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What are DCIM tools? Test your knowledge with this quiz
Vendors talk about DCIM tools like they're going out of style, but what do you actually know about them? Take our quiz to find out and learn more. Quiz
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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 ma... 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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SearchDataCenter’s top tips of 2011
If you’ve missed these best tips of 2011, now is a great time to catch up and end the year right. Feature
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Server performance and benchmark testing guide
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Planning a change in systems management tools: Advisory Board Q&A
Avoid the trauma of systems management tool changes through careful planning and proof-of-concept testing. Advisory Board Q&A
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Hot summer reads: From systems management to server hardware
Don’t miss out on our top data center tips and guides from this summer. This top content on systems management, data center planning and server hardware are worth a second look. Must reads
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SearchDataCenter.com Products of the Year 2011 nominations
SearchDataCenter.com's annual Products of the Year awards recognize innovation and performance in data center technologies. Nominate a product today! Feature
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State of the Data Center: 2011
Special Report
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Open source monitoring software ready for final release
The Assimilation Monitoring Project nears final release of an open source monitoring tool engineered to tackle IT's 'dirty little secret.' News | 18 Apr 2013
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HP unveils cloud-based IT service management product Service Anywhere
HP's Service Anywhere joins several other cloud-based ITSM offerings, but questions about total cost of ownership could hamper potential sales. News | 22 Oct 2012
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Assimilation Monitoring Project hopes to ease 'monitoring sucks' woes
Alan Robertson discusses how his Assimilation Monitoring Project may bring about the demise of the "Monitoring Sucks" movement. Q&A | 20 Aug 2012
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'Monitoring Sucks' movement rallies for better systems monitoring tools
IT pros have long suffered subpar systems monitoring tools, but they're not taking things lying down. News | 19 Jul 2012
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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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IBM, HP share top spot for servers: News in brief
With flagging sales of Itanium systems last quarter, IBM wrested sole ownership of the number one position for worldwide server revenue from HP, IDC reported. News | 07 Dec 2011
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Data center infrastructure management on the move
At Gartner Data Center Conference in Las Vegas this week, DCIM players talked up their latest attempts to tame the flood of data center operations information. News | 06 Dec 2011
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Airbus buys HP PODs: Data center news in brief
The European aircraft manufacturer Airbus will deploy HP containerized data centers in Toulouse, France and Hamburg, Germany. News | 28 Sep 2011
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Data center news in brief: DCIM edition
Data center infrastructure management (DCIM) vendors like Schneider Electric, FieldView Solutions and No Limits Software have been busy updating their wares. News | 28 Jun 2011
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APC links to HP Operations Manager: News in brief
APC infrastructure management software integrates with HP Operations Manager for real-time power and cooling monitoring; and more news in brief. News | 03 Jun 2011
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Using Zabbix with embedded devices via SNMP monitoring
Some devices you want to monitor with Zabbix cannot have software installed. For these appliances, SNMP monitoring may be the right choice. Tip
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How to choose the right server performance monitoring tools
Advance planning and careful due diligence can help a business select the best server performance monitoring tools for its unique needs. Tip
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Setting up a Zabbix monitoring environment
Systems administrators who need to monitor nodes can use the open source monitoring tool Zabbix to gauge the network's health. Tip
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Core parking helps drive down energy costs
Core parking can save significantly on server energy use, but sys admins need to decide when to use it, since system performance will take a hit. Tip
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Tips for improving server reliability and available memory
New memory modules and system capabilities can increase available memory and reliability on mission-critical servers. Tip
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Mainframe monitoring tools get a new sibling with zEC12's zAware
Learn more about the IBM zEC12 mainframe's addition to the pantheon of mainframe monitoring tools. Here's a deeper look at zAware. Tip
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Remote reboot: Tips for colocation and emergency service
When the data center is far away and you need server maintenance, there's a simple fix. Explore two methods for performing a remote reboot. Tip
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Can you cut data center infrastructure costs with new analytics tools?
