Data Center Strategies for the CIO
- IT process automation, data center automation
- Server hardware monitoring
- Application performance management
- Configuration and change management tools
- Data center capacity planning
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Organizing a data center with unified network management tools
As data centers grow in complexity, so do management chores. Unified network management tools can help ease the burden of those responsibilities.Tip
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State of the Data Center: 2011
Special Report
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Open source systems management: Hits and misses
Which open source systems management tools work for you? Some tools bring welcome automation to repeated tasks. But beware the shortcomings.Feature
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Intel dishes on Itanium "Poulson" chip: News in brief
Intel discussed key details about its upcoming Itanium processor, code-name Poulson, and other data center news.News | 24 Feb 2011
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Dell servers get VMware vCenter plug-in: News in brief
System administrators can now manage Dell PowerEdge servers directly from their VMware vCenter console; and other data center news.News | 24 Jan 2011
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The 2011 enterprise IT job market: Predictions and areas for growth
While 2010 was big for virtualization in the data center, the IT job market this year will see a surge in demand for cloud architecture and security knowledge, among other skills.Tip
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Open source systems management tools slideshow: Data center automation and configuration tools
In this seventh slide of the open source systems management tools slideshow, open source data center automation and configuration tools such as Puppet are profiled.Slideshow
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SearchDataCenter.com Products of the Year 2010
SearchDataCenter.com invites you to participate in its annual Products of the Year award nomination process. Nominate your favorite product or your company's product. Winning products will be featured in January 2011 on SearchDataCenter.com.Products of the Year
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green data center
A green data center is a repository for the storage, management, and dissemination of data in which the mechanical, lighting, electrical and computer systems are designed for maximum energy efficiency and minimum environmental impact... (Continued)Definition
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Systems management news in brief: Splunk, Cfengine and Nimsoft updated
Systems management vendors Splunk, Cfengine and Nimsoft recently rolled out new tools for data center administrators.Article | 13 Apr 2010
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Dell packs more DIMMs, disk drives into new PowerEdge 12G
New Dell PowerEdge 12G servers give customers more memory and disk capacity for virtualization along with management software updates.News | 27 Feb 2012
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Five questions on data center environmental monitoring
Our expert explains how to maintain ideal conditions for your server room using data center environmental monitoring tools and techniques.Tip
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How to find the right systems management tool for the job
Point tools or management frameworks? Set realistic goals and criteria before choosing a systems management tool.Tip
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data center evaporative cooling (swamp cooling)
Evaporative cooling, also known as swamp cooling, is a strategy for cooling air that takes advantage of the drop in temperature that occurs when water that's exposed to moving air begins to change to gas. You've probably experienced the effects of evaporative cooling if you've ever changed out of wet clothes because you felt chilled.Definition
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SearchDataCenter's 2011 Products of the Year awards
The verdict is in! SearchDataCenter.com reveals winners for its annual Products of the Year awards recognizing the year's top data center products.Products of the Year
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Managing and monitoring server log data
See how proactive system administrators help themselves avoid a security breach by putting an effective log management policy in place.Tip
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Server performance and benchmark testing guide
This guide includes tips from our data center experts to help you improve your testing practices and squeeze more performance out of your machines.Feature
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SearchDataCenter's 2011 Products of the Year awards
SearchDataCenter.com’s annual Products of the Year awards evaluate these products on a variety of important criteria, and award gold, silver and bronze winners in each of the three categories: infrastructure, systems management and computing hardware.Products of the Year
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Systems management winners
For the purposes of this year’s awards, systems management products include any systems management appliances and software products designed to measure, benchmark, report, provision, plan and control servers and other data center devices. Entrants may include any systems management point products up through major management frameworks.Products of the Year
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Making the most of server performance monitoring
Performance monitoring tools can produce more accurate and valuable results by following some general guidelines.Tip
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Wayne Kernochan
Wayne Kernochan is the President of Infostructure Associates, an affiliate of Valley View Ventures and has been an IT industry analyst for 22 years.Expert Contributor
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VDI puts data center networks to the test
Virtual desktop infrastructure pulls endpoint management to the core of the enterprise data center, taxing data center networks.News | 23 Apr 2012
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Using agile development to boost mainframe performance
Cutting the time to fix bugs and release new versions with agile development on mainframes offers a variety of benefits.Tip
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Techniques to extract and analyze CMF mainframe performance data
Administrators can use DFH$MOLS and Rexx to process mainframe performance data then import in Excel to do the analysis.Tip
