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Simplifying the Data Center Network Webcast by Juniper Networks, Inc.
webcast also examines financial savings of the new data center architecture...
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 --...
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...
HotSchedules Customer Case Study by Dell and Microsoft
how Hot Schedules needed to design and deploy a new data center infrastructure that could accommodate rapid annual business growth while also controlling hardware acquisition and power consumption costs. In this case study read how Hot Schedules needed to design and deploy a new data center infrastructure that could accommodate rapid annual business growth while...
Deploying F5 Networks BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager with WebAccelerator for Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 by F5 Networks
many proven cost benefits, but requires these new data centers be able to provide consistent, predictable, and adequate service to users who are now located more remotely from the SharePoint farms across a corporate Wide Area Network (WAN).

In distributed farm deployments, server capacity (usually the Web front-end (WFE) servers) was likely the limiting...
Data Protection for Virtual Server Environments: Exploring Options and Technologies for Backup and Recovery of Virtual Machines by Datalink/NetApp
server infrastructures. We offer a glimpse at new data protection techniques and approaches that can help unlock the ultimate potential of an organization's optimized virtual environment. We also provide details on how offloading much of the work from the virtualized application infrastructure can help you avoid many virtual server backup and recovery...
VMware DRS: Why You Still Need Assured Application Delivery and Application Delivery Networking by F5 Networks
the next generation virtual platform for the new data center, but they don't virtualize the network or application delivery. This White Paper details how the F5 BIG-IP LTM works with VMware to provide truly virtualized Application Delivery Networking...
Intel IT: Taking Power Management to the Limit--and Beyond by Intel Corporation
power and thermal management in an aging data center to 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...
eGuide: Managing Power Consumption in Today's Data Center by Dell, Inc. and Intel
s power consumption with its performance. Data center managers want to decrease power consumption in their IT shops, but how much of their efforts are actually paying off? Measuring energy efficiency is tricky, especially since most IT business units don't pay the power bill. And, the scarcity of virtual benchmarks in place means that virtualization adds...
Operations Energy Management: From Data Center through Facilities by CA
the amount of energy used to power and cool the data center. Rising energy costs are driving IT and facilities managers alike in all types of organizations to come up with new and innovative ways to reduce the amount of energy used to power and cool the data center. Using information technology solutions to better manage the data center offers a new perspective and fresh...
Transcript: It's Easier Being Green: The Business Case for Green IT by Hewlett-Packard Company
electricity cost for a typical high-density data center is 42% of OPEX.

3) The third driver is the resource shortage. The pool of qualified senior technical management professionals will shrink by 45%. Like the scarcity of energy there is a scarcity of people with the engineering process and management skills to most efficiently run data centers.

4) The fourth driver is...
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...
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...
Speeding Business Innovation by Hewlett-Packard Company
In this white paper, learn how data center transformation can help your organization outsource applications and shift spending from maintenance and management to projects that support business growth and innovation. According to the Data Center Institute, by 2010 more than half of all data centers will have to relocate to new facilities or...
Service-Based Approaches to Improving Data Center Thermal and Power Efficiencies by Hewlett-Packard Company
of their data's thermal environment, optimize data center temperature controls to lower operating costs... Today's IT managers are facing increasing power and cooling challenges. According to recent IDC studies, over the past 10 years the average cost to power and cool the installed base of servers has risen from $0.25 per dollar spent on new servers to $0.50 per each new...
Akamai's Application Performance Solutions: For a Complete Application Delivery Strategy, Think Outside the Data-center by Akamai Technologies
what happens to data once it leaves the data center and traverses the Internet to a highly dispersed user base. Akamai makes your applications Internet ready, by providing an end-to-end Web acceleration solution that fills the gap left by not addressing the Internet cloud with an ADC...
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...
Increase Utilization, Decrease Energy Costs With Data Center Virtualization by Hewlett-Packard Company
vs. risks, transitioning from older platforms to new ones, best practices and more. Many organizations are turning to virtualization technologies that facilitate consolidation and increased utilization. However, implementing virtualization solutions must be approached and planned with care, and the benefits and risks should be fully understood up front...
Critical Facilities Services by Hewlett-Packard Company
of large enterprises will face a shortage of data center floor space.

In short, data center requirements worldwide are rapidly increasing, fueling a demand for new "greenfield" or upgraded facilities with energy-efficient power and cooling technologies and modern, spacesaving layouts that provide operational continuity.

In this white paper, read how to meet the...
SIP Trunking in the Next-Generation Contact Center by Acme Packet
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 contact center. Further, service providers have begun aggressively promoting SIP trunks both to protect their existing contact center customers and to...
Securing the Benefits of Virtualization by Stonesoft Inc.
be an afterthought in the transformation of the data center. Companies are rapidly adopting virtualization, incented by the tremendous benefits it brings to static and inflexible data centers. Virtualization offers better utilization of server resources but also, more importantly, it creates an agile application platform that business can use to accelerate...
Beyond System Center: Addressing Systems Management Needs across the Entire IT Infrastructure by Quest Software
Quest can expand the power of Microsoft System Center for true end-to-end IT management. For many companies, the power of Microsoft's System Center suite provides a powerful management platform to handle today's ever-changing IT environment. However, expanding Microsoft System Center's capabilities not only improves the value of your IT...
Avoidable Mistakes that Compromise Cooling Performance in Data Centers and Network Rooms by APC
examines various mistakes that compromise data center colling systems, explains their principles, quantifies their impacts, and describes simple remedies. Most data centers and network rooms have a variety of basic design and configuration flaws that prevent them from achieving their potential cooling capacity and prevent them from delivering cool air where...
Hot Spots: Just Say "Yes" to a New IT Strategy by Storage Magazine
and software can make all the difference in your data center. Today's business environment is more challenging than ever before. Market conditions are subject to rapid change, while regulatory compliance requirements continue to place more demands on IT. Within the data center, new composite apps are driving service-oriented architectures (SOAs), and Web 2.0 initiatives...
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Hash table how-tos for mainframe programmers by Robert Crawford, Contributor
I like to put referential data into external tables. It makes programs easier to maintain and it's much safer to change a table than logic. The only catch is that system level code, particularly in exits, must be very efficient. You wouldn't want to do a linear search of a fifty entry table for every file I/O as that would tend to... 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...

Web service technologies primer by Wayne Kernochan, Contributor
in a directory, which can be accessed using Universal Data Description Interface, or a UDDI. Communicate between Web services using SOAP (Simple Object Access Protocol), which is built on the XML (eXtended Messaging Language) messaging protocol.

More specifically, in order to communicate with a Web service, an application will add Web service... More...

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Experian drills backup water supply to cool data center by Mark Fontecchio, News Writer
Three summers ago, a 76-inch main line that feeds water from Lake Lavon to 29 cities and towns in Texas broke. That was a disaster for credit services giant 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... 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...