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Humidification Stratiegies for Data Centers and Network Rooms sponsored by Schneider Electric WHITE PAPER: This paper explains the nature of humidity, its effects and its management in computer rooms and data centers. Posted: 26 Mar 2014 \| Published: 20 Nov 2008 TOPICS: Computer Room Air Conditioning Units \| Data Center Management \| Data Centers \| Downtime \| ERP \| High Availability

VMware vSphere 5.1 Updates Including Web Client, Disaster Recovery sponsored by VMware, Inc. WHITE PAPER: Access this resource for expert insights to help IT admins get familiar with the new availability and storage features of vSphere 5.1. Learn how the next-gen features can transform your IT environment today. Posted: 29 Jul 2013 \| Published: 29 Jul 2013 TOPICS: Data Center Consolidation \| Data Center Design \| Data Center Infrastructure Efficiency \| Data Center Management \| Data Centers \| Server Hardware \| Server Management \| Server Virtualization \| Server Virtualization Software

Cisco UCS – A Real World TCO Analysis sponsored by Cisco Systems, Inc. WHITE PAPER: This white paper reveals five opportunities for infrastructure cost savings. Learn how to simplify management of your data center through integration and automation of network, compute, and virtualization technologies. Posted: 03 Jun 2011 \| Published: 01 Apr 2011 TOPICS: Data Center Management \| Data Centers \| Network Management \| Server Management \| Storage Management \| Systems Integration \| Systems Maintenance \| Systems Management

Dell Equallogic PS Series and VMware View Enhance Virtual Desktop Project Success sponsored by Dell and VMware WHITE PAPER: Read this white paper to to learn how VMware View can help IT administrators decrease operating costs by centralizing management, data protection and security. Posted: 10 Mar 2011 \| Published: 10 Mar 2011 TOPICS: Data Center Management \| Data Management \| Data Security \| Infrastructure Management \| Remote Access Hardware \| Remote Access Security \| Remote Access Software \| Server Management \| VMware

Rack Powering Options for High Density sponsored by Schneider Electric WHITE PAPER: In this APC whitepaper, alternatives for providing electrical power to high density racks in data centers and network rooms are explained and compared as well as defined guidelines for rack power systems that can reliably deliver power to high density loads while adapting to changing needs. Posted: 01 Apr 2010 \| Published: 09 Jul 2009 TOPICS: Blade Servers \| Data Center Infrastructure Efficiency \| Data Center Management \| Data Center Power Management \| Data Centers \| Data Warehouse Architectures \| Power Supplies \| Rack Enclosures \| Rack Servers

Protecting Server Data in Small and Medium-sized Businesses sponsored by Iron Mountain WHITE PAPER: Read this white paper to learn how to successfully protect server data outside a centralized data center and focus on specific needs and requirements for SMBs. Posted: 11 Jan 2010 \| Published: 01 Sep 2006 TOPICS: Business Process Management \| Continuous Data Protection \| Data Center Management \| Data Centers \| Disaster Recovery \| Disk Backups \| Regulatory Compliance \| Risk Management \| SMBs \| Tape Backups

Optimizing Performance and Maximizing Investments in Tape Storage Systems sponsored by Fujifilm USA WHITE PAPER: Fujifilm Tape Environment Analysis is the first vendor-agnostic, platform-neutral, comprehensive assessment for tape storage systems. It provides an assessment of the backup environment culminating in a report that includes recommendations to maximize existing resources, avoid unnecessary expenditures and ensure compliance requirements are met. Posted: 27 Jul 2009 \| Published: 27 Jul 2009 TOPICS: Data Center Management \| Data Centers \| Data Management \| Data Storage \| NAS \| SAN \| Storage Management \| Storage Resource Management Software \| Tape Backups

A Quantitative Comparison of High Efficiency AC vs. DC Power Distribution for Data Centers sponsored by Schneider Electric WHITE PAPER: This paper explains why a move to a DC-based architecture is unwarranted on the basis of efficiency by comparing the most efficient DC and AC power distribution methods. Posted: 10 Jul 2009 \| Published: 07 Jan 2007 TOPICS: Capacity Management \| Data Center Management \| Data Center Power Management \| Data Centers \| Installation \| Modeling \| Power Connectors \| Power Consumption Monitoring \| Power Supplies

Enterprise Backup and Recovery Considerations: How to Maintain Your Restore-Readiness sponsored by Sirius Computer Solutions WHITE PAPER: IT systems are vulnerable to a variety of disruptions. This paper will focus on common processes and procedures that should be part of any effective enterprise backup/restore system. Posted: 08 Jul 2009 \| Published: 26 Jun 2009 TOPICS: Backups \| Business Continuity Planning \| Data Center Management \| Data Centers \| Data Governance \| Data Management \| Data Recovery \| Data Storage \| Disaster Planning \| Disaster Recovery \| Enterprise \| IT Systems \| Storage Best Practices \| Storage Management \| Storage Resource Management \| Storage Security

