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Home > Networking > Infrastructure IT Infrastructure refers to the computerized networks, intelligent terminals, and accompanying applications and services people use to access, create, disseminate, and utilize digital information; the equipment, software, services, and products used in storing, processing, transmitting, and displaying all forms of information. Results 1 - 25 of 230 matches Sort Results By : Published Date | Title | Company name Going Beyond HA for Business-Critical Virtualization By : Stratus Technologies Published Date: Dec 05, 2007 This paper details how VMware and Stratus together address the full spectrum of planned and unplanned downtime challenges: server hardware failures, operating system failures, server maintenance, operating system maintenance, disaster recovery, support and services. Also presented are scenarios describing how you can use VMware®  Infrastructure 3 and Stratus ftServer® systems at your data center and remote sites. Download Now Getting Real About Virtual Management By : CA NVM Published Date: Jan 30, 2007 Virtualization and clustering can bring many benefits to your business — better IT asset utilization, improved business continuity, and improved operational efficiency. At the same time, virtualization can create a new level of complexity for IT. This paper discusses the technical management challenges inherent in these complex infrastructures including virtual sprawl, honoring service level agreements, resource allocation and the prioritization of resources. Download Now Gartner Paper: US Data Centers – The Calm Before the Storm By : VMware Published Date: Sep 25, 2007 According to Gartner, the majority of existing US datacenters have not been designed to handle future energy demands. Strategic decisions, including the implementation of virtualization, must be made quickly. This research outlines why energy and floor space constraints will cause considerable disruption to U.S. datacenters during the next three years. Download Now Gartner Paper: How IT Management Can 'Green' the Data Center By : VMware Published Date: Jan 22, 2008 Datacenters consume large amounts of energy, so it is imperative that IT management establishes energy efficiency goals and an integrated approach to energy-saving initiatives. This Gartner research provides IT managers with an outline of the trends affecting datacenters and offers strategies with which to address these changes. Download Now How Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) Impacts Your IT Infrastructure By : IBM Published Date: Jan 14, 2008 More than likely you’ve heard quite a bit about service-oriented architecture (SOA) and how it holds the promises of quicker response to market trends, improved customer services and lower application development costs. From an infrastructure perspective, an SOA implementation contains all the same pieces and parts as your traditional environment. Download Now HP PolyServe Software for Microsoft SQL Server: A Simple Approach to SQL Server Consolidation By : HP Published Date: Nov 27, 2007 The success of SQL Server in recent years has produced a phenomenon of SQL Server sprawl - the uncoordinated deployment of tens, hundreds or even thousands of database servers. The result has been low levels of utilization, poor availability and, most importantly, an enormous management burden inflicted on many IT departments. There is an acute need for a way to deploy SQL Server that allows capacity to be matched appropriately to need, that provides high availability without introducing extra complexity and extra cost, and that actually simplifies the life of administrators. Download Now How Network Routers Affect IP Video Quality By : Juniper Networks Published Date: Apr 10, 2008 Service providers are making the transition to IP infrastructures to deliver video. This move offers significant economic and operational advantages, but it also comes with challenges.  One of the main challenges is to ensure that the quality of the video is sufficiently high to attract and retain subscribers.  This paper discusses how and why service providers must be able to deliver a superior quality of experience (QoE) to drive adoption of IP video. Download Now Implementing Energy Efficient Data Centers By : APC-MGE Published Date: Aug 22, 2006 It is possible to dramatically reduce the electrical consumption of typical data centers through appropriate design of the network-critical physical infrastructure and through the design of the IT architecture. This paper explains how to quantify the electricity savings and provides examples of methods that can greatly reduce electrical power consumption for optimal data center efficiency. Download Now Increasing Data Center Efficiency by Using Improved High Density Power Distribution By : APC-MGE Published Date: Apr 25, 2006 A new approach to power distribution for high density server installations saves floor space, simplifies power cabling, saves capital cost, reduces weight, and increases electrical efficiency. This paper describes this distribution architecture and quantifies the benefits. Download Now Infrastructure Optimization Drives Efficient Service Delivery By : CA NVM Published Date: Apr 15, 2007 IT organizations face relentless pressure to continuously improve service levels and address ever-changing business priorities, all on a flat or shrinking budget. To balance these conflicting demands and develop the agility to become a true strategic partner in the business, the processes by which you monitor and manage the IT infrastructure must be fully optimized and automated by policy. Download Now Interpreting Events With Intelligence to Find Root Cause By : CA NVM Published Date: Apr 10, 2008 Today’s complex IT infrastructures are dynamic, multi vendor engines made of frequently changing components and technologies. The complexity of the infrastructure and the continual changes caused by business demands often lead to faults within the infrastructure. A fault in a single device can have a ripple effect that causes performance and availability problems for many users. The ripple effect also makes it difficult to