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White Papers
Information-Centric Security for the Virtual Data Center
May 2009
Marrying the flexibility and agility of virtualization with the needs of the contemporary enterprise for information security, privacy and compliance demands that more intelligence and...
Provided by RSA Security
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White Papers
Incorporating Data Loss Prevention Into Daily Business Operations: How Microsoft Did It
Nov 2007
In retrospect, it is clear that setting well-defined and achievable objectives from the start, creating data-handling guidelines built from existing policy, devoting a significant amount of time...
Provided by RSA Security
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White Papers
Dynamic Data Center Compliance With Tripwire and Microsoft
Jun 2009
Compliance is a reality, but IT Operations does not need to become a security expert to monitor the health of their IT infrastructure in real-time. With the Tripwire Compliance Management Pack for...
Provided by Tripwire
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White Papers
Systems Management in Healthcare Top 12 Best Practices
Jul 2009
This white paper outlines best practices for systems administration and IT professionals in healthcare environments. Based on real-life experiences of IT professionals in the medical field, it...
Provided by KACE
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White Papers
Realizing Data Center Savings With an Accelerated Server Refresh Strategy
Jul 2009
It's obvious that Rich Internet Application is one of the most promising trends of modern software development industry. The main thing in chase of trends is not to forget that not all...
Provided by Intel
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White Papers
The Case for Thermoelectrics in the Data Center: A New Approach and Use of an Old Science
Oct 2009
Over the past several years' corporate enterprises and the Information Technology (IT) industry in general have increased their awareness relating to the "Greening" of the data center or the...
Provided by Applied Methodologies
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White Papers
Innovative Solutions to Overcome the Challenges of Heat Management in the Data Center
Jun 2009
According to the EPA's Report to Congress on Server and Data Center Energy Efficiency, if current trends continue, the demand for power by data centers will require an additional 10 power plants...
Provided by Belden
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Resource Center
Nehalem-EX, the new standard in scalable performance
Oct 2009
Intel recently provided a server product update for the upcoming Nehalem-EX processor and the expandable platforms based on it. Here's a recap of some of the interesting messages: Nehalem...
Provided by Intel
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White Papers
Managing Virtualization Within Data Center Consolidation
Dec 2008
At first look, consolidating data centers should make managing and monitoring performance easier because the infrastructure and IT organizations are more centralized. However, there are new...
Provided by Fluke Networks
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Whitepapers
Security for the Cloud Infrastructure: Trusted Virtual Data Center Implementation
Jun 2009
The Trusted Virtual Data Center (TVDc) is a technology developed to address the need for strong isolation and integrity guarantees in virtualized environments. In this paper, the author extends...
Provided by IBM
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White Papers
Optimizing the Data Center for Cost and Efficiency
Apr 2009
The days of buying servers based on speeds and feeds alone are fast fading away. The changing dynamics of the datacenter are driving customers towards new criteria in selecting the products and,...
Provided by IDG (International Data Group)
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White Papers
Protecting Dynamic Data Centers From Latest Threats
Feb 2009
Third Brigade Deep Security is comprehensive server and application protection software that unifies security across virtual, cloud computing and traditional datacenter environments. It helps...
Provided by Third Brigade
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White Papers
Effectively Securing Virtualized Data Centers: How an Identity-Aware Network Can Accelerate Server Virtualization Benefits
Feb 2009
For security directors at large organizations, securing virtualized data centers is a major concern. Server virtualization offers several benefits including better total cost of ownership,...
Provided by Apani Networks
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White Papers
Solution Brief: Dell Equalogic PS Series Can Offer Robust, High-Availability Infrastructure for Microsoft's 2008 R2 HYPER-V
Nov 2009
Virtualization has become a popular IT strategy for enhancing hardware utilization, helping organizations decrease power, cooling, and data center footprint costs, and enhance the flexibility of...
Provided by Dell EqualLogic
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White Papers
Power Solutions Article: A Smart Path to Virtualization
Nov 2009
As server virtualization continues to transform the data center, enterprises have some critical decisions to make. How will they migrate to a fully virtualized environment? How should the IT...
Provided by Dell EqualLogic
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White Papers
Technical Report: Deploying Microsoft Hyper-V with PS Series Arrays
Nov 2009
Server virtualization is a common practice is today's data centers for server consolidation, power reduction, rapid provisioning, high availability, and data protection. All of these reasons lead...
