5 Trends Shaping Data Center Designs; Energy Efficient Ethernet being put to test

	Energy Efficient Ethernet being put to the test | HP breaks in new TPC power usage benchmark
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	Five Trends Shaping Data Center Designs In the past, companies built data centers like parents buy clothes for their children: Buy big and wait for the kids to grow into them. Read More ARTICLE: Extreme Networks From Physical to Virtual to the Cloud The migration from a dedicated infrastructure to a shared and outsourced cloud infrastructure is not a one-size-fits-all proposition. With Extreme Networks "Four Pillars" strategy, Enterprises and Hosting Centers of any scale can approach change in a logical and affordable, stepwise fashion. Read More In this Issue Energy Efficient Ethernet being put to the test HP breaks in new TPC power usage benchmark Ctera brings the cloud down scale The virtual blind spot EMC Harnesses Cloud Data with Greenplum Purchase SIP trunking: A primer WHITE PAPER: ArcSight Building a Successful Security Operations Center This paper outlines industry best practices for building and maturing a security operations center (SOC). For those organizations planning to build a SOC or those organizations hoping to improve their existing SOC this paper will outline the typical mission parameters, the business case, people considerations, processes and procedures, as well as, the technology involved. Building a Successful Security Operations Center Energy Efficient Ethernet being put to the test The University of New Hampshire InterOperability Lab (UNH-IOL) has begun testing Energy Efficient Ethernet (EEE) products to make sure they work together. Read More HP breaks in new TPC power usage benchmark The newly released TPC-Energy specification measures the power consumption of transactional systems. Read More WEBCAST: Accelops Why Private Clouds May Prevail Cloud computing's perceived challenges of security, visibility and management may give the upper hand to private clouds. Join Yankee Group for this Webcast that discusses how to ensure you deploy a cloud that meets your organization's security and compliance needs. View Now Ctera brings the cloud down scale The Ctera C200 provides SAN, NAS, and cloud storage that's simple and cost-effective. Read More The virtual blind spot Malicious hypervisors. Subversive virtual machines. Live migration impersonators. Welcome to the world of server virtualization, where the threats are new and the traditional security tools like firewalls and intrusion-prevention systems don't cut it anymore. Unfortunately, at many enterprises, security strategies haven't kept pace with the shift to x.86 server virtualization http://www.networkworld.com/supp/2010/ndc2/032210-ndc-tools-trends.html?source=nww_rss . "Many companies that have virtualized environments haven't contemplated the security ramifications of what they're doing yet," says Forrester analyst John Kindervag. Read More WHITE PAPER: HP Is your WAN designed with your applications in mind? WAN sourcing has been based on the cost of bandwith and availability. The focus is increasing on sourcing WAN solutions that can meet business needs for application performance. Read about Gartner's structured methodology to design a WAN that both performs well and is cost effective. Read Now EMC Harnesses Cloud Data with Greenplum Purchase EMC announced a definitive agreement to purchase Greenplum, a privately-held provider of data warehousing technology. Greenplum's technology expands on EMC's clout as an enterprise storage provider to add innovative data warehousing and business analytics elements. Read More SIP trunking: A primer A beginner's guide to SIP trunking Read More
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