Hardware Management Research
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The Road to Convergence
Sponsored by: Dell, Inc. and Intel®This essential resource discusses the top challenges in converging your data center infrastructure and best practices for creating a successful convergence strategy. Discover the core benefits this approach provides your IT infrastructure and how you can effectively simplify your data center management today!
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Five Reasons to Make the Move to a Converged Infrastructure
Sponsored by: Dell, Inc. and Intel®This resource details the top reasons for converging your data center infrastructure that will simplify the management of your IT environment. Discover the key steps you must take in order to begin your journey to a converged infrastructure on the right foot.
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Tips and Techniques for Building a Converged Data Center Presentation Transcript
Sponsored by: Dell, Inc. and Intel®There are a variety of options when it comes to data center convergence. Finding a best-fit solution for your organization can be difficult. Learn more about how your business can optimize their virtualization process with an in-depth exploration of tips and techniques for building a converged data center.
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The State of the i
Sponsored by: ConnectriaAccess this white paper to learn about the developments of IBM i on Power Systems. Discover how to achieve valuable benefits like reliability, simplified installation and administration, continuing hardware innovations and much more.
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Best Practices for Implementing a Data Warehouse on Oracle Exadata Database Machine
Sponsored by: Oracle CorporationBy using the Oracle Exadata Database Machine as a data warehouse platform you have a balanced, high performance hardware configuration. This paper focuses on the other two corner stones, data modeling and data loading, providing a set of best practices and examples for deploying a data warehouse on the Oracle Exadata Database Machine.
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Workload-Optimized Systems For Superior Business Value
Sponsored by: IBMThis case study looks at how making the proper server choices can help increase the utilization of resources, find new ways to achieve higher qualities of service and capitalize on superior economics. Read on to learn how x86 multi-cores differ from Power Systems and mainframes, and why the right server can lead to a greater ROI.
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E-Guide: Oracle server hardware decisions
Sponsored by: Cisco Systems, Inc.In this e-guide, readers will receive tips for choosing server hardware for Oracle environments, as well as a real-life case study.
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Successfully Managing VDI Services with the BIG-IP System
Sponsored by: F5 Inc.Learn how you can unite all the components required to make a complete and secure VDI services delivery solution in one integrated and consolidated platform.
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Proactive technical support: the overlooked essential in business resilience: Combine hardware and software technical support with business continuity and disaster recovery plans
Sponsored by: IBMRead this white paper and discover how IBM tech support solutions fit into every good resiliency plan and what to look for in a good business resilience vendor.
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The Corporate PC Refresh Project
Sponsored by: CibecsThis comprehensive white paper explores the many challenges organizations need to address in order to ensure smooth implementation, coordination and management of their PC refresh initiatives.
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E-Guide: Cost effective hardware strategies that improve application performance
Sponsored by: Cisco Systems, Inc.Read this E-Guide for a helpful checklist before upgrading your hardware and to better understand how the hardware will affect Oracle databases.
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How to Utilize Virtual Hardware Metrics to Ensure Optimal Performance
Sponsored by: HP & Intel®This expert e-guide from SearchVMware.com highlights key virtual hardware statistics to ensure you choose the best virtual machine for your IT shop. Learn more here.
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How to Tell When Your Data Center Hardware Needs a Refresh
Sponsored by: Hewlett-Packard Company and AMDAccess 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.
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HP Networking Cisco Trade-in Program
Sponsored by: Computer Design & Integration LLCThis paper discusses a trade-in program provided by HP to help you cost-effectively upgrade your infrastructure. Uncover which products are eligible and how to get started.
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Best Practices for Implementing a Data Warehouse on Oracle Exadata Database Machine
Sponsored by: Oracle CorporationBy using the Oracle Exadata Database Machine as a data warehouse platform you have a balanced, high performance hardware configuration. This paper focuses on the other two corner stones, data modeling and data loading, providing a set of best practices and examples for deploying a data warehouse on the Oracle Exadata Database Machine.
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E-Guide: Maximizing the Benefits of Your Server Virtualization Deployment
Sponsored by: Dell, Inc. and Intel®In this e-guide from SearchServerVirtualization.com, gain expert insight on how to approach a virtualization project to ensure maximum success. Understand what challenges you can anticipate and pitfalls to avoid. Plus, find out how to evaluate costs associated with virtualization and which areas can deliver the best advantages.
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Transitioning to a Dynamic Data Center: The Keys for Successfully Migrating Your Business
Sponsored by: Hitachi VantaraThis paper will explore some of the more common pitfalls that hamper successful data center transformations and the keys to overcome them.
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Evaluating Virtual Applications and Their Impact on Your Infrastructure
Sponsored by: Compuware CorporationLearn how virtualizing your applications can improve resource usage and reduce hardware costs for your organization. Also, find out how using virtual appliances can make software deployment easier.
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Presentation Transcript: Upgrading to vSphere: What you need to know
Sponsored by: Dell and VMwareUpgrading from VMware ESX and/or ESXi 3.x to vSphere 4 successfully involves careful planning. There are hardware, software and database requirements, as well as third-party software compatibility considerations. This transcript provides guidelines for planning a successful upgrade, and walks you through a proposed upgrade path step-by-step.
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E-Book: Making the Case for Solid-State Storage
Sponsored by: Oracle Corporation UK LtdThis all encompassing SearchStorage.com e-book will cover the bases of solid-state drives (SSD). Learn more about adding SSD drives instead of disk drives, how to implement NAND flash, and the benefits and fallbacks of standalone SSD arrays.
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Cloud Computing for the Enterprise-- Part 1: Capturing the Cloud
Sponsored by: IBMRead this article from IBM to discover the details behind the definition: cloud computing is an all-inclusive solution in which all computing resources (hardware, software, networking, storage, and so on) are provided rapidly to users as demand dictates.
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Mastering the Multicore Challenge: An Elegant and Efficient Approach to Exploiting the Power of Parallelism
Sponsored by: Texas Multicore Technologies, Inc.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.
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Presentation Transcript: Upgrading to vSphere: What you need to know
Sponsored by: Dell and VMwareUpgrading from VMware ESX and/or ESXi 3.x to vSphere 4 successfully involves careful planning. There are hardware, software and database requirements, as well as third-party software compatibility considerations. This transcript provides guidelines for planning a successful upgrade, and walks you through a proposed upgrade path step-by-step.
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Trusted Computing: Leveraging Hardware Security in 350 Million Platforms
Sponsored by: Wave Systems Corp.Learn about Trusted Computing in today’s enterprise with this executive briefing on two different forms of embedded hardware security: the Trusted Platform Module (TPM) and self-encrypting drive (SED). Designed by the Trusted Computing Group (TCG) to counter the vulnerabilities of software-based security, and so much more.
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E-book: Developing a Mission-Critical Hardware Strategy for Your SAP Environment
Sponsored by: Hewlett Packard EnterpriseRead this E-Book and learn how reducing hardware complexity can increase the performance of a SAP landscape and key considerations for designing or upgrading your hardware infrastructure. Additionally, best practices are explained for running a virtualized SAP infrastructure.