Server Consolidation Reports

WHITE PAPER: Maximizing performance while making efficient use of available power and space can be critical in data center environments. The new Dell™ PowerEdge™ R815 rack server with the AMD Opteron™ 6000 Series platform delivers four-processor performance in a compact, cost-effective 2U design. Access this white paper now to learn more.

Posted: 03 Nov 2010 | Published: 02 Nov 2010

EBOOK: This e-book, sponsored by Dell, Inc. and AMD, contains a variety of virtualization resources as well as product overviews and videos detailing the features and business benefits of AMD processors and Dell virtualization solutions.

Posted: 03 Nov 2010 | Published: 13 Sep 2010

WHITE PAPER: VMware and RIM have worked together over the past two-plus years to provide official support of Blackberry Enterprise Server (BES) solutions on VMware virtual infrastructure. In this white paper, learn about the best practices for running BlackBerry® Enterprise Server on VMware® Infrastructure 3 or VMware vSphere™ 4.

Posted: 26 Oct 2010 | Published: 01 Feb 2010

WHITE PAPER: Read this case study and see how the latest IBM System x and BladeCenter servers powered with the new energy efficient Intel Xeon 5500 series processors offer tremendous opportunity for reducing energy consumption, shrinking your data center footprint and lowering operational costs.

Posted: 22 Oct 2010 | Published: 22 Oct 2010

ANALYST REPORT: Read this report to learn how application modernization can help customize server technology to meet varying workload needs, to learn the best approaches to data center modernization, and to find how IBM System zEnterprise can simplify the server selection process.

Posted: 21 Oct 2010 | Published: 20 Jul 2010

WHITE PAPER: Learn how to support your SQL Server instances and control your costs and administration requirements.

Posted: 15 Oct 2010 | Published: 14 Oct 2010

WHITE PAPER: As a leader of a SMBs, your expertise lies in improving your business, not the technology that runs it. With virtualization, it’s enough to know that your business can decrease costs, increase IT productivity and protect corporate assets. And VMware is the clear leader in virtualization solutions for SMBs. Continue reading to learn more.

Posted: 11 Oct 2010 | Published: 11 Oct 2010

ANALYST BRIEF: Read this solution brief to learn how virtualizing your infrastucture with Intel® Xeon® processor 5500 series servers and VMware vSphere™ 4 can consolidate resources and improve your total cost of ownership by decreasing management costs and increasing asset utilization.

Posted: 11 Oct 2010 | Published: 11 Oct 2010

PRODUCT OVERVIEW: Consolidation and virtualization are hot trends in IT, helping organizations increase their flexibility in delivering valuable services and reduce costs. The Riverbed® Services Platform provides customers with the ability to run up to 5 additional services and applications virtually on VMware in a protected partition on the Steelhead® appliance.

Posted: 29 Sep 2010 | Published: 24 Apr 2009

WHITE PAPER: Virtualization on industry-standard servers has transformed IT service delivery, enabling companies to dramatically consolidate infrastructure, reduce costs, and much more. Read this paper to learn about the features and benefits of Vmware vSphere and the Intel Xeon processor 7500 series-based servers.

Posted: 29 Sep 2010 | Published: 05 May 2010

CASE STUDY: Oracle E-Business Suite is critical to 90-95% of EMC’s business functions. The solution VMware® Infrastructure and Intel® Xeon® processor based servers create a reliable and highly available platform for the Oracle E-Business Suite. Read this case study to learn more about the features and business benefits of EMC's new virtual platform.

Posted: 27 Sep 2010 | Published: 27 Sep 2010

CASE STUDY: The IBM Systems and Technology Group European Learning Center consolidated their IT resources into a single location and reduced lab system provisioning time with cloud computing. Read this case study to see how technical staff can now configure IT resources for a benchmark or a course lab environment in just one day.