Provided by Dell EqualLogic
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White Papers
Solutions Brief: Dell EqualLogic PS Series and Microsoft WS2008 Hyper-V: Enabling The Next Generation Virtualized Data Center
Nov 2009
Server virtualization is one of the most significant technology trends in IT environments today, and a key enabler of the next generation virtualized data center. Server virtualization relies on...
Provided by Dell EqualLogic
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White Papers
Maximizing Data Center Uptime With Business Continuity Planning
Mar 2008
Next to ensuring the safety of employees, the next most important business continuity task is resuming business critical operations. Keeping servers highly available and easily manageable is...
Provided by Double-Take Software
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White Papers
Achieving a Best-Practice Service Desk From Desktop to Data Center
Oct 2007
IT service management (ITSM) and the IT Infrastructure Library (ITIL) process framework were envisioned to help organizations align IT capabilities with business requirements and provide a...
Provided by LANDesk Software
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Whitepapers
The new information agenda:Do you have one?
Nov 2009
The lack of trusted information — information that is accurate, timely and relevant— is on the minds of CEOs and senior executives around the world. a paradigm shift from siloed organizational...
Provided by IBM
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Whitepapers
Data Warehousing with DB2 for System z
Dec 2008
Discover the unique support for data warehousing and business intelligence offered by the IBM® DB2® portfolio. This white paper shows how an IBM System z® server, integrated with the IBM DB2...
Provided by IBM
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White Papers
Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery with CA Recovery Management and VMware Infrastructure
Nov 2009
The expansion of IT systems to support the growth of mission-critical business processes and services is fueling two parallel trends. One is the increase in the deployment of new applications and...
Provided by CA XOsoft
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White Papers
Planning for Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery Using CA Recovery Management Solutions and VMware vSphere Cloud Operating Systems for High Availability
Nov 2009
Today, IT organizations face significant growth of mission-critical business processes and services, fueling two parallel trends. One is the increase in the deployment of new applications and the...
Provided by CA XOsoft
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White Papers
Cloud Computing: A Collection of Working Papers
Jul 2009
Cloud Computing frequently is taken to be a term that simply renames common technologies and techniques that one has come to know in IT. It may be interpreted to mean data center hosting and then...
Provided by Deloitte Development
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White Papers
The Cost of a Cloud: Research Problems in Data Center Networks
Dec 2008
The data centers used to create cloud services represent a significant investment in capital outlay and ongoing costs. Accordingly, the paper first examines the costs of cloud service data centers...
Provided by Microsoft
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White Papers
Solutions Brief: Storage Consolidation and Data Protection for the Remote Office/Branch Office (ROBO)
Nov 2009
Driving Enterprise-level efficiencies and capabilities beyond the corporate data center.
Provided by Dell EqualLogic
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White Papers
Is an energy wasting data center draining your bottom line?
Nov 2009
New technology options and power distribution strategies can dramatically reduce the cost and carbon footprint of your data center. An unforgiving economic climate has left many organizations...
Provided by Eaton
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White Papers
Replication for Dummies
Nov 2009
Looking for information on Database Replication, then Replication for Dummies is the resource for you. Database replication, which is the distribution of information across a series of database...
Provided by Sybase
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Webcasts
Video: Upgrading to Oracle Database 11g Release 2
Nov 2009
Consolidate. Compress. Control. Watch the free, on-demand video to hear how IT leaders are turning to Oracle's second release of Oracle Database 11g to drastically reduce costs and easily manage...
Provided by Oracle
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White Papers
Best Practices for Data Center Monitoring Using Wireless Sensor Networks
Oct 2007
The SensiNet Wireless Sensor Network is ideal for monitoring temperature, humidity, power consumption, airflow and wetness in data centers. SensiNet is a highly reliable, highly secure wireless...
Provided by Sensicast
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Case Studies
Software Services Provider Delivers Cost-Effective E-Government Solution
Nov 2009
Persistent Systems provides software development services that help enterprises and public sector customers enhance their offerings. One of the company's primary offerings is an e-government...
Provided by Microsoft
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Case Studies
Software Developer Launches Highly Scalable Web Site Platform, Minimizes Costs
Nov 2009
Sitemasher, developer of an innovative platform for building and managing Web sites, wanted to help Web professionals create scalable, data-driven Web sites faster, and at lower cost. The company...
