Data Center Networking Reports

WHITE PAPER: To address the ongoing IT mission to adapt IT resources and to improve levels of service, Oracle has integrated Sun hardware with Oracle's software applications and management tools to deliver a complete end-to-end solution that reduces IT complexity. Read this paper for more information.

Posted: 15 Mar 2011 | Published: 15 Mar 2011

VIDEOCAST: Watch this videocast from CDW Corporation to learn how consolidating your infrastructure can simplify your management platform.

Posted: 11 Mar 2011 | Premiered: Mar 11, 2011

DATA SHEET: This data sheet provides expert instructions on how to simplify UNIX operations with the HP-UX 11i.

Posted: 21 Feb 2011 | Published: 21 Feb 2011

EZINE: Read this month's CIO Decisions for the latest on making data centers more energy efficient and environmentally friendly.

Posted: 15 Feb 2011 | Published: 15 Feb 2011

PRODUCT OVERVIEW: IBM CloudBurst is a family of pre-integrated service delivery platforms that include the hardware, storage, networking, virtualization, and service management software to create a private cloud environment, transform data centers, and build dynamic infrastructures that deliver new levels of service at reduced cost.

Posted: 28 Jan 2011 | Published: 28 Jan 2011

WHITE PAPER: Cloud computing has been widely heralded as the "next big thing" in technology circles. At the same time it has arguably been overcomplicated in terms of the way it has been described. Check out this white paper to learn more about the security issues of cloud computing.

Posted: 05 Nov 2010 | Published: 05 Nov 2010

WHITE PAPER: Read this case study and see how the latest IBM System x and BladeCenter servers powered with the new energy efficient Intel Xeon 5500 series processors offer tremendous opportunity for reducing energy consumption, shrinking your data center footprint and lowering operational costs.

Posted: 22 Oct 2010 | Published: 22 Oct 2010

CASE STUDY: In this paper, we describe the architecture and implementation details of a Private Multi-Cloud (PMC), a prototype built jointly by Intel and Univa UD to demonstrate an internal cloud environment consisting of multiple Virtual Data Centers (VDCs). Read this paper for an illustration of the PMC cloud functionality with several real-world use cases.

Posted: 07 Oct 2010 | Published: 13 Aug 2010

WEBCAST: Join us from 10 a.m. - 11:15 a.m. PT (1 p.m. - 2:15 p.m. ET) on October 5 for a live online event and the Cisco 3D Borderless Challenge.

Posted: 04 Oct 2010 | Premiered: Oct 5, 2010, 01:00 EDT (05:00 GMT)

VIDEO: This video presentation includes leading industry experts from Cisco, Intel and Panduit discussing 10GBASE-T and how it makes data center 10Gig migration easy and cost effective.

Posted: 20 Aug 2010 | Premiered: 20 Aug 2010

EBOOK: Virtualization, the convergence of data and storage networks, and the evolution of how and where people work are all changing the way the data center should be designed. This e-book examines the issues and offers strategies for developing a data center network that will stand the test of time and emerging technology.

Posted: 04 Aug 2010 | Published: 04 Aug 2010

ANALYST REPORT: The data center of every business, whether SMB or enterprise, needs to find its own sense of balance between simplification and optimization that needs to be attained in order to lower the total cost of ownership (TCO) of the enterprise information technology (I.T.) infrastructure. To learn how Dell can lower the TCO of your data center, read on.

Posted: 15 Jun 2010 | Published: 30 Mar 2009

WHITE PAPER: IBM continues to provide the scale-up UNIX data center with a plan, and a predictable drumbeat, for the future. To learn more about IBM’s forthcoming POWER7 and AIX7, please read on.

Posted: 15 Jun 2010 | Published: 21 Sep 2009

WHITE PAPER: Fibre Channel over Ethernet is extending the reliability benefits and service of Fibre Channels to LANs and other Ethernet networks. Learn how this approach enables flexible, scalable, and simplified data center fabrics that support increasingly powerful applications and growing amounts of data.

Posted: 11 Jun 2010 | Published: 11 Jun 2010

WHITE PAPER: While many companies understand the benefits of virtualization and cloud computing, they struggle to prepare their data center for such a transition. Discover how to avoid a “rip-and-replace” approach by utilizing a phased network architecture upgrade that helps control risk and costs.

Posted: 11 Jun 2010 | Published: 11 Jun 2010

WHITE PAPER: Over the last 30 years, companies have significantly changed their approach to ensuring that their businesses can continue to run in the event of a catastrophe. Read this white paper to learn how business continuity and disaster recovery solutions can help you to develop a more robust enterprise.

Posted: 27 May 2010 | Published: 26 May 2010

WHITE PAPER: Alinean, a leader in IT value measurement, teamed up with HP to assess the financial merits of moving from a HP-UX 11i v2 platform to HP-UX 11i v3 running on HP Integrity Servers over moving to SUN Solaris10 running on Sun Servers. Read this white paper for details.

Posted: 18 May 2010 | Published: 02 Mar 2010

EZINE: Learn how to perform that task in a scalable way to prevent enterprises from taking their server virtualization efforts beyond server consolidation and into dynamic resource allocation. Also in this issue, find out which tools can help ease the workload in your virtual environment, and get five tips for virtualizing Microsoft Exchange Server 2007.

Posted: 03 May 2010 | Published: 03 May 2010

WHITE PAPER: Learn how HP is combining the best new standards-based technologies with a modular architecture that fully optimizes virtualized resources, while meeting business requirements for low total cost of ownership, faster time-to-service, and critical requirements for reliability, IT governance, and compliance.

Posted: 04 Mar 2010 | Published: 01 Oct 2009

WHITE PAPER: Crystal Reports Server software offers small businesses and mid size companies a proven reporting and dashboard solution on a single server. It addresses the complete reporting process – from data access and report and dashboard design to report management and delivery, including content integration with portals and enterprise applications.

Posted: 25 Feb 2010 | Published: 24 Feb 2010

CASE STUDY: This IDC Buyer Case Study examines the decision of NYSE Euronext to choose Juniper Networks as the primary supplier for the company's datacenter, Ethernet switching, and routing needs. Read on to learn more about how Juniper Networks is bringing the New York Stock Exchange into the twenty-first century.

Posted: 11 Feb 2010 | Published: 11 Jul 2009

ANALYST REPORT: Established LAN design practices were created for an environment of limited switch performance. Today's high-capacity switches allow new design approaches, thus reducing cost and complexity in campus and data center LANs. Read this Gartner report to learn about maximizing LAN performance by minimizing LAN switch Tiers.

Posted: 25 Jan 2010 | Published: 17 Nov 2009

WHITE PAPER: Enterprises today are seeking new communication technologies, such as wikis, blogs, and forums, to improve communication and collaboration and increase employee productivity.

Posted: 11 Nov 2009 | Published: 11 Nov 2009

WHITE PAPER: This guide describes best practices for incorporating cabling in a typical data center, plus tips for selecting cabling components and information on data transmission media.

Posted: 01 Sep 2009 | Published: 01 Sep 2007