The Top 5 Server Monitoring Battles and How You Can Win Them
sponsored by Nimsoft, Inc.
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The uses, requirements, and complexity of servers have all increased dramatically. Consequently, server monitoring has more importance in today's environments. This guide looks at some of the most pressing challenges you might face in ensuring optimal server performance. It offers insights into the tools and strategies for addressing these demands.
Posted: 04 Nov 2009 | Published: 04 Nov 2009
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Uncover the Benefits of Virtualization
sponsored by BMC Software, Inc
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BMC Software's internal IT organization launched a virtualization and automation initiative that achieved financial payback in less than six months. The effort improved productivity, increased responsiveness, and saved the company $5 million per year.
Posted: 03 Nov 2009 | Published: 03 Nov 2009
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Mastering Disaster Recovery for Mid-Sized Organizations
sponsored by Zenith Infotech
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A comprehensive disaster recovery implementation is critical to ensuring computing resources maintain operations in the event of a server failure or data loss. Mastering disaster recovery in mid-sized organizations requires the careful identification and implementation of end-to-end backup along with recovery tools and services.
Posted: 29 Oct 2009 | Published: 29 Oct 2009
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Virtualizing Microsoft® Exchange Server 2007 on Dell™ Systems Running Microsoft Windows Server® 2008 Hyper-V™
sponsored by Dell and Microsoft
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In this paper, various configurations of Exchange Server 2007 are tested in physical and virtual environments to evaluate the performance scalability and to understand the sizing requirements for Exchange Server 2007 in a virtualized environment.
Posted: 28 Oct 2009 | Published: 28 Oct 2009
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Microsoft® Hyper-V™ Server 2008 for Dell™ PowerEdge™ Systems
sponsored by Dell and Microsoft
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This document details the four available networking configurations for running Hyper-V on Dell™ PowerEdge™ systems. It also discusses the advantages and disadvantages of each networking configuration with an emphasis on typical Dell system configurations.
Posted: 28 Oct 2009 | Published: 28 Oct 2009
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Best Practices for Virtualizing Distributed Environments: Enterprise-Class Virtualization for Remote Office and Branch Office Infrastructures
sponsored by VM6 Software
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This whitepaper provides the 4 best practices that IT leaders of ROBO organizations need to consider when virtualizing their businesses, providing ROI tips and establishing a roadmap for reducing the Total Cost of Ownership for virtualizing the distributed ROBO environment.
Posted: 27 Oct 2009 | Published: 27 Oct 2009
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Distributed IT Infrastructures: Alternative Approaches
sponsored by VM6 Software
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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: 27 Oct 2009 | Published: 27 Oct 2009
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Solutions For Server Rooms
sponsored by APC
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The modular, easy-to-install solutions from APC by Schneider Electric allow you to implement an appropriate IT environment that meets your current and future needs, without breaking the bank in the process.
Posted: 23 Oct 2009 | Published: 23 Oct 2009
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Deploying Operating System Images on Dell Business Client Systems using Microsoft® Deployment Toolkit (MDT) 2008
sponsored by Dell, Inc. and Intel
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The Microsoft® Deployment Toolkit (MDT) 2008 provides unified processes and tools for desktop and server OS deployment using a common deployment console and a collection of best practices. The toolkit provides a single mechanism for image creation and an automated installation process to reduce deployment time.
Posted: 19 Oct 2009 | Published: 19 Oct 2009
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Windows Server Virtualization in Windows Server 2008 Product Overview
sponsored by SHI
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This white paper introduces Windows Server virtualization as a key component of the Microsoft datacenter-to-desktop virtualization strategy.
Posted: 19 Oct 2009 | Published: 19 Oct 2009
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Top 10 Reasons to Upgrade to Windows Server 2008 R2
sponsored by Dell and Microsoft
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Windows Server® 2008 R2 is the newest Windows Server operating system from Microsoft. Designed to help organizations reduce operating costs and increase efficiencies, Windows Server 2008 R2 provides enhanced management control over resources across the enterprise. Read the top 10 reasons why you should upgrade to Windows Server 2008 R2.
Posted: 13 Oct 2009 | Published: 13 Oct 2009
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Technical White Paper: Performance of HP ProLiant BL460c G6 with Intel Xeon 5500 Series processors (2.93 GHz) in a 64-bit HP SBC environment
sponsored by HP, Citrix, and Intel
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This HP paper provides performance characteristics for the HP BladeSystem BL460cG6 blade server with XenServer and 64 bit workloads.