Provided by Microsoft
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Case Studies
Job-Listing Web Site Scales Up Solution, Reduces Costs by More Than U.S.$500,000
Nov 2009
The job-listing Web site OCCMundial.com connects job seekers with opportunities and optimizes hiring processes for businesses. Headquartered in Mexico City, OCCMundial.com helps to fill more than...
Provided by Microsoft
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Case Studies
Dell Case Study: Inovis
Oct 2009
Inovis must rapidly build a data center to accommodate a new customer at the same time that a corporate office move requires relocating 100 IT servers across the country. Dell infrastructure...
Provided by Dell
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Webcasts
Video: "Taking a Seat at the Executive Table: The Reality of Virtualization"
Dec 2009
This year, for the first time, the number of virtual machines is on track to exceed the number of physical machines shipped. The reasons are clear -- data center cost reduction and greater...
Provided by Hewlett-Packard (HP)
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Whitepapers
EMA Faster Better cheaper: IT Operations with Event Consolidation and Process Automation
Aug 2009
Get the latest insight as EMA shares research focused on the top 5 issues driving CIOs to invest in better data center management and one key to solving many of these top level issues.
Provided by Hewlett-Packard (HP)
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Whitepapers
Quantifying the benefits of HP Server Automation white paper
Dec 2009
IT organizations can capture the expertise of their best IT staff and leverage this expertise across numerous servers, server types, and data centers. With HP Server Automation, HP customers have...
Provided by Hewlett-Packard (HP)
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White Papers
USB and K-V-M Switches: The Rise of USB in the Data Center - The Implementation Can Make The Difference
Aug 2008
The past 12 years have seen the Universal Serial Bus (USB) grow from pipe dream into the de facto standard to power devices such as peripherals, portable memory devices, video game consoles, PDAs...
Provided by ATEN Technology
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Case Studies
Siemens Cuts Data Center Costs, Boosts Business Agility, With Server Virtualization
Nov 2009
Siemens IT Solutions and Services Thailand (SIS) is a leading provider of SAP application management services and IT infrastructure services. To cope with the economic downturn, SIS set out to...
Provided by Microsoft
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Case Studies
Intel Helps Design and Deploy a Data Center That Packs 25 Percent More Servers Into 56 Percent of the Space
Aug 2009
For Humana, technology is vital for providing information and a full array of health benefit services to members. To replace an outdated facility, the company worked with Intel to design a...
Provided by Intel
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Whitepapers
Oracle Solaris 11: Built for Clouds
May 2012
Cloud computing is emerging as an important IT strategy as enterprises strive to deliver more services to users across the network. However, the cloud brings challenges as well as opportunities....
Provided by Oracle
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White Papers
Introducing the Next Generation of SPARC Servers E-Book
May 2012
Fast, Scalable, Secure, Integrated, Optimized - discover the benefits of Oracle's new SPARC T4 servers and how they deliver world record performance for a wide range of enterprise applications,...
Provided by Oracle
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Whitepapers
Using HP's Converged Storage to Develop/Enhance Business Resiliency in VMware Environments
May 2012
In this report, Enterprise Strategy Group reviews how HP's portfolio of hardware, software, and services can provide the foundational support for VMware environments. When it comes to business...
Provided by HP and Intel®
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Whitepapers
The Total Economic Impact of HP 3PAR Storage
May 2012
Forrester Consulting provides an analysis of four HP 3PAR Storage customer implementations to quantify the efficiency and cost savings achieved over legacy storage platforms. On average, HP 3PAR...
Provided by HP and Intel®
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Whitepapers
HP 3PAR Storage in Fashion at Chico's
May 2012
Rethink your data center with a Converged Infrastructure and the HP Performance Optimized Data Center. Learn how Chico's leveraged HP virtualization and POD technology to build their own private...
Provided by HP and Intel®
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Whitepapers
Priceline.com: Booking Vacations Faster with HP Converged Infrastructure
May 2012
Learn how Priceline.com avoids a major data center expansion and cuts time to deliver new services in half. Co-Sponsored by: Intel and the Intel logo are trademarks of Intel Corporation in...
