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Monday, December 1, 2008
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The new data center is a massive architectural shift heading straight for your infrastructure. But it is more than a new physical design. It is a new logical view of how IT assets, are deployed, managed and secured across a far flung networked landscape.
  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.
  A dangerous combo looms, as threats to your enterprise's security morph and intensify while you extend your applications and open corporate databases to outsiders. That places security at center stage in any new data center plan. Here we spotlight your security challenges, from managing multitudes of user identities to stomping out vulnerabilities.
  Storage is a hot spot for your company. Volume, management, cost and accessibility are all burning issues. How will your storage strategy handle the heat? New data center technologies such as information life-cycle management, pay-as-you-go capacity and virtualization could determine the outcome.
  The future is all about convergence, with voice and data on equal footing in the new data center. In this, the fourth in a six-part series, we spotlight tips for building a fail-safe VoIP network, the new applications VoIP enables and more.
  The need for widespread mobility marks today’s most strategic businesses. In this, our fifth in a six-part series, we help you explore how you can make wireless part of your new data center architecture.
  Automation leaves no IT discipline untouched, from application management to security and server configurations. In this, the sixth in a six-part series on new data center trends and technologies, we provide a status report.


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