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Best Practices: Storage Provisioning Steps to Keep Your Infrastructure Healthy by Storage Magazine
You can conquer IT infrastructure challenges by rethinking ownership and functional processes. A while back I wrote about the change beginning to take place within the IT infrastructure: the transition from independent silos to an interdependent supply-chain model. The supply-chain concept is a component of a number of infrastructure...
Streamlining SAP Upgrades with VMware Infrastructure 3 by VMware, Inc.
from VMware and SAPwill show you how VMware Infrastructure can help you upgrade your SAP applications and efficiently manage your SAP infrastructure. Upgrading SAP landscapes is a complex process that requires creating and maintaining new environments, software upgrades and extensive test cycles. VMware Infrastructure provides faster, more confident...
VMware Enlisted to Serve Marine Corps Enterprise Networking Requirements by VMware, Inc.
so they implemented VMware virtual infrastructure which effectively met their requirements. The MCNOSC faced quite a challenge and had no clear path to completing a transfer of all application network systems, including enterprise and local assets. With the help of VMware virtual infrastructure, Smartronix met that challenge head on and successfully...
The Benefits of Deploying SAP Enterprise Applications on Virtual Infrastructure by VMware, Inc.
SAP hosting companies that deploy SAP on VMware Infrastructure and gain a 25-30% price advantage to their customers serving the same SLA's. Other customers expect infrastructure savings of more than €1M over 3 years after consolidating and migrating a True64 bit environment into a Windows environment. To migrate with current virtualization technologies from HP,...
How Can Infrastructure Management Help Me Reduce Costs and Increase Business Productivity While Improving Service Delivery? by CA
Infrastructure Management from CA consolidates and streamlines management of your IT infrastructure, helping you reduce expenses, address changing business demands and improve delivery and performance of services that drive the business. Infrastructure Management is available through CA's comprehensive EITM...
Doing More With Less: The Art of Data Center Automation by CA
automation can help you do more with less in your infrastructure management plans. Simplification and standardization of infrastructures will be the dominant themes of the next five years. In this webcast learn how data center automation can help you do more with less in your infrastructure management plans.

This webcast helps you understand how to:

