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Facility Considerations for the Data Center Version 2.0

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Overview The Cisco Enterprise Data Center Network Architecture - a comprehensive, adaptive network architecture designed by Cisco Systems for agile IT support of business needs - critically depends upon underlying physical facilities to provide the power, cooling, physical housing, cabling, physical security, and fire protection that allow IT to function reliably and seamlessly. This paper presents strategies for designing those facilities to support the emerging virtualized computing environment.

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Publisher	American Power Conversion (APC)	File Format	PDF
Date Published	July 2005	Downloads	2
Format	White Papers
Topics	Infrastructure Management, Data Center

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