WHITE PAPER - With so many new technologies, sticking with the status quo for your virtual network infrastructure is probably not your best option. In this month's issue, take a closer look at all the possibilities available now for interconnecting both virtual and physical networks.
Posted: September 1, 2009 | Published: September 1, 2009


Topics:  Data Center Infrastructure Efficiency | Data Center Management | Data Centers | Disaster Recovery | Network Architectures | Network Infrastructure | Network Management | Server Virtualization | Virtual Appliance | VMware

WHITE PAPER - This document describes the basic concepts and integration guidelines for FalconStor FDS in an EMC NetWorker environment. The document is intended to provide an architectural overview of FalconStor FDS being used with EMC NetWorker and the benefits of a combined solution.
Posted: August 26, 2009 | Published: August 1, 2009


Topics:  Backups | Data Center Management | Data Deduplication | Data Recovery | Data Replication | Data Storage | Disk Backups | Tape Backups

WHITE PAPER - This white paper outlines some of the top ways that organizations can achieve great efficiencies in their environments and drive benefits ranging from steep capital savings to streamlined operations. It also illustrates how Datalink customers have implemented these methods in their architectures.
Posted: August 26, 2009 | Published: August 1, 2009


Topics:  Data Center Design | Data Center Infrastructure Efficiency | Data Center Management | Data Center Power Management | Data Centers | Data Recovery | Data Storage | Operating Equipment Efficiency or Effectiveness (OEE) | Operating System Virtualization | Storage Best Practices | Storage Infrastructure | Storage Virtualization

WHITE PAPER - This paper addresses the fact that server virtualization is still a relatively new technology undergoing rapid development and innovation. While creating a virtual machine is relatively simple, the underlying complexity of the infrastructure and IT processes cannot be ignored.
Posted: August 25, 2009 | Published: August 18, 2009


Topics:  Data Center Infrastructure Efficiency | Data Center Management | Server Management | Server Virtualization | Server Virtualization Software | Virtual Machine | Virtual Machine Backups | Virtual Machine Migration | Virtual Machine Monitor | VMware

WHITE PAPER - Intel IT, together with Intel’s Digital Enterprise Group, End User Platform Integration, and Intel's Software and Services Group, conducted proof-of-concept testing and total cost of ownership (TCO) analysis to assess the virtualization capabilities of Intel® Xeon® processor 5500 series. The results of the analysis are here.
Posted: August 24, 2009 | Published: August 20, 2009


Topics:  Data Center Management | Server Accelerators | Server Virtualization | Server Virtualization Software | Storage Virtualization | Storage Virtualization Software | TCO

WHITE PAPER - As dependencies on computing increase, ensuring that applications are highly available becomes more critical. This paper gives VMware fault tolerance recommendations and considerations on VMware vSphere 4.
Posted: August 10, 2009 | Published: August 7, 2009


Topics:  Cloud Computing | Data Center Management | Data Center Power Management | Data Centers | Fault Management | Fault Tolerance | Grid Computing | RAID

WHITE PAPER - HP and VMware help you change the economics of IT by creating a business-ready infrastructure based on three pillars: standardize, optimize, and automate.
Posted: August 10, 2009 | Published: August 5, 2009


Topics:  Business Intelligence | Business Intelligence Software | Data Center Management | Data Center Networking | Data Centers | Infrastructure Management | Infrastructure Services | VMware

WHITE PAPER - The Sybase Analytic Appliance is revolutionizing the data warehouse appliance market by integrating the leading column-based analytic software with hardware from the industry's number one provider of UNIX systems. Read this paper for more.
Posted: August 6, 2009 | Published: July 7, 2009


Topics:  Business Intelligence | Business Performance Management | Business Process Management | Business Service Management | Data Center Management | Data Center Networking | Data Warehouses | Database Administration | UNIX

WHITE PAPER - Read this white paper to learn how the right power monitoring system can protect your organization's data and applications while optimizing the power delivery infrastructure for efficiency and lower cost.
Posted: August 4, 2009 | Published: July 1, 2009


Topics:  Data Center Infrastructure Efficiency | Data Center Management | Data Center Power Management | Ethernet Networks | IT Infrastructure | IT Systems | LAN | Power Consumption Monitoring

WHITE PAPER - IT projects are being increasingly scrutinized, so expenditures must support business requirements and contribute to the operational efficiency of the data center. Combined with HP technology, Oracle dynamically optimizes shared resources to simplify administration of the physical and virtual platforms, letting you meet those business objectives.
Posted: July 30, 2009 | Published: July 1, 2009


Topics:  Business Intelligence | Business Performance Management | Cloud Computing | Data Center Infrastructure Efficiency | Data Center Management | Data Centers | Grid Computing

WHITE PAPER - IT managers are looking for ways to improve energy efficiency - to reduce power consumption and cooling requirements - to save money. Using HP Reference Architectures for Oracle, you get a modular, inherently flexible, and highly available application platform that accomplishes that. Read this paper for details.
Posted: July 30, 2009 | Published: July 1, 2009


Topics:  Computer Room Air Conditioning Units | Cooling Capacity | Cooling Equipment | Data Center Cooling | Data Center Infrastructure Efficiency | Data Center Management | Data Center Power Management | Data Centers

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

WHITE PAPER - This paper outlines key aspects of information security companies should look for in SaaS solutions to protect information and ensure business success, focusing on three essential elements instrumental to achieving this goal: data privacy, access control and business continuity.
Posted: July 21, 2009 | Published: July 17, 2009


Topics:  Access Control | Business Continuity Planning | CRM | Data Center Management | Data Security | Disaster Recovery | High Availability | Software as a Service

WHITE PAPER - This paper explores common challenges associated with server virtualization deployments and the ways Citrix Essentials for Hyper-V together with Windows Server 2008 Hyper-V and Microsoft System Center Virtual Machine Manager can help organizations maximize the value of server virtualization.
Posted: July 20, 2009 | Published: July 20, 2009


Topics:  Data Center Infrastructure Efficiency | Data Center Management | Desktop Virtualization | High Availability | HyperWave | Microsoft Hyper-V | Server Provisioning | Server Virtualization | Server Virtualization Software | Storage Provisioning | Storage Virtualization | Virtual Desktop Infrastructure | Workload Automation

WHITE PAPER - This ESG White Paper discusses the importance of tiered storage, examines BlueArc's approach to intelligent tiering, and shows how it creates operational value for users' data storage infrastructures.
Posted: July 2, 2009 | Published: October 1, 2008


Topics:  Data Center Management | Data Migration | Data Storage | IT Managers | NAS | Storage Architectures | Storage Capacity | Storage Management | Tiered Storage