The data center has undergone tremendous transformation in the last few years. With new demands from business and new technologies such as blades, dense storage and virtualization, the data center is the new exciting frontier of IT.

Nemertes’ groundbreaking benchmark, “The New Data Center 2006,” details
these changes and their impacts, highlights critical issues for IT executives to keep in mind, and provides best practices and success strategies for organizations seeking to deploy and leverage this new data center.

In Volume 1, we examine the overall state of the data center, uncover the four major themes of consolidation, explosive growth, always-on availability and operational

In Volumes 2 through 7, we look at the six disciplines of the data center and the major trends in each:

Computing – Major trends such as virtualization and dense computing.
Storage – Extreme growth in storage demand and storage virtualization.
Networking – Optical interconnects, high-speed server interconnects and more reliance on the WAN to deliver applications.
Facilities – Power and cooling for dense computing and storage.
Management – Business service management, Web services, ITIL and CMDB.
Security – Re-trenched perimeter, mobility and identity.

Volumes 5,6 and 7 look specifically at how the enterprise addresses its challenges in three core disciplines – management, security and facilities – looking at both strategy and tactics at architectural, operational, and technological levels.

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