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Data Center Automation in an Uncertain Economy
White Papers Reducing ongoing data center costs, improving utilization, and cost avoidance are three key areas where IBM can help, especially with our data center automation solutions. Ptak, Noel & Associates analyst Jasmine Noel will share her findings on how...
[June 17, 2009, 1:21]
Data Center Storage Trends, Challenges, and Solutions
White Papers The data center has become the heart and soul of a company. But the average data center has grown extremely complex. New technologies, fast growth, acquisitions, the online data explosion, and increased security concerns have driven complexity up...
[May 11, 2007, 1:00]
Data Center Projects: Project Management
White Papers In data center design/build projects, flaws in project management and coordination are a common - but unnecessary - cause of delays, expense, and frustration. This paper presents a framework for project management roles and relationships that is...
[October 1, 2009, 9:29]
Data Center Projects: Establishing a Floor Plan
White Papers 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.
[October 1, 2009, 9:30]
Data Center TCO; A Comparison of High-Density and Low-Density Spaces
White Papers The cost to build and operate a modern Data Center continues to increase. The good news in all of this is the performance or compute capabilities in the same Data Center (DC) is increasing at a much higher rate than the TCO.
[November 7, 2007, 0:00]
Data Center Performance Insurance
White Papers 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...
[April 26, 2008, 1:02]
Data Center Transformation: Driving Business Value and Innovation
White Papers The Data Center Transformation (DCT) framework from Symantec Consulting Services provides a programmatic approach to help large enterprises address the technical challenges of data center infrastructure complexity while delivering management and...
[June 26, 2008, 1:01]
Data Center Projects: Growth Model
White Papers 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...
[April 8, 2009, 9:38]
Data Center Design Philosophy
White Papers This paper lays the foundation for addressing challenges of data center design, through a presentation of the more important design issues, priorities, and philosophies. This paper covers some philosophical guidelines that should be kept in mind...
[June 23, 2004, 20:00]
Microsoft Virtualization: Data Center to Desktop Customer Solution Case Study
White Papers Wells' Dairy wanted to optimize its growing data center operations, improve business continuity, and build more agile IT infrastructure to support the company in challenging economic times. Learn more about the solution and benefits, including a...
[September 4, 2009, 0:00]
Case Study: Data Center Migration
White Papers To ensure this success, they sought experts in the field of data center migration to lead the infrastructure division, establish proven procedures and provide a solid level of confidence to their staff that the tasks were obtainable.
[September 25, 2009, 2:07]
Data Center Projects: System Planning
White Papers 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...
[October 1, 2009, 9:29]
Data Center - Site Selection for Business Continuance
White Papers Data center design must focus on scaling methodology and achieving high availability. A disaster in a single data center that houses Enterprise applications and data has a crippling affect on the ability of an Enterprise to conduct business.
[April 23, 2008, 1:03]
Data Center Infrastructure Architecture Overview
White Papers This paper provides background information for designing a secure, scalable, and resilient data center infrastructure. It includes the sections like Data Center Architecture, Hardware and Software Recommendations, Data Center Multi-Layer Design...
[May 4, 2009, 6:05]
Data Center Projects: Standardized Process
White Papers As the design and deployment of data center physical infrastructure moves away from art and more toward science, the benefits of a standardized and predictable process are becoming compelling. This paper presents an overview of a standardized, step...
[October 1, 2009, 9:30]
Data Center Projects: Commissioning
White Papers 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...
[April 26, 2008, 1:02]
Data Center Automation in a New Light
White Papers 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...
[May 10, 2008, 1:02]
Data Center Consolidation
White Papers As both technology and government agency management systems improve, so too does the viability of enterprise-level Data Center Consolidation (DCC). The significant and short-term cost savings, as well as the resulting improvements in information...
[April 26, 2008, 1:02]
Data Center I/O Performance Issues and Impacts
White Papers 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.
[April 26, 2008, 1:02]
Data Center One Technical Description
White Papers 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...
[April 26, 2008, 1:02]
