Data Center Consolidation

PRODUCT OVERVIEW: VMware Enhanced VMotion coupled with Intel VT FlexMigration allows live migration across different generations of Intel Xeon processor-based servers, giving IT managers the freedom to move workloads whenever necessary, helping ensure business continuity during unforeseen spikes in data center resources.

Posted: 06 Oct 2009 | Published: 06 Oct 2009

PRODUCT OVERVIEW: The Intel Xeon processor 5500 series with Intel® Intelligent Power Technology, delivers up to 50 percent lower idle power. By replacing aging single-core processor-based servers with new, more energy-efficient servers, you can gain capacity to grow and to increase IT performance using fewer servers.

Posted: 06 Oct 2009 | Published: 06 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

PRODUCT OVERVIEW: To gain full value of virtualization, you need servers that are built to handle the heavy and ever-changing demands of a virtualized and consolidated computing environment. To help you get maximum benefits from virtualization, Intel has built a better physical server platform with unique hardware-assist features to enhance the virtual data center.

Posted: 06 Oct 2009 | Published: 06 Oct 2009

TECHNICAL ARTICLE: Servers based on the Intel® Xeon® processor 5500 series provide a foundation for IT management to refresh existing or design new data centers, achieving greater performance and energy efficiency.

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

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

WEBCAST: Learn more about offerings to improve energy efficiency across your infrastructure.

Posted: 23 Sep 2009 | Premiered: 23 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