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WHITE PAPER: This resource presents how IT solution providers can grow through a targeted approach to marketing and sales by focusing on specific industries or types of businesses.

Posted: 06 Jan 2012 | Published: 06 Jan 2012

WHITE PAPER: This white paper makes the business case for utility storage, the delivery of IT resources as a service (similar to a water or electric company), and introduces an infrastructure solution designed to leverage this principle and improve an organization's journey to the cloud. Read on to learn about this emerging technology and its benefits.

Posted: 10 Jan 2012 | Published: 10 Jan 2012

CASE STUDY: This case study reveals how HP assisted Mitsubishi in simplifying their storage management and eliminating single points of failure.

Posted: 18 Mar 2011 | Published: 18 Mar 2011

EGUIDE: Power will be the number-one issue for most IT executives within the next few years. Not only does it represent a significant percentage of data center operating costs, but demand is likely to overtake supply in the near future. This e-guide highlights available courses of action for reducing energy consumption – without sacrificing performance.

Posted: 01 Mar 2011 | Published: 01 Mar 2011

WHITE PAPER: With it's revolutionary design, HP 3PAR Utility Storage delivers secure multi-tenancy, high performace and massive scalability. Additionally, its high availability fuels enterprise-class virtual data centers and cloud computing environments with ease.

Posted: 14 Nov 2011 | Published: 14 Nov 2011

WHITE PAPER: This resource divides the data center management tools into four distinct subsets and provides definitions and examples of each. Learn how you can determine which physical infrastructure management tools are needed to operate a data center.

Posted: 10 Feb 2012 | Published: 10 Feb 2012

WHITE PAPER: Today’s IT pros are being challenged to convert their data centers from costly infrastructures into producers of business value. This resource explores how data center infrastructure management (DCIM) software tools can simplify operational processes, cut costs, and speed up information delivery.

Posted: 10 Feb 2012 | Published: 10 Feb 2012

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: Data growth is one of the most significant challenges – and opportunities - facing organizations today. New forms of data, the retention of additional detail for analysis, increasing pressure for high availability of more of the data, regulatory and security requirements – all are contributing to substantial rises in data volume.

Posted: 01 Jul 2011 | Published: 01 Jul 2011

WHITE PAPER: While some larger organizations continue to manage internal data center, many business managers are able to increase service levels, cover more users, and lower response times by outsourcing their out-dated server farms to third-party data centers and cloud computing providers. This white paper will define data centers and explore cloud networking.

Posted: 01 Mar 2010 | Published: 01 Mar 2010

WHITE PAPER: This white paper looks at how businesses of different sizes use servers in their data centers. Server sizing and server refreshes are discussed, as well as virtualization and storage considerations, with an emphasis on how Dell and Intel products serve various size organizations.

Posted: 28 Jan 2011 | Published: 28 Jan 2011

EZINE: The inaugural issue of BI Trends & Strategies offers sound advice to help you in ensuring your organization is on track to keep up with the rapidly changing landscape of BI and analytics. In this issue, readers will learn about a big data definition and the impact it will have on BI and data warehousing, agile development methodology and more.

Posted: 27 Jan 2012 | Published: 27 Jan 2012

WHITE PAPER: There is a well-spring of features and capabilities of Microsoft's Exchange Server 2007 messaging platform. The longer you use it, the more treasures you can pull up from the deep. In this paper, we'll look at and discuss five things you probably don't know about Exchange Server 2007.

Posted: 27 Jul 2009 | Published: 27 Jul 2009

WHITE PAPER: Today, IT has become a valuable asset of any organization. Because of this, data center availability has become essential. Yet businesses still remain vulnerable to a variety of threats, including electrical power systems. This resource explores 10 best practices for building and maintaining a highly available data center power infrastructure.

Posted: 02 Feb 2012 | Published: 02 Feb 2012

WHITE PAPER: Most IT leaders are already familiar with the buzz around Windows Server 2008 R2. The platform enables dynamic clustering, reduced electricity costs, increased security and productivity. Now, the question becomes when—and how—to upgrade. Inside this white paper, find tips for a seamless migration.

Posted: 01 Oct 2011 | Published: 01 Oct 2011

EBOOK: Moving to a consolidated data center reduces the number of servers, which can minimize required investments in hardware, hardware maintenance charges, data center space costs and energy use. This e-book outlines a systematic approach you can use to server consolidation to ensure that your data center reaps all the benefits of virtualization.

Posted: 16 Aug 2011 | Published: 16 Aug 2011

WHITE PAPER: This white paper discusses a gradual approach to building a new server room. Find out key factors to consider as you proceed with your initiative, such as site selection and size, energy, backup, and more.

Posted: 01 Nov 2011 | Published: 01 Nov 2011

WHITE PAPER: When moving to the cloud, utilizing the latest solution can help ease the transition, enabling an agile set of service delivery capabilities across all IT domains. Read this white paper to learn more about how this technology utilizes a hybrid service delivery model to optimize the business value of your cloud.

Posted: 07 Dec 2011 | Published: 07 Dec 2011

WHITE PAPER: This paper explores how you can optimize UPS availability by focusing on minimizing repair time and maximizing redundancy, both inside your UPSs and across your power protection initiatives. Also learn why modular UPS designs provide superior availability even though they typically contain more parts that could potentially fail.

Posted: 07 Feb 2012 | Published: 07 Feb 2012

WHITE PAPER: In this white paper, you will gain insight into how a business analytics and optimization platform (BAOP) solution works within specific industries, including telecommunications, energy and utilities, and manufacturing.

Posted: 01 Dec 2011 | Published: 01 Dec 2011

CASE STUDY: Bluewater Power implemented a set SAP and IBM solutions to help deal with new regulations and mandates in the energy sector. Read this case study to learn all the benefits Bluewater experienced by choosing this set of SAP and IBM solutions and learn how your organization can experience these same benefits as well.

Posted: 17 Nov 2010 | Published: 17 Nov 2010

WHITE PAPER: The protocol utilized to transport data between servers and storage for High Performance Computing (HPC) and to define a Storage Area Network (SAN) is Fibre Channel(FC). Fibre Channel is an "invisible" protocol, because it is only known to the technicians that implement it and keep it working. This paper will provide an overview of this technology.

Posted: 25 Jan 2010 | Published: 25 Jan 2010

WHITE PAPER: Inside, explore 5 questions you need to ask before selecting a high-efficiency, multi-mode UPS for your data center.

Posted: 07 Feb 2012 | Published: 07 Feb 2012

WHITE PAPER: Read this paper for resources to help you determine how much powering and cooling the data center is costing your organization, and learn how the Hyper-V Server 2008 R2 can help reduce these requirements.

Posted: 16 Nov 2010 | Published: 16 Nov 2010

WHITE PAPER: Read this paper for resources to help you determine how much powering and cooling the data center is costing your organization, and learn how the Hyper-V Server 2008 R2 can help reduce these requirements.

Posted: 15 Oct 2010 | Published: 15 Oct 2010

WHITE PAPER: Discover how you can improve the performance of applications by 5-50 times and boost productivity with a next-generation approach that incorporates service-level assurance and managed WAN optimization.

Posted: 12 Jan 2012 | Published: 12 Jan 2012