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- What you need to know about Cisco's Data Center 3.0
- Cisco has just unveiled its Data Center 3.0. Most of you have probably never heard of Cisco's Data Center versions 1.0 and 2.0. Even though I went to the Cisco Networkers conference last year, I'd never heard of these initiatives either.But maybe 3.0 is the magic version number. Windows didn't...
- Tags: virtualization, server virtualization, data center
- Blog posts 2007-07-26
- Installing and Configuring MOM 2005 w/ SQL Server Part II
- In my last blog, we discussed, how to configure a virtual environment, install, and begin to configure MOM 2005 to monitor SQL Server. This blog will continue where the last one left off. We will import MOM 2005 Management Packs and Reports andbegin monitoring SQL Server 2005.View my Gallery!Lets start...
- Tags: MOM, databases, data center, sql server
- Blog posts 2007-07-23
- Installing and Configuring MOM 2005 w/ SQL Server
- In this blog series, you will learn the basics of installing Microsoft Operations Manager 2005 as well as how to use MOM to monitor SQL Server. This article takes advantage of virtualization. We will use VMware Workstation 5 to create the lab to introduce you to the basics of installing...
- Tags: sql server, SQL, MOM, databases, data center
- Blog posts 2007-07-18
- Every network administrator's dream: Blow up your data center
- Some days you just have had enough. There's nothing you want to do more than just light a couple of sticks of dynamite, toss them in the server room, and go home for the day. Turns out HP has already done that. Kind of. As part of a promotional campaign...
- Tags: data center, disaster recovery
- Blog posts 2007-06-26
- New storage project, part three: Budget difficulties and researching future solutions
- In two previous storage articles this year, I talked about my new organization's storage dilemma -- that we need more storage plus a new backup system on a tight budget. I also provided a list of priorities that should be met by a new solution. To recap, here is what...
- Tags: storage, data center
- Blog posts 2007-06-19
- RAID 6 -- Do you really want it?
- If you like RAID 5, you are almost certainly going to like RAID 6. If you have concerns about RAID 5, and if those concerns have to do with recovering from a disk failure, this article is not going to make you feel any better.For several years now RAID 5...
- Tags: storage, data center
- Blog posts 2007-06-08
- How much does it take to power a data center? It's none of your business.
- Earlier, I mentioned how big new data centers at Google, Microsoft, and Yahoo are going to have a huge environmental impact. For one, Google recently purchased 800 acres of land in Pryor, Oklahoma where it plans to build a $600 million dollar data center. This new center will employ...
- Tags: power, data center
- Blog posts 2007-05-23
- Imperva releases freeware database vulnerability scanner
- Imperva, a provider of data security and compliance solutions for the data center, recently announced the release of a freeware database vulnerability scanner that detects vulnerabilities and misconfigurations for databases such as Oracle, SQL Server, Sybase, and DB2. This freeware tool is developed by the Imperva Application Defense Center ADC,...
- Tags: Uncategorized, databases, data center
- Blog posts 2007-04-30
- Big data centers = big environmental footprints
- America was once a largely an agrarian nation. Most of the economy was built up around agriculture and the majority of the population lived in rural areas. By the end of the 20th century, most people wound up living in the cities. Many old family farms went bankrupt and been...
- Tags: Yahoo, Microsoft, global warming, environment, data center
- Blog posts 2007-04-17
- Top 6 Reasons to Host your Applications
- 1. Overworked. Your IT staff is overworked and you are still operating on a limited budged. By moving some third-party applications to a hosting provider, you will free up staff to finish the projects that have been backing up. Application Service Providers ASP is becoming more and more popular for...
- Tags: Uncategorized, data center
- Blog posts 2007-04-11
- One data center to go please
- There was a time when a single computer would fill an entire climate control room. For example, the old Eniac took up 1800 square feet of space -- enough to fill a house. Today, you can fit more computing power in your cell phone and take it with you anywhere.The...
- Tags: storage, mobile computing, glass house, fishbowl, disaster recovery, data center
- Blog posts 2007-03-30
- What's in a name - or in a data center?
- When I worked at the Jefferson County Police Department, we had a full fledged data center. It had the giant air conditioner, backup batteries, raised floor - The Works. But of course, it had a multi-million dollar mainframe surrounding it as well. When we moved from...
- Tags: downsize, mainframe, fishbowl, glass house, data center, NetWare
- Blog posts 2007-03-26
- HIPAA compliance and disaster recovery
- HIPAA compliance is tougher than learning French.Good article summarizing the HIPAA legalese- this article is good enough for me for all the information I will ever need on HIPAA compliance.Quite a few of my clients have asked me if the data center assessment and data center plans are HIPAA compliant....
- Tags: compliance, data center, data center, disaster recovery, HIPAA, HIPAA Compliance, HIPPA, http://www.data-recovery-reviews.com, software
- Discussion threads 2006-02-14
Additional Resources
- Mission-Critical Data Center Planning Guide
- This paper is a planning guide designed to provide you with a basic roadmap for your data center. Topics include data center trends, standards overview, components of a data center, data center planning, design, data center cabling systems and network infrastructure considerations.
- Tags: Data Center, Data Centers, Storage, Hardware, Data Management
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- Accelerate Your Data Center Initiatives
- Transforming the data center to capture new business opportunities can be a smart strategic move. This webcast examines how Cisco Data Center Services can help to accelerate the data center initiatives, increase efficiency, and scale the data centers.
- Tags: Data Center, Cisco Systems Inc., Data Centers, Storage, Hardware, Data Management
- Webcasts 2007-12-01
- Novell Data Center Strategy
- The data center is the heart of the enterprise, home to its most vital applications and databases. The technologies that run the data center must be of the highest quality, giving the reliability, availability, performance and scalability that the organization demands. For years, UNIX has met those requirements, but it...
- Tags: Strategy, Novell Inc., Data Center, Data Centers, Storage, Hardware, Data Management
- White papers 2005-02-01
- A Change in the Paradigm: The Rise of the New Enterprise Data Center
- The paradigm for the modern enterprise data center, which has served businesses admirably for many years, is looking increasingly brittle. The strains posed by disruptive technological innovations and ever-changing service demands required by business units, coupled with budgetary pressures as well as increasing requirements for security, resiliency, and performance have...
- Tags: Data Center, Data Centers, Storage, Hardware, Data Management
- White papers 2007-12-01
- Data Center Solutions
- "A data center is a facility used to house mission critical computer systems and associated components. Practically every company that is mid-sized or larger has some kind of data center with the larger companies often having dozens of data centers. As data is a crucial aspect of most organizational operations,...
- Tags: Data Center, Data Centers, Storage, Hardware, Data Management
- White papers 2006-03-01
- Need to Start an Internet Data Center
- I have a investor who wants to start a internet Data center , which can prodvide web space, host domains and help in devolping website, what i would like to know is how do we go about developing such a data center, what would be the cost of the project,...
- Tags: Data centers, Storage, satishsivadas@..., data center, Internet Data Center, Internet
- Discussion threads 2007-11-21
- The Cisco Enterprise Data Center Architecture - Data Center Security Solutions
- Data center managers consolidating data center resources for greater efficiency must consider how these changes affect security. Cisco Systems offers an integrated, defense-in-depth data center security strategy that enables managers to partition data centers into security "Zones" that apply appropriate security policies to each application, while containing the potential impact...
- Tags: Security, Data Center, Cisco Systems Inc., Data Centers, Storage, Hardware, Data Management
- White papers 2005-11-01
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