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The New Data Center

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Oct 23, 20063 mins

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EDITORS’ PICKS
• Emerging technologies survey• Protecting data throughout its life cycle
• SOA governance: Protecting against rogue services• Automated change management at the Merc
  

  New Data Center Topics
  • ADVANCED IP NETWORKS
    • IPv6: The missing link?
    • The NDC network
    • Getting to the vaunted five nines
    • VoIP lessons learned
    • Users combine VoIP & WLANs
  • • The MPLS answer
  • • Managing advanced IP nets
  • • Getting to an all IP world
  • NEXT-GENERATION SECURITY
    • The security operations center
    • Next-generation security design
    • Security automation
    • Encrypting stored data
    • Security counterattack
    • Protected by the network gear
    • Arming for battle against worms
    • Our federated ID future
    • The perils and promise of automated security
  • • The hacker-resistant database
  • • Protecting data throughout its life cycle
  • • Setting the foundation for identity management
  • APPLICATIONS
    • Taking apps to the next step
    • Voice as application
    • When apps get virtualized
    • When SOAs rule the world
    • Cassatt: CEO Automated apps
    • AARP advances Web services
  • • All things virtual
  • • The many sides of application optimization
  • • SOA governance
  • ON-DEMAND COMPUTING
  • • Mainframes for rent
  • • Drama at the computing core
  • • Storage as utility
  • ARCHITECTURE
    • The new business continuity
    • Getting to an all-IP world
    • Great tools for the NDC
    • Most popular NDC technologies
    • Envisioning the New Data Center
    • Design tips for NDC architecture
    • Security R&D
    • 7 ways to slash costs
  • • A map to your infrastructure
  • • Where are we now?
  • • 7 cool NDC tools
  • OUTSOURCING
    • Deciding to outsource
    • Outsourcing meets automation
  • • Outsourcers aim at the NDC
  • • Starwood saves $20M annually
  • • Doing due diligence
  • AUTOMATION
    • Automation know-how
    • Outsourcing meets automation
    • Organize to automate
  • • Security automation
  • • Continuous data protection
  • • Business activity monitoring
  • Q&A
    • Bill Coleman: Application mgmt
    • Geoffrey Moore: SOAs
    • Red Robin’s MIS director
    • Starwood saves $20M annually
    • Harte-Hanks’ VP of tech
    • Praxair’s app guru
    • BMC exec: Prove IT’s value
    • IT execs discuss technologies
    • Power of autonomic computing
    • Data Center Institute’s Doherty
    • Claffy: Next-gen security designs
    • EMC exec: ILM
  • • CMU researcher, on data center management
  • • Priceline CIO: A NDC OS
  • • Rhonda MacLean, on security
  • BEST PRACTICES
    • Security best practices
  • • IT frameworks demystified
  • • The new business continuity
  • • Best practices for the new IT
  • STORAGE & BIZ CONTINUITY
    • Do-it-yourself disaster recovery
    • The new business continuity
    • Disk-based media for archiving
    • Storage virtualization
    • Disaster recovery
    • Information lifecycle management
    • Desktop data and your NDC
    • Managing storage, NDC style
    • 7 tips for managing storage
    • Continuous data protection
  • • SANs on the move
  • • Managed storage comes of age
  • • Giving servers the boot
  • CASE STUDIES
    • Jarden’s self-managing desktops
    • Krispy Kreme’s storage plan
    • Smith & Associates’ framework
    • Hewitt Associates builds a grid
    • Best & Krieger makes the case
    • Burlington Coat Factory
    • Inside Oracle’s data center
    • Swedish Medical Center’s overhaul
    • The Mercantile exchange uses automated change management
    • Visa takes on Web services
    • JPMorgan Chase: capacity on demand
    • Citistreet: Virtual tape
  • • Gannet dishes on VMware
  • • AARP advances Web services
  • • MB Financial: Utility storage
  • VIRTUALIZATION
    • Virtualization: servers join storage
    • Vendors wired over virtualization
    • Storage virtualization
    • When apps get virtualized
    • Tips on server virtualization
    • Server clusters and virtualization
    • Server consolidation
    • Gannett dishes on VMware
    • All things virtual
  • • Taking VMware beyond the basics
  • • Managing the virtual realm
  • • A virtual breeze
  • GRID COMPUTING
  • • Grid computing comes of age
  • • Hewitt Associates: the business grid
  • • Grid computing news
  • WIRELESS & MOBILITY
  • • Step-by-step to the mobile enterprise
  • • Users combine VoIP and WLANs
  • • Taking business apps on the road
  • MANAGEMENT
    • 7 tips for managing storage
    • Managing advanced IP nets
    • Merging mgmt and security
    • Managing storage
    • A map to your infrastructure
    • Automating change
    • The many sides of application optimization
  • • Managing the virtual realm
  • • Where does all the time go?
  • • Advanced managed services
  • INTERACTIVE LIBRARY
    • NDC model: ‘biz continuity
    • NDC model: storage
    • NDC model: Advanced IP
    • NDC model: outsourcing
  • • NDC conceptual model — overview
  • • NDC conceptual model — security
  • • Priceline CIO Ron Rose video