nlyte Software: Moving the Data Center from Chaos to Control [ Source: nlyte Software ]
November 2009 -
Best Practices in Data Center Performance Management with Integrated Processes and Technologies.
Today’s data center managers face a complex web of challenges stemming from the stunning growth of data centers in recent years and the growing pressure to be efficient, cost effective, reliable and agile.
Data Center Performance Management (DCPM) represents an entirely new and innovative way of managing data centers. It’s about having the visibility, insight, and integrated processes to drive ....
Eight Tips for Managing Higher Education Networks Securely and Cost-Effectively [ Source: 3Com ]
September 2009 -
Colleges and universities worldwide are being pressured to do more with less, particularly in today's challenging economic climate. Colleges and universities must consider the benefits of leveraging centralized management to automate deployment and provide configuration and oversight of the data center and remote campuses.
This white paper presents eight tips IT can use as they begin to deploy centralized network management projects for higher education networks.
Solutions for 21st Century Healthcare [ Source: 3Com ]
September 2009 -
To significantly improve the delivery of healthcare, an impressive arrange of new technology solutions are being introduced daily. 3Com designs solutions that deliver unique price/performance value, reduce complexity to facilitate healthcare delivery and ensure security to protect investments, resources and information.
In this case study, learn how 3Com can help you enhance patient care by maximizing business continuity, security, and productivity.
Right-Sizing Your Power Infrastructure [ Source: Eaton ]
November 2009 -
Data centers today are undergoing unprecedented change, as new technologies such as virtualization, cloud computing, and voice over IP help lower operating costs, conserve floor space and simplify management.
Yet those same technologies are also impacting the data center power chain in significant and varying ways. Some companies, for example, consolidated their servers only to find themselves with more energy and cooling capacity than they need. Others installed hot, high¬ density blade servers only ....
Trends and Benefits of Client and Server Virtualization [ Source: CDW ]
June 2009 -
Is your company a victim of client and server sprawl?
Are your data center power and cooling costs skyrocketing?
Is your IT environment highly complex to manage and maintain?
Do your end users leverage just a fraction of the capabilities available on their desktops?
If you answered yes to any of the above, you should be taking a closer look at virtualization solutions. Read this Tech Specialist to see what CDW's ....
Proximity Hosting Pitfalls [ Source: CFN Services ]
September 2009 - Zero latency is the optimal trading speed that all firms hope to achieve at some point. But until that can become a reality, there is a race to keep reducing latency from all aspects of the trading process. From the server to the messaging to the sending and receiving of data, each piece must be optimized to reach the goal of zero latency. There are many avenues companies are looking at to reduce variables and ....
Lowering Your IT Costs With Oracle Database 11g Release 2 [ Source: Oracle ]
October 2009 - Organizations across the world use grid computing with Oracle to make the most of their IT resources. And now, Oracle is making grid computing even more accessible. Learn how you can transform your business, budgets, and service levels with Oracle Database 11g Release 2.
Advanced Compression With Oracle Database 11g Release 2 [ Source: Oracle ]
October 2009 - Advanced Compression with Database 11g Release 2 helps you manage more data in a cost-effective manner. With data volumes, on average, tripling every two years, Oracle Advanced Compression delivers compression rates of two to four times across all types of data and applications. Learn how Oracle Advanced Compression can help you reduce the disk space and costs of managing large data volumes.
Data Center Projects: System Planning [ Source: APC by Schneider Electric ]
October 2009 - System planning is the Achilles’ heel of a data center physical infrastructure project. Planning mistakes can magnify and propagate through later deployment phases, resulting in delays, cost overruns, wasted time, and ultimately a compromised system. Much of the trouble can be eliminated by viewing system planning as a data flow model, with an orderly sequence of tasks that progressively transform and refine information from initial concept to final design.
An Improved Architecture For High-Efficiency, High-Density Data Centers [ Source: APC by Schneider Electric ]
October 2009 - Data center power and cooling infrastructure worldwide wastes more than 60 million megawatt-hours per year of electricity that does no useful work powering IT equipment. This represents an enormous financial burden on industry, and is a significant public policy environmental issue. This paper describes the principles of a new, commercially available data center architecture that can be implemented today to dramatically improve the electrical efficiency of data centers.
Monitoring Physical Threats In The Data Center [ Source: APC by Schneider Electric ]
October 2009 - Traditional methodologies for monitoring the data center environment are no longer sufficient. With technologies such as blade servers driving up cooling demands and regulations such as Sarbanes-Oxley driving up data security requirements, the physical environment in the data center must be watched more closely. While well understood protocols exist for monitoring physical devices such as UPS systems, computer room air conditioners, and fire suppression systems, there is a class of distributed monitoring points that is ....
Power And Cooling Capacity Management For Data Centers [ Source: APC by Schneider Electric ]
October 2009 - High-density IT equipment stresses the power density capability of modern data centers. Installation and unmanaged proliferation of this equipment can lead to unexpected problems with power and cooling infrastructure including overheating, overloads, and loss of redundancy. The ability to measure and predict power and cooling capability at the rack enclosure level is required to ensure predictable performance and optimize use of the physical infrastructure resource. This paper describes the principles for achieving power and cooling ....
Implementing Energy Efficient Data Centers [ Source: APC by Schneider Electric ]
October 2009 - Electricity usage costs have become an increasing fraction of the total cost of ownership (TCO) for data centers. It is possible to dramatically reduce the electrical consumption of typical data centers through appropriate design of the network-critical physical infrastructure and through the design of the IT architecture. This paper explains how to quantify the electricity savings and provides examples of methods that can greatly reduce electrical power consumption.
