WHITE PAPER - IT projects are being increasingly scrutinized, so expenditures must support business requirements and contribute to the operational efficiency of the data center. Combined with HP technology, Oracle dynamically optimizes shared resources to simplify administration of the physical and virtual platforms, letting you meet those business objectives.
Posted: July 30, 2009 | Published: July 1, 2009


Topics:  Business Intelligence | Business Performance Management | Cloud Computing | Data Center Infrastructure Efficiency | Data Center Management | Data Centers | Grid Computing

WHITE PAPER - IT managers are looking for ways to improve energy efficiency - to reduce power consumption and cooling requirements - to save money. Using HP Reference Architectures for Oracle, you get a modular, inherently flexible, and highly available application platform that accomplishes that. Read this paper for details.
Posted: July 30, 2009 | Published: July 1, 2009


Topics:  Computer Room Air Conditioning Units | Cooling Capacity | Cooling Equipment | Data Center Cooling | Data Center Infrastructure Efficiency | Data Center Management | Data Center Power Management | Data Centers

CASE STUDY - In 2000, Discount Tire Company decided to bring management of its e-commerce infrastructure in-house after having outsourced it for several years. Learn how they turned to the rock-solid reliability of Red Hat's Enterprise Linux platform to handle the task of supporting their new e-commerce environment.
Posted: July 28, 2009 | Published: July 28, 2009


Topics:  Data Centers | eCommerce | eCommerce Software | Linux | Open Source | Open Source Software | Operating Systems | Payment Card Industry | Server Software | Web Server Software

WEBCAST - It is becoming increasingly difficult for data center pros to manage their IT environments. This webcast explores best practices for automation and details the benefits you can realize from implementing the technology.
Posted: July 27, 2009 | Premiered: September 17, 2009


Topics:  Best Practices | Business Process Automation | Business Process Automation Software | Configuration Management | Data Center Infrastructure Efficiency | Data Center Management | Data Centers | Server Management

PODCAST - This podcast explores the benefits of SAP managed hosting and takes a look at Freudenberg IT's strong value proposition behind these services.
Posted: July 24, 2009 | Premiered: July 17, 2009


Topics:  Application Infrastructure Providers | Applications Management | Contingency Planning | Data Center Management | Data Centers | Host Management | Hosting Services | Quality Control Staff | SAP (Product) | Software Maintenance | Systems Maintenance | Technical Support Staff

PRODUCT OVERVIEW - Monitoring mainframe performance is something every data center does. This quick video explains a set of software solutions that can help out with mainframe monitoring by observing and managing performance, providing visibility, and improving availability while reducing costs. Watch the video now to learn more.
Posted: July 10, 2009 | Published: July 10, 2009


Topics:  Data Center Management | Data Centers | Mainframe Operating Systems | MIPS | Network Management Software | Network Monitoring Software | Server Management | Server Software | Software Upgrades

WHITE PAPER - This paper describes the principles for achieving power and cooling capacity management.
Posted: July 10, 2009 | Published: January 1, 2007


Topics:  Blade Servers | Capacity Management | Computer Room Air Conditioning Units | Cooling Capacity | Cooling Equipment | Data Center Cooling | Data Center Infrastructure Efficiency | Data Center Power Management | Data Centers | ITIL | Power Consumption Monitoring | UPS

PRESENTATION TRANSCRIPT - This presentation transcript features Brian Babineau, senior analyst with the Enterprise Strategy Group. Today Badineau would like to talk to you a little bit about driving efficiency within your data center and how you can reduce cost by reducing the amount of duplicate data that maybe in your environment.
Posted: July 9, 2009 | Published: July 1, 2009


Topics:  Data Center Consolidation | Data Center Infrastructure Efficiency | Data Center Management | Data Centers | Data Deduplication | Data Governance | Data Management | IT Governance | IT Management | Rack Enclosures | Rack Servers

WEBCAST - View this VKernel webcast to learn how to best optimize resource utilization in your current ESX environment. During this 30 minute presentation, we'll discuss how capacity planning is different in an ESX environment, resource alignment, and many other aspects of capacity planning within your current environment.
Posted: July 9, 2009 | Premiered: July 9, 2009


Topics:  Capacity Planning | Data Center Infrastructure Efficiency | Data Centers | Enterprise Resource Management | Network Management | Server Provisioning | Server Virtualization | Systems Management | Virtual Machine Monitor | VMware | VMware ESX | VMware Server

TRIAL SOFTWARE - In a dynamic virtual environment where things are constantly changing, your VM documentation efforts become out-of-date as soon as you begin the time-consuming process.
Posted: July 8, 2009 | Published: July 8, 2009


Topics:  Data Centers | Data Visualization | Document Imaging Software | IT Management | Reporting Software | Server Virtualization | Server Virtualization Software | VMware | VMware ESX | VMware Server

TRIAL SOFTWARE - Many organizations understand they need cost-visibility or a more formal chargeback process in order to further expand their virtual data centers. The challenge is where to begin and how to implement an automated solution.
Posted: July 8, 2009 | Published: July 8, 2009


Topics:  Cost Benefit Analysis | Data Centers | Data Visualization Software | Enterprise Resource Management | Network Monitoring Software | Reporting Software | Server Virtualization | Server Virtualization Software | VMware | VMware ESX | VMware Server

TRIAL SOFTWARE - As your virtual infrastructure continues to grow in scope and complexity, just finding basic information starts to become a monumental task.
Posted: July 8, 2009 | Published: July 8, 2009


Topics:  Data Centers | Indexing Software | IT Management | Server Appliances | Server Virtualization Software | Storage Capacity | Virtual Appliance | VMware | VMware ESX

VIDEO - This videocast highlights how to go green in your data center with better hardware utilization. Watch as industry pro David Payne discusses some of the challenges of this approach as well as how to start reducing energy consumption at the hardware level.
Posted: July 1, 2009 | Premiered: July 1, 2009


Topics:  Data Center Consolidation | Data Centers | Energy Efficiency | Green Data Center | Hardware | Hardware Management | Server Virtualization | Storage Consolidation | Virtual Appliance

PRODUCT LITERATURE - Check out this brief paper to see how Blue Coat Systems provides an end-to-end solution based on MACH5 technology to improve the listening and viewing experience of an end user consuming streaming audio and video online.
Posted: June 29, 2009 | Published: December 15, 2008


Topics:  Bandwidth Management | Data Centers | Streaming Media Services | Streaming Video Software | User Experience | Videoconferencing Systems | WAN | WAN Hardware

WHITE PAPER - This paper examines the issues of backup and recovery in VMware virtual server environments, and outlines the key features of HP Data Protector.
Posted: June 26, 2009 | Published: November 1, 2008


Topics:  Backup Server Hardware | Backup Software | Backups | Data Center Physical Security | Data Centers | IT Infrastructure | IT Systems | Server Management | Server Virtualization | VMware