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whitepaper Software Services Provider Delivers Cost-Effective E-Government Solution2009-11-01 Microsoft
  Persistent Systems provides software development services that help enterprises and public sector customers enhance their offerings. One of the company's primary offerings is an e-government solution that helps governments and agencies deliver services and interact with constituents electronically. However, the company's ability to promote the solution was often limited by the IT infrastructure capacity of governments in developing regions. Persistent Systems needed a way to deliver its solution without requiring local governments to invest in new IT infrastructure and personnel. The company used the Windows Azure platform to deliver its e-governance applications on the Internet through a Microsoft data center. Now Persistent Systems can offer its e-government solution in a high-availability environment while reducing capital and maintenance costs for itself and its customers.

Tags: IT Infrastructure		   
whitepaper Software Developer Launches Highly Scalable Web Site Platform, Minimizes Costs2009-11-01 Microsoft
  Sitemasher, developer of an innovative platform for building and managing Web sites, wanted to help Web professionals create scalable, data-driven Web sites faster, and at lower cost. The company also needed to lower its own systems infrastructure costs. Sitemasher used the Windows Azure platform to offer its application as a hosted service, delivering an efficient, highly available, and highly scalable Web site development and hosting environment to its customers. By hosting its application on Windows Azure through Microsoft data centers, the company has minimized infrastructure costs and reduced ongoing maintenance. Finally, with no data centers of its own to manage, Sitemasher will refocus the time its development staff spent maintaining servers to improving and expanding the Sitemasher application, representing a time savings of approximately 20 percent.

Tags: IT Infrastructure		   
whitepaper Job-Listing Web Site Scales Up Solution, Reduces Costs by More Than U.S.$500,0002009-11-01 Microsoft
  The job-listing Web site OCCMundial.com connects job seekers with opportunities and optimizes hiring processes for businesses. Headquartered in Mexico City, OCCMundial.com helps to fill more than 600,000 positions a year in Mexican and international job markets. To provide better value to its customers, the company developed a recommendation system it calls OCCMatch to match job openings to candidate resumes. OCCMundial.com wanted to scale up its OCCMatch recommendation system to connect 1.5 million resumes with 80,000 job listings, but its existing computing infrastructure lacked capacity to meet the demand. To avoid significant hardware and other infrastructure costs, OCCMundial.com used the Windows Azure platform to host OCCMatch through a Microsoft data center, providing easy solution scalability and enhancing value for OCCMundial.com customers.

Tags: IT Infrastructure		   
whitepaper Windows 7: Tips and Best Practices for Simplified Migration2009-10-12 KACE
  This white paper outlines best practices for systems administration and IT professionals in healthcare environments. Based on real-life experiences of IT professionals in the medical field, it outlines best practices for IT professionals fighting to keep IT systems healthy—just as they want their patients to be.

Tags: Enterprise Planning, Intrusion - Tampering, Data Infrastructure, IT Professionals		   
whitepaper Virtualizing a Windows Active Directory Domain Infrastructure2009-10-12 Global Knowledge
  This white paper focuses on best practices for implementing an enterprise Active Directory infrastructure using virtualization technology. We will discuss how to perform a full migration of your physical AD infrastructure to a virtualized environment. Many of the topics are also relevant if you plan to support a mixed environment

Tags: Enterprise Planning, Data Infrastructure, IT Infrastructure, Server Hardware		   
whitepaper A Quick Primer on Data Center Tier Classifications2009-10-01 Switch and Data
  Today, a number of companies are either consolidating their data centers or implementing new data center projects. Their decisions are often based on the appropriate "tier level" of the IT facility. The tier level is determined by an industry standard classification system for infrastructure performance. A four-tier system rates a facility's ability to support uninterrupted operation of its data processing activities.

The tier classification model provides an academic and objective benchmark that helps describe and compare the functionality, capacity, and cost of data center infrastructures. At times, the drive to align the uptime of the IT facility with the business becomes bogged down in focusing on tier levels. Other factors beyond tier level compliance can impact uptime performance. In this paper, we will first review data center tier levels, then comment briefly on what is and is not critical to tier level attainment, and conclude with some pragmatic advice about facility assessment.

The tier classification system measures the performance of a site's operating infrastructure, which includes power, cooling, emergency backup, and fi re suppression. The power and cooling capabilities of a facility are delivered by its Mechanical, Electrical, and Plumbing (MEP) infrastructure. This whitepaper discusses the following tiers:
  • Tier-1 Basic Data Center Infrastructure
  • Tier-2 Data Center with Redundant Capacity Components
  • Tier-3 Concurrently Maintainable Data Center
  • Tier-4 Fault-tolerant Data Center
ABOUT SWITCH AND DATA Switch and Data is a premier provider of network-neutral data centers that house, power and interconnect the Internet. Leading content companies, enterprises and communications service providers rely on Switch and Data to connect to customers and exchange Internet traffic. Switch and Data has built a reputation for world-class service, delivered across the broadest colocation footprint and richest network

Tags: Data Infrastructure, IT Budgeting, Data Infrastructure, IT Budgeting		   
whitepaper Nehalem-EX, the new standard in scalable performance2009-10-01 Intel
  Intel recently provided a server product update for the upcoming Nehalem-EX processor and the expandable platforms based on it. Here's a recap of some of the interesting messages: Nehalem Architecture and Quick Path Architecture are coming to the EX (MP) segment, 4 Socket Servers and above. EX Servers are ideal for server consolidation / virtualized applications, data demanding enterprise applications and technical computing environments. Read the full blog post for more details.

Tags: Data Infrastructure, IT Infrastructure, Server Hardware		   
whitepaper The Case for Thermoelectrics in the Data Center: A New Approach and Use of an Old Science2009-10-01 Applied Methodologies
  Over the past several years' corporate enterprises and the Information Technology (IT) industry in general have increased their awareness relating to the "Greening" of the data center or the "Greening of IT" for the main purpose of reducing energy consumption and costs. Many standards, technologies and best practices have been developed and put forward from the corporate community, government and IT industry for corporations to utilize in monitoring and reducing energy consumption in their data centers. The cost of energy continues to fluctuate with the almost certain possibility of higher prices encountered in the future. Plus, with a dubious global economic climate, the CEO/CIO are challenged more than ever in finding ways to reduce every dollar of operational cost for the enterprise and remain competitive.

Tags: IT Budgeting		   
whitepaper Dell Case Study: Inovis2009-10-01 Dell
  Inovis must rapidly build a data center to accommodate a new customer at the same time that a corporate office move requires relocating 100 IT servers across the country. Dell infrastructure enables Inovis to boost performance and complete the new data center on schedule; the Inovis IT team also virtualizes its 100 older servers, making them easier to move, and consolidates them onto Dell PowerEdge servers to reduce space requirements and costs.

Tags: Data Infrastructure		   
whitepaper 10 Ways to Increase Power System Availability in Data Centers2009-09-28 Eaton
  Once, IT was just another important business resource. Today, IT is the business for many companies.

Without it, most organizations would be incapable of serving customers, collaborating with partners, developing new products or performing other basic business functions.

As a result, data center availability has become an essential precondition to competitiveness and profitability.

Tags: Data Infrastructure, IT Budgeting, Data Infrastructure, IT Budgeting