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May 25, 2013

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ALSO CALLED: Hardware Devices, Physical Devices, Machines DEFINITION: In information technology, hardware is the physical aspect of computers, telecommunications, and other devices. The term arose as a way to distinguish the "box" and the electronic circuitry and components of a computer from the program you put in it to make it do things. The program came to be known as the software.Hardware implies permanence and invariability. Software or programming can easily … Definition continues below.
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Performance Report: Evaluation of sTec's s1120 PCIe Accelerator and EnhanceIO™ SSD Cache Software sponsored by sTec Inc WHITE PAPER: In this evaluation report, you will gain insight in to an analysis of innovative accelerators in both primary storage and caching configurations with its EnhanceIO SSD Cache Software, and to compare these solutions to a more traditional Fibre Channel SAN hard disk drive storage solution. Posted: 20 May 2013 \| Published: 28 Feb 2013 TOPICS: Cache \| Caching \| Data Centers \| Database Performance Management \| Fibre Channel \| Hard Disk Drives \| Hard Disks \| Hardware \| SAN \| Solid State Disks \| Solid State Storage

How to Solve Application Performance Problems sponsored by Virident WHITE PAPER: In this brief white paper, you will discover how to gain a competitive edge over your competition and reduce storage cost with a comprehensive solution to your application performance problems. Posted: 20 May 2013 \| Published: 20 May 2013 TOPICS: Data Center Design \| Data Center Management \| Flash Memory \| Hard Disk Drives \| Hard Disks \| Hardware \| RAID \| Solid State Disks \| Solid State Storage \| Storage Architectures \| Storage Best Practices \| Storage Consolidation \| Storage Efficiency \| Storage Hardware \| Storage Management \| Strategic Planning

Making the Right Storage Choices: 10 Must-Ask Questions sponsored by Oracle Corporation UK Ltd WHITE PAPER: This brief guide will arm you with ten must ask questions you need to consider when reviewing your storage strategy. Posted: 03 May 2013 \| Published: 31 Dec 2011 TOPICS: Data Center Management \| Data Management \| Hardware \| High Availability \| Scalability Testing \| Software \| Storage Consolidation \| Storage Management \| Storage Systems \| Strategic Planning \| Vendor Selection \| Vendors

Fidelity Information Systems and IBM Storwize V7000 with IBM System Storage for Easy Tier sponsored by IBM WHITE PAPER: This paper describes the benchmark testing that was done with IBM Storwize V7000 storage system and Fidelity information services in January 2012. Posted: 02 May 2013 \| Published: 31 Mar 2012 TOPICS: Disk Drives \| Hardware \| Software \| Solid State Disks \| Storage Capacity \| Storage Consolidation \| Storage Efficiency \| Storage Management

IDC: Delivering Customer Value with Enterprise Flash Deployment sponsored by NetApp WHITE PAPER: In this white paper, the growing use of flash technology across the enterprise and how the technology is being deployed to improve performance and efficiency is examined. Posted: 23 Apr 2013 \| Published: 28 Feb 2013 TOPICS: Backups \| Data Center Infrastructure Efficiency \| Data Center Management \| Data Centers \| Data Management \| Flash Memory \| Hardware \| Software \| Solid State Disks \| Solid State Storage \| Storage Efficiency \| Storage Hardware \| Storage Infrastructure \| Storage Management

Cisco UCS C-Series Rack Servers for Microsoft Exchange 2010 sponsored by Insight WHITE PAPER: Explore this solution brief to learn about an innovative rack server series specifically designed to help organizations deploy and effectively run Microsoft Exchange Server environments. Learn more about the advanced features and benefits of this hardware. Posted: 22 Apr 2013 \| Published: 22 Apr 2013 TOPICS: Email Server Software \| Hardware \| Hardware Management \| Hardware Selection \| Microsoft Exchange \| Microsoft Exchange Server 2010 \| Rack Servers

Solihull Council Marks a Decade with Red Hat Open Source Technology , Saving over £1 Million sponsored by Red Hat and HP WHITE PAPER: In this informative paper, learn why a government industry has relied on the same Linux solution for the past ten years, using an open source model to simplify software and hardware implementations, reduce costs, and more. Posted: 10 Apr 2013 \| Published: 10 Apr 2013 TOPICS: Hardware \| Hardware Implementation \| Infrastructure Management \| Linux \| Software \| Software Implementation

Teradici APEX 2800: Addressing the next VDI bottleneck sponsored by Arrow and Teradici WHITE PAPER: This white paper introduces a PCIe card that integrates with VMware View to ensure a consistent user experience in a VDI environment. Posted: 08 Apr 2013 \| Published: 08 Apr 2013 TOPICS: Data Center Management \| Desktop Management \| Desktop Virtualization \| Hardware \| Server Virtualization \| VDI