Provided by HP and Intel®
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Whitepapers
CenterBeam: A Bigger Edge in Cloud Services
May 2012
Learn how CenterBeam boosts storage throughput 10-fold and reclaims 65 percent of chief architect's time by moving from EMC to HP 3PAR Storage and HP VirtualSystems. Co-Sponsored by: Intel...
Provided by HP and Intel®
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Case Studies
Guarding the Radio Waves
Jan 2012
Radio stations are responsible for transmitting their programming to listeners in a large area. Greater Media Detroit's Technical Operations Center is similar to a data center in that it's the...
Provided by Burk Technology
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Whitepapers
Conquering the Challenges of Data Center Complexity
Apr 2012
Virtualization and Cloud are two popular IT trends that lower costs and make computing more secure and efficient. However, they also add complexity. Read this thought leadership paper and learn...
Provided by Hewlett-Packard (HP)
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Whitepapers
How to get the most out of Virtualization
Apr 2012
Virtualization can enable organizations to create more agile IT services with greater resilience and availability and lower cost. But some organizations achieve greater value from their projects...
Provided by Hewlett-Packard (HP)
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Whitepapers
Solve the 6 Top Problems in Your Data Center
Apr 2012
What are the top 6 problems in your data center and how do you solve them? Learn how a primary service vendor can help you unify support strategies in your multi-vendor environment.
Provided by Hewlett-Packard (HP)
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Whitepapers
Reduce costs and improve manageability with an IBM System x NAS solution
Apr 2012
IBM System x® servers offer the efficiency, simplicity and performance that will fit both your needs and your budget. Read this solution brief to discover how System x servers, preloaded...
Provided by IBM
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Whitepapers
New Datacenter Realities: IBM enables customers to run more energy-efficient datacenters
Apr 2012
A Technology Business Research (TBR) perspective on the changing landscape of datacenter energy and power management and how IBM® leverages the energy efficiency of the System x®, built...
Provided by IBM & Intel
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Case Studies
Supporting Patient Care and Research With an IBM Design Solution: IBM Scalable Modular Data Center Capacity Helps Advance Disease Research, Treatment and Cures
Mar 2012
One of the leading Biomedical research wanted to having exceeded its data center capacity, a biomedical treatment and research center sought to relocate, centralize and expand its IT environment...
Provided by IBM
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Case Studies
Media Markt: Riverbed Technology Enables Backup and Disaster Recovery Strategy and Network Traffic Visibility at Retail Organization
Jan 2012
As part of its business expansion plan, Media Markt opened retail stores in Shanghai, China, and plans to open up many more across the country. A critical business process is the backing up of...
Provided by Riverbed Technology
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Case Studies
Rossignol: Design & Manufacturing International Organization Deploys Riverbed Steelhead Appliances to Consolidate Its IT Systems to a Private Cloud
Mar 2012
Rossignol is a leading designer and manufacturer of skis, bindings, ski boots, snowboards, technical equipment and clothing. Rossignol's IT infrastructure was expanding, and the company wanted to...
Provided by Riverbed Technology
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Case Studies
HCI Solutions: Healthcare Firm Gains More Efficiency, Cuts Costs With Private Cloud Environment
Mar 2012
Because HCI Solutions creates information solutions for Swiss healthcare companies, its own information systems need to be reliable and responsive. To better manage its far-flung server holdings...
Provided by Microsoft
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Case Studies
EmpireCLS Worldwide Chauffeured Services: Chauffeur Firm Uses Cloud Computing to Trim Operating Costs 30 Percent, Grow Business
Apr 2012
For EmpireCLS Worldwide Chauffeured Services, technology is a key competitive differentiator. Even after virtualizing its data center, EmpireCLS sought even greater data center efficiency and...
Provided by Microsoft
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Whitepapers
Navigating Microsoft SQL 2012 Certifications
Apr 2012
The SQL world is an interesting place, part Database Admin, part Developer, and part system administrator all rolled into one neat package. However, the SQL world is a difficult place because of...
Provided by Global Knowledge
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Whitepapers
Leveraging Microsoft's System Center 2012 Suite in the Private Cloud
Apr 2012
Ultimately, all large organizations will require the added flexibility and efficiency of the cloud. Initially, the private cloud will be the most obvious choice for enterprises that will not or...
