Data Center

To meet the challenges of IT organizations, Cisco and F5 have developed a shared architectural vision and joint solution to simplify networking and solve pain points in next-generation data centers. The solution extends the F5 Synthesis architecture and programmable Software-Defined Application Services (SDAS) within the Cisco Application Centric Infrastructure (ACI), helping customers efficiently deliver applications that are fast, secure and available. Read the whitepaper to learn more.

Take action in the Internet of Things through data-in-motion analytics

Learn how innovative communications service providers are extracting value from uncertain data through this whitepaper!

In this book, you look at how the Smarter Process approach helps you create a more customer-centric organization. You discover how four major technologies — mobile, cloud computing, Big Data, and social collaboration — are disrupting the way you do business and how you can work through the challenges.

Changes in where traffic originates and how much data is generated will soon have profound effects on Internet latency and end-user quality of experience.

Optimize business processes in the cloud with intelligent business platform.

SimpliVity’s Data Virtualization Platform (DVP) leverages real-time deduplication, compression and optimization technologies to deliver a radically simplified and dramatically lower cost infrastructure platform. Get the full report for an overview of SimpliVity’s OmniCube: Cloud economics with enterprise performance, protection, and functionality.

SimpliVity's true hyperconverged infrastructure solution helped Waypoint Capital consolidate their data center. After implementing 2U OmniCube systems, they were able to immensely reduce their IT complexity, increase performance, and dramatically improve their operational efficiency.

SimpliVity’s Data Virtualization Platform (DVP) is the market-leading hyperconverged infrastructure that delivers triple digit data efficiency rates. The DVP was designed from the ground up to simplify IT by solving the data problem and dramatically improving overall data efficiency.

This SQL Database focused case study is based on Connections Education, an online US-based education leader. Learn how this online education leader chooses EMC XtremIO to manage unpredictably fast growth.

In today’s challenging economic environment, IT planners are continuously seeking innovative ways to enhance service levels and contain costs. Forward-looking organizations are revamping IT infrastructure and deploying virtualization solutions and private cloud services to improve business agility and reduce equipment and operating expenses.

IT organizations are under intense pressure to improve service levels and contain expenses in today’s challenging economic climate. Forward-looking organizations are upgrading IT infrastructure and implementing virtualization and cloud computing solutions to improve business agility and drive down costs. Many enterprises are adopting a dual platform approach, retaining Microsoft Windows for office productivity and collaboration applications, and deploying Red Hat® Enterprise Linux® for infrastructure and datacenter modernization initiatives. By adopting standards-based Red Hat Enterprise Linux, businesses can enjoy high performance, reliability, and security, with a lower overall TCO.

It's time to manage all your VMware machines through 1 tool. Red Hat® CloudForms gives you visibility and control throughout your whole infrastructure—from individual VMware machines to your entire cloud and virtualization infrastructure. Download the technology brief to learn more.

This paper describes how a business-app platform from K2® can help you provide simpler, more cost-effective ways to empower people by connecting them with data that is dispersed across different systems.

This white paper discusses three key principles for creating a new approach to change management—one that allows the IT department to manage change more effectively.

With IBM analytics for big data with a smart mobile strategy, banks can increase wallet share and assets under management while lowering the organization’s operating ratio by using more efficient channels.

When was the last time you thought about your disaster recovery plan? Natural disasters, such as earthquakes, tsunamis, hurricanes, fires, or floods can occur anytime and disable your data center, with little to no warning. Hacker activities like a denial of service attack can also take down your systems unexpectedly. Then you have the more mundane risks such as human error and hardware or software failures. The only predictable thing to say about these risks is that at some point, on some scale, you’ll have to recover your data center from downtime. When it comes to disaster readiness, proactive planning is the key to success. Every business, regardless of size, needs to have a well-tested disaster recovery plan in place. Every minute your systems are down, the financial implications grow. Take the assessment to see where your disaster recovery plan ranks. Then learn about next steps and more information.

