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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...

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 - 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...

Strategic Path - 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 b...

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 ...

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...

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...

HP - Data Center Transformation

HP’s proven Data Center Transformation approach can help you reduce costs, manage risks, and accelerate business growth. Introduction In today’s connected global marketplace, data centers are more important than ever. Customers expect...

Chloride - Sweating your assets off?

With virtualisation increasing Ian Bitterlin examines the cooling issues this causes and what to do to avoid ‘sweating your assets off’ NCN Opinion Piece, October 07 No one in their right mind would put eight three bar electric fires ...

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...

Kingston Technology - 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...

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....

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...

Internode - Converging data drives down cost of business continuity

Converging data drives down cost of business continuity By John Harris, Managing Director, Impress Media Australia The need to be always on Providing back up Getting peace of mind The convergence of data, voice and video c...