The Lippis Report

By Force10 Networks

If the 90s were about information flow, then today is about answers. Answers drive society. Whether you are a search engine, a Fortune 500 company, or a researcher at a national laboratory, answers are your business and the ability to provide them quickly and cost effectively is a distinct competitive advantage. In today’s high performance data center, where information transformed into answers is the new currency, information technology is a strategic asset that enables competitive advantage. This white paper explores the data center technologies needed to ensure businesses are prepared to meet the new challenges and opportunities of the emerging “answer economy”.

By Force10 Networks

Wiring closets in the enterprise LAN are undergoing a number of significant changes. Perhaps the most important transition stems from the emergence of the enterprise IP network and IP/Ethernet LAN as the converged infrastructure for both data networking applications and real-time communications applications. This convergence is driven not only by the cost reductions achievable through network consolidation, but also by the productivity gains that can be achieved through innovative linkages among communication and data applications, resulting in converged applications such as unified messaging. As application convergence gains further momentum, the LAN infrastructure must continue to evolve to support a widening range of real-time applications, including:

• IP telephony
• IP video conferencing (bi-directional and multi-directional)
• Wireless LAN mobility solutions
• IPTV multimedia conferencing
• Instant messaging (IM) with presence determination

Learn how Force10 Networks is delivering a new generation of wiring closet switch/routers by downloading this white paper.

By Force10 Networks

Optimizing the overall power efficiency of the data center requires a comprehensive approach that focuses on technologies and strategies to minimize power consumption and maximize power efficiency at every level within the infrastructure, including CPU chips, power supplies, servers, storage devices, and networking equipment. In addition to measures that maximize power efficiency for hardware devices, there are also software strategies, such as server virtualization, that can play a significant role in reducing power consumption.

There are a number of potential benefits that can be derived from an increased focus on power consumption and power efficiency:

• extending the life of existing data centers and minimizing retrofits
• gaining at least partial control of growing expenses for power and cooling
• optimizing new data center designs