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Creating Order from Chaos in Data Centers and Server Rooms

Data center professionals can rid themselves of messy racks, sub-standard under floor air distribution, and cable sprawl with a minimum of heartache and expense. Whether the data center mess is created over years of mismanagement or whether the cable-choked data center is inherited, solutions for both quick fixes and longer...

Tags: American Power Conversion Corp., Data Center, Server, Server Room, Data Centers, Storage, Hardware, Data Management

White papers 2008-12-12

SmallCapInvestor.com Sees Excellent ROI in ZXTM VA Within Their VMware ESX Server

Prior to their preparations for the launch, BFP had single servers performing multiple functions, with no load balancing which resulted in occasional loss of service in production. BFP decided to implement VMware Virtual Infrastructure to consolidate hardware resources, enabling them to choose to either allocate servers for other tasks or...

Tags: Load Balancing, Zeus Technology, ROI, VMware Inc., VMWare ESX Server, Server Room, VMWare ESX, SmallCapInvestor.com, Virtualization, Servers, Hardware

Case studies 2008-11-01

Minicom Advanced Systems Case Study: One Universal System

AGH is Poland's second largest University and its IT department needed one universal system that 2 or more administrators sitting in 3 separate work stations can manage 20 servers located in a server room. To achieve this they hired C&C Partners Telecom to design and install a solution. C&C Partners...

Tags: Administrator, Server Room, Minicom Advanced Systems, AGH, Servers, Hardware

Case studies 2008-10-22

Server Room Security, Data Control, and Sarbanes-Oxley Compliance

The Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002 SarbOx was established specifically to address financial reporting for public companies. The accounting data that is the foundation for this financial reporting is invariably electronic-based, and as a result, needs to be adequately protected and controlled, both for the corporation's benefit as well as to...

Tags: Sarbanes-Oxley Compliance, Sarbanes-Oxley Act, Data, Server, Server Room, Medeco High Security Locks, Sarbanes-Oxley, Regulations, Government, Financial Accounting, Finance

White papers 2008-07-15

Minicom - Agent for an Efficient Server Room

A government agency that deals in highly classified and sensitive data has 25 high-density servers and was looking for a management solution which would allow simultaneous multi-user access to its servers. Given the nature of the data, it was critically important that any online access be highly secure. An integrator...

Tags: Agent, Server Room, Minicom Advanced Systems, KVM.net Manager, BIOS, Servers, Hardware, Components

Case studies 2008-06-01

Gamania and Dell Team Up to Achieve Online Gaming Excellence

Gamania wanted a stable server room environment to support peak loads of up to 300,000 online gamers. In addition, the company needed to ensure that its cooling and power infrastructure was sufficient to keep operations going with seamless server room integration. It also required 24/7 comprehensive IT technical consulting services....

Tags: Team, Dell Computer Corp., Online Game, Server Room

Case studies 2008-04-01

Temperature Scan 1.0.3 (Windows)

Temperature Scan is an affordable Temperature monitoring system that allows you to be notified of changes in temperature as they happen. This tool can be used to monitor server room and data center temperatures to prevent disaster. A plug and play solution to bring important ambient temperature monitoring where you...

Tags: Data Center, Microsoft Windows, Temperature, Server Room, Becker Solutions, Data Centers, Storage, Hardware, Data Management

Software downloads 2008-02-20

Getting the Picture With Easy Network Diagrams

Darren Tidwell, a network administrator for a major computing company, had hit a wall. Tidwell was looking for an easy way to create network topology maps and server room layouts, but Tidwell just couldn't find the right drawing software. Tidwell had been using Microsoft Visio for several years, and had...

Tags: Network, Server Room, SmartDraw, CAD, Networking, Software

Case studies 2008-02-13

(Photos: Server room cabling overhaul)

(Photos: Server room cabling overhaul)Additional AdvantagesAnother advantage to proper cabling is that the machines now have a better airflow and can run much cooler. Look at the first image and imagine how air has to flow to get out of those machines, now look at the last image. :)

Tags: Server Room, photograph, server

Discussion threads 2007-10-03

Holistically (including economics and environment), Moore's Law could be failing

Holistically including economics and environment, Moore's Law could be failingThere are several methods of solution available.1 - Thermal storage. Use the chilllers at night to store cooling medium for use during the day. Demands on electrical are low AND the fact that it's cooler at night means less energy needed...

