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	15 more useful Cisco sites Another lineup in our continuing search for the most useful sites on the Web for Cisco users and practitioners. Read More RESOURCE COMPLIMENTS OF: TE Connectivity TE Fiber Connectivity Solutions TE Connectivity is helping data centers stay ahead of bandwidth capacity demands by delivering innovative fiber connectivity. TE's TELLMI interconnect system reduces the size, weight and power consumption of data center products, making it easier to implement scalable, higher capacity infrastructure as data rates increase. See how TE Connectivity is building the critical connections that make fiber deployment faster, capacity greater, installation simpler and networks more reliable. Read our Fiber Innovation Brief In this Issue Microsoft extends Windows Server 2008 support by 18 months IT Doesn't Matter: What every IT pro needs to know to survive in the cloud era - Part 2 Microsoft data center pollutes, then wastes millions of watts to avoid paying fine Hitachi targets 2015 for data storage that last 100 million years How we tested Microsoft's System Center 2012 INSIDER Microsoft delivers powerful tools for multi-platform virtualization management INSIDER Complete guide to network virtualization Ohio mainframe exodus wraps up in 84,500 hours GM 'insources,' set to hire 10,000 IT pros Data centers are big polluters, report says Dell carves out new servers from 10-petaflop supercomputer SDN and security: Impact of network security in the SDN-enabled data center RESOURCE COMPLIMENTS OF: NTT Communications Find your cloud at NTT Communications With a network covering over 150 countries, data center in more than 120 locations, and a broad suite of communications and IT services, NTT Communications' SEAMLESS CLOUD can expand your business globally. Find out more! Microsoft extends Windows Server 2008 support by 18 months Microsoft has extended mainstream support for Windows Server 2008 by 18 months, and again reminded customers that the still-strong Windows XP will retire in April 2014. Read More IT Doesn't Matter: What every IT pro needs to know to survive in the cloud era - Part 2 The first part of this blog outlined the scope of this post which is to really understand what business leaders value and don't value about IT, and highlighted the significance of differentiation. This post will pick up where the last left off focusing on a 3rd and potentially most significant aspect of "IT Doesn't Matter" ... and that is how exactly to define the scope of "IT" and how it fits into... Read More Microsoft data center pollutes, then wastes millions of watts to avoid paying fine Microsoft and other tech giants like to promote the environmentally-friendly idea of green IT. For example, Microsoft has promoted the top 10 business practices for environmentally sustainable data centers. Read More Hitachi targets 2015 for data storage that last 100 million years Hitachi has developed a glass-based data storage medium that is highly heat and water resistant, capable of holding data for hundreds of millions of years, and says it may be able to bring it to market by 2015. Read More WHITE PAPER: NEC Corporation Programmable Network Fabric for Datacenters and the Cloud Read this white paper to find out how NEC ProgrammableFlow Network Fabric leverages the OpenFlow protocol to create a smart, simple, secure and scalable solution for the enterprise datacenter. Learn More How we tested Microsoft's System Center 2012 We initially attempted to implement System Center 2012 modularly, which is almost impossible, so we used the Unified Installer after reading the salient documents for each module, then installed each module into its own VM, combining SQL Server resources where necessary. We recommend that up to four SQL Server instances may be necessary for protecting all of the modules. Read More INSIDER Microsoft delivers powerful tools for multi-platform virtualization management The System Center 2012 modules that we previously tested -- Orchestrator and Configuration Manager -- require forklift upgrades. But the modules we tested this time around - App Controller, Virtual Machine Manager and Data Protection Manager -- are more graceful and, in some cases, more powerful. Read More INSIDER Complete guide to network virtualization There are a number of emerging and proposed standard protocols focused on optimizing the support that data center Ethernet LANs provide for server virtualization. Several of these protocols are aimed at network virtualization via the creation of multiple virtual Ethernet networks that can share a common physical infrastructure in a manner that is somewhat analogous to multiple virtual machines sharing a common physical server. Read More Ohio mainframe exodus wraps up in 84,500 hours The Ohio Department of Public Safety successfully moved its mainframe applications to a Windows-based system, and all the work was done in-house over five years. Read More WHITE PAPER: CA Technologies Ensuring Service Assurance in the New Normal Businesses using the cloud must make the transaction the center of gravity for management of IT operations. Why focus on transactions? It's the only constant for which IT is accountable as more infrastructure and platforms are moved to the cloud. Learn More GM 'insources,' set to hire 10,000 IT pros GM plans to hire 10,000 IT professionals as it discontinues outsourcing arrangements and pulls most of its IT work back in-house. Read More Data centers are big polluters, report says Data centers across the world use about 30 billion watts of electricity, about the same as the output of 30 nuclear power plants, with digital warehouses in the U.S. accounting for one-quarter to one-third of that load, The New York Times reports. Read More Dell carves out new servers from 10-petaflop supercomputer Dell announced servers based on designs the company is implementing in an upcoming 10-petaflop supercomputer called Stampede, which will be fully deployed at the University of Texas, Austin, starting next year. Read More SDN and security: Impact of network security in the SDN-enabled data center Security is one of the leading challenges for IT professionals. And securing the data center (and related applications) in the era of public, hybrid and private clouds presents a complex set of problems for IT. The rise of SDN technologies will change the dynamics around securing the data center network, offering opportunities for improved automation and as well as new security concerns. Read More
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