data center

Read this paper to learn how NetScaler is meeting modern demands for more robust datacenter security.

Organizations that have virtualized their environments are discovering that the journey's not over. In many ways, it's just beginning. The full benefits of virtualization -- from cost savings and increased speed to resource transparency and control -- can only be fully realized by optimizing all of the interdependent components. In this webcast, IBM leaders discuss how organizations can get more from their virtualization investments with best practices gleaned from years of transforming traditional data centers and building world-class clouds.

Data workloads are rapidly evolving and changing. Today's enterprises have many different types of applications, with different usage patterns, all constantly accessing data. As a result, data services need to be more robust and scalable. IBM PureApplication System and IBM PureData™ System for Transactions are designed to meet these needs. This paper shows how the latest technology and expertise built into these systems gives businesses an innovative approach to rapidly create and manage highly scalable data services, without the complexity of traditional approaches.

Most enterprise datacenters are so cluttered with individually constructed servers, including database servers, that staff time is largely taken up with just the maintenance of these systems. As a result, IT service to business users suffers, and the agility of the enterprise suffers. Integrated systems represent an antidote to this problem. By dramatically reducing the amount of setup and maintenance time for the applications and databases they support, integrated systems enable the technical staff to spend more of their time supporting users and enabling the enterprise to thrive.

Learn about 3 optimizations of IBM PureData System for Transactions that can help your organization meet today's big data challenges.

The IBM DB2 pureScale feature is designed to address your current and future business needs for continuous availability. This white paper introduces DB2 pureScale—what it looks like, where it comes from, and how it allows you to scale out your database on a set of servers in an active-active configuration that combines high availability with truly transparent application scaling.

Learn about the new trending technologies that are shaping the data center and see how your organization can implement these technologies to have the most agile and efficient infrastructures possible.

Download this Tech Brief to get the real facts about tape storage.

With the introduction of Oracle's StorageTek T10000C tape drive, Oracle has raised the bar again, delivering the world's fastest tape drive and the first tape solution to offer an exabyte of storage capacity in a single tape library.

Learn about this optimized package of software, servers and storage that can support OLTP, DW or mixed application workloads and creates consolidation economies of scale in the data center.

With the introduction of Oracle's StorageTek T10000C tape drive, Oracle has raised the bar again, delivering the world's fastest tape drive and the first tape solution to offer an exabyte of storage capacity in a single tape library.

Download this Tech Brief to get the real facts about tape storage.

With more than 100 survey respondents, The Aberdeen Group has collected information on the little known subject of SaaS data loss, how it affects companies today, and what IT departments are doing to combat it.

The data that resides within Salesforce.com is arguably some of an organization’s most valuable data for all current and future revenue – including contacts, purchase history, lead information, reports on prospects, sales quotes, signed contracts, and customer invoices. Salesforce has a robust data center and the infrastructure to protect your data from hardware failure, even on a catastrophic scale. However, it does not protect you from user error or data being overwritten.

Sponsored by: NEC and Intel® Xeon® processor Servers with the Intel® Xeon® processor E7 v2 family in a four-CPU configuration can deliver up to twice the processing performance, three times the memory capacity, and four times the I/O bandwidth of previous models. Together with their excellent transaction processing performance, these servers provide a high level of availability essential to enterprise systems via advanced RAS functions that guarantee the integrity of important data while also reducing costs and the frequency of server downtime. Intel, the Intel logo, Xeon, and Xeon Inside are trademarks or registered trademarks of Intel Corporation in the U.S. and/or other countries.

Budgeting for electricity, securing adequate supplies of it and finding ways to use less of it are all common topics of conversation among data center operators. Ensuring that the power their IT resources rely on is both dependable and clean, sadly, can sometimes be an afterthought.

Not so many years ago, network closets, server rooms and data centers were designed from a “room to rack” standpoint. Deciding specifically where to store your technology typically came later in the design process. However, rapid technology refresh cycles, the need to rackmount more equipment and the desire for increased cooling capacities in an enclosed rack (known as an enclosure), have all begun to reverse that trend. Today, IT professionals are designing these critical workspaces with more of a “rack to room” methodology.

Power distribution is facilitated through different pieces of equipment that take the power conditioned by your uninterruptible power supply (UPS) and send it to your IT equipment . Power distribution solutions can manage and even control energy consumption in smaller environments as well as large data center applications . Distributing power efficiently results in reduced operating costs and increased reliability.

While network closets take on all shapes and sizes, they are essentially an arm of the data center and as an important component of all mission-critical environments, must be organized, protected, and managed efficiently and effectively. IT professionals are charged with keeping the technology infrastructure functioning, even in the face of constrained resources and increasing complexity.

This paper divides the realm of data center "Operations Technology" into four distinct domains and compares the primary and secondary functions of key subsystems within these domains.

This paper explains how to quantify the electricity savings and provides examples of methods that can greatly reduce electrical power consumption.

This paper describes the principles of a new, commercially available data center architecture that can be implemented today to dramatically improve the electrical efficiency of data centers.

This paper explains some the newer approaches to power distribution including modular power distribution and overhead power busway, and shows their advantages when compared to the legacy approach.

This paper examines both methodologies and highlights the reasons why hot-aisle containment emerges as the preferred best practice.

NetApp has acquired SolidFire, and combined the performance and economics of all-flash storage with a webscale architecture that radically simplifies data center operations and enables rapid deployments of new applications. Hear IDC's view about the NetApp Flash Portfolio and the integration of SolidFire technology.