Server Hardware Research
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Intel® Xeon® Processor 5500 Series: An Intelligent Approach to IT Challenges
Sponsored by: Hewlett Packard Company and IntelAs data centers reach the upper limits of their power and cooling capacity, efficiency has become the focus of extending the life of existing data centers and designing new ones. As part of these efforts, IT needs to refresh existing infrastructure with servers that deliver more performance and scalability, more efficiently. Read on to learn more.
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Tap Aggregation and Filtering to Enable Deep Packet Inspection (DPI)
Sponsored by: GigamonRead this brief paper to learn how network monitoring using DPI analyzers is a mission critical application that is tailor-made for the Data Access Network (DAN) architecture and saves substantial amounts of money for the telecom carrier.
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IT@Intel: Staying Committed to Server Refresh Reduces Cost
Sponsored by: Intel CorporationLearn why Intel IT decided to move ahead with server refresh in 2009 after current economic conditions forced us to re-evaluate our strategy. Analysis found that delaying server refresh for a year would increase our costs by USD 19 million.
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Power Metrics for Data Centers
Sponsored by: Intel CorporationSome of the most useful benchmarks and metrics in evaluating server performance are provided in this article along with descriptions to help IT managers identify the ones that best fit their organization.
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Red Hat and Intel: Moving Intelligence Forward
Sponsored by: Red Hat and JBossPut state-of-the-art intelligence to work on the challenges of tomorrow by running Red Hat Enterprise Linux on the latest Intel® Xeon® processors. Red Hat's open source, commercial-strength innovation delivers optimized results for performance, energy efficiency, and advanced virtualization on Intel platforms, all at an affordable price.
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JReport 9
Sponsored by: Jinfonet SoftwareEnterprises rely on timely, accurate information to manage business operations, identify risk, improve productivity, and increase profitability.
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E-book: Choosing Your Server-- What Every IT Manager Must Know About Selecting, Installing and Implementing the Proper Server Architecture
Sponsored by: Dell, Inc. and Intel®This eBook provides comprehensive information about servers and server implementation to help IT managers choose the best option for their storage needs.
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Windows Servers and Storage: Planning Your Server Room
Sponsored by: Dell, Inc. and Intel®This eBook will walk you through some of the key steps to setting up a dedicated server room. Whether your server project is large or small, having a dedicated server room will allow you to store backup disks, blades, equipment, and also allow you to have an onsite console for administrators.
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Data Center Facilities IT Handbook: Mastering data center climate control
Sponsored by: Dell, Inc. and Intel®This SearchDataCenter.com eBook takes a look at how to master the climate control for the data center. Organizations are creating more heat in smaller places which in turn requires efficient and effective climate control. Read this paper to learn more about how to properly cool your data center.
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DELL™ PowerEdge™ Half-Height M610 and Full-Height M710 Blade
Sponsored by: Dell, Inc. and Intel®The Dell PowerEdge M-Series blade servers help cut operating expenses through energy efficiency, product flexibility, and efficient use of data center space.
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Dell PowerEdge Servers 11th Generation Transition Guide
Sponsored by: Dell, Inc. and Intel®Dell recently introduced the 11th Generation line of PowerEdge Servers. This transition guide discusses new features available within the 11th generation line, and servea as a guide for understanding product transitions from Dell's 10th Generation Server Products to 11th Generation Server Products.
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Integrating Virtualized Servers with VMware vStorage-Enabled Dell EqualLogic iSCSI SANs
Sponsored by: Dell and VMwareDell EqualLogic Auto- Snapshot Manager / VMware Edition enables administrators to quickly and easily create hypervisor-aware snapshots of VMs-helping simplify data management, enhance scalability of data protection and recovery, and increase application performance.
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Migrating SQL 2000 to SQL 2008- a Dell Deployment Guide
Sponsored by: DellEMC and Intel®This Deployment Guide reviews the approach that Dell and Principled Technologies recommend for a tested and validated migration of SQL Server 2000 databases to SQL Server 2008 on the Dell PowerEdge R900 server and Microsoft Windows Server 2008 Enterprise.
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Maximizing IT Value by Using High-End Server Processors
Sponsored by: Hewlett Packard Company and IntelIntel IT has standardized the Intel® Xeon® processors with a core frequency of 3 GHz for two-socket servers for design computing and enterprise server virtualization. Our analysis demonstrates that higher-end processors significantly enhance server performance for a minimal increase in total cost of ownership (TCO).
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Automated Energy Efficiency for the Intelligent Business
Sponsored by: Intel CorporationBy replacing aging single-core processor-based servers with new, more energy-efficient servers, you can gain capacity to grow and to increase IT performance using fewer servers. The estimated cost savings from energy and other operating cost efficiencies can pay for new servers in a an estimated 8 months.
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First the Tick, Now the Tock: Next Generation Intel Microarchitecture - Nehalem
Sponsored by: Intel CorporationRead this paper and get a look at how the next generation microarchitecture's dynamically scalable and design-scalable features directly contribute to power efficiency and performance.
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Intel® Xeon® Processor 5500 Series: An Intelligent Approach to IT Challenges
Sponsored by: Intel CorporationThis whitepaper covers the newest processor series from Intel. The Xeon 5500 processor series may dramatically improve on the efficiency of IT infrastructures and provide unmatched business capabilities for today's data centers.
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Cutting datacenter costs with server and infrastructure offload - A technical guide
Sponsored by: CitrixLearn the powerful set of capabilities for offloading datacenter infrastructure that Citrix NetScaler provides, offering a quick, low-cost way for organizations to cut their web server count by 50 to 60 percent or more.
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Lab Test: AppZero Turbo-Charges Server Consolidation
Sponsored by: AppZeroThis paper examines the impact of application virtualization technology on overall system performance. It documents a simple performance evaluation of application virtualization using AppZero virtual application appliance (VAA) compared to a VMware ESXbased system using virtual machines (VM).
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SharePoint E-zine Vol.5: Document version control gets a face-lift in SharePoint 2007
Sponsored by: TechTarget Search Windows ServerIn this edition of the SharePoint E-zine, you will explore how SharePoint 2007 reduces the complexity associated with document version control.
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Making IT Invisible: NetApp Storage for Virtual Server Environments
Sponsored by: NetAppServer virtualization provides liquidity to IT by delivering improved hardware utilization, physical server consolidation, increased availability and lower data center operating costs.
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Virtual Data Center eZine - Volume 2
Sponsored by: Virtual Data Center eZine - Volume 2Read this second issue of the Virtual Data Center E-Zine to learn strategies for taking on two of biggest virtualization challenges: I/O bottlenecks and email system virtualization.
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Intel® Itanium® Processor 9100 Series
Sponsored by: Intel CorporationThe Intel Itanium processor 9100 series is delivering new levels of flexibility, reliability, performance and scalability for mission-critical and data-intensive applications. Read this report to learn more.
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Intel® Xeon® Processor 7300 Series
Sponsored by: Intel CorporationBased on the Intel® Core™ microarchitecture, the Intel Xeon processor 7300 series offers leading scalable performance and best-in-class virtualization for server consolidation.
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Intel Centrino Pro and Intel vPro Processor Technology
Sponsored by: Intel CorporationLearn how to improve security and management capabilities with Intel vPro processor technology. This white paper discusses how remote management can simplify systems management and save time for IT administrators.
