Server Consolidation Reports

EGUIDE: Explore this e-guide to learn about common mistakes and issues overlooked when it comes to capacity planning. In addition, find out the best ways to approach capacity planning in your virtual environment.

Posted: 03 Mar 2011 | Published: 03 Mar 2011

WHITE PAPER: The white paper Closing the Virtualisation Loop identifies the objectives in the next phase of virtual machine backup and recovery and provides recommendations on how to improve backup and disaster recovery in a hybrid IT environment.

Posted: 17 May 2011 | Published: 16 May 2011

WHITE PAPER: The Intel® Xeon® processor family provides a reliable, available, and serviceable infrastructure which works seamlessly with Windows Server 2008 R2. By leveraging the power of Intel technology, businesses can enhance their private cloud infrastructure to help IT administrators and end-users receive an efficient, secure, and simplified experience.

Posted: 16 May 2011 | Published: 29 Mar 2011

EGUIDE: Access this eGuide to determine if your data center hardware is ready for a re-fresh and discover cost-effective alternatives to a re-fresh, including leasing and upgrading the existing hardware in your data center for a highly favorable ROI.

Posted: 11 May 2011 | Published: 11 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

WHITE PAPER: It’s often difficult for businesses to evaluate competing virtualization platforms. Despite superficial similarities, different providers' platforms are far from identical. This paper compares the VMware vSphere virtualization platform to two alternatives, focusing on features and issues.

Posted: 19 Apr 2011 | Published: 19 Apr 2011

EGUIDE: This e-guide discusses the top 5 server virtualization benefits, including simplified IT management and elastic capacity. Also, find out how using virtualization can save money by lowering data center energy costs. And learn how to use this technology to reduce storage requirements.

Posted: 18 Apr 2011 | Published: 18 Apr 2011

EZINE: Storage networks are an essential element of server virtualization, but there are several options available today. Is it better to invest in a separate SAN or move storage over Ethernet using iSCSI or FCoE technology? This article considers the tradeoffs of each approach and presents important considerations for both.

Posted: 15 Apr 2011 | Published: 24 Sep 2010

EBOOK: View this E-Book to learn how the most complete and integrated virtualization solution can provide end-to-end visibility, management and control to lower costs and transform your business.

Posted: 14 Apr 2011 | Published: 14 Apr 2011

PRESENTATION TRANSCRIPT: Configuration errors, over-allocation of resources and application and network performance issues can cause administrators headaches. Learn how to find and eliminate the sources of these problems in this presentation transcript.

Posted: 08 Apr 2011 | Published: 08 Apr 2011

ASSESSMENT TOOL: Developed with key learnings from Intel IT's experience in justifying server refresh internally, this tool allows you to enter data about your existing environment and evaluate the benefits of replacing it with the latest generation of Intel-based servers.

Posted: 07 Apr 2011 | Published: 07 Apr 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: There is a need for greater optimization and efficiency in how software and solutions that power datacenters are deployed and managed. Read this white paper for a virtualization solution that will facilitate flexibility, agility, and speed in deploying complete application stacks to support the new service-based charter.

Posted: 22 Mar 2011 | Published: 01 Oct 2010

ANALYST REPORT: Virtualization technology is on a roll, driven by adoption of x86-based servers. While the software market ecosystem around virtualization is heating up, hardware vendors are leveraging that momentum and creating platforms that are optimized for virtualization.

Posted: 18 Mar 2011 | Published: 18 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

DATA SHEET: Oracle’s Sun Fire X4800 server is revolutionizing the x86 market by setting new standards with leading performance, outstanding scalability and unmatched RAS features. Read this data sheet to learn more.

Posted: 16 Mar 2011 | Published: 16 Mar 2011

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: 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: 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

EGUIDE: Read this e-guide and uncover the pros and cons of SQL Server consolidation. Learn to choose a consolidation approach that aligns with your business model and day-to-day operations.

Posted: 01 Mar 2011 | Published: 01 Mar 2011

EGUIDE: According to AMR Research, more and more customers are saving on SAP operational costs this year with SAP infrastructure projects and virtualizing SAP applications. Read this e-guide and learn to identify areas of potential SAP savings as well as the best way to virtualize your SAP environments.

Posted: 28 Feb 2011 | Published: 28 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

ANALYST REPORT: This paper examines the results of an IDC study of enterprise organizations that have deployed IBM Power Systems to achieve workload consolidation, improved uptime, and reduced operational costs. These systems are highly virtualized platforms that supported consolidation of workloads and provided near-term payback from the initial investment.

Posted: 21 Feb 2011 | Published: 21 Feb 2011

EZINE: Most organizations rely on multiple data centers to support geographically disparate divisions and DR facilities, but management must often be performed from a central location. This article considers the various options available from server manufacturers, third-party software vendors, and hardware-oriented options such as KVM over IP solutions.

Posted: 14 Feb 2011 | Published: 11 Feb 2011

WHITE PAPER: As the Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI DSS, or PCI) becomes more widely adopted in both the United States and Europe, organizations face five major challenges when navigating the PCI compliance landscape.

Posted: 07 Feb 2011 | Published: 07 Feb 2011