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White Paper Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery with CA Recovery Management and VMware Infrastructure Learn about an integrated approach to application and server provisioning that reduces total cost and complexity, plus boosts application availability.

Tags: Business Continuity, CA XOSoft, Computer Associates International Inc., Data Management, Disaster Recovery

Sponsored by: CA XOsoft
Date: November 2009
CA XOsoft
White Paper Solutions Brief: Storage Consolidation and Data Protection for the Remote Office/Branch Office (ROBO) Discover how the Dell EqualLogic PS4000 Series drives Enterprise-level efficiencies and capabilities far beyond your corporate data center.

Tags: Backups, Storage Consolidation, Storage, Hardware, Disaster Recovery

Sponsored by: Dell EqualLogic
Date: November 2009
Dell EqualLogic
White Paper Dynamic Infrastructure Helping Build a Smarter PlanetDelivering Superior Business and IT Services with Agility and Speed Read about a revolutionary strategy for creating a dynamic IT infrastructure that can deliver superior business and IT services with agility and speed.

Tags: IBM Corp., Information Technology, Infrastructure, It Services, Management

Sponsored by: IBM
Date: September 2009
IBM
White Paper Data Warehousing with DB2 for System z See how an IBM System z server, integrated with IBM DB2 solutions, can help you meet your requirements for data warehousing and business intelligence.

Tags: Business Intelligence, Software, Pricing, Marketing, IBM DB2

Sponsored by: IBM
Date: December 2008
IBM
White Paper Five Steps to Successful IT Consolidation This Riverbed paper presents a clear 5-step approach to making sure every IT consolidation project is successful. (Riverbed)

Tags: Data Centers, Data Management, Hardware, Information Technology, IT Consolidation

Sponsored by: Riverbed
Date: March 2009
Riverbed
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White Paper A Quick Primer on Data Center Tier Classifications Today, a number of companies are either consolidating their data centers or implementing new data center projects. Their decisions are often based on the appropriate...

Tags: Data Center, Data Centers, Data Management, Hardware, STC Associates

Company: Switch and Data
Date: October 2009
Switch and Data
White Paper The Difference Between Data Centers and Computer Rooms The differences between a data center and a computer room are often misunderstood. Furthermore, the terms used to describe the location where companies provide a...

Tags: Computer, PTS Data Center Solutions, Productivity, Hardware, Difference

Company: PTS Data Center Solutions
Date: May 2006
PTS Data Center Solutions
White Paper Optimizing the Data Center for Cost and Efficiency The days of buying servers based on speeds and feeds alone are fast fading away. The changing dynamics of the datacenter are driving customers towards...

Tags: Data Center, Data Centers, Data Management, Hardware, International Data Group

Company: IDG (International Data Group)
Date: April 2009
IDG (International Data Group)
Resource Center Cisco Data Center Tour Welcome to the Cisco Data Center And Operational Control Center. What follows is a guided tour of the Cisco Systems main production data center, located...

Tags: Cisco Systems Inc., Data Center, Data Centers, Data Management, Hardware

Company: Cisco Systems
Cisco Systems
White Paper Data Center Provisioning Automation With ProCurve Data Center Connection Manager The data center landscape is evolving at a rapid pace. New technologies are emerging in all facets of data center technology areas, enabling increasingly complex...

Tags: Automation, Data Center, Data Centers, Data Management, Hardware

Company: Hewlett-Packard (HP)
Date: January 2009
Hewlett-Packard (HP)
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Book Chapters Build a scalable, flexible, and highly-available data center This sample chapter, taken from Cisco Press' Data Center Fundamentals, focuses on three main properties of data center architectures: scalability, flexibility, and high availability.Data centers...

Tags: Cisco Systems Inc., Data Center, Data Centers, Data Management, Hardware

Company: Cisco Press
Date: August 2005
Cisco Press
Book Chapters Choose the optimal site for your data center Learn the important factors to consider when choosing the perfect location for your data center.This sample chapter, taken from Cisco Press' Build the Best Data...

Tags: Chapter, Cisco Systems Inc., Data Center, Data Centers, Data Management

Company: Cisco Press
Date: July 2005
Cisco Press
White Paper Guidelines for Specifying Data Center Criticality / Tier Levels A framework for benchmarking a future data center's operational performance is essential for effective planning and decision making. Currently available criticality or tier methods do...

Tags: Criticality, Data Center, Data Centers, Data Management, Hardware

Company: American Power Conversion (APC)
Date: June 2007
American Power Conversion (APC)
White Paper Power Struggle: How IT Managers Cope With Data Center Power Demands and the Raptor Solution A major concern faced by data center operators is the power consumption and cooling of the equipment in the data center. These operators must continuously...

Tags: Data Center, Data Centers, Data Management, Hardware, Raptor Networks Technology

Company: Raptor Networks Technology
Date: May 2007
Raptor Networks Technology
White Paper Data Center Solutions: Planning Considerations for Data Center Facilities Systems Data centers are at the core of business activity, and the growing transmission speed and density of active data center equipment is placing ever-increasing demands...