In today’s technology-rich world, customers and employees demand the highest level of application performance. Failure to provide access to applications that consistently perform well anytime, anywhere, and on any device, often leads to lower productivity, customer dissatisfaction, decreased revenue and market share, and damage to brand reputation. This paper explores the challenges that today’s CIOs face in regard to application performance, and how a more strategic data center approach, like distributing applications closer to your users, can help optimize application performance and reduce IT costs.

Enterprises grapple with a host of challenges that are spurring the creation of hybrid clouds: collections of computing infrastructure spread across multiple data centers and multiple cloud providers. This new concept often provokes uncertainty, which must be addressed head on. As more applications and computing resources move to the cloud, enterprises will become more dependent on cloud vendors, whether the issue is access, hosting, management, or any number of other services. Cloud consumers want to avoid vendor lock-in—having only one cloud provider. They want to know that they will have visibility into data and systems across multiple platforms and providers. They want to be able to move servers and storage around without a negative impact on application availability. The good news is that more solutions become available every day, but with a learning curve and numerous management challenges and considerations. This CITO Research paper provides advice for managers about how to c

It’s no secret that more and more businesses are leveraging the power of the cloud. And there’s good reason for that. Cloud computing offers the promise of cost-effective capacity on demand—anytime, anywhere, and on any device. But taking advantage of the cloud’s many benefits isn’t as simple as signing up for an account. Like any other IT tool, it has to be used strategically. Making the move requires an end-to-end strategy designed to maximize the benefits of the cloud for your unique business needs. This infopaper will help you do just that.

The businesses that thrive amid fluctuating technology demands are not only keeping a finger on the pulse of current trends, they have the infrastructure in place to handle whatever changes might come. And they’re doing so by treating their data centers as a strategic asset—a hub from which providers and performance can all stem. Are you ready for what’s next? According to analyst forecasts and IT executives, the five key trends affecting our state of technology are mobility, consumer technology, cloud services, hyperdigitization and globalization. In the following pages, you’ll learn how these trends are affecting current networks, and why a strategic data center is key to not only surviving, but thriving, today and in the future.

Connections are great. Having a network to connect to is even better. Humans have been connecting, in one form or another, throughout history. Our cities were born from the drive to move closer to each other so that we might connect. And while the need to connect hasn’t changed, the way we do it definitely has. Nowhere is this evolution more apparent than in business. In today’s landscape, business is more virtual, geographically dispersed and mobile than ever, with companies building new data centers and clustering servers in separate locations. The challenge is that companies vary hugely in scale, scope and direction. Many are doing things not even imagined two decades ago, yet all of them rely on the ability to connect, manage and distribute large stores of data. The next wave of innovation relies on the ability to do this dynamically.

The client had an extensive global multiprotocol label switching (MPLS) network with over 30 Gbps of bandwidth. However, the client was experiencing bandwidth growth of >30% compound annual growth rate (CAGR) and foresaw increasing demands for multi-media applications, data center to data center traffic, and cloud solution usage to support its business units and global workforce. It became crucial for the client to re-architect their current network to support growth and provide a globally consistent user experience at lower cost. With 40% of their WAN traffic being http internet traffic, they needed regional internet service provider (ISP) breakouts. The client needed a lower cost/MB high capacity WAN backbone for better application performance and cloud optimization. Their network needed to be scalable to poise them for anticipated growth and offer improved site connectivity options.

Expedient Data Centers, a leader in Managed and Data Center Services with locations from Cleveland to Memphis to Boston, unpacks the mechanics of how it consistently meets Service Level Agreements for its customers. This whitepaper explores how service providers use VMTurbo to provide consistent performance across all workloads, as well as the three roles a responsible managed service provider (MSP) takes in order to accomplish that directive.

Managing the Economics of Your Virtualized Data Center The average datacenter is 50% more costly than Amazon Web Services. As cloud economics threaten the long-term viability of on premise data centers, the survival of IT organizations rests solely in the ability to maximize the operational and financial returns of their existing infrastructure. You will survive, and this brand new whitepaper will help you to follow these 4 best practices: - Maximize the efficiency of your virtual data center. - Optimize workload placement within your clusters. - Reclaim unused server capacity. - And show your boss that this saves money.