Taking Control: Consolidation Can Help You Take Control of the Server Room
sponsored by CDW Corporation
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Server sprawl creates a serious financial and efficiency leak at many organizations. Consolidation can help ease management requirements and reduce costs. Read this whitepaper to learn how to take control of server sprawl with a server consolidation solution.
Posted: 09 Sep 2009 | Published: 09 Sep 2009
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Common Pitfalls in Server Virtualization
sponsored by CDW Corporation
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For all its benefits, server virtualization can be difficult to implement and could actually increase your costs and complicate network management. Here are some common pitfalls to look out for and avoid.
Posted: 09 Sep 2009 | Published: 09 Sep 2009
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Say Yes to Virtualization: Server Virtualization Helps Businesses Achieve Considerable Reductions in Total Cost of Ownership (TCO)
sponsored by CDW Corporation
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Virtualized servers are yielding dramatic cost savings through consolidation of physical resources, reductions in power and cooling requirements, and slashed operational expenses. Its delivering a magnitude of benefits that many businesses find virtually amazing. Read this whitepaper to learn more about the benefits of server virtualization.
Posted: 09 Sep 2009 | Published: 09 Sep 2009
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Perfect Marriage: Coupling Blade Servers With a Virtual Infrastructure Can Cut Costs and Add Efficiencies
sponsored by CDW Corporation
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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: 08 Sep 2009 | Published: 08 Sep 2009
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P2V Benefits: Moving Servers From the Physical to the Virtual World Cuts Costs, Saves Space and Parallels Green Initiatives
sponsored by CDW Corporation
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Virtualization basically means inserting a software layer between your hardware and your operating system. This decouples the operating system from the hardware and allows you to run many operating systems at the same time on top of that same physical piece of hardware. Read this short paper to learn about the benefits of using virtual servers.
Posted: 08 Sep 2009 | Published: 08 Sep 2009
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A Case to Optimize
sponsored by CDW Corporation
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A business manager identifies an urgent need for a software application and requests a server to run the new application. Then the server provisioning process kicks off. Read this short whitepaper to learn about new techniques and technologies that can enable your business to cut through so much of the red tape involved in adding new applications.
Posted: 08 Sep 2009 | Published: 08 Sep 2009
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Find Balance in Your Data Center
sponsored by CDW Corporation
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Virtualization has become a common solution to the problem of server sprawl. By using this technology to consolidate servers, many companies are using less floor space, cutting energy consumption, and simplifying management. But IT must translate these technological advantages into concrete improvements for the business. Read on to learn more.
Posted: 08 Sep 2009 | Published: 08 Sep 2009
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Initial Investment Payback Analysis Summary Report: Dell PowerEdge R710 Solution with Hyper-V vs. Dell PowerEdge 2850 Solution
sponsored by Dell, Inc. and Intel
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Dell commissioned Principled Technologies to estimate how many months it would take to recapture initial investment costs when consolidating multiple 4-year-old Dell™ PowerEdge™ 2850 server and storage solutions onto a Dell PowerEdge R710 server and storage solution using Microsoft® Windows Server® 2008 with Hyper-V™
Posted: 02 Sep 2009 | Published: 02 Sep 2009
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Business Ready Virtualization for the Data Center
sponsored by Dell, Inc.
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Dell is committed to driving the cost and complexity out of virtualization, helping you accelerate adoption and achieve cost savings sooner without sacrificing productivity. Read this solution guide to learn about Dell's Business Ready Virtualization Configurations.
Posted: 24 Aug 2009 | Published: 24 Aug 2009
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Optimizing Virtualization to Deliver Best-in-Class Outcomes
sponsored by VKernel
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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: 24 Jul 2009 | Published: 24 Jul 2009
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Solution Brief: Server Virtualization - Choosing the Best Solution for Your Business
sponsored by Sun Microsystems, Inc.
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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: 21 Jul 2009 | Published: 21 Jul 2009
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Meeting Economic Challenges Through Accelerated Virtualization
sponsored by Dell, Inc.
