Server Consolidation White Papers

WHITE PAPER: When employing a virtual desktop solution, it is crucial to choose the right combination of hardware and software. This white paper introduces a comprehensive technology suite that can deliver uncompromised virtual desktop performance while using less than 5% of available bandwidth.

Posted: 20 Jan 2012 | Published: 20 Jan 2012

WHITE PAPER: As organizations continue to virtualize their data centers, IT faces new challenges in managing virtual server deployment, migration, power and performance monitoring across the physical and virtual environments. Access this white paper to learn how integrated software management tools can help organizations maintain peak performance.

Posted: 12 Jan 2012 | Published: 12 Jan 2012

WHITE PAPER: With enterprises increasingly turning to virtualization to consolidate servers, businesses need more robust servers that can deliver enhanced performance. Access this resource to see how increasing core density and memory scalability can help your business handle more workloads, lower power usage and scale out.

Posted: 11 Jan 2012 | Published: 11 Jan 2012

WHITE PAPER: Turning to virtualization can increase an organization’s IT performance. But finding the ideal consolidation solution can be tricky. Read the white paper, “A Comparison of PowerVM and VMware Virtualization Performance”. See how IBM Power7 and PowerVM outdo other x86-based platforms to achieve broader scalability and increased flexibility.

Posted: 04 Jan 2012 | Published: 14 Apr 2010

WHITE PAPER: Running your Linux workloads on inefficient x86-based server farms is complex and costly. But switching to a consolidated server solution can be difficult. Read the white paper to learn the best practices for migrating to Power System servers. You’ll also see how simple it is to leverage IBM’s offerings to maximize performance and cost savings.

Posted: 04 Jan 2012 | Published: 07 Oct 2011

WHITE PAPER: Discover how the Dell PowerEdge C6145 server is designed to meet the demands of intensive computational research of public and enterprise customers with the benefits of a shared infrastructure that saves space, weight, and energy.

Posted: 12 Dec 2011 | Published: 08 Dec 2011

WHITE PAPER: You need to optimize your IT infrastructure to ensure future business success. This white paper explores an efficient, cost-effective, and easy-to manage approach to achieving this goal. Learn how to leverage the full potential of virtualization and discover a recommended storage system and its key benefits.

Posted: 17 Nov 2011 | Published: 01 Oct 2011

WHITE PAPER: This management brief provides a virtualization cost/benefit analysis, examines common deployment patterns, and recommends an architecture that can ensure your clients achieve their desired results.

Posted: 15 Nov 2011 | Published: 21 Nov 2011

WHITE PAPER: This white paper challenges several assumptions about scale-out architectures and explains how consolidation and virtualisation can help you regain control over your infrastructure.

Posted: 09 Nov 2011 | Published: 09 Nov 2011

WHITE PAPER: This white paper points out the challenges of virtualizing a large quantity of servers and describes seven clearly defined steps that comprise the virtualization process. Get detailed information on each one of these phases and obtain lessons learned from one company that employed this approach.

Posted: 28 Sep 2011 | Published: 01 Feb 2011

WHITE PAPER: Aging IT systems, shrinking budgets, and inefficient, paper-based processes are creating an unsustainable and error-prone work environment. This white paper reveals the major obstacles to EHR adoption and explores the cost benefits of virtualization with Hyper-V.

Posted: 13 Sep 2011 | Published: 13 Sep 2011

WHITE PAPER: Learn how to support your SQL Server instances and control your costs and administration requirements.

Posted: 24 Aug 2011 | Published: 24 Aug 2011

WHITE PAPER: Access this resource to learn how the Kelley School of Business at Indiana University used virtualization to decrease server deployment time for faculty special projects; reduce amount of physical hardware; and reduce the power consumption across all infrastructure.

Posted: 24 Aug 2011 | Published: 24 Aug 2011

WHITE PAPER: This resource takes a closer look at a hyperscale-inspired server that is based on one of the world’s lowest power per core processors, enabling you to worry less about your budget and more about growing your business.

Posted: 23 Aug 2011 | Published: 23 Aug 2011

WHITE PAPER: IT is a strategic partner in businesses of all types and sizes, but especially in the small to medium-sized business. Take a look at this exclusive resource to learn how virtualization is a relevant and practical method for the growing SMB to streamline processes and reduce operational costs.

Posted: 09 Aug 2011 | Published: 09 Aug 2011

WHITE PAPER: Virtualization is having a profound effect on the data center, and many IT pros are wondering what they can expect and how they should prepare for the future. This white paper explains why the increased adoption of virtualization calls for new approaches to data center management and cites the benefits and drawbacks of converged infrastructure.

Posted: 09 Aug 2011 | Published: 01 Jun 2011

WHITE PAPER: Organizations of all types and sizes are looking to server virtualization and consolidation as a means for improving overall computing performance. Check out this exclusive resource to learn how 10 gigabit Ethernet brings unified, efficient Ethernet storage, data center bridging, ease of use and flexibility.

Posted: 08 Aug 2011 | Published: 08 Aug 2011

WHITE PAPER: As virtualization initiatives have gathered momentum and virtual environments are becoming the norm rather than the exception, the infrastructure necessary to support these environments has exploded, creating new opportunities for inefficiency. Read on to learn more.

Posted: 08 Jul 2011 | Published: 08 Jul 2011

WHITE PAPER: This exclusive resource describes how virtualization can benefit your data center and addresses both public and private cloud strategies.Learn about the many challenges IT pros face and access the necessary steps in the evolution to a cost-effective and efficient virtual data center.

Posted: 29 Jun 2011 | Published: 29 Jun 2011

WHITE PAPER: Read on to learn what SMBs should consider before implementing virtualisation as well as the specific benefits of using Dell hardware with Microsoft’s Hyper-V virtualisation solution.

Posted: 22 Jun 2011 | Published: 21 Jun 2011

WHITE PAPER: To extend virtualization to the business-critical and performance-critical applications that are under the ownership of dedicated application support teams, the IT Operations group who owns the virtual environment must provide accurate and credible performance assurances for the virtual infrastructure that will be supporting these applications.

Posted: 13 Jun 2011 | Published: 31 Mar 2011

WHITE PAPER: This study compares the performance and efficiency of several system configurations to determine which configuration is best for processing transactions.

Posted: 09 Jun 2011 | Published: 06 Jun 2011

WHITE PAPER: Learn how the outstanding computer power and memory capabilities of its UCS C250 M2 Extended-Memory Rack Mount Server joined with the high-performance EMC VNXe3300 system can support thousands of e-commerce order transactions per minute, serve thousands of web pages, and support thousands of mail users simultaneously in today’s SMBs.

Posted: 02 Jun 2011 | Published: 02 Jun 2011

WHITE PAPER: This IBM Redbook covers the impact of server and storage consolidation, data center network virtualization and consolidation technologies, and much more.

Posted: 23 May 2011 | Published: 10 Feb 2011

WHITE PAPER: WAN optimization is a class of technology that has rapidly been adopted across enterprises. Examine the trends toward server consolidation and virtualization, and how WAN optimization can help IT organizations like yours solve the key challenges of application performance and information availability within these environments.

Posted: 19 May 2011 | Published: 19 May 2011