Server Consolidation Research
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Virtualize, Consolidate and Scale SAP with IBM System x and eX5
Sponsored by: IBMBy 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.
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E-Guide: Expert Strategies for Improving Server Cost-effectiveness
Sponsored by: Dell, Inc. and AMDIn 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.
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Symantec NetBackup, Cisco UCS, and VMware vSphere Joint Backup Performance Benchmark
Sponsored by: Symantec CorporationObtaining 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.
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Why Solid-State Drives Usage Scenarios Are Expanding for the Datacenter
Sponsored by: Oracle CorporationThis 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.
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E-Guide: Tools and Strategies for Managing Storage in Virtual Environments
Sponsored by: HP IncThis guide talks to the importance of managing storage capacity and performance for virtualized servers and how to go about tackling this challenge.
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E-Guide: Best Practices for Virtualizing Mission-Critical Applications
Sponsored by: VMware and IntelIn 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.
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Presentation Transcript: Virtualizing Tier1 Application
Sponsored by: VMware, Inc.Learn about virtualizing the most common mission-critical applications and find out if this approach is right for your organization in this presentation transcript.
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IT Handbook: Server Consolidation
Sponsored by: Oracle Corporation UK LtdServer 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.
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Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization For Servers: Overview
Sponsored by: Red Hat and JBossRed 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.
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HRG Assessment - Linux Migration
Sponsored by: Red Hat & IBMThe 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.
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Presentation Transcript: Reducing Cost in the Data Center through Windows Server 2008 R2 - All About Virtualization
Sponsored by: Dell, Inc. and Intel®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.
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Presentation Transcript: Best of Breed Virtualization Scenarios and Hyper-V Features
Sponsored by: Dell EMC and MicrosoftIn 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.
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VMware and Dell Solutions for Small to Medium Business: Ensuring Rapid, Reliable and Affordable Disaster Recovery
Sponsored by: Dell and VMwareAffordable 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.
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Presentation Transcript: Using Virtualisation with Windows Server 2008 R2 to Reduce Costs in the Data Centre
Sponsored by: Dell, Inc. and Intel®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.
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Total cost of ownership (TCO) of Dell PowerEdge M710 and HP Proliant BL685c G5 blade solutions
Sponsored by: Dell, Inc. and Intel®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.
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Improving Data Center Performance through Virtualization of SQL Server Databases
Sponsored by: Dell, Inc. and Intel®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.
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The Power and Cooling Benefits of Hyper-V Server 2008 R2
Sponsored by: Dell, Inc. and Intel®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.
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Data Center Servers & Storage E-Book Chapter 4: Reallocating Unused Server and Storage Hardware
Sponsored by: Dell, Inc. and Intel®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.
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E-Guide: Server Purchasing - Trends and considerations for buying new server hardware
Sponsored by: Dell, Inc. and AMDIn 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.
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Virtual Data Center E-Zine - Volume 28: Achieving the Right Level of Consolidation in a Virtual Data Center
Sponsored by: TechTarget Data CenterVirtualization 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.
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EMC information infrastructure helps university deploy its largest IT initiative while reducing the IT management burden
Sponsored by: VMware, Inc.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.
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Introducing the Dell PowerEdge R815: High Performance in a Compact Design
Sponsored by: Dell, Inc. and AMDMaximizing 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.
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Virtualization Gets Down to Business as a Wellspring of Agility
Sponsored by: Dell, Inc. and AMDThis 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.
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RIM BlackBerry® Enterprise Server on VMware® Virtual Infrastructure
Sponsored by: VMware, Inc.VMware and RIM have worked together over the past two-plus years to provide official support of Blackberry Enterprise Server (BES) solutions on VMware virtual infrastructure. In this white paper, learn about the best practices for running BlackBerry® Enterprise Server on VMware® Infrastructure 3 or VMware vSphere™ 4.
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Server Consolidation with IBM System x and BladeCenter Power by Intel Xeon Processors: Lowering Total Cost of Ownership
Sponsored by: IBMRead this case study and see how the latest IBM System x and BladeCenter servers powered with the new energy efficient Intel Xeon 5500 series processors offer tremendous opportunity for reducing energy consumption, shrinking your data center footprint and lowering operational costs.