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ESG Lab Validation Report on Brocade Virtual Fabrics and Director Power Efficiency sponsored by Brocade WHITE PAPER: Hands-on lab testing of Fibre Channel directors including measurements by an independent electrician. Learn how power savings can leave more watts and amps available per rack and per floor tile for bladed servers and storage. Posted: 15 May 2007 \| Published: 01 Mar 2007 TOPICS: Backups \| Cooling Equipment \| Data Center Management \| Fibre Channel SAN \| Fibre Channel Switches \| Power Supplies \| Storage Consolidation \| Storage Virtualization \| Switch Fabric \| Tape Libraries

Cisco MDS 9000 Family Investment Protection sponsored by Cisco Systems, Inc. WHITE PAPER: This white paper serves as a guide to the investment protection offered between first-generation and second-generation Cisco MDS 9000 Family linecards, supervisor, and chassis. Posted: 01 May 2006 \| Published: 01 Apr 2006 TOPICS: Fibre Channel \| Fibre Channel Switches \| IP SAN \| LAN Switches \| Switch Fabric

16 Ways Dell OpenManage Helps Your Business sponsored by Dell Technologies & Intel® WHITE PAPER: Access this infographic that highlights the 16th generation of Dell PowerEdge servers with 16 examples of how OpenManage portfolio enhances server range. Posted: 15 May 2024 \| Published: 15 May 2024 TOPICS: IT Management

Converged Network Infrastructure: Evaluation of Resilience, Performance & Quality of Enterprise Infrastructure for Voice, Data and Video Services sponsored by Nortel Networks Corporation WHITE PAPER: Converged services are being deployed extensively in enterprises to take advantage of the advances in IP-based voice, data and video service offerings. Posted: 19 Oct 2006 \| Published: 01 Sep 2006 TOPICS: Application Performance Management \| Enterprise Architectures \| IP Networks \| Network Architectures \| Network Convergence \| QOS \| VoIP

HP Virtualization with Intel and VMware sponsored by VMware, Inc. WHITE PAPER: IT organizations worldwide are leveraging the benefits of virtualization to create flexible IT environments that reduce costs and improve business agility. These are among the many benefits of shifting to solutions from HP, Intel and VMware. Learn how your organization can benefit from complete virtualization solutions from HP, Intel and VMware. Posted: 23 Feb 2009 \| Published: 18 Nov 2008 TOPICS: Architectures \| Disaster Recovery \| Storage Management \| TCO \| VMware

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

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

Making Web 2.0 Work for Your Enterprise: Internal Deployments sponsored by Oracle Corporation WHITE PAPER: Making knowledge more visible increases innovation and shortens turnaround times. Increased collaboration accelerates productivity. With Web 2.0, your company transforms into a more-socially connected organization that reacts faster and more effectively to the market. Posted: 03 Apr 2009 \| Published: 01 Aug 2008 TOPICS: Blogs \| Collaboration \| IT Management \| IT Management Services \| Knowledge Management \| Market Trends \| Productivity \| Project Management \| Social Computing \| Social Networking \| Tagging \| Wikis

Business-Model-Driven Data Warehousing: Keeping Data Warehouses Connected to Your Business sponsored by Kalido WHITE PAPER: This paper analyzes the issues of conventional data warehouse design process and explains how this practice can be improved using a business-model-driven process in support of effective Business Intelligence. Posted: 04 Jun 2008 \| Published: 01 Jun 2008 TOPICS: Architectures \| Business Models \| Business Performance Management \| Communications Systems \| Data Modeling \| Data Warehouses \| Enterprise \| Master Data Management

Essential Guide for Upgrading Your Network sponsored by TechTarget Networking WHITE PAPER: This SearchNetworking.com E-Book will explore the challenges, best practices and essential technologies for responding to the shortcomings of today's network, as well as future-proofing your network for tomorrow's business challenges. Posted: 10 Dec 2007 \| Published: 10 Dec 2007 TOPICS: Application Development \| Applications Management \| Applications Management Software \| Network Architectures \| Network Infrastructure \| Network Performance Management \| WAN