Server Management Reports

WHITE PAPER: Following four years of research and development, IBM's Watson debuted on Jeopardy! last year, competing at the level of human experts in terms of precision, confidence and speed. This white paper details Watson's workload optimized system design, how it's a glimpse into the future of systems design and why it offers a new computing paradigm.

Posted: 14 Feb 2012 | Published: 14 Feb 2012

PRESENTATION TRANSCRIPT: Virtualization should be easy, fast, open and affordable. This resource explores the Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization 3.0 concept. Learn about the background of Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization and some of the market dynamics in the virtualization space.

Posted: 10 Feb 2012 | Published: 10 Feb 2012

PRESENTATION TRANSCRIPT: Unprecedented data growth, IT sprawl, networking bottlenecks, and scalability limitations are just some of the top reasons causing many organizations to look for new ways to simplify their data centers. This expert resource explores top tools and strategies to help you successfully simplify data center management.

Posted: 06 Feb 2012 | Published: 06 Feb 2012

WHITE PAPER: This white paper provides an overview of Oracle’s capabilities for data warehousing and discusses the key features and technologies by which Oracle-based business intelligence and data warehouse systems easily integrate information, perform fast queries, scale to very large data volumes and analyze any data.

Posted: 02 Feb 2012 | Published: 01 Apr 2011

EGUIDE: Keeping Exchange Server 2010 running at full torque requires diligent management and administration. This e-guide examines some of the most common performance issues and explains how to mitigate them. Exchange MVP Andy Grogan also details best practices you should follow to prevent any performance setbacks.

Posted: 01 Feb 2012 | Published: 31 Jan 2012

WHITE PAPER: Virtualisation can help today’s organisations respond to increasing business demands. This resource explores a service that can help you rapidly deploy virtualisation within your environment. Learn how to optimise virtualisation performance and obtain best practices to ensure maximum benefits from your investment.

Posted: 25 Jan 2012 | Published: 25 Jan 2012

EZINE: In this week’s Computer Weekly, we mark the 10th anniversary of Microsoft’s Bill Gates announcing the Trustworthy Computing initiative, and ask if it has made IT more secure. We look at what Oracle’s latest developments mean for its software users running rivals’ servers, and conclude our Buyer’s Guide to IT consumerisation. Download the issue now.

Posted: 23 Jan 2012 | Published: 24 Jan 2012

WHITE PAPER: This paper compares the pricing of Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization with VMware vSphere5 for server virtualization. Both the Red Hat subscription pricing and the VMware license and support pricing are explained along with detailed comparisons.

Posted: 20 Jan 2012 | Published: 20 Jan 2012

WHITE PAPER: This white paper quantifies the advantages of unified computing and presents key findings from interviews with organizations who implemented it. Discover the savings you can expect across several key categories and determine whether this IT model is right for your organization.

Posted: 14 Jan 2012 | Published: 04 Jan 2012

WHITE PAPER: As organizations continue to virtualize their data centers, IT faces new challenges in managing virtual server deployment, migration, power and performance monitoring across the physical and virtual environments. Access this white paper to learn how integrated software management tools can help organizations maintain peak performance.

Posted: 12 Jan 2012 | Published: 12 Jan 2012

WHITE PAPER: With enterprises increasingly turning to virtualization to consolidate servers, businesses need more robust servers that can deliver enhanced performance. Access this resource to see how increasing core density and memory scalability can help your business handle more workloads, lower power usage and scale out.

Posted: 11 Jan 2012 | Published: 11 Jan 2012

CASE STUDY: Access this case study to learn how the IT team at Ross Medical Center has virtualized 90% of their x86 servers and replaced more than half of their aging desktop PCs with low-cost thin clients, achieving dramatic cost savings while improving the productivity of clinicians and IT administrators alike.

Posted: 09 Jan 2012 | Published: 09 Jan 2012

PRODUCT OVERVIEW: This solution brief explores the driving forces behind the decision to implement these technologies and reveals the key benefits you can expect once you have done so. Learn about a cloud reference architecture designed to provide secure isolation of tenants and systems, seamless provisioning and deprovisioning, and more.

