Data Quality

Alternatives for providing electrical power to high density racks in Data Centers and Network Rooms are explained and compared. Issues addressed include quantity of feeds, single-phase vs. three-phase, number and location of circuit breakers, overload, selection of plug types, selection of voltage, redundancy, and loss of redundancy. The need for the rack power system to adapt to changing requirements is identified and quantified. Guidelines are defined for rack power systems that can reliably deliver power to high density loads while adapting to changing needs.

Surprise incidences of downtime in server rooms and remote wiring closets lead to sleepless nights for many IT managers. Most can recount horror stories about how bad luck, human error, or just simple incompetence brought their server rooms down. This paper analyzes several of these incidents and makes recommendations for how a basic monitoring system can help reduce the occurrence of these unanticipated events.

The quest for efficiency improvement raises questions regarding the optimal air temperature for data centers. The ASHRAE TC-9.9 committee has recently adopted an extension of the recommended thermal envelope for server inlet temperature and humidity. A popular hypothesis suggests that total energy demands should diminish as the server inlet temperatures increase. This paper tests that hypothesis through the development of a composite power consumption baseline for a mixture of servers as a function of inlet temperature and applying this data to a variety of cooling architectures.

Simple and rapid deployment of self-contained, high-density pods within an existing or new low-density data center is possible with today's power and cooling technology. The independence of these high-density pods allow for predictable and reliable operation of high-density equipment without a negative impact on the performance of existing low-density power and cooling infrastructure. A side benefit is that these high-density pods operate at much higher electrical efficiency than conventional designs. Guidance on planning design, implementation, and predictable operation of high-density pods is provided.

Data centers today lack a formal system for classifying software management tools. As a result, confusion exists regarding which management systems are necessary and which are optional for secure and efficient data center operation. This paper divides the realm of data center "Operations Technology" into four distinct domains and compares the primary and secondary functions of key subsystems within these domains. With a classification system in place, data center professionals can begin to determine what kinds physical infrastructure management tools they need - and don't need - to operate their data centers.

It used to be that having your head in the clouds was pejorative. Not anymore. Today, almost everyone wants to be in the cloud. But skepticism about cloud security is leaving a few folks stuck on the ground. This white paper explores key cloud security questions addressed during the 2010 Forrester Security Forum, including private versus public clouds, security standards and cloud services trends.

This eBook looks at the challenges involved in delivering and managing desktops, today and in the future. Its goal is to demonstrate how VMware desktop virtualization can deliver a solution to address the requirements of IT and end-users without compromise.

Read this white paper to learn about the direct link between cloud computing and business agility.

Published by Aternity, the paper includes 8 real-world cases detailing how Aternity empowers SAP customers with a user-centric approach to proactive IT management.

This solution brief discusses the backup and archive challenges that SMBs face and how tape storage solutions address regulatory compliance.

The ever-increasing pace of data growth calls for a comprehensive storage strategy that protects data infrastructure from performance problems and is also flexible enough to handle changing business requirements. Read the advisory brief from Frost & Sullivan's Stratecast group and learn how IBM's suite of storage solutions addresses big data challenges. You'll also learn how you can introduce scalability and efficiency to your storage environment - avoiding the storage Armageddon.

What is Master Data? Why is it Important?

Measuring the Total Economic Impact of IBM InfoSphere Information Server

Access to timely and accurate information has become a critical driver of business success. Organizations need to have access to timely and accurate information to make better business decisions, serve their customers better and respond to changes in the market. But increasingly, they are hitting roadblocks in their quest for up-to-date accurate business information.

Help reduce operational costs and risk while improving accessibility of critical business data.

This white paper highlights the performance and scalability potential of InfoSphere DataStage 8.1 based on a benchmark test simulating a data warehouse scenario. The benchmark is designed to use the profiled situation to provide insight about how InfoSphere DataStage addresses key questions customers frequently ask when designing their information integration architecture.

Five questions business leaders must ask

A structured and proactive approach to managing costs and increasing efficiency.

Find and solve performance problems without adding costs IBM InfoSphere Optim puts performance management in the spotlight! Optim solutions are designed to deploy quickly and easily out of the box for immediate benefit. Business-value assessment services are also available to help you design a custom solution - complete with full financial analysis. Either way, you can realize immediate ROI interms of cost and performance if you keep performance-management best practices in mind.

Learn how your organization can take advantage of recent breakthroughs to lower the cost of data management.

Learn how companies around the world are boosting performance, cutting costs and managing growth.

This e-book offers tips and solutions to help you optimize infrastructure, boost development productivity and improve database administrator (DBA) efficiency. With intelligent actions and technologies, you can better manage and deliver the information your company needs-along with cost savings, risk reduction and increased performance-to drive smarter business outcomes.

Companies need capabilities for identifying data assets and relationships, assessing data growth and implementing tiered storage strategies-capabilities that information governance can provide. It is important to classify enterprise data, understand data relationships and define service levels. Database archiving has proven effective in managing continued application data growth especially when it is combined with data discovery.

Data is the lifeblood of any business, and small businesses are certainly no exception. Critical data such as email messages, financial documents, as well as project and personnel files all make up vital company information that most businesses cannot function without.

Download this complimentary white paper for a detailed exploration into how scalable density designs can extend the life of your colocation investment and improve the TCO of your colocated solutions and infrastructure.