Provided by Global Knowledge
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White Papers
Oracle Optimized Solution for PeopleSoft Human Capital Management Consolidation using M-Series servers, Flash and Enterprise Storage
Apr 2012
Whether deploying a new application service or modernizing existing business critical services, selecting and implementing a hardware architecture that will perform optimally and meet service...
Provided by Oracle
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Podcasts
Oracle Systems Accelerate Your Business with Breakthrough Application-to-Disk Solutions
Apr 2012
Join us for this online event and learn how Oracle Optimized Solutions help businesses lower their TCO, mitigate risk, and improve productivity while accelerating innovation across the entire...
Provided by Oracle
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Webcasts
Boost Utilization and Cut Costs with SPARC Consolidation and Virtualization
Apr 2012
For many organizations, highly complex IT architectures, under-utilized systems and slow application deployment make maximizing the return on IT investments incredibly tough. Oracle's integrated...
Provided by Oracle
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Webcasts
The Industry's Best x86 Platform for Running Oracle Enterprise Applications
Apr 2012
Oracle is enhancing the Sun x86 server family. This new generation of x86 servers provides enhanced performance and security, improved virtualization tools, and reduced costs—all with no change to...
Provided by Oracle
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White Papers
Bees Life Algorithm for Job Scheduling in Cloud Computing
Feb 2012
Cloud computing is known as digital service delivery over the Internet by several applications which are carried out by computer systems in distributed datacenters. It supplies a high performance...
Provided by The Second International Conference on Communications and Information Technology
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White Papers
Africa Can Greatly Benefit From Cloud Computing and Data Center Technologies - Part 1
Jun 2011
Africa has made tremendous progress in the technology catch-up game in the last ten years. As the author has been saying in his editorials in the last few issues of this journal, Africa was a late...
Provided by International Journal of Computing and ICT Research
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Whitepapers
IBM BladeCenter HS22V Technical Introduction
Apr 2012
This IBM Redpaper™ publication is a comprehensive technical introduction to the IBM BladeCenter HS22V.
Provided by IBM
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Whitepapers
Edison Group Paper: IBM PowerVM Virtualization Technology on IBM POWER7 Systems
Apr 2012
This technical white paper presents benchmark results showing greater VM consolidation ratios than demonstrated in previous benchmarks and demonstrating the extent of the performance lead that...
Provided by IBM
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Whitepapers
Itanium: Slip/Sliding Away...
Apr 2012
Oracle has followed the trend of other major ISVs and terminated further software development for the Itanium platform. Looking at the decline in revenue of HPs Itanium-based servers, combined...
Provided by IBM
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White Papers
Toward Practical Private Access to Data Centers Via Parallel ORAM
Mar 2012
Today, accessing maps, pictures, status updates, and other data from online services is de rigueur, but these accesses may leak private information. Previous work proposed using a secure...
Provided by Columbia University
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Whitepapers
Five Secrets for Successfully Virtualizing a Data Center
Apr 2012
Here are some secrets, tips, and tricks for virtualizing your datacenter. We want to introduce some best practices for virtualization, while not being too biased towards one virtualization vendor...
Provided by Global Knowledge
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Whitepapers
Guide to Improving First-Time IT Certification Pass Rates
Apr 2012
IT professional certifications are critical for many businesses. Certifications help business leaders feel confident that the people charged with designing and maintaining their mission-critical...
Provided by SkillSoft
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Whitepapers
Forrester Research: Blades Paper
Apr 2012
How Blade Centers Impact Data Center Management and Agility This paper examines enterprise adoption of blade servers in the US, UK and China; the benefits of blade server use; and the connection...
Provided by Hewlett-Packard & Intel®
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Whitepapers
Nemertes Research PilotHouse Awards: Servers for Virtualization
Apr 2012
The Nemertes Research PilotHouse Awards provide insight on the performance of technology vendors, according to feedback from IT decision makers who use their products or services. See which...
Provided by Hewlett-Packard & Intel®
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Whitepapers
ComputerWorld Tech Dossier: HP ProLiant DL360p & DL380p Gen8 Severs: Power, Flexibility & Serviceability
Apr 2012
Explore the power, flexibility and serviceability of the HP ProLiant DL360p and DL380p Gen8 servers. The ProLiant DL360p and DL380p Gen8 servers deliver innovative advances in performance,...
