Server Consolidation White Papers

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Energy Logic: Reducing Data Center Energy Consumption by Creating Savings That Cascade Across Systems
sponsored by Emerson Network Power
WHITE PAPER: Learn how Emerson Network Power's Energy Logic, a vendor-neutral roadmap for optimizing data center energy efficiency, can deliver a 50% or greater reduction in energy consumption without compromising performance or availability.
Posted: 08 Aug 2013 | Published: 07 Jul 2009

Emerson Network Power

Optimize Performance of Datacenter to Datacenter Traffic
sponsored by BlueCoat
WHITE PAPER: Traffic between datacenters is growing at an accelerating rate. As throughput expands, the rate at which costs increase rises as well. A WAN optimization solution can help get backups and database synchronizations completed on time - without hurting VoIP or internet backhaul. Read on to learn more.
Posted: 01 Jul 2009 | Published: 01 Jul 2009

BlueCoat

11 Questions Every CIO Should Ask Their IT Manager
sponsored by Red Hat and JBoss
WHITE PAPER: What is your IT really costing you? Could you be doing more with the technology you have? Could you reduce costs and provide better service to your organization? Read Red Hat's suggestions on "11 Questions Every CIO Should Ask Their IT Manager", and how Red Hat open source solutions can help.
Posted: 19 Jun 2009 | Published: 10 Jun 2009

Red Hat and JBoss

DELL™ PowerEdge™ Half-Height M610 and Full-Height M710 Blade
sponsored by Dell, Inc. and Intel®
WHITE PAPER: The Dell PowerEdge M-Series blade servers help cut operating expenses through energy efficiency, product flexibility, and efficient use of data center space.
Posted: 19 May 2009 | Published: 01 Dec 2008

Dell, Inc. and Intel®

Dell PowerEdge Energy Smart Servers -- The Smart Choice for Optimizing your Data Center
sponsored by Dell, Inc. and Intel®
WHITE PAPER: Dell's end-to-end approach helps customers worldwide solve their power and cooling challenges and meet the demands of business growth with industry-standard solutions. They offer solutions you can deploy right now, as well as the right mix of tools, partnerships, and services to help you get the most from your existing infrastructure.
Posted: 19 May 2009 | Published: 09 May 2008

Dell, Inc. and Intel®

Integrating Virtualized Servers with VMware vStorage-Enabled Dell EqualLogic iSCSI SANs
sponsored by Dell and VMware
WHITE PAPER: Dell EqualLogic Auto- Snapshot Manager / VMware Edition enables administrators to quickly and easily create hypervisor-aware snapshots of VMs-helping simplify data management, enhance scalability of data protection and recovery, and increase application performance.
Posted: 14 May 2009 | Published: 01 Nov 2008

Dell and VMware

Dark Pools of Liquidity: Understanding & Technology dependencies for the future
sponsored by Wipro
WHITE PAPER: This white paper provides insight into the dark pools of liquidity, discusses the mechanism of dark pools trading, advantages and how technology would impact the operations or provide benefits in trading over this medium.
Posted: 13 May 2009 | Published: 12 May 2009

Wipro

Migrating SQL 2000 to SQL 2008- a Dell Deployment Guide
sponsored by DellEMC and Intel®
WHITE PAPER: This Deployment Guide reviews the approach that Dell and Principled Technologies recommend for a tested and validated migration of SQL Server 2000 databases to SQL Server 2008 on the Dell PowerEdge R900 server and Microsoft Windows Server 2008 Enterprise.
Posted: 27 Apr 2009 | Published: 27 Apr 2009

DellEMC and Intel®

Lab Test: AppZero Turbo-Charges Server Consolidation
sponsored by AppZero
WHITE PAPER: This paper examines the impact of application virtualization technology on overall system performance. It documents a simple performance evaluation of application virtualization using AppZero virtual application appliance (VAA) compared to a VMware ESXbased system using virtual machines (VM).
Posted: 04 Mar 2009 | Published: 04 Mar 2009

AppZero

BladeCenter E-Kit
sponsored by IBM
WHITE PAPER: Download a complimentary copy of the IBM BladeCenter e-kit which contains white papers, videos and case studies featuring real-life success stories.
Posted: 16 Jan 2009 | Published: 16 Jan 2009

IBM

Virtualization Overview
sponsored by Global Knowledge
WHITE PAPER: This paper explains an approach to virtualization software that relies on the host operating system to provide the service to talk directly to the underlying hardware.
Posted: 10 Dec 2008 | Published: 11 Oct 2008

Global Knowledge

Intel IT: Implementing Virtualization in a Global Environment
sponsored by Intel Corporation
WHITE PAPER: Learn all the ways that server virtualization and consolidation can benefit IT: everything from greater agility to lower energy bills.
Posted: 21 Nov 2008 | Published: 21 Nov 2008