Energy Logic: Calculating and Prioritizing Your Data Center IT Efficiency Actions sponsored by Emerson Network Power WHITE PAPER: This paper reviews the challenges of measuring data center energy efficiency and proposes a solution: a new metric called CUPS, or Compute Units per Second, that allows data center managers to calculate data center efficiency. Posted: 07 Jul 2009 \| Published: 07 Jul 2009 TOPICS: Data Center Infrastructure Efficiency \| Data Center Management \| Data Center Power Management \| Energy Efficiency \| IT Best Practices \| IT Infrastructure \| IT Management \| IT Spending \| Metrics \| Operating Equipment Efficiency or Effectiveness (OEE) \| Operational Metrics (Systems) \| RAS (Reliability, Availability, Serviceability) \| Server Virtualization \| Systems Maintenance

Choosing System Architecture and Cooling Fluid for High Heat Density Cooling Solutions sponsored by Emerson Network Power WHITE PAPER: High heat in critical spaces compromises availability. This paper discusses the pros and cons of different cooling fluids and system architectures, and explores the role of supplemental cooling technologies as data center densities increase. Posted: 07 Jul 2009 \| Published: 07 Jul 2009 TOPICS: Cooling Capacity \| Cooling Equipment \| Data Center Cooling \| Data Center Infrastructure Efficiency \| Data Center Management \| Data Center Power Management \| Hot Aisle Cold Aisle \| Network Architectures \| Power Generation Equipment \| Rack Enclosures \| Systems Management

Optimize Performance of Datacenter to Datacenter Traffic sponsored by BlueCoat WHITE PAPER: Traffic between datacenters is growing at an accelerating rate. As throughput expands, the rate at which costs increase rises as well. A WAN optimization solution can help get backups and database synchronizations completed on time - without hurting VoIP or internet backhaul. Read on to learn more. Posted: 01 Jul 2009 \| Published: 01 Jul 2009 TOPICS: Bandwidth Management \| Data Center Consolidation \| Data Center Management \| Data Synchronization \| Server Consolidation \| WAN \| WAN Switching

IT@Intel: Staying Committed to Server Refresh Reduces Cost sponsored by Intel Corporation WHITE PAPER: Learn why Intel IT decided to move ahead with server refresh in 2009 after current economic conditions forced us to re-evaluate our strategy. Analysis found that delaying server refresh for a year would increase our costs by USD 19 million. Posted: 30 Jun 2009 \| Published: 30 Jun 2009 TOPICS: Business Intelligence \| Business Intelligence Software \| Data Center Consolidation \| Data Center Design \| Data Center Management \| Server Hardware \| Server Management \| Server Provisioning

Open Source in the Next Computing Wave sponsored by Red Hat and JBoss WHITE PAPER: The current economic climate is forcing more systematic thinking about costs in general, including those associated with overall complexity and the security and resiliency of large distributed infrastructures. These trends intersect in powerful ways; a new wave of computing is gathering momentum as a result. And open source is playing a major role. Posted: 18 Jun 2009 \| Published: 09 Jan 2009 TOPICS: Cloud Computing \| Collaborative Applications Software \| Data Center Management \| Data Centers \| Distributed Computing \| Distributed Data Management \| Linux \| Open Source \| Open Source Software \| SaaS ERP \| Server Virtualization \| Server Virtualization Software \| Software as a Service

The Top Five Virtualization Mistakes sponsored by Vyatta Inc. WHITE PAPER: This paper describes five mistakes common to many implementations of enterprise virtualization. Most of these mistakes relate to virtualization and networking infrastructure. Ideally, after reading this paper, you'll be sensitized to these issues so that you can plan for them and make your virtualization projects more successful. Posted: 17 Jun 2009 \| Published: 01 Jun 2007 TOPICS: Data Center Management \| Data Centers \| Disaster Recovery \| Network Security \| Security \| Security Management \| Security Threats \| Server Virtualization \| Vulnerability Assessments \| Vulnerability Management

Embracing the Cloud: Top Seven Imperatives for an Organization sponsored by Wipro WHITE PAPER: This paper analyzes the impact of the cloud on the IT Ecosystem and provides answers to what an organization needs to do in embracing a right cloud strategy. Posted: 12 Jun 2009 \| Published: 01 Mar 2009 TOPICS: Best Practices \| Business Continuity Planning \| CIOs \| Cloud Computing \| Competition \| Data Center Management \| Economic Environment \| IT Managers \| IT Services \| Regulatory Compliance \| Web Services

Advancing Integration of Microsoft Hyper-V and Dell EqualLogic Virtualized SANs sponsored by Dell EMC and Microsoft WHITE PAPER: This paper will discuss the importance of an enterprise-class storage infrastructure as you migrate to a virtualized data center. Dell™ EqualLogic™ PS Series Internet SCSI (iSCSI) storage area network (SAN) arrays enable advanced integration with the robust server virtualization. Posted: 09 Jun 2009 \| Published: 09 Jun 2009 TOPICS: Data Center Management \| Enterprise Architectures \| Enterprise Resource Management \| High Availability \| iSCSI SAN \| Server Management \| Server Virtualization