IDC Analyst Connection: Server Refresh Cycles: The Costs of Extending Life Cycles sponsored by Hewlett-Packard Company and AMD WHITE PAPER: This resource discusses the impact on both capital budgets and operational budgets of extending server hardware assets beyond the recommended lifecycle. Posted: 26 Feb 2013 \| Published: 31 Aug 2012 TOPICS: Data Center Infrastructure Efficiency \| Data Center Management \| Data Centers \| Hardware \| Server Consolidation \| Server Hardware \| Server Management

Conquering the challenges of data center complexity sponsored by HP & Intel® WHITE PAPER: Access this white paper to discover eight important features to look for in an external service provider. Learn how a provider can reduce complexity in your data center and simplify overall operations. Posted: 25 Feb 2013 \| Published: 31 Mar 2012 TOPICS: Channel Management \| Data Center Design \| Data Center Management \| Data Centers \| Hardware \| Server Hardware \| Server Management

Review: Dell blade servers tip the scales sponsored by Dell and VMware WHITE PAPER: Access this exclusive review to learn how the latest in blade server technology can benefit your business and help you cut down costs on your physical servers. Posted: 22 Feb 2013 \| Published: 06 Sep 2012 TOPICS: Blade Servers \| Hardware \| Hardware Management \| Hardware Selection \| iSCSI SAN \| Storage Best Practices \| Storage Capacity

Case Study: Washington Fruit sponsored by Intermec WHITE PAPER: This white paper outlines Washington Fruit and Produce, Co installed a new hardware system to improve inventory management and accuracy, increase operation efficiency and increase throughput.Read on to discover how they achieved these goals by leveraging a combination of mobile computers, vehicle-mount computers, scanners, and industrial printers. Posted: 13 Feb 2013 \| Published: 13 Feb 2013 TOPICS: Hardware \| Inventory Management \| Printers \| Scanners \| Supply Chain Management

Choosing Between Room, Row, and Rack-based Cooling for Data Centers sponsored by Schneider Electric WHITE PAPER: Access this white paper to find out about the impact new data center hardware is having on power and cooling and the emerging containment strategies for room, row, and rack-based cooling to combat these inefficiencies. Read on to learn more about these improved cooling methods and when to use each type. Posted: 21 Jan 2013 \| Published: 21 Jan 2013 TOPICS: Cooling Capacity \| Cooling Equipment \| Data Center Consolidation \| Data Center Construction \| Data Center Design \| Data Center Infrastructure Efficiency \| Data Center Management \| Data Centers \| Hardware \| Hardware Implementation \| Hardware Installation \| Hardware Management

Continuous Availability Suite: Neverfail Solution Architecture sponsored by Neverfail WHITE PAPER: Access this white paper to discover a tool that provides high availability and disaster recovery through continuous data protection without the need for specialized hardware. Posted: 30 Oct 2012 \| Published: 29 Jun 2012 TOPICS: Data Center Management \| Data Centers \| Disaster Planning \| Disaster Recovery \| Disaster Recovery Planning for Virtual Environments \| Hardware \| High Availability \| Software

Oracle Exalogic Elastic Cloud: System Overview sponsored by ORACLE APAC WHITE PAPER: Exalogic is at the forefront of the industry-wide shift away from costly and inferior one-off platforms toward private clouds and Engineered Systems. For enterprises that want to get more for their IT investment than merely keeping the lights on, Exalogic is the only choice. Posted: 03 Oct 2012 \| Published: 02 Oct 2012 TOPICS: Application Deployment \| Application Development \| Application Development and Integration Services \| Application Infrastructure \| Application Integration \| Applications Management \| Cloud Computing \| Hardware \| Middleware \| Oracle (Product) \| Software

Nation’s top sports franchise transforms fan experience sponsored by HP & Intel® WHITE PAPER: Access this white paper to discover how one of the nation's top athletic franchises collaborated with HP Services consultants to plan and smoothly transition to a virtualized IT infrastructure. Learn how these services help them free up their IT team for more business-critical tasks. Posted: 21 Sep 2012 \| Published: 21 Sep 2012 TOPICS: Data Center Consolidation \| Data Center Design \| Data Center Management \| Data Center Networking \| Data Centers \| Hardware \| Server Hardware \| Server Management \| Software

HP Factory Express: Customization, Integration, and Deployment Services sponsored by HP & Intel® WHITE PAPER: Access this white paper to learn about support services that can help with virtualization, solution testing, project management, hardware and software configuration and more. Instead of diverting resources and staff away from core business priorities, HP Factory Express Optimized Integration can customize and deploy solutions for you. Posted: 21 Sep 2012 \| Published: 21 Sep 2012 TOPICS: Channel Management \| Data Center Design \| Data Center Management \| Data Centers \| Hardware \| Hardware Configuration Management \| Software \| Software Configuration Management \| Storage Management

