Data Center Networking White Papers

WHITE PAPER: This white paper provides detailed guidance to help companies build successful cloud data centres. Obtain information on the two most common block level storage protocols, simplifying your network, and more.

Posted: 18 Aug 2011 | Published: 22 Aug 2011

WHITE PAPER: This exclusive resource describes how virtualization can benefit your data center and addresses both public and private cloud strategies.Learn about the many challenges IT pros face and access the necessary steps in the evolution to a cost-effective and efficient virtual data center.

Posted: 29 Jun 2011 | Published: 29 Jun 2011

WHITE PAPER: The potential benefits of virtualization are well documented: increased agility, improved disaster recovery capability, and significant cost savings due to server consolidation. This whitepaper discusses 1:1 virtualization and the barriers of IT virtualization.

Posted: 21 Jun 2011 | Published: 15 Jun 2011

WHITE PAPER: This document explores how to build a business case for VDI and how some of the pioneers and earlier adopters are reaping significant benefits through cost savings, improved security, better compliance management, and a more agile, scalable and responsive IT infrastructure.

Posted: 15 Jun 2011 | Published: 15 Jun 2011

WHITE PAPER: This white paper explains how virtualization has removed many of the data center resource constraints of the past. Find out why management of your IT infrastructure should be integrated and learn how to set your business up for private cloud success.

Posted: 02 Jun 2011 | Published: 01 Apr 2010

WHITE PAPER: This IBM Redbook covers the impact of server and storage consolidation, data center network virtualization and consolidation technologies, and much more.

Posted: 23 May 2011 | Published: 10 Feb 2011

WHITE PAPER: This paper discusses a trade-in program provided by HP to help you cost-effectively upgrade your infrastructure. Uncover which products are eligible and how to get started.

Posted: 10 May 2011 | Published: 10 May 2011

WHITE PAPER: This white paper discusses why convergence is essential to today’s data centers to help solve key issues such as demanding service level agreements, constrained IT budgets and complex legacy applications for an easier to manage data center.

Posted: 05 May 2011 | Published: 05 May 2011

WHITE PAPER: CIOs are looking for ways to achieve greater IT efficiencies and agility to meet their requirements for an improved user experience and lower costs. Cloud computing represents a new way of meeting these goals by delivering services on a dynamic and shared IT infrastructure.

Posted: 25 Mar 2011 | Published: 25 Mar 2011

WHITE PAPER: To address the ongoing IT mission to adapt IT resources and to improve levels of service, Oracle has integrated Sun hardware with Oracle's software applications and management tools to deliver a complete end-to-end solution that reduces IT complexity. Read this paper for more information.

Posted: 15 Mar 2011 | Published: 15 Mar 2011

WHITE PAPER: Cloud computing has been widely heralded as the "next big thing" in technology circles. At the same time it has arguably been overcomplicated in terms of the way it has been described. Check out this white paper to learn more about the security issues of cloud computing.

Posted: 05 Nov 2010 | Published: 05 Nov 2010

WHITE PAPER: Read this case study and see how the latest IBM System x and BladeCenter servers powered with the new energy efficient Intel Xeon 5500 series processors offer tremendous opportunity for reducing energy consumption, shrinking your data center footprint and lowering operational costs.

Posted: 22 Oct 2010 | Published: 22 Oct 2010

WHITE PAPER: IBM continues to provide the scale-up UNIX data center with a plan, and a predictable drumbeat, for the future. To learn more about IBM’s forthcoming POWER7 and AIX7, please read on.

Posted: 15 Jun 2010 | Published: 21 Sep 2009

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: Over the last 30 years, companies have significantly changed their approach to ensuring that their businesses can continue to run in the event of a catastrophe. Read this white paper to learn how business continuity and disaster recovery solutions can help you to develop a more robust enterprise.

Posted: 27 May 2010 | Published: 26 May 2010

WHITE PAPER: Alinean, a leader in IT value measurement, teamed up with HP to assess the financial merits of moving from a HP-UX 11i v2 platform to HP-UX 11i v3 running on HP Integrity Servers over moving to SUN Solaris10 running on Sun Servers. Read this white paper for details.

Posted: 18 May 2010 | Published: 02 Mar 2010

WHITE PAPER: Learn how HP is combining the best new standards-based technologies with a modular architecture that fully optimizes virtualized resources, while meeting business requirements for low total cost of ownership, faster time-to-service, and critical requirements for reliability, IT governance, and compliance.

Posted: 04 Mar 2010 | Published: 01 Oct 2009

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: Enterprises today are seeking new communication technologies, such as wikis, blogs, and forums, to improve communication and collaboration and increase employee productivity.

Posted: 11 Nov 2009 | Published: 11 Nov 2009

WHITE PAPER: This guide describes best practices for incorporating cabling in a typical data center, plus tips for selecting cabling components and information on data transmission media.

Posted: 01 Sep 2009 | Published: 01 Sep 2007