Intel Corporation

HP Integrity Systems: Family Guide
sponsored by Hewlett Packard Enterprise
WHITE PAPER: The HP Adaptive Infrastructure portfolio creates the foundation for delivering better business outcomes by enabling you to reduce operational costs, accelerate speed of IT change, and deliver higher quality of service to the business.
Posted: 16 Oct 2008 | Published: 16 Oct 2008

Hewlett Packard Enterprise

HP Virtual Server Environment Capitalizes on Workload Management Integration
sponsored by Hewlett Packard Enterprise
WHITE PAPER: Virtualization can significantly improve the utilization of computing resources. In this white paper learn how virtualization can assign unused resources to workloads in other parts of an organization that can benefit from them.
Posted: 16 Oct 2008 | Published: 16 Oct 2008

Hewlett Packard Enterprise

Five Ways to Ensure Your Virtualization Initiatives Effectively Support Applications and End Users
sponsored by Dell Software
WHITE PAPER: This white paper seeks to help application owners, operations managers and data center managers ensure their virtualization initiatives effectively support applications and end users.
Posted: 18 Sep 2008 | Published: 18 Sep 2008

Dell Software

Protecting Virtual Machines: The "Best Of VMworld" Approach
sponsored by Citrix
WHITE PAPER: This white paper explores a completely new approach to availability for virtual machines-an approach recognized with the Best of VMworld 2007 - New Technology award.
Posted: 09 Sep 2008 | Published: 08 Sep 2008

Citrix

The Value of Power VM Workload Partitions: New Virtualization Options in IBM AIX v6.1
sponsored by IBM
WHITE PAPER: This paper examines the flexibility that WPARs offer IT professionals in their virtualized UNIX server environments and review how WPARs are different from other partitioning technologies.
Posted: 18 Jul 2008 | Published: 01 Feb 2008

IBM

Solution Brief: Top 5 Myths on WAN Optimization
sponsored by BlueCoat
WHITE PAPER: A misunderstanding of the problem within your network can lead to unneeded and costly IT investments, not to mention downtime, data loss, and resource waste. This paper examines five common WAN misperceptions and how to better address them.
Posted: 10 Jul 2008 | Published: 01 Jan 2007

BlueCoat

Virtual Data Center eZine - Volume 3
sponsored by Virtual Data Center eZine - Volume 3
WHITE PAPER: This third issue of the Virtual Data Center e-zine sifts through the maze of products and technologies that make up VMware's virtualization ecosystem. It then takes a comprehensive look at the new world of virtual desktop delivery and management
Posted: 19 Jun 2008 | Published: 01 Jun 2008

All resources sponsored by Virtual Data Center eZine - Volume 3

Increasing Business Performance: Using Virtualization for SAP Applications on IBM System p Servers
sponsored by IBM
WHITE PAPER: This white paper captures the experiences of six large companies running SAP applications using IBM® System p™ virtualization.
Posted: 17 Jun 2008 | Published: 16 Jun 2010

IBM

Take the "scale-right" Approach to Optimize the ROI from IT
sponsored by IBM
WHITE PAPER: With IBM, you can scale right with a specially tailored strategy that provides the greatest IT ROI for your company.
Posted: 10 Jun 2008 | Published: 01 Jun 2008

IBM

An Examination of Server Consolidation - Trends That Can Drive Efficiencies and Help Businesses Gain a Competitive Edge
sponsored by IBM
WHITE PAPER: The white paper also describes areas of savings and provides advice on sustaining your new environment.
Posted: 16 May 2008 | Published: 01 Dec 2006

IBM

The Art of the Possible: Rapidly Deploying Cost-Effective Energy-Efficient Data Centers
sponsored by IBM
WHITE PAPER: In this white paper, IBM® reveals the next generation data center: scalable, modular data centers (SMDC).
Posted: 08 May 2008 | Published: 01 Feb 2008

IBM

Focus Research Series: Desktop and Application Delivery Landscape Report with All Profiles
sponsored by Focus
WHITE PAPER: This excerpt of the Focus Landscape Research Series covers the drivers, trends, technical approaches and available solutions involved in evaluating and implementing desktop and application virtualization and delivery alternatives.
Posted: 18 Apr 2008 | Published: 30 Mar 2008

Focus

Incentive Programs for Data Center Thermal Analysis, Energy Assessments and Server Consolidation Projects
sponsored by IBM Software Group
WHITE PAPER: Find out how IBM can help you optimize power consumption and cooling capacity to improve efficiency and save you money.
Posted: 05 Dec 2007 | Published: 01 May 2007

IBM Software Group