EZINE - In this month's issue, learn how to keep compliance a priority in a virtualized environment. Also in this issue, get advice on how to buy hardware for virtual systems, and take a closer look at your storage needs.
Posted: October 6, 2009 | Published: October 6, 2009


Topics:  Compliance (Systems Operations) | Data Center Infrastructure Efficiency | Data Center Management | Data Centers | Data Security | Regulatory Compliance | Server Hardware | Server Virtualization | Storage Capacity | Storage Virtualization | Virtual Machine | VM | VMware ESX

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 - An Information Agenda is an approach for transforming information into a trusted strategic asset that can be rapidly leveraged across applications, processes and decisions for sustained competitive advantage.
Posted: October 6, 2009 | Published: October 6, 2008


Topics:  Business Intelligence | Business Performance Management | Data Centers | Data Management | Data Warehouses | Enterprise Search Software | Information Management | Master Data Management

CASE STUDY - Soon after installing EVault Software, Womble Carlyle, a top-100 law firm, realized significant reliability improvement both in its nightly backup jobs and its file and folder restores. EVault Software Agents, which are installed on the servers requiring backup, “wake up” at administrator-set times.
Posted: October 2, 2009 | Published: October 2, 2009


Topics:  Backup Software | Backups | Data Center Consolidation | Data Centers | Data Compression | Data Encryption | Data Recovery | Data Security | Data Storage | File Compression Software | File Recovery Programs

ANALYST REPORT - Looking for solid data behind the cost-savings story of WAN optimization? In this paper, NetForecast analysts interviewed customers who have deployed this solution, and the results show that this technology has significant strategic business value to companies.
Posted: October 1, 2009 | Published: March 1, 2006


Topics:  Application Performance Management | Applications Management | Data Center Management | Data Centers | Disaster Recovery | WAN | Wireless Application Services Providers | Wireless Computing | Wireless Networks | Wireless WAN

WHITE PAPER - In the event of downtime, workloads can be rapidly powered on in the PlateSpin Forge recovery environment and continue to run as normal until the production environment is restored. PlateSpin Forge® ships with everything you need to begin protecting your servers straight out-of-the-box.
Posted: October 1, 2009 | Published: October 1, 2009


Topics:  Backup Server Hardware | Data Center Management | Data Centers | Disaster Recovery | Downtime | High Availability | RAS (Reliability, Availability, Serviceability) | Server Management | Systems Management

WHITE PAPER - This white paper describes how various UPS topologies work and looks at the impact of operating mode on five key factors of UPS performance
Posted: October 1, 2009 | Published: October 1, 2009


Topics:  Data Center Infrastructure Efficiency | Data Center Management | Data Center Power Management | Data Centers | High Availability | Network Performance | Power Consumption Monitoring | Power Usage Effectiveness (PUE) | RAS (Reliability, Availability, Serviceability) | Systems Maintenance | Systems Management | UPS

WHITE PAPER - With disk-to-disk technology, your backup data resides on disk drives, proven to be far more reliable than tapes. When your backup completes, you know the data is secure and accessible on the disk drive. Read this paper to learn other best practices on disk-to-disk technology and more.
Posted: September 30, 2009 | Published: September 30, 2009


Topics:  Data Centers | Data Deduplication | Data Replication | Data Security | Disk Backups | Disk Drives | Disk Mirroring | Disk Storage Systems | Disk-to-Disk Backup | Disk-to-Disk-to-Tape | Storage Best Practices | Tape Backups | Tape Drives | Tape Libraries

CASE STUDY - Read this case study to learn how one of India's leading financial services firms paved the way for continued growth and improved customer service by deploying Dell servers and a Dell SAN.
Posted: September 30, 2009 | Published: December 24, 2007


Topics:  Data Center Infrastructure Efficiency | Data Centers | ERP | Financial Services | Financial Services Industry | IT Infrastructure | SAN | Server Management | Server Virtualization | Storage Infrastructure

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

ANALYST REPORT - Understanding and measuring an offering’s operational simplicity is crucial criteria for selecting a D2D solution. As we at Taneja Group will explore in this brief, we believe that Data Domain has delivered an offering that personifies this notion of operational simplicity.
Posted: September 29, 2009 | Published: May 1, 2007


Topics:  Backups | Continuous Data Protection | Data Centers | Disaster Planning | Disaster Recovery | Disk Backups | Disk Mirroring | Disk Storage Systems | Disk-to-Disk Backup | Disk-to-Disk-to-Tape

PODCAST - In this podcast, listen to expert Scott Sawyer explain how Dell Services can help you plan for modernization of your legacy Unix infrastructure.
Posted: September 29, 2009 | Premiered: September 29, 2009


Topics:  Data Center Consolidation | Data Center Infrastructure Efficiency | Data Center Power Management | Data Centers | Linux | Linux Server Hardware | Open Source | Operating Equipment Efficiency or Effectiveness (OEE) | Storage Best Practices | UNIX

PODCAST - In this podcast, expert Carey Dietert discusses how CIO's are reevaluating current infrastructures to determine whether a new alternative is the way to go including the changes incumbents in the Unix space especially Sun with the upcoming purchase from Oracle.
Posted: September 29, 2009 | Premiered: September 29, 2009


Topics:  Business IT Alignment | CIOs | Data Center Consolidation | Data Center Infrastructure Efficiency | Data Center Power Management | Data Centers | IT Infrastructure | Linux | Linux Server Hardware | Open Source | Systems Management | UNIX

EBOOK - Some pundits foresee a future in which all data center computing is done in the "cloud," but that future is a long way off. Most organizations have just begun to venture into the cloud. Many others remain skeptical because of security and quality-of-service concerns. Read this ebook to learn what CIOs can to do now to prep their own environments.
Posted: September 29, 2009 | Published: September 29, 2009


Topics:  CIOs | Cloud Computing | Data Center Management | Data Centers | Data Governance | Data Security | Hybrid clouds | Private cloud computing | Public cloud computing | Software as a Service