High-density Servers

WHITE PAPER: Access this white paper to discover the impact of blade servers on data center management and agility. This resource presents survey results that show how your peers are using this technology and the benefits they are achieving.

Posted: 25 Jul 2012 | Published: 25 Jul 2012

PODCAST: This expert podcast compares blade and rack form factors and points out the benefits and drawbacks of each. Discover common blade adoption challenges and find out how the selection you make impacts data center operations.

Posted: 30 Aug 2012 | Premiered: Aug 29, 2012

WHITE PAPER: Access this case study to discover how one weather service improved routine runtime performance by 20% with a converged infrastructure. Read on to see how they successfully replaced the aging storage and servers with a solution that reduced capital requirements and service downtime.

Posted: 27 Jul 2012 | Published: 27 Jul 2012

WHITE PAPER: This white paper highlights the advantages of blade servers when implementing a virtual environment, ultimately leading to the cloud.

Posted: 18 Apr 2013 | Published: 18 Apr 2013

WHITE PAPER: This white paper describes the variety of desktop virtualization models available, how each works, and the advantages and limitations of each model for key vectors such as security, manageability, and power consumption. Also identified are the major providers of software solutions and the end-point devices to deploy each model.

Posted: 14 Sep 2011 | Published: 13 Sep 2011

EGUIDE: This expert e-guide offers a discussion of the different types of converged infrastructure and provides an overview of their advantages for IT environments. The paper goes on to introduce converged infrastructure hardware and the advantages offered by its use of four types of virtualization.

Posted: 19 Feb 2013 | Published: 19 Feb 2013

EGUIDE: This expert e-guide provides a comparison of blade and rack servers. Find out what key factors you should consider in your hardware decision and learn how to prevent sprawl through effective server consolidation.

Posted: 05 May 2011 | Published: 05 May 2011

WHITE PAPER: This white paper offers the results of a study done that evaluated the scalability of VMware® View 4.5™ on FlexPod™, a bundling of Cisco® Unified Computing System™ B-series blade servers connected to the NetApp® FAS Storage array. In addition, this resource reveals best practices for designing and sizing large-scale customer deployments.

Posted: 07 Nov 2011 | Published: 07 Nov 2011

CASE STUDY: HEROLD needed to deliver fast and reliable information services to customers across multiple channels, and was struggling to plan for and manage unpredictable demands on its IT infrastructure. The solution this company found offered a flexible infrastructure, enabling HEROLD to meet massive and sudden growth in demand for services.

Posted: 04 Nov 2011 | Published: 04 Nov 2011

WHITE PAPER: Applications such as high performance computing, Web 2.0 and cloud technologies are beginning to require similar features in the data center, including high density, serviceability and power efficiency. Find out how a shared infrastructure can meet these requirements, while providing significant TCO savings.

Posted: 06 Jul 2011 | Published: 06 Jul 2011