Hardware Management Reports

WHITE PAPER: This essential resource discusses the top challenges in converging your data center infrastructure and best practices for creating a successful convergence strategy. Discover the core benefits this approach provides your IT infrastructure and how you can effectively simplify your data center management today!

Posted: 01 Oct 2012 | Published: 30 Sep 2012

WHITE PAPER: This resource details the top reasons for converging your data center infrastructure that will simplify the management of your IT environment. Discover the key steps you must take in order to begin your journey to a converged infrastructure on the right foot.

Posted: 20 Sep 2012 | Published: 20 Sep 2012

PRESENTATION TRANSCRIPT: There are a variety of options when it comes to data center convergence. Finding a best-fit solution for your organization can be difficult. Learn more about how your business can optimize their virtualization process with an in-depth exploration of tips and techniques for building a converged data center.

Posted: 13 Sep 2012 | Published: 13 Sep 2012

WHITE PAPER: Access this white paper to learn about the developments of IBM i on Power Systems. Discover how to achieve valuable benefits like reliability, simplified installation and administration, continuing hardware innovations and much more.

Posted: 18 May 2012 | Published: 18 May 2012

WHITE PAPER: By using the Oracle Exadata Database Machine as a data warehouse platform you have a balanced, high performance hardware configuration. This paper focuses on the other two corner stones, data modeling and data loading, providing a set of best practices and examples for deploying a data warehouse on the Oracle Exadata Database Machine.

Posted: 12 Mar 2012 | Published: 30 Sep 2010

CASE STUDY: This case study looks at how making the proper server choices can help increase the utilization of resources, find new ways to achieve higher qualities of service and capitalize on superior economics. Read on to learn how x86 multi-cores differ from Power Systems and mainframes, and why the right server can lead to a greater ROI.

Posted: 23 Feb 2012 | Published: 19 Jan 2011

EGUIDE: In this e-guide, readers will receive tips for choosing server hardware for Oracle environments, as well as a real-life case study.

Posted: 22 Nov 2011 | Published: 22 Nov 2011

WHITE PAPER: Learn how you can unite all the components required to make a complete and secure VDI services delivery solution in one integrated and consolidated platform.

Posted: 15 Nov 2011 | Published: 15 Nov 2011

WHITE PAPER: Read this white paper and discover how IBM tech support solutions fit into every good resiliency plan and what to look for in a good business resilience vendor.

Posted: 25 Oct 2011 | Published: 25 Oct 2011

WHITE PAPER: This comprehensive white paper explores the many challenges organizations need to address in order to ensure smooth implementation, coordination and management of their PC refresh initiatives.

Posted: 06 Jul 2011 | Published: 06 Jul 2011

EGUIDE: Read this E-Guide for a helpful checklist before upgrading your hardware and to better understand how the hardware will affect Oracle databases.

Posted: 21 Jun 2011 | Published: 21 Jun 2011

EGUIDE: This expert e-guide from SearchVMware.com highlights key virtual hardware statistics to ensure you choose the best virtual machine for your IT shop. Learn more here.

Posted: 31 May 2011 | Published: 31 May 2011

EGUIDE: Access this eGuide to determine if your data center hardware is ready for a re-fresh and discover cost-effective alternatives to a re-fresh, including leasing and upgrading the existing hardware in your data center for a highly favorable ROI.

Posted: 11 May 2011 | Published: 11 May 2011

WHITE PAPER: This paper discusses a trade-in program provided by HP to help you cost-effectively upgrade your infrastructure. Uncover which products are eligible and how to get started.

Posted: 10 May 2011 | Published: 10 May 2011

WHITE PAPER: By using the Oracle Exadata Database Machine as a data warehouse platform you have a balanced, high performance hardware configuration. This paper focuses on the other two corner stones, data modeling and data loading, providing a set of best practices and examples for deploying a data warehouse on the Oracle Exadata Database Machine.

Posted: 25 Apr 2011 | Published: 30 Nov 2010

EGUIDE: In this e-guide from SearchServerVirtualization.com, gain expert insight on how to approach a virtualization project to ensure maximum success. Understand what challenges you can anticipate and pitfalls to avoid. Plus, find out how to evaluate costs associated with virtualization and which areas can deliver the best advantages.

Posted: 24 Feb 2011 | Published: 24 Feb 2011

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

EGUIDE: Learn how virtualizing your applications can improve resource usage and reduce hardware costs for your organization. Also, find out how using virtual appliances can make software deployment easier.

Posted: 07 Dec 2010 | Published: 07 Dec 2010

PRESENTATION TRANSCRIPT: Upgrading from VMware ESX and/or ESXi 3.x to vSphere 4 successfully involves careful planning. There are hardware, software and database requirements, as well as third-party software compatibility considerations. This transcript provides guidelines for planning a successful upgrade, and walks you through a proposed upgrade path step-by-step.

Posted: 18 Nov 2010 | Published: 18 Nov 2010

EBOOK: This all encompassing SearchStorage.com e-book will cover the bases of solid-state drives (SSD). Learn more about adding SSD drives instead of disk drives, how to implement NAND flash, and the benefits and fallbacks of standalone SSD arrays.

Posted: 20 Oct 2010 | Published: 20 Oct 2010

WHITE PAPER: Read this article from IBM to discover the details behind the definition: cloud computing is an all-inclusive solution in which all computing resources (hardware, software, networking, storage, and so on) are provided rapidly to users as demand dictates.

Posted: 21 Sep 2010 | Published: 21 Sep 2010

WHITE PAPER: Read this white paper for an examination of a new software development language and technology called SequenceL, as well as a description of how it works, why there is a need for it and how well it performs in parallel environments.

Posted: 08 Sep 2010 | Published: 26 Aug 2010

PRESENTATION TRANSCRIPT: Upgrading from VMware ESX and/or ESXi 3.x to vSphere 4 successfully involves careful planning. There are hardware, software and database requirements, as well as third-party software compatibility considerations. This transcript provides guidelines for planning a successful upgrade, and walks you through a proposed upgrade path step-by-step.

Posted: 06 Sep 2010 | Published: 23 Aug 2010

VIDEOCAST: Learn about Trusted Computing in today’s enterprise with this executive briefing on two different forms of embedded hardware security: the Trusted Platform Module (TPM) and self-encrypting drive (SED). Designed by the Trusted Computing Group (TCG) to counter the vulnerabilities of software-based security, and so much more.

Posted: 24 Aug 2010 | Premiered: Aug 24, 2010

EBOOK: Read this E-Book and learn how reducing hardware complexity can increase the performance of a SAP landscape and key considerations for designing or upgrading your hardware infrastructure. Additionally, best practices are explained for running a virtualized SAP infrastructure.

Posted: 18 Sep 2009 | Published: 01 Sep 2009