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Achieving 23-30% Total Power Savings With a Server Rack Designed for Excellence in Power Efficiency by Intel Corporation
reduce space, cooling, networking, cabling, and management costs - as well as total power consumption - compared to low-density configurations having far few servers per rack. The Eco-Rack Proof of Concept demonstrates how server-level changes--such as moving to servers equipped with new energy-efficient processors, converting to DC power...
Five Basic Steps for Efficient Space Organization with High Density Enclosures by APC
Crowded enclosures are not only unsightly, they also diminish efficiency and uptime in the data center. This paper provides a five-step roadmap for standardizing and optimizing organization within both low and high density enclosure, with special emphasis on how to plan for higher densities. Crowded enclosures are not only unsightly, they...
Increasing Data Center Efficiency by Using Improved High Density Power Distribution by APC
saves floor space, simplifies power cabling, 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...
Optimizing WAN Performance for the Global Enterprise by Intel Corporation
WAN performance is critical to enterprise business around the globe. Read this white paper to learn the latest WAN optimization technologies, market products available for optimizations and analyst recommended WAN best practices. WAN performance is critical to enterprise business around the globe. Employee productivity and efficient...
Ten Cooling Solutions to Support High-Density Server Deployment by APC
High-density servers offer a significant performance per watt benefit. But, depending on the deployment, they can present a cooling challenge. This paper provides ten approaches for increasing cooling efficiency, cooling capacity and power density. Blade servers use less powerful than traditional servers, but when housed compactly in a single...
Vyatta - XenServer Virtual Router, Firewall, VPN by Vyatta Inc.
to virtual environments to also virtualize the network. Vyatta delivers advanced routing and security in a software-based network OS that is optimized to run in Xen and VMWare virtual or cloud environments. Product Type: Network Virtualization - Router, Firewall, VPN Virtual Appliance

Target User: IT Administrator, Network Administrator - anyone involved in...
Networking the Modern Data Center by SearchNetworking.com
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 reasons why data center design is changing at a rapid pace. This transformation places pressure on network...
802.1X: Port-Based Authentication Standard for Network Access Control (NAC) by Juniper Networks, Inc.
wireless LAN access (WLAN) across the enterprise network. Discover how to implement secure wireless LAN access (WLAN) across the enterprise network!

In record numbers, organizations are embracing mobility and wireless access (WLAN). They demand hassle-free, anytime, anywhere access that enables employees to be connected and productive 24/7. While mobility and...
Implementation Guide: Using a High Performance Network Backbone to Meet the Requirements of the Modern Enterprise Data Center by Juniper Networks, Inc.
44; 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-accepted...
How to Leverage the Network for Better Application Performance by Citrix
performance management and its impact on the network. It's no secret that the network has become the foundational platform for managing applications performance, troubleshooting, access control and more. A recent SearchNetworking.com survey of over 1,200 companies shows just how focused networking managers are on application optimization. Additional...
Network Management - From Reactive to Proactive Mode Using Centralized Management Tools by Stonesoft Inc.
In many corporations, network management practices are out of date. New tools and approaches are needed. In this white paper IT departments are advise to change from reactive to proactive and become more vigorous in the process of network management. In many corporations, network management practices are out of date. New tools and approaches...
Fundamental Principles of Network Security by APC
systems, including firewalls, network topology and secure protocols. Security incidents are rising at an alarming rate every year. As the complexity of the threats increases, so do the security measures required to protect networks. This white paper helps you comprehend the basics of security in order to safely deploy and manage networks today...
The Value of Integrated Security by Cisco Systems, Inc.
paper explains how Cisco is merging innovative network security technology with more than 20 years of routing expertise to redefine network security and provide customers with end-to-end network protection. In the past two decades, networks have evolved from closed infrastructures to integrated systems that enable organizations to work more closely with...
Airports Use Network Virtualization to Consolidate and Scale Operations by Cisco Systems, Inc.
at Zurich Airport to successfully implement network virtualization using MPLS VPN technology. Unique is the operator of Zurich Airport and offers a broad service portfolio to about 180 other companies, which also reside on the airport. Like many other enterprises, Unique faces the diverging business needs of providing the highest availability of...
Sun Networking Solutions Free Trial Catalog by Sun Microsystems, Inc.
View this free trial guide to find out which solution works for you. Sun has pioneered many standard networking technologies, and networking is part of everything they make - from embedded networking on UltraSPARC processors, to the Solaris Operating System, to the communication protocols that allow systems to share data. View this free trial...
Vyatta - Open Routing, Firewall, VPN Software by Vyatta Inc.
Vyatta is a network operating system (enterprise-class router, firewall, VPN +) that removes the need for proprietary hardware, allowing you to leverage performance and price advantages of x86-based servers and virtualization technologies. Product Type: Router, Firewall, VPN Software

