Data Center Consolidation Reports

EGUIDE: Businesses today expect more agility from their IT departments. Even as budgets shrink or hardware fails, new workloads must be brought online sooner with fewer disruptions. Access this expert e-guide to learn how you can improve your business’s IT efficiency with server virtualization.

Posted: 31 May 2011 | Published: 31 May 2011

EBOOK: This expert e-guide provides guidelines for reducing high energy costs and states the importance of investing in power and cooling technology.

Posted: 27 May 2011 | Published: 27 May 2011

WHITE PAPER: This IBM Redbook covers the impact of server and storage consolidation, data center network virtualization and consolidation technologies, and much more.

Posted: 23 May 2011 | Published: 10 Feb 2011

WHITE PAPER: This paper describes the challenges data center managers face, and details how an IBM data center successfully leveraged integrated IT and facilities solutions to get more from existing investments.

Posted: 18 May 2011 | Published: 01 Nov 2010

EBOOK: Access this e-book to gain insight on securing a virtualised environment. Discover how to tackle virtualisation security issues and set the foundation to move confidently to the cloud.

Posted: 15 May 2011 | Published: 11 May 2011

PODCAST: This podcast discusses the challenges that come with a mission-critical environment and the four characteristics of a converged infrastructure to meet the ever-changing demands of business.

Posted: 09 May 2011 | Premiered: May 9, 2011

EGUIDE: This e-guide discusses the top 5 server virtualization benefits, including simplified IT management and elastic capacity. Also, find out how using virtualization can save money by lowering data center energy costs. And learn how to use this technology to reduce storage requirements.

Posted: 18 Apr 2011 | Published: 18 Apr 2011

EBOOK: View this interactive E-Book to learn how Oracle Enterprise Manager Ops Center can dramatically improve your converged datacenter operations and productivity.

Posted: 14 Apr 2011 | Published: 14 Apr 2011

EBOOK: View this E-Book to discover why Oracle's SPARC T3 servers represent the next wave of innovation for mission-critical computing and are a logical next step for dealing with today’s most critical data center challenges.

Posted: 14 Apr 2011 | Published: 14 Apr 2011

INFORMATION CENTER: Experience Intel IT's data center strategy that has us on track to create USD 650 million of value for Intel. Through a series of videos, gain a deeper understanding of our facilities, compute, networking, and storage approaches. Then take a video tour of our world-class data centers.

Posted: 08 Apr 2011 | Published: 09 Apr 2010

EGUIDE: This e-guide from SearchDataCenter.com explains how a data center consolidation strategy can benefit from the ITIL lifecycle. Discover how your organization can gain from these ITIL lifecycle phases: service strategy, service design, service transition, service operations, and continuous improvement.

Posted: 06 Apr 2011 | Published: 30 Mar 2011

WHITE PAPER: Check out this white paper to learn how IBM appears to have the deployment issue down pat and how they have a variety of delivery vehicles to satisfy the tape needs of your enterprise. Keep reading to learn more about IBM’s LTO-5 offerings. 

Posted: 24 Mar 2011 | Published: 24 Mar 2011

CASE STUDY: In this case study Emerson virtualizes on Dell servers, eliminating 3,600 servers, reducing approximately 135 data centers down to 4, and decreasing the operating cost of its Windows server environment by 15 percent per year.

Posted: 23 Mar 2011 | Published: 23 Mar 2011

WHITE PAPER: Intel IT and Intel's Data Center Group conducted proof of concept (PoC) testing and total cost of ownership (TCO) analysis to compare two- and four-socket servers based on Intel Xeon processors for a variety of virtualization scenarios. Download this white paper for a detailed look at this test and its results.

Posted: 23 Mar 2011 | Published: 23 Mar 2011

WHITE PAPER: This technical white paper discusses a drop-in implementation of Coherence running on Oracle's Sun servers utilizing Oracle Fusion Middleware components, most prominently WebLogic Suite.

Posted: 11 Mar 2011 | Published: 01 Jul 2010

ANALYST REPORT: This paper examines the results of an IDC study of enterprise organizations that have deployed IBM Power Systems to achieve workload consolidation, improved uptime, and reduced operational costs. These systems are highly virtualized platforms that supported consolidation of workloads and provided near-term payback from the initial investment.

Posted: 21 Feb 2011 | Published: 21 Feb 2011

WHITE PAPER: This paper looks at the options IT managers have for hosting enterprise applications when replacing end-of-life POWER 4 or 5 servers. It compares an HP Converged Infrastructure, based on HP Integrity and Proliant server blades, to approaches based on IBM POWER. It also addresses customer options for business-critical application migration.

Posted: 09 Feb 2011 | Published: 09 Feb 2011

WHITE PAPER: The speed of change in global markets and the challenges of new modes of business demand companies operate in and react to quickly changing landscapes. Nowhere is this more critical than in the means and methods the enterprise uses to power its business, typically via IT services.

Posted: 02 Feb 2011 | Published: 02 Feb 2011

WHITE PAPER: This paper offers a guide for presenting the relatively high costs of expanding physical environments and the savings components of virtualization.

Posted: 28 Jan 2011 | Published: 27 Jan 2011

EGUIDE: In this expert e-guide, discover tips for getting more from your server hardware with performance monitoring tools. Learn why it is essential to balance workloads between multiple servers. Plus, gain insight into eight strategies for making your servers more cost-effective, including maintaining interoperability between tools and servers.

Posted: 10 Jan 2011 | Published: 10 Jan 2011

EGUIDE: In this expert guide, brought to you by SearchSystemsChannel.com, our experts explain the proper techniques for maintaining energy-efficient data centers. Read on to learn more about green IT services and Virtualization technologies in the data center.

Posted: 28 Dec 2010 | Published: 27 Dec 2010

WHITE PAPER: This paper will explore some of the more common pitfalls that hamper successful data center transformations and the keys to overcome them.

Posted: 21 Dec 2010 | Published: 20 Dec 2010

WHITE PAPER: This paper explains that to accomplish the objectives of making more-efficient use of IT resources, lowering power consumption, and reducing operating expenses, many companies are turning to server consolidation and virtualization efforts—endeavors that increase server CPU utilization and reduce the number of discrete servers in a datacenter.

Posted: 20 Dec 2010 | Published: 20 Dec 2010

WHITE PAPER: This paper discusses IBM's Real-time Compression—which enables organizations to optimize primary data stores so they can save new information, retain existing data for longer periods of time, consolidate existing systems, or benefit from some combination of the preceding.

Posted: 14 Dec 2010 | Published: 01 Dec 2010

EGUIDE: Server consolidation can save your organization money by increasing utilization rates and reducing power and cooling costs. Learn how capacity planning and virtualization technologies can help you meet your server consolidation goals.

Posted: 06 Dec 2010 | Published: 06 Dec 2010