Server Management White Papers

WHITE PAPER: Running your Linux workloads on inefficient x86-based server farms is complex and costly. But switching to a consolidated server solution can be difficult. Read the white paper to learn the best practices for migrating to Power System servers. You’ll also see how simple it is to leverage IBM’s offerings to maximize performance and cost savings.

Posted: 04 Jan 2012 | Published: 07 Oct 2011

WHITE PAPER: Discover how the Dell PowerEdge C6145 server is designed to meet the demands of intensive computational research of public and enterprise customers with the benefits of a shared infrastructure that saves space, weight, and energy.

Posted: 12 Dec 2011 | Published: 08 Dec 2011

WHITE PAPER: IT leaders are challenged by the growth of the amount of data they have to manage. While data management encompasses several areas of an organization, ensuring the data protection and business continuity is one of the most critical aspects. Inside this white paper, uncover strategies for avoiding data loss and lack of application availability.

Posted: 02 Dec 2011 | Published: 02 Dec 2011

WHITE PAPER: This document provides guidelines on how to deploy a SAP application solution with optimal application networking solutions. It is intended to reduce the time to implement a SAP application deployment and increase the likelihood of success by demonstrating techniques that were found to be successful.

Posted: 23 Nov 2011 | Published: 23 Nov 2011

WHITE PAPER: This study details the performance scalability of the Cisco unified computing system (UCS) platform coupled with Intel Xeon 5600 series processors and EMC CLARiiON storage, and demonstrates why it's a great fit for virtualized SAP solutions.

Posted: 23 Nov 2011 | Published: 31 Dec 2010

WHITE PAPER: SMBs need to ensure high application availability and manage an increasingly complex IT environment within a limited budget. Learn how VMware's vSphere offers SMBs built-in business continuity and simplified IT management at a low cost.

Posted: 21 Nov 2011 | Published: 21 Nov 2011

WHITE PAPER: When it came time to replace its blade servers, Pacific Coast Building Products, Inc. sought a new platform that would support growth. Read this case study to learn how Pacific Coast implemented a platform that simplified provisioning and management of their SAP applications in a virtualized environment.

Posted: 21 Nov 2011 | Published: 31 Dec 2010

WHITE PAPER: You need to optimize your IT infrastructure to ensure future business success. This white paper explores an efficient, cost-effective, and easy-to manage approach to achieving this goal. Learn how to leverage the full potential of virtualization and discover a recommended storage system and its key benefits.

Posted: 17 Nov 2011 | Published: 01 Oct 2011

WHITE PAPER: This management brief provides a virtualization cost/benefit analysis, examines common deployment patterns, and recommends an architecture that can ensure your clients achieve their desired results.

Posted: 15 Nov 2011 | Published: 21 Nov 2011

WHITE PAPER: Declining flexibility and increasing costs have driven many businesses to adopt cloud computing to improve efficiency with on-demand, virtual services. Access this white paper for a detailed overview of server power management, usage models purpose and pre-requisites, architectural considerations and much more.

Posted: 28 Oct 2011 | Published: 28 Oct 2011

WHITE PAPER: With data center challenges on the rise, IT professionals can leverage data center instrumentation and server refresh to maintain productivity levels over time.  Access this white paper to drive efficiency at system, platform, and facility levels to ensure optimal ROI in your enterprise.

Posted: 27 Oct 2011 | Published: 27 Oct 2011

WHITE PAPER: Access this exclusive resource to learn about an innovative solution that can optimize your server virtualization and offer your business enhanced performance, improved availability, personalized support and much more.

Posted: 27 Oct 2011 | Published: 27 Oct 2011

WHITE PAPER: Read this IDC Analyst Connection to see the questions that were posed by HP to Cindy Borovick Program Vice President for IDC's Enterprise Communications and Datacenter Networks program, on behalf of HP's enterprise customers.

Posted: 27 Oct 2011 | Published: 27 Oct 2011

WHITE PAPER: Access this resource to review the results of ESG Lab that tested the performance and scalability of the HP ProLiant DL980 server powered by Intel Xeon processors, running SAP with VMware vSphere 5.

Posted: 26 Oct 2011 | Published: 25 Oct 2011

WHITE PAPER: This paper examines the choices available to organizations that need to migrate away from Intel Itanium processor-based servers.

Posted: 11 Oct 2011 | Published: 11 Oct 2011

WHITE PAPER: Virtualization offers a more flexible solution where resources can be redistributed in accordance with shifting demands. However, virtualization resources add a new abstraction layer to the infrastructure stack, which can complicate IT service optimization. Read on to learn best practices for optimizing IT services in complex virtual environments.

Posted: 10 Oct 2011 | Published: 10 Oct 2011

WHITE PAPER: The emergence of cloud computing and increased growth of data has driven new usage models for how storage is used and deployed. This resource defines a scale-out storage cloud reference architecture that can help to simplify the deployment of your first cloud infrastructure.

Posted: 05 Oct 2011 | Published: 05 Oct 2011

WHITE PAPER: This resource describes the technology and architecture that cloud service and deployment models offer and key areas of research and development for geographic information system (GIS) technology.

Posted: 26 Sep 2011 | Published: 26 Sep 2011

WHITE PAPER: Employees are flooding IT departments with requests to connect their personal smartphones to the company IT infrastructure. Disregarding the real productivity benefits from connected employees, until now many IT departments have been too concerned with security and control risks.

Posted: 12 Sep 2011 | Published: 12 Sep 2011

WHITE PAPER: Learn how to support your SQL Server instances and control your costs and administration requirements.

Posted: 24 Aug 2011 | Published: 24 Aug 2011

WHITE PAPER: This paper provides technical guidance when deploying Oracle databases on VMware vSphere.

Posted: 24 Aug 2011 | Published: 24 Aug 2011

WHITE PAPER: Access this resource to learn how the Kelley School of Business at Indiana University used virtualization to decrease server deployment time for faculty special projects; reduce amount of physical hardware; and reduce the power consumption across all infrastructure.

Posted: 24 Aug 2011 | Published: 24 Aug 2011

WHITE PAPER: This resource takes a closer look at a hyperscale-inspired server that is based on one of the world’s lowest power per core processors, enabling you to worry less about your budget and more about growing your business.

Posted: 23 Aug 2011 | Published: 23 Aug 2011

WHITE PAPER: While recent emphasis has been on consolidation and cost reduction, IT organizations looking to the future are developing streamlined processes and improved time-to-market. Read this white paper from IDC to learn how IT organizations can optimize data centers and build a strong foundation for future IT operations.

Posted: 15 Aug 2011 | Published: 15 Aug 2011

WHITE PAPER: Without the most up-to-date technology infrastructure, your organization will struggle to meet the changing demands of its internal and external users. Take a look at this exclusive resource to learn how Intel migrated its entire internal infrastructure to the Intel Architecture for a revitalized computing experience.

Posted: 09 Aug 2011 | Published: 09 Aug 2011