Tags: Data Center, Data Centers, Data Management, Hardware, Panduit

Company: Panduit
Date: September 2005
Panduit
White Paper Data Center Ethernet: Cisco's Innovation for Data Center Networks Cisco has developed standards-based extensions to Ethernet for data center networks to support new capabilities. This paper talks about Cisco's continuing innovations in Ethernet data...

Tags: Cisco Systems Inc., Networking, Network Technology, Innovation, Hardware

Company: Cisco Systems
Date: March 2008
Cisco Systems
White Paper 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...

Tags: Data Center, Data Centers, Data Management, Hardware, Storage

Company: IBM
Date: December 2007
IBM
White Paper Wireless Sensor Network Solutions for Data Center Applications Many of the adverse environmental conditions that can cause equipment to fail remain invisible to the data center staff responsible for ensuring continuous availability of...

Tags: Data Center, Data Centers, Data Management, Hardware, Network

Company: Sensicast
Date: September 2007
Sensicast
Case Study Intel Maximizes Power and Thermal Management in an Aging Data Center to Add Needed Servers - Without Expensive New Infrastructure Intel's 20-year-old FM1 data center in Folsom wanted to free up power capacity in an aging data center that is operating near its server limit...

Tags: Data Center, Data Centers, Data Management, Hardware, Intel Corp.

Company: Intel
Date: October 2008
Intel
White Paper 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...

Tags: Data Center, Data Centers, Data Management, Hardware, Novell Inc.

Company: Novell
Date: February 2005
Novell
Webcast Where Do Containers Fit in Your Data Center Strategy? The humble shipping container is transforming the data center and the jobs of data center managers--the longshoreman of the IT world--may never be the same....

Tags: Data Center, Data Centers, Data Management, Hardware, Intel Corp.

Company: Intel
Date: June 2008
Intel
White Paper Data Center Asset Planning - Regaining Control of the Data Center Read Quocirca's Insight Report on the operational and management issues facing today's modern data center and the steps are required to get these issues under...

Tags: Data Center, Data Centers, Data Management, Hardware, Storage

Company: Global DataCenter Management (GDCM)
Date: September 2008
Global DataCenter Management (GDCM)
White Paper Cisco Data Center Ethernet: Network Architecture for Data Center 3.0 - At-A-Glance Cisco Data Center Ethernet is an architecture based on a collection of open-standard Ethernet extensions to improve and expand Ethernet networking and management capabilities in...

Tags: Cisco Data Center Ethernet, Networking, Network Technology, Network Architecture, Network

Company: Cisco Systems
Date: March 2008
Cisco Systems
White Paper Data Center Management: Managing Data Center Change for Optimization and Risk Reduction Unisys understands today's data center challenges. Infrastructure complexity is escalating at an unprecedented rate as a result of increase in managed devices, composite applications, security...

Tags: Compliance, Data Center, Data Centers, Data Management, Hardware

Company: Unisys
Date: September 2008
Unisys
White Paper Intel Microarchitecture and 10 Gigabit Ethernet Transforming the Data Center A transformation is taking place in the data center, with more powerful compute resources available, IT managers are using virtualization to consolidate more applications onto...

Tags: 10-Gigabit Ethernet, Data Center, Data Centers, Data Management, Ethernet

Company: Intel
Date: March 2009
Intel
White Paper Increasing Data Center Efficiency Through Metering and Monitoring Power Usage To increase data center energy efficiency at one of older data centers in India, Intel IT's Data Center Services group collaborated on a technology study...

Tags: Data Center, Data Centers, Data Management, Hardware, Intel Corp.

Company: Intel
Date: June 2009
Intel
White Paper The Data Center Tier Performance Standards and Their Importance to the Owners Project Requirements The data center industry has experienced several evolutions over the past 20 years. One of the principal changes has been the development of the Tier...

Tags: Data Center, Data Center Industry, Data Centers, Data Management, Hardware

Company: TIER IV CONSULTING GROUP
Date: May 2007
TIER IV CONSULTING GROUP
White Paper Data Center Best Practices: Optimizing Service Infrastructure Through OS Portability Today's data center is an increasingly complex mixture of server platforms, hardware, operating systems, data, and applications that have accumulated over time. These legacy technologies...

Tags: Data Center, Data Centers, Data Management, Hardware, Operating System

Company: PlateSpin
Date: October 2006
PlateSpin
White Paper Dynamic Data Center Power Management: Trends, Issues, and Solutions This paper examines the challenges of increasing data center power consumption and higher energy costs in the face of ever-increasing computing needs. An examination of...

Tags: Data Center, Data Centers, Data Management, Hardware, Storage

Company: Intel
Date: February 2008
Intel
White Paper Tomorrow's Enterprise Data Center Today: Simplify, Scale, and Protect Investments With End-to-End Solutions From IBM and Cisco IBM and Cisco solutions for the data center enable IT departments to scale to meet increasing business demands with a low TCO. Evolving to a...

Tags: Cisco Systems Inc., Data Center, Data Centers, Data Management, Hardware

Company: Cisco Systems
Date: November 2008
Cisco Systems
White Paper Data Center Infrastructure Architecture Overview This paper provides background information for designing a secure, scalable, and resilient data center infrastructure. It includes the sections like Data Center Architecture, Hardware and...

