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Achieving Your Overall Power Monitoring and Management Goals

Data center managers today know that they need to measure and monitor their power usage. It’s the first step to knowing what they need to do to improve efficiency – to save money and to act on their green initiatives. As the old saying goes – you can’t manage or control what you’re not measuring. We know that monitoring and reporting on energy consumption will be expected by 2012, so data center managers today need to implement tools to prepare for that. Our Sentry Power Manager (SPM)…

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Added by Chris MacKinnon on January 19, 2011 at 14:07 — No Comments

Hold Everything: Tape Remediation Is the Way to Go (When Dealing with Legacy Data on Tape)

Tape remediation is quickly becoming a key concern for organizations. Do you hold on to everything or not? Backup tapes are created by enterprise organizations in order to protect enterprise data assets. Yet, most organizations do not have a policy in place to purge backup tapes once they outlived their disaster recovery purpose. As a result stockpiles of old backup tapes quickly amass. 



Why not recycle or destroy all these old tapes? That’s not as simple as it…

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Added by Chris MacKinnon on January 18, 2011 at 14:38 — No Comments

A High-performance Network Infrastructure

A high-performance network infrastructure is useful in today’s enterprise because of the trends of consolidation, virtualization and convergence. All three require a high-performance infrastructure, because it can provide not only high bandwidth but low latency as well. From an application perspective, the operations of high-performance computing, virtualization and cloud computing will be optimized if a high-performance network infrastructure is provided.

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Added by Chris MacKinnon on January 17, 2011 at 12:46 — No Comments

Virtual File Servers: The Benefits

Most IT managers are aware of the benefits that cloud storage can bring them, but up until now the cloud was not widely available for practical business use by organizations. The Nasuni Filer is transformative technology challenging traditional storage practices and perceptions. It allows organizations to leverage the cloud’s benefits of scalability, on demand capacity and…

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Added by Chris MacKinnon on January 13, 2011 at 12:26 — No Comments

Remote Security Management

Common remote management issues.

Cost to configure (i.e., you may need a consultant to deploy and configure). Most smaller companies don't have the money to pay or don't want to. Additionally, many companies charge for a management console (which is required to use remote management) separately. This makes it more difficult for companies to afford data encryption…

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Added by Chris MacKinnon on January 12, 2011 at 18:30 — No Comments

Cloud Bursting: Maximizing Resources

The optimal ROI for Cloud bursting is a highly cyclical business model, which cannot afford to build the data structures required for peak load, and as a result, lose potential business. Cloud bursting allows highly cyclic businesses to apply “Kanban” methodology to trigger additional capacity to meet “just in time” demand. Scaling both up and down maximizes the utilization of…

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Added by Chris MacKinnon on January 12, 2011 at 18:30 — No Comments

Bursting The Cloud: Scaling Service To Meet Demand

Cloudbursting means that applications and services are dynamically provisioned in the cloud based on need, consumed in the cloud by users, and then de-provisioned after the need goes away. Cloudbursting a compelling model and driver for cloud computing. It is a true use case for a real-world hybrid cloud architecture. One key area to consider before building a burst-able cloud…

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Added by Chris MacKinnon on January 11, 2011 at 14:22 — No Comments

Data Center Energy Efficiency: The OptoEMU Sensor

Data centers are large facilities that include a huge assortment of servers and other computer hardware. Keeping this equipment operating and the facility up and running 24/7 is certainly of the utmost importance, but meeting the power requirements to accomplish this can be incredibly expensive. …

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Added by Chris MacKinnon on January 11, 2011 at 14:21 — No Comments

Advanced HTTPS Traffic Classification: Saas Success



When Data center/IT managers want to manage application delivery over a private WAN or the Internet,…
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Added by Chris MacKinnon on January 11, 2011 at 5:36 — No Comments

Remote Server Support Means Out-of-band Management



Data center/IT Managers should look for remote management console servers that offer more than just serial connectivity. You want to be able to manage everything remotely including power and environmentals. Another thing to evaluate is the…
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Added by Chris MacKinnon on January 11, 2011 at 5:34 — No Comments

Put Yourself on the Map!

