Server Hardware Reports

WHITE PAPER: This research note presents results from a recent survey on virtualization and cloud computing. Find out why many of your peers are looking into fabric-based infrastructures and get recommendations to help you leverage the full benefits of this technology.

Posted: 24 May 2011 | Published: 11 Feb 2011

VIDEO: This video describes how making the transition from physical to virtual resources with IBM Virtualization has the potential for significant savings.

Posted: 19 May 2011 | Premiered: 08 Apr 2010

VIDEO: This video describes how IBM Virtualization Management Solutions can help you manage physical and virtual resources across the technology infrastructure.

Posted: 19 May 2011 | Premiered: 23 Jun 2010

WHITE PAPER: This document is designed to give you information about Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization Hypervisor and its many features including large scale consolidation, high performance, storage and networking support and memory management.

Posted: 19 May 2011 | Published: 19 May 2011

EBOOK: This eBook is an overview of data warehouse appliance trends and practical advice on how to evaluate and choose the right appliances for their organizations. Learn about the limitations of data warehouse appliances and pitfalls to avoid in using them.

Posted: 19 May 2011 | Published: 19 May 2011

EBOOK: This eBook is an overview of data warehouse appliance trends and practical advice on how to evaluate and choose the right appliances for their organizations. Learn about the limitations of data warehouse appliances and pitfalls to avoid in using them.

Posted: 19 May 2011 | Published: 19 May 2011

EBOOK: This eBook is an overview of data warehouse appliance trends and practice advice on how to evaluate and choose the right appliances for your organizations. Learn about the limitations of data warehouse appliances and pitfalls to avoid in using them.

Posted: 19 May 2011 | Published: 19 May 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: Microsoft Exchange Server is one of the most mission-critical IT services for enterprises, and can mean major headaches when mail servers are down. Learn how to select and verify a hypervisor to avoid common high availability mistakes.

Posted: 10 May 2011 | Published: 10 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

EBOOK: Follow this step by step guide from concept to implementation to ensure your move to the cloud is efficient and leads your organization to success.

Posted: 27 Apr 2011 | Published: 25 Apr 2011

EGUIDE: This e-guide provides expert insight into how to choose the right hardware for Windows server virtualization. Learn why it’s important to determine the needs of virtual workloads when purchasing servers. And find out which server features are essential for virtualization, including powerful processors, abundant memory and ample storage.

Posted: 22 Apr 2011 | Published: 22 Apr 2011

WHITE PAPER: Reliability, availability, and serviceability (RAS) are intricately related, and each factor is equally important to achieving maximum IT service uptime. Oracle’s Sun SPARC Enterprise servers provide excellent RAS characteristics that are ideal for maximizing the uptime of business-critical IT services. Read on to learn more.

Posted: 12 Apr 2011 | Published: 01 Apr 2010

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

VIDEO: Tower Servers are ideal first servers for small businesses with the right combination of value, reliability, collaboration and data protection features to improve your business continuity and productivity. Learn more in this video which takes a look at a growing restaurant's adoption of a Dell PowerEdge Tower Server.

Posted: 12 Apr 2011 | Premiered: 12 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: Salesforce.com is the leader in enterprise cloud computing services, enabling organizations to manage every part of the customer relationship without having to maintain expensive, in-house applications. Read this case study to learn how Saleforce.com made room for new service and customer growth with Dell's PowerEdge servers.

Posted: 07 Apr 2011 | Published: 06 Jun 2011

EGUIDE: This e-guide from SearchVMware.com explains how to monitor CPU usage, virtual memory, the network and I/O resources in virtual environments. Plus, get expert step-by-step instructions for installing and testing PowerShell for Hyper-V management.

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: Intel IT and Intel's Data Center Group conducted proof of concept (PoC) testing and total cost of ownership (TCO) analysis to compare two- and four-socket servers based on Intel Xeon processors for a variety of virtualization scenarios. Download this white paper for a detailed look at this test and its results.

Posted: 23 Mar 2011 | Published: 23 Mar 2011

EGUIDE: Read this TheServerSide.com Expert Tip to better understand the JVM performance problem, how the JVM manages memory and how best to approach JVM Performance.

Posted: 21 Mar 2011 | Published: 21 Mar 2011

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: 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: Oracle’s Sun Fire X2270 M2 server provides the most effective path to cloud and technical computing. They bring an enhanced next generation, small form-factor, high performance system to the datacenter. Continue reading to learn more.

Posted: 15 Mar 2011 | Published: 03 May 2010