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Leveraging Virtualization to Consolidate, Optimize and Protect Your IT Infrastructure by Datalink and Hitachi Data Systems
some of the critical 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...
The Enterprise Network Partner - Management and Transformation by Alcatel-Lucent
the right experience to handle the management and transformation of enterprise voice and data networks and bring powerful strategic advantages to today's businesses. Enterprises are increasingly outsourcing voice and data network management and transformation to equipment vendors, systems integrators, and managed service providers. A...
E-Guide: Network Management and Applications Performance Services by Alcatel-Lucent
by delivering the right network management and application performance services. As companies deploy next-generation technologies to support more efficient and effective business operations, their IT networks are becoming highly distributed and increasingly complex. But with budgetary pressures forcing organizations to justify every dollar...
Making Your Business Disaster Ready with Virtual Infrastructure by Hewlett-Packard Company
that mirrors the equipment in the primary data center. Upgrades to both primary and recovery target equipment must occur in lock-step, hence many companies forgo the process.

Yet, companies that make compromises in disaster recovery strategy such as limiting the disaster coverage to only the most critical applications, employing manual processes to...
Raging Wire & Critical Power Competency Center by Square D Critical Power Competency Center
Wire Enterprises, a 200,000 sq/ft Tier IV data center discusses how its strategic partnership with Square D CPCC contributes to its reliability, uptime and an ultimate success. Power systems in today's data centers represent the highest level in optimization for reliability. This is a necessity, since the computer and IT equipment in these facilities and...
Preparing for Cloud Computing: The Managed Services Revolution by CA
for communications service providers, and looks at the challenges that cloud computing infrastructures must address and key management components providers need to put in place. Cloud computing is the logical evolution of information communication technology (ICT) outsourcing for a Web-enabled world and it can encompass many different...
The Reality Facing the Mainframe World by Acxiom Corporation
workers with new blood. For an average mainframe data center (excluding the network), roughly 40 percent of your costs are for software, 30 percent for salaries, 25 percent for hardware and five percent for facilities. Some strategies you can look at to keep that mission critical operation running for the long term include: working out a plan to keep retiring workers...
Data Center Automation - A Forrester 2008 Report by Hewlett-Packard Company
research brief reviews the top vendors in data center automation (DCA) and rates HP the highest due to the breadth of their solution in the very competitive DCA market. IT departments must spend a significant amount of time provisioning and deploying resources to meet the demands of their business. A key component of overall IT costs and meeting service levels is the...
Switching on the Virtual World: The Role of Fabric-Driven Services for the Virtualized Environment by Cisco Systems, Inc.
Virtualization in the data center is widely accepted and deployments are growing at a fast clip, the advantages of virtualizing servers, networks and storage are compelling: consolidating and utilizing resources. Server virtualization creates a disparity between physical and virtual environments in terms of managing and securing...
Total Economic Impact Of VMware Virtual Desktop Infrastructure - Financial Services Industry by VMware, Inc.
44; to reduce costs, free up office space and increase worker productivity in its remote offices. In January 2008, VMware commissioned Forrester Consulting to examine the total economic impact and potential ROI that enterprises can realize by deploying VMware® View™ 3, formerly Virtual Desktop Infrastructure. VMware View enables companies...
Reliance for Managed Service Providers by Univa UD
automatically manages the provisioning of services and applications within a utility service platform against a series of specified, application-focused service levels. Our application-aware approach and appliance implementation model ensure that providers effectively leverage their investment in a shared computer infrastructure...
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...
Data Center Transformation by Hewlett-Packard Company
This paper looks at HP's approach to Data Center Transformation and how it can help enterprise data centers reduce costs, manage risks, and support business growth. In today's connected global marketplace, data centers are more important than ever. Customers expect to purchase products and access services 24x7. So any downtime-planned or...
SIP Trunking in the Next-Generation Contact Center by Acme Packet
have successfully managed these issues, and examines some of the unexpected implementation challenges and benefits they've encountered. In the wake of the economic downturn, every contact center is looking for ways to cut capital and operating costs. SIP trunking services have emerged as an attractive low-cost replacement for ISDN-PRI trunks into the...
Demo of the xVM Ops Center Managing Live Data Center Out in Denver by Sun Microsystems, Inc.
Center software and managing a set of servers in data center out in Denver. Check out this webcast to watch the VP of Sun's xVM line show a demonstration of the xVM Ops Center software that is managing a set of servers in a Denver data center. The live data center used in this presentation is typical of today's data centers - a heterogeneous environment of physical and virtual...
Application Delivery Challenge by Akamai Technologies
topics like: The critical role of an ADC in the data center, Foundry Serveriron application delivery controller, transforming data center into a dynamic delivery center and managed services to complement ADC. This report explains various topics like: The critical role of an ADC in the data center and the internet, Foundry Serveriron application delivery...
Dell's Sponsorship of a LearningGuide on SearchDataCenter by Dell, Inc. and Intel
increasingly for virtualization projects and data center consolidations. But for many data centers, the increased engineering headaches associated with blades outweigh the benefits. This dynamic guide outlines trends, benefits and drawbacks to help you determine if and how blade servers fit into your data center strategy.

