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Manufacturer Optimizes Data Center Network for SAP Portal

whitepaper Today, application servers and application acceleration solutions are deployed across the two data centers, including a pair of Cisco Content Switching Modules (CSMs) for Catalyst 6500 Switches. For one large European manufacturer of factory...

Tags: switching

[13 May 2008]

Best Practices for Designing Data Centers With the InfraStruXure InRow RC

whitepaper When designing data centers with this product, there are some best practices that should be followed to ensure the InRow RC is cooling as designed. The InfraStruXure InRow RC is designed to provide cooling at the row and rack level of a data center...

Tags: data center

[11 May 2008]

Electrical Efficiency Modeling of Data Centers

whitepaper Conventional models for estimating electrical efficiency of data centers are grossly inaccurate for real-world installations. Estimates of electrical losses are typically made by summing the inefficiencies of various electrical devices, such as...

Tags: data center

[11 May 2008]

AC Vs DC Power Distribution for Data Centers

whitepaper Various types of DC power distribution are examined as alternatives to AC distribution for data centers and network rooms. A detailed analysis and model show that many of the common benefits claimed for DC distribution are unfounded or overstated.

Tags: data center

[11 May 2008]

Use of the Signal Reference Grid in Data Centers

whitepaper Signal reference grids are automatically specified and installed in data centers despite the fact that they are no longer needed by modern IT equipment. Even when installed, they are typically used incorrectly.

Tags: network design

[11 May 2008]

Power and Cooling Capacity Management for Data Centers

whitepaper 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...

Tags: data center

[11 May 2008]

AC Vs. DC Power Distribution for Data Centers

whitepaper DC power distribution has been proposed as an alternative to AC power distribution in data centers, but misinformation and conflicting claims have confused the discussion. A detailed analysis and model show that many of the benefits commonly stated...

Tags: data center

[11 May 2008]

Reducing Energy Consumption in Data Centers - A Software Based Approach

whitepaper Increasing energy consumption in the data center is causing problems for data center operators. Many are either running out of power or are unable to expand the data center to match their business needs.

Tags: storage management

[11 May 2008]

Optimizing Virtualized Data Centers

whitepaper Intel's top-end dual core based 2-way and 4-way platforms provide significant increases in the ability to run VM workloads.way platforms can support 87 percent and 4-ways up to 140 percent more VM workloads than the entry, single core configurations.

Tags: data center

[11 May 2008]

Data Centers Are Adopting Green Initiatives But Are Wary of Vendors' Marketing Messages

whitepaper The IT industry and business in general are slowly waking up to the impact they are having on the environment. While the newspaper headlines target the growth of cheap flights as a leading cause of global warming, some commentators have suggested...

Tags: data center

[11 May 2008]

Improved Chilled Water Piping Distribution Methodology for Data Centers

whitepaper Chilled water remains a popular cooling medium; however leaks in the piping systems are a threat to system availability. High density computing creates the need to bring chilled water closer than ever before to the IT equipment, prompting the need...

Tags: data center

[11 May 2008]

Server Farm Security in the Business Ready Data Center Architecture v2.0

whitepaper Enterprise data centers contain the assets, applications, and data that are often targeted by electronic attacks. The number of reported attacks, including those that affect data centers, continues to grow exponentially every year.

Tags: security tools

[11 May 2008]

Data Center Automation in a New Light

whitepaper In most modern data centers today, application management is a major undertaking. For this large application set, most data centers rely on a combination of scripting and monitoring to keep applications available to users.

Tags: infrastructure management

[11 May 2008]

Transforming the Data Center Through Standardization

whitepaper Data centers today are at the breaking point - complexity has gone out of control, driving costs up and jeopardizing service levels. Data centers today are at the breaking point - complexity has gone out of control, driving costs up and...

Tags: infrastructure management

[11 May 2008]

Data Center - Site Selection for Business Continuance

whitepaper Centralized data centers have helped many Enterprises achieve substantial productivity gains and cost savings. These data centers house mission-critical applications, which must be highly available. The demand on data centers is therefore higher...

Tags: high availability

[11 May 2008]

Data Center Solutions

whitepaper 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. Data centers are vital. "A data center is a facility used to house mission critical computer systems...

Tags: data center

[11 May 2008]

Data Center Sustainability

whitepaper The digital age is being delivered via massive server farms housed in data centers that are managed by thousands upon thousands of Information Technology (IT) professionals. Now that density at data centers has reached a tipping point, the issues...

Tags: data center

[11 May 2008]

Stop Data Loss Before It Happens

whitepaper Most data-centers are too complex and porous to protect critical information. Data breaches are becoming a high-profile element of the threat environment. That's why a data-centric approach is called for - one that examines all transmission of...

Tags: security management

[11 May 2008]

Server Farm Security in the Business Ready Data Center Architecture v2.1

whitepaper Enterprise data centers contain the assets, applications, and data that are often targeted by electronic attacks. Endpoints such as data center servers are key objectives of malicious attacks and must be protected.

Tags: security management

[11 May 2008]

Data Center I/O Consolidation: From Ethernet in the Data Center to a Data Center Over Ethernet

whitepaper For nearly as long as there has been Data Centers (DC), there have been several DC networks that interact with and overlap one another, most importantly the data, storage and High-Performance Compute (HPC) networks.

Tags: data center

[11 May 2008]

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