Architecting Data Center Networks in the Era of Big Data & Cloud
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May 2012-
Big Data clusters and SDN enabled clouds invite a new approach to data center networking. This session for data center architects will explore the transition from traditional scale-up chassis based Layer 2 centric networking, to the next generation of scale-out Layer 3 CLOS based fabrics of fixed switches.
Creating Functional Teams
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May 2011-
As data centers converge, the lines of responsibility for storage, server, application and network teams are blurring. The politics can get messy, but bring these specialists together right and you?ll gain significant benefits by breaking down silos and integrating key roles in ways that allow you to be incredibly flexible and responsive to the business. Our Analytics experts will discuss practical ways to quell turf wars and build truly converged teams.
The Cloud Ready Data Center
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May 2011-
Successful consolidation in the data center means introducing a high performance two-layer L2 switching mesh that is resilient, low latency, low power and follows an application fluent approach with automated controls for high quality application delivery. Support for future convergence of data and storage networks with loss-less Ethernets and FCoE is also a must. Hear about how this can be achieved while including a true services-based architecture enabling seamless private and public cloud application delivery ...
CA: Application Performance Management
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May 2009-
Research shows that the top drivers for the adoption of application performance management are the need to improve employee productivity, the need improve responsiveness to external customers, and to support plans for business growth. CA’s Paul Ellis outlines four phases and six rules to follow in order successfully implement application performance management and to reap the benefits.
Virtualization: Enabling Disaster Recovery For Any Sized Business
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May 2009-
In his presentation on virtualization, Stratus Technologies Joop Janssen discusses where server virtualization is taking us, and how businesses both large and small can benefit, especially when it comes to BC and DR planning. High availability, asynchronous deployment, centralized resource management, and DR without duplication are some of the major benefits that can be realized through virtualization. Large or distributed enterprises can support multiple production sites with a single DR site using virtualization, with no ...
Virtualization: Life In The Trenches
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May 2009-
Virtualization is taking hold in IT organizations across the globe, in large projects and small. Christopher Steffen, of Kroll Factual Data, presents a real-life example of a virtualization project at a leading provider of business information to mortgage lenders, consumer lender, property management firms, and other businesses. Kroll Factual Data’s production environment is now 85 percent virtualized, its development environment is completely virtualized, and the company has 63 VM hosts running over 1,600 virtual machines. Through virtualization, ...
Are Virtual Infrastructures Secure? More Or Less?
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May 2009-
According to VMware, 85 percent of its customers are using virtualization for mission-critical production services. According to Gartner, however, 60 percent of virtualized servers will be less secure than their wired counterparts and 30 percent of virtualized servers will be associated with a security incident. Given these statistics, Tripwire’s Chris Orr discusses the dark side of virtualization. Orr also presents the characteristics of high-performance IT groups, including standardized configuration strategy, process discipline, and controlled access to production ...
Tuning, Tweaking, And Troubleshooting Your Virtual Infrastructure
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May 2009-
According to Akorri’s Rich Corley, virtualizations projects fail due to poor visibility, poor analysis, and poor coordination of teams. Infrastructure tends to be heterogeneous, cross-domain, and shared, which leads to resource contention, server-only physical-to-virtual planning, and configuration mistakes, all of which lead to poor performance after virtualization. Corley’s discussion examines these pitfalls and discusses simple steps that can be used to avoid them.
Best Practices: Business Continuity And Disaster Recovery
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May 2009-
According to a CA survey in 2008, only 28 percent of respondents had business continuity and disaster recovery plans in place, and a further 21 percent had only disaster recovery plans in place. Frank Jablonski discusses developing, testing, and implementing business continuity and disaster recovery plans, with a look at the phases of DR planning and establishing best practices. These include establishing appropriate RPO and RTO according to business priorities, consolidation, and replication, using a hardware-agnostic solution and ...
Green Storage 1: Economics, Environment, Energy, And Engineering
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May 2009-
Hands-on IT professionals, IT managers and even C-level executives are becoming aware of environmental impacts associated with today’s networks and data storage. Microsofts’s SW Worth presents an introduction to the “green storage” discussion, including the concepts fundamental to all components of a data center. This tutorial covers the concepts of economics, environment, energy, and engineering, and allows you to become a full participant in the green discussion in your enterprise. Worth’s presentation ...