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whitepaper Architecting the Green Data Center2007-08-01 Cisco Systems
  Simple changes to the structure of the data center network can vastly improve the utilization of the energy resources. The attendee of this webcast will learn how networking technologies, like SAN fabric virtualization and integrated firewall and application services, can help.

Tags: SANs, Virtualization		   
whitepaper The Importance of the Network for Data Centers of the Future2007-08-01 Cisco Systems
  To better support the business, IT infrastructures need to continuously improve their agility, TCO and resilience. This can only be achieved by architecting data centers with an end-to-end approach that holistically takes into consideration servers, storage, applications and networks. Cisco networking solutions for the data center allow IT organizations to achieve those objectives through shared, dynamic infrastructure services that enable optimized application deployment and delivery.   
whitepaper Preparing Your Data Center for Business Continuance2007-08-01 Cisco Systems
  There is increasing pressure for IT to deliver infrastructures that maintain continuous availability of applications. The underlying infrastructure must recover quickly from disasters and be scalable to offer dynamic growth on an as-needed basis. The attendee of this webcast will learn the preparing of the data center for business continuance.   
whitepaper Re-Engineering the Cisco Data Center to Support a Rapidly Changing Business2007-08-01 Cisco Systems
  The presenter of this webcast discusses how they are evolving the Cisco data center infrastructure to a dynamic services model. The presenter of this webcast also shares a lesson learned over the past 3 years while planning and implementing a strategy to virtualize server, storage and network resources - to a model that can rapidly align with changing service demands. The presenter of this webcast discusses the organizational, technical and operational challenges he has tackled to consolidate over 4 petabytes of data and 7,000 servers in support of over 1,800 production applications and 48,000 users.   
whitepaper Best Practices for Data Center Infrastructure Design: Cabling Distances and Space Planning2007-08-01 Siemon
  When designing and laying out a data center, understanding best practices as well the pros and cons for each type of data center is critical. The TIA 942 data center guidelines are very specific that horizontal and vertical cabling should be run accommodating growth, so that these areas do not have to be revisited. It is also specific about equipment not being directly connected unless it is specifically required by the manufacturer. This is inline with other standards documents such as ANSI/TIA/EIA 568-B that design for opens systems architecture.   
whitepaper Automated System and Service Monitoring With openQRM and Nagios2007-07-25 UKUUG
  The first step to make sure all systems and services in a data centers are running well is to monitor them. A well-known, proven and widely used monitoring tool is Nagios which is available for openQRM in the flavor of an additional plugin. The second, also essential, step is the automatic handling of errors, what openQRM is famous for. The combination of the enhanced monitoring utility Nagios and the automated error-handling, high-availability and fail-over features of the openQRM data center management platform creates a powerful and dynamic environment which reduces down-time of systems and services in a modern data center to the minimum.   
whitepaper Scottrade and Cisco Team Up: Data Center Solution Leads in Trading Speed2007-07-24 Cisco Systems
  Cisco Advanced Services teams up with investment firm to create a data center solution that leads the industry in online trading speed.   
whitepaper Boston University's College of Engineering Simplifies Management of Complex Data Center2007-07-20 Network Appliance (NetApp)
  The Boston University's College of Engineering includes 37 research centers and labs in which some 3,000 students, faculty, staff, and affiliates create and share large, complex data files and run compute-intensive applications. In 2005, the college's IT team resolved to make a change. They needed something easier to manage, but something resilient enough to accommodate their demanding environment. Rather than piecemeal solutions, the university sought a common platform that would centralize all their storage needs without sacrificing reliability and versatility. The College of Engineering's team evaluated several major storage offerings from half a dozen storage vendors and chose NetApp.

Tags: Storage Consolidation		   
whitepaper Virtualization From the Datacenter to the Desktop: Building a Comprehensive, End-to-End Virtualization Strategy2007-07-11 Microsoft
  Enterprises worldwide are embracing a digital work style to stay competitive in a dynamic and increasingly global business environment. This work style requires that teams collaborate seamlessly across organizations and time zones, while success relies on speed, mobility, and connectivity. Virtualization has gained much attention across organizations looking to address these challenges, improving the efficiency of their IT operations and enhancing their responsiveness to changing conditions. Originally focused on consolidating resources in the data center, virtualization now has applications across the IT spectrum, driving down costs and improving agility. This paper looks at the role virtualization should take in an optimized IT infrastructure, and presents a set of principles and best practices to help one build a comprehensive virtualization strategy for the organization.

Tags: Virtualization		   
whitepaper Cisco Energy-Efficient Data Center Solutions2007-07-01 Cisco Systems
  Data center power and cooling requirements are high priority topics for Cisco customers, prompted by recent advances in computing and storage product designs. The network is uniquely positioned in the data center to facilitate increased utilization of storage resources. In some cases, the network also provides virtualization services that in the past were supported by appliances. Integrate the functions of an appliance-based architecture that is based on service modules can free power capacity and slow power consumption growth.