Posted: 12 Oct 2009 | Published: 12 Oct 2009
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Technical White Paper: Sizing tips for XenServer with HP ProLiant servers
sponsored by HP, Citrix, and Intel
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This technical paper provides general sizing best practices to consider when planning your virtualization deployment with HP ProLiant and XenServer.
Posted: 12 Oct 2009 | Published: 12 Oct 2009
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Virtualizing a Windows Active Directory Domain Infrastructure
sponsored by Global Knowledge
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This white paper focuses on best practices for implementing an enterprise Active Directory infrastructure using virtualization technology. We will discuss how to perform a full migration of your physical AD infrastructure to a virtualized environment.
Posted: 09 Oct 2009 | Published: 09 Oct 2009
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Red Hat Enterprise Linux Beats Microsoft Windows Server 2008 in Value
sponsored by Red Hat
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In this whitepaper, Enterprise Linux and Windows Server 2008 are compared over a six-year period, with various e-commerce configurations covering small, medium, and large business scenarios.
Posted: 08 Oct 2009 | Published: 08 Oct 2009
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Winning with HP Integrity servers for SAP with Windows Server 2003
sponsored by Arrow ECS HP Group and Intel
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Companies face numerous challenges when managing and integrating information across enterprise business processes. Companies frequently choose an Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) solution to fulfill business requirements. The leading ERP applications with the greatest market share are the mySAP ERP and SAP R/3 industry solutions from SAP AG.
Posted: 05 Oct 2009 | Published: 05 Oct 2009
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The Active Directory Recycle Bin: The End of Third-Party Recovery Tools?
sponsored by Quest Software
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Windows Server 2008 R2 offers a number of exciting new features, including an expanded Server Core offering, new Active Directory features, and - of special interest to anyone who has ever wished Active Directory had an “undo” button - a sort of recycle bin for Active Directory objects.
Posted: 05 Oct 2009 | Published: 05 Oct 2009
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Using VMware Infrastructure 3 with 3PAR Utility Storage in Datacenter Deployments
sponsored by 3PAR
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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: 02 Oct 2009 | Published: 02 Oct 2009
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PlateSpin Forge®: Plug In and Protect Server Workload
sponsored by Novell Inc.
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In the event of downtime, workloads can be rapidly powered on in the PlateSpin Forge recovery environment and continue to run as normal until the production environment is restored. PlateSpin Forge® ships with everything you need to begin protecting your servers straight out-of-the-box.
Posted: 01 Oct 2009 | Published: 01 Oct 2009
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5 Secrets to SQL Server Availability
sponsored by Marathon Technologies
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The following five secrets to affordable SQL availability will help you to implement a SQL environment with little or no downtime, zero data loss, and no added IT complexity.
Posted: 28 Sep 2009 | Published: 28 Sep 2009
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A Technical Overview of the Sun Oracle Exadata Storage Server and Database Machine
sponsored by Oracle Corporation
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This white paper examines how the Sun Oracle Exadata Storage Server allows companies to accelerate database performance, handle change and growth in scalable and incremental steps, and deliver mission-critical data availability and protection.
Posted: 25 Sep 2009 | Published: 25 Sep 2009
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Red Hat Enterprise Linux Beats Microsoft Windows Server 2008 in Value
sponsored by Red Hat
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Evaluate the savings, performance, and overall value of a Red Hat Enterprise Linux deployment versus a Microsoft Windows Server 2008 deployment. In this whitepaper, the two systems are compared over a six-year period, with various e-commerce configurations covering small, medium, and large business scenarios.
Posted: 24 Sep 2009 | Published: 24 Sep 2009
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Robot/SCHEDULE Enterprise Takes the Tension Out of Job Schedule Audits
sponsored by Help/Systems
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Learn how Robot/SCHEDULE, the job scheduling and batch management software for IBM AS/400, has helped companies pass their internal and external audits for over 25 years. You can monitor who changed what job, produce reports that prove you are monitoring the schedule, and demonstrate the basic security that prevents unauthorized editing of jobs.
Posted: 24 Sep 2009 | Published: 24 Sep 2009
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Consolidating Multiple Oracle OLTP Workloads on the Dell PowerEdge R710 Server
sponsored by Dell, Inc. and Intel
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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: 24 Sep 2009 | Published: 24 Sep 2009
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vSphere Virtual Infrastructure Business Ready Solutions for the R610 and R710 PowerEdge Servers
sponsored by Dell, Inc. and Intel
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This white paper presents a sample Dell solution -- using the Dell R610 and R710 PowerEdge Servers (powered by Intel® Xeon® processor 5500 Series) -- designed to tolerate faults at multiple infrastructure layers to provide maximum level of availability for the virtual infrastructure.
Posted: 24 Sep 2009 | Published: 24 Sep 2009
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