Blade Server Tech Report
[ Source: InformationWeek ]
March 2007-
The blade server market has been evolving, and many enterprises today can take advantage of much the improved manageability and facilities savings that blades can offer. The market has offerings from nearly every major vendor and some smaller vendors that can surprise and please both the server administrator and the data center manager. The NWC Analytics Blade Server Tech Report covers the market as it stands and can serve as a guideline for justifying investments ....
SAS Enterprise Intelligence Platform
[ Source: Anovatek Inc ]
December 2007-
SAS has developed an integrated platform for delivering enterprise intelligence. This platform, which we call the SAS Enterprise Intelligence Platform, optimally integrates individual technology components within your existing infrastructure into a single, unified system. The result is an information flow that transcends organizational silos, diverse computing platforms and niche tools — and delivers access to the insights that drive value for your organization.
The SAS Enterprise Intelligence Platform extends the value of your existing ....
Intel Virtualization Technology and Intel Active Management Technology in Retail Infrastructure
[ Source: Intel ]
January 2008-
Intel Active Management Technology (AMT) and Intel Virtualization Technology (VT) enabled Retail Point of Sales systems serve as a retail management program that allows users to maintain absolute control over sales and inventory while utilizing an easy and professional customer checkout. This paper illustrates the usage model of Intel Virtualization Technology and Intel Active Management Technology in Retail Infrastructure Point of Sales Systems. The paper explains the key features of these technologies and provides practical ....
The Roadmap to Virtual Infrastructure
[ Source: VMware ]
October 2008-
Use this interactive tool to learn how you can best implement and maximize the benefits of VMware Infrastructure.
Find out how to increase availability while reducing data center energy consumption
[ Source: Emerson Network Power ]
August 2009-
In the midst of rapid growth, Langan Engineering & Environmental Services was challenged by a corporate initiative to become more environmentally responsible from an IT perspective. This meant upgrading its existing data center and installing an uninterruptible power system (UPS) that would support efforts to reduce data center energy consumption and provide a clear path for expansion as blade servers and virtualization were introduced.
Discover the steps Emerson Network Power took to achieve Langan’s ....
Virtualization for the Real World
[ Source: Dell - Migration Expert Zone ]
January 2008-
Virtualization is making a tremendous impact in the IT community around the world and across enterprises, agencies and institutions. The results of virtualization demonstrate clear benefits and tangible value to managers and decision-makers at every level of the IT organization. Virtualization technology changes the game by transforming a traditional IT environment into a virtualized IT environment, or virtual infrastructure. Virtual infrastructures provide great flexibility and open up new ways of thinking about the IT environment. ....
Case Study: Norton Healthcare
[ Source: Emerson Network Power ]
November 2009-
Norton Healthcare, the largest healthcare system in Louisville, was supporting 13,000 users and 400 servers on a 35-year-old data center. When the data center reached its capacity, the manager reached out to Emerson Network Power to completely remodel the 3,400-square-foot facility.
This paper covers the strategies Emerson Network Power implemented to create a scalable, redundant infrastructure, increasing workload by 100% and reducing help desk calls by 20%. This included installing two Liebert 610 ....
Effectively Securing Virtualized Data Centers
[ Source: Apani ]
June 2008-
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, increased operational efficiencies and more flexible management capabilities. But server virtualization may also increase security risks. Virtual machines (VMs) themselves are no less secure than their physical counterparts, but organizations often apply different procedures to their deployment and management. In addition, server virtualization while ....
The Case for Consolidated IT Operations
[ Source: HP ]
October 2008-
To achieve the business results needed, IT operations must work smarter. This paper explores the problems IT operations can encounter in coordinating the activities of multiple application and infrastructure specialist teams, and it proposes an approach - consolidated operations -designed to get incidents to the right person with the right information fast so problems can be resolved quickly, with no duplication of effort and at an appropriate level ....
HP Reference Configuration for Virtualization - HP ProLiant BL685c Server and VMware Infrastructure 3
[ Source: Hewlett-Packard ]
January 2008-
HP BladeSystem c-Class features both full and half height blades. This paper discusses and diagrams deployment of the HP ProLiant BL685c, an AMD Opteron, 4-socket, full-height blade server in an architecture that follows both Hewlett-Packard and VMware best practices for maximum data and network redundancy. The paper graphically represents an enterprise reference configuration for HP c-Class BladeSystem running VMware Infrastructure 3 in the most redundant, rapidly recoverable and highly available configuration. Solutions utilizing HP c-Class ....