Server Consolidation Reports

EBRIEF: Explore current trends and tools for capacity planning in this e-brief. Discover how you can maximize server space and overcome top challenges of capacity planning to increase server utilization and ROI these tips from virtualization pro David Davis.

Posted: 16 Mar 2012 | Published: 16 Mar 2012

EZINE: Virtualization may be well underway, but it doesn't mean new challenges won't arise as you continue to navigate your initiative. This expert e-zine offers detailed guidance for achieving the right balance in your virtual data center and presents key findings concerning your peers' consolidation objectives for 2012.

Posted: 21 Feb 2012 | Published: 20 Feb 2012

PRESENTATION TRANSCRIPT: This presentation covers the trends, challenges, and impact of virtualization on SMBs today, and also discusses how to implement effective backup and recovery for virtualized environments.

Posted: 30 Apr 2012 | Published: 30 Apr 2012

EGUIDE: Customers interested in purchasing blade servers must carefully assess the costs of implementing and maintaining these platforms. This expert e-guide presents a cost/benefit analysis of blade servers and explains why virtualization should be factored into investment decisions.

Posted: 27 Apr 2012 | Published: 27 Apr 2012

WHITE PAPER: Discover how proactive and automated workload management can help you maximize virtualization ROI and deliver truly optimized workload performance. Read on to discover what most virtual management tools are lacking and how you can gain the analytical abilities you need.

Posted: 25 Apr 2012 | Published: 25 Apr 2012

EGUIDE: Explore the top 8 considerations to keep in mind when selecting a tool to manage your virtual environment, including reviewing the product’s update path, considering the learning curve involved, and more.

Posted: 18 Apr 2012 | Published: 18 Apr 2012

CASE STUDY: This case study details how one company leveraged a dedicated software to gain simultaneous access to critical information, eliminating the need for redundant copies of data and realizing tremendous storage savings.

Posted: 18 Apr 2012 | Published: 18 Apr 2012

EGUIDE: Read this expert e-guide to learn how SQL Server consolidation can help you cut costs and increase efficiency. Discover why many companies are choosing to consolidate several databases on different physical servers into a single SQL Server and the metrics you must consider before doing so.

Posted: 18 Apr 2012 | Published: 18 Apr 2012

EZINE: Themed ezine looking at the issues in the server market and the opportunities for resellers.

Posted: 13 Apr 2012 | Published: 23 Apr 2012

EGUIDE: Server buyers should consider the implications of vendor roadmaps and consolidation and look to capacity planning and objective tools when updating data center hardware. In this IT handbook you will learn the importance of a server roadmap, factors to consider in server selection, tips on server consolidation and capacity planning, and much more.

Posted: 03 Apr 2012 | Published: 04 Mar 2011

WHITE PAPER: Check out this ESG Report for a hands-on introduction to a hybrid solid-state storage solution designed to deliver fast performance for mixed-application workloads in both consolidated and virtual server environments. Read on to learn about the features of this technology, and to discover how it stacked up against ESG's lab testing.

Posted: 30 Mar 2012 | Published: 29 Mar 2012

PRESENTATION TRANSCRIPT: 2012 holds a lot of promise for today's data centers, with several new trends taking off at the same time. This presentation transcript follows the evolution of virtualization, cloud computing, and other recent technologies and projects the impact they will have on business infrastructures.

Posted: 30 Mar 2012 | Published: 30 Mar 2012

PRESENTATION TRANSCRIPT: In part one of this guide to consolidating, virtualizing and enabling a successful and scalable cloud infrastructure, discover how you can modernize your data center with technologies from Cisco, Intel and Red Hat.

Posted: 29 Mar 2012 | Published: 29 Mar 2012

WHITE PAPER: This white paper explains why more and more companies are adopting a unified approach to data centre management and offers detailed guidance to help them address concerns over capacity planning, application performance, server sprawl, and more.

Posted: 16 Mar 2012 | Published: 16 Mar 2012

PRESENTATION TRANSCRIPT: In this presentation transcript, learn how your company can successfully transition to a multi-tenant, virtual and converged data center.

Posted: 16 Mar 2012 | Published: 15 Mar 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: 12 Mar 2012 | Published: 20 Dec 2010

EGUIDE: As businesses undertake virtualisation of their datacentres to consolidate servers, reducing administrative tasks and costs in the bargain, they may run into many unexpected challenges with networking, storage and server hardware. In this expert buyer's guide, discover how to overcome the trickiest virtualisation challenges.

Posted: 07 Mar 2012 | Published: 07 Mar 2012

PRESENTATION TRANSCRIPT: In this Q&A session with the Red Hat Virtualization team, gain insights into the Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization (RHEV) platform and discover how RHEV compares to the competition in terms of price, flexibility, features and more. Review the experts' responses to key questions posed by your peers.

Posted: 27 Feb 2012 | Published: 27 Feb 2012

WHITE PAPER: This document details the features of Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization 3.0 in comparison with VMware vSphere 5 and Microsoft Hyper-V 2008 R2. This document is designed to give you information about Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization (RHEV) and to allow you to compare features and benefits across multiple virtualization platforms.

Posted: 24 Feb 2012 | Published: 01 Jan 2012

WHITE PAPER: Implementing secure virtual and cloud environments is a major concern for businesses. Discover how KVM hypervisors provide the security businesses need with features such mandatory access control and hardware-based isolation, and compare its performance against other general-purpose x86 hypervisors.

Posted: 20 Feb 2012 | Published: 17 Feb 2012

WEBCAST: Join this exclusive live chat on February 23rd, 11 AM - 2 PM EST to explore Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization with the Red Hat Virtualization team. Discover how you can leverage this enterprise-grade solution for mission-critical workloads, and get key questions answered.

Posted: 20 Feb 2012 | Premiered: Feb 20, 2012

WHITE PAPER: Organizations stand to gain cost-savings of 40-75% from server consolidation and reduced data center space and power needs. Discover how a Red Hat and IBM partnership can help deliver enterprise-ready virtualization solutions that offer increased performance, scalability, security and manageability.

Posted: 17 Feb 2012 | Published: 17 Feb 2012

ASSESSMENT TOOL: With this online virtualization assessment tool, discover the potential savings your business stands to gain from deploying Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization (RHEV) technology in your data center. Customize each setting to gain a detailed ROI analysis and TCO comparison for your business.

Posted: 15 Feb 2012 | Published: 15 Feb 2012

WHITE PAPER: Concerns about migration downtime, security, and application service level maintenance have kept many organizations from virtualizing their infrastructure. Read this paper to discover how a converged infrastructure platform can bring you all the benefits of virtualization without the risks typically associated with an implementation.

Posted: 15 Feb 2012 | Published: 15 Feb 2012

WHITE PAPER: Read this white paper to learn about the significant advantages of private cloud computing and find strategies for overcoming the challenges and risks of an implementation.

Posted: 14 Feb 2012 | Published: 31 Dec 2011