Server Management White Papers

WHITE PAPER: Discover how proactive and automated workload management can help you maximize virtualization ROI and deliver truly optimized workload performance. Read on to discover what most virtual management tools are lacking and how you can gain the analytical abilities you need.

Posted: 25 Apr 2012 | Published: 25 Apr 2012

WHITE PAPER: Oracle presents an entirely new opportunity for unprecedented levels of integration that contributes directly to the top-line benefits of IT technology can bring to the business, as well as bottom-line efficiencies and cost savings.

Posted: 24 Apr 2012 | Published: 24 Apr 2012

WHITE PAPER: In today’s complex business environments, IT managers are driven to lower both capital and operating expenditures while increasing capacity for more application services and growing markets. Read this white paper to learn how many of these challenges can be addressed by effective implementation of chip multithreading (CMT) technology-based servers.

Posted: 11 Apr 2012 | Published: 30 Nov 2011

WHITE PAPER: Read this white paper to learn how Oracle’s SPARC T4 servers deliver new levels of end-to-end data center performance never before seen in the T-Series line of servers.

Posted: 11 Apr 2012 | Published: 11 Apr 2012

WHITE PAPER: In this resource, learn how one organization moved its SAP applications to a virtualized SUSE Linux Enterprise Server to improve the availability and performance of mission-critical services while significantly reducing infrastructure costs.

Posted: 31 Mar 2012 | Published: 27 Mar 2012

WHITE PAPER: Businesses are increasingly turning to IaaS to expand cloud services offerings without increasing overhead or infrastructure costs. Discover how Dell's OpenStack Powered Cloud Solutions help organizations quickly deliver high-performance, cost-efficent clouds.

Posted: 20 Mar 2012 | Published: 19 Mar 2012

WHITE PAPER: This paper explains that to accomplish the objectives of making more-efficient use of IT resources, lowering power consumption, and reducing operating expenses, many companies are turning to server consolidation and virtualization efforts—endeavors that increase server CPU utilization and reduce the number of discrete servers in a datacenter.

Posted: 12 Mar 2012 | Published: 20 Dec 2010

WHITE PAPER: This white paper examines tests of virtual machine consolidation ratios for IBM's Power Systems servers and blades.

Posted: 09 Mar 2012 | Published: 01 Sep 2011

WHITE PAPER: Selecting the right storage system is crucial to the success of any virtualised server environment, especially as these environments evolve to hundreds of virtual machines and critical applications. Access this resource to learn how Hitachi Enterprise Storage solutions can improve the performance, management and efficiency of your storage systems.

Posted: 02 Mar 2012 | Published: 02 Mar 2012

WHITE PAPER: Security and compliance are primary concerns that are slowing cloud adoption in many enterprises. This white paper discusses open, standards-based cloud computing solutions designed to safely support scalable cloud infrastructures. Learn how you can leverage these technologies to ensure a highly efficient and secure cloud experience.

Posted: 29 Feb 2012 | Published: 01 Sep 2011

WHITE PAPER: Today’s data centres are stretched to capacity in terms of power, cooling and floor space as advanced technologies and more demands emerge. Luckily, new solutions can maximise performance and minimise power automatically. Read this paper to learn more about how this suite of platforms can help your organisation.

Posted: 28 Feb 2012 | Published: 28 Feb 2012

WHITE PAPER: This document details the features of Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization 3.0 in comparison with VMware vSphere 5 and Microsoft Hyper-V 2008 R2. This document is designed to give you information about Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization (RHEV) and to allow you to compare features and benefits across multiple virtualization platforms.

Posted: 24 Feb 2012 | Published: 01 Jan 2012

WHITE PAPER: Implementing secure virtual and cloud environments is a major concern for businesses. Discover how KVM hypervisors provide the security businesses need with features such mandatory access control and hardware-based isolation, and compare its performance against other general-purpose x86 hypervisors.

Posted: 20 Feb 2012 | Published: 17 Feb 2012

WHITE PAPER: This white paper outlines an optimized Oracle database solution designed to reduce overall ownership costs, reduce IT and business risks, while enabling greater efficiency and business agility to support evolving needs.

Posted: 14 Feb 2012 | Published: 14 Feb 2012

WHITE PAPER: Oracle’s Sun Blade 6000 Modular System was designed from the ground up to deliver far greater efficiency than a corresponding set of rack-mount servers. That’s part of the equation that is making IT organizations everywhere consider blade systems as part of their strategy in battling the space, power, and cooling crunch.

Posted: 14 Feb 2012 | Published: 14 Feb 2012

WHITE PAPER: This brief white paper examines why making the right server choices can help solve many challenges. It contrasts x86 multi-cores with Power Systems and mainframes. Read on to learn how making the right server choices can help an enterprise realize greater ROI while also helping extracting greater business value from the servers that it buys.

Posted: 14 Feb 2012 | Published: 14 Feb 2012

WHITE PAPER: Following four years of research and development, IBM's Watson debuted on Jeopardy! last year, competing at the level of human experts in terms of precision, confidence and speed. This white paper details Watson's workload optimized system design, how it's a glimpse into the future of systems design and why it offers a new computing paradigm.

Posted: 14 Feb 2012 | Published: 14 Feb 2012

WHITE PAPER: This white paper provides an overview of Oracle’s capabilities for data warehousing and discusses the key features and technologies by which Oracle-based business intelligence and data warehouse systems easily integrate information, perform fast queries, scale to very large data volumes and analyze any data.

Posted: 02 Feb 2012 | Published: 01 Apr 2011

WHITE PAPER: Virtualisation can help today’s organisations respond to increasing business demands. This resource explores a service that can help you rapidly deploy virtualisation within your environment. Learn how to optimise virtualisation performance and obtain best practices to ensure maximum benefits from your investment.

Posted: 25 Jan 2012 | Published: 25 Jan 2012

WHITE PAPER: This paper compares the pricing of Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization with VMware vSphere5 for server virtualization. Both the Red Hat subscription pricing and the VMware license and support pricing are explained along with detailed comparisons.

Posted: 20 Jan 2012 | Published: 20 Jan 2012

WHITE PAPER: This white paper quantifies the advantages of unified computing and presents key findings from interviews with organizations who implemented it. Discover the savings you can expect across several key categories and determine whether this IT model is right for your organization.

Posted: 14 Jan 2012 | Published: 04 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: Cloud infrastructure platforms like VMware vSphere 4.0 can benefit from load balancers that connect users to the most suitable datacenter. This white paper outlines how the Riverbed Stingray Traffic Manager Virtual Appliance (VA) improves traffic performance compared to a Linux install.

Posted: 05 Jan 2012 | Published: 04 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