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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 - Greening the Data Centre And growing the Bottom Line
Do you actually know how much energy your data centre consumes each year? Neither did South East Water, until they placed a meter on the electrical switchboard that revealed they were using nearly 80KW of energy – day and night. South East Water ...
DMI - Green IT and The Data Centre
Why the Delete Key may be the Greenest Technology You Own By JON WILLIAM TOIGO, CEO, TOIGO PARTNERS INTERNATIONAL LLC, CHAIRMAN, DATA MANAGEMENT INSTITUTE LLC • Assessing the need to reduce power usage in the data centre • Where sto...
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 - 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 ...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...
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...
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 - How to Be in Two Places at One Time
How to Be in Two Places at One Time: Access and Management of Branch Office Networks Executive Summary While the proliferation of branch and remote offices is a positive sign of company growth, it can be a challenge for IT staffers. Besides manag...
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...