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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...
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...
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 - Cool Green and Flexible
Cool, green and flexible: data centres rise to the challenge of today’s IT Environment Gordon Paddy , Technical Director, Global Switch Asia Pacific Can you explain a little about the data centre facilities and architectures that you work wi...
E3 - Data Centre Energy Issues
E3 attempts to harmonise its approach with US EPA approach in building benchmarks for computer servers and data centres. During the past five years, the increasing demand and use of computer based resources has led to signifi cant growth in the numb...
Strategic Path - KEYS TO DATA CENTRE SUCCESS
Corporate IT is experiencing growing pains as they strive to leverage technology that improves productivity and creates competitive advantages – while at the same time, responding to pressure to do more with less. 3i Group’s Kris Kumar aske...
Strategic Path - Stand and Deliver
Stand and Deliver Many of today’s data centres are struggling to support or deliver under a weight of projects and application deployments, sparking a huge growth in upgrades and Greenfield designs. At the same time, new drivers like blade ser...Vendor Insights
NSC Group - Desktop Virtualization Blueprint
Introduction For several years, industry pundits and thin client proponents have hailed the coming of widespread adoption of "thin client" end user computing models. However, year after year, this adoption has been stalled by a number of i...
NSC Group - Realising the desktop continuum
IT Today—Multiple Challenges, Multiple Opportunities Today, IT organizations of every kind, large or small, public or private face a host of challenges. Pressure to deliver richer IT services while adapting to market, technology and organizati...
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 ...
IBM - Talking Data
Strategic Path speaks to Stuart Lewis, Platforms Executive, Systems and Technology Group, IBM Australia/New Zealand 1. What are the challenges or issues your clients are faced with in their Data Centres? Its probably worth first...
3Com - How to apply green principles in network equipment purchase and management
…with the industry’s help By ANDREW HINDMARCH, SENIOR NETWORK CONSULTANT, 3COM AUSTRALIA Of the many trends the IT industry has endorsed, green IT has drawn strongest attention and support, not only from within the industry, but a...
Rittal - Keeping Your Cool
Strategic Path talks to Mark Roberts, Business Development Manager at Rittal, about data centre cooling SP: Companies are under pressure to reduce their carbon footprints in order to enhance their reputations, but what underlying benefits could this...
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...
Chloride - Measuring and publishing UPS efficiency - a dark art?
By Ian F Bitterlin BSc(Hons) DipDesInn MCIBSE MIET Abstract A quick desktop survey of published energy-efficiency data for UPS machines will result in a wide variation of figures - with as much as three percentage-points of difference between...
Raritan - MEASUREMENT the first step in greening the data centre
MEASUREMENT the first step in greening the data centre There is no doubt of the growing pressures upon organisations to reduce their power consumption. Financial and environmental pressures are increasing as power is recognised as one of the fast...
Socomec - Greening The Data Centre
Greening the Data Centre: Interview questions for Socomec: “Green I.T.” & greenhouse issues are getting a lot of coverage and regulatory pressures are on the way. With data centres being power hungry the cost/efficiency challenge is ...
Internode - Data centre pays off for Empower
Data centre pays off for Empower After spending half a million dollars on new equipment to meet a 1000 percent increase in demand for its online payroll service, Australian human resource company Empower Masterpay sought the right place to put it....
Kingston Technology - The Role of Memory in VMware Servers
The Role of Memory in VMware ESX Server 3 Introduction The memory management capabilities of VMware ESX Server 3.0 provide a unique and sophisticated way to maximize the usage of physical memory within a single box. For many workloads, memory is th...