In 2008, Cisco IT began expanding one of its North California data centers in order to provide much-needed additional server and storage capacity for crucial corporate applications such as enterprise resource planning (ERP), Telepresence and Software as a Service (SaaS) offerings. At the same time, Cisco IT also wanted to maximize utilization of space and minimize demand for electrical power and cooling in this facility. - Data Center Architect - THE NETWORK ARCHITECT << MORE >>

Data centers are driving rapid expense growth for many technology-intensive businesses. Despite the huge amounts of capital tied up in data centers, significant inefficiencies exist. Average server utilization seldom exceeds 6 percent and facility utilization can often be as low as 50 percent. With average data center costs now threatening to crowd out other technology investments, the matter has become a board level concern. - Data Center Architect - THE NETWORK ARCHITECT << MORE >>

3PAR® (NYSE: PAR), the leading global provider of utility storage, announced today that recent research conducted by TheInfoPro (TIP) as part of its Wave 11 Storage Study reflects the growing importance of thin provisioning to Fortune-1000 and Midsize Enterprise storage end users. - Data Center Architect - THE NETWORK ARCHITECT << MORE >>

Following 5 years of research and development under the technical direction of its long time author Mark Burgess (a professor of Network and System Administration at Oslo University College), the recently formed support company Cfengine AS today released a major upgrade of the Open Source, self-repairing software cfengine based on its innovative Promise Theory technology. - Data Center Architect - THE NETWORK ARCHITECT << MORE >>

IBM Smarter Planet - In recent years IBM has introduced sweeping initiatives (e.g., e-Business, autonomic computing, On-Demand) with considerable publicity and coordinated company-wide (i.e., worldwide) product and marketing strategies. In each of those initiatives, the underlying drumbeat (and core motivation) was sales of IBM products and services. - Data Center Architect - THE NETWORK ARCHITECT << MORE >>

New global research reveals that 84 percent of technology organizations are planning to implement a data center transformation (DCT) project in the next 12 months, primarily to lower costs and reduce business risk. - Data Center Architect - THE NETWORK ARCHITECT << MORE >>

Network infrastructure will be transformed in coming months by new levels of automation and intelligence driven by new system and endpoint demands and new IT initiatives. Find out how you can boost network availability and flexibility while reducing TCO by transforming your static network infrastructure into a dynamic network infrastructure capable of responding quickly to the needs of more dynamic systems and endpoints. - Data Center Architect - THE NETWORK ARCHITECT << MORE >>

BLADE Network Technologies, Inc. (BLADE), the trusted leader in data center networking, announced that the privately held company enjoyed a record fourth fiscal quarter during which it shipped more than 500,000 Ethernet ports to conclude its 2008 fiscal year with 54 percent shipment growth over the previous year. In so doing, BLADE maintained its leadership in blade server networking with a 2x lead over the nearest competition. BLADE's new 10 Gigabit Ethernet (10GbE) RackSwitch products, introduced in 2008, also position the company to deliver the enhanced network performance required for data center consolidation, virtualization and cloud computing. - Data Center Architect - THE NETWORK ARCHITECT << MORE >>

Neptuny, a leading solution provider in performance optimization for IT, has recently released a new major release (3.0) of their product, named Caplan™, providing Capacity Management solutions for large data centres and networks. In reviewing their Technology Audit of this new version of Neptuny product, Butler Group deemed Caplan™ as “the future in capacity planning solutions”. - Data Center Architect - THE NETWORK ARCHITECT << MORE >>

Neptuny, a leading solution provider in IT Performance Optimization and Data Center management, today launches Caplan™ 3.0, the business-aware Capacity Management solution for large data centres and networks. The new version of Caplan™ facilitates successful implementation of virtualization and consolidation initiatives as well as the production of future scenarios to enable the alignment between IT resources and business initiatives. - Data Center Architect - THE NETWORK ARCHITECT << MORE >>

Hifn™ (NASDAQ: HIFN), the catalyst behind storage and networking innovation, today announced that Gresham Enterprise Storage Inc, has chosen Hifn’s Express DR 1050 capacity optimization cards to integrate into its innovative Clareti Storage Director, the industry’s only tape virtualization and backup virtualization solution. Utilizing the Hifn Express DR 1050 card Gresham can effectively double the capacity of disk and tape devices attached to the Clareti Storage Director, enabling customers to save on operating costs including power, cooling and space. - Data Center Architect - THE NETWORK ARCHITECT << MORE >>

Riverbed Technology (NASDAQ: RVBD), the technology and market leader in wide-area data services (WDS), today announced that Raiffeisen Banks, part of the Raiffeisen Organization, has installed 150 Riverbed® Steelhead® appliances and the Riverbed Central Management Console (CMC) as part of its ongoing strategy to improve access to real-time data and increase worker productivity, while controlling IT costs. - Data Center Architect - THE NETWORK ARCHITECT << MORE >>

Much information exists regarding packet buffering size necessary for TCP traffic in a switch, but little involves the data center network. Here are the requirements, specifically for this application. - Data Center Architect - DATA CENTER NETWORK - THE NETWORK ARCHITECT << MORE >>

Citrix Systems, Inc. (Nasdaq:CTXS), the global leader in application delivery infrastructure, today announced Citrix® NetScaler® 9, the industry’s most advanced solution for radically improving the efficiency and TCO of web-based applications. As web applications multiply across corporate datacenters, most companies waste an estimated 50 percent of the cost of running these applications due to highly inefficient use of server and network resources. Eliminating this unnecessary overhead has been largely impractical in the past because the inefficiencies of each unique web application are simply too complex and dynamic for network and server teams to understand without deep application-level knowledge. - Data Center Architect << MORE >>

Juniper Networks, Inc. (NASDAQ: JNPR), the leader in high-performance networking, today introduced its new Data Center Infrastructure Solutions designed to advance IT initiatives for data center consolidation, server virtualization and sustainable information technology. The Juniper Networks Data Center Infrastructure Solutions can significantly reduce network complexity and total cost of ownership by up to 52 percent in capital expenditures, up to 44 percent in power, up to 44 percent in cooling and up to 55 percent in rack space in the data center. With Juniper, customers can achieve greater operational simplicity, agility and efficiency for accelerating the deployment of new applications and services. - Data Center Architect << MORE >>

Neptuny, the leading provider of IT Optimization solutions, today announced that a poll carried out at the Gartner Data Center Summit in Amsterdam found that 93% of companies are interested in implementing Capacity management for Cloud Computing or Virtualization. - Data Center Architect - IT RESOURCE NETWORK << MORE >>

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