Server Consolidation Research
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How to Improve Your Virtual Machine Backup and Recovery
Sponsored by: Acronis, IncThe white paper Closing the Virtualisation Loop identifies the objectives in the next phase of virtual machine backup and recovery and provides recommendations on how to improve backup and disaster recovery in a hybrid IT environment.
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Optimizing the Private Cloud with Intel® and Microsoft*
Sponsored by: Intel and MicrosoftThe Intel® Xeon® processor family provides a reliable, available, and serviceable infrastructure which works seamlessly with Windows Server 2008 R2. By leveraging the power of Intel technology, businesses can enhance their private cloud infrastructure to help IT administrators and end-users receive an efficient, secure, and simplified experience.
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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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E-Guide: Tips for rackmount server purchasing and consolidation best practices
Sponsored by: Colfax InternationalThis 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.
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Selecting a Virtualization Solution for Your Small or Midsize Business
Sponsored by: VMware, Inc.It’s often difficult for businesses to evaluate competing virtualization platforms. Despite superficial similarities, different providers' platforms are far from identical. This paper compares the VMware vSphere virtualization platform to two alternatives, focusing on features and issues.
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E-Guide: Guide to the Top Five Benefits of Server Virtualization
Sponsored by: CA and VMwareThis e-guide discusses the top 5 server virtualization benefits, including simplified IT management and elastic capacity. Also, find out how using virtualization can save money by lowering data center energy costs. And learn how to use this technology to reduce storage requirements.
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Virtual Data Center eZine - Vol.27: Choosing the Best Storage Network for Virtualization
Sponsored by: TechTarget Data CenterStorage networks are an essential element of server virtualization, but there are several options available today. Is it better to invest in a separate SAN or move storage over Ethernet using iSCSI or FCoE technology? This article considers the tradeoffs of each approach and presents important considerations for both.
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CBS E-Book: The Most Complete and Integrated Virtualization
Sponsored by: Oracle CorporationView this E-Book to learn how the most complete and integrated virtualization solution can provide end-to-end visibility, management and control to lower costs and transform your business.
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Presentation Transcript: Troubleshooting Performance Issues in a Virtualized Environment
Sponsored by: OnX USA LLCConfiguration 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.
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Intel Xeon Processor-based Server Refresh Savings Estimator
Sponsored by: Dell, Inc. and Intel®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.
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A Radical Remodel
Sponsored by: Dell, Inc. and Intel®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.
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The Most Complete and Integrated Virtualization: From Desktop to Datacenter
Sponsored by: Oracle CorporationThere is a need for greater optimization and efficiency in how software and solutions that power datacenters are deployed and managed. Read this white paper for a virtualization solution that will facilitate flexibility, agility, and speed in deploying complete application stacks to support the new service-based charter.
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Optimizing Hardware for x86 Server Virtualization
Sponsored by: Dell, Inc. and Intel®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.
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Oracle's Sun Fire X4470 Server Architecture: Virtualization Platform for Mission-Critical Applications
Sponsored by: Oracle CorporationTo support the execution of multiple workloads without starving applications of vital compute resources, a virtualization platform needs to offer high compute performance, a large memory footprint, and superior I/O expansion capabilities. Read on to learn how Oracle’s Sun Fire X4470 server is an ideal mission-critical virtualization platform.
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Sun Fire X4800 Server
Sponsored by: Oracle CorporationOracle’s Sun Fire X4800 server is revolutionizing the x86 market by setting new standards with leading performance, outstanding scalability and unmatched RAS features. Read this data sheet to learn more.
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Sun SPARC Enterprise Servers Systems and Resource Management
Sponsored by: Oracle CorporationOracle’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.
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Sun Blade 6000 Modular System from Oracle
Sponsored by: Oracle CorporationThe Sun Blade 6000 Modular Systems present a comprehensive multitier blade portfolio that lets organizations deploy the broadest range of applications on the most ideal platforms. This document describes the Sun Blade 6000 Modular Systems along with their key applications, architecture, and components.
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E-Guide: Expert Strategies for Virtualization Capacity Planning
Sponsored by: TechTarget Data CenterExplore this e-guide to learn about common mistakes and issues overlooked when it comes to capacity planning. In addition, find out the best ways to approach capacity planning in your virtual environment.
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Accelerating the Business Value of Virtualization
Sponsored by: CA and VMwareRead this paper to learn how IT professionals can use a proven approach to leverage the benefits of virtualization to reduce costs, improve services and enhance business agility. Continue reading to learn how to accelerate the business value of virtualization.
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E-Guide: SQL Server Consolidation
Sponsored by: Dell and Microsoft SQLRead this e-guide and uncover the pros and cons of SQL Server consolidation. Learn to choose a consolidation approach that aligns with your business model and day-to-day operations.
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Learn to Save on SAP Operational Costs with a Virtualized Environment
Sponsored by: HP NovellAccording to AMR Research, more and more customers are saving on SAP operational costs this year with SAP infrastructure projects and virtualizing SAP applications. Read this e-guide and learn to identify areas of potential SAP savings as well as the best way to virtualize your SAP environments.
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Quantifying the Total Cost of Upgrade (TCU) for HP-UX Environments to HP-UX 11i v3
Sponsored by: HP & Intel®This TechWise Research offering gives a detailed analyses of costs and benefits associated with upgrading earlier versions of the HP-UX 11i operating environments to HP-UX 11i v3.
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The Business Value of Large-Scale Server Consolidation
Sponsored by: IBMThis paper examines the results of an IDC study of enterprise organizations that have deployed IBM Power Systems to achieve workload consolidation, improved uptime, and reduced operational costs. These systems are highly virtualized platforms that supported consolidation of workloads and provided near-term payback from the initial investment.
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February 2011 Virtual Data Center e-zine -- Volume 30: Remote Server Management Options for Virtual Data Centers
Sponsored by: TechTarget Data CenterMost organizations rely on multiple data centers to support geographically disparate divisions and DR facilities, but management must often be performed from a central location. This article considers the various options available from server manufacturers, third-party software vendors, and hardware-oriented options such as KVM over IP solutions.
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Five Challenges to Continuous PCI DSS Compliance
Sponsored by: Tripwire, Inc.As the Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI DSS, or PCI) becomes more widely adopted in both the United States and Europe, organizations face five major challenges when navigating the PCI compliance landscape.
