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Holding Company Enhances Availability and IT Services, Cuts Costs With Virtualization
Founded in 1834, Ayala Corporation is a renowned, highly diversified holding company based in the Philippines. Committed to using advanced technologies to help maximize business investments and enhance employee productivity, the company's IT staff sought a cost-effective way to streamline IT management tasks and optimize application and server availability. Using the Windows Server 2008 Datacenter operating system with Hyper-V technology and several Microsoft System Center products, Ayala consolidated physical servers by more than 60 percent and reduced server rack space requirements by half.
43 days ago by MicrosoftTechNet Webcast: Dynamic Data Center Alliance: Connecting Partners to the Enterprise Market (Level 100)
Designed as a benefit specifically for partners who are creating cloud and virtualized services using the Microsoft Dynamic Data Center Toolkits, the Microsoft Dynamic Data Center Alliance is helping partners grow their businesses by providing them with the tools they need to tap into the emerging enterprise market. The Dynamic Data Center Alliance is bringing together a collection of top notch partners, such as hosters, system integrators, hardware manufacturers, and software vendors, who are working on rich integration with the Dynamic Data Center Toolkits.
62 days ago by MicrosoftTechNet Webcast: Thrive Live! Reducing IT Costs With System Center Data Center Management (Level 200)
IT professionals are responsible for ensuring their data centers deliver services that not only meet their service level agreements but do so in the most cost effective way possible. Microsoft System Center is designed to lower the cost of delivering data center services through integrated, end-to-end management of physical and virtual environments. This extends beyond the Microsoft infrastructure to address the Linux, UNIX, and VMware environments, all with the objective of providing a unified view of data center services.
64 days ago by MicrosoftNet Talk: Sun Modular Datacenter S20
Now Sun Modular Datacenter (Sun MD) radically changes the way datacenter capacity is deployed by delivering a virtualized self-contained datacenter in a shipping container; ready to be sent and deployed - anywhere. The presenter walks through the Sun MD box and some of the customers that are already reaping the benefits.
76 days ago by Sun MicrosystemsHow to Create the Energy Efficient Datacenter: The Role of Modularity in Design and Deployment
The attendee of this webcast will learn how to create a state of the art enterprise datacenter by combining best of breed modules to yield performance and efficiency across the board. This webcast offers best practices that are widely in use today. The attendee will learn how to architect the datacenter in modular, energy efficient building blocks.
76 days ago by Sun MicrosystemsEnergy Efficient Data Center: The Role of Modularity in Design and Deployment
The attendee of this webcast will learn how to create a state of the art enterprise data center by combining best of breed modules to yield performance and efficiency across the board. This in-depth technical webcast is created for architects in the IT industry by Sun's engineering community and offers best practices that are widely in use today. The attendee will learn how to architect the data center in modular, energy efficient building blocks.
76 days ago by Sun MicrosystemsVirtualization: Driving Greater Data Center Efficiency
The presenters of this webcast discuss the challenges and solutions that come along with Virtualization. The presenters will cover market trends in virtualization end-to-end virtualization solution sets and will provide some tips and best practices one can use today.
76 days ago by Sun MicrosystemsThe Data Center of the Future: Adapting to 21st Century Customer-Driven Demands
With virtualization technologies becoming mainstream and adoption rates rising, traditional data centers have transformed into virtual data centers, where technologies are virtualized to provide business services. Although this trend will continue for a few more years, leading-edge companies are positioning themselves for the data center of the future. The data center of the future no longer focuses on technology only, but instead it concentrates on the services that need to be provided to the clients. In effect, the data center transforms into a services data center. The author describes the transformation from traditional, via virtual, to the services data center, with special emphasis on the business impact of this transformation.
76 days ago by Hewlett-Packard (HP)JustRunIt: Experiment-Based Management of Virtualized Data Centers
Managing data centers is a challenging endeavor. State-of-the-art management systems often rely on analytical modeling to assess the performance, availability, and/or energy implications of potential management decisions or system configurations. This paper argues that actual experiments are cheaper, simpler, and more accurate than models for many management tasks. To support this claim, an infrastructure is built for experiment based management of virtualized data centers, called JustRunIt. The infrastructure creates a sandboxed environment in which experiments can be run-on a very small number of machines - using real workloads and real system state, but without affecting the on-line system.
76 days ago by Hewlett-Packard (HP)BrownMap: Enforcing Power Budget in Shared Data Centers
Shared data centers that use virtualized servers as building blocks (e.g., clouds) are emerging as an exciting technology that provides a computational platform for customers without incurring a steep setup cost. The providers of a shared data center, however, need intelligent mechanisms to deal with bursts in resource requirements as well as failures that may significantly reduce resource availability. In this work, the author investigates mechanisms to ensure that a shared data center can operate within a power budget, while maximizing the overall revenue earned by the provider. The paper presents the BrownMap methodology that is able to ensure that data centers can deal both with outages that reduces the available power or with surges in workload.
91 days ago by IBM
