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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...
Turn Your IT Infrastructure into a Strategic Business Asset - Customer and Partner Perspective by Microsoft
Server Solutions helps turn small and midsize IT infrastructures into a strategic asset, boosting productivity and growth while helping to control costs. Participate in this business-focused session to learn how Windows Essential Server Solutions helps turn small and midsize IT infrastructures into a strategic asset, boosting productivity and growth...
Hot Spots: Just Say "Yes" to a New IT Strategy by Storage Magazine

What's ultimately required is a more dynamic IT infrastructure that can react to rapidly changing conditions, new requirements and massive growth, and also provide availability. In short, for IT to remain (or even become) a truly relevant strategic resource, it has to stop operating within systems that offer a "No" response when asked to provide services to the business. To...
How Can Infrastructure Management Help Me Reduce Costs and Increase Business Productivity While Improving Service Delivery? by CA
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 capability solutions, proven combinations of software, services, education and...
eG VM Monitor Demo - Real-Time Monitoring & Diagnosis in a Virtual IT Infrastructure by eG Innovations, Inc.
aspects of virtual hosts and guests, whether the infrastructure is used to support server or desktop applications. Coupled with the ability of the eG Enterprise Suite to monitor over 80 applications, including Citrix, Microsoft, Oracle, IBM, SAP, and others, the eG VM Monitor with its patent-pending In-N-Out Monitoring technology -- provides a comprehensive end-to-end solution for...
Capacity Management: A Continuous Practice for Boosting IT Infrastructure ROI by Hewlett-Packard Company
keep pace with the growth of all elements of the IT infrastructure and take into account business and market factors that impact infrastructure performance and availability. You'll be able to reach the point of just-in-time storage by learning how to answer these common questions:

  • How much server and storage capacity do we have now? Last week? Last month?
  • Which applications are
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Beyond System Center: Addressing Systems Management Needs across the Entire IT Infrastructure by Quest Software
Systems Management needs Across the Entire IT Infrastructure," learn how Quest can expand the power of Microsoft System Center for true end-to-end IT management. Topics include:

  • System Center limitations
  • Expanding System Center's scope
  • Implementing tools for success
  • IT management in a complex world

Expand the power of System Center today. Read this valuable...
IDC White Paper: Achieving Business Value and Gaining ROI with CA's EITM Software for Optimizing IT Infrastructures by CA
customers can achieve using CA's Enterprise IT Management software products. The use of automated IT management software tools typically brings direct benefits to IT operations, company business services, and end users in terms of cost savings, operational efficiency, reduced downtime, and increased productivity. These areas were the...
IT Agility: Balancing Performance, Security and Cost in a Tight Economy by CA
best practices for IT agility to optimize IT infrastructure. The recent economic downturn has caused enterprises to re-evaluate their approach to mission-critical areas in enterprise IT. While virtualization and data center consolidation promise to help enterprises contain costs and get the most out of their IT infrastructure, many critical decisions remain...
Accelerating Virtualized Environments by Riverbed Technology, Inc.
both technologies as key components of the IT infrastructure going forward.

This paper examines the trends towards server consolidation and virtualization, and how wide-area data services (WDS) can help IT organizations address the challenges of application performance and information availability within these environments. Furthermore, the paper discusses...
Virtualization from the Datacenter to the Desktop by Microsoft
virtualization should take in an optimized IT infrastructure, and presents a set of principles and best practices to build a comprehensive virtualization strategy for the organization. Virtualization has gained much attention across organizations looking to address these challenges, improving the efficiency of their IT operations and enhancing their...
ITIL V3 and the PMBOK® - Distinct but Complementary by Global Knowledge
This white paper examines the IT Infrastructure Library Version 3® (ITIL V3®) and the Project Management Body of Knowledge (PMBOK). This white paper examines the IT Infrastructure Library Version 3® (ITIL V3®) and the Project Management Body of Knowledge (PMBOK). While there are numerous project management methodologies around the world, the...
A Layered Security Strategy for Preventing Data Leakage, Theft and Insider Abuse by Tizor
of securing data across three key layers of the IT infrastructure-the perimeter, the endpoint and the data center (core data servers). This white paper outlines the challenges of securing data across three key layers of the IT infrastructure-the perimeter, the endpoint and the data center (core data servers). This paper also provides a detailed overview of database...
Initiating Your Virtualization Project by IBM
and where virtual technology can add value to IT infrastructure. In this presentation, virtualization expert Barb Goldworm provides an in-depth introduction to virtualization, showing how and where virtual technology can add value to IT infrastructure. Goldworm discusses the benefits of virtualization while explaining virtualization types and products in the...
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...
Infrastructure: CIOs Take IT to the Next Level by CA
An optimized IT infrastructure can create a strong competitive advantage, CIOs can respond to changes quickly, in turn, quickening the organization's time to market for both products and services. Effective infrastructure management and optimization can provide CIOs with compelling benefits. These benefits include: improved...
Leveraging Virtualization to Consolidate, Optimize and Protect Your IT Infrastructure by Datalink and Hitachi Data Systems
issues of virtualization and some of the ways it can be effectively implemented to help organizations utilize resources more efficiently, reduce costs, manage data across the entire enterprise. As both the quantity and value of information grow, organizations find it increasingly difficult to cost-effectively manage and protect growing...
File Virtualization For Dummies®: How to Get a Grip on Storage Growth and Reduce Costs by F5 Acopia Data Solutions
intelligent file virtualization to reduce infrastructure complexity, boost operational efficiency and get costs under control. Today's IT infrastructures are complex, inflexible and growing fast. Storage expenditures keep rising, resources are consumed by labor-intensive tasks, and management costs are spiraling higher.

