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Best Practices for Data Center Virtualization and Hardware Utilization by Data Center Decisions
and consolidating your data center hardware and walks through a practical approach to getting started. Many factors come into play when assessing a...
Data Center Energy Management and Optimization by Viridity Software
To be actionable and effective, data center power optimization requires accurate measuring, modeling, trending, and analysis. Read this white paper to learn how...
Avoidable Mistakes that Compromise Cooling Performance in Data Centers and Network Rooms by APC by Schneider Electric
various mistakes that compromise data center colling systems, explains their principles, quantifies their impacts, and describes simple remedies.

Most data...
Greening the Data Center with IBM Tivoli Software by IBM
of managing energy consumption in data centers and provides an overview of the problems and issues associated with "greening" today's data centers.

This white...
Unleashing the Value of the Data Center by Intel
160;to discover the value of the data center by using the Intel® Xeon® processor series. Explore white papers, videos, and other resources to...
Keeping Cool In The Data Center: A High-Efficiency Modular Solution by Alcatel-Lucent
paper examines a new approach to data center cooling known as "phase change" or "two-phase" low-pressure pumped refrigerant cooling. It details the advantages of this...
Using Virtualization with Windows Server 2008 R2 to Reduce Costs in the Data Center by Dell, Inc. and Intel
component to the success of a data center. What are some of the benefits of virtualization? What are the cost benefits of using Windows Server 2008 R2 for...
Building the Foundation for a Virtual Data Center by Datalink and NetApp
the idea of virtualizing the data center is here to stay, and many organizations are well on their way to making this migration.

Join Datalink for a webcast...
Power and Cooling Capacity Management for Data Centers by APC by Schneider Electric
power density capability of modern data centers. Installation and unmanaged proliferation of this equipment can lead to unexpected problems with power and...
10Gb Ethernet for Virtual Data Center by Dell, Inc.
of 10Gb ethernet for the virtual data center. You'll learn about the networking requirements for virtualization, how these requirements are addressed with 10Gb...
Simplifying the Data Center with Hyper-V™ and Dell by Dell, Inc. and Intel
with Microsoft Hyper-V and System Center, can create a consolidated, virtualized environment that can greatly simplify the management of both your physical...
Forrester Research: Protecting Data at the Edge: Backup for Desktops and Laptops by EMC
can ensure full protection of the data center and edge devices.

Stephanie Balaouras, Principal Analyst, Research Director, Forrester Research, explains how to...
Altor VF3 Live Demonstration by Altor Networks
provider of security for virtual data centers and clouds. This link provides you with full access to Altor security software running within a VMware...
Data Center Servers and Storage E-Book Chapter 1: Selecting a Server for Virtualization by Dell, Inc. and Intel
Selecting a new server is always a crucial call, but virtualization adds some wrinkles that administrators must be...
Real World Disaster Recovery by IBM
this article about a new enterprise data center and learn more about protecting your IT infrastructure.

In preparation for disasters, it's critical to have a backup...
Enterprise Backup and Recovery Considerations by Sirius and NetApp
and restore scenarios for network data storage.

The exponential growth of critical data that resides on network file servers has created the need for more...
Highly Available Virtualization With Microsoft Hyper-V and System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2008 by Dell and Microsoft
productivity, and protecting data from system failure. Combining Microsoft Hyper-V technology with Microsoft System Center Virtual Machine Manager...
Looking at Virtualization Performance through a Network Lens by CA
capabilities to all servers in your data center and foster flexible collaboration between server, network, security, and storage teams.
 
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Data Management Podcast
more about data management issues in SaaS BI deployments, including a discussion on data security and integration

About the speaker: William is the president of McKnight Consulting Group. He works as a strategist, lead enterprise information architect More...

Mar 22, 2010
Data Management News
s online data services company and sees an opportunity to develop software on top of the information sharing service More...
Apr 22, 2010
s online data services company and sees an opportunity to develop software on top of the information sharing service More...
Apr 21, 2010
data from disparate sources. But the product, and the SAP MDM roadmap, still need work More...
Apr 20, 2010
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Data management is the development and execution of architectures, policies, practices and procedures in order to manage the information lifecycle needs of an enterprise in an effective manner.

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Feb 16, 2007
Data Management Podcasts
Cost-cutting strategies for a virtualized data center: Performance and capacity management tools by Dell, Inc. and Intel
for your virtualized data center.

With limited resources and budgets, midmarket IT staffs are often handling multiple projects and not able to proactively anticipate and address problems in the data center. In part three of this podcast series on cost
Fast Data Access and Analysis With SEQUEL! by SEQUEL-Software
how SEQUEL, a powerful data access and retrieval tool, can solve your data access needs. SEQUEL can help any business and any user, whether data is stored locally on a System i DB2 database, or remotely on servers running SQL Server, Oracle, and MySQL.

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An IT Executive's Guide to Effective Unix Migrations with Dell Services by Dell, Inc. and Intel
that Dell brings to the Data Center in their five phase methodology as well as best practices that they share, including:

  • Being self-supporting
  • Data Center Facilities
  • Storage Best Practices for Transitional Purposes
  • Unix Migration Open Source
Data Management Expert Advice
What is the difference between a logical and physical warehouse design? By Mark Whitehorn
between a physical and logical design? The process of database design is typically separated out into three different layers:

User Logical Physical

The idea of splitting it like this arose very early in the development of databases. These three layers were first described in an interim paper published by the ANSI/SPARC Study Group on Data Base Management More...

Oct 7, 2009
What are the advantages/disadvantages of database abstraction layers? By Jill Dyché
Can you outline the advantages/disadvantages of using database abstraction layers, as opposed to database-specific coding? Because databases often have to be all things to all people. By allowing the hardcoding of rules and metadata into the database, companies are giving programmers control over not just what's in the database, but how business terms More...
Mar 31, 2009
Do business intelligence tools require a data warehouse? By Rick Sherman
which required you to extract the data into a relational database that was often a data warehouse. Currently, much -- if not most -- of a company's operational systems use relational databases, enabling BI to access that data directly. There is a lot of talk about operational BI today, which is when people directly access those operational systems with their BI tools. In More...
Jun 26, 2008