Blade Servers Reports

WHITE PAPER: Read this case study and see how the latest IBM System x and BladeCenter servers powered with the new energy efficient Intel Xeon 5500 series processors offer tremendous opportunity for reducing energy consumption, shrinking your data center footprint and lowering operational costs.

Posted: 22 Oct 2010 | Published: 22 Oct 2010

WHITE PAPER: This paper outlines the trends in the industry relating to blade server deployments, the challenges relating to systems management and power and cooling in that computing environment, and HP's approach to addressing those challenges.

Posted: 29 Sep 2010 | Published: 29 Sep 2010

CASE STUDY: Southwestern/Great American chose to swap its dual environment (SAP ERP ran off of a legacy IBM AS/400) for a leaner infrastructure based on VMware ESX and IBM blade servers with Intel Xeon processors that could run both SAP ERP and its Windows applications. Read this case study to learn about the combined VMware and Intel solution.

Posted: 28 Sep 2010 | Published: 28 Sep 2010

WHITE PAPER: This white paper describes the virtualization of a given user workload, and provides a useful sizing guide for enterprise deployments of VMware View™ 4, the VMware software platform for building a virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI) environment.

Posted: 22 Sep 2010 | Published: 22 Sep 2010

WHITE PAPER: IT organizations that find server deployment complex and inefficient are looking at new options, such as HP's BladeSystem Matrix. Using this converged infrastructure approach, organizations can reduce acquisition costs for servers, storage and network infrastructure, while reducing total cost of ownership.

Posted: 20 Sep 2010 | Published: 20 Sep 2010

WHITE PAPER: This paper outlines the trends in the industry relating to blade server deployments, the challenges relating to systems management and power and cooling in that computing environment, and HP's approach to addressing those challenges.

Posted: 25 Aug 2010 | Published: 20 Aug 2010

VIDEO: Join Andrew Hawthorn as he introduces you to the new HP ProLiant BL465c G7 Server Blade. Featuring the latest AMD Opteron processors and integrated HP Virtual Connect FlexFabric architecture, the BL465c G7 helps simplify network connections, lower infrastructure costs, and delivers the performance you expect for demanding application workloads.

Posted: 09 Aug 2010 | Premiered: 05 Aug 2010

PRESENTATION TRANSCRIPT: The combination of iSCSI and 10 Gigabit Ethernet is uniquely attractive - find out how by checking out this presentation transcript. Also learn how 10 GbE can simplify connectivity for physical, blade, virtual servers and network storage.

Posted: 22 Jul 2010 | Published: 08 Jul 2010

EGUIDE: In this expert e-guide from SearchServerVirtualization.com, learn the advantages of using blades for server virtualization. Find out when it makes the most sense and what considerations to evaluate when creating a blade virtualization strategy.

Posted: 14 Jul 2010 | Published: 14 Jul 2010

EGUIDE: In this expert e-guide from SearchDataCenter.com, the top blade server myths are debunked. Learn more about the benefits blades can deliver today and how to evaluate whether or not they’re a fit for your server architecture.

Posted: 06 Jul 2010 | Published: 06 Jul 2010

CASE STUDY: Midway Independent School District sought to gain control over server sprawl and implement a consolidated solution for growth. Read this case study to learn how Dell servers, storage and Intel technology provided a firm foundation for education applications, growth and 50% power and cooling savings.

Posted: 02 Jul 2010 | Published: 01 Feb 2010

CASE STUDY: Read this case study to learn how Dell helped BlueCross BlueShield of Western New York harness blades to shrink its data center footprint by 75 percent and improve efficiency by more than 50 percent.

Posted: 02 Jul 2010 | Published: 01 Apr 2009

BROCHURE: Are you building or expanding your virtual environment? Virtualization can reduce costs, improve application availability, and simplify IT management. HP ProLiant Virtualization Bundles are configurations that include everything you need to get started with virtualization. Read on to find out what's included.

Posted: 04 Jun 2010 | Published: 02 Jun 2010

WEBCAST: Join HP-UX 11i Marketing Manager Suzanne LaForge as she discusses HP-UX 11i on Integrity servers and HP's value for Solaris users.

Posted: 19 May 2010 | Premiered: Jan 1, 2010

VIDEO: The First Mission-Critical Converged Infrastructure combining the best of HP Integrity system heritage with leadership in Blades to deliver the highest levels of reliability and flexibility.

Posted: 11 May 2010 | Premiered: 11 May 2010

WHITE PAPER: If you are considering upgrading from a current bladed or non-bladed server design to a next generation server, this white paper is intended to highlight some of the capabilities of the HP Integrity server blades to aid in your evaluation.

Posted: 03 May 2010 | Published: 03 May 2010

WHITE PAPER: In this APC whitepaper, alternatives for providing electrical power to high density racks in data centers and network rooms are explained and compared as well as defined guidelines for rack power systems that can reliably deliver power to high density loads while adapting to changing needs.

Posted: 01 Apr 2010 | Published: 09 Jul 2009

PRESENTATION TRANSCRIPT: This transcript explores the virtualization benefits of implementing Windows Server 2008 R2 in your organization. Receive best practices on how to effectively integrate R2 into your current infrastructure. Discover how this integration can enable your organization to increase the performance and reliability of its virtualized environment.

Posted: 12 Mar 2010 | Published: 12 Mar 2010

PRODUCT OVERVIEW: The Dell PowerEdge M-series blade solution is a breakthrough in enterprise server architecture. Built from the ground up using Dell's Energy Smart and FlexIO technologies, the M-series is designed to combat data center sprawl and IT complexity.

Posted: 10 Mar 2010 | Published: 01 Jan 2008

CASE STUDY: When Opus Interactive needed to provide customers with a cost-efficient, highly available pay-as-you-grow server and storage model, they turned to HP ProLiant server blades, the HP LeftHand P4000 SAN, and VMware. As a result there was 75% reduction in customer cost per server and higher availability.

Posted: 03 Mar 2010 | Published: 03 Mar 2010

WHITE PAPER: Energy Logic is a vendor-neutral roadmap for optimizing data center energy efficiency that starts with the IT equipment and progresses to the support infrastructure. This paper shows how it can deliver a 50 percent or greater reduction in data center energy consumption without compromising performance or availability.

Posted: 21 Jan 2010 | Published: 21 Jan 2010

PRESENTATION TRANSCRIPT: Is your organization struggling to reduce server costs and improve performance? This presentation transcript explores how various virtualization and server platforms stack up in performance tests. Learn how to leverage this technology to achieve significant consolidation and cost savings.

Posted: 14 Dec 2009 | Published: 14 Dec 2009

WHITE PAPER: Business Ready Configurations for Virtualization are pre-configured, easy to order, bundled solutions that include Dell PowerEdge™ blade servers, Dell EqualLogic™ SAN, and VMware vSphere™. This white paper provides a detailed reference architecture for the Business Ready Configurations.

Posted: 17 Nov 2009 | Published: 01 Jul 2009

WHITE PAPER: This whitepaper provides an overview of the networking architecture for VMware Infrastructure 3 on Dell PowerEdge blade servers. It provides best practices for deploying and configuring your network in the VMware environment.

Posted: 17 Nov 2009 | Published: 01 Apr 2009

WHITE PAPER: Check Point IPS Software Blade gives breakthrough performance and protection at a breakthrough price. For more details, check out this paper, which highlights the numerous benefits of Check Point intrusion prevention protection solutions.

Posted: 29 Sep 2009 | Published: 12 Jun 2009