Definitions, Benefits & ROI

Independent Insights

Strategic Path - Infrastructure Secrets - IBRS

IT infrastructure analyst Dr Kevin McIsaac of Intelligent Business Research Services reveals the key points from Strategic Path’s executive peer-group roundtable Strategic Path’s roundtable discussions aim to foster better understanding ...
Posted: 25 November, 2008

Strategic Path - Infrastructure Secrets - Roundtable

Strategic Path discusses best practices and IT infrastructure challenges with IBM’s Chris Fasseau and Michael Shallcross, and Dylan Morison of Cisco. This compelling panel discussion was moderated by Kevin McIsaac, following a longer end-user rou...
Posted: 25 November, 2008

Pacific R&A - The State of Data Centres in Australia

Latest survey results By Clive Longbottom, Head of Research, Pacific R&A At the recent Data Center Dynamics event held in Sydney, Pacific R&A carried out some interesting research, looking at attendees’ approach to and perceptions of ...
Posted: 19 November, 2008

Longhaus - Power, water, bandwidth, space and the modern data centre

Why going green gets the green light By Sam Higgins, Longhaus PTY LTD Understanding basic design elements, and their constraints, will determine the success or failure of the best assembled data centre strategy. At present it seems market hype is...
Posted: 23 July, 2008

FPA Australia - Disastrous Consequences of Cable Fires in IT&T

By Peter Johnson, National President, Fire Protection Association, Australia Fire within IT and communication networks poses risks that extend beyond data loss or business interruption, with major fires possessing a very real potential to cause com...
Posted: 23 July, 2008

Strategic Path - Green Networking Equipment: Who Leads and Who Lags

Introduction In the data center, the advent of high-density computing equipment has sent power usage soaring. For instance, servers and their supporting infrastructure consumed an estimated 1.5% of US electricity in 2006, according to the Environmen...
Posted: 22 July, 2008

Strategic Path - The Instant Data Centre

The instant data centre – just add water BDM editor Branko Miletic talks to Chris Schroor, GM of Commercial Projects for the City of Greater Springfield in South-East Queensland about their greenfields data centre project and what he thinks are ...
Posted: 29 August, 2007

Strategic Path - Stephen Withers - Data Centre Design

Data Centre Design Data centre design has been made more complex by the increasing density of equipment such as blade servers, which leads to greater demands on power and cooling subsystems. Current thinking has moved from a ‘big bang’ ...
Posted: 29 August, 2007

Vendor Insights

CISCO - A Unified Data Centre Network Fabric

As technology consolidation and virtualisation demands 100% uptime, extra bandwidth and the high-density of 10GIG, we interviewed Dylan Morison, Cisco’s regional head of data centres, to see how they are satisfying both the customer and technolog...
Posted: 28 July, 2008

Cisco - Sanitarium deploys Cisco WAAS for its IT consolidation strategy

Cisco WAAS has been able to optimise application and file performance at remote sites, help centralise server and data centre infrastructure and allow for greater staff productivity and efficiency. Business Challenge Founded more than 100 years ...
Posted: 27 July, 2008

Reichle & deMassari - Total Facility Management

1. Introduction Ever since the first large modern buildings were built, the challenge facing building managers has been how to centrally control and manage them. Numerous functions – from security and fire alarms, to power consumption and temp...
Posted: 23 July, 2008

Reichle & deMassari - Security - A Meaningless Word?

Examining what business really wants By Yingbo Seiler, Product Manager Connectivity System, R&M Security is as important in the advertising vocabulary of cable and component manufacturers as “network failure” and “data loss&...
Posted: 23 July, 2008

3Com - Safeguarding the Environment While Advancing Networked Communications

FASTER AND SMARTER COMMUNICATIONS Reducing energy consumption while increasing network functionality is a significant challenge, but typical of the complex issues that 3Com research and development teams are addressing. Because few places are free f...
Posted: 21 July, 2008

R&M - A strong Sydney presence for R&M

A strong Sydney presence for R&M R&M describes how it has strengthened its Asia Pacifi c presence with the establishment of a Sydney offi ce and the two successful local implementations for major FSIs. Swiss cabling systems and components...
Posted: 27 March, 2008

Belden - Case Study - IBDN Multi-gigabit cabling system

Founded in 1973, RE/MAX International, Inc. has evolved into the world’s leading real estate franchise networks, with over 120,000 agents operating in 6,500 offices in more than 65 countries around the globe. The award-winning firm recently opene...
Posted: 29 February, 2008

Belden - Belden IBDN™ Launches System 10GX™ at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center

Belden IBDN™ Launches System 10GX™ at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center Belden IBDN’s state-of-the-art 10 Gigabit structured cabling system — the first to guarantee 625 MHz network performance — is installed in mission-cr...
Posted: 29 February, 2008

Belden - Case Study - Data Centre Upgrade

Chicago Board Options Exchange® (CBOE®) Invests in Belden IBDN Systems for Data Center Upgrade With just one visit to a trading floor of a financial or commodities exchange, it’s easy to see that it’s a dynamic, stressful environ...
Posted: 29 February, 2008

Belden - Data Center Guide

1. Introduction 1.1 The term data center is used to describe a specialized facility for housing a large number of servers, storage devices, networking equipment and communications links. Past (and current) equivalents to a data center include mainfr...
Posted: 29 February, 2008

Panduit - Panduit in Touch, Q2 2007

PANDUIT gets honours from Curtin The Challenge Curtin University of Technology isWestern Australia's largest Universitywith over 39,000 students. Their $22million data centre, located at themain campus in Bentley, six kilometressouth of the centre ...
Posted: 29 August, 2007