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- The Portable Datacenter
- With the growth and spread of knowledge-based solutions, the need for IT solutions outside the confines of a fixed datacenter has increased as well. These applications share a common requirement: a complete datacenter that is portable and easily transported to any location at a moment's notice. With VMware virtualization technology,...
- Tags: Data Center, Data Centers, Storage, Hardware, Data Management
- White papers 2006-09-25
- What's in a name - or in a data center?
- Trust makes a datacenterIn my mind, for a server closet to gain the lofty title of "a datacenter", it must provide both physical security and environmental "fault tolerance". Slapping a UPS on a wheezing server located in a dark unlocked closet doth not a datacenter make.
- Tags: Data centers, Storage, raisch@..., data center
- Discussion threads 2007-03-29
- Datacenter Services: Take Advantage of Sun's Proven Methodologies to Manage Change With the Least Disruption
- Many companies today are revising datacenter strategies to meet evolving business objectives. New strategies may include consolidation, relocation, migration, expansion, and review of asset management policies - with the goal of optimizing resources, lowering operational costs and budgets, and improving business operations. With Sun's datacenter services, major datacenter infrastructure projects...
- Tags: Data Center, Sun Microsystems Inc., Data Centers, Storage, Asset Management, Hardware, Data Management, Operational Planning, Business Operations
- White papers 2007-01-01
- Catalog Criteria for Windows Server 2003 Datacenter Edition Systems With the Datacenter High Availability Program
- This paper provides the authoritative source for information about requirements for server systems that run the Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Datacenter Edition operating system and that are listed on the Windows Server Catalog published by Microsoft Corporation. The focus in this paper is exclusively on the hardware and test requirements...
- Tags: Data Center, Microsoft Windows Server, Microsoft Corp., Data Centers, Microsoft Windows Server 2003, Microsoft Windows, Servers, Operating Systems, Storage, Hardware, Data Management, Software
- White papers 2006-10-15
- Green Grid Metrics: Describing Datacenter Power Efficiency
- The Green Grid is an association of IT professionals seeking to dramatically raise the energy efficiency of datacenters through a series of short-term and long-term proposals. For the short term, The Green Grid is proposing the use of Power Usage Effectiveness PUE and Datacenter Efficiency DCE metrics, which enable datacenter...
- Tags: Data Center, Green Grid, Data Centers, Storage, Hardware, Data Management
- White papers 2007-02-20
- Shaw Cablesystems: Building a World-Class Datacenter and Cable ISP Business
- Shaw Communications, Inc., located in Calgary, Alberta, Canada, is a diversified Canadian communications company whose core business is providing broad band cable television, Internet, and satellite direct-to-home services to approximately 2.9 million customers. The challenge was a transition to functioning as an end-to-end Internet Service Provider by designing and implementing...
- Tags: Sun Microsystems Inc., International Data Group, Data Centers, Internet Service Providers (ISPs), Internet, Cable, Storage, Network Technology, Hardware, Data Management, Telecommunications, Personal Technology, Networking
- Case studies
- Power and Cooling in the Datacenter
- Today's datacenter is more than a room built to house rack upon rack of servers - it is a complex system. In fact, datacenters have become so complex - with so many interactions among processors, rack systems, power and cooling systems, storage arrays, networks, and communications channels - that they...
- Tags: Data Center, Data Centers, Storage, Hardware, Data Management
- White papers 2007-03-29
- Utilizing Temperature Monitoring to Increase Datacenter Cooling Efficiency
- Looming over the heads of any environmentally conscious company, is the threat of global warming. Considerable effort has been taken to decrease the carbon footprint of the organization through various means: paperless offices, hybrid company cars, reducing waste and many more. Now there is significant focus being placed on the...
- Tags: Data Center, Monitoring, Sensatronics, Data Centers, Storage, Hardware, Data Management
- White papers 2007-10-11
- Accurately Measuring Datacenter Power Efficiency Timely and accurate measurements with SunSM Eco Services
- Corporate attention spans can be short, and the best way to get attention and motivate efficiency improvements is to be able to generate accurate, up-to-date power statistics on a moment's notice.Taking accurate measurements takes time, however, and a statistical model built from a set of baseline measurements provides a means...
- Tags: Data Center, Sun Microsystems Inc., Data Centers, Storage, Hardware, Data Management
- White papers 2008-05-13
- SolutionBase: Steps to take to successfully move a datacenter
- Moving a datacenter is no simple task. There are many things you have to prepare for and have ready before the big day. In this article, Brien Posey points out some of the most important steps you must take to make a successful move.
