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The Power and Cooling Benefits of Hyper-V Server 2008 R2 by Dell, Inc. and Intel
cooling the data center is costing your organization, and learn how the Hyper-V Server 2008 R2 can help reduce these requirements.

Servers have to be powered up and then cooled down. Utility rates never go down and as data centers expand, all the powering up and cooling down inflates IT budgets. Cutting power costs is an effective way to reduce IT expenses and most efficiently...
Brocade One Data Center Cloud-Optimized Networks by Brocade
Brocade One Data Center strategy simplifies network architectures and maximizes solution flexibility and choice.

To help customers make a smooth transition into the cloud – where information and application will reside – Brocade One Data Center strategy simplifies network architectures and maximizes solution flexibility and choice. Benefits unlock the full...
The Journey to Unified Computing by Cisco Systems, Inc.
how data center needs have changed over the last five years and discusses the reasons why management of virtualized compute, network, and storage access should be integrated. Discover the vision behind a private cloud and learn how to avoid making common mistakes as you prepare for this new IT model.

To stay competitive and stick to your budget, you must find ways to...
Four Ways to Boost Data Center Efficiency With Automated Storage Tiering by Dell, Inc.
boost your data center efficiency.

Automated storage tiering has become the must-have feature for all new storage arrays over the last two years.

Storage tiering is the movement of data to different types of disk according to performance and capacity requirements. Tiering allows the majority of your data to reside on slower, larger, cheaper disks -- normally SATA -- whilst...
How to simplify repetitive infrastructure tasks with better IT management tools by HP and Intel
for data center assets, IT organizations need to find new ways to manage their resources. New software now is available to make systems management the heart of a data center transformation initiative.

As budgets tighten in the face of increased business requirements for data center assets, IT organizations need to find new ways to manage their resources. New...
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Featured Expert Advice
In my system, data is added (not modified) to a VSAM file in CICS. I need to create a batch report on the records added to the file, on a weekly basis. I also need to capture the employee ID of the person who added the data, but I should do so without... More...
I thought your "Data Center Efficiency & the EPA Report" webcast was excellent!

Do you see any opportunities or have recommendations for KVM switch improvements re: the EPA report? Do you foresee any Energy Star specs for KVMs?

Also, do you see any... More...

one of our DB2 tables into a CICS maintained data table with 700,000 records. Calls to DB2 were replaced with calls to the data table. CPU usage went up. Our system is Threadsafe. Could the TCB switches caused by the data table calls be more expensive than DB2 calls? The... More...
Data Center Tips
Does the IBM zEnterprise 196 signal a new direction for the mainframe? By Robert Crawford, Contributor
end to another

At first glance this sounds like IBM's entry into the "data center in a box" concept with the happy addition of the mainframe. But the z196 is a little more ambitious.

Putting the blades in the cabinet allows features like Smart Analytics Optimizer (SAO) for DB2 to work better. SAO allows mainframe DB2 to offload huge queries onto other... More...

Dynamic routing for CICS Web services By Robert Crawford, Contributor
feature? Write to SearchDataCenter.com's Matt Stansberry about your data center concerns at mstansberry@techtarget.com. This tip describes the benefits of dynamic routing for Web services and how to route Web workloads dynamically in CICS... More...
ITSM basics: Implementing change management processes By George Spafford, Contributor
trying to figure out what changed. If that can be resolved quickly, your data center will achieve higher availability and IT staff will have more time to focus on planned work.

Despite the evidence that change management and formal processes are effective, there's a very pervasive "cowboy" mentality in IT, where employees do not like to be told that... More...

Data Center Webcasts
Speed Up Data Center Transformation with a Data-Driven Approach by Hewlett-Packard Company
data-driven approach to data center transformation that can speed up the transformation process while reducing risk. In addition, explore the advantages and disadvantages of data center transformation.

Data center transformation can modernize facilities, IT...
How to transform your traditional data center into the data center of the future by HP
from the traditional data center to the services data center, with special emphasis on the business impact of the transformation. Also, learn how communications service providers (CSPs) are positioning themselves for the data center of the future.

Technology is...
Data Center Articles
A data center colo expands its CMDB to include facility items By Mark Fontecchio, News Writer
items as well as IT items. Why?
Calhoun: Our core product is data center colocation, so we have to deal with all those complexities. The more [uninterruptible power supplies] we have, the more [power distribution units] we have. We have to track the interrelation between all of those [components] and how doing maintenance to a UPS could affect a PDU and how that... More...
Data center panel weighs cloud computing risks, rewards By Matt Stansberry, Senior Site Editor
For this month's data center advisory board question, we asked our panel if data center managers should consider cloud computing for their operations, and under what scenarios.

The panelists offered very specific advice on where to use cloud computing, and provided a checklist of cloud computing risks to consider, while others... More...