Server Hardware White Papers

WHITE PAPER: If you’re looking for ways to create a dynamic infrastructure, look no further. This brochure shows how IBM System x and BladeCenter servers help to deliver an infrastructure that reduces operating costs, manages present and future risk, and improves services.

Posted: 07 Jun 2011 | Published: 07 Jun 2011

WHITE PAPER: Read this white paper to see how IBM® System x® and IBM BladeCenter® servers can offer an outstanding platform for virtualization and consolidation.

Posted: 06 Jun 2011 | Published: 06 Jun 2011

WHITE PAPER: Read this Product Guide on the IBM BladeCenter HS22 reviewing the versatile, easy-to-use blade optimized for performance, energy and cooling.

Posted: 06 Jun 2011 | Published: 06 Jun 2011

WHITE PAPER: Branch office solutions based upon converged infrastructure can deliver higher levels of security to ensure data protection and prevent costly, damaging breaches. Read this set of documents to learn more about servers, storage and network resources can be safely shared without inhibiting system response and availability.

Posted: 26 May 2011 | Published: 26 May 2011

WHITE PAPER: This research note presents results from a recent survey on virtualization and cloud computing. Find out why many of your peers are looking into fabric-based infrastructures and get recommendations to help you leverage the full benefits of this technology.

Posted: 24 May 2011 | Published: 11 Feb 2011

WHITE PAPER: This document is designed to give you information about Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization Hypervisor and its many features including large scale consolidation, high performance, storage and networking support and memory management.

Posted: 19 May 2011 | Published: 19 May 2011

WHITE PAPER: Reliability, availability, and serviceability (RAS) are intricately related, and each factor is equally important to achieving maximum IT service uptime. Oracle’s Sun SPARC Enterprise servers provide excellent RAS characteristics that are ideal for maximizing the uptime of business-critical IT services. Read on to learn more.

Posted: 12 Apr 2011 | Published: 01 Apr 2010

WHITE PAPER: Intel IT and Intel's Data Center Group conducted proof of concept (PoC) testing and total cost of ownership (TCO) analysis to compare two- and four-socket servers based on Intel Xeon processors for a variety of virtualization scenarios. Download this white paper for a detailed look at this test and its results.

Posted: 23 Mar 2011 | Published: 23 Mar 2011

WHITE PAPER: Oracle’s Sun SPARC Enterprise servers are designed specifically as general-purpose application, database, data warehousing, and consolidation servers. They are especially suited to address the needs of enterprise datacenters, with a goal of increasing performance and flexibility while consolidating systems to reduce datacenter costs and complexity.

Posted: 15 Mar 2011 | Published: 01 Jun 2010

WHITE PAPER: Oracle’s Sun Fire X2270 M2 server provides the most effective path to cloud and technical computing. They bring an enhanced next generation, small form-factor, high performance system to the datacenter. Continue reading to learn more.

Posted: 15 Mar 2011 | Published: 03 May 2010

WHITE PAPER: Oracle’s x86 servers are specifically designed to support enterprise workloads, and the combination of Sun hardware and Oracle software functionality has been optimized for performance and cost-efficient operations. Read this paper for more details on how Oracle x86 rack servers can reduce opex and improve ROI.

Posted: 15 Mar 2011 | Published: 15 Mar 2011

WHITE PAPER: Oracle’s Sun SPARC Enterprise T5440 server provides a combination of freely available and no-cost virtualization technologies, excellent reliability, availability, and serviceability (RAS) ratings, very high performance hardware, and significant data center efficiency gains. Continue reading to learn more.

Posted: 14 Mar 2011 | Published: 01 Apr 2010

WHITE PAPER: Oracle’s Sun SPARC Enterprise servers are highly reliable, easy-to-manage, vertically scalable systems with all the benefits of traditional mainframes—without the associated cost, complexity, or vendor lock-in. In fact, the Sun SPARC Enterprise M-Series Servers deliver mainframe-class system architecture at open system prices.

Posted: 14 Mar 2011 | Published: 01 Apr 2010

WHITE PAPER: This TechWise Research offering gives a detailed analyses of costs and benefits associated with upgrading earlier versions of the HP-UX 11i operating environments to HP-UX 11i v3.

Posted: 22 Feb 2011 | Published: 22 Feb 2011

WHITE PAPER: This white paper examines the architecture and performance of the Intel Xeon processor 5600 Series. The performance analysis covers latency to main memory, memory bandwidth and application performance, and addresses performance issues related to memory speed and population of memory.

Posted: 20 Jan 2011 | Published: 20 Jan 2011

WHITE PAPER: This white paper examines the architecture and performance of the Intel Xeon processor 7500 and 6500 Series. The analysis covers latency to main memory, memory bandwidth and application performance, and addresses performance issues related to memory speed and population of memory.

Posted: 20 Jan 2011 | Published: 20 Jan 2011

WHITE PAPER: Whether you plan to integrate new SAP products into your infrastructure or are preparing for an upgrade, the IBM Systems solution with SAP Discovery system can help you thoroughly evaluate SAP applications - and validate their benefits.

Posted: 19 Jan 2011 | Published: 19 Jan 2011

WHITE PAPER: This Intel paper analyzes the effects of various factors on the utilization of the primary server resources: compute, memory and I/O. The analysis shows that 4-socket servers, which provide greater headroom than 2-socket servers, may be preferable in a number of situations.

Posted: 19 Jan 2011 | Published: 19 Jan 2011

WHITE PAPER: The System x eX5 family provides not only the performance, but also the flexibility necessary to address businesses most pressing needs: Performance and cost savings, all in one package. This white paper shows how listening to customers priorities helped the IBM System x team achieve their goal.

Posted: 19 Jan 2011 | Published: 19 Jan 2011

WHITE PAPER: This white paper shows how IBM eX5 systems allow organizations to combine the full advantages of Intel’s Xeon processors with the latest and most advanced System x features - allowing companies to do more with fewer servers and achieve better system utilization and energy efficiency.

Posted: 19 Jan 2011 | Published: 19 Jan 2011

WHITE PAPER: VMware vSphere takes virtualization to the next level. VMware vSphere is a next-generation virtualization platform that enables businesses to deliver efficient, reliable, and flexible IT.

Posted: 19 Jan 2011 | Published: 19 Jan 2011

WHITE PAPER: This paper explains how The IBM® Smart Analytics System family combines hardware, software and services into systems that are integrated and optimized, can be installed in days instead of months, and can be quickly scaled out to support changing business needs. Read on to learn how to deliver business insights faster.

Posted: 23 Dec 2010 | Published: 23 Dec 2010

WHITE PAPER: This paper explains how Intel and IBM have been working for years to create systems that change the economics of x86 computing. One of the results of that collaboration is a platform for clustered, distributed systems that delivers unprecedented flexibility and scalability.

Posted: 23 Dec 2010 | Published: 23 Dec 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: 22 Nov 2010 | Published: 22 Nov 2010

WHITE PAPER: Enterprises of all sizes are deploying or considering deploying blade systems as a way to consolidate resources and lower their total cost of ownership. Read this white paper to learn about the total cost of ownership (TCO) for the Dell PowerEdge servers.

Posted: 17 Nov 2010 | Published: 19 Mar 2009