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

PODCAST - IT pros have several options to choose from when ensuring high availability, making it difficult to know which approach is best for their organization. This expert podcast explores these choices with a focus on cluster and grid computing. Discover the differences between the two with details on when to use them.
Posted: October 9, 2009 | Premiered: October 9, 2009


Topics:  Cluster Software | Clustering | Downtime | High Availability | Network Monitoring | Network Performance | Server Hardware | Server Management | Server Virtualization | Systems Management | Windows Server Software

WEBCAST - Businesses rely heavily on their servers, so if they fail productivity is lost. This expert webcast explores the dangers of unplanned server downtime. Discover some of the most important planning, configurations and management issues for server high availability.
Posted: October 9, 2009 | Premiered: October 9, 2009


Topics:  Clustering | Data Center Management | Data Centers | Disaster Recovery | Downtime | Grid Computing | High Availability | Network Management | Network Performance | SAN | Server Hardware | Server Management | Systems Management

EGUIDE - Logical Domains, or LDoms, is Sun's built-in, no-cost hardware virtualization technology for servers and blade systems powered by UltraSPARC® T1, T2, and T2 Plus processors. The purpose of this Sun BluePrints™ article is to provide a simple set of steps for setting up and running a server with Logical Domains 1.2 software.
Posted: October 9, 2009 | Published: July 21, 2009


Topics:  Blade Servers | Data Center Management | Server Management | Server Software | Server Virtualization | Server Virtualization Software

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

PRODUCT OVERVIEW - VMware Enhanced VMotion coupled with Intel VT FlexMigration allows live migration across different generations of Intel Xeon processor-based servers, giving IT managers the freedom to move workloads whenever necessary, helping ensure business continuity during unforeseen spikes in data center resources.
Posted: October 6, 2009 | Published: October 6, 2009


Topics:  Data Center Consolidation | Data Center Infrastructure Efficiency | Server Appliances | Server Consolidation | Server Hardware | Server Management | Server Virtualization | VMware | VMware Workstation

PRODUCT OVERVIEW - The Intel Xeon processor 5500 series with Intel® Intelligent Power Technology, delivers up to 50 percent lower idle power. By replacing aging single-core processor-based servers with new, more energy-efficient servers, you can gain capacity to grow and to increase IT performance using fewer servers.
Posted: October 6, 2009 | Published: October 6, 2009


Topics:  Data Center Consolidation | Data Center Cooling | Data Center Infrastructure Efficiency | Energy Efficiency | IT Infrastructure | IT Management | IT Managers | Server Appliances | Server Hardware | Server Management

PRODUCT OVERVIEW - The Intel® Xeon® processor 5500 series provides a foundation for IT management to refresh existing or design new data centers to achieve greater performance while using less energy and space, and dramatically reducing operating costs.
Posted: October 6, 2009 | Published: October 6, 2009


Topics:  Cooling Capacity | Data Center Consolidation | Data Center Cooling | Data Center Design | Data Center Infrastructure Efficiency | Data Center Management | Data Centers | Energy Efficiency | Server Appliances | Server Consolidation | Server Hardware | Server Management

PRODUCT OVERVIEW - To gain full value of virtualization, you need servers that are built to handle the heavy and ever-changing demands of a virtualized and consolidated computing environment. To help you get maximum benefits from virtualization, Intel has built a better physical server platform with unique hardware-assist features to enhance the virtual data center.
Posted: October 6, 2009 | Published: October 6, 2009


Topics:  Data Center Consolidation | Data Center Management | Downtime | IT Infrastructure | IT Management | IT Managers | Processor Architectures | Server Appliances | Server Consolidation | Server Hardware | Server Management | Server Provisioning | Server Virtualization | Workload Automation

TECHNICAL ARTICLE - Servers based on the Intel® Xeon® processor 5500 series provide a foundation for IT management to refresh existing or design new data centers, achieving greater performance and energy efficiency.
Posted: October 6, 2009 | Published: October 6, 2009


Topics:  Cooling Capacity | Data Center Consolidation | Data Center Infrastructure Efficiency | Data Center Management | IT Infrastructure | IT Management | Server Consolidation | Server Management | Server Provisioning | Server Virtualization

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

PRODUCT OVERVIEW - Intel’s family of workstation platforms provides you with a range of options to meet your needs. They give you the tools to multi-task more productively, iterate through alternatives faster and innovate more.
Posted: October 6, 2009 | Published: October 6, 2009


Topics:  Digital Network Hardware | IT Infrastructure | IT Management | ITIL | Memory | Memory Management | Memory Management Interface Standards | Memory Management Units | Microprocessors | Processor Architectures | Server Appliances | Server Hardware | Server Management | Workload Automation | Workstations

PRODUCT OVERVIEW - Microsoft Windows Server® and SQL Server® 2008, together with intelligent server platforms based on the Intel® Xeon® processor 5500 series, deliver breakthrough performance and scalability within the same energy and space footprint as prior-generation processors.
Posted: October 6, 2009 | Published: October 6, 2009


Topics:  Configuration Management | IT Asset Management | IT Departments | IT Infrastructure | IT Management | IT Managers | IT Service Management | IT Systems | ITIL | Memory | Microprocessors | Processor Architectures | Server Appliances | Server Hardware | Server Management | SQL | SQL Server