Data Center Consolidation

WHITE PAPER: Read this white paper for a discussion of the many benefits of virtualization, how it has evolved, and how it intersects with data center optimization strategies.

Posted: 19 Nov 2009 | Published: 19 Nov 2009

WHITE PAPER: The power/density paradox hinders end users from utilizing the very floor space that high density systems were intended to conserve. This brief explores what the power/density paradox is and how IT professionals can mitigate the risk.

Posted: 18 Nov 2009 | Published: 18 Nov 2009

WEBCAST: Watch this webcast to learn how discovery and dependency mapping (DDM) tools can help organizations overcome the challenges of virtual sprawl. Learn how you can leverage this mapping tool for effective infrastructure management without increasing costs and risk.

Posted: 17 Nov 2009 | Premieres: 17 Nov 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

WEBCAST: This session describes the emerging and continually maturing state of green energy management world wide from not only a data center view but a view across the enterprise.

Posted: 12 Nov 2009 | Premiered: 12 Nov 2009

WHITE PAPER: This white paper describes the importance of managing energy consumption in data centers and provides an overview of the problems and issues associated with "greening" today's data centers.

Posted: 12 Nov 2009 | Published: 12 Nov 2009

WHITE PAPER: Optimizing the benefits of a data grid built with Oracle Coherence relies upon creating a modular, balanced architecture. Matching the number of application servers, memory capacity, and quantity of processing nodes to the target workload characteristics is important to achieving the best performance.

Posted: 11 Nov 2009 | Published: 11 Nov 2009

PRODUCT DEMO: Tape export is process of moving data from virtual tape to physical tape. Tape stacking allows multiple virtual tapes to be consolidated onto a single physical tape in order to save on tape media consumption. The concept is very simple and also very useful. Please watch this video for examples of how FalconStor VTL functions.

Posted: 09 Nov 2009 | Published: 09 Nov 2009

PRODUCT DEMO: Because backup operations create multiple copies of the same data, FalconStor VTL provides data deduplication. As backup jobs are added to the data repository, the new data is compared to existing data and any blocks already in the repository are deleted to reduce disk space consumption. View this demo and learn more about FalconStor deduplication.

Posted: 09 Nov 2009 | Published: 09 Nov 2009

EGUIDE: Today’s businesses are being pushed to consolidate their data centers, address power consumption and implement virtualization in an effort to reduce operating costs and go green. But what are the best routes to achieving these objectives?

Posted: 04 Nov 2009 | Published: 04 Nov 2009

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

PRODUCT OVERVIEW: The Intel® Xeon® processor 5500 series provides a foundation for IT management to refresh existing or design new data centers to achieve greater performance while using less energy and space, and dramatically reducing operating costs.

Posted: 06 Oct 2009 | Published: 06 Oct 2009

WHITE PAPER: Virtualization is one of the hottest technologies in IT infrastructure today. Intel is helping enable the next generation of virtualization usage efficiently. Virtualization 2.0 focuses on increasing service efficiency through flexible resource management. In the near future, this usage model will become absolutely critical to data centers.

Posted: 06 Oct 2009 | Published: 06 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