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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 ...
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...
Forrester Research- Decoding Virtualisation's Present & Future
Decoding virtualisation’s present & future Forester Answering your questions on the technology out there – and coming soon. By Galen Schreck with Christopher Voce, Frank E. Gillett, Simon Yates and Christine E. Atwood, Forrester ...
Strategic Path - Data storage & Virtualisation
Data storage and virtualisation By David Friesen, STRATEGIC PATH WRITER Over the last few years there has been a dramatic improvement in the availability of new data storage and virtualisation products that are affordable for even the smallest of ...
Strategic Path - Data Centre Designs and Blade Servers
Data centre designs and blade servers By Kirsten Marsh , STRATEGIC PATH WRITER The server has long been an indispensable part of the company information network. Acting as distributor of information, providing connections between workstations and, ...
Forrester Research - Decoding Virtualisation’s Present & Future
Decoding virtualisation’s present & future Forester Answering your questions on the technology out there – and coming soon. By Galen Schreck with Christopher Voce, Frank E. Gillett, Simon Yates and Christine E. Atwood, Forrester ...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 - 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 ...
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 - Liquid Cooling White Paper
by Herb Villa 1 Executive summary As heat densities continue to escalate, data center managers are seeking solutions for handling these extreme heat loads to protect their equipment and their facilities. This paper provides a brief history ...
Chloride - Big blades can be dangerous
Blade servers have experienced strong sales growth as more businesses look to save costs, space and ease the complexity of managing a host of individual servers. This article explores the impact upon power and cooling demands. Data Centre Managemen...
HP - Johnson and Johnson Case Study
HP customer case study: HP deploys an efficient data centre solution for Johnson & Johnson’s IT infrastructure. In 2006, Johnson & Johnson embarked on a new partnership with HP, in which HP was tasked to build Johnson & Johnson&rsq...
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...
Kingston Technology - Vaughn Nankivell Teaching old servers new tricks
Teaching old servers new tricks Is it possible to boost the performance and/or extend the life of your servers by adding additional system memory? Kingston Technology’s independent testing yields new insights for managers concerned with server p...
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...
Egenera - Case Study
Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group “With the BladeFrame as our common infrastructure, every application benefits from the mission-critical services and capabilities Egenera has built into its architecture—at no added cost.” Satoshi Hama...
TAS - The route to virtualisation and selling the concept
The route to virtualisation and selling the concept. Technical Architecture Solutions Introduction This whitepaper deals with a common problem experienced by CIOs. The financial and business returns of virtualisation are significant but how do you...
IBM - Smart Questions to Ask About Storage Virtualisation
Getting off the storage merry-go-round Smart questions to ask about storage virtualisation By Nick Milsom , Storage Virtualisation Specialist with IBM The buzz around the storage world today is virtualisation. Users large and small can maximise th...