Data Center Design Reports

EGUIDE: Your mainframe is the heart of your business. If it is not working at full capacity, neither will your applications or your employees. If you are like most organizations and looking to undergo a digital transformation, your mainframe needs DevOps. This e-guide unveils how DevOps improves mainframe system capabilities.

Posted: 07 Dec 2017 | Published: 30 Nov 2017

EGUIDE: In this guide, you'll learn how to choose between replacing and upgrading your servers. Download your copy to hear from our experts on this topic, as well as how server-side SSDs can improve performance, should you choose to upgrade, and how to integrate them into your server consolidation efforts.

Posted: 21 Nov 2017 | Published: 21 Nov 2017

EZINE: Software-defined architecture changes how data center resources are organized and deployed. A composable infrastructure boosts efficiency, but it isn't simple.

Posted: 16 Nov 2017 | Published: 16 Nov 2017

EBOOK: Numbers from a 2017 TechTarget health IT survey point to continued investment in IT infrastructure. Uncover the results in this expert e-book, which also digs into the future of healthcare virtualization, why cloud adoption in healthcare is picking up, and more.

Posted: 10 Oct 2017 | Published: 10 Oct 2017

EGUIDE: This e-guide breaks down everything you need to know about optimizing your data center's power designs, the challenges you need to overcome, and preventing the outages that will rattle your organization to its core.

Posted: 28 Sep 2017 | Published: 26 Sep 2017

EGUIDE: There are almost too many data center infrastructure management (DCIM) tools in the market. You need a way to evaluate these tools to ensure that they take advantage of modern data center trends. This e-guide helps you evaluate DCIM tools to help you leverage your system data for actionable insights.

Posted: 28 Sep 2017 | Published: 26 Sep 2017

EGUIDE: Before transitioning to the cloud, admins often need to address many questions related to everything from SaaS apps to DR and capacity planning. In this e-guide compare the pros and cons of SaaS vs. IaaS and find tips for transitioning workloads to the cloud.

Posted: 13 Sep 2017 | Published: 13 Sep 2017

EGUIDE: Converged systems have seen significant growth over the last five years, traditional storage arrays are dropping off, and cloud stack vendors are muscling their way in. This e-guide offers perspective on the underlying drivers of these key trends and provides advice on how to make fundamental decisions regarding your next-generation data center.

Posted: 30 Aug 2017 | Published: 28 Aug 2017

EGUIDE: As the converged versus hyper-converged infrastructure debate rages on and wrestle with your decision, you need to pay attention to the storage layer. This e-guide will help you evaluate both infrastructure approaches from the storage point-of-view and simplify your decision-making process.

Posted: 30 Aug 2017 | Published: 28 Aug 2017

EGUIDE: Hyper-converged infrastructure (HCI) promises to simplify your data center management, but you need a management strategy for HCI itself. This e-guide covers the areas you will need to focus on in order to develop a successful HCI management strategy.

Posted: 21 Aug 2017 | Published: 17 Aug 2017

EGUIDE: What's to be expected from HPE's purchase of SimpliVity? Download this guide by searchConvergedInfrastructure.com editors, as SimpliVity customers react to the move. The info inside will help you keep an eye on HPE's support of SimpliVity products, how and if SimpliVity becomes part of HPE's multicloud strategy, and more.

Posted: 21 Aug 2017 | Published: 15 Aug 2017

EGUIDE: Hyper-converged infrastructure (HCI) is still relatively new and limited in its capabilities. How much do you know about HCI? What about the challenges that come from all-flash HCI storage? Access this e-guide, take the quiz, and find out.

Posted: 21 Aug 2017 | Published: 16 Aug 2017

EGUIDE: Before purchasing and implementing a complete SDDC, download this guide to determine how much of a software-defined platform your business needs. You'll discover the role of HCI in SDDCs, and learn how build an SDDC by using HCI's software-defined platform as foundation for version-controlled node automation, and more.

Posted: 21 Aug 2017 | Published: 16 Aug 2017

EGUIDE: The dropping adoption of converged infrastructure doesn't foretell its death. Read on here to discover why many enterprises still select CI as a more stable and agile operating environment over HCI, and to consolidate assets acquired through acquisitions, as told by our experts in this guide.

Posted: 21 Aug 2017 | Published: 15 Aug 2017

EGUIDE: The days of cobbling together makeshift data center systems are fast waning. This e-guide illustrates the difference between converged and hyper-converged infrastructures. Read on to leverage CI and HCI to accelerate server and data center consolidation projects, support VDI deployments, and more.

Posted: 21 Aug 2017 | Published: 15 Aug 2017

EGUIDE: Access this e-guide to get a strategy in place to ease your transition to HCI and reduce your hardware needs, as well as time spent working on storage and hypervisors.

Posted: 18 Aug 2017 | Published: 16 Aug 2017

EGUIDE: You need to choose a side in the debate between converged infrastructure (CI) and hyper-converged infrastructure (HCI). This e-guide covers the primary points you will need to make the decision that will shape the future of your data center.

Posted: 18 Aug 2017 | Published: 17 Aug 2017

EGUIDE: The goal of every data center admin has been to simplify hardware platforms while increasing operational agility. Blade server architecture is the reigning champion, but the rising superstar that is hyper-converged infrastructure is aiming to take the crown. Access this e-guide to see which will one you should put your money on.

Posted: 16 Aug 2017 | Published: 14 Aug 2017

EGUIDE: Inside this expert guide, Clive Longbottom, co-founder and service director at Quocirca, identifies which application workloads are best suited for HCI—like ROBO and VDI—and explains why. Read on to gain cautionary advice, as well, with regards to HCI being a main component of cloud platforms.

Posted: 16 Aug 2017 | Published: 11 Aug 2017

EGUIDE: A handful of startups and top-tier players have introduced container-driven bundles that could determine a new delivery and support approach for hyper-converged infrastructure (HCI). Read this expert guide to see highlighted several HCI appliances built for containerized apps that should be on your radar.

Posted: 16 Aug 2017 | Published: 11 Aug 2017

EGUIDE: Download this guide as our experts reveal the top 10 reasons to consider a hyper-converged data center, including its suitability for scale-out VDI workloads, ROBO support, hardware refresh, and more. Inside, you'll discover which workloads apply to your needs, and determine if HCI should be implemented.

Posted: 16 Aug 2017 | Published: 14 Aug 2017

EGUIDE: In this guide, contributors from SearchConvergedInfrastructure lay out the differences between converged and hyper-converged infrastructure storage. Read on to finally get the bottom line from our experts on the divergence between CI and HCI storage, with specific appliance examples.

Posted: 14 Aug 2017 | Published: 10 Aug 2017

EGUIDE: Download this expert guide to view the trends and vendors shaping HCI and its role in the software-defined data center (SDDC). You'll also gain advice on implementing HCI, regardless of whether your apps are traditional, big data- or cloud-based.

Posted: 14 Aug 2017 | Published: 10 Aug 2017

EGUIDE: In this expert guide, 20-year industry veteran Jacob Gsoedl demonstrates how hyper-converged systems differ from traditional storage systems. Read on to get a run-down of the top considerations buyers should have on their checklist for evaluating, purchasing, and deploying HCI, and more.

Posted: 14 Aug 2017 | Published: 10 Aug 2017

EGUIDE: Composable infrastructure, or disaggregation, undoes traditional resource grouping, enabling you to mix and match resources as needed to meet specific workload demands. Access this e-guide to learn how composable infrastructure, its limitations, and the type of impact it will have on your organization.

Posted: 08 Aug 2017 | Published: 02 Aug 2017