WHITE PAPER - Server Virtualization means more than server consolidation. Microsoft Windows Server can help your organization improve network reliability, scalability and security.
Posted: October 19, 2009 | Published: October 16, 2009


Topics:  Security | Security Infrastructure | Security Management | Security Systems | Server Virtualization | Server Virtualization Software | Storage Virtualization | Storage Virtualization Software

WHITE PAPER - This white paper introduces Windows Server virtualization as a key component of the Microsoft datacenter-to-desktop virtualization strategy.
Posted: October 19, 2009 | Published: October 19, 2009


Topics:  Data Center Management | Data Centers | Desktop Virtualization | Desktop Virtualization Software | Server Management | Server Virtualization | Server Virtualization Software

WHITE PAPER - Microsoft Windows Server 2008 R2, like its predecessor Windows Server 2008, has been designed with energy efficiency in mind. Recent tests found that Windows Server 2008 R2 improved power efficiency by up to 18 percent over Windows Server 2003, out of the box.
Posted: October 13, 2009 | Published: April 1, 2009


Topics:  Data Center Power Management | Desktop Virtualization | Microsoft Hyper-V | Power Consumption Monitoring | Server Consolidation | Server Virtualization | Storage Management | Windows Server 2003

WHITE PAPER - This HP paper provides performance characteristics for the HP BladeSystem BL460cG6 blade server with XenServer and 64 bit workloads.
Posted: October 12, 2009 | Published: March 1, 2009


Topics:  Blade Servers | Citrix XenServer | Performance Testing | Server Hardware | Server Management | Server Virtualization

WHITE PAPER - This technical paper provides general sizing best practices to consider when planning your virtualization deployment with HP ProLiant and XenServer.
Posted: October 12, 2009 | Published: February 1, 2009


Topics:  Citrix XenServer | IT Best Practices | Server Consolidation | Server Hardware | Server Management | Server Virtualization

WHITE PAPER - This techncial paper explores a number of options for using Citrix XenServer to consolidate 32-bit workloads on both x86 and x64 Microsoft® Windows® platforms, with emphasis on best practices, tuning, and tips for a server based computing environment.
Posted: October 12, 2009 | Published: July 1, 2009


Topics:  Application Performance Management | Best Practices | Citrix XenServer | Open Source Software | Server Hardware | Server Virtualization | Virtual Machine

WHITE PAPER - This white paper focuses on best practices for implementing an enterprise Active Directory infrastructure using virtualization technology. We will discuss how to perform a full migration of your physical AD infrastructure to a virtualized environment.
Posted: October 9, 2009 | Published: October 9, 2009


Topics:  Active Directory | Directory Assistance Services | Directory Service Protocols | Directory Services | Server Consolidation | Server Management | Server Virtualization | Virtual Machine | VM

WHITE PAPER - In this whitepaper, Enterprise Linux and Windows Server 2008 are compared over a six-year period, with various e-commerce configurations covering small, medium, and large business scenarios.
Posted: October 8, 2009 | Published: October 8, 2009


Topics:  Cost Benefit Analysis | Data Center Management | Data Centers | Downtime | Linux | Open Source | Open Source Software | Operating Systems | Productivity | Server Management | Server Software | Server Virtualization | Windows Server Software

WHITE PAPER - Virtualization is one of the hottest technologies in IT infrastructure today. Intel is helping enable the next generation of virtualization usage efficiently. Virtualization 2.0 focuses on increasing service efficiency through flexible resource management. In the near future, this usage model will become absolutely critical to data centers.
Posted: October 6, 2009 | Published: October 1, 2008


Topics:  Data Center Consolidation | Data Center Infrastructure Efficiency | Data Center Management | Data Centers | Mainframe Operating Systems | Server Consolidation | Server Management | Server Provisioning | Server Virtualization

WHITE PAPER - IDC's white paper reviews finds that virtualization can have significant benefits to an organization, like increased utilization, simplified management and reduced energy costs, but it can be a complex undertaking and if not planned correctly, it can hurt instead of help.
Posted: October 5, 2009 | Published: October 2, 2008


Topics:  Network Management | Networking | Server Virtualization | Server Virtualization Software | Storage Virtualization | Storage Virtualization Software

WHITE PAPER - Companies face numerous challenges when managing and integrating information across enterprise business processes. Companies frequently choose an Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) solution to fulfill business requirements. The leading ERP applications with the greatest market share are the mySAP ERP and SAP R/3 industry solutions from SAP AG.
Posted: October 5, 2009 | Published: October 1, 2007


Topics:  Application Infrastructure | Application Integration | Application Performance Management | Application Server Hardware | Applications Management | ERP | HP VSE | Memory | Memory Management | SAP (Product) | Server Hardware | Server Management | Server Virtualization

WHITE PAPER - Virtualization allows you to dynamically allocate and manage resources in a utility-like way. It helps you break down the rigid IT structures that inhibit business agility. Virtualization also helps you increase utilization of valuable computing resources.
Posted: October 5, 2009 | Published: October 1, 2005


Topics:  Grid Computing | HP VSE | IT Infrastructure | IT Management | IT Managers | IT Systems | Server Virtualization | Storage Virtualization

WHITE PAPER - This paper discusses the complementary benefits of combining features of VMware and 3PAR technologies to gain increased performance and avoid the cost of over-provisioning servers and storage in an IT infrastructure.
Posted: October 2, 2009 | Published: October 1, 2006


Topics:  Server Consolidation | Server Management | Server Provisioning | Server Virtualization | Storage Architectures | Storage Capacity | Storage Consolidation | Storage Infrastructure | Storage Management | Storage Provisioning | Storage Resource Management | Storage Systems | Storage Virtualization | VMware

WHITE PAPER - This report by industry analyst International Technology Group evaluates how organizations can reduce IT costs by employing IBM Power Systems and PowerVM verses competitive offerings from HP and Sun Microsystems. Cost savings range from 43 to 65% and are based on client data.
Posted: October 2, 2009 | Published: April 9, 2009


Topics:  Enterprise | Enterprise Services Architecture | Enterprise Systems | Linux | Server Virtualization | Server Virtualization Software | UNIX

WHITE PAPER - This IBM white paper describes how Virtualization is an important element of a dynamic infrastructure and expands on the areas of server, storage, application, network, and client virtualization and the IBM technology and benefits from each.
Posted: October 2, 2009 | Published: October 1, 2009


Topics:  Application Infrastructure | Application Life-Cycle Management | Network Infrastructure | Network Management | Server Virtualization | Server Virtualization Software | Storage Virtualization | Storage Virtualization Software