- Tags: Storage, Data centers, data center, backup datacenter, backup
- Technical articles 2007-07-24
- Datacenter-on-Chip Architectures: Tera-Scale Opportunities and Challenges
- The world has entered in an era of Chip MultiProcessor CMP platforms, where performance is delivered with the integration of more and more cores on a die. Tera-scale CMP architectures, consisting of several tens of physical cores and hundreds of hardware threads, are highly suitable for throughput computing especially in...
- Tags: Data Center, Architecture, Data Centers, Storage, Hardware, Data Management
- White papers 2007-08-22
- Guidelines for Energy-Efficient Datacenters
- Power availability is one of the most important challenges facing datacenters today. In the past, datacenter floor space has always loomed as the primary issue. Now, more and more datacenters run out of power availability before they run out of floor space. In addition, cooling requirements for dense servers are...
- Tags: Data Center, Data Centers, Storage, Hardware, Data Management
- White papers 2007-02-16
- Locking Up Datacenter Availability With the Help of Symantec Technology and Services
- IT operations are a business-critical enterprise for Corrections Corporation of America CCA, which has responsibility for the welfare of more than 65,000 inmates in facilities across the United States. In order to meet the quality-of-service requirements that this endeavor entails, CCA standardized its software infrastructure on datacenter availability and data...
- Tags: Symantec Corp., Data Protection, Data Center, Information Technology, Data Centers, Disaster Recovery, Backups, Storage, Hardware, Data Management
- Case studies
- Solutions for the Datacenter's Thermal Challenges
- The issue of power and cooling poses a real challenge to today's datacenter, in both financial and operational terms, particularly as customers are beginning to integrate IT departments and corporate facilities and continuing to drive initiatives to consolidate datacenter resources. The resulting high-density environment has an increased requirement for predictive...
- Tags: Data Center, International Data Group, Data Centers, Storage, Hardware, Data Management
- White papers 2007-01-01
- 10 GbE Rising Factors Driving the Emergence of 10 Gigabit Ethernet
- IT capacity and demand are on a collision course for the datacenter. Industry trends such as Chip Multithreading CMT, multicore CPUs such as CoolThreads, Intel Xeon, and AMD Opteron, blade computing, and virtualization are just a few of the significant advances that have increased datacenter capacity. But the demand for...
- Tags: Data Center, 10-Gigabit Ethernet, Data Centers, Ethernet, Storage, Network Technology, Networking, Hardware, Data Management
- White papers 2007-02-01
- Can VMware supercede Linux and Windows servers with its Virtual Datacenter OS?
- VMware's new CEO Paul Maritz used his first VMworld keynote on Tuesday to introduce the company's Virtual Datacenter Operating System (VDC-OS) to an audience of IT professionals and technology industry insiders at the VMworld 2008 conference at the Venetian Hotel in Las Vegas. by Jason Hiner
- Tags: Linux, Data Center, Microsoft Windows Server, Operating System, Microsoft Windows, VMware Inc., VDC-OS, Tools & Techniques, Operating Systems, Servers, Management, Software, Hardware, Jason Hiner
- Blog posts 2008-09-16
- VMware's Virtual Datacenter OS: Myth or reality?
- Steven Warren tries to get to the bottom of VMware's Virtual Datacenter OS while attending VMworld. Is it vaporware or the real deal? by Steven Warren
- Tags: Data Center, VMware Inc., Business Services, Cloud Computing, Data Centers, Roi/Tco, Storage, Hardware, Data Management, Finance, Managerial Accounting, Steven Warren
- Blog posts 2008-09-16
- Taming the SOA Volcano
- SOA represents a popular trend for solution design. However, how does it impact the datacenter infrastructure? How to deploy, patch and fix SOA in the real world? Implementing many SOA initiatives without the proper infrastructure and processes in place, could explode into a quagmire of unmanageable complexity. This webcast discusses,...
- Tags: Data Center, SOA, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Data Centers, Web Services, Middleware, Enterprise Software, Software, Storage, Hardware, Data Management
- Webcasts
- TechNet Webcast: Similarities and Differences Between Windows Server 2003 R2 Datacenter and Enterprise Editions (Level 200)
- Windows Server 2003 R2 Datacenter and Enterprise Editions are very similar. They share the same binaries, high-end features, and patches, and they are available through Microsoft Volume Licensing and as preinstalled software by original equipment manufacturers OEMs. However, Windows Server 2003 R2 Datacenter Edition has the capability to scale to...
- Tags: Data Center, Webcast, Microsoft Windows Server, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft TechNet, Microsoft Windows Server 2003, Microsoft Windows, Data Centers, Servers, Operating Systems, Software, Storage, Hardware, Data Management
- Webcasts 2007-10-04
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