WHITE PAPER - This document describes the benefits of blades, the major reasons why users have moved to blades, and why an organization might think about moving to blades in its environment.
Posted: January 4, 2009 | Published: December 29, 2008


Topics:  Blade Servers | Data Centers | ROI | SAN | TCO

WHITE PAPER - This paper discovers a new solution for business-critical, 24/7 computing environments that dramatically increases performance, reduces costs and complexities and uses energy efficiently.
Posted: December 31, 2008 | Published: December 23, 2008


Topics:  Blade Servers | Business Intelligence | Enterprise Computing | Fault Management | Fault Tolerance | Grid Computing | High Performance Computing | Mainframe Computers | Mainframe Server Hardware | Network Architectures

WHITE PAPER - Bladed environments have proven their ability to reduce complexity and costs, while also delivering an impressive level of flexibility to help organizations of all types and sizes quickly adapt to evolving requirements and realties.
Posted: December 20, 2008 | Published: December 19, 2008


Topics:  Best Practices | Blade Servers | Change Management | Enterprise | Financial Services | ITIL | ROI

WHITE PAPER - This document is based on an IBM/TechTarget webcast entitled "Initiating Your Virtualization Project."
Posted: December 10, 2008 | Published: December 10, 2008


Topics:  Blade Servers | Enterprise | IT Infrastructure | ROI | Sales | Server Consolidation | Server Virtualization | Vendors | VMware

WHITE PAPER - This paper explains an approach to virtualization software that relies on the host operating system to provide the service to talk directly to the underlying hardware.
Posted: December 10, 2008 | Published: October 11, 2008


Topics:  Blade Servers | Hardware | IT Infrastructure | IT Managers | Networking Hardware | Operating Systems | Server Consolidation | Software | TCO | VMware

WHITE PAPER - In this paper virtualization and blade server expert and industry analyst Barb Goldworm discusses the drivers, impacts, trends and economics of greener computing.
Posted: December 5, 2008 | Published: December 5, 2008


Topics:  Blade Servers | Cooling Equipment | Data Center Management | Data Centers | DC Power Supplies | Environmental Compliance | Environmental Industry | Server Virtualization | Server Virtualization Software

WHITE PAPER - This paper explains some basic NonStop concepts and how they're implemented in the current generation of Integrity NonStop systems, the H-Series.
Posted: November 26, 2008 | Published: November 26, 2008


Topics:  Blade Servers | Database Management | Databases | MIPS | Networking | Processor Architectures | Server Appliances | Server Management | Storage Infrastructure

WHITE PAPER - This document describes virtualization and blades and why they are such good implementation partners today, as well as why now is a good time to implement these two technologies separately and together.
Posted: November 25, 2008 | Published: November 25, 2008


Topics:  Blade Servers | ROI | Server Management | Server Virtualization | Storage Appliances | Storage Hardware

WHITE PAPER - This paper provides a five-step roadmap for standardizing and optimizing organization within both low and high density enclosure, with special emphasis on how to plan for higher densities.
Posted: November 20, 2008 | Published: November 20, 2008


Topics:  Blade Servers | Data Center Management | Data Centers | Disk Drives | Networking | Rack Enclosures | Server Virtualization

WHITE PAPER - Read this paper to learn how the netBoot/i technology separates state from compute devices, allows them to run from iSCSI SAN, and provides many benefits to an organization.
Posted: November 19, 2008 | Published: November 19, 2008


Topics:  Blade Servers | Desktop Management | DHCP | Disaster Recovery | iSCSI Protocol | iSCSI SAN | Operating Systems | Server Virtualization | Storage Devices | Storage Management

WHITE PAPER - In order to determine what "security virtualization" really means, it is useful to understand how companies define and enforce their security and accompanying compliance policies today.
Posted: November 19, 2008 | Published: November 19, 2008


Topics:  Application Security | Blade Servers | Data Centers | Databases | Malware | Network Processing | ROI | Security Policies | Security Software | Server Virtualization

WHITE PAPER - Chapter 2 of Windows Servers and Storage (Revised edition, November 2008) discusses the physical aspects of server installation and topics include what a server room should contain, installation efficiency, and environmental factors.
Posted: November 12, 2008 | Published: November 12, 2008


Topics:  Blade Servers | Capacity Planning | Data Centers | Environmental Compliance | Server Appliances | Server Management | Server Virtualization | Standards

WHITE PAPER - This chapter from Windows Servers and Storage (Revised edition, November 2008) contains information to guide administrators and IT managers in the selection and installation of servers, systems and subsystems.
Posted: November 12, 2008 | Published: November 12, 2008


Topics:  Bandwidth Management | Blade Servers | Clustering | Data Centers | Grid Computing | Scalability Testing | Server Management | Server Virtualization

WHITE PAPER - The server type selected for a consolidation or virtualization project lays the foundation for the entire plan, it even impacts the benefits you'll see from the investment.
Posted: November 11, 2008 | Published: November 11, 2008


Topics:  Blade Servers | Data Center Management | Data Centers | Rack Servers | SAN | Software Virtualization

WHITE PAPER - Blade servers are popular for virtualization and consolidation projects, but do the increased engineering headaches outweigh the benefits? This expert guide outlines trends, benefits, and drawbacks.
Posted: November 10, 2008 | Published: November 10, 2008


Topics:  Blade Servers | Cooling Capacity | Data Center Management | Data Centers | Load Balancing | Rack Servers