Data Center Consolidation

WEBCAST: Watch this webcast to learn the importance of effective virtual server management in your data center. Learn how virtualization health checks and consolidation planning can enable your organization to proactively predict when to improve capacity and resource utilization while minimizing contention.

Posted: 01 Dec 2009 | Premieres: 01 Dec 2009

INFORMATION CENTER: The demands on your data center are constantly increasing, and with data growing even fifty-fold in three years, how can you stay ahead? How can you optimize your data center? Take this interactive data center tour and learn more.

Posted: 01 Dec 2009 | Published: 01 Dec 2009

WHITE PAPER: This paper provides the top 10 reasons for a server refresh, including power and cooling savings, consolidation and virtualization, and improved performance.

Posted: 27 Nov 2009 | Published: 27 Nov 2009

PODCAST: This podcast discusses how virtualization has gone beyond data center consolidation to become a key strategic driver for maximizing IT cost savings while enabling organizations to deliver solutions to customers in a timely manner and within SLA requirements.

Posted: 25 Nov 2009 | Premiered: 25 Nov 2009

CASE STUDY: 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: 24 Nov 2009 | Published: 24 Nov 2009

CASE STUDY: Read this paper to find out how Instantis managed to accommodate rapid customer growth, deliver outstanding performance, ensure “five-nines” availability for customers around the globe, cut ongoing IT costs, and reduce the environmental footprint of data center operations through reduced energy consumption.

Posted: 24 Nov 2009 | Published: 24 Nov 2009

WHITE PAPER: It seems that there are a lot of myths floating around regarding virtualization technologies. This paper explores and subsequently debunks the top 10 myths about virtualization.

Posted: 24 Nov 2009 | Published: 24 Nov 2009

WHITE PAPER: Through a series of test scenarios that are representative of SQL Server application fundamentals, this document provides best practice recommendations on running SQL Server in Windows Hyper-V environment.

Posted: 23 Nov 2009 | Published: 23 Nov 2009

WHITE PAPER: This whitepaper examines strategies for moving an organization toward more dynamic IT using datacenter virtualization technologies.

Posted: 23 Nov 2009 | Published: 23 Nov 2009

CASE STUDY: This case study looks at the typical experience of a Fortune 1000 company. A company turns to server and desktop virtualization in an effort to reduce the cost of distributed centralized operations centers.

Posted: 20 Nov 2009 | Published: 20 Nov 2009

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: Many organizations lack visibility into the physical and virtual infrastructure in their data center, preventing them from achieving effective infrastructure management. This webcast explores how dependency mapping addresses this issue by enabling you to track and control configurations, model and test proposed changes and execute failure analysis.

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

VIRTUAL TRADESHOW: Attend this free virtual event and hear from top data center experts who will provide you with a coherent strategy to consolidate your data center, build a new facility or make an educated decision on the cloud model best suited for your environment.

Posted: 10 Nov 2009 | Premieres: 10 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

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