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Punch up database performance by reorganizing data
A well-timed mainframe database reorg can result in much improved response.Tip
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VM management: How to walk the data center resource balancing act
Use these tools and techniques to improve VM management efficiency and address problems before they become a crisis.Tip
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Systems management winners
For the purposes of this year’s awards, systems management products include any systems management appliances and software products designed to measure, benchmark, report, provision, plan and control servers and other data center devices. Entrants may include any systems management point products up through major management frameworks.Products of the Year
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SearchDataCenter.com Products of the Year finalists for 2011
Products of the Year judges reveal finalists for the best IT products of 2011.Feature
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Application performance management tools for the cloud
There are many application performance management tools available that can collect and analyze metrics for organizations using distributed cloud-based applications.Tip
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Application performance tips: Workload optimization and software pathing
IT pros looking to maximize application performance should look beyond basic software, tuning to products from vendors pathing software and hardware.Tip
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Puppet Labs offers bare-metal provisioning to enterprises via EMC
Puppet Labs surprises some IT pros with a new EMC partnership that open-sources automated bare-metal provisioning for servers.News | 23 May 2012
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Resource allocation with Linux cgroups helps optimize performance
The Linux cgroups feature lets you make a profile to manage resources to keep your system under control.Tip
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Microsoft's System Center 2012 designed to ease data center management
Microsoft's System Center 2012 Configuration Manager and Virtual Machine Manager 2012 aims to please system administrators.Tip
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Dell packs more DIMMs, disk drives into new PowerEdge 12G
New Dell PowerEdge 12G servers give customers more memory and disk capacity for virtualization along with management software updates.News | 27 Feb 2012
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Windows systems administrators eye cheaper system management tools
A new, lower-cost alternative to Microsoft systems management tools from SolarWinds offers patch management and remote management.News | 01 Feb 2012
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VM management: How to walk the data center resource balancing act
Use these tools and techniques to improve VM management efficiency and address problems before they become a crisis.Tip
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Avoid the numbers game with Windows Server 8
The promise of improved IP address management could be one incentive for organizations to switch to Windows Server 8.Feature
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Server performance and benchmark testing guide
This guide includes tips from our data center experts to help you improve your testing practices and squeeze more performance out of your machines.Feature
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Systems management winners
For the purposes of this year’s awards, systems management products include any systems management appliances and software products designed to measure, benchmark, report, provision, plan and control servers and other data center devices. Entrants may include any systems management point products up through major management frameworks.Products of the Year
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Get the right applications to manage your system
This guide will help administrators find the best way to provision, monitor and manage the performance of virtual workloads across the data center.Magazine
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Optimize data center virtualization with strategic capacity planning
Use strategic capacity planning to future-proof your data center's virtualization efficiency and make the most of server hardware.Tip
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Wayne Kernochan
Wayne Kernochan is the President of Infostructure Associates, an affiliate of Valley View Ventures and has been an IT industry analyst for 22 years.Expert Contributor
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Will SSD performance benefit your data center?
SSD performance alone may not give you the results you expect following a hardware upgrade.Tip
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IBM, Cisco, NetApp converged infrastructure systems worth the price?
IBM, Cisco, and NetApp released new converged infrastructure offerings this week, but the high price tag might drive IT customers away.News | 11 Apr 2012
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Microsoft's System Center 2012 designed to ease data center management
Microsoft's System Center 2012 Configuration Manager and Virtual Machine Manager 2012 aims to please system administrators.Tip
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Scale-up or scale-out: What fits best in your data center?
A growing enterprise with the need for more computing power will have to decide whether to take a scale-out or scale-up approach.Tip
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Advisory Board roundtable: 'Big data' and its impact on data centers
Read what our Advisory Board has to say about big data and its implications for data centers.Feature
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Converting CPU hours to MIPS: Mainframe capacity planning process
In this expert tip, learn how to convert CPU hours to MIPS to aid in mainframe capacity planning.Answer
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Using hardware resources to maximize virtualization performance
In this guide, we’ll address some of those challenges and offer a collection of expert tips to help you improve virtualization performance and overcome some of the biggest virtualization-related hurdles IT professionals encounter.Guide
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Managing and monitoring server log data
See how proactive system administrators help themselves avoid a security breach by putting an effective log management policy in place.Tip
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