WHITE PAPER - This white paper describes how various UPS topologies work and looks at the impact of operating mode on five key factors of UPS performance
Posted: October 1, 2009 | Published: October 1, 2009


Topics:  Data Center Infrastructure Efficiency | Data Center Management | Data Center Power Management | Data Centers | High Availability | Network Performance | Power Consumption Monitoring | Power Usage Effectiveness (PUE) | RAS (Reliability, Availability, Serviceability) | Systems Maintenance | Systems Management | UPS

WHITE PAPER - With disk-to-disk technology, your backup data resides on disk drives, proven to be far more reliable than tapes. When your backup completes, you know the data is secure and accessible on the disk drive. Read this paper to learn other best practices on disk-to-disk technology and more.
Posted: September 30, 2009 | Published: September 30, 2009


Topics:  Data Centers | Data Deduplication | Data Replication | Data Security | Disk Backups | Disk Drives | Disk Mirroring | Disk Storage Systems | Disk-to-Disk Backup | Disk-to-Disk-to-Tape | Storage Best Practices | Tape Backups | Tape Drives | Tape Libraries

WHITE PAPER - This IDC Workbook discusses consolidation at the datacenter, server, and storage system levels, including the use of virtualisation. This paper also discusses how deduplication can help improve consolidation of resources and reduce storage footprint, as well as improve data protection and disaster recovery under heavy workload conditions.
Posted: September 29, 2009 | Published: September 1, 2008


Topics:  Data Center Consolidation | Data Center Infrastructure Efficiency | Data Center Management | Data Centers | Data Deduplication | Data Mirroring | Data Recovery | Data Replication | Data Security | Data Storage

WHITE PAPER - The current state of the datacenter demands a transformation that helps in improving space utilization and lowering power consumption while still providing the scale and availability the business requires. Read this report to learn how your organization can optimize data center efficiency and lower costs.
Posted: September 29, 2009 | Published: April 14, 2009


Topics:  Cooling Equipment | Data Center Consolidation | Data Center Cooling | Data Center Infrastructure Efficiency | Data Center Management | Data Center Power Management | Data Centers | Energy Efficiency | Server Virtualization

ANALYST REPORT - Understanding and measuring an offering’s operational simplicity is crucial criteria for selecting a D2D solution. As we at Taneja Group will explore in this brief, we believe that Data Domain has delivered an offering that personifies this notion of operational simplicity.
Posted: September 29, 2009 | Published: May 1, 2007


Topics:  Backups | Continuous Data Protection | Data Centers | Disaster Planning | Disaster Recovery | Disk Backups | Disk Mirroring | Disk Storage Systems | Disk-to-Disk Backup | Disk-to-Disk-to-Tape

PODCAST - In this podcast, expert Carey Dietert discusses how CIO's are reevaluating current infrastructures to determine whether a new alternative is the way to go including the changes incumbents in the Unix space especially Sun with the upcoming purchase from Oracle.
Posted: September 29, 2009 | Premiered: September 29, 2009


Topics:  Business IT Alignment | CIOs | Data Center Consolidation | Data Center Infrastructure Efficiency | Data Center Power Management | Data Centers | IT Infrastructure | Linux | Linux Server Hardware | Open Source | Systems Management | UNIX

PODCAST - In this podcast, listen to expert Scott Sawyer explain how Dell Services can help you plan for modernization of your legacy Unix infrastructure.
Posted: September 29, 2009 | Premiered: September 29, 2009


Topics:  Data Center Consolidation | Data Center Infrastructure Efficiency | Data Center Power Management | Data Centers | Linux | Linux Server Hardware | Open Source | Operating Equipment Efficiency or Effectiveness (OEE) | Storage Best Practices | UNIX

EBOOK - Some pundits foresee a future in which all data center computing is done in the "cloud," but that future is a long way off. Most organizations have just begun to venture into the cloud. Many others remain skeptical because of security and quality-of-service concerns. Read this ebook to learn what CIOs can to do now to prep their own environments.
Posted: September 29, 2009 | Published: September 29, 2009


Topics:  CIOs | Cloud Computing | Data Center Management | Data Centers | Data Governance | Data Security | Hybrid clouds | Private cloud computing | Public cloud computing | Software as a Service

WHITE PAPER - This white paper presents an overview of storage virtualisation at the controller level of a storage system. It describes how HP defines virtualisation technology and how it applies to the HP StorageWorks Enterprise Virtual Array (EVA) storage system.
Posted: September 29, 2009 | Published: February 14, 2008


Topics:  Data Centers | Network Performance | SAN | Storage Architectures | Storage Capacity | Storage Management | Storage Virtualization | Storage Virtualization Software | TCO | Tiered Storage

WHITE PAPER - This whitepaper outlines the drivers for log management as well as their underlying challenges and drive towards a common set of requirements for evaluation of log management tools.
Posted: September 29, 2009 | Published: November 6, 2008


Topics:  Best Practices | Data Centers | Databases | HIPAA | Log Management | Regulatory Compliance | Troubleshooting | Vendors

WHITE PAPER - The following five secrets to affordable SQL availability will help you to implement a SQL environment with little or no downtime, zero data loss, and no added IT complexity.
Posted: September 28, 2009 | Published: September 28, 2009


Topics:  Backups | Clustering | Data Centers | Data Loss Prevention (DLP) | Data Management | Data Replication | Data Security | Downtime | IT Management | Network Monitoring | Server Management | SQL | SQL Server

WHITE PAPER - All organizations are becoming increasingly reliant upon their computer systems. The availability of those systems can be the difference between the organization succeeding and failing. This series will examine how we can configure our Windows Server 2008 environments to provide the level of availability our organizations need.
Posted: September 28, 2009 | Published: September 28, 2009


Topics:  Backups | Clustering | Data Center Management | Data Centers | Downtime | High Availability | Load Balancing | Network Monitoring | Network Performance | SLA | Systems Management | Windows Server Software

PODCAST - Wayne Kernochan discusses new and unique technologies on the mainframe that may be attractive to college graduates and job seekers.
Posted: September 28, 2009 | Premiered: September 28, 2009


Topics:  Certification Programs | Data Centers | Information Technology Professionals | IT Workforce | Mainframe Computers | Mainframe Operating Systems | Mainframe Server Hardware | Server Virtualization | Training

WHITE PAPER - This white paper discusses five steps for protecting Windows Server applications from downtime, offering established best practices to reduce potential single points of failure and ensure rapid recovery or continued operations in the event of failure.
Posted: September 28, 2009 | Published: September 28, 2009


Topics:  Data Center Power Management | Data Centers | Data Loss Prevention (DLP) | Downtime | High Availability | IT Infrastructure | Network Monitoring | Power Blackouts | Productivity | RAS (Reliability, Availability, Serviceability) | Windows Server Software

SOFTWARE DOWNLOAD - The VKernel VM Rightsizer is a simple tool for tuning your VMs with the right amount of resources (CPU, memory, and storage) to drive maximum VM densities without impacting performance.
Posted: September 25, 2009 | Published: September 25, 2009


Topics:  Data Center Infrastructure Efficiency | Data Centers | Network Monitoring | Network Performance | Server Virtualization | Server Virtualization Software | Storage Capacity | Virtual Machine | VM | VMware Server