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whitepaper PlateSpin Helps Essent Consolidate Three Data Centers Into One, Saves Company EUR 2 Million2007-07-01 PlateSpin
  With some 700 Wintel servers, Essent's primary data center was already large and growing by approximately 100 servers per year. The company faced a number of challenges in accommodating this rapid growth including a lack of floor space and server capacity, as well as power and cooling shortfalls. By enabling many different workload movement activities, PlateSpin PowerRecon and PowerConvert proved that they would be useful for both the data center consolidation project and the ongoing operational requirements in the data center - all within a single software, support and training investment.

Tags: Server Consolidation, Virtualization		   
whitepaper Cisco Energy Efficient Data Center Solutions and Best Practices2007-07-01 Cisco Systems
  This paper discusses how IT professionals can better design power and cooling efficiencies in their data centers through the strategic application of Cisco and partner technologies. It seeks to empower IT professionals to work more effectively with their facilities counterparts. Because the entire industry is in the planning phase regarding green data center operations, the intent of this paper is to share best-practices solutions that Cisco has in place today.   
whitepaper Enterprise Data Center Wide Area Application Services (WAAS) Design Guide2007-06-13 Cisco Systems
  The Cisco Wide Area Application Services (WAAS) portfolio of technologies and products give enterprise branches LAN-like access to centrally-hosted applications, servers, storage, and multimedia with LAN-like performance. WAAS provides application delivery, acceleration, WAN optimization, and local service solutions for an enterprise branch to optimize performance of any TCP-based application in a WAN or MAN environment. This paper provides guidelines and best practices when implementing WAAS in enterprise architectures. The paper gives an overview of WAAS technology and then explores how WAAS operates in data center architectures. Design considerations and complete tested topologies and configurations are provided.   
whitepaper Guidelines for Specifying Data Center Criticality / Tier Levels2007-06-08 American Power Conversion (APC)
  A framework for benchmarking a future data center's operational performance is essential for effective planning and decision making. Currently available criticality or tier methods do not provide defensible specifications for validating data center performance. An appropriate specification for data center criticality should provide unambiguous defensible language for the design and installation of a data center. This paper analyzes and compares existing tier methods, describes how to choose a criticality level, and proposes a defensible data center criticality specification. Maintaining a data center's criticality is also discussed.   
whitepaper Getting to the Next Generation Data Center - A 4-Stage Approach2007-06-01 Univa UD
  Most companies have implemented the necessary first steps to reduce costs, such as server consolidation and standardization, and many are already investigating (if not implementing) virtualization technology as well. But spending reductions associated with these solutions have often been accompanied by increased operating and management costs, as well as pressure for even higher levels of service. With the advent of new technologies around virtualization and automation, IT managers must look beyond their initial first steps toward new stages of data center evolution. This paper describes the four stages that most companies move through toward achieving a more streamlined data center model, with a discussion of the elements, benefits, and limitations of each evolutionary stage.

Tags: Cost Control - Risk Mgmt., Virtualization		   
whitepaper Automating Data Center Management2007-06-01 Univa UD
  This paper describes the current issues and trends related to managing a data center environment and how application virtualization and automation can help resolve these issues. A technical solution that utilizes Univa UD's Data Center One solution is described in detail. Specific use cases and their corresponding solutions show how Univa UD technology can be applied to solve real-world problems and how the technology fits within the current data center ecosystem.   
whitepaper A Business Guide to Compliance - Baker & McKenzie2007-06-01 Google
  The use of electronic data is rapidly increasing, and companies must find ways to manage it now so that they effectively control compliance risks.

Proper archiving, retention, monitoring, filtering, and encryption of electronic data are no longer an option - it is imperative.

Learn the top 10 ways to plan for managing electronic data and avoiding tomorrow's legal risks through archiving, e-discovery, and encryption.

Tags: Business Intelligence - Data Warehousing, Email, Sarbanes-Oxley, SEC Rule 17A-4, Data Recovery - Security, Legal, Cost Control - Risk Mgmt.		   
whitepaper Liquid Computing for a Dynamic Datacenter2007-06-01 IDG (International Data Group)
  The confluence of several technology trends - including a consolidation on x86 server architectures; the emergence of powerful, easy-to-use hypervisor and virtual machine technology; and the focus on operational cost reductions - has created a perfect storm that is changing the definition of what constitutes a standard x86 architecture. No longer are customers satisfied to default to a one-workload-per-server deployment scenario aboard dozens, hundreds, or potentially thousands of inexpensive x86 servers. Instead, these customers are asking themselves if there is a better way to handle their deployments.

Tags: x86-standard Servers		   
whitepaper Distributed Virtual Data Center: Using Windows Server System and Melio FS for Dynamic Resource Allocation and 7-24 Application Uptime2007-06-01 Sanbolic
  Virtualization is a powerful tool for improving data center flexibility, reliability, and utilization, while reducing cost of management. By separating logical processing and storage resources from the physical hardware on which they run, virtualization can greatly improve the utility of these assets. Using Windows Server 2003 Enterprise or Data Center Edition, Windows Virtual Server 2005 R2, and Windows Storage Server 2003 R2, it is now possible to build a distributed virtualized data center that can easily be managed using standard Windows tools. This is made possible by recent advances in cluster file system technology from Sanbolic and the integration of iSCSI block storage into Windows Storage Server, allowing exiting GigE networking infrastructure to be used for SAN connectivity.

Tags: Virtualization		   
whitepaper Data Center One for SAP - Solution Blueprint and ROI Analysis2007-06-01 Univa UD
  This paper describes the Univa UD solution for delivering SAP on a Data Center One-managed infrastructure - including an SAP architecture analysis, pain points, solution overview, detailed ROI calculation, and benefits delivered. For a typical SAP customer, the implementation landscape consists of a large number of dedicated application servers: A single SAP implementation consists of multiple applications (e.g. R/3, CRM, BW, etc.), each of these applications requires multiple environments for development, quality assurance / testing, and production (additional environments such as sandbox, training, load balancing, failover, and pre-production may also be required) and in many cases, individual application environments are themselves three-tier architectures, each with its own dedicated server.

Tags: ROI - TCO