Server Hardware Reports

EZINE: In this week’s Computer Weekly, our latest Buyer's Guide examines best practice in desktop virtualisation. We ask if a six-year-old technology could be a key to tackling IT security threats. And we look at how universities are dealing with their IT challenges as they await the first intake of students at new higher tuition fees. Read the issue now.

Posted: 18 Jun 2012 | Published: 19 Jun 2012

EBOOK: This expert e-book explores the changes to mainframes in the past ten years. Discover how your organization can lower TCO and achieve other benefits by moving workloads to the mainframe.

Posted: 05 Jun 2012 | Published: 31 Dec 2011

EZINE: Learn how your organization can improve capacity planning and make the most of your hardware. This expert e-zine presents common challenges of capacity planning and effective tools that can help.

Posted: 14 Jun 2012 | Published: 31 Mar 2012

PRESENTATION TRANSCRIPT: Read this presentation transcript to learn how to leverage commodity processing hardware to reduce total cost of ownership (TCO) and optimize performance, scalability and availability when running SAP systems in Microsoft Windows Server and SQL Server environments.

Posted: 12 Jun 2012 | Published: 12 Jun 2012

WHITE PAPER: Choosing the right hardware for your virtual environment can be a painstaking process, especially since it is difficult to predict how a platform will perform once it is deployed. This white paper examines one hardware configuration and measures the number of orders per minute and virtual machines it can support.

Posted: 07 Jun 2012 | Published: 01 May 2012

WHITE PAPER: Access this resource to  learn about IBM vs. Oracle’s different methods of workload optimization. Review the differences between IBM’s three server approach and Oracle’s one-size-fits-all approach to deep analytics, operational analytics, and transaction processing, and decide which technology best suits your organization.

Posted: 07 Jun 2012 | Published: 01 Jun 2012

EBOOK: Discover how your organization can implement the mainframe component of a service-oriented architecture. Inside, you’ll learn how to convert mainframe applications into web services and achieve benefits like increased architectural flexibility, reduced administrative costs and more.

Posted: 05 Jun 2012 | Published: 31 Dec 2011

WHITE PAPER: This white paper examines frequently cited obstacles to virtualization adoption. Learn how to simplify the virtualization deployment process by installing a pre-built and pre-assembled framework for your virtual infrastructure.

Posted: 31 May 2012 | Published: 01 Dec 2011

WHITE PAPER: This document compares the pricing of Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization (RHEV) with the pricing of VMware vSphere 5 for server virtualization. Inside, find detailed pricing comparisons for the use cases of 100 and 250 virtual servers.

Posted: 25 May 2012 | Published: 25 May 2012

WHITE PAPER: This document compares the pricing of Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization for Desktops (RHEV) with the pricing of VMware View 5 for desktop virtualization. Access a detailed price comparison for the use cases of 100 virtual desktops.

Posted: 25 May 2012 | Published: 25 May 2012

EGUIDE: In this e-guide, uncover why SQL Server virtualisation isn’t just a fad and the benefits it has to offer organisations like yours. Also discover tips for how to select and implement the right kind of hardware for your organisation to ensure sufficient support for a virtualised SQL Server infrastructure.

Posted: 23 May 2012 | Published: 23 May 2012

VIDEOCAST: This brief video introduces cutting-edge smart servers that give you insight into your IT infrastructure so you can prevent common issues before they lead to data loss or downtime. Discover how they can enable you to optimize application performance and reduce energy consumption, in addition to many other significant benefits.

Posted: 18 May 2012 | Premiered: Apr 11, 2012

WHITE PAPER: Access this white paper to discover innovative approaches to eliminating chaos in your data center or server room. From quick fixes to long term solutions, this resource has it all.

Posted: 01 May 2012 | Published: 01 May 2012

WHITE PAPER: Access this white paper to discover ten cooling solutions to support high-density server deployment. Read on to learn how your organization can increase cooling efficiency and more.

Posted: 01 May 2012 | Published: 01 May 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: x86-based Linux platforms may seem like an affordable option for supporting SAP workloads, but ongoing maintenance costs quickly exceed the low acquisition costs of these architectures. Learn about a recommended alternative that can be integrated with virtualization and find out why it is ideally suited for your SAP environment.

Posted: 26 Apr 2012 | Published: 26 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

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

Posted: 13 Apr 2012 | Published: 23 Apr 2012

WHITE PAPER: In today’s complex business environments, IT managers are driven to lower both capital and operating expenditures while increasing capacity for more application services and growing markets. Read this white paper to learn how many of these challenges can be addressed by effective implementation of chip multithreading (CMT) technology-based servers.

Posted: 11 Apr 2012 | Published: 30 Nov 2011

WHITE PAPER: Read this white paper to learn how Oracle’s SPARC T4 servers deliver new levels of end-to-end data center performance never before seen in the T-Series line of servers.

Posted: 11 Apr 2012 | Published: 11 Apr 2012

EBOOK: View this e-book to see how the new SPARC SuperCluster T4-4 combines the very best of Oracle’s high-performance technologies in a single machine – giving you an engineered system that is designed, tested and optimized to handle the most complex multi-tier workloads with unparalleled ease.

Posted: 11 Apr 2012 | Published: 11 Apr 2012

EBOOK: Discover the benefits of Oracle's new SPARC T4 servers and how they deliver world record performance for a wide range of enterprise applications, and offer enhanced reliability and security, improved virtualization tools, and reduced costs. View this e-book packed with valuable information, customer success stories, and a 3D demo.

Posted: 11 Apr 2012 | Published: 11 Apr 2012

WHITE PAPER: Read this white paper to learn about Oracle Exalogic Elastic Cloud, an Engineered System consisting of software, firmware, and hardware designed to meet the highest standards of reliability, serviceability and performance.

Posted: 09 Apr 2012 | Published: 15 Sep 2011

VIDEO: Watch this short video on a new line of NAS servers specifically designed to provide your business with all the special features you require, along high speed performance. Learn how adding a small and energy efficient chip enables your business to share, access, and protect all your files quickly and painlessly.

Posted: 05 Apr 2012 | Premiered: 05 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