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Evolution of Data Center Environmental Guidelines

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.

Tags: data center

[11 Apr 2008]

Influence of Cabling Systems on the Availability of Data Centers

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.

Tags: infrastructure management

[11 Apr 2008]

Turning Challenges Into Opportunities in the Data Center

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.

Tags: data center

[11 Apr 2008]

Microsoft IT's Top Five Management and Operations Features in Window Server 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...

Tags: windows server 2008

[09 Apr 2008]

The Truth About Tape - Nine Myths to Reconsider

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...

Tags: removable storage

[28 Mar 2008]

Energy Efficient Infrastructures for Data Centers: A Joint White Paper From Fujitsu Siemens Computers and Knurr

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...

Tags: infrastructure management

[14 Feb 2008]

MAID for Green: Energy Conservation With Fujitsu ETERNUS Storage Systems

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.

Tags: storage management

[14 Feb 2008]

Technologies for Raising Efficiency in Support Services

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...

Tags: customer support services

[14 Feb 2008]

Modular Systems: The Evolution of Reliability

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...

Tags: infrastructure management, fault, centers, evolve

[29 Nov 2007]

Modular Systems: The Evolution of Reliability

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...

Tags: fault, centers, evolve, continue

[29 Nov 2007]

Case Study: Getting a Line on Infrastructure

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...

Tags: telecom, infrastructure library, latin america, asp

[25 Nov 2007]

Best Practices for Bare Metal Provisioning of Linux Using Oracle Enterprise Manager 10g

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...

Tags: application servers, provisioning, compliance, centers

[11 May 2007]

Adaptive Control System for Server Groups in Enterprise Data Centers

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...

Tags: data center, automatically, data center, control system

[08 Jan 2007]

Enabling Replication for Disaster Recovery

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...

Tags: roi - tco, bandwidth, mbps, link

[23 Aug 2006]

Oracle Application Server Management

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...

Tags: cost control - risk mgmt., centers, application server, data centers

[28 Jul 2006]

Real-Time Contact Centers: What the Competition Knows That You Don't

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...

Tags: contact, paper examines, addresses, centers

[25 Oct 2005]

Thermo-Fluids Provisioning of a High Performance High Density Data Center

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...

Tags: data center, data center, density, cooling

[03 Nov 2004]

IBM’s iSeries - The Open Systems Consolidation Engine for Linux

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...

Tags: server consolidation, linux, consolidate, centers

[20 May 2004]

Blending: the Changing Color of Contact Center Productivity

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.

Tags: call center - contact, telephone, centers, talks

[24 Feb 2004]

Integrating Call Centers and the Web

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...

Tags: e-fulfillment, stores, computers, centers

[24 Feb 2004]

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