The new data center: An owner's handbook

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Today’s top companies are accelerating toward Web-based computing. That means building the new data center — where grids, virtualization, autonomic computing and other big changes shatter the traditional boundaries on applications and information, and bring the extended enterprise to life. From services-oriented apps to intelligent infrastructure, here’s a layer-by-layer guide to creating this new data center.

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Written by experts at Nemertes Research, this new newsletter will include an ongoing assessment of current business drivers and future trends of the new data center.

New Data Center technology tour
Coming to a city near you, this event will spotlight tools and services to help you build your own next-generation data center.

New data center Webcast
Get the lowdown on how new data center technologies will affect your network in the coming years with this free Network World Webcast.

New data center whitepaper
Educate yourself and your peers on how to plan for the next generation of IT change with this whitepaper, written by Nertwork World's president and editorial director, John Gallant.

Envisioning the new data center
The rise of Web-centric computing means shifting from a physical to a
logical view of IT assets.

Drama at the computing core
The stage is set for delivery of on-demand’s grand promises — more efficient and flexible use of IT hardware and software.

The network behind the new data center
A smarter, more robust infrastructure will turn once disparate network, computing and storage resources into a unified system.

Taking applications to the next step
In the new data center, enterprise apps will act as loosely coupled, modular network services that, when linked together, create complex business processes.

ILM in action
Within the new data center, data moves from one storage resource to the next based on information life-cycle management policies.

A delectable storage
plan
By employing new data center technologies to address a storage binge, Krispy Kreme baked up a new backup scheme.

Treating management and security as one
In the new data center, technologies that protect and control will work more closely together.

Making the case for the new data center
A California law firm puts some of the hottest technologies into practice.