pinpoint the root cause of the fault. Download Now Infrastructure Performance Management Empowers You and Your Company By : CA WA Published Date: Apr 02, 2008 Infrastructure Performance Management (IPM) applies to operations quality. Implemented well, IPM frees you from constant firefighting and can transform your role from tactical first responder to strategic business enabler. Applying good IPM technology and processes can deliver a number of benefits to your career as well as to your organization. This report introduces IPM, offers tips for successful IPM implementation, and explores how IPM can benefit your enterprise as well as your career. Download Now Making Large UPS Systems More Efficient By : APC-MGE Published Date: Aug 24, 2007 As energy resources become scarcer and more expensive, electrical efficiency is becoming a more important performance factor in the specification and selection of large UPS systems. There are three subtle but significant factors that can materially affect a company's cost of operating a UPS system and particularly the electrical bill.  Download Now Magic Quadrant for Integrated SOA Governance Technology Sets By : IBM Published Date: Mar 18, 2008 Good governance of a service-oriented architecture is becoming a core competency. This Magic Quadrant report by Gartner examines the market for SOA governance through a set of integrated technologies. It evaluates leaders, challengers and innovators in the SOA governance technology market, providing feature information and strengths and cautions for each. Download Now MPLS Plug-and-Play for Metro Ethernet Networks By : Juniper Networks Published Date: Apr 21, 2008 Carriers are discovering an opportunity to revolutionize the way their MPLS Metro Ethernet Networks are built by applying the concept of Plug-and-Play to reduce operating expense and network complexity.  This paper shows service providers how to easily map their access MPLS network into their larger core MPLS network, or create a completely new architecture. Download Now Network Lifecycle Management - A Solution Approach to Managing Networks: A Perspective by EMA By : HP Software Published Date: Aug 17, 2007 Enterprise Management Associates (EMA) provides insight challenges facing network engineering and operations team. Download Now No Free Lunch White Paper By : Riverbed Published Date: Jan 03, 2008 This white paper discusses the CAP theorem (consistency, availability, partition-tolerance), the incongruities of the claims that competitors make against this theorem, and the pareto-optimal approach Riverbed takes to reconciling the CAP theorem. Download this white paper now. Download Now 5 Steps to Successful IT Consolidation By : Riverbed Published Date: Jun 26, 2006 Has your Enterprise made the strategic decision to consolidate remote site IT infrastructure into central data centers? Then you have probably discovered that consolidation projects are fraught with technical, organization, and implementation challenges that require a well thought-out strategy. Download this paper by Riverbed and discover a clear 5-step approach to making sure every consolidation project is successful. Download Now Optimizing Infrastructure Control By : Tripwire Published Date: Jun 06, 2008 This paper outlines the nature of infrastructure integrity, change auditing, and compliance solutions. It describes how an investment in configuration assessment and change auditing solutions can stabilize IT operations, lowering the operational costs associated with the IT infrastructure; be a force multiplier; and provide a solid foundation that increases the effectiveness of the investment in information security. Download Now Panic Slowly: Integrated Disaster Response and Built-In Business Continuity By : IBM Published Date: Sep 01, 2006 Unexpected disasters threaten organizations across the globe daily. Surprisingly, many businesses are not prepared for such disasters. They lack business continuity plans which can provide both proactive and reactive strategies to minimize the impact of unforeseen setbacks. Download Now Reducing the Hidden Costs Associated with Upgrades of Data Center Power Capacity By : APC-MGE Published Date: Feb 27, 2006 This paper describes the drawbacks of scaling legacy UPS systems and how scalable rack-based systems address these drawbacks. The cost factors of both methods are described, quantified and compared. Download Now Stratavia’s Data Center Automation Value Proposition By : Stratavia Published Date: May 20, 2008 This white paper provides an overview of current challenges in the modern data center, the impact those challenges have on the business, and Stratavia’s approach to solving those problems. Download Now Server Consolidation and Containment with Virtual Infrastructure By : Dell EqualLogic Published Date: Jul 02, 2007 IT departments constantly face demands to deploy, maintain and grow a broad array of services and applications, but this has lead to server sprawl and high energy costs. Consolidation and containment solutions implemented with a virtual infrastructure meet the challenges of server sprawl and underutilization by reducing hardware and operating costs by as much as 50%. Download Now The Changing Face of Network Management By : CA NVM Published Date: Oct 05, 2007 Managing your network is serious business. It is absolutely essential that it is up and running since your critical business services depend on it — and so does your revenue stream. At the same time, your network continues to grow in size and complexity, with the addition of more devices and new technologies, in response to business growth and demands. Download Now Technology Integration Directions: Network and Systems Management By : CA NVM Published Date: Jan 27, 2006 This paper will review the CA, Concord and Aprisma product lines to give customers and the market a clear view into CA's strategy for network and systems management. We will examine the offerings from CA, Concord and Aprisma and show how they map to varying aspects of functional network and systems management requirements regarded as being the most valuable by both our customers and the market. 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