Hitachi IT Operations Analyzer: Root Cause Analysis for Supporting Fault Identification sponsored by Hitachi Vantara WHITE PAPER: Hitachi Data Systems introduces Hitachi IT Operations Analyzer software with unique Root Cause Analysis functionality. The IT Operations Analyzer is a powerful, proven approach to simplifying IT infrastructure management, with comprehensive performance and availability monitoring of up to 250 server, network and storage nodes. Posted: 04 Jun 2009 \| Published: 01 May 2009 TOPICS: Data Center Infrastructure Efficiency \| Data Center Management \| Data Centers \| Fibre Channel SAN \| Fibre Channel Switches \| IT Management \| Network Monitoring \| TCO

From Chaos to Order - Winning the Information Management Game sponsored by Oracle Corporation WHITE PAPER: This paper explores how businesses can capitalize on a free, easy-to-use, rapid web application tool for the Oracle Database that will help consolidate personal databases, spreadsheets, and other data to create a single point of truth for everyone in the company. Posted: 04 Jun 2009 \| Published: 21 Apr 2009 TOPICS: Business Intelligence \| Data Center Consolidation \| Data Center Management \| Data Deduplication \| Data Management \| Data Mining \| Data Synchronization \| Middleware \| Oracle (Product)

VMware Solutions for Small and Midsize Businesses: The Most Cost-Effective Way to Enable Always On IT sponsored by Dell and VMware WHITE PAPER: Check out this solution brief to discover how VMware equips SMBs with technology solutions that allow them to cost effectively optimize the use of their existing IT assets and resources as well as protect the systems, data, and applications that run the business, ensuring Always On IT. Posted: 01 Jun 2009 \| Published: 01 May 2009 TOPICS: Business Continuity Planning \| Data Center Management \| Data Security \| IT Asset Management \| IT Infrastructure \| SMBs \| VMware \| VMware ESX \| VMware Server

Dell PowerEdge Energy Smart Servers -- The Smart Choice for Optimizing your Data Center sponsored by Dell, Inc. and Intel® WHITE PAPER: Dell's end-to-end approach helps customers worldwide solve their power and cooling challenges and meet the demands of business growth with industry-standard solutions. They offer solutions you can deploy right now, as well as the right mix of tools, partnerships, and services to help you get the most from your existing infrastructure. Posted: 19 May 2009 \| Published: 09 May 2008 TOPICS: Data Center Consolidation \| Data Center Management \| Data Management \| Infrastructure Management \| Power Generation Equipment \| Power Supplies \| Server Consolidation \| Server Management

Dark Pools of Liquidity: Understanding & Technology dependencies for the future sponsored by Wipro WHITE PAPER: This white paper provides insight into the dark pools of liquidity, discusses the mechanism of dark pools trading, advantages and how technology would impact the operations or provide benefits in trading over this medium. Posted: 13 May 2009 \| Published: 12 May 2009 TOPICS: Application Development \| CRM \| Data Center Management \| Financial Services Industry \| Identity Management \| Open Source \| Server Consolidation \| Server Virtualization \| SOA \| Storage Management \| VMware \| VoIP

Backup and Recovery for Microsoft Exchange Server - Data Domain Deduplication Storage Best Practices Guide sponsored by EMC Backup and Recovery Solutions WHITE PAPER: In many companies, Microsoft Exchange is now commonly viewed as a mission-critical application. Protecting Exchange information is critical and backup is still the primary method used. This paper focuses on the traditional backup and recovery practices for Microsoft Exchange Server along with solutions from Data Domain. Posted: 08 May 2009 \| Published: 08 May 2009 TOPICS: Backups \| Clustering \| Continuous Data Protection \| Data Center Management \| Data Recovery \| Data Replication \| Databases \| Disaster Recovery \| Disk Backups \| Microsoft Exchange \| NAS \| RAID \| Storage Best Practices \| Storage Management \| Virtual Tape Libraries \| WAN

Managing the Transition to International Financial Reporting Standards sponsored by Oracle Corporation WHITE PAPER: This white paper identifies the many challenges companies face when implementing International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS) in corporate reporting. The Oracle solution provides the high level of analysis and transparency that companies need in today's demanding and uncertain global financial reporting environment. Posted: 05 May 2009 \| Published: 01 Jul 2008 TOPICS: Business Development \| Business Integration \| Business Intelligence \| Data Center Management \| Data Integration \| Data Management \| Data Migration \| Financial Management \| Financial Services \| Financial Systems \| International Oracle Users Group

Business Management in the Age of Enterprise 2.0: Why Business Model 1.0 Will Obsolete You sponsored by Oracle Corporation WHITE PAPER: In this white paper, we advocate a new definition for Enterprise 2.0. We explain the business drivers and demographic changes that are forcing new, collaborative business models. We identify the technological capabilities required for an Enterprise 2.0 platform, and highlight the transformational abilities of such a platform. Posted: 05 May 2009 \| Published: 01 Dec 2008 TOPICS: CIOs \| Data Center Management \| Data Management \| Demographic Profiles \| Enterprise \| Enterprise Architectures \| Enterprise Computing \| Enterprise Content Management \| Enterprise Systems \| ERP \| Oracle (Product)