Tags: Telecom & Utilities, Hun, server, server room, Holistically, environment

Discussion threads 2007-08-14

Minicom Improves Leading Financial Company's Server Room

A global financial services company is one of the 200 largest companies in the world. A server room contained a large number of racks managed by legacy KVM switches. The racks can only be accessed by cumbersome crash carts. The legacy KVM switches use a mass of cables, creating clutter...

Tags: Financial, Rack, Server, Server Room, Minicom Advanced Systems, Minicom

Case studies 2007-02-19

ECI - EDS Introduces Minicom's DX Server Management System Resulting in a Streamlined Server Room & Improved Server Access

ECI-EDS runs hundreds of servers from a number of geographically diverse server rooms. With IT staff having to walk from building to building to reach the various racks, productivity was becoming a major problem. In addition, in order to access any of the servers, IT staff was manually pushing trolleys...

Tags: Microsoft Access, Electronic Data Systems Corp., Server Room, Minicom Advanced Systems, DX System, Servers, Hardware

Case studies 2006-12-25

Linux in your server room: Is it right for you?

Linux can be a great boon to many businesses, but it's not necessarily a panacea for all IT operations. As with any other system or service, bringing Linux into your organization requires careful consideration of which applications and services it's good for and where you might be better off going...

Tags: TechRepublic Inc., Server, Server Room, Linux, UNIX, Operating Systems, Open Source, Software

Download resources 2006-04-06

HP debuts water cooling system

HP debuts water cooling systemWhy don't they know how to convert heat into ... ? NTNTGreat, now I'll need...to hire a plumber on our Desktop Support group! Gives all new meaning to "flush" your system. Make sure you change the water every 1 million clicks! Anybody know...

Tags: Sales tools, server room, office building, server, Hewlett-Packard Co., Water-Cooling

Discussion threads 2006-01-30

How a chill-pill for your server room improves your bottom line

Heatwave-wise, yesterday was probably the most uncomfortable day I can recall since moving to Massachusetts in 1991. The temperature inside my house reached 99 degrees. Ironically, yesterday was also the day that the HVAC guys showed up at my home office to start a central air conditioning project...

Tags: blade, server, Shannon Poulin

Blog posts 2005-07-28

Relocating a server room: A case study

Few tasks can cause the kind of nightmares involved with moving a server room. But such a move can also help you get a better handle on your network and its systems. Download this case study of how one IS department implemented a successful move.

Tags: TechRepublic Inc., Server, Server Room, Case Study

Download resources 2005-06-15

Additional Resources

Live from Googleplex: Chrome OS details revealed

Ubuntu 9.10 has more immediate potentialMight I suggest trying Ubuntu 9.10? A phenominal OS with much more to offer then even Windows 7.Open source, free and ready to try today...http://blogs.techrepublic.com.com/10things/?p=1122http://www.tuxradar.com/content/vista-windows-7-ubuntu-904-and-910-boot-speed-comparisonhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lYgWE6Svpaghttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=16-nad9N3pgNot that I have readI'd stick with 904immediate potential to sink in obscurityGoogle was Linux's last fleeting chance to turn...

Tags: Operating systems, UNIX, OPEN SOURCE, Ubuntu 9.10, Linux, Google Inc., operating system, Chrome OS, Chrome

Discussion threads 2009-11-19

Disks: why size means performance

OK, Smarty pants...How do I use only the outer-most sectors of my 500GB disk?Performance != reliabilitySeagate has progressively gotten worse with reliability - that's why they cut the 5-year warranty back down to 3 years. Western Digital has made great strides with reliability though. WD isn't focussing on...

Tags: Serial ATA, SSD, SAS Institute, SAS Drives, performance, disk

Discussion threads 2009-11-18

NoteShare 1.9 (Mac)

NoteShare is a powerful desktop application for creating, publishing and sharing media rich, multi-page notebooks. Users can instantly share their notebooks with other NoteShare users for presenting, viewing and editing information. NoteShare can be used in the same room, same building and globally for connecting anytime, anywhere. Sharing means...

Tags: Apple Macintosh, AquaMinds Software, NoteShare, Notebooks, Hardware, Notebooks & Tablets

Software downloads 2009-11-18

Dell's answer to Apple's Mac mini - The Inspiron Zino HD

People Actually Buy These Things?Almost a $1000.00 for a cutsey, low powered designer computer? Do people actually buy these things? Maybe they should check out your Very Best Kit list.adrian please 959$ you dont put 959 for a low-end entry level machine you can have...

Tags: Desktops, Apple Mac Mini, Dell Inspiron, Dell Computer Corp., Apple Inc., Apple Macintosh

Discussion threads 2009-11-16