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Integrated Infrastructure and Performance Management for Virtualized Environments
sponsored by CA
 | White Paper: | Posted: 29 Apr 2009
| | Published: | 01 Apr 2009 | |
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Enterprises, government agencies and service providers are increasingly employing virtualized environments to decrease costs, consolidate data center space and reduce environmental impacts. This paper describes a comprehensive set of CA tools for managing virtual environments.
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SMART Steps Toward Consolidated Workload Automation
sponsored by BMC Software, Inc
| White Paper: | Posted: 17 Apr 2009
| | Published: | 17 Apr 2009 | |
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BMC CONTROL-M is a powerful WLA (Workload automation) solution that should be in consideration for any WLA consolidation project.
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Avoiding the Disk Bottleneck in the Data Domain Deduplication File System
sponsored by Data Domain
| White Paper: | Posted: 10 Apr 2009
| | Published: | 10 Apr 2009 | |
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This paper introduces three techniques employed in the production Data Domain deduplication file system and shows how they can be used to relieve the disk bottleneck.
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Using enterprise architecture to develop a blueprint for improving your energy efficiency and reducing your carbon footprint
sponsored by IBM
| White Paper: | Posted: 09 Apr 2009
| | Published: | 31 Dec 2008 | |
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This whitepaper is about enterprise architecture as it pertains to finding and maximizing the business value in greener operations. Higher energy efficiency and a smaller carbon footprint are obvious areas of interest for any business, but how do you balance these goals with productivity, customer service, and all your other business concerns?
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Oracle Grid Computing Achieved: Service-oriented HP Adaptive Infrastructure offerings for Oracle Grid Computing and Service Oriented Architecture (SOA)
sponsored by Hewlett Packard Company and Intel
| White Paper: | Posted: 16 Mar 2009
| | Published: | 07 Nov 2007 | |
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Oracle's vision of the next-generation data center is the Oracle Grid Computing architecture, which provides the software building blocks for creating a service-oriented, shared-resource environment. Read this paper to discover more of what Oracle has to offer.
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HP Dynamic Deduplication - achieving a 50:1 ratio
sponsored by Hewlett-Packard Company
| White Paper: | Posted: 03 Mar 2009
| | Published: | 03 Mar 2009 | |
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In 2008, HP introduced two products to the HP StorageWorks D2D Backup System Family. Both feature Dynamic deduplication based on an HP-patented algorithm that packs up to 50 times more backup data into the same disk footprint. This paper explains how Dynamic deduplication works and also establishes how a 50:1 deduplication ratio may be achieved.
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Seven Ways to Reduce IT Costs with Master Data Management
sponsored by Siperian, Inc.
| White Paper: | Posted: 20 Feb 2009
| | Published: | 20 Feb 2009 | |
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Faced with budget cuts In today's economic environment, how can IT maintain service levels and continue to provide value to business? Smart IT decision-makers are investing in master data management.
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Automate Virtualization in Your Data Center - EMA Analyst Report
sponsored by Hewlett-Packard Company
| White Paper: | Posted: 17 Feb 2009
| | Published: | 22 Dec 2008 | |
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This EMA white paper addresses the challenges of a complex multi-tier environment. It highlights specific examples of how virtualization provides measurable ROI, looks at the challenges for data center management that virtualization introduces, and most importantly, it provides specific and actionable recommendations for managing virtual systems.
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Taming The Power Hungry Data Center
sponsored by Fusion-IO
| White Paper: | Posted: 16 Feb 2009
| | Published: | 16 Feb 2009 | |
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The widening disparity between CPU performance and that of storage subsystems has spawned numerous solutions that do not fix the problem. This white paper exposes this fundamental flaw and introduces the means available today to substantively reduce power consumption while improving performance: Fusion-io's flash memory-based storage technology.
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Solid State Storage - A New Standard for Enterprise-Class Reliability
sponsored by Fusion-IO
| White Paper: | Posted: 16 Feb 2009
| | Published: | 16 Feb 2009 | |
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With throughput and seek times faster than disk arrays, data centers are including NAND flash as part of their server infrastructure. Fusion-io offers solid state storage solutions with NAND flash that provides integrity for data exceeding today's solid state storage solutions and surpasses enterprise-class rotating magnetic storage devices.
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The Advantages of Row and Rack-Oriented Cooling Architectures for Data Centers
sponsored by APC
| White Paper: | Posted: 04 Feb 2009
| | Published: | 03 Feb 2009 | |
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This paper contrasts room, row and rack architectures and shows why row-oriented cooling will emerge as the preferred solution for most next generation data centers.
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Data Center Projects: System Planning
sponsored by APC
| White Paper: | Posted: 04 Feb 2009
| | Published: | 03 Feb 2009 | |
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The planning sequence described in this paper covers the design of the data center's physical infrastructure layer, whose job it is to house, power, cool, and protect the data center's computing and network functions.
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Getting Started with Microsoft Windows Server 2008 Hyper-V on Dell Servers
sponsored by Dell and Microsoft
| White Paper: | Posted: 11 Dec 2008
| | Published: | 11 Dec 2008 | |
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This article provides an introduction to Hyper-V virtualization, discusses the overall architecture and underlying technologies, and offers guidance on best practices for deployment on Dell PowerEdge servers.
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Switching Essentials: An Introduction to Network Switching
sponsored by Global Knowledge
| White Paper: | Posted: 10 Dec 2008
| | Published: | 11 Oct 2008 | |
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In this white paper, we will address the basics of this Layer 2 technology and help you get your network switch up and running. For our examples, we will use Cisco's 2950 switch.
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Dynamic Power Variations in Data Centers and Network Rooms
sponsored by APC
| White Paper: | Posted: 21 Nov 2008
| | Published: | 20 Nov 2008 | |
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To mitigate against the problems described in this document, designers and managers of data centers and network rooms must adapt to the new realities of dynamic power consumption.
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Data Center Consolidation |
Data Center Construction |
Data Center Cooling |
Data Center Design |
Data Center Power Management |
Workload Automation