WHITE PAPER - This IDC Workbook discusses consolidation at the datacenter, server, and storage system levels, including the use of virtualisation. This paper also discusses how deduplication can help improve consolidation of resources and reduce storage footprint, as well as improve data protection and disaster recovery under heavy workload conditions.
Posted: September 29, 2009 | Published: September 1, 2008


Topics:  Data Center Consolidation | Data Center Infrastructure Efficiency | Data Center Management | Data Centers | Data Deduplication | Data Mirroring | Data Recovery | Data Replication | Data Security | Data Storage

WHITE PAPER - The current state of the datacenter demands a transformation that helps in improving space utilization and lowering power consumption while still providing the scale and availability the business requires. Read this report to learn how your organization can optimize data center efficiency and lower costs.
Posted: September 29, 2009 | Published: April 14, 2009


Topics:  Cooling Equipment | Data Center Consolidation | Data Center Cooling | Data Center Infrastructure Efficiency | Data Center Management | Data Center Power Management | Data Centers | Energy Efficiency | Server Virtualization

WHITE PAPER - This white paper presents an overview of storage virtualisation at the controller level of a storage system. It describes how HP defines virtualisation technology and how it applies to the HP StorageWorks Enterprise Virtual Array (EVA) storage system.
Posted: September 29, 2009 | Published: February 14, 2008


Topics:  Data Centers | Network Performance | SAN | Storage Architectures | Storage Capacity | Storage Management | Storage Virtualization | Storage Virtualization Software | TCO | Tiered Storage

WHITE PAPER - The following five secrets to affordable SQL availability will help you to implement a SQL environment with little or no downtime, zero data loss, and no added IT complexity.
Posted: September 28, 2009 | Published: September 28, 2009


Topics:  Backups | Clustering | Data Centers | Data Loss Prevention (DLP) | Data Management | Data Replication | Data Security | Downtime | IT Management | Network Monitoring | Server Management | SQL | SQL Server

WHITE PAPER - All organizations are becoming increasingly reliant upon their computer systems. The availability of those systems can be the difference between the organization succeeding and failing. This series will examine how we can configure our Windows Server 2008 environments to provide the level of availability our organizations need.
Posted: September 28, 2009 | Published: September 28, 2009


Topics:  Backups | Clustering | Data Center Management | Data Centers | Downtime | High Availability | Load Balancing | Network Monitoring | Network Performance | SLA | Systems Management | Windows Server Software

WHITE PAPER - This white paper discusses five steps for protecting Windows Server applications from downtime, offering established best practices to reduce potential single points of failure and ensure rapid recovery or continued operations in the event of failure.
Posted: September 28, 2009 | Published: September 28, 2009


Topics:  Data Center Power Management | Data Centers | Data Loss Prevention (DLP) | Downtime | High Availability | IT Infrastructure | Network Monitoring | Power Blackouts | Productivity | RAS (Reliability, Availability, Serviceability) | Windows Server Software

WHITE PAPER - The open source development model allows innovation to happen rapidly in all areas—including security. The Red Hat development process leads the industry in providing innovative and secure solutions, and includes a dedicated Security Response Team whose speed and reliability is among the best in the industry.
Posted: September 24, 2009 | Published: September 24, 2009


Topics:  Data Center Management | Data Centers | Database Administration | Linux | Open Source | Open Source Software | Operating Systems | Security Software | Vulnerability Management

WHITE PAPER - Learn how Robot/SCHEDULE, the job scheduling and batch management software for IBM AS/400, has helped companies pass their internal and external audits for over 25 years. You can monitor who changed what job, produce reports that prove you are monitoring the schedule, and demonstrate the basic security that prevents unauthorized editing of jobs.
Posted: September 24, 2009 | Published: September 17, 2009


Topics:  Data Centers | Job Scheduling Software | Log Management | Network Monitoring | Reporting Software | Server Management | SLA | System i | Systems Maintenance | Systems Management

WHITE PAPER - Read this paper to learn how to create event-driven schedules based on system events across your enterprise with Robot/SCHEDULE Enterprise.
Posted: September 24, 2009 | Published: September 17, 2009


Topics:  Data Centers | Debugging | Job Scheduling Software | Log Management | Network Monitoring | Reporting Software | SLA | System i | Systems Maintenance | Systems Management | Troubleshooting

WHITE PAPER - Increased adoption of VMware infrastructure and continued performance advances in hardware and software have driven the virtualization of Microsoft Exchange. This paper will detail experiments that demonstrate the efficient performance and scalability of Exchange when running inside a virtual machine on a VMware vSphere™ 4 environment.
Posted: September 21, 2009 | Published: September 21, 2009


Topics:  Capacity Planning | Data Center Consolidation | Data Centers | Email Management | Email Server Software | Microsoft Exchange | Server Consolidation | Server Virtualization | Storage Capacity | Virtual Machine | VM | VMware

WHITE PAPER - Enterprise Management Associates® (EMA®) research shows 75% of CIOs are facing budget cuts. Most CIOs need to go beyond obvious cost reduction measures to address the largest single IT cost - staff. This whitepaper will discuss the ways that Workload automation can effect real cost savings.
Posted: September 18, 2009 | Published: September 18, 2009


Topics:  Data Center Infrastructure Efficiency | Data Centers | IT Infrastructure | ITIL | Job Scheduling Software | Log Management | SLA | Workload Automation

WHITE PAPER - With the release of Microsoft Windows Server 2008 R2, organizations have access to new capabilities such as Live Migration and Windows Powershell 2.0 that will reduce the cost of datacenter operations, enhance security and availability, while improving server environment manageability.
Posted: September 18, 2009 | Published: September 18, 2009


Topics:  Data Center Design | Data Center Management | Data Center Networking | Data Centers | Microsoft Hyper-V | Microsoft Office | Microsoft Virtual Server

WHITE PAPER - Use Event Monitors to create an event-driven schedule for your enterprise using system events on your Windows, UNIX, and Linux servers to launch reactive jobs through Robot/SCHEDULE.
Posted: September 17, 2009 | Published: September 17, 2009


Topics:  Data Centers | Job Scheduling Software | Linux | Log Management | Network Monitoring | Network Monitoring Software | Reporting Software | Server Management | Service Level Management | System i | Systems Maintenance | Systems Management | Workload Automation

WHITE PAPER - System Center lowers the cost of delivering datacenter services through integrated, end-to-end management of physical and virtual environments, and supports the optimization of the datacenter in three primary ways. Each of these benefits, and the solutions that enable them, are discussed in this paper.
Posted: September 8, 2009 | Published: September 8, 2009


Topics:  Business Continuity Planning | Compliance (Systems Operations) | Data Center Management | Data Center Power Management | Data Centers | Microsoft Hyper-V | Server Consolidation | Server Management