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WHITE PAPER: This white paper highlights how Snohomish School District 201 extended its refresh cycle for client hardware by 160%-200% using top vendor technologies. Learn more on the benefits this school district encountered.

Posted: 25 May 2011 | Published: 25 May 2011

WHITE PAPER: A steady pattern of innovation, expansion, and acquisition can quickly result in a sprawling infrastructure that is difficult to manage. This white paper explores tools and practices that have emerged to address this issue and recommends actions you can take to lay the foundation for the cloud.

Posted: 12 Oct 2011 | Published: 12 Oct 2011

WHITE PAPER: IT pros know that storage efficiency is vital to successfully deploy a virtual desktop infrastructure. This white paper reviews how Dell EqualLogic PS6000XVS series arrays with VMware View software can help you achieve significant opportunities for virtual desktop performance and capacity optimization. Learn more here.

Posted: 25 May 2011 | Published: 25 May 2011

PRESENTATION TRANSCRIPT: This presentation transcript explores the key features of Windows Server 2008 R2 and Hyper-V. Find out how this technology compares to its predecessor and gain insight into the benefits you can expect to achieve from using Windows Server 2008 R2 with Windows 7.

Posted: 10 Sep 2010 | Published: 10 Sep 2010

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: 05 Dec 2011 | Published: 05 Dec 2011

WHITE PAPER: Server 2008 is a solid workstation product that makes for a nice demo machine and coincidentally gives you a platform (on the 64-bit version) for running Hyper-V.

Posted: 23 Jan 2009 | Published: 23 Jan 2009

WHITE PAPER: By using the Oracle Exadata Database Machine as a data warehouse platform you have a balanced, high performance hardware configuration. This paper focuses on the other two corner stones, data modeling and data loading, providing a set of best practices and examples for deploying a data warehouse on the Oracle Exadata Database Machine.

Posted: 25 Apr 2011 | Published: 25 Apr 2011

WHITE PAPER: This white paper explores the key components of a highly available architecture. Find out how one specific configuration performed and discover the essential steps required to implement it.

Posted: 16 May 2011 | Published: 16 May 2011

EGUIDE: This expert e-guide from SearchVMware.com contains vital virtual hardware statistics for your consideration, including virtual CPU counts and consolidation ratios. Additionally, the benefits of scaling up and scaling out are weighed.

Posted: 31 May 2011 | Published: 31 May 2011

WHITE PAPER: This white paper introduces a storage platform designed to bring simplicity and efficiency back into your storage infrastructure. This cluster-based solution features simplified management and availability, and is designed to replace the layers of software and hardware that many organization's have added to their IT infrastructures over the years.

Posted: 10 Jan 2012 | Published: 10 Jan 2012

WHITE PAPER: Virtualization and cloud computing are driving the need to deliver enterprise IT as a service. Explore how the HP 3PAR Utility Storage addresses the key weaknesses of existing storage architectures, such as growing capacity requirements, underutilization of existing storage assets, and administrative inefficiency.

Posted: 17 Jan 2012 | Published: 17 Jan 2012

WHITE PAPER: This whitepaper is a lab testing summary report of the plug and play features and easy of configuration for the ERS 4548GT-PWR Edge switch.

Posted: 01 Nov 2011 | Published: 01 Nov 2011

EGUIDE: Effective management of WAN performance and security starts with gaining full visibility into how network capacity is being used by both the applications and the users on the network. This expert e-guide takes a close look at best practices for managing virtualized resources and applications for optimal performance.

Posted: 17 Jun 2011 | Published: 17 Jun 2011

PRODUCT OVERVIEW: Access today’s product overview to learn about the advantages of Cat6500 Series Cisco Prime NAM-3, a next-generation integrated service module.

Posted: 26 Jan 2012 | Published: 26 Jan 2012

PRODUCT OVERVIEW: Uncover how you can deliver network visibility to optimize resources, troubleshoot performance issues, and ensure a consistent end-user experience by implementing a network analysis module solution.

Posted: 26 Jan 2012 | Published: 26 Jan 2012

WHITE PAPER: Access this whitepaper to uncover why and how the network must evolve to optimize the benefits of virtualization.

Posted: 31 Jan 2012 | Published: 31 Jan 2012

WHITE PAPER: Oracle’s Sun SPARC Enterprise T5440 server provides a combination of freely available and no-cost virtualization technologies, excellent reliability, availability, and serviceability (RAS) ratings, very high performance hardware, and significant data center efficiency gains. Continue reading to learn more.

