Server Hardware Reports

WHITE PAPER: Maximizing performance while making efficient use of available power and space can be critical in data center environments. The new Dell™ PowerEdge™ R815 rack server with the AMD Opteron™ 6000 Series platform delivers four-processor performance in a compact, cost-effective 2U design. Access this white paper now to learn more.

Posted: 03 Nov 2010 | Published: 02 Nov 2010

EBOOK: This e-book, sponsored by Dell, Inc. and AMD, contains a variety of virtualization resources as well as product overviews and videos detailing the features and business benefits of AMD processors and Dell virtualization solutions.

Posted: 03 Nov 2010 | Published: 13 Sep 2010

SOFTWARE DOWNLOAD: Learn why your traditional antivirus is putting your business at risk from web threats, viruses, spam and more. Discover how Worry-Free Business Security can help.

Posted: 26 Oct 2010 | Premiered: 26 Oct 2010

EGUIDE: In this expert e-guide learn how to provide continuous operations for the life of the data centre in support of critical missions, the top ten things to review when developing a hardware scalability plan for your company, how to determine the true value of a server operating system with clear-cut strategies to calculate ROI and TCO, and more.

Posted: 21 Oct 2010 | Published: 21 Oct 2010

WHITE PAPER: Limited space, power, and cooling capacity have led many organizations to recognize that capital and operating expenses for datacenters have become an increasing part of their budgets. Read this paper to learn about the range of technologies that can help you drive more efficiency in your datacenter.

Posted: 05 Oct 2010 | Published: 01 Mar 2010

WHITE PAPER: Introducing the Sun SPARC Enterprise M3000 Server. Oracle’s Sun SPARC Enterprise servers are highly reliable, easy-to-manage, vertically scalable systems with all the benefits of traditional mainframes—without the associated cost, complexity, or vendor lock-in.

Posted: 05 Oct 2010 | Published: 27 Apr 2010

WHITE PAPER: As IT organizations support dynamically changing business priorities and cope with economic pressures, maintaining datacenter agility is critical. By consolidating systems onto the latest server technology and taking advantage of virtualization techniques, enterprises can optimize datacenter efficiency, gain flexibility, and reduce operating costs

Posted: 05 Oct 2010 | Published: 22 Apr 2010

WHITE PAPER: Intel® Xeon® processor 7500 series-based servers offer extraordinary new value for virtualizing SAP solutions. They deliver near-native performance for applications running in virtual machines, while providing levels of reliability and scalability never before seen in industry-standard servers. Read this white paper to learn more!

Posted: 29 Sep 2010 | Published: 05 May 2010

WHITE PAPER: Virtualization on industry-standard servers has transformed IT service delivery, enabling companies to dramatically consolidate infrastructure, reduce costs, and much more. Read this paper to learn about the features and benefits of Vmware vSphere and the Intel Xeon processor 7500 series-based servers.

Posted: 29 Sep 2010 | Published: 05 May 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: Many IT organizations are interested in virtualizing their business-critical applications but want to be absolutely certain they can deliver the same or better performance, scalability and availability in a virtualized environment. In the vast majority of cases they can. Read this paper to learn about VMware and Intel solutions.

Posted: 28 Sep 2010 | Published: 28 Sep 2010

TEST RESULTS: This Principled Technologies report commissioned by Dell Inc. compares the benefits of migrating legacy Microsoft® Exchange 2003 infrastructure to Microsoft Exchange 2010.

Posted: 22 Sep 2010 | Published: 01 Nov 2009

WHITE PAPER: In this paper we compare a typical Exchange 2003 configuration of 10,000 mailboxes on somewhat legacy hardware with two examples of an Exchange 2010 configuration to show the potential efficiencies attainable by migrating to Exchange 2010 on new server and storage hardware from Dell.

Posted: 22 Sep 2010 | Published: 01 May 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

EBOOK: This e-book, sponsored by Dell, Inc. and AMD, contains a variety of virtualization resources as well as product overviews and videos detailing the features and business benefits of AMD processors and Dell virtualization solutions.

Posted: 13 Sep 2010 | Published: 13 Sep 2010

WHITE PAPER: The objective of this white paper is to identify the consolidation factor for an Oracle database running Online Transaction Processing (OLTP) workloads on legacy 9th Generation PowerEdge 2950 2U 2 socket to the new 11G PowerEdge R810 2U 4/2 socket servers.

Posted: 09 Sep 2010 | Published: 01 Apr 2010

PRESENTATION TRANSCRIPT: This transcript of the "Virtualize Tier-1 Apps with No Fear" webcast explains how companies are committing critical workloads to their virtual infrastructures.

Posted: 08 Sep 2010 | Published: 08 Sep 2010

WHITE PAPER: Read this white paper for an examination of a new software development language and technology called SequenceL, as well as a description of how it works, why there is a need for it and how well it performs in parallel environments.

Posted: 08 Sep 2010 | Published: 26 Aug 2010

PRESENTATION TRANSCRIPT: This presentation transcript explores the cost and efficiency benefits of server virtualization and explains how this technology can help companies prepare their IT environments for cloud computing. Learn about the requirements for virtualization and find out which hardware is best suited to meet the needs of your virtual infrastructure.

Posted: 01 Sep 2010 | Published: 01 Sep 2010

WHITE PAPER: Read this white paper to learn how Dell ProConsult Services helped develop and implement a flexible, scalable, automated virtualized infrastructure for several companies, allowing them to take advantage of cloud computing and focus on their core business.

Posted: 31 Aug 2010 | Published: 11 Jun 2010

WHITE PAPER: IT organisations are faced with service-level pressures that necessitate cost reductions and greater operational efficiency. This white paper highlights how customers can use innovative virtualisation and consolidation technologies from Oracle to create substantial savings on their investments in Sun servers from Oracle.

Posted: 27 Aug 2010 | Published: 17 Apr 2010

WHITE PAPER: Enterprises need strategies and tools that help maximise the use of every compute asset and improve operational flexibility. This white paper highlights the advantages of using server virtualisation to capture business value through an efficient, nimble IT architecture built on Oracle VM Server for SPARC (previously called Sun Logical Domains).

Posted: 26 Aug 2010 | Published: 17 Apr 2010

PRESENTATION TRANSCRIPT: There are a number of considerations that companies need to make when selecting server hardware to run databases on. In this video, get expert advice on considerations including availability, service and support and how the database should be scaled.

Posted: 24 Aug 2010 | Published: 23 Aug 2010

PRESENTATION TRANSCRIPT: Mergers are very difficult to do well. In a merger, the technology that can be more easily spread across the new entity is likely the one to survive. The expert in this video focuses on the importance of selecting systems that are flexible, modular and have required infrastructure to anticipate change and growth during a merger or acquisition.

Posted: 24 Aug 2010 | Published: 23 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