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  • TPC-E: New IT benchmarks for OLTP database servers

    The Transaction Processing Performance Council (TPC) has released TPC Benchmark E (TPC-E) for online transaction processing (OLTP) database servers. TPC hopes that the new benchmark for database server performance, which is an update to TPC-C, will h...  Tip

  • Ensuring CICS security with the Web Services Security standard

    You can ensure CICS message security with the Web Services Security (WSS) standard, which provides digital signature, authentication and message handler procedures.  Tip

  • DMTF tries to SMASH systems management costs

    Winston Bumpus, president of the Distributed Management Task Force (DMTF) says point products and a lack of standards are driving up systems management costs.  Tip

  • SPEC benchmarks: Simplify your server search

    SPEC, a non-profit organization whose goal is computer system standardization, offers tools to help make purchasing IT equipment more palatable.  Tip

  • Calculating costs of data center cabling infrastructure

    In part two of our series on data center cabling decisions, data center infrastructure expert Carrie Higbie offers a cost calculator for determining TCO on a cabling project.  Tip

  • Locating persistent hot spots in the data center

    The presence of hot spots continues to hamper the efficiency of today's high-density computer equipment. Syska Hennessey experts Terry L. Rodgers and Steve Escalante provide a checklist for hotspot anaylsis in the data center.  Tip

  • Using ASHRAE specs for data center metrics

    Measure proper temperature and humidity using Ashrae's Thermal Guidelines for Data Processing Environments.  Tip

  • Top ten considerations for data center SLAs

    Service Level Agreements (SLAs) are a hot topic in any organization. Many organizations are rolling out SLAs in an attempt to match IT infrastructure availability with the business objectives of the organization.  Tip

  • Funding your data center

    The data center that is at my current job is dated. I believe it was put in the 60's. Now, since it is dated, my objective is to get it renovated. The problem is accounting wants justification for that to happen.  Tip

  • Guide to data center standards

    This guide address all the issues from selecting the most power efficient servers to finding power supplies to disasters and securing the equipment within.  Tip

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