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The Green Data Center - More Than Social Responsibility: A Foundation for Growth, Economic Gain and Operating Stability

whitepaper For most CEOs, whose sights are firmly fixed on business growth and expansion, energy consumption and environmental concerns can take on a whole new meaning when they begin to impede the company's ability to grow.

Tags: data center

[16 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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[16 May 2008]

Make Data Deduplication Part of Your Overall Backup Strategy

whitepaper Rapid storage growth across the enterprise, both inside and outside the data center, has challenged traditional backup approaches. This paper examines these challenges, sheds light on symptoms that often precede larger data protection problems, and...

Tags: back-up

[16 May 2008]

Data Center Solutions: Planning Considerations for Data Center Facilities Systems

whitepaper The implementation of a robust, integrated infrastructure to handle these demands and support future data center growth is now more critical than ever. Enterprises are experiencing enormous growth rates in the volume of data being moved and stored...

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[15 May 2008]

Transforming the Data Center Through Standardization

whitepaper Recent research results suggest the primary challenges for data center managers are stringent internal service-level agreements, ongoing data center growth, and staffing issues. Data centers today are at the breaking point - complexity has gone out...

Tags: infrastructure management

[15 May 2008]

The Path to a Green Data Center

whitepaper As IT organizations worldwide move through the millennium, they face the combined challenge of exponential data growth, dwindling energy resources, rising energy costs, and increased pressure to operate in an environmentally sound manner.

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[15 May 2008]

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

whitepaper While the newspaper headlines target the growth of cheap flights as a leading cause of global warming, some commentators have suggested the IT industry is responsible for more carbon emissions than aviation.

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[15 May 2008]

The Eco-Friendly Data Center

whitepaper Regardless of the phase in the information lifecycle, corporations and organizations of all sizes and types are increasingly seeking eco-friendly storage management solutions to accommodate data growth and extend the life of their existing...

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[15 May 2008]

Kindred Healthcare Selects Cisco for New Data Center Storage Network

whitepaper It increased redundancy to keep patient information always available, increased flexibility to cost effectively manage capacity growth needs and enabled new data center disaster recovery plan. Kindred's data center is located at its Kentucky...

Tags: switching

[13 May 2008]

Manufacturer Optimizes Data Center Network for SAP Portal

whitepaper For one large European manufacturer of factory automation and process technology, globalization and growth required managing tens of thousands of products across 100 locations with a heavy reliance on Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) applications.

Tags: switching

[13 May 2008]

Automate to Optimize: The Foundation for Data Center Efficiency

whitepaper IT systems are becoming more, not less complex as new technologies are introduced, and IT staffs are not growing to keep pace with the growth in size and complexity of the typical data center. Data centers experience constant change under pressure...

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[11 May 2008]

Best Practices for Data Center Infrastructure Design: Cabling Distances and Space Planning

whitepaper The TIA 942 data center guidelines are very specific that horizontal and vertical cabling should be run accommodating growth, so that these areas do not have to be revisited. When designing and laying out a data center, understanding best practices...

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[11 May 2008]

Cisco Energy-Efficient Data Center Solutions

whitepaper Integrate the functions of an appliance-based architecture that is based on service modules can free power capacity and slow power consumption growth. The network is uniquely positioned in the data center to facilitate increased utilization of...

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[11 May 2008]

The Merchant-Acquiring Side of the Payment Card Industry: Structure, Operations, and Challenges

whitepaper The presenter of the workshop described the often overlooked acquiring industry as a dynamic growth business that is an integral part of the payment cards industry. He outlined several factors that have affected the evolution of the industry and...

Tags: security standards

[06 May 2008]

eBay Drives Explosive Growth Using Sun Technology and Sun Services

whitepaper The company's challenge was to grow infrastructure to keep up with explosive growth in transaction volume to minimize administrative costs of managing the data center. To power its massively-scaled resource tiers including both commercial and...

Tags: high availability

[06 May 2008]

NHS Tayside Consolidates Data Center With Help From Sun

whitepaper The company's challenge was to accommodate rapid growth of information to minimize risks of catastrophic data loss. Sun and business partner Access Computing helped NHS Tayside consolidate and upgrade its data storage and server infrastructure...

Tags: infrastructure management

[06 May 2008]

A Guide to Virtualising Your Information Infrastructure

whitepaper Today, Virtualisation is at the top of every IT shop's "must-have" lists as CIOs and data center managers look to tackle challenges such as system growth, complex servers and storage, power availability, increases in cost and other related issues...

Tags: storage management, tco, service levels, lists

[25 Apr 2008]

Defining the Data Center Switch

whitepaper Largely because of the explosive growth of digital information and application deployment, data centers are getting pushed to the limits. This webcast takes behind the scenes at Cisco to shows the thinking, the strategies, and the latest...

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[14 Apr 2008]

Free White Paper by the Clipper Group: The ADIC i2000 -- More Than Just Another Tape Library

whitepaper This white paper from The Clipper Group addresses the challenges of backup in today's data center, caused by unpredictable data growth, increasing complexity, budget constraints, and headcount limitations.

Tags: constraints, complexity, integrates, intelligent

[10 Apr 2008]

AEGON Keeps on Growing: And the Hitachi Freedom Storage Lightning 9900 Series Provides Capacity to Spare

whitepaper They chose the Hitachi Data Systems solution, which also provided scalability to handle potential growth. AEGON USA's primary challenge is to keep up with projected growth. They've already been through several data center consolidations in the last...

Tags: storage management, hitachi, usa, hitachi data systems

[10 Apr 2008]

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