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Archive for May 2010
Data Centre Projects: System Planning
25 May 2010
System Planning is the Achilles' heel of a data centre physical infrastructure project. Planning mistakes can magnify and propagate through later deployment phases, resulting in delays, cost overruns, wasted time and ultimately a compromised system.
View article detailsExtending the Network
24 May 2010
DFN – Deutsches Forschungsnetz – is Germany`s National Research and Education Network. It provides a high performance infrastructure which connect universities and research institutions and supports the development of new applications. Since 2006 the national backbone of DFN has been the X-WiN with about 60 nodes. Connected to the Internet and to European Backbone GÉANT, X-WiN is an integral part of the world wide community of research and educational networks.
View article detailsNew Movie Studio Takes the Mystery Out of Virtual System Performance with vFoglight
20 May 2010
Dr. D Studios is a digital movie production studio formed by two leading companies in the Australian film industry. When the startup launched in Sydney, the IT department got to write the script for creating an IT infrastructure that would be most effective and efficient for supporting Dr. D Studios’ sophisticated digital production work.
View article detailsOpen Source Security Study
19 May 2010
Open source now permeates more than 50 percent of enterprises, and its use is growing rapidly. This trend underlies an assumption held by many IT and business leaders that open source is enterprise class in terms of functionality and scalability. But is it secure? How much business risk is introduced with open source?
View article detailsSpeed to Market for NASDAQ OMX
19 May 2010
The NASDAQ OMX Group, Inc. is the world’s largest exchange company. It delivers trading, exchange technology and public-company services across six continents, with over 3,800 listed companies. NASDAQ OMX offers multiple capital-raising solutions to companies around the globe. NASDAQ OMX technology supports the operations of over 70 exchanges, clearing organizations and central securities depositories in more than 50 countries.
View article detailsHousing Stardoll
18 May 2010
Stardoll is the world’s largest paper doll site. Members can create their own paper dolls or style different celebrity dolls with virtual clothes and accessories. Stardoll has around 34million members in over 200 countries with twelve million unique visitors to the site each month. Most users are in the USA and UK, although the Stardoll head office is in Stockholm.
View article detailsMagic Quadrant for Secure E-Mail Gateways
13 May 2010
The e-mail security market is very mature. Targeted phishing detection, outbound e-mail inspection, encryption and delivery form factor are the major differentiators.
View article details2010 Application Delivery Controller Performance Report
13 May 2010
The following performance report from F5 is a comparative and not a competitive report, which is an important distinction.
View article detailsVirtualization: Optimized Power and Cooling to Maximize Benefits
11 May 2010
Data centers are routinely and unknowingly missing a great portion of their entitlement from virtualization. Beyond virtualization’s undisputed IT benefits – from reduced rack footprint to disaster recovery – is the parallel story of a substantial benefit from optimizing the physical infrastructure that supports it. In particular, row-based cooling, correctly sized power and cooling, and real-time capacity management are essential elements in realizing virtualization’s full potential in cost reduction, efficiency, and reliability.
View article detailsAt the heart of Cancer Research UK
06 May 2010
Information is the lifeblood of Cancer Research UK, the world’s leading charity dedicated to beating cancer through research. After a characteristically rigorous review of the options on offer, the organisation entrusted its mission-critical infrastructure to Interxion.
View article detailsBest Practices in Power Management: From Desktop to Data Center
06 May 2010
Power management techniques for reducing IT energy consumption can provide significant opportunities for operational cost savings and other business value. A comprehensive solution, however, must include a variety of approaches to ensure maximum energy reduction effectiveness both on the desktop and in the data center.
View article detailsAnatomy of a Data Breach
05 May 2010
For companies with critical information assets such as customer data, intellectual property, and trade secrets, the risk of a data breach is now higher than ever before. Here are four steps to take to significantly reduce the risk of a breach. You can watch the presentation of this article captured at InfoSecurity 2010 here.
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