Server Management Reports

EBOOK: With a bit of planning, a specific tiering-out of your system priorities and a dash of virtualization, you can breathe new life into your old servers -- even as you bring in replacements with all of their powerful new capabilities. Read this e-book to learn more.

Posted: 26 Oct 2011 | Published: 26 Oct 2011

WHITE PAPER: This study details the performance scalability of the Cisco unified computing system (UCS) platform coupled with Intel Xeon 5600 series processors and EMC CLARiiON storage, and demonstrates why it's a great fit for virtualized SAP solutions.

Posted: 23 Nov 2011 | Published: 31 Dec 2010

EGUIDE: In this e-guide, readers will receive tips for choosing server hardware for Oracle environments, as well as a real-life case study.

Posted: 22 Nov 2011 | Published: 22 Nov 2011

WHITE PAPER: SMBs need to ensure high application availability and manage an increasingly complex IT environment within a limited budget. Learn how VMware's vSphere offers SMBs built-in business continuity and simplified IT management at a low cost.

Posted: 21 Nov 2011 | Published: 21 Nov 2011

WHITE PAPER: When it came time to replace its blade servers, Pacific Coast Building Products, Inc. sought a new platform that would support growth. Read this case study to learn how Pacific Coast implemented a platform that simplified provisioning and management of their SAP applications in a virtualized environment.

Posted: 21 Nov 2011 | Published: 31 Dec 2010

WHITE PAPER: You need to optimize your IT infrastructure to ensure future business success. This white paper explores an efficient, cost-effective, and easy-to manage approach to achieving this goal. Learn how to leverage the full potential of virtualization and discover a recommended storage system and its key benefits.

Posted: 17 Nov 2011 | Published: 01 Oct 2011

WHITE PAPER: This management brief provides a virtualization cost/benefit analysis, examines common deployment patterns, and recommends an architecture that can ensure your clients achieve their desired results.

Posted: 15 Nov 2011 | Published: 21 Nov 2011

PRESENTATION TRANSCRIPT: This is a presentation transcript discussing availability, performance monitoring, environment monitoring and the pitfalls that can occur.

Posted: 02 Nov 2011 | Published: 02 Nov 2011

WHITE PAPER: Declining flexibility and increasing costs have driven many businesses to adopt cloud computing to improve efficiency with on-demand, virtual services. Access this white paper for a detailed overview of server power management, usage models purpose and pre-requisites, architectural considerations and much more.

Posted: 28 Oct 2011 | Published: 28 Oct 2011

WHITE PAPER: With data center challenges on the rise, IT professionals can leverage data center instrumentation and server refresh to maintain productivity levels over time.  Access this white paper to drive efficiency at system, platform, and facility levels to ensure optimal ROI in your enterprise.

Posted: 27 Oct 2011 | Published: 27 Oct 2011

WHITE PAPER: Access this exclusive resource to learn about an innovative solution that can optimize your server virtualization and offer your business enhanced performance, improved availability, personalized support and much more.

Posted: 27 Oct 2011 | Published: 27 Oct 2011

WHITE PAPER: Read this IDC Analyst Connection to see the questions that were posed by HP to Cindy Borovick Program Vice President for IDC's Enterprise Communications and Datacenter Networks program, on behalf of HP's enterprise customers.

Posted: 27 Oct 2011 | Published: 27 Oct 2011

WHITE PAPER: Access this resource to review the results of ESG Lab that tested the performance and scalability of the HP ProLiant DL980 server powered by Intel Xeon processors, running SAP with VMware vSphere 5.

Posted: 26 Oct 2011 | Published: 25 Oct 2011

EGUIDE: This expert e-guide, brought to you by SearchSystemsChannel.com, reveals the four most common virtualization stumbling blocks that resellers encounter and offers advice for avoiding and overcoming them.

Posted: 18 Oct 2011 | Published: 18 Oct 2011

PRESENTATION TRANSCRIPT: This presentation transcript, brought to you by our editors, offers advice to help you successfully navigate the virtualization path. Hear how one company decided on a virtualization strategy and put the appropriate measures in place to effectively manage its virtual environment

Posted: 17 Oct 2011 | Published: 17 Oct 2011

EGUIDE: In businesses nationwide, IT infrastructures have been growing rapidly – leading to extensive sprawl. In terms of disaster recovery, this spells mayhem. This e-guide suggests virtualization as a potential solution and explains why hot sites, bandwidth, and testing are essential components of any virtual disaster recovery plan.

Posted: 13 Oct 2011 | Published: 13 Oct 2011

EBOOK: Will your current infrastructure support efficient virtual desktops? IT managers must consider application performance and, to that end, how well WANs are optimized to swiftly deliver those applications. This chapter will look at what infrastructure you may need to upgrade to support a virtual desktop environment.

Posted: 11 Oct 2011 | Published: 11 Oct 2011

WHITE PAPER: This paper examines the choices available to organizations that need to migrate away from Intel Itanium processor-based servers.

Posted: 11 Oct 2011 | Published: 11 Oct 2011

PRESENTATION TRANSCRIPT: This expert presentation transcript describes one organization's approach to virtualization management, its primary drivers, and key components. Discover your various options for reclaiming resources and explore the benefits of standardizing around the delivery of VMs.

Posted: 10 Oct 2011 | Published: 10 Oct 2011

PRESENTATION TRANSCRIPT: This expert presentation transcript explores key management factors you should consider as you navigate your virtualization initiative, including licensing, memory capabilities, and more. Hear about one company's virtualization roadmap and determine whether it aligns with your own virtualization plans.

Posted: 10 Oct 2011 | Published: 10 Oct 2011

WHITE PAPER: Virtualization offers a more flexible solution where resources can be redistributed in accordance with shifting demands. However, virtualization resources add a new abstraction layer to the infrastructure stack, which can complicate IT service optimization. Read on to learn best practices for optimizing IT services in complex virtual environments.

Posted: 10 Oct 2011 | Published: 10 Oct 2011

WHITE PAPER: The emergence of cloud computing and increased growth of data has driven new usage models for how storage is used and deployed. This resource defines a scale-out storage cloud reference architecture that can help to simplify the deployment of your first cloud infrastructure.

Posted: 05 Oct 2011 | Published: 05 Oct 2011

ASSESSMENT TOOL: This evaluation tool provides a high level analysis of your infrastructure so you can weigh the costs against the risks of maintaining existing processes. Compare four migration scenarios and determine which makes sense for your organisation.

Posted: 28 Sep 2011 | Published: 28 Sep 2011

WHITE PAPER: This resource describes the technology and architecture that cloud service and deployment models offer and key areas of research and development for geographic information system (GIS) technology.

Posted: 26 Sep 2011 | Published: 26 Sep 2011

PRESENTATION TRANSCRIPT: Keeping hosts and VM utilizations in check to prevent sprawl is a major task for IT administrators. Access this expert resource to learn tips for monitoring your virtual environment.

Posted: 22 Sep 2011 | Published: 22 Sep 2011