WHITE PAPER - The power/density paradox hinders end users from utilizing the very floor space that high density systems were intended to conserve. This brief explores what the power/density paradox is and how IT professionals can mitigate the risk.
Posted: November 18, 2009 | Published: November 18, 2009


Topics:  Data Center Consolidation | Data Center Cooling | Data Center Design | Data Center Physical Security | Power Consumption Monitoring | Rack Enclosures | Rack Servers | Server Consolidation | Server Hardware | Server Management | Server Provisioning

WHITE PAPER - VM6 provides affordable software solutions to extend the benefits of enterprise-class virtualization to remote offices and branch locations (ROBO), small to medium businesses and web hosters.
Posted: October 27, 2009 | Published: October 27, 2009


Topics:  Downtime | High Availability | Network Management | ROBO | ROI | SAN | Server Provisioning | Server Virtualization | SMBs | Virtual Desktop Infrastructure | Web Hosting

WHITE PAPER - This whitepaper outlines the benefits derived and the costs associated with virtualization in the Remote Offices/Branch Offices, in the classic model versus the proposed model.
Posted: October 27, 2009 | Published: October 27, 2009


Topics:  Data Center Consolidation | Data Centers | High Availability | IT Infrastructure | Microsoft Hyper-V | SAN | Server Consolidation | Server Management | Server Provisioning | Server Virtualization | SLA | SMBs | Systems Management | TCO | VM | WAN

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 - This paper discusses the complementary benefits of combining features of VMware and 3PAR technologies to gain increased performance and avoid the cost of over-provisioning servers and storage in an IT infrastructure.
Posted: October 2, 2009 | Published: October 1, 2006


Topics:  Server Consolidation | Server Management | Server Provisioning | Server Virtualization | Storage Architectures | Storage Capacity | Storage Consolidation | Storage Infrastructure | Storage Management | Storage Provisioning | Storage Resource Management | Storage Systems | Storage Virtualization | VMware

WHITE PAPER - The goal of this study is to determine if a multi?node Oracle RAC cluster can be replaced with a cluster consisting of fewer Dell PowerEdge 11G nodes (powered by Intel® Xeon® processor 5500 Series), and still process the OLTP workload faster with less power consumption and lower Oracle RAC licensing fees. Read this white paper to learn more.
Posted: September 24, 2009 | Published: July 1, 2009


Topics:  Multi-core Processor Architecture | Multi-core Processors | Oracle (Product) | Server Consolidation | Server Management | Server Provisioning | Server Virtualization | Workload Automation

WHITE PAPER - This white paper discusses detailed best practices for deploying a 150-user, 250-GB, three-tiered SAP® Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) landscape.
Posted: September 18, 2009 | Published: February 13, 2009


Topics:  Blade Servers | ERP | ERP Software | Server Appliances | Server Management | Server Provisioning | SMBs

WHITE PAPER - The recent push for more efficient computing platforms has businesses venturing beyond basic servers and systems. In order to manage resources more effectively, save data center space, reduce IT administrative tasks, and go green, many organizations have turned to virtualization. Learn how your organization can benefit from virtualization.
Posted: September 8, 2009 | Published: September 8, 2009


Topics:  Blade Servers | Data Center Consolidation | Data Center Management | Server Provisioning | Server Virtualization | Virtual Desktop Infrastructure | Virtual Machine | VMware

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 solution brief discusses how the Dell EqualLogic™ PS Series can provide a fully virtualized storage infrastructure that delivers high availability, resiliency, flexibility, and scalability that is simple and cost-effective to deploy, manage and grow.
Posted: July 9, 2009 | Published: December 5, 2008


Topics:  High Availability | Infrastructure Management | SAN | Server Management | Server Provisioning | Server Virtualization | Server Virtualization Software

WHITE PAPER - vSphere, VMware's latest release, adds approximately 150 new features to its previous VI3 product! The purpose of this white paper is to highlight the most notable of these features and to discuss the benefits they offer your organization's IT infrastructure.
Posted: June 1, 2009 | Published: May 1, 2009


Topics:  Cloud Computing | Data Center Consolidation | Data Center Management | Data Centers | Disaster Recovery | Server Consolidation | Server Management | Server Provisioning | Server Virtualization | VMware | VMware Disaster Recovery | VMware Server