Server Consolidation Reports

ANALYST REPORT: In late 2008, Forrester Research commenced work on a research project commissioned by Dell, Inc., that focused on examining the potential return on investment (ROI) enterprises may realize by adopting Dell's server virtualization solutions in conjunction with VMware's ESX server and virtualization platform. Read this study to discover key findings.

Posted: 05 Apr 2010 | Published: 13 Feb 2009

WHITE PAPER: Working with Dell will ensure that your virtualization projects achieve fast time to value and return on investment (ROI). Read this paper to learn about how Dell Global Infrastructure Consulting Services, backed by a close partnership with Microsoft, offers flexible, high-impact consulting services for comprehensive solution design and much more.

Posted: 05 Apr 2010 | Published: 05 Apr 2010

EBOOK: Chapter 4 of this e-book summarizes strategies for lessening the environmental impact of data centers and helps IT managers create a holistic four-phased approach to an energy-efficient data center project that includes persuading C-level executives to pursue energy efficiency, measuring data center energy consumption, and much more.

Posted: 01 Apr 2010 | Published: 30 Mar 2010

PRESENTATION TRANSCRIPT: This presentation transcript explores the role that planning plays in the success or failure of virtualization adoption. Gain insight into each phase of the project life cycle and how the associated processes can be improved for effective implementation.

Posted: 18 Mar 2010 | Published: 18 Mar 2010

EGUIDE: This expert E-Guide, brought to you by SearchServerVirtualization.com and Dell, provides an overview of the expenses associated with virtualization and highlights the virtual server trends expected for 2010. Gain insight into the tangible virtualization costs, and learn how to keep pace with the changing server virtualization market.

Posted: 11 Mar 2010 | Published: 11 Mar 2010

EBOOK: Some IT managers have steered clear of server virtualization technologies because the deployment process can seem too daunting to begin. But this step-by-step handbook maps out the deployment process in four easy-to-follow steps.

Posted: 05 Mar 2010 | Published: 05 Mar 2010

EGUIDE: In this expert E-Guide, brought to you by SearchServerVirtualization.com and Dell, you will discover how to balance the storage and networking demands of today's virtual environments.

Posted: 05 Mar 2010 | Published: 05 Mar 2010

PRESENTATION TRANSCRIPT: Improving data backup and recovery can impact a company’s budget.  Do you want to gain tips to improve your backup systems without impacting your bottom line?  View this whitepaper to learn about improving reliability of backups and restores and reducing backup storage capacity requirements by up to 95%.

Posted: 15 Feb 2010 | Published: 15 Feb 2010

WHITE PAPER: Read this paper by Global Knowledge instructor, John Hales, to learn how to build a home lab for VMware vSphere for study. This paper is broken down into three major sections; the first and most detailed is about the hardware required, the second is about the Workstation configuration, and the third is about installing vSphere and Virtual Center.

Posted: 12 Feb 2010 | Published: 12 Feb 2010

EBOOK: Database consolidation can take many forms, but getting the most out of your available resources is always the goal. Read this E-Book to learn about your SQL Server consolidation options.

Posted: 08 Feb 2010 | Published: 08 Feb 2010

WEBCAST: Too many vendors (and, as a result, IT pros) consider cloud a technology in and of itself. This webcast explains the benefits of realising that the cloud is a way of providing IT services as a consolidated pool of server and storage resources that can be provisioned to support a wide range of applications and data types.

Posted: 02 Feb 2010 | Premiered: Feb 2, 2010

WEBCAST: Together with VMware, Dell is making virtual infrastructures faster to implement and manage. In this online seminar you'll learn how you can get more virtual with virtualization optimized Dell hardware integrated with VMware vSphere.

Posted: 25 Jan 2010 | Premiered: Jan 25, 2010

PRESENTATION TRANSCRIPT: This presentation transcript explores several virtualization applications, and details 10 common use cases for virtualization and it can help your company improve their IT infrastructure. Discover how to enhance your disaster recovery and high availability plans without draining the IT budget.

Posted: 25 Jan 2010 | Published: 03 Dec 2009

WHITE PAPER: Following are the top five business reasons organizations are choosing the Hitachi Universal Storage Platform V and Universal Storage Platform VM for their virtualization environments, to drive efficiencies across their data centers.

Posted: 25 Jan 2010 | Published: 25 Jan 2010

EBOOK: Data center efficiency has become increasingly important to IT departments. With IT departments now on the hook for reducing their energy use, technologists look to sources of inefficiency and see that commodity scale-out servers are clear culprits. In chapter 2 of this ebook, we'll discuss server efficiency tactics, fixes and other strategies.

Posted: 25 Jan 2010 | Published: 25 Jan 2010

WHITE PAPER: Today's successful businesses depend on adaptable technologies to help them respond quickly to market demands. Emerson Network Power's portfolio of products provide innovative, flexible solutions that ensure reliability and efficiency.

Posted: 22 Jan 2010 | Published: 22 Jan 2010

WHITE PAPER: This informative white paper explains how the new Oracle Real Application Clusters (RAC) One Node offers enhanced high availability for single-instance databases, protecting from both planned and unplanned downtime.

Posted: 13 Jan 2010 | Published: 17 Dec 2009

EBOOK: Server virtualization is a popular topic in business continuity (BC) and disaster recovery (DR). Here's a quick look at some common myths and the realities that are constantly changing in the server virtualization landscape.

Posted: 13 Jan 2010 | Published: 13 Jan 2010

ANALYST REPORT: Principled Technologies sought out to see how many Dell PowerEdge 2650s can be consolidated onto a single PowerEdge R805 with a Dell PowerVault MD1000 attached? We defined a consolidation methodology, which we detail later in this report; conducted multiple rounds of testing; and analyzed the results.

Posted: 28 Dec 2009 | Published: 28 Dec 2009

WHITE PAPER: This Focus profile describes Microsoft Hyper-V and VMM. It discusses Microsoft's server virtualization history, the origins of the Microsoft virtual server technologies and solutions, and the architecture of those solutions.

Posted: 23 Dec 2009 | Published: 28 Mar 2008

CASE STUDY: This case study provides IT professionals and technical decision makers working in large enterprises with the information they need to plan and deploy server virtualization by using Windows Server 2008 Hyper-V.

Posted: 22 Dec 2009 | Published: 22 Dec 2009

PRODUCT OVERVIEW: EMC and its partners have the technologies, solutions, and expertise to help customers accelerate the backup of their VMware® servers, improve the performance of their production environments, and improve protection for critical VMware application environments.

Posted: 17 Dec 2009 | Published: 17 Dec 2009

PRESENTATION TRANSCRIPT: Is your organization struggling to reduce server costs and improve performance? This presentation transcript explores how various virtualization and server platforms stack up in performance tests. Learn how to leverage this technology to achieve significant consolidation and cost savings.

Posted: 14 Dec 2009 | Published: 14 Dec 2009

EBOOK: Chapter 2 of this Ebook looks at how taking a systematic and phased approach to server consolidation—data gathering, analysis and migration preparation and implementation—will ensure that your data center reaps all the benefits of virtualization.

Posted: 09 Dec 2009 | Published: 09 Dec 2009

PRESENTATION TRANSCRIPT: Virtual desktops provide many consolidation opportunities, as well as some unique security and business continuity advantages. This transcript will give you an overview of desktop virtualization, highlight several virtual desktop solutions, and analyze the operational efficiency gains possible with desktop virtualization.

Posted: 08 Dec 2009 | Published: 07 Dec 2009