WHITE PAPER - Is data growth causing higher costs for data storage and backup in your organization? If the answer is yes, then you'll want to read this white paper that features seven ways to deal with data growth from a cost perspective.
Posted: November 23, 2009 | Published: November 23, 2009


Topics:  Backup Software | Backups | Capacity Planning | Data Management | Storage Infrastructure | Storage Management | Storage Management Services | Storage Virtualization

WHITE PAPER - This research brief examines the new release of the BMC Performance Assurance for Mainframes product. We assess its overall significance and describe the reaction of two early users.
Posted: April 17, 2009 | Published: April 17, 2009


Topics:  Business Metrics | Business Performance Management | Capacity Planning | IT Governance | Mainframe Server Hardware | Performance Testing | z/OS

WHITE PAPER - Infinite Cache™ from EnterpriseDB revolutionizes distributed cache management on commodity blade server hardware by substantially increasing the amount of memory available to hold data including entire databases with outstanding performance.
Posted: September 23, 2009 | Published: September 22, 2009


Topics:  Blade Servers | Cache | Cache Server Hardware | Caching | Capacity Planning | Database Administration | Database Administrators | Database Management | Database Performance Management | Databases | Memory | Memory Management | Server Management

WHITE PAPER - Building the data center to meet the needs of an uncertain future is an expensive and needless exercise in over-engineering. New designs need to be modular, with built-in expansion capabilities. This paper looks at the concepts and benefits of modularity in all the necessary elements of the power system.
Posted: September 16, 2009 | Published: September 16, 2009


Topics:  Backups | Batteries | Capacity Planning | Data Center Construction | Data Center Design | Data Center Infrastructure Efficiency | Data Center Power Management | Network Design | Power Consumption Monitoring | UPS

WHITE PAPER - The IBM Dynamic Infrastructure initiative is a combination of programs, products and services designed to improve service to users, reduce costs and more effectively manage risk across all components of organizational IT infrastructures.
Posted: October 2, 2009 | Published: July 9, 2009


Topics:  Capacity Planning | Cost Benefit Analysis | Infrastructure Management | Infrastructure Services | IT Infrastructure | IT Management | User Experience

DATA SHEET - By continuously monitoring shared capacity utilization trends in your VMware ESX environment, Capacity Analyzer significantly reduces the time and costs of identifying current capacity bottlenecks causing performance problems.
Posted: November 14, 2008 | Published: November 14, 2008


Topics:  Capacity Planning | Databases | Downtime | Enterprise | Enterprise Resource Management | Memory | Performance Testing | ROI | Server Virtualization | VMware

CASE STUDY - Read this brief case study to learn how 1-800-FLOWERS.COM faced the challenge to implement the next stage of a strategy for faxed order communications to accommodate key seasonal spikes in demand while avoiding unnecessary capacity expenditures.
Posted: July 17, 2009 | Published: December 28, 2007


Topics:  Business Continuation Services | Business Continuity Planning | Capacity Planning | Communications Software | Communications Systems | Fax Machines | Fax Services | Fax Software

PODCAST - In this expert podcast, learn how new capacity planning and performance management tools utilize automation and an intuitive interface to increase resource utilization and reduce capital expenditures for your virtualized data center.
Posted: June 16, 2009 | Premiered: June 16, 2009


Topics:  Business Performance Management | Capacity Planning | Cost Benefit Analysis | IT Best Practices | Purchasing Best Practices | Server Virtualization | VMware

WHITE PAPER - A floor plan strongly affects the power density capability and electrical efficiency of a data center. This paper provides structured floor plan guidelines for defining room layouts and for establishing IT equipment layouts within existing rooms.
Posted: June 22, 2007 | Published: June 1, 2007


Topics:  Capacity Planning | Cooling Equipment | Data Center Cooling | Data Center Design | Power Consumption Monitoring | Power Generation Equipment | Storage Management | Systems Design and Development

WHITE PAPER - Long term data center or network room capacity planning may seem impossible in the face of evolving IT technology and business requirements. This paper shows a simple and effective way to develop a capacity plan for a data center or network room.
Posted: November 21, 2008 | Published: November 20, 2008


Topics:  Capacity Planning | Data Center Management | Data Centers | Data Management | Storage Capacity | Storage Systems | TCO | Vendors

WHITE PAPER - This paper covers projects involving new construction or upgrades to the data center’s physical infrastructure - the power, cooling, and other physical systems that house and protect the data center’s IT equipment.
Posted: June 21, 2007 | Published: June 1, 2007


Topics:  Capacity Planning | Data Center Management | Hardware Configuration Management | Hardware Management Services | Infrastructure Management | Storage Infrastructure | Storage Management

WHITE PAPER - The planning sequence described in this paper covers the design of the data center's physical infrastructure layer, whose job it is to house, power, cool, and protect the data center's computing and network functions.
Posted: February 4, 2009 | Published: February 3, 2009


Topics:  Capacity Planning | Data Center Management | Hardware Configuration Management | Hardware Management | Infrastructure Management | Storage Management | Systems Design and Development

CASE STUDY - Read this case study to learn how LifeChurch.tv implemented the Veeam Management suite Plus to manage their virtual infrastructure to decrease file-level recovery time from hours to seconds, reduce time to document infrastructure by 98 percent, and improve file copy speed six times faster than other products.
Posted: November 9, 2009 | Published: November 9, 2009


Topics:  Backup Software | Capacity Planning | Reporting Software | Server Management | Server Virtualization Software | Storage Management | Systems Management Software | VMware ESX

WHITE PAPER - Virtualizing any aspect of your data center changes the game for compliance and e-discovery.
Posted: December 10, 2008 | Published: December 10, 2008


Topics:  Capacity Planning | CIOs | Data Centers | Disaster Recovery | Electronic Discovery | ROI | Server Virtualization | Vendors

WHITE PAPER - This whitepaper explores the limitations of tape and traditional disk-based approaches to disaster recovery. It highlights the advantages of deduplication technology in disk-to-disk backup and wide area network (WAN) replication. It also discusses the positive implications of deduplication for remote office backup and tape consolidation.
Posted: August 30, 2007 | Published: September 29, 2008


Topics:  Capacity Planning | Content Archiving | Continuous Data Protection | Disaster Recovery | Disk-to-Disk Backup | Storage Best Practices | Storage Capacity | Storage Consolidation | Tape Backups | WAN