Leveraging the Always On Support Experience for IT Transformation sponsored by HP & Intel® WHITE PAPER: Access this white paper to learn how vendor-supplied external support services can help you manage data center complexity. Discover the emerging support challenges in the current IT environment and how to assess the support needs of your organization. Posted: 20 Sep 2012 \| Published: 20 Sep 2012 TOPICS: Data Center Design \| Data Center Management \| Data Centers \| Downtime \| Hardware \| High Availability \| Server Hardware \| Server Management \| Server Virtualization

Why Linux Virtualization is Ready for Prime Time sponsored by Red Hat and HP WHITE PAPER: Access this white paper to discover the benefits of virtualizing Linux workloads. This resource examines the historical concerns about Linux virtualization and outlines how enterprises can safely make this transition. Posted: 20 Sep 2012 \| Published: 20 Sep 2012 TOPICS: Data Center Management \| Data Centers \| Hardware \| Linux \| Operating Systems \| Server Hardware \| Server Management \| Server Virtualization

Optimized solutions speed the path to cloud sponsored by HP & Intel® WHITE PAPER: This white paper provides new insights into the benefits of building a fully converged infrastructure to manage the complexity of virtualization. Learn how your organization can reduce the complexity of integrating hardware and virtualization software, simplify lifecycle management and security and much more. Posted: 26 Jul 2012 \| Published: 26 Jul 2012 TOPICS: Data Center Design \| Data Center Management \| Data Centers \| Hardware \| Infrastructure Management \| Server Hardware \| Server Management \| Server Virtualization \| Virtual Machine \| VM

Gartner Report: Dell's Data Center Strategy: From Chassis to Fabric-Based System sponsored by Dell, Inc. and Intel® WHITE PAPER: This resource details a fabric-based infrastructure solution that optimizes data center efficiency and agility. Uncover the impacts and recommendations when considering a converged infrastructure strategy for your IT environment. Posted: 09 Oct 2012 \| Published: 30 Jun 2012 TOPICS: Data Center Construction \| Data Center Design \| Data Center Infrastructure Efficiency \| Data Center Management \| Hardware \| Hardware Virtualization \| Infrastructure Management \| Server Virtualization

Top Ten Considerations For A Successful Windows 8 Deployment sponsored by Quest Software, now a part of Dell WHITE PAPER: Windows 8 boasts a number of upgrades and enhancements, and for the users of legacy Windows versions, time is running out to migrate. Posted: 05 Oct 2012 \| Published: 05 Oct 2012 TOPICS: Desktop Management \| Desktop Virtualization \| Hardware \| Operating Systems \| Smart Phones \| Tablet PC \| Virtual Desktop Infrastructure \| Windows \| Windows 7 \| Windows Vista \| Windows XP

Efficient Data Center: Using data center instrumentation and server refresh to optimize compute performance in constrained environments sponsored by Dell, Inc. and Intel® WHITE PAPER: This white paper examines the current state of data center power and cooling. Explore the advantages of a hardware refresh and determine if an upgrade is right for your organization. Posted: 29 Aug 2012 \| Published: 01 Jul 2011 TOPICS: Data Center Infrastructure Efficiency \| Data Center Power Management \| Data Centers \| Energy Efficiency \| Green Data Center \| Hardware \| Server Hardware \| Server Management

MAXIMIZE THE VALUE OF YOUR APPLICATIONS WITH FUSION MIDDLEWARE sponsored by Oracle Corporation WHITE PAPER: This white paper explores the challenges of operating multiple applications simultaneously. Find out how you can improve efficiency and reduce risk with a pre-integrated application infrastructure. Posted: 02 Aug 2012 \| Published: 01 Jun 2010 TOPICS: Application Infrastructure \| Application Integration \| Application Life-Cycle Management \| eBusiness \| Hardware \| Oracle (Product) \| SAP (Product) \| Software

Running SAP NetWeaver on the Oracle Exalogic Elastic Cloud: An Architectural Overview sponsored by Oracle Corporation WHITE PAPER: This white paper underscores the importance of a cohesive SAP infrastructure. Explore a recommended architecture and the process involved in implementing it. Posted: 02 Aug 2012 \| Published: 01 Sep 2011 TOPICS: Hardware \| NetWeaver \| Network Appliances \| Oracle (Product) \| SAP (Product) \| Server Hardware \| Storage Appliances

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HARDWARE DEFINITION (continued): … be varied. You can put an entirely new program in the hardware and make it create an entirely new experience for the user. You can, however, change the modular configurations that most computers come with by adding new adapters or cards that extend the computer's capabilities.Like software, hardware is a collective term. Hardware includes not only the computer proper but also the cables, connectors, power supply units, and peripheral devices such as the keyboard, mouse, audio speakers, and printers.Hardware is sometimes used as a term collectively describing the physical aspects of telephony …
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