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whitepaper Securing the Virtual Data Center With RSA, the Security Division of EMC2009-08-27 EMC
  Virtualization delivers tremendous flexibility in how IT resources are deployed and used - resulting in operational and cost efficiency. The presenter will give an outline of the common security risks in virtual environments, and the attendee will learn practical security guidelines that mitigate these risks. The attendee will find out how the virtual infrastructure itself will ultimately be leveraged to deliver security in a pervasive, persistent, and scalable manner.

Tags: Server Hardware		   
whitepaper Achieve End-to-End Maximized Performance by Consolidating Your Data Center - Part One2009-08-25 EMC
  EMC and Brocade have partnered to bring a webcast series that highlights joint solutions for the next-generation data center, utilizing technologies available today. Organizations increasingly expect their infrastructure to deliver as a whole. This requires focus beyond infrastructure - necessitating tight integration to applications, middleware, and database environments. By bringing together core network, server, applications and storage components, EMC and Brocade offer simplified integrated solutions and additional economic efficiency within the data center.   
whitepaper Buy or Lease Your Own Data Center?: Think About It2009-08-24 IBS
  Before a company buys the data center, however, it will want to consider some of the factors not often assessed versus the favorable events listed above. There is a big difference between running the IT infrastructure of an organization and being the facility manager. Once a company has decided to build their own center, they are in the data center business. Things can run smooth or they can go horribly wrong.

Tags: Data Infrastructure		   
whitepaper CAFE: A Configurable PAcket Forwarding Engine for Data Center Networks2009-08-21 Association for Computing Machinery
  Recently, Data Center Networking (DCN) has attracted many research attentions and innovative DCN designs have been proposed. All these designs need specialized packet forwarding engines due to their special routing algorithms, which are either based on commonly used packet headers or self-defined ones. Although programmable forwarding devices are available, it is difficult to use them to prototype these DCN designs, especially when self-defined headers are introduced. This paper presents a hardware based Configurable pAcket Forwarding Engine (CAFE) to facilitate the prototyping process. Through simple APIs, CAFE can be easily configured to forward self-defined packets, modify, insert, and delete arbitrary packet header fields without re-designing the hardware.

Tags: Data Infrastructure		   
whitepaper VL2: A Scalable and Flexible Data Center Network2009-08-21 Association for Computing Machinery
  To be agile and cost effective, data centers should allow dynamic resource allocation across large server pools. In particular, the data center network should enable any server to be assigned to any service. To meet these goals, the paper presentsVL2, a practical network architecture that scales to support huge data centers with uniform high capacity between servers, performance isolation between services, and Ethernet layer-2 semantics. VL2 uses flat addressing to allow service instances to be placed anywhere in the network, Valiant Load Balancing to spread traffic uniformly across network paths, and end-system based address resolution to scale to large server pools, without introducing complexity to the network control plane.

Tags: Data Infrastructure		   
whitepaper Understanding Data Center Traffic Characteristics2009-08-21 Association for Computing Machinery
  As data centers become more and more central in Internet communications, both research and operations communities have begun to explore how to better design and manage them. This paper presents a preliminary empirical study of end-to-end traffic patterns in data center networks that can inform and help evaluate research and operational approaches. The paper analyzes SNMP logs collected at 19 data centers to examine temporal and spatial variations in link loads and losses. The paper finds that while links in the core are heavily utilized the ones closer to the edge observe a greater degree of loss. The paper then studies packet traces collected at a small number of switches in one data center and find evidence of ON-OFF traffic behavior.   
whitepaper Why Should We Integrate Services, Servers, and Networking in a Data Center?2009-08-21 Association for Computing Machinery
  Since the early days of networks, a basic principle has been that endpoints treat the network as a black box. An end-point injects a packet with a destination address and the network delivers the packet. This principle has served one well, and allowed one to scale the Internet to billions of devices using networks owned by competing companies and devices owned by billions of individuals. However, this approach might not be optimal for large-scale Internet Data Centers (DCs), such as those run by Amazon, Google, Microsoft and Yahoo, that employs custom software and customized hardware to increase efficiency and to lower costs.

Tags: Data Infrastructure		   
whitepaper Business Value of Windows Server 2008 R2 Hyper-V and Live Migration2009-08-17 Microsoft
  Today's IT departments are under increasing pressure to manage and support expanding computer resources while reducing costs. Server virtualization has become a broadly accepted method to meet these requirements. By converting under-utilized physical servers into virtual machines that run on a single physical server, organizations can reduce space, power and hardware costs in the data center. Read the whitepaper to see how Windows Server 2008 R2 is making this process seamless.

Tags: Desktop Client OS, Server Platforms - OS, Server Platforms - OS, Data Infrastructure, Server Hardware		   
whitepaper Don't Gamble With Your Recovery: Three IT Strategies to Keep Your Business in the Game (Part 1 of 4)2009-08-11 Symantec
  Building out an overall recovery strategy can't just be a roll of the dice. It's no longer enough to have an "In case of emergency" disaster recovery plan that just sits on the shelf. Now there is also need to address the "small disasters" that typically impact daily business operations - namely lost or deleted data, application and hardware failures. Any of which can result in hours/days of downtime and lost productivity. The challenge for companies today is how to develop a comprehensive recovery strategy that won't break the bank, but is also flexible enough to keep pace with increasing IT service requirements. This webcast is useful for those who are responsible for data center operations.

Tags: Data Infrastructure		   
whitepaper Data warehousing with DB2 family for IBM System z customers2009-08-06 IBM
  Discover the unique support for data warehousing and business intelligence offered by the IBM® DB2® portfolio. This white paper shows how an IBM System z® server, integrated with the IBM DB2 family of solutions, can help you meet requirements for data warehousing and business intelligence.

Tags: Data Tools, Data Infrastructure, Data Tools, Data Infrastructure