WHITE PAPER - This article discusses running Oracle Real Application Clusters (RAC) on servers configured with Sun™ Logical Domains (LDoms). Sun LDoms virtualization technology allows the creation of multiple virtual systems on a single physical system, and enables fine-grained assignment of CPU and memory resources to an Oracle RAC workload.
Posted: June 15, 2009 | Published: June 15, 2009


Topics:  Application Infrastructure | Application Performance Management | Application Server Hardware | Application Server Software | Cluster Management | Clustering | Server Consolidation | Server Virtualization

WHITE PAPER - Read this brief paper to get the details about an HP and VMware solution that both enhances service and reduces cost, while positioning operations for growth when the economy turns around.
Posted: June 5, 2009 | Published: June 5, 2009


Topics:  Business Continuity Planning | Business Intelligence | Server Consolidation | Server Management | Server Virtualization | Server Virtualization Software | TCO | VMware

WHITE PAPER - Sun's built-in, no-cost Logical Domains (LDoms) virtualization technology allows applications to effectively leverage these processors. This white paper describes how LDoms can be applied in different scenarios to increase application scalability and system utilization.
Posted: June 5, 2009 | Published: May 1, 2009


Topics:  Capacity Planning | Data Center Consolidation | Data Center Management | Data Centers | Open Source | Operating Systems | Server Consolidation | Server Management | Server Virtualization

WHITE PAPER - Keeping datacenters agile is key as IT organizations support dynamically changing business priorities and cope with economic pressures. By consolidating systems onto the latest server technology and taking advantage of virtualization techniques, enterprises can optimize datacenter efficiency, gain flexibility, and reduce operating costs.
Posted: June 4, 2009 | Published: March 1, 2009


Topics:  Cooling Capacity | Data Center Consolidation | Data Center Cooling | Data Center Infrastructure Efficiency | Data Center Management | Data Center Power Management | Data Centers | Power Consumption Monitoring | Server Consolidation | Server Virtualization

WHITE PAPER - Employing the UltraSPARC® T2 and UltraSPARC T2 Plus processors - the industry's first massively threaded Systems on a Chip (SoC) - Sun SPARC® Enterprise T5120/T5220 and T5140/T5240 servers offer breakthrough performance and energy efficiency to drive Web 2.0 infrastructure and address other demanding datacenter challenges.
Posted: June 4, 2009 | Published: April 1, 2008


Topics:  Architectures | Data Center Cooling | Data Center Design | Data Center Infrastructure Efficiency | Data Center Management | Data Center Power Management | Data Centers | High Availability | Power Consumption Monitoring | Rack Servers | Server Consolidation | Server Management | Server Virtualization | Web 2.0

WHITE PAPER - vSphere, VMware's latest release, adds approximately 150 new features to its previous VI3 product! The purpose of this white paper is to highlight the most notable of these features and to discuss the benefits they offer your organization's IT infrastructure.
Posted: June 1, 2009 | Published: May 1, 2009


Topics:  Cloud Computing | Data Center Consolidation | Data Center Management | Data Centers | Disaster Recovery | Server Consolidation | Server Management | Server Provisioning | Server Virtualization | VMware | VMware Disaster Recovery | VMware Server

VIDEO - In the traditional IT approach, every new software application required a new server. This added costs to every project and deployment took days to weeks. This also drove server sprawl. Watch this demo for an animated explanation of how virtualization addresses common data center challenges.
Posted: June 1, 2009 | Premiered: May 1, 2009


Topics:  Application Performance Management | Applications Management | Cooling Capacity | Cooling Equipment | Downtime | Hardware Virtualization | Server Appliances | Server Consolidation | Server Hardware | Server Management | Server Virtualization

VIDEO - Discover benefits of virtualization like improving utilization, simplifying operations, and rapidly provisioning new servers. Learn more about the benefits of virtualization by viewing these brief flash overviews.
Posted: June 1, 2009 | Premiered: May 1, 2009


Topics:  Data Center Consolidation | Data Center Cooling | Data Center Management | Data Center Power Management | Data Centers | Operating System Virtualization | Operating Systems | Server Consolidation | Server Provisioning | Server Virtualization | Virtual Machine

PRODUCT OVERVIEW - Affordable high availability and disaster recovery solutions are critical to the survival of all SMBs in the event of a disaster. Building on years of helping SMBs protect their information, VMware and Dell provide cost-effective and robust data protection, disaster recovery, and high availability solutions.
Posted: June 1, 2009 | Published: February 1, 2009


Topics:  Backup Server Hardware | Backup Software | Backups | Continuous Data Protection | Disaster Recovery | Downtime | High Availability | SAN | Server Consolidation | Server Provisioning | Server Virtualization | SMBs

CASE STUDY - An aging, proprietary enterprise resource planning (ERP) system at Kelly Tractor limited the company's ability to integrate information from separate departments and build new, innovative sales and services tools. Read how the company benefited from Dell and VMware virtualization.
Posted: June 1, 2009 | Published: July 1, 2008


Topics:  Fibre Channel | Fibre Channel SAN | SAN | Server Consolidation | Server Management | Server Provisioning | Server Virtualization | Storage Architectures | Storage Capacity | Storage Consolidation | Storage Infrastructure | Storage Management

EBOOK - This SearchDataCenter.com eBook takes a look at how to master the climate control for the data center. Organizations are creating more heat in smaller places which in turn requires efficient and effective climate control. Read this paper to learn more about how to properly cool your data center.
Posted: May 29, 2009 | Published: May 29, 2009


Topics:  Cooling Capacity | Cooling Equipment | Data Center Cooling | Data Center Management | Data Center Power Management | Power Consumption Monitoring | Server Consolidation | Server Hardware | Server Management

EBOOK - In this chapter of the "Introduction to Virtualization E-book" we will look at how to protect production workloads running in a virtual environment as well as off load this work to a stand-by host if needed.
Posted: May 28, 2009 | Published: May 28, 2009


Topics:  Data Center Consolidation | Data Center Infrastructure Efficiency | Green Data Center | High Availability | Server Consolidation | Server Management | Server Virtualization | Virtual Desktop Infrastructure | Virtualization Security

VIDEO - Watch this video to learn how the Dell PowerEdge R610 is a key building block for today's data center. Designed for versatility and high performance, it provides many of the virtualization, system management, and energy-efficiency features you need now and the scalability necessary to change as your business grows.
Posted: May 21, 2009 | Premiered: May 21, 2009


Topics:  Blade Servers | Server Consolidation | Server Hardware | Server Management | Server Virtualization | Systems Implementation | Systems Management | Virtual Machine Monitor

VIDEO - In this video, learn more about the transition from Dell's 10th generation servers to the new 11th generation servers. With Dell's new 11th generation line, Dell is launching the industry's first portfolio of servers with integrated management.
Posted: May 21, 2009 | Premiered: May 21, 2009


Topics:  Architectures | Blade Servers | Cost Benefit Analysis | Infrastructure Management | Mainframe Server Hardware | Server Consolidation | Server Hardware | Server Management

WHITE PAPER - Enterprises of all sizes are deploying or considering deploying blade systems as a way to consolidate resources and lower their total cost of ownership. Read this white paper to learn about the total cost of ownership (TCO) for the Dell PowerEdge servers.
Posted: May 19, 2009 | Published: March 1, 2009


Topics:  Blade Servers | Business Intelligence | Business Management | Cost Benefit Analysis | Rack Servers | Server Consolidation | Server Hardware | Server Management | TCO | Tower Servers