Provided by HP & Intel® Xeon® Processors
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Whitepapers
Gartner Research: Magic Quadrant for Blade Servers
Apr 2012
Gartner Magic Quadrant for Blade Servers. The market for blade servers is becoming ever more complex and diverse due to the convergence of related modular form factors, a fast-growing interest in...
Provided by HP and Intel®
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Whitepapers
Gartner Research: Picking the Right Server Type to Solve Your Data Center Space, Power and Heat Problems
Apr 2012
The type of server you install in a data center can have a big impact - positive or negative - on the space, power and cooling required. Knowing and choosing the appropriate server type can extend...
Provided by HP and Intel®
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e-Books
A Virtualized Storage Strategy for Performance, Protection and Compliance
Apr 2012
If the concept of virtualization is a hard one to get your head around, good news...you're not alone. Virtualization is about creating a virtual infrastructure rather than a physical one. Instead...
Provided by Computer Design & Integration
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White Papers
Lightpath Scheduling and Routing for Green Data Centres
Sep 2011
Optical networking technologies enable data centres to be located near sources of green energy (i.e., renewable energy). Since, some green energy sources are intermittent and are not always...
Provided by Springer Science+Business Media
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Webcasts
VMware vSphere 5 QuickStart Series Part 2: Introduction to VMware vCenter Server
Mar 2012
This presentation will be available to audience members until November 09, 2012 at 09:00 AM Pacific Standard Time. Who should view: IT Professionals looking to gain a technical understanding of...
Provided by VMware
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Whitepapers
Data Center Energy Saving: Air Management Metrics
Jan 2009
Although currently data centers are cooled by air, initially mainframes were successfully water cooled in the 60's. However, the practicalities of having to install a water-cooled system, that is,...
Provided by Hewlett-Packard (HP)
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Whitepapers
Data Centre Energy Saving: Air Management Metrics
Apr 2009
Although currently data centres are cooled by air, initially mainframes were successfully water cooled in the 60's. However, the practicalities of having to install a water-cooled system, that is,...
Provided by Hewlett-Packard (HP)
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Whitepapers
Best Practices for a Microsoft Hyper-V Dynamic Data Center in an HP BladeSystem Environment
Sep 2008
HP has a rich history in providing highly available and scalable computing architectures based on best-in-class technology. Now, together with Microsoft and F5, HP builds upon this history by...
Provided by Hewlett-Packard (HP)
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Whitepapers
Managing Storage in the Virtual Data Centre
May 2009
As server virtualisation technologies like VMware get deployed in data centres, the increased complexity of the IT service makes storage management very challenging. HP Storage Essentials is a...
Provided by Hewlett-Packard (HP)
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Whitepapers
Speeding Business Innovation With HP Data Center Transformation Solutions
Apr 2009
Data center transformation enables the IT organization to focus more on business priorities and innovation by decreasing spending on maintenance and management up to 50 percent. In addition to...
Provided by Hewlett-Packard (HP)
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Whitepapers
SPAIN: Design and Algorithms for Constructing Large Data-Center Ethernets From Commodity Switches
Oct 2009
Operators of data centers want a scalable network fabric that supports high bisection bandwidth and host mobility, but which costs very little to purchase and administer. Ethernet almost solves...
Provided by Hewlett-Packard (HP)
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Whitepapers
The VDC Maturity Model - Moving Up the Virtual Data Center Stack
Apr 2008
The goal of virtualization in the data center is to help the enterprise achieve a business goal, whether that goal is consolidation, reduced management and head count costs, disaster recovery, or...
Provided by F5 Networks
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White Papers
Towards a Next Generation Data Center Architecture: Scalability and Commoditization
Aug 2008
Applications hosted in today's data centers suffer from internal fragmentation of resources, rigidity, and bandwidth constraints imposed by the architecture of the network connecting the data...
Provided by Association for Computing Machinery
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White Papers
Flyways to De-Congest Data Center Networks
Oct 2009
A study of application demands from a production datacenter of 1500 servers shows that except for a few out-liers, application demands can be generally met by a network that is slightly...
Provided by Microsoft
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White Papers
Component-Oriented Programming and Datacenter Applications
Nov 2008
Recently, datacenters have been gaining focus as an enterprise application platform because of the decreased cost and increased speed of provisioning virtual machines and networks and the catering...
