Server Consolidation Reports

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

WHITE PAPER: By running SAP applications on IBM System x eX5 servers equipped with Intel Xeon processor 7500 series, companies can achieve outstanding SAP performance to address current needs while gaining the scalability needed to accommodate growth.

Posted: 19 Jan 2011 | Published: 19 Jan 2011

EGUIDE: In this expert e-guide, discover tips for getting more from your server hardware with performance monitoring tools. Learn why it is essential to balance workloads between multiple servers. Plus, gain insight into eight strategies for making your servers more cost-effective, including maintaining interoperability between tools and servers.

Posted: 10 Jan 2011 | Published: 10 Jan 2011

WHITE PAPER: Obtaining the best possible backup performance is always a team effort in the sense that multiple technologies are brought together to provide optimal data protection performance. Read this white paper to learn why the components described in this document will help you to protect your valuable virtual machine environment.

Posted: 28 Dec 2010 | Published: 28 Dec 2010

WHITE PAPER: This paper explains that to accomplish the objectives of making more-efficient use of IT resources, lowering power consumption, and reducing operating expenses, many companies are turning to server consolidation and virtualization efforts—endeavors that increase server CPU utilization and reduce the number of discrete servers in a datacenter.

Posted: 20 Dec 2010 | Published: 20 Dec 2010

EGUIDE: This guide talks to the importance of managing storage capacity and performance for virtualized servers and how to go about tackling this challenge.

Posted: 17 Dec 2010 | Published: 17 Dec 2010

EGUIDE: In this expert e-guide from SearchServerVirtualization.com learn how virtualizing applications like SQL Server and Exchange can reduce data center space and power usage, improve disaster recovery and increase deployment flexibility. Plus get best practices and considerations for each specific application.

Posted: 14 Dec 2010 | Published: 14 Dec 2010

PRESENTATION TRANSCRIPT: Learn about virtualizing the most common mission-critical applications and find out if this approach is right for your organization in this presentation transcript.

Posted: 08 Dec 2010 | Published: 08 Dec 2010

EGUIDE: Server consolidation can save your organization money by increasing utilization rates and reducing power and cooling costs. Learn how capacity planning and virtualization technologies can help you meet your server consolidation goals.

Posted: 06 Dec 2010 | Published: 06 Dec 2010

WHITE PAPER: Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization features a unique and revolutionary virtualization technology called KVM (Kernelbased Virtual Machine) that converts the Red Hat Enterprise Linux kernel into a virtualization platform.

Posted: 22 Nov 2010 | Published: 22 Nov 2010

WHITE PAPER: The migration from proprietary UNIX and legacy hardware and software-based environments to Linux on x86 Intel architecture (IA) is an effective way to take cost and complexity out of IT.

Posted: 22 Nov 2010 | Published: 22 Nov 2010

PRESENTATION TRANSCRIPT: Everyone is talking about virtualization as a critical component to the success of a data center. What are some of the benefits of virtualization? What are the cost benefits of using Windows Server 2008 R2 for virtualization? Learn more in this presentation transcript.

Posted: 22 Nov 2010 | Published: 22 Nov 2010

PRESENTATION TRANSCRIPT: In this transcript, senior enterprise IT architect Nelson Ruest breaks down the seven different layers of the server virtualization architecture, and explains the role the hypervisor plays in the success of that infrastructure.

Posted: 22 Nov 2010 | Published: 22 Nov 2010

WHITE PAPER: Affordable high availability and disaster recovery solutions are critical to the survival of all SMBs in the event of a disaster. Building on years of helping SMBs protect their information, VMware and Dell provide cost-effective and robust data protection, disaster recovery, and high availability solutions.

Posted: 22 Nov 2010 | Published: 22 Nov 2010

PRESENTATION TRANSCRIPT: Everyone is talking about virtualisation as a critical component to the success of a data centre. What are some of the benefits of virtualisation? What are the cost benefits of using Windows Server 2008 R2 for virtualisation? Learn more in this presentation transcript.

Posted: 17 Nov 2010 | Published: 17 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

WHITE PAPER: Small and medium businesses need to support growth while wringing every ounce of value out of the investments they’ve already made. This paper looks at the benefits of virtualizing SQL Server databases, as well as how to get the most out of your virtual infrastructure.

Posted: 16 Nov 2010 | Published: 16 Nov 2010

WHITE PAPER: Read this paper for resources to help you determine how much powering and cooling the data center is costing your organization, and learn how the Hyper-V Server 2008 R2 can help reduce these requirements.

Posted: 16 Nov 2010 | Published: 16 Nov 2010

EBOOK: Virtualization's abstraction of resources offers some compelling solutions for keeping around old equipment past its usefulness for primary workloads. In chapter 4 of this e-book, you'll learn smarter ways to deal with reallocating your unused server and storage hardware.

Posted: 16 Nov 2010 | Published: 16 Nov 2010

EGUIDE: In this e-guide from SearchWindowsServer.com, learn about key trends driving server purchases in today’s market. Gain expert insight into what benchmarks and considerations you should evaluate when making a server purchase.

Posted: 15 Nov 2010 | Published: 12 Nov 2010

EZINE: Virtualization allows organizations to consolidate servers, reduce costs and increase efficiency. But too much of anything is rarely good. In this issue, the downsides of excessive consolidation and strategies for striking the right balance to improve computing efficiency are explained. Plus, how to improve server performance and consolidation.

Posted: 09 Nov 2010 | Published: 09 Nov 2010

CASE STUDY: University or Arizona (UA) required better enterprise planning and new business intelligence (BI) tools to make better information available to the administration for data-driven decisions and offer new agility in meeting student needs. Read this case study to learn how EMC information infrastructure helped deploy its largest IT initiative.

Posted: 04 Nov 2010 | Published: 03 Nov 2010