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whitepaper Opportunities and Challenges with the Convergence of Data Center Networks13/11/09 Juniper Networks
  Legacy architectures constrain today's data centers as they attempt to cope with the exponential increase in applications, servers, storage, and network traffic. By rethinking the network from the ground up, Juniper Networks provides customers with a long-term, future proof strategy to develop a single, converged data center fabric with the flexibility and performance to scale to super data centers, while continuing to drive down the cost and complexity of managing the data center information infrastructure.

Juniper's vision for cloud computing paves the way for super data centers that harness the scale to dynamically allocate any resource -including routing, switching, security services, storage systems, appliances, and servers - without compromising performance. Juniper is well positioned to deliver the next-generation data center fabric that enables converged storage area network (SAN), local area network (LAN), and high-performance computing (HPC) clusters to be built and managed as a single logical infrastructure. 		 sponsored by
whitepaper Security Considerations for Cloud-Ready Data Centers13/11/09 Juniper Networks
  Data centers have evolved significantly as organizations consolidate servers, applications, and other resources. Technologies such as server virtualization, distributed application tools, and IP-based storage are helping organizations maximize their data center resources, while at the same time making it more difficult to protect these critical assets against cyber theft and increasing levels of malware, in addition to new vulnerabilities introduced by data center technologies themselves.

To effectively manage the new risks, organizations should reevaluate their data center security practices and implement new network-centric capabilities to ensure the integrity of their services. A network-centric approach to providing security in the data center delivers benefits such as scalability, unified security policy definition and enforcement, visibility into application traffic, and reduced operations overhead. 		 sponsored by
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		   
whitepaper Green IT Impact Calculator2009-09-22 Dell
  Quantify the Impact of Green IT Virtualization Investments. Welcome to the Green IT Impact Calculator. This worksheet enables you to estimate the impact of virtualization investments to drive Green IT benefits within your organization. Simply check off areas of importance to you and provide your internal estimates. Your input will be used with the business results from more than one hundred peers to quantify virtual server investment impact.

Tags: Data Infrastructure, IT Budgeting, Server Hardware, IT Budgeting		   
whitepaper Automated Workload Scheduling2009-09-18 IBM
  IT professional are increasingly challenged by the number of jobs and workloads created by company growth and expansion. Existing workload scheduling solutions are often inadequate and there is often no way for IT departments operating a manual scheduling system to add sufficient staff and resources to handle the growth in their own workloads.

This paper provides an informative overview of the challenges, opportunities, and proven strategies of successful companies to meet their needs for mainframe scheduling management:
  • Learn about the new requirements for a robust, reliable, feature-rich job control and scheduling solution.
  • Gain a better understanding of the need and solutions for automated management that doesn't require constant oversight and intervention by a human operator.
  • Discover the proven benefits of a management system with the ability to work across multiple platform architectures with a single, consistent user interface.


Tags: Software Development Tools, Data Infrastructure, IT Infrastructure, Server Hardware		   
whitepaper Mastering Virtualized Environments2009-09-18 IBM
  Data centers are growing rapidly in size and complexity. At the same time, competitive and economic pressures are making cost control even more critical to the overall success of data center implementations. Virtualization offers organizations of all sizes the opportunity to reduce the physical footprint of their data centers by enabling IT resource sharing and increasing utilization.

This paper provides a comprehensive overview of the pressing need and strategies to master the management challenges of your virtualized environment with a new breed of service management solutions:
  • Discover and visualize the physical and virtual environments and their relationships as well as the need to rapidly provision the virtual environment.
  • Optimize the execution and maintenance of workloads as well as managing virtualized storage efficiently.
  • Learn how to manage software licensing to ensure cost-effectiveness and allocate IT costs appropriately.


Tags: Data Infrastructure, IT Budgeting, Data Infrastructure, IT Budgeting		   
whitepaper Creating a Dynamic Infrastructure through Virtualization2009-09-16 IBM
  In almost every case,the transformation to a dynamic infrastructure will involve virtualization.Many IT professionals think of virtualization specifically in terms of servers.IBM,however,has a broader perspective,in which virtualization is seen as a generalapproach to decouple logical resources from physical elements,so that thoseresources can be allocated faster,more cost-effectively and more dynamically,wherever the business requires them in real time to ideally meet changingdemand levels or business requirements.

Tags: Data Infrastructure, Data Infrastructure, Data Infrastructure, Server Hardware		   
whitepaper Dynamic Infrastructure Helping Build a Smarter PlanetDelivering Superior Business and IT Services with Agility and Speed2009-09-16 IBM
  In this smarter world, we need our infrastructure to propel us forward, not hold us back. This infrastructure becomes instrumented, interconnected and intelligent to bring together the business and IT infrastructure to create new possibilities across the business. IBM has developed a strategy for a dynamic infrastructure that will help organizations address higher service expectations, rising cost pressures and new risks and threats, while also laying a foundation for breakthrough productivity, accelerated value creation and the increased velocity needed to achieve the faster pace that business and society demand.

Tags: Data Infrastructure, Data Infrastructure, Data Infrastructure, Server Hardware		   
whitepaper What's New in VMware vSphere 4: Virtual Networking2009-09-09 Global Knowledge
  VMware vSphere introduces a number of new features and capabilities to virtual networking under VMware® vNetwork. vNetwork is the new name to describe the collection of networking technologies for optimally integrating networking and I/O functionality into vSphere. This white paper discusses some of the new features of vNetwork.

Tags: Management, Data Infrastructure, IT Infrastructure, Server Hardware		   
whitepaper VMware Training2009-09-04 Global Knowledge
  VMware vSphere is the next evolutionary step in IT computing. vSphere dramatically reduces capital and operating costs, and increases control over IT infrastructures while preserving the flexibility to choose any OS, application and hardware. Learn how to take advantage of this new technology with VMware training from Global Knowledge.

Tags: Management, Data Infrastructure, IT Infrastructure, Server Hardware		   
whitepaper Managing IT Infrastructure With Template-Based Provisioning2009-09-03 Liquid Computing
  The ideal approach is one in which all underlying physical IT data center resources and their interdependencies can be manipulated in software-defined templates. The entire application or service infrastructure can be provisioned or repurposed on-demand or automatically in response to real-time business needs. This results in less overbuilding, significant operational savings and improved serviceability. This white paper will discuss how unified computing can deliver these capabilities to address the challenges of provisioning and create a more responsive data center.

Tags: Data Infrastructure		   
whitepaper IDC ROI Calculator for IBM Tivoli Netcool2009-08-31 IBM
  This ROI calculator from IDC will help you quickly and easily understand the average annual benefit that you may be able to achieve using IBM® Tivoli® Netcool®. The tool and underlying calculations and metrics are based on IDC research of 14 IBM Tivoli Netcool implementations, which have yielded an average benefit of $23.5 million per year. Simply answer the questions that are specific to your organization and see the results you could achieve.

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