So how do we avoid these issues? One option is...
Proving Control of the Infrastructure: The need for independent detective controls within Change/Configuration Management by Tripwire, Inc.
requirements, is controlling change across the IT infrastructure. Although security often gets the spotlight, the much greater risks to an IT organization are system reliability and availability. Gartner asserts that "80 percent of unplanned downtime is caused by people and process issues, including poor change management practices, while the remainder is caused...
Test the Capabilities of Your Company's Data, Information and Process Assets: Oracle Self Assessment by Oracle Corporation
This assessment test will evaluate your IT infrastructure capabilities with two types of results, general individual performance indicators and a more detailed and personalized evaluation of current performance and suggestions for areas to improve. Find out how to leverage your business data, information and process potentials. Take this short and easy...
Inquiry Spotlight: Server Virtualization, Q3 2008 by NetApp
Out of all 220 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...
ROI with Proactive Network and Voice Management by CA
an eye-opening look at ways to improve your IT infrastructure at its most fundamental level. In this paper, CA presents an eye-opening look at ways to improve your IT infrastructure at its most fundamental level. With the right strategy, you can not only do more with less, but you can deliver clear, credible business returns. Could your organization use a new ally in...
Five Steps to Successful IT Consolidation by Riverbed Technology, Inc.
strategic decision to consolidate remote site IT infrastructure into central data centers? Then you have probably discovered that consolidation projects are fraught with technical, organization, and implementation challenges that require a well thought-out strategy. Download this paper by Riverbed and discover a clear 5-step approach to making sure every...
Virtualization Defined - Eight Different Ways by F5 Networks
can be applied to any and all parts of an IT infrastructure. This 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...
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Unix admin tutorial: How much memory is in this machine? by David Douthitt, Contributor
It would seem that answering this question ought to be easy; it is -- but every system has the answer in a different place. Most put an answer of some sort into kernel messages reported by dmesg (AIX, for one, apparently does not).

But, why would you need to know how much memory is in a machine? Determine the... More...

Cheap commodity servers can turn into expensive investments by Robert Crawford, Contributor
going around about commodity servers. As tempting as it is to think we live in the golden age of dirt-cheap computers, equipment is more expensive than it first appears:

Capacity planning guy walks into a procurement guy's office. "Our server processor utilization is more than 50%, we need to buy another one," he says.

Procurement guy starts typing into... More...

No assembly required: How I lost two days in the data center by Kyle Rankin, Columnist
someone put my toy together before I could play with it.

Nowadays whenever I get to open up brand-new cutting-edge gear, it feels a little like Christmas for me. The crinkle of plastic, that crisp electronics smell, the unscratched metal--it's a data center manager holiday. So, last December, when I started the installation of thirty-two blade servers... More...

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Experian drills backup water supply to cool data center by Mark Fontecchio, News Writer
come in with water trucks and pumps to keep our tower full."

"When everyone talks about Tier IV [data center], they talk about power and cooling redundancy," Burlew continued. "But they don't think a lot about water. But in our case, without water, you don't have cooling." After the water main line broke, Burlew began looking for a backup water supply. And eventually... More...

Running Linux and z/OS on a single mainframe poses no problem by Mark Fontecchio, Nes Writer
resources aren't shared when they shouldn't be, he said.

Finally, Porell said there is a storage benefit to running z/OS and Linux on the same box. In particular, zLinux can take advantage of the hot-failover capabilities of z/OS, because z/OS can also manage the data of a Linux environment on the mainframe. "So it's instantly available should the system fail," he said.

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AMD releases 45-nm Shanghai Opteron processor on schedule by Bridget Botelho, News Writer
2 MB on the Barcelona chip.

Shane Rau, the research director, computing, networking, and storage semiconductors at Framingham, Mass.-based IDC, said having 6 MB of L3 cache is ideal for workloads that require a lot of memory like those for virtualization. The hardware-assist "support for virtualization is also key because it helps make a server more efficient in... More...