Tags: Cisco Systems Inc., Data Center, Data Centers, Data Management, Hardware

Company: Cisco Systems
Date: March 2004
Cisco Systems
White Paper Challenges of Data Center Thermal Management The need for more performance from computer equipment in data centers has driven the power consumed to levels that are straining thermal management in the...

Tags: Data Center, Data Centers, Data Management, Hardware, Storage

Company: IBM
Date: September 2005
IBM
White Paper Data Center Switching Solutions The Data Center is the consolidation point for provisioning multiple services that drive an Enterprise business. Ethernet switching technology is the foundation upon which many...

Tags: Data Center, Data Centers, Data Management, Ethernet, Hardware

Company: Cisco Systems
Date: September 2006
Cisco Systems
White Paper Inside the Symantec Data Center Foundation Today's enterprise data centers are characterized by increasing complexity, and this trend shows no sign of changing. The Symantec Data Center Foundation provides unified set...

Tags: Data Center, Data Centers, Data Management, Hardware, Security

Company: Symantec
Date: May 2006
Symantec
White Paper Integrated Switching: Cisco Blade Switch Modules for HP BladeSystem Enclosures - Reduce Data Center Complexity As a company's data center expands, complexity increases. A proliferation of cabling and management tools hinders a company's ability to adapt quickly to changing business...

Tags: Blade, Cisco Systems Inc., Data Center, Data Centers, Data Management

Company: Hewlett-Packard (HP)
Date: January 2007
Hewlett-Packard (HP)
White Paper Next-Generation Federal Data Center Architecture The United States government's E-Gov initiative established the Federal Enterprise Architecture (FEA) program to build a business-driven Information Technology (IT) blueprint for the federal government....

Tags: Cisco Data Center Network Architecture, Cisco Systems Inc., Data Center, Data Centers, Data Management

Company: Cisco Systems
Date: March 2007
Cisco Systems
White Paper Data Center TCO; A Comparison of High-Density and Low-Density Spaces The cost to build and operate a modern Data Center continues to increase. This Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) includes capital and operational expenses. The...

Tags: Data Center, Data Centers, Data Management, Finance, Hardware

Company: Intel
Date: February 2005
Intel
Case Study How Cisco IT Used CWDM to Interconnect Japanese Data Center Sites Although a dedicated data center appeared to be a good solution, the cost of providing reliable connectivity between the data center and the two sales...

Tags: Cisco Systems Inc., Optical Networking, Networking, Information Technology, Hardware

Company: Cisco Systems
Date: December 2007
Cisco Systems
White Paper TIA-942 Data Center Networking Applications: 10 Gigabit Ethernet Over Twisted-Pair Copper In parallel and subsequent to the development of TIA-942, the IEEE 802.3 Ethernet working group published two twisted-pair copper standards, 1000 Mb/s Ethernet designated 1000BASE-T...

Tags: 10-Gigabit Ethernet, Solarflare Communications, Networking, Network Technology, Hardware

Company: Solarflare Communications
Date: February 2008
Solarflare Communications
White Paper The Brocade Data Center Fabric As today's IT organizations face an increasing number of internal and external business requirements, they must ensure that their data centers become a strategic asset...

Tags: Brocade Communications Systems Inc., Data Center, Data Centers, Data Management, Hardware

Company: Sun Microsystems
Date: January 2008
Sun Microsystems
White Paper The Green Grid Data Center Power Efficiency Metrics: PUE and DCiE The Green Grid is an association of IT professionals seeking to dramatically raise the energy efficiency of data centers through a series of short-term and...

Tags: Data Center, Data Centers, Data Management, Energy Efficiency, Green Grid

Company: Green Grid
Date: October 2007
Green Grid
White Paper 10 Techniques for Improving Data Center Power Efficiency How to implement a power-efficient data center depends on the specific conditions. For example, when elevating a temperature set point, one needs to consider the...

Tags: Data Center, Data Centers, Data Management, Hardware, NetApplications.com

Company: NetApplications.com
Date: November 2007
NetApplications.com
White Paper Integrating Virtual Machines Into the Cisco Data Center Architecture Presently, the enterprise data center hardware and software platforms are being consolidated and standardized to provide improved resource utilization and management. As a result, the...

Tags: Cisco Systems Inc., Data Center, Data Centers, Data Management, Hardware

Company: Cisco Systems
Date: December 2006
Cisco Systems
White Paper Data Center I/O Consolidation: From Ethernet in the Data Center to a Data Center Over Ethernet The "Data center network" is a myth. For nearly as long as there has been Data Centers (DC), there have been several DC networks that...

Tags: Consolidation, Networking, Network, High-performance, Hardware

Company: Nemertes Research
Date: May 2007
Nemertes Research
White Paper The Adaptive Architecture for the Data Center Network Evolving business needs and increasing application complexity are placing mounting demands on the server environment in the data center. A single approach to server infrastructure...

Tags: Cisco Systems Inc., Data Center, Data Centers, Data Management, Hardware

Company: Cisco Systems
Date: August 2007
Cisco Systems

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