WHITE PAPER - Using the five step process outlined in this white paper, we were able to eliminate more than 2,000 servers from our own IT infrastructure, saving an estimated $10 million dollars in data center costs.
Posted: June 15, 2009 | Published: June 15, 2009


Topics:  Capacity Planning | Data Center Consolidation | Data Center Infrastructure Efficiency | Data Center Power Management | Power Consumption Monitoring | Reporting Software | Server Virtualization | Storage Capacity | Storage Consolidation | Storage Virtualization

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 - Enterprises, government agencies and service providers are increasingly employing virtualized environments to decrease costs, consolidate data center space and reduce environmental impacts. This paper describes a comprehensive set of CA tools for managing virtual environments.
Posted: April 29, 2009 | Published: April 1, 2009


Topics:  Capacity Planning | Cooling Capacity | Cooling Equipment | Data Center Management | Data Centers | Fault Management | Fault Tolerance | IT Infrastructure | IT Management | IT Managers | Server Virtualization

WHITE PAPER - This research brief examines the new release of the BMC Performance Assurance for Mainframes product. We assess its overall significance and describe the reaction of two early users.
Posted: April 17, 2009 | Published: April 17, 2009


Topics:  Business Metrics | Business Performance Management | Capacity Planning | IT Governance | Mainframe Server Hardware | Performance Testing | z/OS

WHITE PAPER - The planning sequence described in this paper covers the design of the data center's physical infrastructure layer, whose job it is to house, power, cool, and protect the data center's computing and network functions.
Posted: February 4, 2009 | Published: February 3, 2009


Topics:  Capacity Planning | Data Center Management | Hardware Configuration Management | Hardware Management | Infrastructure Management | Storage Management | Systems Design and Development

WHITE PAPER - Virtualizing any aspect of your data center changes the game for compliance and e-discovery.
Posted: December 10, 2008 | Published: December 10, 2008


Topics:  Capacity Planning | CIOs | Data Centers | Disaster Recovery | Electronic Discovery | ROI | Server Virtualization | Vendors

WHITE PAPER - Long term data center or network room capacity planning may seem impossible in the face of evolving IT technology and business requirements. This paper shows a simple and effective way to develop a capacity plan for a data center or network room.
Posted: November 21, 2008 | Published: November 20, 2008


Topics:  Capacity Planning | Data Center Management | Data Centers | Data Management | Storage Capacity | Storage Systems | TCO | Vendors

WHITE PAPER - This paper is meant to help operators embrace a new strategy for differentiating and competing successfully in a market characterized by flux.
Posted: November 17, 2008 | Published: November 17, 2008


Topics:  Business Models | Capacity Planning | Collaboration | IP | Outsourcing | Telecommunications Carrier Systems | Telecommunications Services | Telephony Systems

WHITE PAPER - When IT professionals make massive investments in the virtualized data center, financial controls to contain sprawl and maintain control are essential. This white paper shows you how to do so by implementing chargeback.
Posted: February 27, 2008 | Published: February 1, 2008


Topics:  Asset Management (Finance) | Capacity Planning | Cost Benefit Analysis | Data Center Management | Enterprise Resource Management | Network Appliances | Server Virtualization | Server Virtualization Software

WHITE PAPER - In virtualized data centers, the fact that all applications and users can impact each other combined with a lack of resource monitoring can cause poor performance and even system downtime. This white paper provides a formula to avoid these problems.
Posted: February 26, 2008 | Published: February 1, 2008


Topics:  Capacity Planning | Data Center Management | Data Centers | Downtime | Network Appliances | Network Monitoring | Server Virtualization | VMware

WHITE PAPER - This whitepaper explores the limitations of tape and traditional disk-based approaches to disaster recovery. It highlights the advantages of deduplication technology in disk-to-disk backup and wide area network (WAN) replication. It also discusses the positive implications of deduplication for remote office backup and tape consolidation.
Posted: August 30, 2007 | Published: September 29, 2008


Topics:  Capacity Planning | Content Archiving | Continuous Data Protection | Disaster Recovery | Disk-to-Disk Backup | Storage Best Practices | Storage Capacity | Storage Consolidation | Tape Backups | WAN

WHITE PAPER - A floor plan strongly affects the power density capability and electrical efficiency of a data center. This paper provides structured floor plan guidelines for defining room layouts and for establishing IT equipment layouts within existing rooms.
Posted: June 22, 2007 | Published: June 1, 2007


Topics:  Capacity Planning | Cooling Equipment | Data Center Cooling | Data Center Design | Power Consumption Monitoring | Power Generation Equipment | Storage Management | Systems Design and Development

WHITE PAPER - This paper covers projects involving new construction or upgrades to the data center’s physical infrastructure - the power, cooling, and other physical systems that house and protect the data center’s IT equipment.
Posted: June 21, 2007 | Published: June 1, 2007


Topics:  Capacity Planning | Data Center Management | Hardware Configuration Management | Hardware Management Services | Infrastructure Management | Storage Infrastructure | Storage Management