Explore this learning guide to learn...
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...
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...
CA Data Center Automation Manager Product Brief: A Tactical Approach to Simplify Service Delivery in the Data Center by CA
delivery lead time, and helps conserve valuable data center space and power resources. Today's IT shops must ensure service delivery as user demand grows, resources shrink, and technologies become more complex-a daunting task when combined with higher performance expectations and compliance requirements. Read this white paper to learn how automating critical...
How to Collapse Tiers in the Data Center Network by Juniper Networks, Inc.
on how to collapse switching tiers in the data center network with a two-tier switching architecture from Juniper Networks. When data center consolidation is used to centralize servers and applications from remote sites, providing adequate rack space and power becomes a real challenge. This webcast explores a technique to circumvent oversubscription...
Webcast: Data Center Automation & Virtualization by CA
will provide insight on the top challenges of Data Center Automation and Virtualization that Data Center Managers are facing today. It is not surprising that the recognized benefits of Virtualization and Data Center Automation are accompanied by significant challenges in IT management. The ability to successfully address those challenges can mean the...
Total Cost Comparison: Storage Solutions in Enterprise VMware Environments by NetApp
considerations on VMware storage deployments and the estimates for cost of downtime in order to ensure validity for all types of environments. This study identified three primary reasons for lower total cost when deploying VMware with NetApp:

  • NetApp has a 29% to 34% advantage in Product Acquisition & Ongoing Vendor Costs due to storage efficiencies through
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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...
Strategic Planning for Network and Systems Management by CA
Read this E-Guide to learn how to identify and convert performance data into useful information, choose between best of breed point solutions and inherently interoperable single vendor systems management solutions, and get prepared for a VoIP deployment. This compilation of expert TechTarget tips offers an in-depth look at the best approaches to...
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Stop server monitoring tools from crying wolf by Kyle Rankin, Contributor
I am responsible for checks itself for health, and to ensure a second opinion, I have a central server that monitors the health of all of the machines on my network. Every blip, flap and crash is detected and I am alerted via email. Since all of these emails ultimately land on my Blackberry, I feel like I'm at the nerve center of my network no matter... More...
Disaster recovery on the mainframe: New options for site recovery by Robert Crawford, Contributor
For the maximum benefit and fastest recovery each data center should be a "hot-hot" split of the production workload.

DASD vendors have added synchronous data replication over limited, campus-wide distances, which are designed so that a write to a primary disk will be replicated to an alternate volume in another box. Since it is synchronous, the system... More...

Mainframers need to focus on process not piecemeal disaster recovery by Robert Rosen, Columnist
focus is business resilience.

The IT environment and business resilience

When you talk about business resilience, you're talking about keeping your business functioning when you've lost a major component. But it's much more than having a disaster recovery site with a bunch of computers where you can replicate your data.

The mainframe is... 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...

CA announces Mainframe 2.0 by Mark Fontecchio, News Writer
use for less experienced IT staff, to create greater uniformity among products, and to provide a service to remove mainframe burdens.

Rich Ptak, an analyst at Ptak, Noel & Associates, believes that CA's initiative is a good idea.

"It's a step in the right direction," Ptak said. "CA is in competition with mainframe-focused tools from BMC and IBM. They're all... More...