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WEBCAST: The process of SQL "tuning" involves finding the absolute fastest route to answer your query. In this webcast, discover how SQL tuning brings down your CPU costs and lowers response and run times. Also find out answers to pressing SQL tuning questions including "how do you find the SQL to tune" and "which SQL must be tuned and why?"

Posted: 11 Nov 2009 | Premiered: 11 Nov 2009

ANALYST REPORT: Moving user data and environments to the Internet, so that they can be accessed via any Internet connection, dramatically changes the nature of the underlying server and client platforms. Server platforms must balance performance with power management in view of cost and other requirements such as security and reliability.

Posted: 12 Nov 2009 | Published: 12 Nov 2009

WHITE PAPER: 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

WHITE PAPER: Red Hat Enterprise Linux running on Intel® processor-based servers is helping companies cut TCO by up to 50 percent and more versus comparable UNIX/RISC solutions, while providing a better foundation for growth. This white paper outlines the key benefits of migration and provides a step-by-step guide to conducting a successful transition.

Posted: 10 Aug 2009 | Published: 10 Aug 2009

IT BRIEFING: The costs for power, cooling, server management and administration are now consuming more of IT budgets than even the cost for new hardware. In this TechTarget IT Briefing, you'll learn about Citrix Essentials, Intel Xeon 5500, and HP ProLiant G6 for XenServer.

Posted: 17 Nov 2009 | Published: 17 Nov 2009

PRODUCT LITERATURE: A new multi-core server from Dell and powered by Intel can do the work of nine older single-core servers, while using less energy and facility space. Moreover, it can deliver return on investment (ROI) in as little as nine months. Read this paper to learn more!

Posted: 17 Nov 2009 | Published: 17 Nov 2009

WHITE PAPER: Technical decision makers are faced with many challenges in today's economy: help users get more work done faster and with fewer difficulties, protect the network and individual systems from attacks or malicious code, and much more. Find out how the Intel Core 2 processor with vPro technology complements the new Windows 7 operating system.

Posted: 19 Oct 2009 | Published: 19 Oct 2009

DATA SHEET: An ideal solution for dense computing environments where energy and thermal efficiency are at a premium. Featuring the Six-Core AMD Opteron Processor 2419 EE, this solution is designed with ZT's signature data center server engineering expertise for the groundbreaking new levels of performance per watt cloud computing providers demand.

Posted: 23 Oct 2009 | Published: 23 Oct 2009

WHITE PAPER: Sun SPARC® Enterprise M4000, M5000, M8000, and M9000 servers are highly reliable, easy to manage, vertically-scalable systems with many of the benefits of traditional mainframes - without the associated cost, complexity, or vendor lock-in.

Posted: 05 Jun 2009 | Published: 05 Jun 2009

PODCAST: Listen to this podcast to learn how to optimize your storage infrastructure using the latest NAND technologies, HDD and DRAM.

Posted: 09 Nov 2009 | Premiered: 09 Nov 2009

PRESENTATION TRANSCRIPT: Read this presentation transcript and learn how to optimize your storage infrastructure using the latest NAND technologies, HDD and DRAM.

Posted: 04 Mar 2009 | Published: 04 Mar 2009

PRESENTATION TRANSCRIPT: Read this presentation transcript and learn how to optimize your storage infrastructure using the latest NAND technologies, HDD and DRAM.

Posted: 09 Nov 2009 | Published: 09 Nov 2009

WEBCAST: View this mediacast and learn how to optimize your storage infrastructure using the latest NAND technologies, HDD and DRAM.

Posted: 09 Nov 2009 | Premiered: 09 Nov 2009

WEBCAST: View this mediacast and learn how to optimize your storage infrastructure using the latest NAND technologies, HDD and DRAM.

Posted: 20 Feb 2009 | Premiered: 20 Feb 2009

WHITE PAPER: This paper discusses the use of industry standard servers, with an abundance of CPU and memory as storage controllers by leveraging industry standard hardware and general purpose software to create a high performance storage architecture.

Posted: 02 Dec 2008 | Published: 02 Dec 2008

DATA SHEET: Syncsort BEX source side data reduction can be used to significantly decrease the amount of data sent to a backup target, reducing network traffic and CPU impact. Read this solution sheet for details.

Posted: 21 Oct 2009 | Published: 21 Oct 2009

SOFTWARE DOWNLOAD: The VKernel VM Rightsizer is a simple tool for tuning your VMs with the right amount of resources (CPU, memory, and storage) to drive maximum VM densities without impacting performance.

