Data Center Strategies for the CIO
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Carrie Higbie, global network applications market manager for The Siemon Company has been involved in the computing and networking industries for nearly 20 years. She has been involved in sales, executive management and consulting on a wide variety of platforms and topologies and has held director and VP positions with fortune 500 companies and consulting firms. Carrie has taught classes for Novell, Microsoft and Cisco certifications, as well as CAD/CAE, networking and programming on a collegiate level. She has worked with manufacturing firms, medical institutions, casinos, healthcare providers, cable and wireless providers and a wide variety of other industries in both networking design/implementation, project management and software development for privately held consulting firms and most recently Network and Software Solutions.
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Contributions from Carrie Higbie
- Recommended cable bandwidth in a small data center
- Fixing a bottle neck between the switch and server rooms
- Things to consider when planning a data center move to
- A fiber optic backbone
- Two departments, one budget
- The future of 10GbE
- Separating cables in the server cabinet
- Separate trays for separate cables
- Putting new technologies to work in your data center
- Solving latency problems with a local ISP
- Making sense of your technology plan
- Rules for designing the urban data cen
- Data center standards
- Things to consider when planning a data center move to an older building
- Don't underestimate physical security