CASE STUDY - When it was time to refresh the headquarters' IT infrastructure, the Earth Rangers IT group knew that any new computer systems had to meet their own high environmental standards. In this case study, you'll learn why they decided to create a virtualized server infrastructure using solutions from Dell and VMware and the benefits achieved.
Posted: August 17, 2009 | Published: March 1, 2009


Topics:  Data Center Consolidation | Green Data Center | IT Infrastructure | Server Virtualization | Server Virtualization Software | SMBs | VMware | VMware ESX

EBOOK - Servers play a crucial role in daily enterprise operations. But even the most powerful and resilient servers are useless without adequate storage. Storage solutions contain the operating systems, applications and virtual images needed to operate every server. This eBook chapter will help you better understand your data center storage challenges.
Posted: August 11, 2009 | Published: August 10, 2009


Topics:  Data Center Consolidation | Data Center Construction | Data Center Infrastructure Efficiency | Data Center Management | Data Centers | Disk Drives | RAID | SCSI Devices | Solid State Disks | Storage Architectures | Storage Capacity | Storage Management | Storage Virtualization | Windows Server 2003

WHITE PAPER - This paper outlines the new capabilities and performance enhancements that NetApp / IBM N series clients can now realize with TSM 6.1 in two key enterprise backup and restore scenarios for network data storage.
Posted: July 27, 2009 | Published: July 1, 2009


Topics:  Backups | Continuous Data Protection | Data Center Consolidation | Data Center Management | Data Centers | Data Governance | Data Management | Data Mirroring | Data Recovery | Data Storage | Disaster Planning | Disaster Recovery | Enterprise | Storage Best Practices | Storage Management | Storage Resource Management

WEBCAST - This webcast explores a phased approach to consolidating application management solutions, aligning IT infrastructure with business needs and reducing costs.
Posted: July 27, 2009 | Premiered: July 27, 2009


Topics:  Applications Management | Business IT Alignment | Business Management | Data Center Consolidation | Data Center Design | Data Center Management | Data Centers | Economic Environment | Infrastructure Management | IT Infrastructure | Network Management | ROI | Server Management | Software Architectures | Storage Consolidation | Storage Management | Strategic Planning | Systems Management | TCO

WHITE PAPER - This EMA paper (prepared for VKernel) discusses the challenges in achieving virtualization goals in the enterprise and how capacity management can help optimize resource utilization while maintaining performance.
Posted: July 24, 2009 | Published: July 24, 2009


Topics:  Capacity Planning | Data Center Consolidation | Enterprise Resource Management | IT Service Management | Network Capacity | Network Performance | Server Consolidation | Server Virtualization

WHITE PAPER - Server virtualization delivers many business benefits to datacenters today. Choosing the right server virtualization product is an important business decision, and Sun has the virtualization and server technology portfolio - along with the experience - to help you make the right one.
Posted: July 21, 2009 | Published: December 1, 2008


Topics:  Data Center Consolidation | Data Center Infrastructure Efficiency | Midrange Server Hardware | Server Virtualization | Server Virtualization Software | VMware

SOFTWARE DOWNLOAD - XenServer is the only free, enterprise-class virtualization platform. With powerful features such as live migration and centralized multi-node management, your datacenter is instantly smaller and smarter. For free. You can't afford not to download it now.
Posted: July 20, 2009 | Published: July 1, 2009


Topics:  Data Center Consolidation | Data Center Management | IT Infrastructure | IT Management | IT Managers | Server Consolidation | Server Virtualization

PRESENTATION TRANSCRIPT - This presentation transcript features Brian Babineau, senior analyst with the Enterprise Strategy Group. Today Badineau would like to talk to you a little bit about driving efficiency within your data center and how you can reduce cost by reducing the amount of duplicate data that maybe in your environment.
Posted: July 9, 2009 | Published: July 1, 2009


Topics:  Data Center Consolidation | Data Center Infrastructure Efficiency | Data Center Management | Data Centers | Data Deduplication | Data Governance | Data Management | IT Governance | IT Management | Rack Enclosures | Rack Servers

WHITE PAPER - With the current economic state the way it is CIOs must rethink how they manage IT costs and operations. This white paper will take a closer look at how virtualization can help cut down the costs as well as improve efficiency of the data center.
Posted: July 2, 2009 | Published: June 1, 2009


Topics:  Budgeting | CIOs | Data Center Consolidation | Data Center Design | Data Center Infrastructure Efficiency | Economic Environment | Server Virtualization | Server Virtualization Software | TCO

WHITE PAPER - Traffic between datacenters is growing at an accelerating rate. As throughput expands, the rate at which costs increase rises as well. A WAN optimization solution can help get backups and database synchronizations completed on time - without hurting VoIP or internet backhaul. Read on to learn more.
Posted: July 1, 2009 | Published: July 1, 2009


Topics:  Bandwidth Management | Data Center Consolidation | Data Center Management | Data Synchronization | Server Consolidation | WAN | WAN Switching

VIDEO - This videocast highlights how to go green in your data center with better hardware utilization. Watch as industry pro David Payne discusses some of the challenges of this approach as well as how to start reducing energy consumption at the hardware level.
Posted: July 1, 2009 | Premiered: July 1, 2009


Topics:  Data Center Consolidation | Data Centers | Energy Efficiency | Green Data Center | Hardware | Hardware Management | Server Virtualization | Storage Consolidation | Virtual Appliance

PRODUCT LITERATURE - Read this paper to read about the breadth of technologies Blue Coat offers in a single platform that enable service providers to differentiate their MLPS solution.
Posted: June 26, 2009 | Published: June 1, 2009


Topics:  Application Security | Cloud Computing | Data Center Consolidation | Data Center Management | Green Data Center | MPLS | Software as a Service

EGUIDE - In this expert E-Guide, brought to you by SearchDataCenter.com and Dell, you will gain insight into best practices for data center design and maintenance in today's down economy.
Posted: June 25, 2009 | Published: June 25, 2009


Topics:  Data Center Consolidation | Data Center Construction | Data Center Design | Data Center Management | Data Centers | Data Management | Scalability Testing

WHITE PAPER - What is your IT really costing you? Could you be doing more with the technology you have? Could you reduce costs and provide better service to your organization? Read Red Hat's suggestions on 11 questions every CIO should ask their IT manager, and how Red Hat open source solutions can help.
Posted: June 19, 2009 | Published: June 10, 2009


Topics:  Cloud Computing | Cost Benefit Analysis | Data Center Consolidation | Grid Computing | Information Technology End Users | Inventory Management | IT Best Practices | IT Management | IT Managers | Linux | Open Source | Open Source Software | Operating System Virtualization | Server Accelerators | Server Consolidation | Server Virtualization | Software as a Service

WHITE PAPER - Data center energy costs continue to take up a significant portion of IT budgets, and it seems that there is no end in sight. This paper addresses, in a unified and systemic way, many of the power consumption issues that IT has been grappling with in piecemeal fashion.
Posted: June 17, 2009 | Published: June 15, 2009


Topics:  Cooling Capacity | Cooling Equipment | Data Center Consolidation | Data Center Construction | Data Center Cooling | Data Center Infrastructure Efficiency | Data Center Power Management | Green Data Center | IT Service Management | IT Spending | Network Appliances | Network Management Services | Storage Capacity | Storage Consolidation