Archive for the ‘Data Center’ Category

FREE WebEx sessions

February 12th, 2010 by Bojana Stucin


Two workshops from Cisco Unified Computing System (UCS) and Cisco Nexus Product Family are being organized in March 2010. If you are interested in attending any of them, read the details and register. All you need is a computer and an internet connection. The workshops will be led by Mitja Robas, ...

IPcorner technical articles

December 4th, 2009 by Bojana Stucin


For those who don't follow NIL's monthly published technical articles, just a short reminder. Tilen Mlakar in november article focuses on security measures of the unified communications traffic, network components and end points where the applications or their parts reside. For all data center engineers, Jaroslav Rajic in december article ...

NIL Data Center Sales Bootcamp

November 18th, 2009 by Bojana Stucin


In past few months more and more questions from sales people, on how to offer and design the proper Data Center (DC) Solution, arrived to NIL's inbox. Some of NIL DC experts now gathered the experience. On their behalf, a 3-day instructor led DC Sales training has been composed and ...

Data center: Hype, or a big story?

September 1st, 2009 by Klemen Stular


In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth. The next day, He created the data center. Or at least it sounded that way, when somebody from my team who had already made up his mind stepped into my office and wanted me to buy his arguments. Then you ...

Data Center Interconnect

July 24th, 2009 by Bojana Stucin


Today’s data center is the home to essential computation, storage and applications that support your business. Because of their key importance to the business, data centers are designed to be robust, fast and highly reliable.

SP Services and Solutions bootcamp

June 30th, 2009 by Ivan Pepelnjak


Are you fluent in the MPLS VPN, VPLS, EoMPLS, IPTV, VoIP, IPv6 and Data Center and mobility technologies? Unless you’ve passed your CCIE SP lab exam last week, the answer is probably no. But even more important, do you know how to use them in your Service Provider network to ...

Evolving Toward the “Green” Data Center

June 5th, 2009 by Marjan Bradesko


Decreasing the carbon footprint of the Data Center (DC) is the aim, and lowering the powering and cooling costs are the motivation for the measures to make your data center more energy efficient. From the equipment perspective, designing a DC network for virtualization helps to increase the overall utilization of ...

Distributed Data Centers

August 28th, 2008 by Mitja Robas


Are you building a backup data center (BDC) and experiencing headaches due to the related expenses? Or perhaps you already have a BDC and want to reduce the operational expenses? One way to cut expenses is to look at the second data center as the active data center, and utilize its ...

A Quick Comparison of DDC Site-Selection Methods

August 12th, 2008 by Mitja Robas


When setting up a distributed data center (DDC), the architect has to decide which method will be used for site selection to distribute client traffic between the sites. The distribution is done using global server load balancing (GSLB), typically via HTTP redirect, DNS-based site selection or route health injection (RHI) ...

The impact of consolidation on WAN

August 5th, 2008 by Mitja Robas


Remember the early data centers that used proprietary protocols and platforms? Since those days, data centers have evolved to a decentralized architecture. But "retro" is in, and data centers are evolving to a centralized architecture again. Seriously, data centers are being re-centralized to consolidate computing resources (namely, servers). Consolidating data center ...