Data Center Design Reports

EGUIDE: The word is out about software-defined data centers, but awareness isn't the same as understanding or acceptance. In this e-guide, Dan Kusnetzky, founder and principal analyst of market research firm Kusnetzky Group LLC, explores the new frontier that is SDDC and prepares you for your potential future.

Posted: 27 Dec 2016 | Published: 23 Dec 2016

EGUIDE: This expert e-guide analyzes the main benefits that accompany a hyperconverged environment, as well as how to perform a solid business case by calculating the costs of migrating or integrating with your existing compute, storage and network facilities.See if you are ready to hyperconverge your architecture by answering these simple questions.

Posted: 09 Dec 2016 | Published: 30 Nov 2016

EGUIDE: Discover the three most significant factors in a data center design to help you through the drafting process. Use this resource as a guide to properly determine requirements from the beginning to maximize overall data center performance and avoid major upgrades.

Posted: 08 Dec 2016 | Published: 05 Dec 2016

EGUIDE: Learn how to develop a stronger infrastructure plan that embraces the Internet of Things as it becomes more widespread. Discover what Henrique Cecci, a research director at Gartner Inc., believes are the top 8 emerging trends that will affect data center facilities moving forward.

Posted: 08 Dec 2016 | Published: 05 Dec 2016

EZINE: In this month's Modern Infrastructure e-zine, take a look at the data management market and how you can equip your management infrastructure for the big data trend, how to prevent kernel breakouts and ensure the security of container-based workloads, strategies for simplifying today's data center networks, and more.

Posted: 17 Nov 2016 | Published: 17 Nov 2016

EGUIDE: In this e-guide discover 10 best practices for managing your data center to keep it running in top-condition. Learn how to optimize your datacenter by regulating rack level capacity, working with the IT infrastructure tools you have, focusing on configuration management, and more by clicking inside.

Posted: 15 Nov 2016 | Published: 15 Nov 2016

EGUIDE: Take a closer look at the benefits and challenges of an SDN-WAN and network function virtualization (NFV) deployment. Additionally, this guide illustrates SDN's new security methodologies, which are reshaping mobile security today.

Posted: 14 Nov 2016 | Published: 11 Nov 2016

EGUIDE: Overcome the potential problems associated with AWS migration: In this guide, you will receive expert insight to ensure you've invested enough prep into configuration management before migrating to AWS. Additionally, identify 6 crucial steps in the AWS app migration process.

Posted: 07 Nov 2016 | Published: 31 Oct 2016

EGUIDE: If you're considering HANA but are unsure about SAP's models of cloud computing, you'll want to fully outline your deployment options before migration. Discover three options for cloud-based HANA, as well as 6-point checklist for crafting a successful cloud migration strategy.

Posted: 07 Nov 2016 | Published: 28 Oct 2016

EGUIDE: This eGuide addresses the growth of ITSM methods, tools, and processes. Also, engage in seven CIO tips for existing and upcoming ITSM changes that are reconstructing IT services, how to manage all of these developments effectively and ways in which you can keep your enterprise relevant.

Posted: 31 Oct 2016 | Published: 24 Oct 2016

EGUIDE: This expert eGuide offers information about virtualization management software tools that allow you to maintain data center functionality such as workflow management, capacity management, resource reporting and more, all while supporting multiple hypervisors and cloud platforms.

Posted: 28 Oct 2016 | Published: 24 Oct 2016

EGUIDE: This eGuide offers information on the development of a new cloud service system that hopes to provide a balance between allowing developers to work with their preferred platforms and having IT retain its ability to make security and policy decisions.

Posted: 26 Oct 2016 | Published: 17 Oct 2016

EGUIDE: This eGuide offers 10 of the best practices when it comes to managing IT assets, loading server resources onto rack spaces, configuring infrastructure or even handling IT support.

Posted: 26 Oct 2016 | Published: 17 Oct 2016

EGUIDE: Migrating an enterprise's data and applications to the cloud includes a laundry list of considerations – from tools and costs to security. Learn six tasks that should be included on your checklist to ensure a successful cloud migration strategy.

Posted: 25 Oct 2016 | Published: 21 Oct 2016

EGUIDE: This expert eGuide analyses which system management tools IT professionals find most effective for monitoring VMs and clouds. Also, learn more about the rise in shadow IT, which automation tools monitor application availability versus server availability, as well as the overall importance of these tools on your IT environment.

Posted: 25 Oct 2016 | Published: 17 Oct 2016

EGUIDE: In this expert guide learn the opinions of 4 CIOs when it comes to the best practices for migrating away from a legacy system. In addition, learn about a program for measuring the lifespan of a legacy to see whether or not it's time for you to make the switch to a cloud, or mobile platform.

Posted: 24 Oct 2016 | Published: 24 Oct 2016

EGUIDE: As lock-in concerns become less prevalent, public cloud adoption continues to rise; however, organizations find that some workloads are best left in-house. Discover the boons and challenges associated with public cloud deployment, and additionally learn how to leverage it to eliminate latency and increase response times for IoT apps.

Posted: 24 Oct 2016 | Published: 19 Oct 2016

EGUIDE: This eGuide addresses concerns and offers advice on different connection options that have the ability to provide a reliable, efficient, and secure pathway to move data between your data centers and cloud provider.

Posted: 21 Oct 2016 | Published: 17 Oct 2016

EGUIDE: Some organizations rush into a cloud migration, assuming cost savings are a guarantee. But not all applications are meant for the public cloud, and moving them may cost you more. Find out what's more cost-effective for your organization – keeping apps on-premises or moving them to the cloud.

Posted: 21 Oct 2016 | Published: 20 Oct 2016

EGUIDE: This eGuide, offers two methods that are aimed to resolve hyper-converged network problems by focusing on factors that can negatively affect the efficiency of your system so you can ultimately manage the complexity of the environment while ensuring performance.

Posted: 20 Oct 2016 | Published: 10 Oct 2016

EZINE: This month's Modern Infrastructure e-zine examines how two abstraction technologies are being used together and how some open source innovators are even latching onto this best-of-both-worlds idea in an effort to better merge containers and VMs.

Posted: 18 Oct 2016 | Published: 18 Oct 2016

EGUIDE: Memory manufacturers are getting creative for high performance. High Bandwidth Memory (HBM) and Hybrid Memory Cube (HMC) module could appear in the next generation of servers. This exclusive e-guide details each new memory type and how they're shaking up performance expectations.

Posted: 22 Sep 2016 | Published: 20 Sep 2016

EGUIDE: A positive outlook, a plan for new projects, and a well-rounded set of data center skills, that's what data center professionals need to ensure better data center performance and efficiency. This e-guide details six steps to develop better data center skills.

Posted: 22 Sep 2016 | Published: 21 Sep 2016

EGUIDE: This expert eGuide predicts upcoming data center changes as well as which trends to pay close attention to and how they can benefit your enterprise. Also, gain insight on some of the challenges that these new trends can present, and ways to overcome them.

Posted: 21 Sep 2016 | Published: 20 Sep 2016

EZINE: The stand-alone server market finds itself overmatched by a variety of converged systems that might just be more equipped to handle today's infrastructure. This Modern Infrastructure e-zine details the impact of converged systems on the server market and explores motivation behind a multicloud strategy, basics of immutable infrastructure, and more.

Posted: 20 Sep 2016 | Published: 20 Sep 2016