Infrastructure

Online marketing needs to be coordinated and consistent with marketing communication and business objectives. To compete in today's marketplace, marketing professionals need a solution that allows them to react to changing market conditions cost effectively: coordinated marketing communication at a lower cost.

Four Promising Alternatives to the Lead Acid Battery...This white paper will explore the strengths, weaknesses and future prospects of four such technologies: Flywheels, ultracapacitors, fuel cells and lithium ion batteries.

The newest addition to the WhatsUp Gold product family, WhatsConfigured introduces automated Network Configuration and Change Management (NCCM) eliminating the manual process of maintenance and documentation of network device configurations. WhatsUp Gold v14.1 expands on the existing feature set of the core product with a number of new capabilities.

This paper outlines the seven essential buying criteria that every decision-maker needs to consider when making a decision on a video delivery provider. These buying criteria are shared across the gamut of small, video-centric startups and established, familiar media giants.

Virtualization can deliver dramatic benefits for data centers, but it can also stress the underlying support infrastructure.  Power and cooling systems—which may have been quite sufficient for pre-virtualization needs—could easily become inadequate when data center performance patterns are radically altered.  This paper describes some of power challenges related to virtualization—and the readily available technologies to address them.

If IT and Facilities could work collaboratively, organizations can operate more efficiently and effectively while still meeting their business objectives.  That’s why Eaton® is partnering with organizations that develop IT management systems to create an integrated approach to energy management.  This white paper describes how a joint monitoring and management solution links IT assets, the data center infrastructure and Facilities assets into a holistic perspective aligned with business processes.

What your IT equipment needs from a UPS: The top five requirements that define "quality power" in the eyes of the power supplies in your IT systems.

How to optimize energy efficiency without impeding growth

Download your free white paper today to get a better understanding of the trends driving data center design and management and how you can use them to reduce costs, improve equipment utilization and ensure high availability!

This whitepaper explores the challenges of continuous integration in the enterprise and looks at the characteristics of an Enterprise CI tool.

This paper looks at the needs of build and release management, how those needs are met by open source and commercial tools that go way beyond the likes of Make or Ant, and the real costs of creating and maintaining a homegrown system.

After considering bandwidth upgrades and point products, Psomas decided to go with the Riverbed Steelhead solution. With Riverbed Steelhead products deployed worldwide, their employees can now share work and leverage resources wherever they happen to be.

Download this paper and learn about a proven strategy for combining WAN-based backup with WAN optimization solutions.

The five-minute Maintenance & Technology Service Self-Assessment from IBM can help you start addressing the shortfalls in your hardware, software and managed support areas. You'll learn how to create plans for potential issues, plus identify next steps to improve your support.

Get the critical information you need to transform your data center by implementing a solution based on the greatest possible computing power with the lowest possible energy expenditure.

This webcast includes interviews from leading SAN vendors including AJ Casamento, Solutioneer at Brocade, Bob Nusbaum, MDS Product Manager at Cisco and Jim Morin, Portfolio Management at Ciena.

Less can be more: Lessons in consolidation & virtualization. This article explains how optimization enables agility and maximizes efficiency, so your business can be more competitive.

This webcast, "Untangle Your Connectivity Infrastructure - Free Up Your Cost," shows how IBM SOA solutions and IBM WebSphere untangle costly and debilitating complexities associated with connecting and integrating applications, services, and processes spread throughout the organization. The result is business agility and cost optimization.

There are many expensive, complex technologies that promise high availability for SQL. Fortunately there are also simple, automated ways to get the highest levels of protection. The following five secrets to affordable SQL availability will help you to implement a SQL environment with little or no downtime, zero data loss, and no added IT complexity.

Today's IT organizations are dealing with the consequences of exploring IT Infrastructure growth and complexity. With its growing complexity and volume, the cost of managing the infrastructure from simple patch management to skill sets requirements for IT administrators is increasing.

This joint Intel white paper explores how to address virtualization in an environment with high I/O. The paper includes a technology overview, network concerns and explains how Virtuozzo and Intel are well suited for the high I/O environment.

The paper discusses the agility enabled by virtualization, the resulting control challenges, and a way to meet those challenges. It describes seven major requirements for success and reviews how the BMC/VMware approach helps IT ensure control over the virtualized data center and maintain compliance with corporate policies and government regulations.

Despite all the excitement about clouds, only a handful has yet been built, mostly because infrastructure is such a challenge. Before cloud-type systems can bloom, businesses need ready access to the kind of infrastructure Google had to cobble together itself: high scale, low-cost and mass customized. Read this online article to learn how these extreme scale-out infrastructures will not only seed clouds, but nourish Web 2.0 and high-performance systems while inspiring business models we can't yet imagine.

The internet, global economy, and information demands have dramatically changed the way today’s modern datacenters work. In these times of globalization enterprises have channels, subsidiaries and customers spread all over the world. The internet has linked all of us together but this has also increased processing demands. We have become an “on-demand” society and have come to expect fast response to our information requests. There is no time to sleep when it comes to background processing. Dramatically said – the batch window has closed. Read more today!

BIG-IP devices have long been a tool for applying "rolling upgrades" to the applications and systems that sit behind the BIG-IP device. With Live Install, this "stage->reboot->go live" sequence can now be applied to the BIG-IP device directly, creating a rolling upgrade scenario like those of the application systems behind it. Live Install also enables snapshot versioning for future versions of the BIG-IP system, a critical feature for both production and testing environments.