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
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 ....
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 ....
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 ....
Data Center Transitions: Unix to Linux
[ Source: Red Hat ]
August 2009-
Increasing needs and declining budgets demand rapid innovation. The forced upgrades, arcane licensing, routine price hikes, and reduced choice associated with proprietary software might be more than your agency can afford right now. Rapid innovation lets you do more with less-and it requires an open source strategy.
And every good open source strategy begins with Red Hat. Read about Unix to Linux datacenter transitions and how migrating to Red Hat Enterprise Linux on ....
Is Power Your Weakest Link in Data Center Flexibility?: Key Considerations for Power Systems in Adaptive IT Environments
[ Source: Eaton ]
September 2008-
Your IT, networking and telecom systems consume more power than ever. A typical rack or wiring closet of equipment used to consume about 1.7 kW or 2 kW. A few years ago, that would have been high; it would be minimal today. For example, a rack full of Cisco Catalyst 6513 networking equipment consumes 8 kW. A rack of HP Proliant DL145 1U servers consumes 12 kW. Fill that rack with HP blade systems, and ....
The Multiple of Multi-Platform KVM Technologies in the Data Center
[ Source: ATEN Technology, Inc. ]
May 2008-
Every time a network administrator turns around there are new standards, protocols and platforms to support in the data center -- TCP/IP, Telnet, SSH, SSL, PPP, Solaris, USB, MacOS, Linux and Windows 2003 servers - and the list goes on and on. Each of these offers their share of flexibility, standardization, compatibility and convenience. But they also pose challenges. In some cases, this creates "silos" of information and limits access from other applications ....
Deploying Strategic Data Protection Solutions in IBM System z Environments
[ Source: Brocade ]
September 2008-
This technical brief describes how you can greatly increase the availability, investment protection, and performance of an enterprise IBM System z Disaster Recovery and Business Continuity solution.
Data Center Asset Planning – Regaining Control of the Data Center
[ Source: GDCM ]
October 2008-
All parts of the organization—from the board and executives through the IT Director and data center manager to data center operators—have a part to play in regaining full control of the power and real estate costs that are beginning to run out of control. With power costs rising sharply and increased public and corporate focus on environmental issues, such as carbon footprint, the techniques exist to tackle power inefficiencies in the data center—it is more ....