Provided by Microsoft
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White Papers
The Nature of Datacenter Traffic: Measurements & Analysis
Nov 2009
In spite of widespread interest in datacenter networks, little has been published that reveals the nature of their traffic, or the problems that arise in practice. This paper is a first attempt to...
Provided by Microsoft
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White Papers
RACNet: A High-Fidelity Data Center Sensing Network
Nov 2009
RACNet is a sensor network for monitoring a data center's environmental conditions. The high spatial and temporal fidelity measurements that RACNet provides can be used to improve the data...
Provided by Association for Computing Machinery
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White Papers
Fingerprinting the Datacenter: Automated Classification of Performance Crises
Apr 2009
When a performance crisis occurs in a datacenter, rapid recovery requires quickly recognizing whether a similar incident occurred before, in which case a known remedy may apply, or whether the...
Provided by Microsoft
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White Papers
Hot Data Centers Vs. Cool Peers
Nov 2008
Most networked applications use either a largely centralized architecture (e.g. iTunes) or a p2p architecture (e.g. BitTorrent). The popularity of centralized Internet applications such as Search...
Provided by Microsoft
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White Papers
Introduction to Data Center: Top of Rack (ToR) Architecture Design
Jan 2009
This paper provides a look at the use of top-of-rack (ToR) cabling and switching model for next-generation data center infrastructure. The paper explores current 10G cabling choices and provides...
Provided by Cisco Systems
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White Papers
The Next Phase of Datacenter Development
Dec 2009
The datacenter is in the midst of unprecedented change and transformation. Changes in the compute infrastructure such as new dense computing platforms and expanding use cases of server...
Provided by IDG (International Data Group)
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White Papers
Unified Data Center Fabric: Reduce Costs and Improve Flexibility
Jun 2009
Enterprises' growing dependence on IT for business advantage invariably manifests itself as growth in the server infrastructure that supports these new business systems. The Cisco Nexus 5000...
Provided by Cisco Systems
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White Papers
New Suit of Armor: Securing the New Data Center
Mar 2008
In the dispersing enterprise, the spread of service-oriented architectures, rich internet applications, and virtualization dictate that data center security reshape itself. To secure a dynamic...
Provided by Nemertes Research
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White Papers
The Green Tide Is Coming: Pressure Builds for an Energy-Efficient Data Center
Apr 2008
Data centers are the hub of an organization, giving the company the tools and competitive weapons it needs to run the business effectively. But it can also be an Achilles' heel because of the...
Provided by Sun Microsystems
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White Papers
FCoE Enabled Network Consolidation in the Enterprise Data Center: A Technology Blueprint
Oct 2008
This paper describes a blueprint for network consolidation in the enterprise data center leveraging Ethernet as the unified fabric. To date, the deployment of Ethernet as the converged fabric to...
Provided by Emulex
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White Papers
8Gb/s Fibre Channel for Next Generation Data Centers
Feb 2010
Enterprise data is growing at exponential rates. Server virtualization technologies and server consolidation strategies, along with new multi-processor servers that support the PCIe 2.0 bus...
Provided by Emulex
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White Papers
Why Data Centers Choose Emulex for VMware Deployments
Sep 2009
Server virtualization has become one of the key technologies for increasing operating efficiencies and improving resource utilization. VMware Virtual Infrastructure 3 (VI3) leads the pack as the...
Provided by Emulex
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White Papers
Why Solaris Enterprise Data Centers Are Choosing Emulex
Jul 2008
Data center managers use Solaris for their most critical business servers because they trust the stability, performance, and application support it provides. Emulex, the 2007 Best-In-Class...
Provided by Emulex
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White Papers
Why Oracle Enterprise Data Centers Are Choosing Emulex
Dec 2008
Many large corporations who are deploying Oracle have chosen Emulex Fibre Channel host bus adapters (HBAs) and Fibre Channel over Ethernet (FCoE) converged network adapters (CNAs) to provide...
Provided by Emulex
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White Papers
Why Windows Data Centers Are Choosing Emulex
Oct 2009
Windows users look to Emulex, the dominant provider of Fibre Channel host bus adapters (HBAs), for high performance, scalable, reliable connectivity solutions. With converged networking, Windows...
Provided by Emulex
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White Papers
Why Linux Data Centers Choose Emulex
Oct 2009
Linux users look to Emulex, a leading provider of Fibre Channel Host Bus Adapters (HBAs), for high performance, scalable, reliable connectivity solutions. With converged networking, Linux users...
