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What is Third-Party Maintenance in the Data Center? sponsored by Service Express WHITE PAPER: Third-party maintenance can give back control of your equipment life cycle, reduce long-term maintenance costs, and help maximize data center investments. Inside, learn how to accurately weigh the pros and cons of switching away from traditional OEM support. Posted: 08 Feb 2021 \| Published: 23 Jan 2020 TOPICS: Data Center Management \| Data Centers \| Outsourcing \| Server Management \| Service Level 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

Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 General Overview sponsored by Red Hat and JBoss WHITE PAPER: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 was released in early 2007. Learn about its enhanced level of capabilities and new levels of performance, scalability and security. Posted: 18 Sep 2007 \| Published: 01 Feb 2007 TOPICS: Applications Software \| Data Center Management \| Data Management \| Enterprise Systems \| Linux \| Open Source \| Open Source Software \| Server Virtualization \| Storage Virtualization

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

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

BladeCenter E-Kit sponsored by IBM WHITE PAPER: Download a complimentary copy of the IBM BladeCenter e-kit which contains white papers, videos and case studies featuring real-life success stories. Posted: 16 Jan 2009 \| Published: 16 Jan 2009 TOPICS: Blade Servers \| Cooling Equipment \| Data Center Management \| Data Centers \| Power Supplies \| Productivity \| Server Consolidation \| Server Management

Deploying DB2 database on the Sun Storage 7000 Unified Storage System sponsored by Sun Microsystems, Inc. WHITE PAPER: Recognizing the need for easy-to-manage, eco-friendly, and scalable storage solutions that deliver exceptional business value, Sun created the Sun™ Storage 7000 Unified Storage Systems. These systems incorporate an open-systems approach that selects superior general-purpose servers and storage components. Posted: 16 Apr 2009 \| Published: 16 Apr 2009 TOPICS: Data Center Management \| High Performance Computing \| Software Configuration Management \| Software Implementation \| Storage Best Practices \| Storage Infrastructure \| Storage Management Software

Air-Cooled High-Performance Data Centers: Case Studies and Best Methods. sponsored by Intel Corporation WHITE PAPER: Designing an air-cooled data center has been challending and costly for many businesses. Read this white paper to learn how Intel Corporation achieved breakthrough power and heat densities of 15 kW per cabinet and more than 500 watts per square foot of server room area. Posted: 12 Aug 2008 \| Published: 01 Aug 2008 TOPICS: Data Center Management

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

A Holistic View of Virtualization in the Data Center sponsored by Agilysys-Sun Technology Solutions WHITE PAPER: When most IT Pros and CIOs think virtualization, the first thing that comes to mind is server consolidation using server virtualization. However, there is a lot more to virtualization than just "consolidating your servers with VMware." In this analysis, we'll help you to understand the different types of virtualization and which works best for you. Posted: 09 Mar 2009 \| Published: 09 Mar 2009 TOPICS: Backups \| Data Center Management \| Data Centers \| Disaster Recovery \| Server Virtualization \| Server Virtualization Software