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Storage eZine: Turning Storage Green by SearchStorage.com
magazine provides a guide for storage and data center managers looking to take advantage of green technologies. Readers will find power saving tips and methods that can be used immediately as well as information on leading vendors of green solutions...
Top Ten Reports to Identify "Junk" Data in Your Storage Network by Quest Software
IT must efficiently manage and control data-center storage. Analysis and storage consolidation helps recover wasted assets. Learn to identify and eliminate useless data. Read the white paper today. It's a no brainer - consolidating servers reduces storage management costs, requires fewer hardware and software licenses and requires less administration. The real...
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...
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...
LSI Extends Its Storage Virtualization Manager by LSI Corporation
and granular storage services to address data center storage requirements, regardless of the size of the enterprise...
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...
Transcript for Data Center Consolidation by Hewlett-Packard Company
This White paper describes about the data center capacity challenges; and how data center consolidation and centralized management of IT resources can offer huge savings and reduce strain on IT resources. Server and storage utilization is low, power and cooling costs are skyrocketing, Disaster Recovery and Business Continuity are nearly impossible, and...
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...
Hot Spots: Managing Storage in a Virtual Server World by Storage Magazine
With virtual servers taking over the data center, planned storage systems must reap the benefits of virtualization. Server virtualization is quickly becoming the norm in data centers. The ability to host several operating systems and applications on a single server cuts capital costs for new equipment, and the reduction in physical servers helps trim the...
The Green Giant: Data Center Consolidation by Hewlett-Packard Company
This webcast covers data center capacity challenges such as space and power & cooling and how data center consolidation and centralized management of IT resources can offer huge savings and reduce strain on IT resources. Server and storage utilization is low, power and cooling costs are skyrocketing, Disaster Recovery and Business...
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 --...
"Hurricane-Proof" Data Protection by Compellent
administration. With the Compellent Storage Center storage area network (SAN) and Remote Instant Replay software as the catalysts for heftier business continuance, Moss & Associates implemented a resilient disaster recovery (DR) plan that can be activated remotely. This white paper examines how the construction company created seamless access between two locations...
IDC White Paper: Addressing Business Challenges with a Scalable Storage Infrastructure by Hitachi Data Systems
are driving organizations to rely on modular storage solutions as their primary data storage platform. Read this IDC report to learn more about the modular storage landscape and Hitachi storage solutions. As business and technology needs evolve, businesses must adapt with new ways to organize their data centers and store structured and unstructured...
Energy Efficient Data Storage Systems by Atrato, Inc.
of several types of modern disk-based data storage systems in large data centers. Disk drives consume a significant amount of power and consequently place a considerable load on the cooling resources in large data centers. The type of disk drive and associated packaging play a key role in minimizing the energy required to store and access data in these...
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...
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...
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...
Complete Data Protection for VMware Virtual Infrastructure by Hewlett-Packard Company
effective backup strategy in the virtualized data center. Perks of this approach include:

  • Reduced RPO and RTO: application data is restored in minutes, and VM backups are more granular than SAN backups
  • Reduced complexity of backup strategy: backups are automated and managed through a simple interface
  • Disaster tolerance through across-site replication
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...
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...
IBM System Storage TS7650G ProtecTIER De-duplication Gateway by Diligent Technologies Corporation, an IBM Company
based data protection needs of the enterprise data center while enabling significant infrastructure cost reductions. The IBM System Storage TS7650G ProtecTIER De-duplication Gateway solution meets the disk-based data protection needs of the enterprise data center while enabling significant infrastructure cost reductions. The solution offers high...
Leveraging Solid-State Technology (SSD) in the High Performance Storage Tier by Sun Microsystems, Inc.
SSD technology more accessible throughout the data center.

This SearchStorage Tech Report is based on content from the SearchStorage.com "Storage Explained" series. Tech Reports cover timely, leading-edge technologies to help storage professionals understand and make better decisions regarding their storage infrastructure...
Citrix XenServer: Server Virtualization and Dynamic Data Center by Citrix
way to virtualize servers and deliver a dynamic data center - a flexible aggregated pool of computing and storage resources. Citrix XenServer is the simplest and most efficient way to virtualize servers and deliver a dynamic data center - a flexible aggregated pool of computing and storage resources. Citrix XenServer extends the development and testing resources of...
IDC Spotlight: Ocarina Networks Addresses the Need for Efficient Data Storage by Ocarina Networks
resulting in lower power consumption, smaller data center footprint and an overall cost reduction...
Executive Summary: Storage Panorama by CA
In 2000, 93 new storage companies were launched with a first round of funding and in 2007 just five new storage companies were funded with first-round money, this has had the effect of slowing down the flow of new ideas and invention. Back in 2000, 93 new storage companies were launched with a first round of funding; in 2007 only five new...
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CICS 3270 bridge tutorial, part 3: How to start and end a conversation by Robert Crawford, Contributor
parameters. DATALENGTH denotes the size of the input data while LENGTH specifies to the total COMMAERA size. A program may have to call DFHL3270 multiple times if the output message from the target transaction is too large for a single COMMAREA.

Also remember a client program must maintain two levels of fault tolerance: one for the DFHL3270... More...

Mainframe applications never die: Using the 3270 bridge by Robert Crawford, Contributor
advantage of talking to the old transactions through data areas instead of navigating treacherous 3270 streams. This column provides an overview of the 3270 bridge Link3270 interface.

Overview of 3270 bridge
To discuss the bridge, some definitions are in order.

Server: The transaction to be driven through the bridge
Client: The transaction or... More...

System administration skills are key to data center jobs by Robert Rosen

There are many jobs within the scope of the data center: operators, operation managers, system administrators and system programmers (who are sometimes lumped in with the data center). So, if someone wants to get into a data center career, that's kind of a vague thing. Consider all the things that data center managers have to worry about: power usage... 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...

After Transitive acquisition, will IBM shed translation software beneficial to competition? by Bridget Botelho, News Writer
what you think about the story; email Bridget Botelho, News Writer. And check out our data center blogs: Server Farming, Mainframe Propellerhead, and Data Center Facilities Pro.

IBM plans to acquire Transitive Corp., whose translation software enables applications to run on various combinations of CPU and OS. But will IBM continue to enable translation for non... More...
Running Linux and z/OS on a single mainframe poses no problem by Mark Fontecchio, Nes Writer
Linux mainframe have more to do with politics than with technology.

"Most large data centers have mainframes with z/OS, and just about all organizations have Linux stuff that is a candidate for consolidation," said Wayne Kernochan, a senior research analyst at Aberdeen Group. At the same time, Kernochan explained that there is a lot of "graying of the... More...