from 10 kW to 40 kW per rack place significant strains on the standard power distribution system found in large American data centers.

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