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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 ...
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...
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 ...
Strategic Path - Making migration painless: NAB case study
NAB implements a new data centre management system In 2006, National Australia Bank sought to improve the facility management of its huge data centre in Victoria. Ken Jarrott, the bank’s Lead Data Centre Facilities Analyst, knew that productiv...
AFCOM - Data Centre Relocations
The 7 steps to success By DAVID COWELL, DATA CENTRE CONSULTANT Having to move a data centre or computer room is not the once-ina- lifetime event that it used to be. In today’s global economy with mergers, acquisitions, divestments, outsour...
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...
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...
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...
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 ...
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’ ...Vendor Insights
AMP - AXA future-proofs new HQ: A case study
AXA Australia is a leading provider of wealth management and financial protection products and services through brands that include Australian Casualty & Life, ipac and Summit. Its new 10-storey headquarters building at Docklands, Melbourne, houses...
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...
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 ...
Belden - ReMax Int Case Study
Re/Max's corporate office facility houses a high-speed, high-bandwidth data communications network, VoIP, multimedia and professional broadcast systems – all supported by Belden IBDN® and specialty cables. RE/MAX International’s New ...
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&...
Belden - Cabling for Tomorrow's Data Centre
Cabling for Tomorrow's Data Centre With some studies showing that as many as four in 10 of all network problems arise from cabling issues, The Strategic Path talks with Paul Kish of Belden about discuss issues on the company’s horizon – ...
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...
R&M - 10 Gigabit Ethernet
10 Gigabit Ethernet 1. Introduction Ethernet has proven itself over the years to be a robust protocol, constantly expanding the number of applications it serves while increasing performance. Today 10 Gigabit Ethernet is reality and already talk o...
R&M - Impact of 10GBASE-T on Cabling
Impact of 10GBASE-T on Cabling 1. Introduction With 10GBASE-T, IEEE is developing a protocol that will increase the transmission rate over twisted copper data cables in dimensions that seemed unattainable until recently. This progress has been ma...
R&M - Influence of Cabling Systems on the Availability of Data Centers
Influence of Cabling Systems on the Availability of Data Centers Highly Available Data Centers Require Innovative, Reliable Cabling Systems Today, the availability and reliability of data centers is vital for the entire market development. Stock ex...
R&M - Extended Office Cabling with Applications for Facility Managers
Extended Office Cabling with Applications for Facility Managers 1. Introduction Present trends in telecommunications and information technology in offices and work environments demand new integrated solutions for data and power connections to the...
R&M - Gigabit Ethernet over fiber optics
Gigabit Ethernet over fiber optics Ethernet is gaining in speed and the distances it can cover are growing too. With 10 Gigabit Ethernet in store the standard LAN protocol family can successfully compete against customary long-distance transmission ...
R&M - Home networks
Home networks Cabling of standard general form is guaranteed to meet changing requirements well into the future 1. Introduction Although many houses will stand for centuries, a lot of cabling systems won't last a single decade. That's because co...
R&M - Insulation Displacement Contact Technology for Power Applications
Insulation Displacement Contact Technology for Power Applications Greater reliability and quicker installation with Insulation Displacement Contact Technology Insulation Displacement Contacts have been well proven in connecting technology. They are...
R&M - MICE Environmental Classes: Orientation for Industrial Cabling
MICE Environmental Classes: Orientation for Industrial Cabling Three classes, four parameters and more than one hundred individual factors: A matrix for Industrial Applications Industrial Ethernet is advancing. Planners and users appreciate the cos...
R&M - Next Generation Networks – Infrastructures for the 21st Century
Next Generation Networks – Infrastructures for the 21st Century 1. Introduction Internet everywhere. Always online. All over IP. Flexible VPN. These buzzwords point out that once more extensive changes are emerging in the field of telecomm...
R&M - Safety gaps in the LAN?
Safety gaps in the LAN? A fear of the big blackout clouds the view to the many small risks Safety gaps in the LAN? Viruses, worms and Trojan horses frequently make headlines, with damage to large enterprises often reported to be in the hundreds ...
R&M - SC-RJ – the smallest of its kind
SC-RJ – the smallest of its kind The path from an innovative idea to standardization 1. Introduction A new optical connector for LAN connections for enterprises and industry: if it is not to remain a proprietary solution, it must be standa...
R&M - UL Certification – What Does it Signify?
UL Certification – What Does it Signify? Test methods, declarations and what they mean for the end user 1. Introduction "UL-listed", "fireproof", "UL94 V-0" - these are bench-marks that safety-conscious planners...
R&M - Total Facility Management
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,...
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...
Belden - Belden IBDN System 10GX Solutions
Belden CDT Networking — the result of a merger between Belden Electronics Networking Group and NORDX/CDT — has invigorated the industry by its ability to draw upon the profound technological experience and service capabilities of these once...
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...
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...