Belden Variable Frequency Drive White Paper [ Source: Adventive Marketing, Inc. ]
October 2009 - A variable frequency drive (VFD) regulates the speed of a three-phase AC electric motor by controlling the frequency and voltage of the power it delivers to the motor. Today, these devices (also known as adjustable speed drives or variable speed drives) are becoming prevalent in a wide range of applications throughout industry, from motion control applications to ventilation systems, from wastewater processing facilities to machining areas, and many others.
Belden Total Enterprise Network White Paper [ Source: Adventive Marketing, Inc. ]
October 2009 - The future of enterprise networks is IP convergence where signal transmission for networking, A/V, and building management and security systems are merged over one common infrastructure using common protocols rather than deploying separate closed, proprietary solutions.
Belden Adaptive Heat Containment System White Paper [ Source: Adventive Marketing, Inc. ]
October 2009 - According to the EPA’s Report to Congress on Server and Data Center Energy Efficiency, if current trends continue, the demand for power by data centers will require an additional 10 power plants on the North American power grid by 2011. In order to minimize the impact of this phenomenon, data centers must be increasingly efficient in their use of power.
Which UPS is right for the job? [ Source: Eaton ]
October 2009 -
Traditionally, data center managers and facilities managers could choose from three UPS topologies: standby, line-interactive and double-conversion—offering widely varying levels of efficiency, performance and protection.
The latest generation of double-conversion UPSs offers unique multi-mode capabilities. The UPS operates in a very high-efficiency mode unless power conditions warrant a switch to the higher protective level typical of double-conversion mode.
This white paper describes how various UPS topologies work and looks at the impact ....
Double-Take Workload Portability: X2X Sever and Storage Migration Solutions [ Source: Double-Take Software ]
October 2009 - Double-Take® Move provides migration functionality that dramatically reduces the impact and risk of migrations in the data center and across any geographic distance. Learn about the concerns that affect data, application and whole system migration. Explore existing methods of performing migrations and use case scenarios that describe a way to change how you perform migrations.
More Functionality, Less Infrastructure: Managed IT with Double-Take Flex [ Source: Double-Take Software ]
October 2009 - Learn about Double-Take® Flex - a cost-effective and flexible solution that will allow you to better manage desktops or servers by booting them from images stored on any iSCSI storage area network. Centralizing these workloads onto shared storage enables quicker provisioning, simpler migration and the ability to maintain operating systems and software on a handful of images rather than across hundreds or thousands of systems.
Template-based Provisioning [ Source: Liquid Computing ]
September 2009 - By applying template-based provisioning, IT infrastructure can be configured to deliver services as needed, and projects with disparate and out-of-sync computing requirements can share infrastructure. As a result, operators can improve responsiveness to business demands through rapid service deployment and, at the same time, reduce overhead associated with power, cooling, floor space, and licensing. More significantly, IT organizations can achieve up to a 10:1 time savings in administration, the largest and fastest-growing cost in the ....
Regain control of power and real estate costs in your data centre. [ Source: IBM ]
September 2009 -
Inefficent power and space usage in data centres wastes both money and energy – and it’s a universal problem. Late last year, Quocirca conducted wide-ranging interviews about the issues contributing to the situation. This Quocirca Insight Report, made available by IBM, is based on the results of that research.
The report also includes five recommendations based on the belief that only a thorough and rigorous approach to data centre design and utilisation can enable ....
Learn how innovative thinking can benefit your data center. [ Source: IBM ]
September 2009 - In this white paper from The Bathwick Group, courtesy of IBM, you’ll learn the role of innovation in the data center. You’ll see how ideas like consolidation, automation, server virtualization and more can enable companies to be more efficient and effective. Plus you’ll see how Green IT can make a difference over your entire data center.
Strategies for ensuring clean, continuous power to essential IT systems [ Source: Eaton ]
September 2009 -
Data centers rely on a continuous supply of clean electricity. However, anything from a subtle power system design flaw to a failure in the electrical grid can easily bring down even the most modern and sophisticated data center.
Fortunately, organizations can significantly mitigate their exposure to power-related downtime by adopting proven changes to their business processes and electrical power system management practices.
This white paper discusses 10 such underutilized best practices for building ....
Energy Logic: Reducing Data Center Energy Consumption by Creating Savings that Cascade Across Systems [ Source: Emerson Network Power ]
August 2009 -
This paper introduces the concept of the “cascade effect” and describes how it can be used to cut data center energy costs by 50% or more. Emerson Network Power came up with this vendor-neutral roadmap for optimizing data center efficiency, called Energy Logic, by applying the top ten energy-saving opportunities to a 5,000-square-foot data center model based on real-world technologies and operating parameters.
Outlining this sequential approach to reducing energy costs, this paper includes ....
Power Monitoring 101: Supervisory, Connectivity and Protection Options That Add An Umbrella of Protection Over Your Entire IT Infrastructure [ Source: Eaton ]
August 2009 -
Monitoring options are now available for organizations of any size. You can remotely monitor and manage a single uninterruptible power system (UPS), an enterprise-wide network of many UPSs and power distribution devices, or a complete IT support infrastructure, including generators, environmental systems and detection devices, and other components from multiple vendors.
This white paper discusses the imperatives of intelligent power monitoring.