Provided by Emulex
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White Papers
8Gb RAS Optimized Solutions Extend Data Center Business Continuity
Dec 2007
As Fibre Channel (FC) technology evolves into a new generation of 8Gb products, it is imperative that a scalable architecture be deployed to meet a full spectrum of concerns beyond cost,...
Provided by QLogic
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White Papers
Autonomic Resource Management in Virtualized Data Centers Using Fuzzy Logic-Based Approaches
Jul 2008
Data centers, as resource providers, are expected to deliver on performance guarantees while optimizing resource utilization to reduce cost. Virtualization techniques provide the opportunity of...
Provided by Springer Science+Business Media
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White Papers
The Impact of Virtualization on Network Performance of Amazon EC2 Data Center
Dec 2009
Cloud computing services allow users to lease computing resources from large scale data centers operated by service providers. Using cloud services, users can deploy a wide variety of applications...
Provided by Rice University
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White Papers
Image Management in a Virtualized Data Center
May 2008
Industrial research firms such as Gartner and IDC are predicting an explosion in the number of online services in the coming years. Virtualization technologies could play an important role in such...
Provided by University of Calgary
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Whitepapers
JustRunIt: Experiment-Based Management of Virtualized Data Centers
Jan 2010
Managing data centers is a challenging endeavor. State-of-the-art management systems often rely on analytical modeling to assess the performance, availability, and/or energy implications of...
Provided by Hewlett-Packard (HP)
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White Papers
Enabling Interactive Jobs in Virtualized Data Centers (Extended Abstract)
Oct 2008
Existing batch schedulers are incapable of adequately addressing the need for immediate access to resources for interactive jobs. This paper describes the virtual machine-centric scheduler, UBIS...
Provided by University at Buffalo
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White Papers
Virtualizing SAN Connectivity With VMware Infrastructure 3 and Brocade Data Center Fabric Services
Aug 2008
This paper looks at how the VMware Infrastructure platform leverages Fibre Channel (FC)-based shared storage to provide advanced virtualization services in the data center and how using ESX 3.5...
Provided by Brocade Communications Systems
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Case Studies
Region Zealand Health Authority Optimises Its Data Centre Environment With HP ProCurve
Dec 2009
When three Danish counties were combined into the newly formed Region Zealand administrative authority, one of the main challenges was to create a unified central healthcare service. Reliable,...
Provided by Hewlett-Packard (HP)
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Case Studies
UK National Health Service - Blood & Transplant Builds World's Largest Centralised Blood Supply Management System on HP Integrity Servers and HP OpenVMS
Jan 2010
NHS Blood & Transplant (NHSBT) wanted to provide a better experience to donors and increase visibility of blood supply and improve contingency plans. The challenge was to consolidate and simplify...
Provided by Hewlett-Packard (HP)
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Case Studies
Modernized IT Brings National Housing Agency Into the 21st Century
Sep 2009
The agency lacked a central point of contact for its 12,000 users across 80 locations, which led to inconsistent technical assistance. What's more, its systems operated on outdated mainframes that...
Provided by Hewlett-Packard (HP)
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Case Studies
High Availability Data Replication Keeps the Fires Burning at Bridgnorth
Oct 2009
Bridgnorth Aluminium needed a new IT environment to ensure the high availability of critical business data and support maximum uptime of its production and IT systems. Bridgnorth built a second...
Provided by Hewlett-Packard (HP)
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Case Studies
HP Energy Efficiency Analysis Confirms Paybacks of Best Practices, Quantifies Further Gains
Oct 2009
Salt River Project (SRP) is the third-largest public power utility in the U.S. Providing electricity to nearly 930,000 residential, business and industrial customers throughout a 2,900-square-mile...
Provided by Hewlett-Packard (HP)
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White Papers
Tackle the Challenges of Virtualization Management
Dec 2009
Virtualization adds a whole new level of complexity to the IT infrastructure, introducing new challenges in every step of the process - from planning to configuration and management. Read how...
Provided by BMC Software
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White Papers
Proactive Operations: The Dynamic Data Center
Dec 2009
To deliver the right services at the right time, IT must deliver them at agreed-upon service levels and in a cost-effective manner, all while maintaining compliance with internal policies and...
Provided by BMC Software
