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Securing the Data Center: Application-layer DDoS Attacks

Application-layer DDoS attacks have quickly become the most significant threat to availability of Internet Data Center and Cloud-based services. Application-layer attacks are low bandwidth, difficult to detect and target both end customers and network operators’ own ancillary supporting services, such as HTTP web services, domain name system (DNS), etc.

 

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Added by Chris MacKinnon on May 19, 2011 at 17:50 — No Comments

FCoE: Allowing an Evolutionary Approach to 10 Gigabit Ethernet

The new Fibre Channel over Ethernet (FCoE) protocol standard has the goal of allowing an evolutionary approach to 10 Gigabit Ethernet (10 GbE)-based I/O consolidation in the data center by preserving all Fibre Channel (FC) SAN constructs – maintaining the latency, security, and traffic management attributes of FC, while preserving investments in FC tools, training, and SAN infrastructure. FCoE enables the transport of FC storage traffic over a new lossless Ethernet medium, Data Center…

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Added by Chris MacKinnon on May 17, 2011 at 21:14 — No Comments

Data Center Infrastructure Management: Not Just Useful, It’s Imperative

Data center infrastructure management is not just useful, it’s imperative. If you share my point of view that an IT network is analogous to a neural network, it’s easy to understand just how critical it is to maintaining business continuity. The data center is the cortex of the business, delivering critical applications, data, security and a host of other important business functions. When the infrastructure is working as designed, a business can run smoothly. However, when the…

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Added by Chris MacKinnon on May 16, 2011 at 15:00 — No Comments

Gamatronic Electronic Industries is Looking to Nominate New Partners

Gamatronic has over 40 years experience in the UPS and Power Supplies industry. Gamatronic offers a unique; in house developed line of products, formed by the R&D, design, marketing, production, QA and engineering teams. 



Gamatronic is currently looking to nominate new partners! 



Click here for more information and to sign up.





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Added by Seth Davis on May 13, 2011 at 7:41 — No Comments

Environmental Monitoring: Rethink Your Data Center Strategy

While managing a data center operation has always been a complex proposition, over the past several years we have seen a real shift in the operational dynamic. Unprecedented growth in data processing requirements and evolving IT hardware technologies along with updated environmental criteria are forcing organizations to rethink their data center strategy. Rapidly increasing capital, operational, and energy expense are driving the industry to create the metrics necessary to quantify, and…

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Added by Chris MacKinnon on May 6, 2011 at 12:38 — No Comments

Are we going to see Trane, York, Mcquay in DCs?

Are we going to see shortly York, Trane, McQuay and so in Data Centres? / ¿Veremos a York, Trane, Mcquay en los Centros de Datos?

So the temperature in DCs is raising 25o-27o  in take in IT… Continue

Added by roberto sanchez,RCDD on May 6, 2011 at 6:01 — No Comments

Never Underestimate Choosing a Server Based on the Right Processor

As today’s IT environments encounter increasing demands for more efficiency, driven by a need to reduce power while simultaneously increasing application performance, server technology has needed to adapt dynamically.

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Added by Chris MacKinnon on May 4, 2011 at 15:17 — No Comments

Power+ Rack Mount 10-(50)-100Kva - Ideal for Data Centers!

Power+ RM is a complete, end to end 19" 10-100KVA or 10-50kva rack mount solution, ideal for datacenters, which includes UPS, MMBS (maintenance bypass), breakers, fuses, and internal or external matching battery cabinet.



This is a 19" variant of the Power+ UPS - Uninterruptible Power Supply - , which can be inserted in any standard 19" rack, available in two configurations: 50kVA (5 Power+ modules), with a height of 22U and 100kVA (10 Power+ modules), with a height of…

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Added by Seth Davis on May 3, 2011 at 23:04 — No Comments

7 Reasons Why to Choose The MODULAR Hot Swappable UPS Concept!

1) Meeting extra-high capacity needs - right for IT and data centers: 

Gamatronic's Mega Power+ provides extra-high power capacity, something more and more important for today's power needs, especially in IT and datacenter environments.



2) Meeting modularity demand - right for growing businesses:

As awareness…

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Added by Seth Davis on May 2, 2011 at 20:39 — No Comments

Green, Sustainable, energy efficency DC and......?

We have been looking that our industry has gone from issues like: energy efficiency, sustainable  to greening  for Design, Construction & Operation (DCO)  in Data Centres. PUE, CUE, WUE are now new metrics that we can use along with other parameters like Life Cycle Assestment (LCA)  and programs like BREEAM, LEED, PECES, to classificate our buildings and of course the Data Centres.



But what do we have to do to accomplish this trend?…
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Added by roberto sanchez,RCDD on April 30, 2011 at 22:29 — No Comments

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