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Case Studies on Data Center Virtualization
April 28th, 2011 : Kevin NormandeauOngoing power and cooling costs are forcing many data center operators to look for ways to reduce costs and tackle the complexity of their legacy IT infrastructures. One way many organizations attack this problem, as highlighted in this white paper from HP is to consolidate the existing number of systems, using virtualization. Read More
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Power Monitoring for Modern Data Centers
April 27th, 2011 : Kevin NormandeauModern data center power monitoring systems look nothing like the basic electricity meters from which they evolved. Today’s systems comprise sophisticated metering devices, communication networks and software. This brief white paper from Schneider Electric looks at the evolution of the data center monitoring systems and outlines several key guidelines for deployment. Read More
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Optimize Your Data Center Operations
April 26th, 2011 : Kevin NormandeauToday's IT organizations are under pressure to continually adapt IT resources to keep pace with changing business priorities, all the while seeking methods to lower costs and improve efficiency in the data center. The racked, stacked, and wired infrastructure common in today's data center creates obstacles in the ability to deliver and manage new applications critical to the business. Read More
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Benefits of Data Center Consolidation
April 25th, 2011 : Kevin NormandeauAre low cost servers, used for applications such as sales force automation and workgroup collaboration creating server sprawl in your data center? This is a typical situation for many data center operators and before long your find you outgrow your available power and cooling capacity. Read More
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Reducing Data Center Cost with HP-UX
April 19th, 2011 : Kevin NormandeauThere is a common belief in the IT industry that an implementation of Linux is less costly than an implementation of UNIX. While that is technically true for the acquisition of server hardware, the base operating system and the maintenance costs of each, there are a host of other costs associated with a solution that must be explored to develop a fair comparison. Read More
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Convergence of Networks in the Data Center
April 18th, 2011 : Kevin NormandeauAccording to a recent study from Forrester Research, most North American data center operators believe that in the next 5 years there will be a convergence of the Storage Area Networks (SANs) and Local Area Networks (LANs). Although obstacles are coming down, there will be challenges along the way. Yet, as this white paper points out, these will be significant benefits to this transition. Read More
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2011 US Data Center Market Drivers
April 15th, 2011 : Kevin NormandeauThe forecast for the US data center market call for significant growth in 2011 and 2012 according to a study recently completed by Digital Realty Trust. Each year they survey over 300 executives at large US companies about their business and data center needs. The findings in this white paper are impressive. Read More
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Strategies to Cut Data Center Costs
April 13th, 2011 : Kevin NormandeauA recent IDC research report estimates data center operators can save 34 percent annually with Cisco Unified Fabric. Historically companies have been running separate, parallel networks in their data center: an Ethernet-based LAN to connect servers, clients, and the broader Internet and a storage area network (SAN) to connect servers to the storage pool. Read More
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DCIM: Data Center Infrastructure Management
April 12th, 2011 : Kevin NormandeauA new category of tools called Data Center Infrastructure Management (DCIM) has been a hot topic at many of the recent data center conferences. This white paper from Raritan explains the many facets of Data Center Infrastructure Management, and the benefits of a DCIM solution. Read More
RESOURCE LINKS:
Building A Cloud-Savvy Model for TCO and ROI
How Storage is Shaping The Cloud Data Center
Bringing Colo to the Customer: Modular Gets Local
Microsoft’s $1 Billion Data Center
