Blade Servers Reports

CASE STUDY: Access this exclusive case study and learn how an HP management software helped one organization increase scalability and application performance while reducing data center space, power needs and costs.

Posted: 31 May 2011 | Published: 31 May 2011

EGUIDE: Access this expert e-guide to discover the key benefits of a converged infrastructure to improve data center efficiency, including simplified management and cost savings.

Posted: 31 May 2011 | Published: 31 May 2011

CASE STUDY: This case study provides details of real-world best practices in IT consolidation to turn a data center from a burdensome cost center to a strategic asset with robust security, enhanced business continuity and reduced operating expenses.

Posted: 26 May 2011 | Published: 26 May 2011

EGUIDE: This expert e-guide provides a comparison of blade and rack servers. Find out what key factors you should consider in your hardware decision and learn how to prevent sprawl through effective server consolidation.

Posted: 05 May 2011 | Published: 05 May 2011

WEBCAST: View our Launch Webcast to learn more about Oracle's new comprehensive line of powerful x86 systems ranging from blades and rackmount servers to networking systems based on Intel's Xeon 5600 and 7500 processors. 

Posted: 13 Apr 2011 | Premiered: Apr 12, 2011

VIDEO: Blade servers are great for businesses that require much larger computing capacity for performance-intensive business-critical applications. Blade Servers allow your business to add significant performance in an energy efficient and easily managed form factor. Learn more about Dell PowerEdge Blade Servers in this video.

Posted: 12 Apr 2011 | Premiered: 12 Apr 2011

EZINE: “Workloads in transition” is one way to characterize virtualization, which ranges from physical-to-virtual to virtual-to-virtual and virtual-to-physical. Although each type of migration has its advantages, it has its challenges too. Find out where potential problems lurk, and keep them from dragging down your process.

Posted: 25 Mar 2011 | Published: 25 Mar 2011

CASE STUDY: In this case study Emerson virtualizes on Dell servers, eliminating 3,600 servers, reducing approximately 135 data centers down to 4, and decreasing the operating cost of its Windows server environment by 15 percent per year.

Posted: 23 Mar 2011 | Published: 23 Mar 2011

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: 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: This paper provides an overview of a reference architecture prepared by Red Hat that fully documents how to build your own private cloud.

Posted: 15 Feb 2011 | Published: 09 Feb 2011

WHITE PAPER: The Cisco UCS power configuration approach enables users to meet their redundancy and power density needs. The approach is simple yet flexible enough to adapt to the varying needs for different applications within the data center. Continue reading to learn more.

Posted: 14 Feb 2011 | Published: 01 Oct 2010

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 paper looks at the options IT managers have for hosting enterprise applications when replacing end-of-life POWER 4 or 5 servers. It compares an HP Converged Infrastructure, based on HP Integrity and Proliant server blades, to approaches based on IBM POWER. It also addresses customer options for business-critical application migration.

Posted: 09 Feb 2011 | Published: 09 Feb 2011

BROCHURE: This family brochure highlights the features, functions and benefits of the IBM family of blade chassis and blades, including the BladeCenter S chassis, the HS22, LS22, LS42, HS12, JS12, JS22, JS23, JS43 and BladeCenter Options.

Posted: 20 Jan 2011 | Published: 20 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 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: Virtualization plays a major role in driving improvements in SAP landscapes. IBM System x and BladeCenter servers with eX5 Technology offer customers benefits including higher utilization, reduced maintenance costs, easier administration and faster response to changing business needs.

Posted: 19 Jan 2011 | Published: 19 Jan 2011

WHITE PAPER: For small and midsize companies, System x, BladeCenter, and VMware virtualization solutions offer cost-effective options for transforming IT into a simple more powerful computing infrastructure. Look to IBM and VMware to show you how you can be distinctly competitive and profitable.

Posted: 19 Jan 2011 | Published: 19 Jan 2011

WHITE PAPER: VMware & IBM paper for small and midsize companies, System x, BladeCenter, and VMware virtualzation solutions offer cost-effective options for transforming IT into a simple more powerful computing infrastructure. Look to IBM and VMware to show you how you can be distinctly competitive and profitable.

Posted: 19 Jan 2011 | Published: 19 Jan 2011

PRESENTATION TRANSCRIPT: Today, IT resources can be provisioned quickly and cheaply—some would say too quickly and cheaply. But those IT resources rely on brick and mortar as well as megawatts, which are abstracted from the IT department. This Webcast will identify pitfalls data center teams should avoid.

Posted: 18 Nov 2010 | Published: 18 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

EBOOK: Midmarket organizations considering physical server upgrades must evaluate their environments, sift through offerings and integrate the servers with existing tools. This e-book will guide you through these complex efforts by covering three components: determining needs and requirements, understanding your options, and putting it all together.

Posted: 17 Nov 2010 | Published: 17 Nov 2010

PRESENTATION TRANSCRIPT: This presentation transcript will review of some of the recent technology enhancements for high performance computing, on the hardware side, and also how this technology could be leveraged in a hybrid compute environment, specifically targeted for computer-aided engineering, or CAE.

Posted: 11 Nov 2010 | Published: 11 Nov 2010