  • Achieve IT evolution
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Accelerating Virtualized Environments by Riverbed Technology, Inc.
within these environments. Virtualization and infrastructure consolidation can offer significant benefits for both IT and business operations. The cost savings and administrative efficiencies are the main reasons why organizations are looking to consolidate and move to a virtual infrastructure en masse. While clearly beneficial, organizations should always...
Manage Your Evolving Network with Faster Problem Resolution and Less Manpower with Automated Intelligence by CITTIO
The dynamic nature of today's infrastructure makes it impossible to rely only on traditional manual intervention modes and makes the use of intelligent automation a business imperative. Learn how this works in practice in this whitepaper. Despite the ever increasing complexity in the underlying infrastructure, IT is increasingly being called upon to...
Intelligent File Virtualization: Breaking Free from the Constraints of Today's File Storage Infrastructure by F5 Networks
issues pertaining to current file storage infrastructure in a simple and effective manner. This white paper introduces the Acopia intelligent file virtualization solution, which is now a part of F5 Networks Enterprises today face the challenge of managing and storing an ever-increasing amount of information. Not only is information being created at an...
Re-architecting Your Virtual Environment: Virtual infrastructure analysis by Insight and Sun Microsystems, Inc
session, Wolf introduces principles of virtual infrastructure optimization and covers virtual machine placement optimization and bottleneck identification. This three-part videocast series led by Burton Group analyst Chris Wolf explains why virtual infrastructure analysis doesn't end with consolidation and what should be next on your agenda. In this first session...
Enabling Carrier-class Communications with EX Switches by Juniper Networks, Inc.
and a diverse user community. Is your network infrastructure capable of supporting unified communications? Converging all communications onto a single IP infrastructure can put a tremendous strain on your network infrastructure. This white paper explains why a high-performance, highly available and secure network is essential for supporting a wide array of...
Protect Your DNS Infrastructure from Attack! by BT INS
are the patches alone enough to secure your DNS infrastructure? The Internet Systems Consortium (ISC) calls DNSSEC the "only definitive solution" for this issue. Implementing DNSSEC will not be simple, nor will implementing it in isolation sufficiently secure the Internet DNS system or your DNS infrastructure. However, there are aspects of DNSSEC that can be...
Retail and Online Commerce Infrastructure: Understanding Total Cost of Ownership by Akamai Technologies
39;s in-house support of its online channel infrastructure. This white paper provides a comprehensive view of numerous legacy costs as part of a total cost of ownership (TCO) assessment of a retailer's in-house support of its online channel infrastructure. It explores the potential benefits to TCO that can result from a migration to outsourced, purpose-built...
Best Practices: Blazing Fast Web Site Infrastructure by Akamai Technologies
This document explains best practices about infrastructure and about jointly developing and executing ongoing performance management strategy with the application development professionals. With most enterprises now conducting business on the Web, it has become more crucial than ever that the experience is rich and responsive. Often these two goals conflict...
Dell Services for Microsoft Windows Server 2008 with Hyper-V by Dell, Inc.
organizations are turning to a virtual server infrastructure to help address common challenges of improving manageability and resource utilization. New ways are being sought to reduce the total cost of ownership of server infrastructure. Many organizations are turning to a virtual server infrastructure to help address common challenges of improving manageability...
Disaster Recovery Solutions from VMware: Transforming Disaster Recovery - VMware Infrastructure for Rapid, Reliable and Cost-Effective Disaster Recovery by VMware, Inc.
VMware Infrastructure is transforming the way disaster recovery is done today and in the future; it changes the disaster recovery paradigm to one that is cost effective, rapid and reliable. VMware Infrastructure is transforming the way disaster recovery is done today and in the future. It changes the disaster recovery paradigm to one...
HP and Cisco Data Center Solutions by Cisco Systems, Inc.
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 leadership in networking infrastructure with HP's world-class leadership in IT solutions, services, support...
Using Tape Virtualization to Improve Backup Performance by Sun Microsystems, Inc.
be leveraged to produce an optimized backup infrastructure. Virtual tape library (VTL) technology is arguably the easiest way to introduce disk into a tapebased backup infrastructure. A VTL is a set of disks that emulate tape; you see a disk array, your backup software sees a tape drive or a tape library. The use of tape virtualization will improve backup performance and...
Taming Storage Virtualization by Storage Magazine
ways to embed virtualization into your storage infrastructure. Here are the pros and cons of the various approaches. Virtualization is showing up in all layers of the storage infrastructure. Host, network and storage system-based block virtualization can each simplify volume management, ease data migrations and decrease storage provisioning times, but all of them...
Comprehensive Backup and Recovery of VMware Virtual Infrastructure Symantec BE 12.5 for Windows Server by Symantec Corporation
and the Backup Exec Agent for VMware Virtual Infrastructure (AVVI). Server virtualization is quickly becoming a standard technology in many data centers today. While VMware augments hardware utilization significantly through the use of server virtualization, VMware’s Virtual Infrastructure (ESX) 3 also introduces new issues concerning the backup and recovery of...
Intel IT: Taking Power Management to the Limit--and Beyond by Intel Corporation
add needed servers--without expensive new infrastructure. Intel's 20-year-old FM1 data center in Folsom, California, was almost maxed out: Even though it had just been through a power upgrade, it already had just about as many servers as its aging infrastructure could support. But Intel IT Global Facilities Services, which operates the FM1 data center, needed to add 300 new...
NetApp and VMware Virtual Infrastructure 3 Storage Best Practices by NetApp
practices for implementing VMware® Virtual Infrastructure on NetApp fabric-attached storage (FAS) systems. NetApp® technology enables companies to extend their virtual infrastructures to include the benefits of advanced storage virtualization. NetApp provides industry-leading solutions in the areas of data protection; ease of provisioning; cost-saving...
Application Virtualization Security Best Practices by Microsoft
One of the biggest challenges today for infrastructure administrators is how to provide a secure environment. This white paper provides administrators with the starting place for designing security into the App-V infrastructure. One of the biggest challenges today for infrastructure administrators is how to provide a secure, yet productive and supportable...
Data Center Design and Infrastructure Chapter 2: Data Center Power Management by Hewlett-Packard Company
45;and yet less expensive-ways to power IT infrastructure, achieve energy savings, and avoid elect... Chapter two of this three-part Data Center Design and Infrastructure All-in-One Guide focuses on power management. The articles explore the mounting pressure on data center managers to find more reliable-and yet less expensive-ways to power IT...
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Economizer performance: Applying CFD modeling to the data center's exterior by David Seger and Andy Solberg, Contributors
there are concerns with the national electrical infrastructure generation and distribution capacity as well as a facility's carbon footprint. "Sustainable development" practices are gaining popularity in commercial construction in the United States, and cooling concepts, such as natural ventilation, are becoming more common. Despite these... More...
Mainframers need to focus on process not piecemeal disaster recovery by Robert Rosen, Columnist
home. But that assumes that your telecommunication infrastructure is going to be okay and that there'll be enough bandwidth. But what about when the telecommunications people get sick and are also out? So it's a question of how much you should encompass in your planning.

Traditional preparation may not be enough because you never know what situations might... More...

Does the mainframe play a role in grid computing? by Wayne Kernochan, Contributor
on GTK3, which is based on the Open Grid Services Infrastructure (OGSI) and therefore allows grid Web services and a grid SOA (services-oriented architecture). Other efforts are adding such features as cross-vendor systems management and security to the grid infrastructure.

Thus, to implement a basic grid including a mainframe, it is sufficient to add... 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...