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MANCHESTER, N.H., April 23 /PRNewswire/ -- PPM Media announced today that BladeSystems Insight, the only national invitational summit focused on blade-based and other data center solutions, made its successful debut April 10-12, 2007. Over 300 participants attended the event launch including a hosted audience of senior-level IT executives from across North America, more than 20 leading and emerging vendors, seven industry associations, five separate analyst organizations, and media. The event took place at the Westin resort in Savannah, Georgia.
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As IT becomes further ingrained in business and organizational processes, today's data center must support myriad application environments. Each application has differing needs in terms of performance, availability, and cost-efficiency. As a result, organizations are exploring different approaches to meeting their particular mix of technical, functional, and cost requirements.
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The main purpose of a data center is running the applications that handle the core business and operational data of the organization. Such systems may be proprietary and developed internally by the organization, or bought from enterprise software vendors. Such common applications are ERP and CRM systems.
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According to a recent survey of data center managers conducted by The InfoPro, the average installed SAN disk storage capacity in the Fortune 1000 organizations increased from 138 TB in early 2004 to over 680 TB in October of 2006. That number has doubled approximately every 10 months since 2005 and is expected to only increase.
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The Aperture Research Institute is the first organization dedicated to researching data centers, their challenges, and best practice management. It was established by Aperture Technologies Inc., the leading global provider of software for managing the physical infrastructure of data centers.
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Aperture is the leading global provider of software for managing the physical infrastructure of data centers. Aperture's solutions reduce operational risk and improve efficiency through the planning and management of data center resources and real-time monitoring of the environment. Aperture delivers the best practice processes that enable organizations to take control of an increasingly complex physical infrastructure including equipment, space, power, cooling, network and storage.
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