Data Center Infrastructure Efficiency White Papers

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: The escalation in data center costs has been driven by the demand for computing. IT has responded to this demand by adding more servers and replacing older servers with newer devices that deliver more power in less space. Read this whitepaper to learn more.

Posted: 30 Jul 2010 | Published: 30 Jul 2010

WHITE PAPER: To appropriately apply the principles of DCSM, a comprehensive enterprise solution must be able to provide significant levels of control over the infrastructure. Aperture VISTA® is the only enterprise-wide solution to be able to deliver all aspects of DCSM with a multidimensional perspective.

Posted: 30 Jul 2010 | Published: 30 Jul 2010

WHITE PAPER: While CIOs are focusing on managing services offerings, managing data center risks and keeping total costs down, forces are at play that will require the CIO to pay significantly more attention to data center energy efficiency and resource consumption. Read this paper to learn more.

Posted: 28 Jul 2010 | Published: 28 Jul 2010

WHITE PAPER: Many IT professionals are finding that dedicated precision cooling is the right solution to provide the ideal environment for sensitive electronics. Read this paper to learn why precision cooling is the optimal choice for keeping data centers cool in the most cost-effective way.

Posted: 13 Jul 2010 | Published: 13 Jul 2010

WHITE PAPER: Now more than ever, organizations need to transform their critical business processes and leverage multiple sources of information to adopt a better way of working. To make this transformation a reality, leading organizations have turned to case management solutions.

Posted: 08 Jul 2010 | Published: 08 Jul 2010

WHITE PAPER: With up to 48 cores and 512GB of memory in a 4P configuration, the AMD Opteron 6100 Series platform is designed to help reduce power consumption, support more users, more transactions, and more resource-intensive applications – all while helping you achieve higher levels of efficiency and utilization in your virtual environment.

Posted: 02 Jul 2010 | Published: 02 Jul 2010

WHITE PAPER: With Dell Compellent, enterprise data is actively, intelligently managed throughout its lifecycle so you can constantly adapt to changing business conditions. This paper discusses eight Dell Compellent technologies that combine to create new levels of efficiency and flexibility while cutting cost now and in the future.

Posted: 28 Jun 2010 | Published: 01 Feb 2010

WHITE PAPER: The Microsoft® Windows Server® 2008 R2 OS incorporates enhanced power management tools that can complement 11th-generation Dell™ PowerEdge™ server capabilities such as the Dell Active Power Controller feature to help control power consumption and increase energy efficiency in enterprise data centers.

Posted: 15 Jun 2010 | Published: 15 Jun 2010

WHITE PAPER: Read this white paper to learn how Dell ProConsult Services helped develop and implement a flexible, scalable, automated virtualized infrastructure for several companies, allowing them to take advantage of cloud computing and focus on their core business.

Posted: 11 Jun 2010 | Published: 11 Jun 2010

WHITE PAPER: Fibre Channel over Ethernet is extending the reliability benefits and service of Fibre Channels to LANs and other Ethernet networks. Learn how this approach enables flexible, scalable, and simplified data center fabrics that support increasingly powerful applications and growing amounts of data.

Posted: 11 Jun 2010 | Published: 11 Jun 2010

WHITE PAPER: While many companies understand the benefits of virtualization and cloud computing, they struggle to prepare their data center for such a transition. Discover how to avoid a “rip-and-replace” approach by utilizing a phased network architecture upgrade that helps control risk and costs.

Posted: 11 Jun 2010 | Published: 11 Jun 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: Many data centers are using the cloud to host applications and data storage but typically aren’t using the cloud to process effective batch computing workloads. Enterprise workload automation tools can give businesses a chance to take a much greater advantage of cloud computing. Read this whitepaper to learn how.

Posted: 06 Apr 2010 | Published: 06 Apr 2010

WHITE PAPER: In this APC whitepaper, alternatives for providing electrical power to high density racks in data centers and network rooms are explained and compared as well as defined guidelines for rack power systems that can reliably deliver power to high density loads while adapting to changing needs.

Posted: 01 Apr 2010 | Published: 09 Jul 2009

WHITE PAPER: With exploding amounts of data, CalTech needed to store critical digital information for NASA on a storage system that could deliver enterprise class reliability with power efficient technology to drive down cost. With over 2 petabytes of data on Nexsan Storage, CalTech has experienced 99.9% hardware reliability over the last 7 years.

Posted: 25 Feb 2010 | Published: 25 Feb 2010

WHITE PAPER: Crystal Reports Server software offers small businesses and mid size companies a proven reporting and dashboard solution on a single server. It addresses the complete reporting process – from data access and report and dashboard design to report management and delivery, including content integration with portals and enterprise applications.

Posted: 25 Feb 2010 | Published: 24 Feb 2010

WHITE PAPER: The benefits of MaxIQ are illustrated by comparing the performance levels between an Adaptec Series 5 storage controller with MaxIQ SSD caching, and an Adaptec Series 5 storage controller without MaxIQ. The tests are performed using industry standard performance tools and/or validation via real world web server application testing.

Posted: 15 Feb 2010 | Published: 11 Feb 2010

WHITE PAPER: Rising energy costs and growing volumes of information mean is a sign to increase the efficiency of storage systems and reduce power consumption. Employing capabilities such as disk drive spin-down, virtual provisioning, and tiered storage design in Dell/EMC CX4 Series storage arrays helps IT organizations keep energy costs under control.

Posted: 29 Jan 2010 | Published: 29 Jan 2010

WHITE PAPER: Virtual provisioning on Dell/EMC CX4 Series storage arrays is designed to dramatically increase storage utilization, simplify storage management, and minimize power and space requirements. Taking advantage of this flexible, automated approach to storage allocation can help reduce total cost of ownership and enhance data center energy efficiency.

Posted: 29 Jan 2010 | Published: 29 Jan 2010

WHITE PAPER: Today's successful businesses depend on adaptable technologies to help them respond quickly to market demands. Emerson Network Power's portfolio of products provide innovative, flexible solutions that ensure reliability and efficiency.

Posted: 22 Jan 2010 | Published: 22 Jan 2010

WHITE PAPER: Energy Logic is a vendor-neutral roadmap for optimizing data center energy efficiency that starts with the IT equipment and progresses to the support infrastructure. This paper shows how it can deliver a 50 percent or greater reduction in data center energy consumption without compromising performance or availability.

Posted: 21 Jan 2010 | Published: 21 Jan 2010

WHITE PAPER: Today’s data center manager must maintain or improve availability in increasingly dense computing environments while reducing costs and increasing efficiency. Discover four distinct opportunities throughout the lifecycle of the data center to achieve efficiencies, boost availability and prepare for the future.

Posted: 21 Jan 2010 | Published: 21 Jan 2010

WHITE PAPER: This white paper describes validated architectures for Dell | VMware™ virtual infrastructures. The Virtualization RA is intended to provide customers with an example basis to consider, evaluate, and select the Dell virtualization solution components that best fit their requirements.

Posted: 17 Nov 2009 | Published: 01 Sep 2008