Survey: The State of Flash in Financial Services
[ Source: LSI ]
November 2012-
A variety of competitive, regulatory, and technology challenges continue to keep IT professionals awake at night. While new types of software systems address such challenges, flash-based storage and flash-based application acceleration technologies are vital to maximizing the benefits from such applications.
Download “Bullish on Data Center Flash“ to learn details of the state of flash-based technology deployments survey, such as:
• More than three quarters (77 percent) of all financial services firms report ...
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Moving the Data Center from Chaos to Control: Best Practices in Data Center Infrastructure Management
[ Source: Nlyte Software ]
November 2012-
Given the stunning growth of data centers in recent years, how can an enterprise's IT department improve efficiency, cost effectiveness and mission-critical reliability in the data center? This paper explores the complex web of challenges facing today's data center managers and discusses how Data Center Infrastructure Management (DCIM) software provides a complete solution for moving the data center from chaos to control.
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Moving Beyond Spreadsheets and Diagrams: Getting Started with Data Center Infrastructure Management
[ Source: Nlyte Software ]
November 2012-
Many data center managers try to manage their dynamic environments with little more than spreadsheets and a few CAD diagrams. But as data centers have grown in size and complexity, managing this way has become increasingly difficult. Fortunately, there are many good Data Center Infrastructure Management (DCIM) solutions now available.
One of the challenges many companies face getting started with DCIM is that they are afraid that implementing a full scale DCIM solution ...
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Case Study: PNC Financial Services
[ Source: Nlyte Software ]
November 2012-
A VP of Data Center Operations didn't have accurate information needed to make informed decisions, control costs and mitigate risks. In this informative case study, learn what caused this manager to say "We not only freed up half a megawatt of power, but also extended the life of our data center from five years to 15 years."
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10 Best Practices to Streamline Updates of Firmware and Software Drivers
[ Source: HP ]
October 2012-
Installing firmware and software updates is essential to the health of today's highly consolidated, virtualized and converged IT environments. With multiple, inter-related components integrated in blade enclosures, the update process that keeps everything running as a harmonious and efficient whole is business-critical. This technical white paper provides a set of best practices that can enable you to streamline updates to your HP BladeSystem environment and incorporate the process into your server management routines.
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Interactive eBook: A Guide to Modern IT Disaster Recovery from VMware
[ Source: VMware ]
September 2012-
Discover how federal agencies and the DoD can approach disaster recovery. Read the interactive eBook: "A Guide to Modern IT Disaster Recovery," to gain insight and advice on how to build an effective disaster recovery strategy in the evolving world of virtual infrastructures, while mitigating the impact of so-called 'Black Swan' events in the data center.
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How Blade Servers Impact Data Center Management & Agility
[ Source: HP/Intel® ]
September 2012-
This Technology Adoption Profile (TAP) examines enterprise adoption of blade servers in the US, the UK, and China; the benefits of blade server use; and the connection between enterprise data center management and agility goals and blade server use.
The profile reveals that blades are highly associated with core infrastructure consolidation and optimization efforts and offer high value to users as a virtualization platform and means of reducing opex in the data center.<...
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Delivering an Integrated Infrastructure for the Cloud
[ Source: HP/Intel® ]
September 2012-
The HP CloudSystem Matrix is an on-premise solution that provides infrastructure as a service (IaaS) for IT organizations looking to deploy private or hybrid cloud, and basic application deployment and monitoring.
Part of the next phase in the HP Converged Infrastructure evolution,the HP CloudSystem Matrix brings together a number of existing, market-proven technologies into a platform that is deeply integrated from an engineering and service delivery perspective.
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Learn more about AMD and HP Innovative Solutions
[ Source: HP/AMD ]
September 2012-
For more than a decade, AMD and HP have collaborated to deliver a technology portfolio that grows more robust every year. The product line now features systems based on the entire family of AMD processors, including rack-mount servers, server blades, MicroServer, desktops, and notebooks.
Download this PDF for an overview of the HP ProLiant server portfolio based on AMD Opteron™ processors. You'll learn which server options best address your prioroties, whether performance and ...
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Forrester TAP: Blades paper
[ Source: HP/Intel® ]
May 2012-
This paper examines enterprise adoption of blade servers in the US, UK and China; the benefits of blade server use; and the connection between enterprise data center management and agility goals and blade server use.
It reveals that blade servers are highly associated with core infrastructure consolidation and optimization efforts and offers high value to users as a virtualization platform and means of reducing OpEx.
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