Target User: Network Administrator

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Regaining Control of the Corporate Network to Ensure Business Processes by Blue Coat
and security that enables enterprises to align network resources with business goals. Most enterprises only know about half or less of the applications running on their corporate networks. Most are paying high costs for non-productive uses of Internet and WAN bandwidth and forced to take on network expansion at a faster rate than necessary. At the same time, critical...
Lumension Vulnerability Scanner by Lumension
Lumension Security Vulnerability Scanner is a network-based scanning utility that provides IT departments with comprehensive visibility into their entire heterogeneous network environment through in-depth scans and the automated discovery of all assets, both managed and unmanaged. The Lumension Security Vulnerability Scanner is a network-based scanning...
Tap Aggregation and Filtering to Enable Deep Packet Inspection (DPI) by Gigamon
Read this brief paper to learn how network monitoring using DPI analyzers is a mission critical application that is tailor-made for the Data Access Network (DAN) architecture and saves substantial amounts of money for the telecom carrier. The weapon of choice for service-oriented network monitoring is Deep Packet Inspection (DPI). Typically, DPI is...
Troubleshooting Slow Networks with Wireshark by Global Knowledge
Wireshark, the world's most popular open-source network analyzer, to troubleshoot some of the top causes of poor network performance, including high latency, packet loss, inefficient window sizes, intercepting devices, and application dependencies. Your phone begins ringing before you find a suitable spot to put down your first comforting cup of coffee in the...
Data Center Connectivity Solutions: Reduce Complexity and Cost While Increasing Performance and Reliability by Ciena
forms a the framework for an adaptive network that lowers connectivity costs and reduces the amount of maintenance and management required of more hardware-intensive WAN solutions. Corporate networks are in a new phase of change today. Innovative network and bandwidth-intensive applications, such as disk mirroring and disaster recovery, have become...
Motorola's Wireless Broadband Indoor/Outdoor Solution by Motorola, Inc.
With a Wi-Fi network, businesses can increase the efficiency of their mobile employees resulting in increased ROI and greater profitability. This document highlights two specific indoor/outdoor Wi-Fi network configurations based on Motorola's MOTOMESH Duo product solution. IDC Research estimates that the mobile worker...
Benefits of an Enterprise Campus Using Network Virtualization by Cisco Systems, Inc.
Network virtualization is a crucial element of the Cisco SONA framework. Cisco SONA uses virtualization technologies to increase use of networked assets such as servers and storage-area networks (SANs). A scalable solution is needed for keeping groups of users totally separate and centralizing services and...
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Server cluster failure considerations to maintain a fault-tolerant data center by Kyle Rankin, Contributor
networking equipment, multipathed storage area network (SAN) fabrics or RAID storage. This push toward fault tolerance resulted in extremely fault-tolerant but expensive servers that could not only swap out power supplies and disks, but also CPUs, without any downtime.

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Mainframe virtualization improves total cost of ownership on IBM z10 by Wayne Kernochan, Contributor
the mainframe, are actually quite robust despite the network and failover problems of the original distribution. This is due to the fact that mainframe virtualization can usually isolate faults to a single partition and fail over on the same system quite rapidly.

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SPEC benchmarks: Simplify your server search by Frank Trocino, Contributor
us who live in the real world know that sometimes your network isn't perfect. There is always that rogue Windows 95 client attached to the dot matrix printer in the warehouse that's probably looking for more network viruses to infect it so it can eke out its paltry existence and feel as important as possible until its 250 MB hard drive fails.

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HP's new server aims for cloud, Web 2.0 apps by Bridget Botelho, News Writer
of users, Martino said..

BigStockPhoto.com, a website that lets users upload and download photos, supports between 10 million and 20 million pages of content monthly. Its compute needs are less aggressive than the large scale-out companies HP targets with this system, but like the bigger Web 2.0 companies, BigStockPhoto is "growing constantly, so a... More...
Grow a green business: Cut costs and improve energy efficiency with green IT by Erin Kelly
the challenges businesses may face and offers energy-saving solutions. A free download of Chapter 1 of The Greening of IT, "The Importance of Green IT," is available for review.

Chapter 1 states many companies talk about reducing their total energy requirements, but are not actually going green where it counts. Why do you think this is true, and how can your... More...
IBM doubles refund for Sparc migrations: News in brief by Mark Fontecchio, News Writer
could save about 4% on a server's power consumption.

The updates also include a way to download HP-UX from high-bandwidth replicated servers to reduce deployment time and allows users to update the operating system while still online, needing only a standard reboot to switch to the new version.

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