Breaking into new markets, meeting customer requirements and increasing profitability are key objectives for all companies. Efficient and adaptable technology is required to make these happen.
Appropriate infrastructure foundations such as network, IT, data centre and voice are crucial to businesses success. This...
Published: Jul 01, 2015
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
Virtualization has become a “megatrend”—and for good reason. Implementing virtualization allows for more efficient utilization of network server capacity, simpler storage administration, reduced energy costs, and better use of corporate capital. In other words: virtualization helps you save money, energy,...
Published: Dec 01, 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
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
Nobody needs to tell you that energy efficiency is at the top of the data center’s to-do list. Every data center is looking to cut power consumption while maintaining the highest level of service. But achieving real energy efficiency is easier said than done. Sprawling and convoluted infrastructures make it hard...
Published: Apr 01, 2014
Data centers are finding that they must deploy more and more power to their racks. This white paper addresses considerations surrounding the deployment of high power.
Published: Apr 08, 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
The average computer room today has cooling capacity that is nearly four times the IT heat load. Using Data from 45 sites reviewed by Upsite Technologies, this white paper will show how you can calculate, benchmark, interpret, and benefit from a simple and practical metric called the Cooling Capacity Factor.
Published: Sep 18, 2013
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
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
Ten years ago, IT was a lot simpler – especially when it came to backup and recovery. But now that recovery has less to do with tape backup and physical facilities and more to do with the cloud and virtualisation, IT needs to find a more adaptive approach to this critical process.
This infographic examines some...
Published: Mar 13, 2014
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
Since the IT function is so vital to the success of any modern organization, improving productivity, efficiency and reliability of data center operations deliver an immediate competitive advantage to DCIM adopters.
This e-book will offer some facts about why this is so and, if not already the case, why DCIM is clearly...
Published: Oct 31, 2013