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The VDC Maturity Model - Moving up the Virtual Data Center Stack by F5 Networks
The goal of virtualization in the data center is to help the enterprise achieve a business goal, whether that goal is consolidation, reduced management and head count costs, disaster recovery, or even "going green." The goal of virtualization in the data center is to help the enterprise achieve a business goal, whether that goal is consolidation, reduced...
Simplifying the Data Center Network Webcast by Juniper Networks, Inc.
This webcast discusses what's happening in the data center today, including Juniper's vision to address data center challenges and gain an understanding of data centers in terms of the new architecture. This webcast discusses what's happening in the data center today, including Juniper's vision to address data center challenges and gain an understanding of data...
Speeding Business Innovation by Hewlett-Packard Company
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 outsource some applications. If you're running an IT organization, this and other issues such as the decrease in data center professionals and power availability have serious implications to your business. These...
Virtual Data Center eZine - Volume 5 by Virtual Data Center eZine - Volume 5
According to the Data Center Decisions 2008 Purchasing Intentions Survey, server selection and disaster recovery (DR) are front-burner issues for data center decision makers. According to the Data Center Decisions 2008 Purchasing Intentions Survey, server selection and disaster recovery (DR) are front-burner issues for data center...
Meeting the Power and Memory Demands of Today's Data Center by Spansion, Inc.
how you can realize the following benefits in the data center:

  • Double the density and storage capacity of each memory cell
  • Reduce square-footage requirements in the data center
  • Lower operational expenses
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    Akamai's Application Performance Solutions: For a Complete Application Delivery Strategy, Think Outside the Data-center by Akamai Technologies
    addressing 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...
    Intel IT: Taking Power Management to the Limit--and Beyond by Intel Corporation
    To formulate a strategy for making best use of the data center's existing infrastructure, Intel IT Global Facilities Services carried out a detailed analysis that predicted the effect of adding new servers and compared it to the data center's potential thermal limits. Consultants also investigated ways to improve the data center's overall efficiency using the...
    Thermal Zone Mapping by Hewlett-Packard Company
    uses data generated from computer models of the data center and generates metrics, which are then post-processed and visualized in the three-dimensional data center space. Output from the tool can be used to optimize the placement of equipment in a data center, investigate failure scenarios, and make sure that a proper cooling solution has been achieved.

    In this briefing...
    Transform Your Data Center Into An Energy-Efficient Operation by Insight and Sun Microsystems, Inc
    kilowatts per rack, making it difficult to keep the data center cool.

    This white paper describes how to achieve better utilization and more eco-efficient systems by combining the most energy-efficient systems on the market with virtualization technologies that pool data center resources onto fewer systems. Read on to learn more about the following strategies:

    • Renewable
    ...
    How to Collapse Tiers in the Data Center Network by Juniper Networks, Inc.
    experts 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...
    Saving Energy in Your Data Center -- Why is it Important? by Wright Line
    re like most busy IT managers, saving energy in the data center is probably not your primary concern. In this expert videocast from Data Center Decisions 2008, Robert McFarlane, Principal Data Center and Financial Trading Floor Consultant, shows you why it should be. Using real-life scenarios, he explains how an energy-efficient data center enables lower costs and greater...
    Best Practices for Measuring Data Center Energy Efficiency by IBM
    and pressure to reduce the carbon footprint of the data center means that most IT managers are taking measures to increase energy efficiency. But how effective are these efforts? And if you can't quantify power savings, justifying an increase in IT spending becomes a real challenge.