Posted: 23 Sep 2010 | Published: 26 Mar 2009

WHITE PAPER: In this paper we compare a typical Exchange 2003 configuration of 10,000 mailboxes on somewhat legacy hardware with two examples of an Exchange 2010 configuration to show the potential efficiencies attainable by migrating to Exchange 2010 on new server and storage hardware from Dell.

Posted: 22 Sep 2010 | Published: 01 May 2010

CASE STUDY: The Dell IT group has virtualized more than 5,000 servers and saved the company over US$29 million using a scalable, worldwide virtualization model.

Posted: 15 Sep 2010 | Published: 31 Oct 2008

EBOOK: This e-book, sponsored by Dell, Inc. and AMD, contains a variety of virtualization resources as well as product overviews and videos detailing the features and business benefits of AMD processors and Dell virtualization solutions.

Posted: 13 Sep 2010 | Published: 13 Sep 2010

WHITE PAPER: The objective of this white paper is to identify the consolidation factor for an Oracle database running Online Transaction Processing (OLTP) workloads on legacy 9th Generation PowerEdge 2950 2U 2 socket to the new 11G PowerEdge R810 2U 4/2 socket servers.

Posted: 09 Sep 2010 | Published: 01 Apr 2010

EZINE: When new platforms or technologies appear, data center managers must consider the impact on applications and drive the software development efforts that will keep their businesses competitive. Find out how a more efficient re-design can vastly improve an application's performance when run within a virtual machine.

Posted: 01 Sep 2010 | Published: 31 Aug 2010

PRESENTATION TRANSCRIPT: This presentation transcript explores the cost and efficiency benefits of server virtualization and explains how this technology can help companies prepare their IT environments for cloud computing. Learn about the requirements for virtualization and find out which hardware is best suited to meet the needs of your virtual infrastructure.

Posted: 01 Sep 2010 | Published: 01 Sep 2010

WHITE PAPER: Read this white paper to learn how Dell ProConsult Services helped develop and implement a flexible, scalable, automated virtualized infrastructure for several companies, allowing them to take advantage of cloud computing and focus on their core business.

Posted: 31 Aug 2010 | Published: 11 Jun 2010

WHITE PAPER: The decisions of CIOs today are high on the business agenda as they prepare their companies for post-slump growth while continuing major cost reductions. In this paper you'll hear from Steve Schuckenbrock, President, Large Enterprise at Dell, as he discusses the role of the CIO, dilemnas CIOs face today, and much more!

Posted: 30 Aug 2010 | Published: 30 Aug 2010

PRESENTATION TRANSCRIPT: Read this presentation transcript with Michael Rowan, CTO & Co-Founder of Viridity Software, and Marty Stephens, Director of Information Technology of LexisNexis Risk Solutions, as they discuss how Viridity EnergyCenter software helped LexisNexis Risk Solutions improve energy efficiency and lowered their power bill.

Posted: 09 Aug 2010 | Published: 09 Aug 2010

EBOOK: Server consolidation can save your organization money by increasing utilization rates and reducing power and cooling costs. Learn how capacity planning and virtualization technologies can help you meet your server consolidation goals.

Posted: 04 Aug 2010 | Published: 04 Aug 2010

EZINE: This issue from Smart Paper explores virtualisation as an optimal solution for CIOs interested in increasing agility and efficiency in their business. Following a simple path, CIOs can migrate from a testing and development environment to a pure virtual or a hybrid production environment, thereby realizing the benefits of virtualisation.

Posted: 28 Jul 2010 | Published: 28 Jul 2010

EGUIDE: Windows Server 2008 R2 is here! Whether you've already begun to make steps towards this upgrade or you're still evaluating all your options, it's important to understand what you're getting into. In this expert e-guide from SearchVirtualDataCentre.co.uk, learn about new features coming with this release.

Posted: 26 Jul 2010 | Published: 26 Jul 2010

EGUIDE: In this Pocket Guide, brought to you by SearchServerVirtualization.com, Dell and VMware, discover the central tasks in the assessment and planning stages of a virtualization project.

Posted: 21 Jul 2010 | Published: 22 Jun 2009