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| Open, Simple, and Scalable Storage at a Fraction of the Cost |
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| by Sun Microsystems |
| This white paper demonstrates how power, cooling, and real estate requirements are finally combining—to form a perfect storm for expensive, locked-in, proprietary hardware. But open storage appliances are based on industry-standard hardware and install up to 10 times faster than traditional systems, all while delivering twice the performance and capacity—and cutting power and cooling costs. To learn more, download your copy now. |
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| Reducing Storage Complexity |
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| by Sun Microsystems |
| The experts at IDC predict that external disk storage capacity will grow 50% through 2010—but with that capacity comes a new set of hurdles. In this free white paper, you′ll discover 4 key storage challenges for organizations facing the future; 4 important benefits of unified storage; and performance requirements to look for. Don′t drown in a sea of data—make it work for you. Download this free IDC white paper now. |
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| What Is Open Storage?: The Need for a New Storage Architecture |
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| by Sun Microsystems |
| This free white paper reveals how the latest generation of open storage systems is helping businesses stay flexible and profitable. Learn how Web 2.0′s massive storage requirements are pushing businesses toward storage that′s affordable, reliable, and dynamic; how open source code gives you faster innovation, wider choice, and lower costs without vendor lock-in; and how 6 organizations around the world are successfully deploying it. Download your free copy now. |
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| Reducing Costs Through Better Server Utilization |
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| by Sun Microsystems |
| In this free white paper, learn how a lower server count can keep the datacenter agile enough to cope with today′s dynamically changing priorities and pressures. Discover how consolidation can help deliver services faster while cutting costs, conserving energy, and reacting faster to new demands—and how one company realized a 10x improvement in price/performance and an 83% reduction in power usage and heat dissipation. Download your free copy now. |
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| Sun Reference Architecture for Oracle 11g Grid |
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| by Sun Microsystems |
| This free white paper comes as companies adopt grid computing to deliver greater efficiency, minimize costs, protect investments, and adapt to changing business needs. Inside, you′ll learn 10 key questions to ask when evaluating a grid computing solution; how companies are using grids to maximize reliability, availability, flexibility, and performance; how to connect equipment to optimize scaling, throughput, and overhead; and best practices for grid design. Download your copy now. |
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| Guide to Reducing IT Costs Through Virtualization With Blades |
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| by Sun Microsystems |
| This free white paper from the experts at IDC posits solutions to the key problems posed by data center crowding. Learn how blade servers can help by drastically cutting energy costs, so you can reduce overhead and stay green; cutting down on deployment time, repairs, monitoring, and management; minimizing real estate; and even slashing operational costs. Download this free white paper and discover what blades can do for your business. |
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| Preparing for the 2.0 World: How Enterprises Need to Think About Emergent Social Technologies |
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| by Sun Microsystems |
| This free white paper from the experts at IDC reveals the profound impact of social technologies—also known as Web 2.0—on enterprise IT. You can meet users′ new, more demanding requirements—if you′re ready. Learn 5 key Web 2.0 challenges; the specific software and hardware you′ll need to optimize your Web 2.0 deployment; and services to consider as you build out your social strategy. Download this free IDC white paper now. |
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| Virtualization for Dummies |
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| by Sun Microsystems |
| This free e-book—an official release in the renowned "For Dummies" series—explores why virtualization is in such great demand and what it can do for your business. Discover 4 powerful and very different trends driving virtualization adoption; 3 key types of server virtualization; and 4 system resources you′d be crazy not to have plenty of. Learn how to save on servers, real estate, and energy—download your free copy now. |
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| Energy Impact of Increased Server Inlet Temperature |
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| by APC |
| The quest for efficiency improvement raises questions regarding the optimal air temperature for data centers. The ASHRAE TC-9.9 committee has recently adopted an extension of the recommended thermal envelope for server inlet temperature and humidity. A popular hypothesis suggests that total energy demands should diminish as the server inlet temperatures increase. This paper tests that hypothesis through the development of a composite power consumption baseline for a mixture of servers as a function of inlet temperature and applying this data to a variety of cooling architectures. |
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| Energy Efficient Cooling for Data Centers: A Close-Coupled Row Solution |
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| by APC |
| The trend of increasing heat densities in data centers has held consistent with advances in computing technology for many years. As power density increased, it became evident that the degree of difficulty in cooling these higher power demand loads was also increasing. In recent years, traditional cooling system design has proven inadequate to remove concentrated heat loads (up to and greater than 20 kW per rack). This has driven an architectural shift in data center cooling. The advent of a newer cooling architecture that was designed for the higher densities has brought with it increased efficiencies for the data center. This article discusses the efficiency benefits of row-based cooling compared to two other common cooling architectures. |
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| Monitoring Physical Threats in the Data Center |
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| by APC |
| Traditional methodologies for monitoring the data center environment are no longer sufficient. With technologies such as blade servers driving up cooling demands and regulations such as Sarbanes-Oxley driving up data security requirements, the physical environment in the data center must be watched more closely. While well understood protocols exist for monitoring physical devices such as UPS systems, computer room air conditioners, and fire suppression systems, there is a class of distributed monitoring points that is often ignored. This paper describes this class of threats, suggests approaches to deploying monitoring devices, and provides best practices in leveraging the collected data to reduce downtime. |
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| Ten Cooling Solutions to Support High-Density Server Deployment |
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| by APC |
| High-density servers offer a significant performance per watt benefit. However, depending on the deployment, they can present a significant cooling challenge. Vendors are now designing servers that can demand over 40 kW of cooling per rack. With most data centers designed to cool an average of no more than 2 kW per rack, innovative strategies must be used for proper cooling of high-density equipment. This paper provides ten approaches for increasing cooling efficiency, cooling capacity, and power density in existing data centers. |
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| Preventing Data Corruption in the Event of an Extended Power Outage |
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| by APC |
| Despite advances in computer technology, power outages continue to be a major cause of PC and server downtime. Protecting computer systems with Uninterruptible Power Supply (UPS) hardware is part of a total solution, but power management software is also necessary to prevent data corruption after extended power outages. Various software configurations are discussed, and best practices aimed at ensuring uptime are presented. |
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| Nemertes Research White Paper: Application Awareness for Service Providers |
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| by Blue Coat Systems |
New applications and an evolving organizational environment drive enterprise bandwidth growth and a need for predictable, stable, real-time performance. A new generation of enterprise application Web front-ends and Software as a Service (SaaS) offerings, plus the move to direct-to-Internet branch connections are shifting where optimization and security services must be delivered. Faced with budget and staffing issues, enterprise interest in managed optimization for WAN and Internet traffic is growing, and among managed service providers, carriers are well positioned to offer such services. Learn how Managed Service Providers (MSPs) can inject application awareness into their services as their next value-add and as a critical differentiator. |
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| Unified Communications Comparison and Buyer's Guide |
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| by VoIP-News |
| Register now for free access to the Focus Unified Communications Buyer′s Guide, a complete review of Unified Communications including its benefits and costs along with candid discussions of leading vendor solutions. |
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