    In this videocast, Ken Brill, Founder and Executive Director of the Uptime Institute, explains...
    Data Center Design and Infrastructure Chapter 2: Data Center Power Management by Hewlett-Packard Company
    This chapter focuses on power management in the data center. Learn about the mounting pressure on data center managers to find more reliable-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...
    Realizing the Value of the Green Data Center by Integrating Facilities and IT by IBM
    along with its companion white paper, "Greening the data center with IBM Tivoli software: an integrated approach to managing energy"-- discusses the importance of managing energy consumption in data centers and how systems management technologies contribute to green management. The paper provides an overview of green data centers and the significant role played by...
    An Inconvenient Balance? Can the Data Center Go Green without Stifling Corporate Growth? by Crossbeam Systems
    new technologies that can positively impact the data center's energy consumption without sacrificing performance, and exactly how to calculate the energy and cost savings. Enterprise IT organizations are mercilessly put in the spotlight to save the day and provide the business with both bottom line cost improvements and top line company competitiveness, all...
    Top 10 Ways to Save Energy in Your Data Center by Wright Line
    on why increasing energy efficiency in the data center is paramount to your IT shop's success? In this videocast, Robert McFarlane tells you why:
    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...
    How to Implement Chargeback in a Virtualized Data Center Using the Resource Consumption Model by VKernel
    to contain sprawl and maintain control over the data center.

    But how do you get started with chargeback? This white paper provides an easy-to-understand approach in six simple steps. Read it today for all the information you need to implement chargeback in your virtualized data center.

    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...
    eGuide: Managing Power Consumption in Today's Data Center by Dell, Inc. and Intel
    its performance. It also covers the results of the Data Center Decisions 2008 Purchasing Intentions survey, explaining the power-saving strategies and challenges that over 600 of your peers face. Read this E-Guide to learn about the steps you can take to achieve true, measurable data center energy efficiency...
    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...
    Reducing Complexity by Simplifying the Enterprise Data Center Network by Juniper Networks, Inc.
    organizations can centralize and consolidate the data center environment, allowing IT administrators to oversee and manage resources in fewer locations while still providing global access and reducing operating costs. While innovations in server virtualization have enabled significant consolidation improvements, these techniques do not address the...
    Monitoring Physical Threats in the Data Center by APC
    administrator to fill critical gaps in overall data center security, and to keep physical security aligned with changing data center infrastructure and availability goals...
    Data Discovery and Risk in the Datacenter by Tizor
    data risk by discovering critical data in the data center, monitoring and analyzing activity, providing detailed auditing trails, and reporting on all user access. Database activity monitoring (DAM) solutions mitigate data risk by discovering critical data in the data center; intelligently monitoring and analyzing the activity that affects it; providing detailed...
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    Top disaster recovery budget wasters by Richard Jones, VP and Service Director for Data Center Strategies, Burton Group
    and employees that kept the business running while the data center was off-line. Bottom line: DR and business continuity are only effective if driven by the CEO and board of directors across the whole company. Any money spent on DR for IT alone without DR for the rest of the company is wasted.

    Over protecting your environment: I have not seen this sin committed... More...

    Mainframe serviceability using SMP/E by Robert Crawford, Contributor
    One of the mainframe's advantages is serviceability. Unlike other platforms, we can apply fixes individually or in groups using SMP/E. Although SMP/E is cursed more than praised, it does ensure each fix is applied in proper sequence and contains hold data to prevent bad maintenance from getting onto... More...
    How to authenticate users accessing CICS legacy transactions? by Robert Harris
    IDs and passwords since they will be exposed along the way.

    We cannot tell from what we have read if this will be transparent to CICS -- handled by RACF -- and CICS will get whatever it needs to satisfy the sign-on. Is this something that you can answer or at least point me to an explicit document that addresses Kerberos and CICS?

    There is rather more to... More...

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    CA announces Mainframe 2.0 by Mark Fontecchio, News Writer
    At CA World 2008 in Las Vegas this week, software giantCA announced its Mainframe 2.0 iniative, which aims to untangle the complexity of mainframe management.

    Chris O'Malley, the head of CA's mainframe business unit, said Mainframe 2.0 strives to make its mainframe management software easier to use for less... More...

    Running Linux and z/OS on a single mainframe poses no problem by Mark Fontecchio, Nes Writer
    is new to mainframe technology. Jim Porell, the chief architect of IBM System z software, said some financial firms in Japan, China and Hong Kong have just begun to build their infrastructure and didn't have legacy z/OS mainframes but still want to consolidate Linux servers onto big iron.

    Technology benefits of combining z/OS and Linux
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