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 ....
Data Center Consolidation with Wide-Area Application Services
[ Source: Cisco ]
July 2008-
Application Networking Services IT Deployment in Progress: How Cisco IT Advances Data Center Consolidation with Wide-Area Application Services
The Roadmap to Virtual Infrastructure
[ Source: VMware ]
October 2008-
Use this interactive tool to learn how you can best implement and maximize the benefits of VMware Infrastructure.
Beyond Job Scheduling: The Road to Enterprise Process Automation
[ Source: UC4 Software ]
May 2008-
The relentless pace of today’s business environment and its enormous pressures on IT staff has made it critical for corporate business systems to become more responsive and reliable. End-user expectations for reliability and speed grow dramatically as more and more users have come in contact with a wider array of software applications.
The rise of the web has proven to be the ultimate nemesis for the so-called ‘batch window’ – that nightly ....
Architecting Low Latency Cloud Networks
[ Source: Arista Networks ]
June 2009-
As data centers transition to next generation virtualized & elastic cloud architectures, high performance and resilient cloud networking has become a requirement for delivering always-on, always-available applications.
Over the last decade response time requirements have been rigorously tightened, toward fractions of a second, and both network and compute latencies need to be reduced in parallel. An architectural approach is needed so that response times are consistently and measurably enhanced across a wide set of ....
Find out how to increase availability while reducing data center energy consumption
[ Source: Emerson Network Power ]
August 2009-
In the midst of rapid growth, Langan Engineering & Environmental Services was challenged by a corporate initiative to become more environmentally responsible from an IT perspective. This meant upgrading its existing data center and installing an uninterruptible power system (UPS) that would support efforts to reduce data center energy consumption and provide a clear path for expansion as blade servers and virtualization were introduced.
Discover the steps Emerson Network Power took to achieve Langan’s ....
Case Study: Norton Healthcare
[ Source: Emerson Network Power ]
November 2009-
Norton Healthcare, the largest healthcare system in Louisville, was supporting 13,000 users and 400 servers on a 35-year-old data center. When the data center reached its capacity, the manager reached out to Emerson Network Power to completely remodel the 3,400-square-foot facility.
This paper covers the strategies Emerson Network Power implemented to create a scalable, redundant infrastructure, increasing workload by 100% and reducing help desk calls by 20%. This included installing two Liebert 610 ....
Is an Energy-wasting Data Center Draining Your Bottom Line?
[ Source: Eaton ]
November 2009-
An unforgiving economic climate has left many organizations struggling to sustain (or restore) profitability. Many of them reacted to the downturn by restructuring, trimming back R&D and marketing, and laying off employees. All of these moves leave a company in a vulnerable position when the market rebounds, which it inevitably will.
Meanwhile, huge potential savings are sitting, untapped, right in the company’s data center.
Data center energy costs as a percent of ....
Modeling the Virtual Data Center
[ Source: Elastra ]
November 2009-
The transition to cloud computing is not simply about outsourcing or applying old technology to new IT processes, it signals a shift in how IT is designed and delivered. The ultimate value of cloud computing is realized by significantly reducing lead times needed to deliver critical business services. And, to realize this value, a new approach to modeling the new “virtual” data center should be considered.
The quickest path to model-driven automation within the ....
Growing Data Sets Slowing Down Your Apps? Experience 100x Faster Application Performance
[ Source: RNA networks ]
July 2009-
Enterprise data centers are struggling with large data sets with real implications for application performance, cost and competitiveness. While memory capacity has grown, distributed data center architectures require that many servers have access to the same data sets, often TBs in size and too large to fit in memory of any one server.
RNAcache provides a solution directly targeted at the root cause of this bottleneck; memory limitations. Because RNAcache dynamically scales to store ....