The data center landscape is changing quickly, creating new options for IT architecture and physical facility design. When deciding if a containerized or modular solution is the right option for your data center.
Many myths and misunderstandings persist about using modular and containerized solutions in a data center....
Published: May 21, 2014
Oracle ERP systems are often the most critical IT applications an organization has. Any missteps in administration or hardware configuration can be very costly to a business. Given the complexity of the tasks they perform, the Oracle applications require the correct hardware configuration in addition to specialized expertise...
Published: Sep 04, 2014
This white paper will examine three areas of data center management relating to the measurement, use and saving of energy. It will also suggest criteria that can help you decide whether one or more of these areas can help you achieve the goals established by EO 13514.
Published: Apr 17, 2013
The modern data center is no longer a singular location. Rather, new demands require the data center to be a geographically distributed network of resources. As new services, cloud components and users find their way into the data center model – there will be more reliance around the services that the data center...
Published: Aug 19, 2014
his free eBook examines operations and the most likely causes of outages in a data center along with organizational strategies that can eliminate or minimize the potential for unplanned downtime in a data center.
Published: Jan 09, 2014
There is a lot of polarization happening in the blade server market. This whitepaper features a Gartner evaluation of this and other important blade server market trends, including an in-depth evaluation of some of today's biggest vendors.Virtualization continues to be one of the most effective ways to consolidate,...
Published: Nov 15, 2013
This reports documents hands-on and testing of the NetApp Distributed Content Repository. The Distributed Content Repository was designed to extend object-based storage across geographies provide a repository for unstructured content that is effectively infinite, practically immortal, and highly intelligent.
Published: Dec 18, 2013
Claranet’s Virtual Data Centre resources are built on enterpriseclass hardware, which means that the virtual infrastructure will deliver a high performance, reliable and secure platform for your applications.
The new service has been designed specifically to replicate the internal IT infrastructure model, and...
Published: Mar 01, 2015
Storage infrastructure performance monitoring and management is the key to business continuity and availability solutions. To ensure application performance, storage managers must manage the performance of the array and the SAN based on the array. HP Storage Essentials software delivers a solution for these scenarios....
Published: Jun 05, 2013
Is your datacenter struggling to keep pace with growing dynamic business demands? Build a modern datacenter by incorporating advanced technologies and improved infrastructure for better performance, scalability and significantly reduced expenses.
Download this white paper to learn eight fundamental strategies that...
Published: May 02, 2013
When power varies with time, a variety of new problems occur for the design and management of data centers and network rooms. A few years ago, this problem was negligible. The problem has now reached a point where it is significant and the magnitude of the problem is growing...
Published: May 07, 2015
Technological progression has introduced new types of solutions, platforms, and ways to conduct business. Through these advancements, organizations have been able to leverage modern technologies capable of scalability and optimized end-user experiences.
Current data center platforms are creating highly efficient environments...
Published: Apr 10, 2014
Adding, moving, decommissioning and renaming devices in the data center should be a simple process. But in today’s complex data centers, these tasks have become something of a high-wire act, fraught with inefficiency and risk. Trends like virtualization are only compounding the difficulty. In these dense environments,...
Published: Apr 01, 2014
The demand for more power in the computer cabinet has led many data centers to upgrade to three phase power distribution. Proper three phase power distribution has traditionally meant dividing power into multiple branches within the rack PDU (Power Distribution Unit).
In this paper we will explore the advantages of...
Published: Aug 19, 2014