Data Center Consolidation

ESSENTIAL GUIDE: Virtual server technology has made one key task a lot harder: backup. In this SearchStorageUK essential guide, you'll learn everything you need to know about protecting virtual servers.

Posted: 03 Nov 2009 | Published: 03 Nov 2009

DATA SHEET: Simplify, consolidate, and aggressively accelerate virtualization with a portfolio of services that help decrease TCO and speed time to value. Dell ProConsult Virtualization Services simplify virtualization by helping you assess, plan, design and implement virtualization projects. Read this data sheet to learn more.

Posted: 28 Oct 2009 | Published: 28 Oct 2009

ANALYST BRIEF: Learn the top 10 reasons to add Surgient's self-service provisioning and management to help you get even more from your VMware investment.

Posted: 28 Oct 2009 | Published: 28 Oct 2009

WHITE PAPER: 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

WHITE PAPER: This white paper will discuss the forces behind the rise of flexible, cloud-like data center architectures; describe the hardware needs created by those new architectures; and show why custom servers from ZT Systems powered by AMD Opteron™ processors are an exceptional fit for these demanding new data center environments.

Posted: 23 Oct 2009 | Published: 23 Oct 2009

VIDEO: Join Robin Johnson, Dell's Chief Information Officer, as he explains the most efficient way to run an IT enterprise. You'll learn how a basic management philosophy and a belief in industry standard technology can lead to great success.

Posted: 21 Oct 2009 | Premiered: 21 Oct 2009

CASE STUDY: Soon after installing EVault Software, Womble Carlyle, a top-100 law firm, realized significant reliability improvement both in its nightly backup jobs and its file and folder restores. EVault Software Agents, which are installed on the servers requiring backup, “wake up” at administrator-set times.

Posted: 02 Oct 2009 | Published: 02 Oct 2009

WHITE PAPER: PlateSpin® Recon from Novell is a sophisticated workload analysis, planning and management solution that provides new levels of intelligence, visual analysis and forecasting for optimizing the data center.

Posted: 01 Oct 2009 | Published: 01 Oct 2009

CASE STUDY: Read this case study to learn how the Dell IT group has virtualized more than 5,000 servers and saved the company over US$29 million using a scalable, worldwide virtualization model.

Posted: 30 Sep 2009 | Published: 30 Sep 2009

WHITE PAPER: This IDC Workbook discusses consolidation at the datacenter, server, and storage system levels, including the use of virtualisation. This paper also discusses how deduplication can help improve consolidation of resources and reduce storage footprint, as well as improve data protection and disaster recovery under heavy workload conditions.

Posted: 29 Sep 2009 | Published: 29 Sep 2009

WHITE PAPER: The current state of the datacenter demands a transformation that helps in improving space utilization and lowering power consumption while still providing the scale and availability the business requires. Read this report to learn how your organization can optimize data center efficiency and lower costs.

Posted: 29 Sep 2009 | Published: 29 Sep 2009

WHITE PAPER: Virtualization is more than just a concept-- it is a concrete business strategy that can provide tangible value for companies in virtually any industry. Read this paper to learn more about Dell's virtual infrastructure solutions.

Posted: 29 Sep 2009 | Published: 29 Sep 2009

ANALYST REPORT: An investment in data deduplication products is easy to rationalize. These products cut data protection capital and operating expenses, facilitate consolidation of distributed backup operations, and slash server virtualization-related storage costs. Data deduplication offerings should be on every CIO?s project short list in 2009.

Posted: 29 Sep 2009 | Published: 29 Sep 2009

PODCAST: In this podcast, expert Carey Dietert discusses how CIO's are reevaluating current infrastructures to determine whether a new alternative is the way to go including the changes incumbents in the Unix space especially Sun with the upcoming purchase from Oracle.

Posted: 29 Sep 2009 | Premiered: 29 Sep 2009

PODCAST: In this podcast, listen to expert Scott Sawyer explain how Dell Services can help you plan for modernization of your legacy Unix infrastructure.

Posted: 29 Sep 2009 | Premiered: 29 Sep 2009

WHITE PAPER: Increased adoption of VMware infrastructure and continued performance advances in hardware and software have driven the virtualization of Microsoft Exchange. This paper will detail experiments that demonstrate the efficient performance and scalability of Exchange when running inside a virtual machine on a VMware vSphere™ 4 environment.

Posted: 21 Sep 2009 | Published: 21 Sep 2009

CASE STUDY: Find out how Argo Global Capital utilized server virualization to simplify, consolidate and reduce operating costs in their data center. Since implementing XenServer with everRun, Argo has had zero downtime, even during a significant hardware failure.

Posted: 18 Sep 2009 | Published: 18 Sep 2009

WHITE PAPER: Server virtualization offers a tremendous opportunity for cost savings in the data center. This paper will give three steps you can take to dramatically improve your cost savings from server virtualization as well as show how companies are using Marathon's everRun software to implement those steps.

Posted: 18 Sep 2009 | Published: 18 Sep 2009

WHITE PAPER: Application grid brings the same type of efficiency, scalability, and quality of service to the application layer that database clusters brings to the database layer. With an application grid you get greater efficiency, exceptional agility, and superior quality of service. Download this free white paper now.

Posted: 18 Sep 2009 | Published: 18 Sep 2009

WHITE PAPER: As companies continue to consolidate and look for best possible uses of both existing and new computer hardware, nowhere is this more apparent than server management. This paper will provide you some best practices and key success stories that you can use in designing and implementing your own virtualized SQL environment.

Posted: 18 Sep 2009 | Published: 18 Sep 2009

WEBCAST: This webcast examines how upgrading your system with new Sun Fire servers can actually save you money.

Posted: 17 Sep 2009 | Premiered: 17 Sep 2009

WEBCAST: View this webcast to gain insight into how upgrading your aging infrastructure can grow your bottom line.

Posted: 17 Sep 2009 | Premiered: 17 Sep 2009

WEBCAST: Watch this webinar to learn best practices for enterprise-level server consolidation by leveraging next-generation server platforms developed jointly by Sun and Intel.

Posted: 17 Sep 2009 | Premiered: 17 Sep 2009

WEBCAST: This eSeminar will provide you with the information that you need to best implement SSDs and achieve the optimal ROI and service level improvements that you require.

Posted: 17 Sep 2009 | Premiered: 17 Sep 2009

WHITE PAPER: This paper examines how investing in new Sun servers can actually cut your data center costs. Find out how Sun’s latest technology will cut the number of servers you need.

Posted: 17 Sep 2009 | Published: 17 Sep 2009