Business Intelligence Network - The Vision for BI and Beyond

WHITE PAPER - Data center facility planning and design is one of the most complex and important undertakings for any company. This chapter focuses on site selection and data center design elements.
Posted: July 31, 2008 | Published: July 24, 2008


Topics:  Business Intelligence | Computer Room Air Conditioning Units | Data Center Management | Data Centers | ERP | Infrastructure Services | IT Infrastructure

WHITE PAPER - Recent studies show that your data center could be wasting up to 60% of its cooling capacity. This final chapter in a three-part Data Center Design and Infrastructure guide delves into this issue.
Posted: July 31, 2008 | Published: July 31, 2008


Topics:  Business Intelligence | Cooling Equipment | Data Center Management | Data Centers | Environmental Compliance | EPA | IT Infrastructure

WHITE PAPER - This chapter focuses on power management in the data center. Learn about the mounting pressure on data center managers to find more reliable-and yet less expensive-ways to power IT infrastructure, achieve energy savings, and avoid elect...
Posted: July 31, 2008 | Published: July 24, 2008


Topics:  Business Continuity Planning | Data Center Management | Data Centers | Downtime | IT Asset Management | Loss Prevention | Power Integrated Circuits | RAS | Server Virtualization | UPS

WHITE PAPER - This paper is designed to help users who would like to understand virtualization better in order to evaluate the operational benefits it could provide.
Posted: June 30, 2008 | Published: February 1, 2008


Topics:  Data Center Management | Server Virtualization | Storage Management | Storage Virtualization

WHITE PAPER - By using a federated approach to a Configuration Management System, IT organizations can dynamically access information across teams and tools, resulting in faster, better, business-aware decisions that improve business service quality and cost.
Posted: June 18, 2008 | Published: May 1, 2008


Topics:  Data Center Management | IT Service Management | ITIL | SOA | Software Configuration Management | Software Infrastructure

WHITE PAPER - This white paper explores technologies and best practice that can help your organization respond to today's power and cooling challenges in a manner that reduces both energy expenditures and environmental impacts--while increasing computi...
Posted: June 11, 2008 | Published: June 10, 2008


Topics:  Best Practices | Business Intelligence | Cooling Equipment | Data Center Management | Data Centers | Environmental Industry

WHITE PAPER - In this white paper, learn how data center transformation can help your organization outsource applications and shift spending from maintenance and management to projects that support business growth and innovation.
Posted: June 6, 2008 | Published: May 1, 2008


Topics:  Data Center Management | Data Centers | Network Design | Network Management | Systems Integration

WHITE PAPER - In this briefing, learn how Thermal Zone Mapping is a novel way of representing and visualizing the environmental behavior of a "greenfield" or existing data center, allowing for easier and more complete understanding of this behavior.
Posted: June 6, 2008 | Published: September 1, 2007


Topics:  Data Center Management | Data Centers | IT Infrastructure | Network Design | Network Management | Systems Integration

CASE STUDY - In this case study from HP, read how HP launched an IT transformation program with a focus on five initiatives: global data centers, portfolio management, technology workforce effectiveness, building a world-class technology infrastructure...
Posted: June 6, 2008 | Published: March 1, 2008


Topics:  Data Center Management | Data Centers | IT Infrastructure | Network Design | Network Management | Systems Integration

WHITE PAPER - In this white paper, read how to meet the challenge of designing and operating mission-critical data centers in an era of constrained resources.
Posted: June 6, 2008 | Published: March 1, 2008


Topics:  Data Center Management | Data Centers | IT Infrastructure | Network Design | Network Management | Systems Integration

ANALYST REPORT - This Forrester research brief reviews the top vendors in data center automation (DCA) and rates HP the highest due to the breadth of their solution in the very competitive DCA market.
Posted: April 25, 2008 | Published: April 15, 2008


Topics:  Application Performance Management | Application Performance Management Software | Change and Configuration Management | Data Center Management | Fault Management | IT Infrastructure | Network Performance | Network Performance Management Software

WHITE PAPER - This white paper details the top ten reasons IT managers and production support teams have come to rely on run book automation to support their IT infrastructure.
Posted: February 27, 2008 | Published: August 1, 2008


Topics:  Data Center Management | Data Centers | IT Managers | Network Configuration Management | Systems Operations

WHITE PAPER - Without effective knowledge management it can be difficult for support teams to serve internal and external customers. Read this paper to learn how knowledge centered support can capture, organize and utilize its support information in your business.
Posted: June 21, 2007 | Published: June 1, 2007


Topics:  Data Center Management | Information Management | Information Management Software | IT Service Management | Knowledge Management | Knowledge Management Software | Technical Support Staff

WEBCAST - Hear how together HP and Cisco deliver high performance server interconnect technology that provides the high bandwidth and low latencies required for the most demanding computing environments.
Posted: June 14, 2007 | Premiered: June 26, 2007


Topics:  Blade Servers | Data Center Management | Network Monitoring | Network Performance | Switch Fabric | Switches | Switching