Have you added yourself to our member map? 

It's a great way to discover fellow professionals around the world. The MemberMap is found on a sub-tab of the 'Members' menu and here's how it looks:…

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Added by DCPNet Admin on January 10, 2011 at 15:57 — No Comments

USGBC is aware of what a Data Centre is?

I am not quite sure if this organization has reliazed all the issues that the actual DCs have to take in consideration, more than a bycicle booth for storage (by the way I like to biking).



At least six different systems are included in the DCs



*  Architecture  (well described in the draft)



* Cooling (not only natural -free cooling- but liquid and of course electromechanical -HVAC- have to be considered)



* Energy ( I think renewable and electric load have…

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Added by roberto sanchez,RCDD on January 6, 2011 at 4:04 — No Comments

Building a Private Cloud: Tips for Data Center and IT Managers

Identify a use case before starting. 

A common mistake that we see is the extraordinary focus on the technology as opposed to a focus on your cloud storage use case and the business case that surrounds the use case. The project should start with an analysis of the use case and it’s resulting impact on the business, and operate on the assumption you can source a cloud of…

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Added by Chris MacKinnon on January 4, 2011 at 13:32 — No Comments

Hosted Telephony: True Multi-tenant Architecture

Tomoko Shimizu, chief operating officer at Brekeke Software (www.brekeke.com), says:



The concept behind hosted telephony.



To provide enterprise level telephony…
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Added by Chris MacKinnon on January 3, 2011 at 13:36 — No Comments

Intrusion Detection And Prevention Tips

Robbie Higgins, Vice President of Security Services at GlassHouse Technologies (www.glasshouse.com), says:



IDS/IPS should be part of any company’s security environment large or small; firewalls for the most part are not very good in malicious activity detection. Deployment and…
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Added by Chris MacKinnon on December 30, 2010 at 2:46 — No Comments

Why Server Upgrades are Important

Scot Heath, Chief Technical Officer at 42U (www.42u.com), says:



Why are data center server upgrades important? 



From the perspective of the power and cooling infrastructure, severs continue to improve their energy efficiency. CPU manufacturers have implemented a variety of…
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Added by Chris MacKinnon on December 30, 2010 at 2:34 — No Comments

Training & Certifying Data Center Professionals - What are the Options?

During a conversation at one of the major data center conferences this year it struck me that there are a wide range of options available to data center managers when selecting development for some of their key assets - their staff!

When I asked the head of data centers at a well known company why they choose a specific vendors training for their staff it became evident that they weren't fully aware of the many training options available to them. It also made me think that I really…

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Added by DCPNet Admin on December 16, 2010 at 8:00 — 5 Comments

Illuminating DCIM tools: Asset Management vs. Real-time Monitoring

Illuminating DCIM tools: Asset Management vs. Real-time Monitoring

In the news recently, there has been a lot of discussion around a new category of software tools focusing on unified facilities and IT management in the data center. These tools have been labeled by Gartner as Data Center Infrastructure Management (DCIM), of which Modius OpenData is a leading…

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Added by Robert Schmidt on December 15, 2010 at 22:00 — No Comments

Mexican Data Centre std for comments

Pls help us to revise and CRITICIZE our document.

ALL comments (pro and con) are wellcome. Just one issue is in español, (but nowdays in our industry who does not can read in two or more languages other than english?)

to down load go to http://norma.sdr.com.mx/

your commnts to robertsanchez@prodigy.net.mx or in this post

saludos y FELIZ NAVIDAD and a Prospero Año Nuevo 2011.

Added by roberto sanchez,RCDD on December 12, 2010 at 5:30 — No Comments

Dude, is Dell doing a disk deal again this time with Compellent?

Over in Eden Prairie (Minneapolis Minnesota suburb) where data storage vendor Compellent (CML) is based, they must be singing in the hallways today that it is beginning to feel a lot like Christmas.

Sure we had another dusting of snow this morning here in the Minneapolis area and the temp is actually up in the balmy 20F temperature range (was around 0F…

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Added by Greg Schulz on December 10, 2010 at 23:37 — No Comments

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