Server Consolidation Reports

WEBCAST: Watch this webcast to learn about a new unique workload profiling tool that takes the guess work out of identifying underutilized physical servers and virtual hosts. Learn how to leverage this tool for improved use and longer life of your current hardware.

Posted: 28 Aug 2009 | Premiered: Aug 28, 2009

PRESENTATION TRANSCRIPT: In this presentation transcript, Ellen O'Brien interviews Bill Peldzus, Vice President of Data Center Services at GlassHouse Technologies. Bill talks about helping customers with data center migration and consolidation projects and names the two biggest challenges out there today - cost and expense and the overall complexity of a project.

Posted: 18 Aug 2009 | Published: 01 Aug 2009

WHITE PAPER: Organizations can benefit from the advantages of 10GbE, consolidation on Dell PowerEdge blade servers, and virtualization with VMware. By implementing 10GbE solutions, organizations can enjoy the economies they hoped to obtain by consolidating and virtualizing their server environment, along with increased performance, reliability, and security.

Posted: 12 Aug 2009 | Published: 09 Jun 2009

ANALYST REPORT: This FOCUS report of key findings presents the highlights of an end-user survey conducted in April 2009, outlining the current state of virtualization adoption, pain points, barriers to expansion, and management requirements.

Posted: 27 Jul 2009 | Published: 01 Aug 2009

WEBCAST: Watch how Langan Engineering & Environmental Services was able to increase availability and reduce data center energy consumption simultaneously, with the help of Emerson Network Power.

Posted: 07 Jul 2009 | Premiered: Jul 7, 2009

WHITE PAPER: Traffic between datacenters is growing at an accelerating rate. As throughput expands, the rate at which costs increase rises as well. A WAN optimization solution can help get backups and database synchronizations completed on time - without hurting VoIP or internet backhaul. Read on to learn more.

Posted: 01 Jul 2009 | Published: 01 Jul 2009

EGUIDE: In this informative Pocket Guide, brought to you by SearchServerVirtualization.com, Dell and VMware, learn more about the virtual management tools on the market and their functionality. Discover which product capabilities organizations should consider when evaluating virtual infrastructure management technologies.

Posted: 22 Jun 2009 | Published: 22 Jun 2009

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: 22 Jun 2009 | Published: 22 Jun 2009

PRODUCT OVERVIEW: Put state-of-the-art intelligence to work on the challenges of tomorrow by running Red Hat Enterprise Linux on the latest Intel® Xeon® processors. Red Hat's open source, commercial-strength innovation delivers optimized results for performance, energy efficiency, and advanced virtualization on Intel platforms, all at an affordable price.

Posted: 19 Jun 2009 | Published: 01 Jun 2009

WHITE PAPER: What is your IT really costing you? Could you be doing more with the technology you have? Could you reduce costs and provide better service to your organization? Read Red Hat's suggestions on "11 Questions Every CIO Should Ask Their IT Manager", and how Red Hat open source solutions can help.

Posted: 19 Jun 2009 | Published: 10 Jun 2009

EBOOK: Server sprawl and underutilization problems plague many data centers, with applications being assigned to a server that rarely uses any more than 5% to 10% of its computing capacity. This e-book explains optimizing server virtualization and server management and can help optimize a virtual server deployment.

Posted: 12 Jun 2009 | Published: 19 Feb 2009

EZINE: Data center managers face increasing challenges as virtual machines spread across the enterprise. Automation, monitoring and management tools can offer some much needed relief in the battle to keep control in a virtualized environment. In this month's issue of Virtual Data Center, learn how to choose the right virtual tools for the job.

Posted: 05 Jun 2009 | Published: 05 Jun 2009

PRODUCT OVERVIEW: Affordable high availability and disaster recovery solutions are critical to the survival of all SMBs in the event of a disaster. Building on years of helping SMBs protect their information, VMware and Dell provide cost-effective and robust data protection, disaster recovery, and high availability solutions.

Posted: 01 Jun 2009 | Published: 01 Feb 2009

EBOOK: This SearchDataCenter.com eBook takes a look at how to master the climate control for the data center. Organizations are creating more heat in smaller places which in turn requires efficient and effective climate control. Read this paper to learn more about how to properly cool your data center.

Posted: 29 May 2009 | Published: 29 May 2009

VIDEO: In this Videocast, learn what key points an organization looks at when thinking about a technology refresh. Gain insight into the value proposition of refreshing IT infrastructure with the Xeon Processor 5500 series and how it is essential for meeting performance, reliability and flexibility requirements.

Posted: 21 May 2009 | Premiered: 11 May 2009

WHITE PAPER: The Dell PowerEdge M-Series blade servers help cut operating expenses through energy efficiency, product flexibility, and efficient use of data center space.

Posted: 19 May 2009 | Published: 01 Dec 2008

WHITE PAPER: Dell's end-to-end approach helps customers worldwide solve their power and cooling challenges and meet the demands of business growth with industry-standard solutions. They offer solutions you can deploy right now, as well as the right mix of tools, partnerships, and services to help you get the most from your existing infrastructure.

Posted: 19 May 2009 | Published: 09 May 2008

WHITE PAPER: Dell EqualLogic Auto- Snapshot Manager / VMware Edition enables administrators to quickly and easily create hypervisor-aware snapshots of VMs-helping simplify data management, enhance scalability of data protection and recovery, and increase application performance.

Posted: 14 May 2009 | Published: 01 Nov 2008

WHITE PAPER: This white paper provides insight into the dark pools of liquidity, discusses the mechanism of dark pools trading, advantages and how technology would impact the operations or provide benefits in trading over this medium.

Posted: 13 May 2009 | Published: 12 May 2009

WHITE PAPER: This Deployment Guide reviews the approach that Dell and Principled Technologies recommend for a tested and validated migration of SQL Server 2000 databases to SQL Server 2008 on the Dell PowerEdge R900 server and Microsoft Windows Server 2008 Enterprise.

Posted: 27 Apr 2009 | Published: 27 Apr 2009

PRESENTATION TRANSCRIPT: VMware's virtual infrastructure has become the de-facto approach used across the storage industry today for server consolidation. When coupled with Data Domain's backup to disk storage, it provides a compelling solution to consolidate and simplify backup and recovery for VMware environments.

Posted: 20 Apr 2009 | Published: 20 Apr 2009

IT BRIEFING: To gain full value of virtualization, you need servers that are built to handle the heavy and ever-changing demands of a virtualized and consolidated computing environment. To help you get maximum benefits from virtualization, Intel has built a better physical server platform with unique hardware-assist features to enhance the virtual data center.

Posted: 20 Apr 2009 | Published: 20 Apr 2009

PRESENTATION TRANSCRIPT: In this presentation you will learn about this powerful solution, hear about specific deployments and the resulting benefits.

Posted: 16 Apr 2009 | Published: 15 Apr 2009

CASE STUDY: In this case study learn how Intel® processor-based blade servers helped TIBCO Software keep up with business growth while lowering IT costs.

Posted: 08 Apr 2009 | Published: 01 Dec 2008

TECHNICAL ARTICLE: Learn the powerful set of capabilities for offloading datacenter infrastructure that Citrix NetScaler provides, offering a quick, low-cost way for organizations to cut their web server count by 50 to 60 percent or more.

Posted: 20 Mar 2009 | Published: 08 Jun 2010