Posted: 06 Jan 2012 | Published: 06 Jan 2012

WHITE PAPER: Cloud infrastructure platforms like VMware vSphere 4.0 can benefit from load balancers that connect users to the most suitable datacenter. This white paper outlines how the Riverbed Stingray Traffic Manager Virtual Appliance (VA) improves traffic performance compared to a Linux install.

Posted: 05 Jan 2012 | Published: 04 Jan 2012

WHITE PAPER: Turning to virtualization can increase an organization’s IT performance. But finding the ideal consolidation solution can be tricky. Read the white paper, “A Comparison of PowerVM and VMware Virtualization Performance”. See how IBM Power7 and PowerVM outdo other x86-based platforms to achieve broader scalability and increased flexibility.

Posted: 04 Jan 2012 | Published: 14 Apr 2010

WHITE PAPER: Running your Linux workloads on inefficient x86-based server farms is complex and costly. But switching to a consolidated server solution can be difficult. Read the white paper to learn the best practices for migrating to Power System servers. You’ll also see how simple it is to leverage IBM’s offerings to maximize performance and cost savings.

Posted: 04 Jan 2012 | Published: 07 Oct 2011

INFORMATION CENTER: Click below to gain access to Microsoft's Data Center, where you can gain insight on SQL Server Data Tools' benifits, install and download the tool pack, and get information to help you get started with developing today.

Posted: 03 Jan 2012 | Published: 03 Jan 2012

WEBCAST: Check out this essential webcast to learn all about the security & compliance features for SQL Server from Il-Sung Lee, Senior Program Manager from SQL Server Engine Security team.

Posted: 03 Jan 2012 | Premiered: Jan 3, 2012

EGUIDE: This expert e-guide from SearchWindowsServer.com explains how you can leverage virtualization and other techniques to reduce the costs of running servers. Plus, obtain exclusive advice and answers to frequently asked questions about developing an effective server consolidation plan.

Posted: 29 Dec 2011 | Published: 29 Dec 2011

PRESENTATION TRANSCRIPT: This presentation transcript provides detailed insight into the midmarket customer landscape and explains why servers are recommended over traditional PCs. Access results from recent client surveys and discover affordable platforms for small and medium-sized businesses.

Posted: 14 Dec 2011 | Published: 14 Dec 2011

WHITE PAPER: Discover how the Dell PowerEdge C6145 server is designed to meet the demands of intensive computational research of public and enterprise customers with the benefits of a shared infrastructure that saves space, weight, and energy.

Posted: 12 Dec 2011 | Published: 08 Dec 2011

PRESENTATION TRANSCRIPT: The second wave of virtualization will help many businesses extend the benefits of virtualization to additional applications and databases. Find out how self-managing, “zero-touch” infrastructure combined with vSphere virtualization and ftServer systems can help you immediately leverage the benefits of Stage 2 virtualization.

Posted: 06 Dec 2011 | Published: 06 Dec 2011

WHITE PAPER: IT leaders are challenged by the growth of the amount of data they have to manage. While data management encompasses several areas of an organization, ensuring the data protection and business continuity is one of the most critical aspects. Inside this white paper, uncover strategies for avoiding data loss and lack of application availability.

Posted: 02 Dec 2011 | Published: 02 Dec 2011

RESOURCE CENTER: The Cisco Unified Computing System (UCS) server platform has been designed with the performance and reliability to power memory-intensive, mission-critical applications, as well as virtualized workloads. Check out this solution center to learn more about SAP enterprise applications that are optimized on the UCS server platform.

Posted: 29 Nov 2011 | Published: 29 Nov 2011

WHITE PAPER: This document provides guidelines on how to deploy a SAP application solution with optimal application networking solutions. It is intended to reduce the time to implement a SAP application deployment and increase the likelihood of success by demonstrating techniques that were found to be successful.

Posted: 23 Nov 2011 | Published: 23 Nov 2011