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Data Center Efficiency in the Scalable Enterprise

whitepaper Energy efficiency is a top concern as IT managers struggle with rising power bills, cooling problems, usage limits imposed by local utilities, or requirements to deploy additional servers without expanding an existing data center or building a new...

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[14 May 2008]

Data Center I/O Performance Issues and Impacts

whitepaper While the cost per raw TByte may seem relatively inexpensive, the cost for I/O response time performance also needs to be effectively addressed and put into the proper context as part of the data center QoS cost structure.

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[14 May 2008]

Data Center Projects: System Planning

whitepaper System planning is the Achilles' heel of a data center physical infrastructure project. 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...

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[14 May 2008]

Data Center Projects: Growth Model

whitepaper Long term data center or network room capacity planning may seem impossible in the face of evolving IT technology and business requirements. Nevertheless, data center facilities have a lifetime that may span many generations of IT equipment, so...

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[14 May 2008]

Data Center One Technical Description

whitepaper This paper describes the current issues and trends related to managing a data center environment and how application virtualization and automation can help resolve these issues. Specific use cases and their corresponding solutions show how grid...

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[14 May 2008]

Data Center Performance Insurance

whitepaper Centralized storage caching provides data center performance insurance by neutralizing and eliminating I/O bottlenecks. This central, sharable, and scalable approach efficiently ensures meeting robust service level agreements in the face of...

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[14 May 2008]

Data Center Projects: Establishing a Floor Plan

whitepaper A floor plan strongly affects the power density capability and electrical efficiency of a data center. Despite this critical role in data center design, many floor plans are established through incremental deployment without a central plan.

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[14 May 2008]

Data Center Projects: Commissioning

whitepaper Failure to properly commission a data center leaves the door wide open for expensive and disruptive downtime that could have been avoided. Integrated commissioning of all physical infrastructure components assures maximum data center performance...

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[14 May 2008]

Data Center Automation in a New Light

whitepaper But these applications generally represent less than 10 percent of the total applications within a data center. In most modern data centers today, application management is a major undertaking. For this large application set, most data centers rely...

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[14 May 2008]

Wireless Sensor Network Solutions for Data Center Applications

whitepaper 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 business-critical resources.

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[14 May 2008]

Facility Considerations for the Data Center

whitepaper The Cisco Enterprise Data Center Architecture - a comprehensive, adaptive network architecture designed by Cisco Systems for agile Information Technology (IT) support of business needs - critically depends upon underlying physical facilities to...

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[14 May 2008]

Dynamic Data Center: The Direct Link Between Business Needs and IT Requirements

whitepaper It will be some time before Dynamic Data Center functionality and the transition to what is referred to as "Utility computing" are fully realized, but the use of Dynamic IT Solutions already gives customers of Fujitsu Siemens Computers the...

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[14 May 2008]

Energy-Efficient Performance for the Data Center

whitepaper To determine the potential for reducing data center Total Cost of Ownership (TCO), Intel tested a virtualization solution, comparing new servers based on the Dual-Core Intel Xeon processor 5100 series with Intel Virtualization Technology to...

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[14 May 2008]

Ten Errors to Avoid When Commissioning a Data Center

whitepaper Data center commissioning can deliver an unbiased evaluation of whether a newly constructed data center will be an operational success or a failure. Proper execution of the commissioning process is a critical step in determining how the data center...

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[14 May 2008]

Automating Data Center Management

whitepaper This paper describes the current issues and trends related to managing a data center environment and how application virtualization and automation can help resolve these issues. A technical solution that utilizes Univa UD's Data Center One solution...

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[14 May 2008]

Dynamic Data Center Power Management: Trends, Issues, and Solutions

whitepaper 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 how power is allocated to computing resources in data centers shows that...

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[14 May 2008]

Getting to the Next Generation Data Center - A 4-Stage Approach

whitepaper With the advent of new technologies around virtualization and automation, IT managers must look beyond their initial first steps toward new stages of data center evolution. This paper describes the four stages that most companies move through...

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[14 May 2008]

Facilities Considerations for the Cisco Data Center Network Architecture

whitepaper The Cisco Data Center Network Architecture - a comprehensive, adaptive network architecture designed by Cisco Systems for agile IT support of business needs - critically depends upon underlying physical facilities to provide the power, cooling...

Tags: network design

[14 May 2008]

Championing Energy Efficiency in the Data Center: An IBM Server Consolidation Analysis

whitepaper Many organizations around the globe are looking to reduce power consumption and many are even facing a data center power scarcity. This utility company, teaming with IBM, is currently undertaking a server consolidation of their data center with the...

Tags: server consolidation

[14 May 2008]

Five Strategies for Cutting Data Center Energy Costs Through Enhanced Cooling Efficiency

whitepaper Cooling accounts for approximately 37 percent of electricity usage within a well-designed data center and, in many cases, represents a significant opportunity to reduce IT energy costs. This paper presents five strategies for increasing data center...

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[14 May 2008]

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