Posted: 25 Sep 2009 | Published: 25 Sep 2009

SOFTWARE DOWNLOAD: Quickly finds where resource capacity (CPU, memory, and storage) are being wasted in the virtual infrastructure. By identifying zombie VMs, expired snapshots, and other wasteful consumers, users can reclaim expensive capacity to optimize virtual environments and achieve a better, faster ROI.

Posted: 25 Sep 2009 | Published: 25 Sep 2009

WHITE PAPER: The widening disparity between CPU performance and that of storage subsystems has spawned numerous solutions that do not fix the problem. This white paper exposes this fundamental flaw and introduces the means available today to substantively reduce power consumption while improving performance: Fusion-io's flash memory-based storage technology.

Posted: 16 Feb 2009 | Published: 16 Feb 2009

CASE STUDY: Using the VKernel Capacity Bottleneck Analyzer, Hasbro is able to continuously monitor shared CPU, memory, and storage usage to properly allocate the required resources among all of its deployed virtual machines.

Posted: 14 Nov 2008 | Published: 14 Nov 2008

WHITE PAPER: 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

TECHNICAL ARTICLE: This worksheet is intended to function as a checklist of the most important areas to consider when researching a Programmable Logic Controller (PLC).

Posted: 14 Nov 2008 | Published: 14 Nov 2008

DATA SHEET: Learn how VKernel's Chargeback Virtual Appliance helps companies gain cost visibility and chargeback on resource utilization; recover costs of ESX Infrastructure; and measure resource consumption by applications, resource pools and clusters.

Posted: 26 Feb 2008 | Published: 26 Feb 2008

WHITE PAPER: This white paper is the first in a three-part series, each of which examines the challenge of implementing network security on equipment from Cisco Systems while maintaining the connectivity requirements of the business or enterprise.

Posted: 01 May 2009 | Published: 01 May 2009

CASE STUDY: In its VMware server environment, Hershey Entertainment and Resorts (HE&R) needed to get more proactive visibility into its resource utilization and allocations to plan for future growth.

Posted: 06 Mar 2009 | Published: 06 Mar 2009

PRODUCT OVERVIEW: ESET Mobile Antivirus has low CPU, memory requirements and compact updates which minimize data bandwidth usage. It will protect email attachments and other files being transferred or accessed without impacting performance and will keep your mobile phone safe -- even between signature updates.

Posted: 03 Nov 2009 | Published: 03 Nov 2009

WHITE PAPER: This article discusses running Oracle Real Application Clusters (RAC) on servers configured with Sun™ Logical Domains (LDoms). Sun LDoms virtualization technology allows the creation of multiple virtual systems on a single physical system, and enables fine-grained assignment of CPU and memory resources to an Oracle RAC workload.

Posted: 15 Jun 2009 | Published: 15 Jun 2009

PODCAST: This podcast details a strategy to optimize your virtualized infrastructure performance. Get answers on how to leverage key performance indicators and cross-domain analytics to plan for future capacity demands and improve service levels. Discover the secret to managing your VMware infrastructure performance for optimal resource utilization.

Posted: 03 Nov 2009 | Premiered: 03 Nov 2009

WHITE PAPER: In this paper we demonstrate the concept of High Performance Computing in a cloud and show that HPC clouds can deliver the needed utilization and scalability on par with the current native HPC approach of designing dedicated systems for specific applications.

Posted: 02 Nov 2009 | Published: 02 Nov 2009

ANALYST REPORT: Latency is an important metric that should be considered when evaluating web application delivery solutions. Through tests performed, Citrix NetScaler exhibited very low latencies and was at least 3x fast than F5 BIG-IP in almost all test scenarios.

Posted: 01 Sep 2009 | Published: 01 Sep 2009

PRESENTATION TRANSCRIPT: Read this paper, which is a transcription of a presentation where speakers Stuart McClure, VP of Operations & Strategy, Risk & Compliance Business Unit, at McAfee Incorporated and Evelyn de Souza, Senior Manager, Risk & Compliance, at McAfee discuss application whitelisting and its benefits.

Posted: 29 Sep 2009 | Published: 29 Sep 2009

WHITE PAPER: This article presents an overview of the various Ethernet 10/100/1000 physical layer technologies for the copper medium. It discusses the pros and cons of active versus passive tapping and why active tapping is preferred for Gigabit Ethernet running over the copper medium. The switch-over behavior of active relay-based tapping is also presented.

Posted: 01 Jul 2009 | Published: 01 Jul 2009

WHITE PAPER: This paper introduces three techniques employed in the production Data Domain deduplication file system and shows how they can be used to relieve the disk bottleneck.

Posted: 10 Apr 2009 | Published: 10 Apr 2009