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Data Center Design by IBM
Data center energy efficiency yields immediate results. Listen to this podcast that discusses the drivers for organizations to integrate and focus on energy and environmental responsibilities – and how redesigning your data center to meet these pressures can drive growth and create energy efficiency savings.

Data center energy efficiency yields...
The Zen of Data Center Consolidation: How to Reduce Complexity and Manage Better by nlyte Software
Data Center Research Analyst with Tier1 Research, and Todd Goldman, VP Product Management with nlyte Software, for this informative online session on the why's and how-to's of data center consolidation.

Join Jeff Paschke, Data Center Research Analyst with Tier1 Research, and Todd Goldman, VP Product Management with nlyte Software, for this informative online...
An Integrated Security Solution for the Virtual Data Center and Cloud by Juniper Networks, Inc.
evolving data center.

While cloud computing and virtualization offer compelling business and cost saving opportunities, there are still significant security concerns that impede organizations from adopting. In this paper, explore the implications of virtualized workloads and discover an effective approach to providing pervasive and consistent protection...
The Four Steps to Virtual Port Channel by Global Knowledge
of the data center from one side to the other.

Gain insight into the value of a new technology, overlay transport virtualization (OTV), in this expert resource. OTV enables two data centers that are geographically dispersed to become layer 2 adjacent by utilizing a “layer 2 over layer 3” concept, allowing network scaling and the moving of components of the data center from...
Virtual Environments or Cloud Computing? The Best Choice for SMBs by Dell and VMware
of data center to cut hardware, power and cooling, space, management and disaster recovery costs. Similar in their ability to reduce costs, virtual environments and cloud computing differ in initial and ongoing costs. Cloud computing introduces management risks that many SMBs are hesitant to take. Implementing virtualization offers SMBs a way to start saving...
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consumption in the data center. Barroso said his data center performance has nearly doubled, but so has the power bill... More...
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Featured Expert Advice
involved in setting up and running a data center? That's a broad question with implications that resonate across an organization. If time is short, you should seek the counsel of independent datacenter design specialists or of systems vendors who have significant... More...
be used as a backbone for all connections in a data center. What type of fiber optic is recommended, and what would be the ideal way to design it?

Most people today install 50 micron laser optimized fiber in the data center. It will support 10 gigabit and is fully backwards... More...

if any savings, especially if you cable your data center to TIA-942, which suggests that you run your horizontal and vertical cabling to accommodate growth so that you don't have to revisit them. Cabling is a very small part of your overall network costs (5% to 7%), so this should not... More...
Data Center Tips
Handling weaknesses in remote server management By Bill Kleyman, Contributor
feature? Write to SearchDataCenter.com's Matt Stansberry about your data center concerns at mstansberry@techtarget.com. Necessity and convenience have made remote server management commonplace, but there are times when this hands-off form of server administration requires a hands-on approach. This tip delves into how to handle the pitfalls... More...
Teaching mainframe skills to recent graduates By Robert Crawford, Contributor
feature? Write to SearchDataCenter.com's Matt Stansberry about your data center concerns at mstansberry@techtarget.com. The mainframe skills shortage doesn't have to mean the end of the platform. We can still teach recent college graduates the mainframe basics they weren't taught in school. With a bit of schooling in mainframe-specific data... More...
Flexible process automation increases effectiveness, prevents IT headaches By Jasmine Noel, Contributor
designers don't need to know details about an application's internal data structure to use it in a process. To implement this on today's budgets and time frames, IT needs to look for solution providers with both strong Web services strategies and adapters for existing management applications.

For example, most enterprises have invested... More...

Data Center Webcasts
Extending the Life of an Existing data center: IBM Lexington Case Study  by IBM
of IBM’s Lexington data center that are now being leveraged across the top 60 global data centers at IBM, to help maximize cost savings.
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
Remote systems management; there's an app for that By Bridget Botelho, News Writer
Exchange Server; Nagios; VMware ESX hosts and vCenter; other data center applications via Blackberry, Apple iTouch, or iPhone; and Windows Mobile for $599 per client.

"It provides functions for things [IT managers] get pinged for when they are in the grocery store, like restarting services, changing a password or doing diagnostic tasks that are reasonably easy to do," said... More...