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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: 02 Jul 2009 | Published: 02 Jul 2009
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Optimize Performance of Datacenter to Datacenter Traffic
sponsored by Blue Coat
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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: 01 Jul 2009 | Published: 01 Jul 2009
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11 Questions Every CIO Should Ask Their IT Manager
sponsored by Red Hat
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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: 19 Jun 2009 | Published: 19 Jun 2009
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Business Service Efficiency: The Key to Green IT and Profitability
sponsored by BMC Software, Inc
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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: 17 Jun 2009 | Published: 17 Jun 2009
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Tackle the Challenges of Virtualization Management
sponsored by BMC Software, Inc
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Virtualization adds a whole new level of complexity to the IT infrastructure, introducing new challenges in every step of the process - from planning to configuration and management. Read how effective service management can help tackle the challenges of virtualization in this white paper from BMC Software.
Posted: 17 Jun 2009 | Published: 17 Jun 2009
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Five Steps to Successful Data Center Consolidation
sponsored by BMC Software, Inc
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Using the five step process outlined in this white paper, we were able to eliminate more than 2,000 servers from our own IT infrastructure, saving an estimated $10 million dollars in data center costs.
Posted: 15 Jun 2009 | Published: 15 Jun 2009
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Cloud Computing - What is its Potential Value for Your Company?
sponsored by Google Apps
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This paper examines whether cloud computing makes good business sense for your company. Ultimately, you may find that moving your data to the cloud actually improves security, scalability, access, and disaster recovery.
Posted: 12 Jun 2009 | Published: 12 Jun 2009
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Increase Application Scalability and Improve System Utilization with Sun™ Logical Domains
sponsored by Sun Microsystems, Inc.
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Sun's built-in, no-cost Logical Domains (LDoms) virtualization technology allows applications to effectively leverage these processors. This white paper describes how LDoms can be applied in different scenarios to increase application scalability and system utilization.
Posted: 05 Jun 2009 | Published: 05 Jun 2009
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REDUCING COSTS THROUGH BETTER SERVER UTILIZATION
sponsored by Sun Microsystems, Inc.
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Keeping datacenters agile is key as IT organizations support dynamically changing business priorities and cope with economic pressures. By consolidating systems onto the latest server technology and taking advantage of virtualization techniques, enterprises can optimize datacenter efficiency, gain flexibility, and reduce operating costs.
Posted: 04 Jun 2009 | Published: 04 Jun 2009
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From Chaos to Order - Winning the Information Management Game
sponsored by Oracle Corporation
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This paper explores how businesses can capitalize on a free, easy- to- use, rapid web application tool for the Oracle Database that will help consolidate personal databases, spreadsheets, and other data to create a single point of truth for everyone in the company.
Posted: 04 Jun 2009 | Published: 04 Jun 2009
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SUN SPARC® ENTERPRISE T5440 SERVER ARCHITECTURE
sponsored by Sun Microsystems, Inc.
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Employing UltraSPARC® T2 Plus processors - an evolution of the industry's first massively threaded systems on a Chip (SoC) - the Sun SPARC® Enterprise T5440 server offers breakthrough performance and energy efficiency to drive Web 2.0 infrastructure and address other demanding datacenter challenges.
Posted: 04 Jun 2009 | Published: 04 Jun 2009
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Driving Datacenter Efficiency Through Server and Application Consolidation
sponsored by Sun Microsystems, Inc.
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Because business processes are increasingly dependent upon an ever-expanding applications and technology network, many IT managers are seeking a more reasonable IT infrastructure strategy. This paper details several approaches to that end.
Posted: 04 Jun 2009 | Published: 04 Jun 2009
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Save Money and Improve Agility: Virtualize with Sun SPARC Enterprise Series Servers
sponsored by Sun Microsystems, Inc.
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This paper focuses on business benefits achieved by consolidating and virtualizing environments with Sun SPARC Enterprise M-Series servers. The document describes some of the challenges organizations are facing, and conveys how Sun SPARC Enterprise M-Series servers can help organizations bring day-to-day operations and costs under control.
Posted: 04 Jun 2009 | Published: 04 Jun 2009
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vSphere: New Features and Benefits
sponsored by Global Knowledge
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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: 01 Jun 2009 | Published: 01 Jun 2009
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