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Article - How to Increase Data Center Efficiency

As the demand for computing power increases and puts a strain on electricity supplies, designing a new data center or retrofitting an old one to be greener is the need of the hour. And, what makes it more challenging is the complex process, but our six ideas will get you started in the right direction.

Whitepaper - Symantec State of the Data Center Report 2007

Today's data centers are becoming more complex and are likely to become even more so in the next five years. Increasingly, businesses are demanding higher application availability and the rapid integration of new technologies. At the same time, the amount of data generated by data center applications is exploding and much of it must be protected, as per new privacy and government regulations, and retained for longer periods of time.

Top Story - Building A Data Center Security Architecture

Data center architecture has been changing quite dramatically over the past few years. In many data centers, organic growth had left them broken up into application silos.

Article - Alcatel Lucent’s Data Center Consolidation

Alcatel-Lucent CIO Elizabeth Hackenson just finished the first leg of a massive data center consolidation. It involved using a framework to maintain data center consistency, usage of virtualization and most importantly, a very good relationship with the consulting partner, to name a few. What she learnt can help your next big project succeed.

Top Story - Cool Data Center Passes First Test

A team of engineers led by Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory has successfully tested a novel system that they say could greatly improve the efficiency of data center cooling.

Solution Centre Case Study - Tata AIG Life Empowers its Data Center with Reliability and Availability

Tata AIG Life is India’s leading insurance company, combining the Tata group’s pre-eminent leadership position in India and AIG’s global presence as the world’s leading international insurance and financial services organization.  Their central data center in Powai, Mumbai, which has over 80 points of presence was experiencing frequent power fluctuations. It was essential that this datacenter was more than adequately protected. The basic requirement was that the technology deployed should support the infrastructure in terms of availability and reliability ensuring there is zero down time. And since the business is dynamic, easy and quick expansion without increase in foot print was vital.

Sponsored Whitepaper - Get the Most Out Of Data Center Consolidation.

Organizations continue to consolidate their data centers to cut costs, simplify their infrastructure, and boost service delivery and business agility. Consolidation, along with technologies such as server and storage virtualization and convergence, places additional demands on the data center infrastructure. Understanding the resulting performance, availability, security, and space/power requirements is critical to selecting the right IT infrastructure partner. With its broad product portfolio, Brocade is uniquely positioned to help organizations address these requirements and realize the financial and business benefits of data center consolidation.

Top Story - Cisco to Unleash Data Center Extensions

Cisco next week is expected to unveil new and enhanced data center products that are designed to more easily interconnect and allocate resources among multiple data centers and are optimized for cloud computing and virtualization.

Top Story - Data Center Derby Heats Up

In this era of server consolidation and virtualization, green initiatives and cloud computing, the data center is in flux and all the major vendors are jockeying for position, galloping in with new products, strategies and alliances.