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whitepaper Recent trends toward increased equipment power density in data centers can result in significant thermal stress, with the undesirable side effects of decreased equipment availability, wasted floor space, and inefficient cooling system operation.
[11 Apr 2008]
whitepaper Stock exchanges, company processes, commerce, traffic and many other services rely on the smooth operation of data centers. The data volumes to be processed are constantly increasing and require performance maximization in data centers.
[11 Apr 2008]
whitepaper Currently, data centers consume a little over one percent of the power in the United States annually. Data centers are an integral part of the engine driving today's economy, but they're becoming increasingly more expensive to power and cool.
[11 Apr 2008]
whitepaper Although the deployment of the Windows Server 2008 operating system is still in its relatively early stages, Microsoft Information Technology (Microsoft IT) has already discovered noticeable benefits in the day-to-day management and operation of...
[09 Apr 2008]
whitepaper It has been more than 55 years since the first commercially available tape drive was marketed to data centers. Tape's role in addressing compliance with WORM, data retention with archive, data security with encryption, data protection with safely...
[28 Mar 2008]
whitepaper Worldwide power requirements to operate data centers are growing inexorably and have now reached dimensions that even by comparison with other industry sectors can no longer be side-lined. However, the key aspect for many companies is the fact that...
[14 Feb 2008]
whitepaper Today, because of strong demand for storage capacity, customers are faced with serious issues of power and cooling in their data centers. Analysts predict that data centers will soon reach their capacity limits in terms of power and air conditioning.
[14 Feb 2008]
whitepaper This paper describes Fujitsu Laboratories' research and development activities for raising efficiency in support services such as those provided by hardware support operation and call centers. This paper describes technologies that raise...
[14 Feb 2008]
whitepaper In data centers, modular design has already taken root in new fault-tolerant architectures for servers and storage systems. As data centers continue to evolve and borrow from nature's blueprints, IT reliability analysis must also evolve to support...
[29 Nov 2007]
whitepaper In data centers, modular design has already taken root in new fault-tolerant architectures for servers and storage systems. As data centers continue to evolve and borrow from nature's blueprints, IT reliability analysis must also evolve to support...
[29 Nov 2007]
whitepaper Given the substantial scope of its operation, Brasil Telecom sought best-of-breed ideas on how to closely manage its IT systems - 20 different applications, as well as ASP outsourcing, Internet data centers, video/audio/Web conferencing, hosting...
[25 Nov 2007]
whitepaper Proliferation of low cost servers in the data centers has brought in a fresh set of management challenges. The well acknowledged problems include the difficulty in managing consistency and compatibility across operating system and software...
[11 May 2007]
whitepaper Capacity of server groups is automatically adjusted during operation by acquiring or releasing servers. In contrast to similar control systems that operate in clusters, the control system here operates in the heterogeneous environment of a...
[08 Jan 2007]
whitepaper The company turned to WANJet to accelerate the AS/400 replication of data between its two data centers, while dramatically lowering bandwidth requirements. The Brown Shoe Company was looking to implement a real-time disaster recovery strategy to...
[23 Aug 2006]
whitepaper Various studies estimate that roughly 80% of the Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) in large data centers relates to software operation and management. At the same time systems management is, indeed, becoming inherently complex and expensive in modern...
[28 Jul 2006]
whitepaper The paper then introduces Informiam's ClearPath for Contact Centers as a purpose-built solution that addresses these needs with real-time insights into the operations of your contact center. This white paper examines the complexities of today's...
[25 Oct 2005]
whitepaper Consolidation and dense aggregation of slim compute, storage and networking hardware has resulted in high power density data centers. The high power density resulting from current and future generations of servers necessitates detailed thermo...
[03 Nov 2004]
whitepaper As CIO’s everywhere look for ways to consolidate their computing activities and to simplify the operations of their data centers, more and more are looking to Linux as the consolidation vehicle to lower the total cost of operation (TCO) of their...
[20 May 2004]
whitepaper In the world of call centers, over six million telephone representatives engage in daily customer interactions. Everyone in the business talks about re-engineering their contact centers and today’s technology enables the change.
[24 Feb 2004]
whitepaper Not in the sense that computers are necessary to enable call centers to operate, but that call centers are only necessary because of computers. The cycle fed on itself - computerized records allowed retailers to scale beyond the “ledger books and...
[24 Feb 2004]
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