Server Provisioning

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

ASSESSMENT TOOL: Justifying a server refresh isn't easy, especially with today's tight IT budgets. This assessment tool calculates the savings you can expect after replacing your existing hardware so you can decide if a refresh is the right decision for your organization.

Posted: 08 May 2012 | Published: 08 May 2012

TEST RESULTS: This test report compares the performance of two new Dell PowerEdge R720 servers powered by the Intel Xeon processor E5-2640 and the Intel Xeon processor E5-2650.

Posted: 07 May 2012 | Published: 07 May 2012

TEST RESULTS: This report compares the performance and costs of two servers, the Dell PowerEdge M620 and Dell PowerEdge M610, and provides a comprehensive breakdown of your savings with each of these solutions.

Posted: 04 May 2012 | Published: 04 May 2012

TEST RESULTS: This report compares the performance and costs of two servers, the Dell PowerEdge R720 and Dell PowerEdge R710, and provides a comprehensive breakdown of your savings with each of these solutions.

Posted: 04 May 2012 | Published: 04 May 2012

TEST RESULTS: This report compares the performance and costs of two servers, the Dell PowerEdge R620 and HP Proliant DL360 G7, and provides a comprehensive breakdown of your savings with each of these solutions.

Posted: 04 May 2012 | Published: 04 May 2012

TEST RESULTS: This report compares the performance and costs of two servers, the Dell PowerEdge R720 and HP Proliant DL360 G7, and provides a comprehensive breakdown of your savings with each of these solutions.

Posted: 04 May 2012 | Published: 04 May 2012

EGUIDE: A thorough understanding of all the components of your next server purchase can ensure that your business needs are met. Access this e-guide to gain expert insight into your different server options, how to assess your businesses server requirements, and things to consider when purchasing your next server.

Posted: 30 Apr 2012 | Published: 30 Apr 2012

WHITE PAPER: This white paper follows the adoption of collaboration technology and explores key selection criteria for purchasing new servers. Explore platforms equipped with the performance, memory capacity, availability, and other features your collaboration workloads require.

Posted: 17 Apr 2012 | Published: 17 Apr 2012

WHITE PAPER: Thanks to recent developments in the server landscape, SMBs now have the opportunity to reduce costs, simplify operations, and accelerate service delivery through virtualisation. This technology brief showcases other virtualisation benefits and outlines the architecture you will need to have in place to fully support this IT model.

Posted: 16 Apr 2012 | Published: 16 Apr 2012

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

Posted: 13 Apr 2012 | Published: 13 Apr 2012

WHITE PAPER: Discover how VMTurbo’s supply-chain approach to virtual environments management combines monitoring, analytics, and automation to address the unique needs of virtualization and deliver optimal performance, resource utilization and availability.

Posted: 11 Apr 2012 | Published: 11 Apr 2012

VIDEO: Although few organizations have the exact same data center infrastructure in place, they all share the common need for effective management. This video highlights a management framework that can improve visibility into hardware, ensure system level consistency, and simplify the process of performing updates and other necessary tasks.

Posted: 02 Apr 2012 | Premiered: 02 Apr 2012

VIDEO: To properly manage your server environment, you must successfully execute several key processes. This video describes the essential phases of the server lifecycle and showcases embedded management features that can help you progress through each of them with ease.

Posted: 30 Mar 2012 | Premiered: 30 Mar 2012

VIDEO: Effective management is essential to the successful operation of your data centre. This video showcases a comprehensive management approach and explains how it can eliminate your top pain points, including lack of visibility, resource constraints, and more.

Posted: 27 Mar 2012 | Premiered: 27 Mar 2012

WHITE PAPER: This solution brief discusses how the Dell EqualLogic™ PS Series can provide a fully virtualized storage infrastructure that delivers high availability, resiliency, flexibility, and scalability that is simple and cost-effective to deploy, manage and grow.

Posted: 27 Mar 2012 | Published: 27 Mar 2012

WHITE PAPER: This white paper explores a single-vendor solution that addresses the entire hardware and software stack, allowing organizations to successfully manage their virtualized environment and improve business agility.

Posted: 17 Mar 2012 | Published: 17 Mar 2012

EBRIEF: Explore current trends and tools for capacity planning in this expert e-brief. Discover how you can maximize server space and overcome top challenges of capacity planning to increase server utilization and ROI these tips from virtualization pro David Davis.

Posted: 16 Mar 2012 | Published: 16 Mar 2012

EGUIDE: What is server virtualization? If you're just getting started virtualizing your data center or looking for a refresher on server virtualization basics, this expert e-guide is just the resource you need. This handy and concise guide covers the essentials of what virtualization is and how you can put the building blocks in place.

Posted: 16 Mar 2012 | Published: 16 Mar 2012

PRODUCT OVERVIEW: Research indicates that data center power usage accounts for up to 2.2% of the total electricity used by the United States. This executive brief provides detailed insight into the current state of data center power consumption and reveals simple steps you can take to reduce spending in this area.

Posted: 14 Mar 2012 | Published: 14 Mar 2012

EGUIDE: In this expert e-guide, gain best practices for sizing server hardware for virtual machines. Find out what you should look for when selecting servers for different types of virtual machines and how to select tools for benchmarking your virtual environment. Plus, discover how to plan for the current and future needs of your virtual environment.

Posted: 13 Mar 2012 | Published: 13 Mar 2012

WHITE PAPER: This white paper presents key findings concerning your peers' collaboration plans and explores critical factors to consider when purchasing new servers. Discover platforms designed to provide the performance, memory capacity, availability, and other features your collaboration workloads require.

Posted: 07 Mar 2012 | Published: 07 Mar 2012

WHITE PAPER: This executive brief details some of the key responsibilities of the IT department, including delivering high-performance applications to users, securing reliable data storage, and troubleshooting issues before they escalate. Discover how the right servers can free up resources, contain power and cooling, and position your organisation for growth.

Posted: 02 Mar 2012 | Published: 02 Mar 2012

WHITE PAPER: Java and PHP Web applications can be difficult to deploy, scale and maintain in cloud environments using existing technology. Read this white paper to learn how clustering technology provides the elasticity needed to ensure the capacity, reliability and availability necessary for cloud-enabled Web applications. 

Posted: 01 Mar 2012 | Published: 01 Mar 2012

WHITE PAPER: This white paper compares two virtualization architectures and deployment options and presents the key findings. Discover costs to consider before getting started with your virtualization initiative and learn how to leverage built-in failover, redundancy, load balancing and other capabilities to minimize downtime.

Posted: 28 Feb 2012 | Published: 28 Feb 2012