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Data Centers: Cisco Best Practices For Security And Performance
White Papers This Data Center White Paper is useful to those constructing or managing data centers with stringent performance and service requirements. Enterprise and commercial customers seeking to purchase Web hosting, applications hosting, call and contact...
[September 2, 2008, 7:35]
Data Flow Management: From Call To Contact Centers
White Papers As more and more Call Centers adopt Internet-based business models, and interactions increasingly become automated, the need for enterprise data access and quality is crucial to the success of a Call Center attempting to transform into a Contact...
[July 20, 2006, 0:00]
Electrical Efficiency Modeling Of Data Centers
White Papers Conventional models for estimating electrical efficiency of data centers are grossly inaccurate for real-world installations. Estimates of electrical losses are typically made by summing the inefficiencies of various electrical devices, such as...
[April 26, 2008, 1:02]
Memory Buddies: Exploiting Page Sharing For Server Consolidation In Virtualized Data Centers
White Papers Modern data centers increasingly employ virtualization in order to maximize resource utilization while reducing costs. This paper argues for exploiting page sharing to significantly reduce aggregate memory requirements of collocated VMs and...
[March 1, 2008, 0:02]
Running Scientific Data Centers: Five Underappreciated Challenges
White Papers As data centers strive to add computational resources to meet the demands of their High Productivity Computing (HPC) applications, they encounter challenges that go well beyond their basic constraints.
[April 11, 2008, 1:02]
HP Metrocluster CA XP Three Active Data Centers (With 1-1 Data Replication)
White Papers The current Metropolitan Cluster solution calls for three data centers with two active data centers, which run critical applications and a third data center for arbitrator node(s). This paper introduces the Metrocluster CA XP three active data...
[November 10, 2004, 2:00]
Use Of The Signal Reference Grid In Data Centers
White Papers Signal reference grids are automatically specified and installed in data centers despite the fact that they are no longer needed by modern IT equipment. Even when installed, they are typically used incorrectly.
[April 26, 2008, 1:02]
Backup And Restore Solution For Windows 2000 - Based Data Centers: Chapter 2 - Backup And Restore Deployment
White Papers This paper describes how to deploy Backup and Restore Solution for Windows 2000-Based Data Centers, which uses CommVault Galaxy software. An overview of the deployment process is provided, together with detailed instructions for configuring the...
[June 7, 2006, 1:00]
Best Practices For Designing Data Centers With The InfraStruXure InRow RC
White Papers When designing data centers with this product, there are some best practices that should be followed to ensure the InRow RC is cooling as designed. The InfraStruXure InRow RC is designed to provide cooling at the row and rack level of a data center...
[April 26, 2008, 1:02]
Continuous Resources Allocation In Internet Data Centers
White Papers Internet Data Centers (IDCs) perform multi-customer hosting on a virtualized collection of resources while Grid computing generalizes distributed computing by focusing on large scale resource sharing.
[September 27, 2006, 0:00]
Avoidable Mistakes That Compromise Cooling Performance In Data Centers And Network Rooms
White Papers Avoidable mistakes that are routinely made when installing cooling systems and racks in data centers or network rooms compromise availability and increase costs. These unintentional flaws create hot-spots, decrease fault tolerance, decrease...
[July 14, 2008, 1:20]
Dimensionless Parameters For Evaluation Of Thermal Design And Performance Of Large-Scale Data Centers
White Papers Large-scale data centers will be the major energy consumers of the next generation. Energy consumption of data centers can be severely increased by inadequate air handling systems and rack layouts that allow the hot and cold air streams to mix.
[April 21, 2006, 1:01]
Power And Cooling Capacity Management For Data Centers
White Papers High density IT equipment stresses the power density capability of modern data centers. Installation and unmanaged proliferation of this equipment can lead to unexpected problems with power and cooling infrastructure including overheating...
[April 26, 2008, 1:02]
Implementing Energy Efficient Data Centers
White Papers Electricity usage costs have become an increasing fraction of the total cost of ownership (TCO) for data centers. It is possible to dramatically reduce the electrical consumption of typical data centers through appropriate design of the network...
[July 29, 2008, 13:23]
AC Vs DC Power Distribution For Data Centers
White Papers Various types of DC power distribution are examined as alternatives to AC distribution for data centers and network rooms. The reasons why AC will likely remain the dominant choice for data center and network room power are explained.
[April 26, 2008, 1:02]
The Advantages Of Row And Rack-Oriented Cooling Architectures For Data Centers
White Papers Room cooling is an ineffective approach for next-generation data centers. 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.
[November 30, 2007, 10:39]
AC Vs. DC Power Distribution For Data Centers
White Papers DC power distribution has been proposed as an alternative to AC power distribution in data centers, but misinformation and conflicting claims have confused the discussion. This paper explains why high efficiency AC will likely emerge as the...
[April 26, 2008, 1:02]
AXA Group Uses Virtual Machines To Curb IT Expenses And Modernize Data Centers
White Papers When Microsoft Virtual Server 2005 became available, the North American IT group at AXA evaluated it, and the chief information officer approved its use in global data centers. In 2003, AXA launched a companywide server consolidation program to...
[March 17, 2007, 0:00]
Scientific Games Racing Data Centers Support Up To $12 Billion In Wagering Annually
White Papers SGR integrated HP OpenView management tools in two data centers to enable new services and centrally manage HP hardware, network devices, application services, and infrastructure components. Scientific Games Racing (SGR) provides services...
[March 10, 2007, 0:00]
Data Centers Are Adopting Green Initiatives But Are Wary Of Vendors' Marketing Messages
White Papers This survey shows that although 70% of organizations are adopting a green initiative, 19% admit the data center has been overlooked and 13% don't know how the data center is affected by the policy. The IT industry and business in general are slowly...
[April 26, 2008, 1:02]
