You are here: silicon.com > Resources > White Papers > Data Management > Data Infrastructure > Data Center

Data Center White Papers

Tomorrow's Enterprise Data Center Today: Simplify, Scale, and Protect Investments With End-to-End Solutions From IBM and Cisco

Tags:
data center

Overview IBM and Cisco solutions for the data center enable IT departments to scale to meet increasing business demands with a low TCO. Evolving to a dynamic infrastructure reduces capital and operating expenses and gives IT the flexibility to rapidly provision new services from pools of shared resources in response to changing business needs. Advanced solutions for availability, business continuance, and data security support goals for resilience and regulatory compliance. Finally, IBM and Cisco solutions help protect today's data center investments by providing a roadmap to the future. Tomorrow's data center is here today, with dynamic, end-to-end data center solutions from IBM and Cisco.

Further White Paper Details
Publisher	Cisco Systems	File Format	PDF
Date Published	November 2008
Format	White Papers
Topics	Data Center, ROI - TCO

Did you find this white paper useful?

11 things to consider for File Virtualization

As organizations struggle to cope with the exponential growth of data, especially in the unstructured and decentralized file space, the urgency to gain better control, visibility and transparency of file...

Publisher:
Brocade Communications Systems

An examination of server consolidation: the trends that can drive efficiencies and help businesses gain a competitive edge

This white paper provides a starting point for organizations contemplating server consolidation. It includes an overview of server consolidation concepts and techniques and provides guidance on methodologies. It also looks...

Publisher:
IBM

IT optimization as a source of sustainable competitive advantage

Over the last ten years enterprises worldwide have transformed the way they do business by investing trillions of dollars in IT. They've expanded their marketplace reach while working more closely...

Publisher:
IBM

A Blueprint for Better Management from the Desktop to the Data Center

In the new service-oriented world, virtualization is critical. However, with virtualization comes a new set of management challenges. The introduction of virtual machine operating system “images” as a first-class IT...

Publisher:
Novell

Automation for the New Data Center

Is your data centre being squeezed by increasing power and cooling costs? Are your servers underutilised and costly to manage? Virtualization enables data center managers to make far better use...

Publisher:
Novell

What if... you needed an ROI case for everything?

This all means no self respecting corporate sales person turns up to a sales call without their ROI or total cost of ownership (TCO - that other addictive TLA) template in their kit bag. Perhaps the main objection to the blind application of a bean...

Channel:
Comment & Analysis

The Bloor Perspective: Nextel's lessons, more outsourcing and integration tips

There has been a fall in demand for equity-based instruments and a rise in demand for debt and commodity services, placing huge demands for flexibility on the technology departments which support the revenue generating capabilities and capacity.

Skype gets down to business VoIP

With Skype, one no longer needs a few hundred thousand dollars in start-up costs typically associated with Net phone service, let alone the billions of dollars in investments to become a traditional phone company.

Channel:
Telecoms

Why you should be outsourcing your data centres

Why build a data centre in a warm, Western location where we will incur massive expenses to generate heat and CO2? Deutsche Bank got around the problem in 2004 by deciding that only infrastructure that was fully roadmap-compliant would be allowed...

Steven Bandrowczak, CIO, Nortel

Consolidation of IT applications helps with IT operating expenses, global business processes and helps improve cycle times," he says. Bandrowczak says this approach is about not only operational efficiencies but also making the right tech...

Legacy IT holding back insurers

With the global economic crisis well underway, insurers need to examine their IT projects against a combination of strategic goals - including getting bigger by growing revenue; getting leaner by reducing expenses and increasing productivity; and...

Featured White Papers

The Value of Location Intelligence in the Communications Industry

Public Services are under pressure, the challenge is to do more with less. How do you improve citizen satisfaction, increase cost efficiencies and improve service delivery? The power of location intelligence is helping many local authorities and government departments make more informed decisions and derive greater value from current location-based information and data. Read this whitepaper to see how you can take advantage of location intelligence.

Publisher:
Pitney Bowes

Best Practices for Translating Customer Satisfaction into Revenue

Today's support organisations are focused on two top-level metrics: financial results and customer satisfaction. For most, it's easy to track financial performance, but customer satisfaction is akin to speaking a foreign language. How do you quantify customer satisfaction? Download the Best Practices for Benchmarking Customer Satisfaction to get industry research the Association of Support Professionals (ASP) on how to measure and leverage customer satisfaction.

Publisher:
Citrix Online

HP print solutions and 3M

the objective for 3M was to optimize office printing infrastructure at 3Mlocations worldwide Reduce total cost and environmental footprint. Some of the business benefits acheived by switching to HP print soultions, More than $3 million in savings in first two years and Per page costs reduced by up to 90 percent.