Data Center Consolidation White Papers

WHITE PAPER: This paper will explore some of the more common pitfalls that hamper successful data center transformations and the keys to overcome them.

Posted: 21 Dec 2010 | Published: 20 Dec 2010

WHITE PAPER: This paper explains that to accomplish the objectives of making more-efficient use of IT resources, lowering power consumption, and reducing operating expenses, many companies are turning to server consolidation and virtualization efforts—endeavors that increase server CPU utilization and reduce the number of discrete servers in a datacenter.

Posted: 20 Dec 2010 | Published: 20 Dec 2010

WHITE PAPER: This paper discusses IBM's Real-time Compression—which enables organizations to optimize primary data stores so they can save new information, retain existing data for longer periods of time, consolidate existing systems, or benefit from some combination of the preceding.

Posted: 14 Dec 2010 | Published: 01 Dec 2010

WHITE PAPER: As IT organizations support dynamically changing business priorities and cope with economic pressures, maintaining datacenter agility is critical. By consolidating systems onto the latest server technology and taking advantage of virtualization techniques, enterprises can optimize datacenter efficiency, gain flexibility, and reduce operating costs

Posted: 05 Oct 2010 | Published: 22 Apr 2010

WHITE PAPER: Read this paper to learn how to find ways to cope with an expanding storage infrastructure, as well as provide continuous access to data stored on reliable and secure media, meet stringent compliance regulations and create operational efficiency while simultaneously cutting costs.

Posted: 01 Oct 2010 | Published: 14 Apr 2010

WHITE PAPER: Virtualization on industry-standard servers has transformed IT service delivery, enabling companies to dramatically consolidate infrastructure, reduce costs, and much more. Read this paper to learn about the features and benefits of Vmware vSphere and the Intel Xeon processor 7500 series-based servers.

Posted: 29 Sep 2010 | Published: 05 May 2010

WHITE PAPER: Read this white paper to learn about how Dell is providing answers to key virtualization questions for the enterprise. Topics include; how to migrate to a fully virtualized environment as well as how the IT infrastructure should be configured for maximum benefit.

Posted: 15 Sep 2010 | Published: 01 Nov 2008

WHITE PAPER: Learn why data protection is the nexus that connects deduplication and virtualisation, how to go about achieving efficient data protection, as well as considerations and concerns to be aware of.

Posted: 31 Aug 2010 | Published: 30 Aug 2010

WHITE PAPER: IT organisations are faced with service-level pressures that necessitate cost reductions and greater operational efficiency. This white paper highlights how customers can use innovative virtualisation and consolidation technologies from Oracle to create substantial savings on their investments in Sun servers from Oracle.

Posted: 27 Aug 2010 | Published: 17 Apr 2010

WHITE PAPER: Read this white paper for an exploration of how organizations can gain significant performance and cost benefits by upgrading legacy 2-socket servers to new Dell PowerEdge 11th generation 4/2-socket servers.

Posted: 12 Jul 2010 | Published: 23 Apr 2010

WHITE PAPER: In 2005, Intel IT began planning, engineering, and implementing a virtualized business computing production environment as part of its overall data center strategy. Read this white paper to learn more about how Intel’s virtualization strategy has helped lower costs, increase agility, and reduce energy consumption.

Posted: 09 Jun 2010 | Published: 01 Jan 2010

WHITE PAPER: Read this paper for a description of the emerging automation and integrated management requirements facing datacenter management teams today and to learn how Oracle Enterprise Manager Ops Center is helping customers meet these challenges.

Posted: 09 Jun 2010 | Published: 14 Apr 2010

WHITE PAPER: Virtualization on industry-standard servers has transformed IT service delivery, enabling companies to dramatically consolidate infrastructure, reduce costs, and much more. Read this paper to learn about the features and benefits of Vmware vSphere and the Intel Xeon processor 7500 series-based servers.

Posted: 10 May 2010 | Published: 05 May 2010

WHITE PAPER: Virtualization is more than a technology. It is a way of thinking about problems that allow us to go beyond the physical limitations nor­mally associated with entire classes of hardware, from servers to storage. Attaining the maximum benefits of virtualization, however, requires a plan and constant monitoring to ensure peak performance.

Posted: 29 Apr 2010 | Published: 29 Apr 2010

WHITE PAPER: Read this article to learn how Dell has developed adaptive power management and worked with VMware to develop ways to autonomically and proactively power-down underutilized systems during off-peak times.

Posted: 05 Apr 2010 | Published: 29 May 2009

WHITE PAPER: Read this white paper to learn about how Dell is providing answers to key virtualization questions for the enterprise. Topics include; how to migrate to a fully virtualized environment as well as how the IT infrastructure should be configured for maximum benefit.

Posted: 08 Mar 2010 | Published: 01 Nov 2008

WHITE PAPER: More than 1500 z/Journal readers and BMC Software customers worldwide recently shared their top priorities for IT in 2010. The survey results might surprise you. Get the full report.

Posted: 14 Jan 2010 | Published: 14 Jan 2010

WHITE PAPER: This white paper describes the importance of managing energy consumption in data centers and provides an overview of the problems and issues associated with "greening" today's data centers.

Posted: 12 Nov 2009 | Published: 11 Aug 2008

WHITE PAPER: Optimizing the benefits of a data grid built with Oracle Coherence relies upon creating a modular, balanced architecture. Matching the number of application servers, memory capacity, and quantity of processing nodes to the target workload characteristics is important to achieving the best performance.

Posted: 11 Nov 2009 | Published: 11 Nov 2009

WHITE PAPER: PlateSpin® Recon from Novell is a sophisticated workload analysis, planning and management solution that provides new levels of intelligence, visual analysis and forecasting for optimizing the data center.

Posted: 01 Oct 2009 | Published: 01 Oct 2009

WHITE PAPER: The current state of the datacenter demands a transformation that helps in improving space utilization and lowering power consumption while still providing the scale and availability the business requires. Read this report to learn how your organization can optimize data center efficiency and lower costs.

Posted: 29 Sep 2009 | Published: 14 Apr 2009

WHITE PAPER: Virtualization is more than just a concept-- it is a concrete business strategy that can provide tangible value for companies in virtually any industry. Read this paper to learn more about Dell's virtual infrastructure solutions.

Posted: 29 Sep 2009 | Published: 17 Dec 2007

WHITE PAPER: This document covers the key overall concepts and procedures you need to setup and configure your Hyper-V platform. It reviews in detail the approach that PT and Dell recommend for a tested and validated installation of Windows Server 2008 and Hyper-V.

Posted: 10 Sep 2009 | Published: 10 Sep 2009

WHITE PAPER: Virtualization basically means inserting a software layer between your hardware and your operating system. This decouples the operating system from the hardware and allows you to run many operating systems at the same time on top of that same physical piece of hardware. Read this short paper to learn about the benefits of using virtual servers.

Posted: 08 Sep 2009 | Published: 08 Sep 2009

WHITE PAPER: Dell commissioned Principled Technologies to estimate how many months it would take to recapture initial investment costs when consolidating multiple 4-year-old Dell™ PowerEdge™ 2850 server and storage solutions onto a Dell PowerEdge R710 server and storage solution using Microsoft® Windows Server® 2008 with Hyper-V™

Posted: 02 Sep 2009 | Published: 01 May 2009