Gilberts Communications Links. Call (888) 233-6471 to get a Cisco Data Center Solution that Fits your Business Needs.

Q. What is a building management system (BMS)?
A. In larger data centers, the building management system (BMS) allows for constant and centralized monitoring of the facility, including temperature, humidity, power and cooling.

Data centers are the biggest challenges facing IT executives in the coming years.

Implement virtualization quickly, and plan to have at least 50 percent of x86 data center servers virtualized by 2011 to improve asset use and to lower energy costs.

Operating a Data Center not only requires a comprehensive skill set, but also a little forethought into the overall industry landscape.

Server virtualization is the masking of server resources (including the number and identity of individual physical servers, processors, and operating systems) from server users. The intention is to spare the user from having to understand and manage complicated details of server resources while increasing resource sharing and utilization and maintaining the capacity to expand later.

Virtualization was first introduced in the 1960s by IBM to boost utilization of large, expensive mainframe systems by partitioning them into logical, separate virtual machines that could run multiple applications and processes at the same time. In the 1980s and 1990s, this centrally shared mainframe model gave way to a distributed, client-server computing model, in which many low-cost x86 servers and desktops independently run specific applications.

Data backup involves the saving of your data in two or more locations, so that if something happens to your computer, you still have your data reserved in backup. This allows you to keep your data even if you lose your computer.

Within the Cisco UCS M71KR-E, M71KR-Q, and M81KR adapter types, the Cisco Unified Computing System can enable a fabric failover capability in which loss of connectivity on a path in use will cause remapping of traffic through a redundant path within the Cisco Unified Computing System. In determining the adapter type to use to support the Cisco Nexus 1000V Series, the interface count available to the VMware ESX host is a key factor.

Green IT is making information technology itself more energy efficient, and going beyond that to using IT to reduce the carbon footprint of other operations.

Data storage systems are used in a variety of businesses for the purpose of storing and maintaining data which is critical to the operation of the businesses and their customers. It is very important that such data storage systems be highlyreliable to minimize or eliminate the chance of losing data if the system fails. The most secure and reliable systems employ total redundancy, in which every component of the system is replicated, such that, upon a failure of a component, anothercomponent takes over operation, so that the data storage system can remain fully functional. For example, two storage processors may be provided in a system such that if one fails, the other assumes the operation of the failed processor as well asmaintaining its own. However, total redundancy is expensive and can be an inefficient use of system resources.

Nexus sets the stage for converged Fibre Channel and Ethernet networks. The Nexus products will allow companies to consolidate their separate server and storage networking infrastructures onto one unified network fabric.