WHITE PAPER - The goal of this study is to determine if a multi?node Oracle RAC cluster can be replaced with a cluster consisting of fewer Dell PowerEdge 11G nodes (powered by Intel® Xeon® processor 5500 Series), and still process the OLTP workload faster with less power consumption and lower Oracle RAC licensing fees. Read this white paper to learn more.
Posted: September 24, 2009 | Published: July 1, 2009


Topics:  Multi-core Processor Architecture | Multi-core Processors | Oracle (Product) | Server Consolidation | Server Management | Server Provisioning | Server Virtualization | Workload Automation

WEBCAST - Is your organization struggling to reduce server costs and improve performance? This webcast explores how various virtualization and server platforms stack up in performance tests. Learn how to leverage this technology to achieve significant consolidation and cost savings.
Posted: September 23, 2009 | Premiered: September 23, 2009


Topics:  Server Consolidation | Server Hardware | Server Virtualization

DATA SHEET - IBM BladeCenter HS22 - Versatile, easy-to-use blade optimized for performance, power and cooling.
Posted: September 23, 2009 | Published: September 23, 2009


Topics:  Blade Servers | IT Infrastructure | Rack Servers | ROI | Server Consolidation | Server Hardware | Server Management | Server Virtualization

WHITE PAPER - Increasing energy efficiency with x86 servers. Robert Frances Group (RFG) explains why Intel/IBM is a winning combination.
Posted: September 23, 2009 | Published: September 23, 2009


Topics:  Cost Benefit Analysis | Energy Efficiency | Green Data Center | IT Infrastructure | IT Management | Server Consolidation | Server Management

WHITE PAPER - Increased adoption of VMware infrastructure and continued performance advances in hardware and software have driven the virtualization of Microsoft Exchange. This paper will detail experiments that demonstrate the efficient performance and scalability of Exchange when running inside a virtual machine on a VMware vSphere™ 4 environment.
Posted: September 21, 2009 | Published: September 21, 2009


Topics:  Capacity Planning | Data Center Consolidation | Data Centers | Email Management | Email Server Software | Microsoft Exchange | Server Consolidation | Server Virtualization | Storage Capacity | Virtual Machine | VM | VMware

CASE STUDY - Find out how Argo Global Capital utilized server virualization to simplify, consolidate and reduce operating costs in their data center. Since implementing XenServer with everRun, Argo has had zero downtime, even during a significant hardware failure.
Posted: September 18, 2009 | Published: September 18, 2009


Topics:  Applications Management | Citrix XenServer | Data Center Consolidation | Data Center Infrastructure Efficiency | Data Center Management | Downtime | High Availability | Network Performance | Server Consolidation | Server Virtualization

WHITE PAPER - As companies continue to consolidate and look for best possible uses of both existing and new computer hardware, nowhere is this more apparent than server management. This paper will provide you some best practices and key success stories that you can use in designing and implementing your own virtualized SQL environment.
Posted: September 18, 2009 | Published: September 18, 2009


Topics:  Application Performance Management | Best Practices | Data Center Consolidation | Data Center Design | Data Center Infrastructure Efficiency | Network Performance | RAS (Reliability, Availability, Serviceability) | Server Consolidation | Server Management | Server Virtualization | SQL | SQL Server | VM

EDITORIAL RESOURCE GUIDE - This E-Guide will discuss the various approaches to data deduplication. You'll learn the pros and cons of each, and will benefit from independent expert insight that will help you get the most out of the approach you take with data deduplication technology.
Posted: September 17, 2009 | Published: September 17, 2009


Topics:  Backups | Continuous Data Protection | Data Deduplication | Data Loss Prevention (DLP) | Data Management | Data Replication | Data Security | Disaster Recovery | Server Consolidation | Server Virtualization

WEBCAST - This webcast examines how upgrading your system with new Sun Fire servers can actually save you money.
Posted: September 17, 2009 | Premiered: September 17, 2009


Topics:  Data Center Consolidation | Data Center Design | Data Center Management | Server Consolidation | Server Hardware | Server Management | Server Virtualization

WEBCAST - View this webcast to gain insight into how upgrading your aging infrastructure can grow your bottom line.
Posted: September 17, 2009 | Premiered: September 17, 2009


Topics:  Data Center Consolidation | Data Center Management | Data Center Power Management | Processor Architectures | Server Consolidation | Server Management | Server Virtualization

WEBCAST - Watch this webinar to learn best practices for enterprise-level server consolidation by leveraging next-generation server platforms developed jointly by Sun and Intel.
Posted: September 17, 2009 | Premiered: September 17, 2009


Topics:  Data Center Consolidation | Data Center Design | Data Center Management | IT Infrastructure | IT Management | Server Consolidation | Server Management | Server Virtualization

WEBCAST - Watch this webcast to learn how the latest blade server modules from Sun Microsystems, based on the Intel® Xeon® processor 5500 series, deliver significant performance gains and energy savings, plus an innovative approach to networking that virtualizes each 10GbE port and provides high-bandwidth connectivity to each virtual server.
Posted: September 17, 2009 | Premiered: September 17, 2009


Topics:  Blade Servers | Data Center Design | Data Center Management | Rack Servers | Server Consolidation | Server Management | Server Virtualization

WEBCAST - Organizations that do not have an active management strategy are often left with significant server sprawl issues. This expert webcast discusses a three pronged approach for overcoming these issues and explores different options for virtualization on Linux platforms.
Posted: September 16, 2009 | Premiered: September 16, 2009


Topics:  Application Server Hardware | Data Center Cooling | Data Center Infrastructure Efficiency | Data Center Management | Data Center Power Management | Data Centers | Linux | Linux Server Hardware | Network Performance | Open Source | Server Consolidation | Server Management | Server Virtualization | Systems Management

EDITORIAL RESOURCE GUIDE - Without a comprehensive data center consolidation strategy, many of today's businesses are unable to lower power and cooling costs or effectively manage server workload utilization. In this expert Pocket E-Guide, you will discover why Linux should play a key role in your data center consolidation strategy.
Posted: September 15, 2009 | Published: September 14, 2009


Topics:  Data Center Consolidation | Data Center Cooling | Data Center Infrastructure Efficiency | Data Center Management | Linux | Mainframe Operating Systems | Network Management | Network Performance | Open Source | Power Consumption Monitoring | Server Consolidation | Software Licensing

WEBCAST - This webinar will discuss the benefits of virtualizing Citrix XenServer as well as show how fortifying XenApp and XenServer with Marathon Technologies' everRun software will give you the confidence to increase your SLAs for your most critical XenApp deployments and protect your Citrix License Server and Data Store from downtime.
Posted: September 10, 2009 | Premiered: September 10, 2009


Topics:  Application Infrastructure | Application Performance Management | Citrix XenServer | Downtime | High Availability | Server Consolidation | Server Virtualization | Service Level Management | SLA | SLA Management Services | Virtual Desktop Infrastructure | VM