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DATA GROWTH:

Scalable Enterprise Architecture
This paper presents a standard framework as a tool to help guide data centres through the process of scaling building blocks of industry-standard components to support the largest enterprise applications.

ENERGY EFFICIENCY:

Best Practices for Increasing Data Centre Energy Efficiency
Increasing data-centre energy efficiency is not only an environmentally friendly strategy, but also a key way to cut costs.

Creating a Hyper-Efficient Data Centre
Integrated solutions designed to minimise acquisition and operating costs, maximise energy efficiency and enable rapid scalability, can help operators of data centres speed deployment, lower total cost of ownership and reduce environmental impact.

Data Centre Efficiency in the Scalable Enterprise
To address energy efficiency effectively, data centre managers must look at a variety of issues ranging in scope from the smallest piece of silicon to the entire data centre.

The Energy Smart Data Centre
Going green can be the secret to cost savings as well as performance growth. Here's a comprehensive strategy that includes virtualisation and consolidation on to energy-efficient systems, best practices for power and cooling optimisation, and expert services.

The Green Grid: Enabling the Energy Efficient Data Centre
The Green Grid — a consortium dedicated to improving energy efficiency — is developing platform-neutral standards, metrics, measurement methods, processes and technologies to help conserve energy for sustainable growth.

Understanding Battery Life in Laptops
Many factors affect the amount of time that a portable computer battery can deliver power before it must be recharged.

MOBILE COMPUTING:

Wireless Communications Technology Landscape
Wireless networks are transforming the way people use computers and other personal electronics devices at work, home and when travelling.

STORAGE:

Microsoft System Center Data Protection Manager 2007
Microsoft DPM 2007 is designed to combine the advantages of traditional tape backup and disk-based continuous data protection processes in a unified platform.

Safeguarding Data
Unified disk-to-disk-to-tape systems help avoid the drawbacks of traditional tape- and disk-based data protection. These systems can provide versatile, comprehensive protection for environments built with Dell PowerVault servers and Microsoft System Center Data Protection Manager 2007

VIRTUALISATION & BACKUP:

Flexible virtualisation
Guidance on building a virtualised infrastructure with EqualLogic PS Series iSCSI storage arrays and VMware virtualisation software.

Securing Virtualised Environments
Virtualisation offers significant advantages in enterprise data centres, but can also carry its own specific security risks. McAfee IntruShield is one solution.

VMware Infrastructure Backup and Restore Guide
Best practices for backup and recovery of Virtual Machines running on VMware infrastructure.

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