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<item><title>Storage Area Network Management</title>
<pubDate>Thu, 28 Jul 2011 12:21:30 -0400</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Best practices for managing storage area networks include developing a disaster recovery program and implementing storage virtualization, tiers and clustering options.   -  Networked storage capacity
in the Fortune 1000 will grow a projected 24 percent in 2011, according to a
May storage market study conducted by TheInfoPro, a division of The 451 Group.
Its easy to see why: Increased virtualization, larger data sets and more
complex applications all mean that manag...]]></description>
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<item><title>Crash at 365 Main Street</title>
<pubDate>Mon, 01 Oct 2007 09:30:00 -0400</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[When the data center at one of the country's biggest co-location facilities experienced an unprecedented power outage, bringing nearly half its customers down with it, the entire industry learned some painful but powerful lessons.   -  At exactly 1:47 p.m. on July 24, miles kelly got
the call every CIO and data center manager dreads: The data
center had experienced a power outage. Indeed, a power surge
had shut off energy to the company's primary data center in San
Francisco, and four of the building's 10 backup generators had...]]></description>
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<item><title>IP Telephony: The Future of Communications?</title>
<pubDate>Mon, 27 Aug 2007 09:37:00 -0400</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Companies are increasingly turning to IP-based systems to replace traditional circuit-switched networks. But how ready are the companieso&amp; and the technology&amp; for the next wave of business communications?   -  Traditional circuit-switching networks are onthe way out, and IP telephony is on its way in. But are companies #8212;or the technology itself #8212;ready for the next generation of business communications?

VOIP in the Enterprise: Can CIOs Take It to the Bank?
There's a lot to be said for Interne...]]></description>
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<item><title>Server Virtualization Is On Nationwide's Side</title>
<pubDate>Fri, 24 Aug 2007 09:57:00 -0400</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[The insurance firm was outgrowing its data center, but wanted to wait before building another one. Server virtualization boosted the efficiency of its existing facility.
   -  Nationwide, a Columbus, Ohio-based diversified financial services and insurance firm with 20 data centers and a $250 million budget for information-technology infrastructure, figured it would outrun the power capacity of its primary data center in Columbus by 2013. One alternative, of course, was to...]]></description>
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<item><title>Disaster Recovery: Virtual Project Yields Tangible Benefits</title>
<pubDate>Tue, 14 Aug 2007 00:00:00 -0400</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Oil and gas specialty firm Champion Technologies installed an updated SAP platform and a new virtual storage system. An unexpected side benefit: faster disaster recovery.   -  When Roland Etcheverry signed on as chiefinformation officer of Champion Technologies in 2004, the company was riding the oil and gas boom. Problem was, its information systems were the equivalent of a tired old horse.
Champion supplies oil and gas companies with a variety of chemicals used in thei...]]></description>
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<item><title>Data Center Efficiency: Shedding a 10-Ton Air Conditioner</title>
<pubDate>Fri, 10 Aug 2007 00:00:00 -0400</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Cimarex Energy found a new, more efficient way to keep its I.T. hardware cool and running safely. Learn how the oil and gas exploration company dumped its old gargantuan climate-control unit.   -  Last summer, Cimarex Energy encountered a crisis in its Tulsa, Okla., data center. Its data systems, as well as the seismic and geologic data critical to its oil and gas exploration and production business, were at risk due to overheating equipment.

The server room was at capacity: There was simp...]]></description>
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<item><title>Can a Java Appliance Reduce Power Costs?</title>
<pubDate>Sat, 07 Jul 2007 00:00:00 -0400</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[A credit reporting agency bought Java-based appliances to improve throughput, provide more flexible handling of demand spikes, and reduce power and space needs. Did it pay off?   -  For many large companies, especially financial institutions with major customer-facing applications that run on the Web, it's common to see an army of servers handling not only the daily processing loads, but the occasional spikes in demand that require excess computing power far beyond the norm.
O...]]></description>
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<item><title>For Servers, a Disappearing Act</title>
<pubDate>Wed, 11 Apr 2007 00:00:00 -0400</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Less hardware is good, but immature technology isn't. With new products on the way, companies may find better methods to speed up virtual server deployments and cut costs.   -  Back when mainframes ruled, virtualization was a given. It's taken some time, though, for the technology to break into the server market. Now, it's here--but not exactly in all its glory.

Adoption and interest have skyrocketed in recent years, with companies seeing significant cuts in hardware co...]]></description>
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<item><title>Microsoft: Ramping Up</title>
<pubDate>Wed, 11 Apr 2007 00:00:00 -0400</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Price is a plus, but some customers want to see improvements.   -  Bill Fields, software developer with the U.S. Bankruptcy Court-District of Arizona, says he got a pretty sweet deal from Microsoft. 
He used Microsoft's first virtualization product, Virtual PC (which it had acquired from Connectix in early 2003), to test the rollout of Citrix secure Internet-acces...]]></description>
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<item><title>VMware: Speeding Ahead</title>
<pubDate>Wed, 11 Apr 2007 00:00:00 -0400</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Customers like the features, but others say they're expensive.   -  Ask VMware customers what they like about the market leader in virtualization software, and they'll say quick deployments and advanced features. Ask users who didn't go with VMware why not, and they'll say the firm charges too much. 
The Palo Alto, Calif., software maker, founded in 1998 and acquir...]]></description>
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<item><title>XenSource: Aiming High</title>
<pubDate>Wed, 11 Apr 2007 00:00:00 -0400</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Customers are happy with the software but want more features.   -  In the server virtualization arena, VMware is clearly the Goliath, but open-source provider XenSource is trying to play David. And it's counting on partnerships with hardware and software vendors to slingshot its low-cost hypervisor product past the market leader.
The venture-backed firm, born out ...]]></description>
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<item><title>How To Plan for SOA 2.0</title>
<pubDate>Thu, 08 Mar 2007 15:19:00 -0500</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[If your organization has implemented SOA, it may be ready for &quot;advanced SOA.&quot;   -  What's Ahead: Advanced SOA
Organizations that have completed at least one
service-oriented architecture project should move on
to what analysts have begun calling &quot;advanced SOA.&quot;
What's the difference? Most current deployments
are based on request-reply, while advanced SOA
involves so-called e...]]></description>
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<item><title>SOA's Next Phase</title>
<pubDate>Thu, 08 Mar 2007 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Service-oriented architecture is
here to stay. Job one, say the
experts, is to learn from past
projects so your company can
wring the most value from future
SOA implementations.   -  There is no doubt about it: service-oriented architecture, or SOA, has gained acceptance as a way to exchange data previously trapped in legacy systems and isolated databases. The I.T. architecture supports the integration of business processes as linked services or repeatable business tasks that ca...]]></description>
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<item><title>SOA: How One Electric Company Stepped Into the Light</title>
<pubDate>Thu, 22 Feb 2007 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Southside Electric powered up SOA to more quickly handle service calls.   -  Over the past five years, electricity distributor Southside Electric Cooperative in south-central Virginia has seen the number of accounts it services increase by 73%, from 30,000 to 52,000.
While it grew, the utility's management team sought to maintain good customer relations  from responding to ...]]></description>
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<item><title>Virtualization: PG E's Power Play</title>
<pubDate>Tue, 20 Feb 2007 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[PG&amp;E helps its customers cut costs in their data centers. But the utility also practices what it preaches, through virtualization software and a review of its energy policies.   -  While oil prices have retreated significantly from last year's high, no one expects a return to the cheap energy that companies enjoyed just a few years ago. In fact, most American corporations are aggressively looking for ways to cut their electric bills  and a key focus is their air-conditioned da...]]></description>
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