Posted: 14 Mar 2011 | Published: 14 Mar 2011

CASE STUDY: If you are thinking of using cloud services brokerage (CSB), then read this case study on Mohawk Fine Papers to learn how they found a service-oriented architecture (SOA)-based backbone to support interoperability between its internal and external tools.

Posted: 30 Nov 2011 | Published: 30 Nov 2011

WHITE PAPER: Medibank Health Solutions needed a flexible, scalable storage solution to meet rapidly growing performance demands. This brief case study details Medibank’s successful deployment of the HP 3PAR Utility Storage, HP BladeSystem with HP ProLiant c-Class Server Blades, HP storage and server management tools, and VMware virtualization software.

Posted: 01 Dec 2011 | Published: 01 Dec 2011

CASE STUDY: Read this case study and learn how a healthcare organization reduced operating costs, simplified network management and stretched both its budgets and its staff resources.

Posted: 28 Oct 2011 | Published: 28 Oct 2011

WHITE PAPER: Oracle introduces the new Sun Fire X4170 M2, the most versatile IT infrastructure building block server and the Sun Fire X4270 M2 server, the ideal server for clustered database and virtualized workloads.

Posted: 16 Mar 2011 | Published: 16 Mar 2011

WHITE PAPER: Managing a data center has never been harder for IT professionals due to a number of factors, including cost, complexity and shifting business priorities. Data center consolidation often is a valuable way to overcome those challenges.

Posted: 28 Oct 2011 | Published: 28 Oct 2011

WHITE PAPER: This resource provides an essential guide to the new data center network. Learn about the limitations your current network may have, virtual data center network requirements, and what to look for in a solutions provider.

Posted: 14 Jun 2011 | Published: 14 Jun 2011

WHITE PAPER: Many IT pros are considering the idea of moving to a public cloud environment. But organizations still do not like the idea of putting sensitive corporate data onto a shared, public infrastructure. Gain insight about Dell private cloud solutions that can help address the concerns surrounding a public cloud, including security.

Posted: 06 Jun 2011 | Published: 06 Jun 2011

WHITE PAPER: This resource describes the transformation from the traditional data center to the services data center, with special emphasis on the business impact of the transformation. Also, learn how communications service providers (CSPs) are positioning themselves for the data center of the future.

Posted: 10 Oct 2011 | Published: 10 Oct 2011

WHITE PAPER: Systems such as the HP Business Risk Mitigation solution are helping companies to prevent outages and recovery quickly from those that do occur by dramatically reducing backup time and costs, while also slashing disaster recovery time.

Posted: 25 Mar 2011 | Published: 25 Mar 2011

EGUIDE: In this SearchStorage.com expert E-Guide you'll learn seven key questions to ask regarding your current backup strategy, how remote backups are becoming more manageable with cloud-based technology, and what different remote backup options are available for different sized companies.

Posted: 27 Oct 2011 | Published: 27 Oct 2011

WHITE PAPER: This whitepaper explores new WLAN architectures and deployment models that have emerged which offer more options to help retailers get what they need while sticking to their budgets.

Posted: 13 Jan 2012 | Published: 13 Jan 2012

EGUIDE: This E-Guide identifies key questions that enterprise customers should ask prospective WLAN vendors and also provides a list of vendors that will suit the needs specific to your business.

Posted: 18 Jan 2012 | Published: 18 Jan 2012

WHITE PAPER: As the first storage vendor to build accelerated thin capabilities into array hardware with our Thin Built-in Gen4 ASIC, HP 3PAR is building on a heritage of thin technology leadership, a heritage with which vendors offering bolt-on capacity reduction products simply cannot compete. Read this white paper to learn more.

Posted: 03 Feb 2012 | Published: 03 Feb 2012

EZINE: The February edition of the Network Evolution E-zine explore the latest advances in DevOps and uncover what you need to know for working within the movement. Also read several other featured articles!

Posted: 02 Feb 2012 | Published: 02 Feb 2012

WHITE PAPER: Oracle’s Sun SPARC Enterprise T5120 and Sun SPARC Enterprise T5220 servers provide excellent RAS characteristics that are ideal for maximizing the uptime of business-critical IT services. Highly reliable parts and a relatively low total component count minimize the risk of system errors.

Posted: 01 Oct 2010 | Published: 01 Oct 2010

WHITE PAPER: Learn how to build resilient private clouds in an efficient and cost-effective manner. This paper uncovers an approach that incorporates solutions that address cloud server and storage needs, and reconciles them into the realities of the data center such as heterogeneity and existing infrastructure.

Posted: 21 Oct 2011 | Published: 21 Oct 2011