Server Management White Papers

WHITE PAPER: Read this white paper to learn how organizations primarily adopt workload management software to increase value from their data centers and ease the pain of managing a million jobs simultaneously.

Posted: 13 Apr 2011 | Published: 13 Apr 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: To create the infrastructure for a private enterprise cloud, Intel IT has set a goal of virtualizing up to 75 percent of its office and enterprise computing environments. To achieve this goal, Intel IT will need to virtualize mission-critical applications, which is challenging due to rigorous performance, availability, and other requirements.

Posted: 23 Mar 2011 | Published: 23 Mar 2011

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: To support the execution of multiple workloads without starving applications of vital compute resources, a virtualization platform needs to offer high compute performance, a large memory footprint, and superior I/O expansion capabilities. Read on to learn how Oracle’s Sun Fire X4470 server is an ideal mission-critical virtualization platform.

Posted: 16 Mar 2011 | Published: 01 Apr 2010

WHITE PAPER: Oracle introduces the new Sun Fire X4170 M2, the most versatile IT infrastructure building block server and the Sun Fire X4270 M2 server, the ideal server for clustered database and virtualized workloads.

Posted: 16 Mar 2011 | Published: 01 Jul 2010

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: The Sun Blade 6000 Modular Systems present a comprehensive multitier blade portfolio that lets organizations deploy the broadest range of applications on the most ideal platforms. This document describes the Sun Blade 6000 Modular Systems along with their key applications, architecture, and components.

Posted: 15 Mar 2011 | Published: 01 Jan 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: Read this white paper to to learn how VMware View can help IT administrators decrease operating costs by centralizing management, data protection and security.

Posted: 10 Mar 2011 | Published: 10 Mar 2011

WHITE PAPER: Read this paper to learn how IT professionals can use a proven approach to leverage the benefits of virtualization to reduce costs, improve services and enhance business agility. Continue reading to learn how to accelerate the business value of virtualization.

Posted: 02 Mar 2011 | Published: 02 Mar 2011

WHITE PAPER: IBM commissioned Forrester Consulting to examine the total economic impact and potential ROI enterprises may realize by deploying IBM InfoSphere Information Server. Read on to learn the findings of this study and find out what the total economic impact of IBM Infosphere Information Server.

Posted: 24 Feb 2011 | Published: 24 Feb 2011

WHITE PAPER: While already on the lookout for ways to reduce costs, large enterprises are under increasing pressure to use less energy. Inefficient or end-of-life servers can cost more to run than they are worth because they continue to draw power for cooling. Read this white paper to learn the solution to this problem.

Posted: 23 Feb 2011 | Published: 23 Feb 2011

WHITE PAPER: OpenX has calculated all the 'hidden' costs of hosting your own ad server. Read this white paper and understand the full range of costs such as technical infrastructure, soft-costs such as staff time, and risks associated with self-hosting.

Posted: 23 Feb 2011 | Published: 23 Feb 2011

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: When HP-UX 11i on Integrity Servers was matched up against Linux on IBM x86 Servers, the results were interesting. Read this paper and find out which lowered TCO and gave higher ROI through superior consolidation, virtualization, scalability, availability, and intelligent manageability.

Posted: 16 Feb 2011 | Published: 16 Feb 2011

WHITE PAPER: Read this paper and discover the reliability, availability and serviceability (RAS) features of  HP Integrity Systems: Superdome 2, BL8x0c, and rx2800 i2.

Posted: 09 Feb 2011 | Published: 09 Feb 2011

WHITE PAPER: This white paper explores the reasons for changing traditional desktop computing strategies, why cloud-hosted virtual desktops are a compelling solution for many businesses, and how to leverage cloud-hosted desktops for Windows 7 migrations, mobile and departmental workers, and disaster recovery scenarios.

Posted: 01 Feb 2011 | Published: 01 Feb 2011

WHITE PAPER: Surprise incidences of downtime in server rooms and remote wiring closets lead to sleepless nights for many IT managers. This paper analyzes several of these incidents and makes recommendations for how a basic monitoring system can help reduce the occurrence of these unanticipated events.

Posted: 26 Jan 2011 | Published: 26 Jan 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