Leveraging new tools based on 'big data' analytics could help companies save money on data center infrastructure. Tip
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IPMI can remedy remote server access issues in your data center
IPMI can help with server management across many servers when proprietary tools can't do enough. Tip
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Facilities management team to the IT department: Let's work together
For the business to run smoothly, facilities management and IT must learn to use automation tools to cooperate. Tip
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Some adjustments may be necessary to get around remote KVM limitations
The technology behind remote KVM is solid, but there are still issues to consider when using it in your data center. Answer
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Hardware support for KVM over Ethernet may require daughter card
The functionality for KVM over Ethernet usually resides in a microcontroller on the server motherboard or in some cases may require a daughter card. Answer
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How KVM over IP makes remote systems management easier
Remote systems management using KVM over IP is helping businesses avoid the costs associated with travel while improving support response times. Answer
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A general list of data center cost components
Data center strategy specialist Charles King offers one reader a list of questions and considerations for setting up and running a data center. Ask the Expert
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Can you recommend a product that diagnoses/analyses hardware configuration?
Ask the Expert
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Performance monitoring
Robert Harris on performance monitoring in CICS environment. Ask the Expert
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Zabbix
Zabbix is an open-source tool designed to monitor networks, servers, appliances and other hardware through a Linux-based server, which communicates to the native agents that are available for many operating systems, including Linux, UNIX and Windows.... Definition
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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 e... Definition
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on-demand computing
On-demand (OD) computing is an increasingly popular enterprise model in which computing resources are made available to the user as needed. Definition
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COBOL (Common Business Oriented Language)
COBOL (Common Business Oriented Language) was the first widely-used high-level programming language for business applications. Many payroll, accounting, and other business application programs written in COBOL over the past 35 years are still in us... Definition
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Bloom Energy Server
A Bloom box, officially known as an Energy Server, is a modular construction of fuel cells that can be used in combination to produce the amount of energy required for a given application. Each fuel cell, which consists of a metal alloy plate sandwic... Definition
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fuel cell
A fuel cell is an electrochemical cell that derives its energy from combustible substances such as hydrogen, methane, propane, methanol, diesel fuel or even gasoline... (Continued) Definition
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z/OS
z/OS is the computer operating system for IBM's zSeries 900 (z900) line of large (mainframe) servers. Definition
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event forwarding
Event forwarding is the transmission of information to a centralized computer concerning events that take place on remote computers or servers... (Continued) Definition
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lights-out management (LOM)
Lights-out management (LOM) is the ability for a system administrator to monitor and manage servers by remote control. Definition
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MIS (management information systems)
MIS (management information systems) is a general term for the computer systems in an enterprise that provide information about its business operations. Definition
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IT personnel grapple with business uptime demands: Podcast Q&A
A survey finds the high availability demands of business technology means IT personnel have difficulty finding a balance between work and life. Podcast
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Open source monitoring software ready for final release
The Assimilation Monitoring Project nears final release of an open source monitoring tool engineered to tackle IT's 'dirty little secret.' News
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Some adjustments may be necessary to get around remote KVM limitations
The technology behind remote KVM is solid, but there are still issues to consider when using it in your data center. Answer
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Hardware support for KVM over Ethernet may require daughter card
The functionality for KVM over Ethernet usually resides in a microcontroller on the server motherboard or in some cases may require a daughter card. Answer
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How KVM over IP makes remote systems management easier
Remote systems management using KVM over IP is helping businesses avoid the costs associated with travel while improving support response times. Answer
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Zabbix
Zabbix is an open-source tool designed to monitor networks, servers, appliances and other hardware through a Linux-based server, which communicates to the native agents that are available for many operating systems, including Linux, UNIX and Windows.... Definition
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Using Zabbix with embedded devices via SNMP monitoring
Some devices you want to monitor with Zabbix cannot have software installed. For these appliances, SNMP monitoring may be the right choice. Tip
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How to choose the right server performance monitoring tools
Advance planning and careful due diligence can help a business select the best server performance monitoring tools for its unique needs. Tip
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Setting up a Zabbix monitoring environment
Systems administrators who need to monitor nodes can use the open source monitoring tool Zabbix to gauge the network's health. Tip
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Core parking helps drive down energy costs
Core parking can save significantly on server energy use, but sys admins need to decide when to use it, since system performance will take a hit. Tip
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Tips for improving server reliability and available memory
New memory modules and system capabilities can increase available memory and reliability on mission-critical servers. Tip
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