Beyond the Hypervisor: A Holistic Approach To Developing Next-Generation Data Center Architecture [ Source: Cisco ]
June 2009- Taking a holistic approach to virtualization can help IT meet the demands of better, faster, and cheaper, while laying the foundation for a dynamic, responsive infrastructure. Although today’s focus on virtualization begins with the server, the network also plays a key role as the only element that connects and enables communications between all data center components. While natural to start with the endpoints, architects need to subsequently consider thinking from the inside out, where core ....

Software Manufacturing: Custom Application Stacks For Virtualized Infrastructure And Cloud Computing [ Source: CohesiveFT ]
August 2008- A customer revolution in service-oriented architecture (SOA) and service-oriented infrastructure (SOI), combined with ever more complex business needs, has driven customers to a multi-sourced middleware component architecture. As these market mechanics have evolved over the last decade, the middleware market is moving from single-sourced, tightly-coupled, vertically integrated middleware, to multi-sourced, loosely-coupled, vertically aware application and middleware stacks.

Services Based Delivery of Virtual Applications: Avoiding the Pitfalls of Traditional Virtualization Strategies [ Source: Emtec ]
June 2008- More often than not, companies jump into virtualization strategies with little knowledge or experience as to what value a broader approach could do for their organization. As a result, they are often disappointed when the cost-savings and efficiencies don’t materialize according to plan. Even those organizations that achieve real savings by effectively reducing their hardware footprints and the associated power, cooling and floor space, often leave significant financial ....

Blade Server Tech Report [ Source: InformationWeek ]
March 2007- The blade server market has been evolving, and many enterprises today can take advantage of much the improved manageability and facilities savings that blades can offer. The market has offerings from nearly every major vendor and some smaller vendors that can surprise and please both the server administrator and the data center manager. The NWC Analytics Blade Server Tech Report covers the market as it stands and can serve as a guideline for justifying investments ....

How To Keep Things Cool In Your Data Center: 11 Tips For Summer [ Source: Network Services ]
July 2008- Now that summer is here, your heat worries turn to your data center. Is everything really being kept cool enough to be safe? Julius Neudorfer, director of Network Services for North American Access Technologies, provides 11 tips on how to keep things cool.