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Western Digital enters the enterprise-class hard drive market
Western Digital announced its entry into the enterprise-class, hard-disk drive market with a 10,000 rpm, 300GB SAS drive. Read more...

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EMC teams with Intel for power-efficient cloud storage

Analyst: Enterprises fail to handle data center costs

Report: Microsoft buys systems management start-up for $60M

Engineers Connect Server Sensors to Cooling System

Dell slams netbooks, sees Windows 7 as a savior

Microsoft loses Sidekick users' personal data

Hosting service safeguards Web designs

Google: DRAM error rates vastly higher than previously thought

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The Incredible Shrinking Data Center
Some enterprises are downsizing their data centers to help save on real estate and energy costs.

Opinion: Why IBM still matters
Big Blue doesn't get the publicity that Google or Apple do, but it's still a solid performer that has prepared wisely for technology's future, says Preston Gralla.

Centralized PC power managers not created equal
Autonomic, BigFix, and Symantec Altiris solutions offer a wealth of potential power savings, but also differences in policy depth, granularity, and ease

The incredible shrinking data center
It's good to be mindful of square footage, observers say, and all savings are good. But over half of a data center's cost is from the power and cooling infrastructure -- for chillers and the like.

Data centers go underground
For Continental and Marriott, abandoned mines and military bunkers offer a subterranean safe haven from hurricanes and other threats. But will more enterprises follow?

How Raytheon's IT Department Helps Meet Green Goals
Corporate sustainability programs that address efficiencies throughout an organization will make the greatest impact over time. Following that premise, Raytheon's sustainability initiative involves a green IT strategy as one of several ways the company is reducing energy consumption, greenhouse gas emissions and other environmental impacts. The company has realized its initial greenhouse gas reduction goal, with Raytheon IT delivering measurable environmental and operational improvements as part of the enterprisewide effort.

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A sampling of Computerworld's best green-IT stories, offering technical information, expert advice and success stories.

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Enterprise Data Center Network Reference Architecture
Simply designing a data center that only deploys more servers, storage and devices significantly increases network complexity and cost. The data center network also must offer components such as security, performance acceleration, high density and a resilient network infrastructure. This document shares Juniper Networks best practices in designing a highly efficient, secure, scalable and flexible data center network.

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Advancing the Economics of Networking
Aging network systems and old habits have dictated how businesses spend their IT budgets. As a result, a large percentage of IT dollars are being spent to “stay in the race.” While this model keeps revenue streams flowing for legacy network vendors, it doesn’t necessarily help businesses gain a competitive advantage. Juniper is changing this economic model by delivering a new family of solutions that reduce capital and operational expenses. By freeing up IT budget dollars, Juniper allows businesses to invest in other innovative technologies that will further reduce the cost of doing business while improving their competitive position.

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Implementing HA at the Enterprise Data Center Edge to Connect to a Large Number of Branch Offices
This paper reviews the problem of creating a network where the dynamic availability of services is of critical importance. It explains how to deploy a highly available, working cluster by taking the design considerations in this paper and applying them to an actual deployment. The subsequent sections include configuration bits, diagrams and detailed discussions of how to accomplish a High Availability (HA) data center deployment.
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