The Tactical Realities of Building a Virtual Desktop Infrastructure [ Source: Insight/HP/Intel ]
May 2013- By leveraging HP technology, powered by Intel, Insight enhances your IT infrastructure's agility, scalability and deployment times. Learn how in The Tactical Realities of Building a Virtual Desktop Infrastructure, a high-level tactical roadmap for successful VDI implementation.
Top 10 Considerations for Getting Started with Virtualization [ Source: VMware ]
April 2013-
Moving your workloads from physical servers to a virtualized environment can help your business drive down costs, increase IT efficiencies and improve application availability but it's important to carefully plan the transition to virtualization in order to avoid any complications.
Read these considerations as you plan your move to virtualization to ensure a smooth transition and a successful project.
Don't Get Stuck on your Virtualization Journey: Where to Focus Next [ Source: VMware ]
April 2013-
You've virtualized a significant number of server workloads and have likely experienced signficant cost savings and performance improvements so, what's next?
Read this trend brief to identify which phase of virtualization you are in and where you should be headed to reap even more business benefits with expansion of your virtual environment.
Beyond Cost Savings: Four Compelling Reasons to Expand Virtualization of Your IT Environment [ Source: VMware ]
April 2013- You've been hearing about or perhaps have personally experienced the benefits of virtualization. But as a business with resource or budget restraints, you aren't going to start or expand adoption of a technology for the sake of some long-term abstract goal. You are focused - and must stay focused - on the here and now.
Blade Server Strategies: Optimizing the Data Center [ Source: HP ]
May 2013-
Blade servers bring efficiency and agility to IT infrastructures by making it easy to add and move resources and applications. In a recent study, IDC found that companies using blade servers were able to cut operating expenses by 64 percent.
But to extract the optimal benefits from blade servers, IT shops must chose a vendor whose strategy and tools reduce complexity, simplify management, support lifecycle automation and deliver the flexibility to work in any ...
Building a Business Case for HP Blades Servers [ Source: HP ]
May 2013-
As IT administrators expand their infrastructures, they face a recurring question: do blade servers or rack servers deliver the best value?
This white paper covers all the factors that comprise an ROI model for comparing blades to rack servers, including power usage, cabling, software licensing and maintenance. Don't miss this opportunity to learn how blades can save up to 50% of TCO over a three year period and why blade servers make economic sense ...
IDC Analyst Connection: Using Blade Systems to Cut Costs and Sharpen Efficiencies [ Source: HP ]
May 2013-
Data centers need to be more agile than ever, as IT increasingly becomes a strategic asset that determines how well an organization interacts with its customers, suppliers and employees. Yet with today's constrained budgets, IT administrators must ensure that their hardware investments deliver optimal ROI and help reduce operational expenses at every level.
In this IDC Analyst Connection white paper, server expert Jed Scaramella discusses how to address the challenges of data center ...
Success in the Next Wave of Federal Data Center Consolidation - Solutions Brief [ Source: Thundercat Technology, NetApp ]
February 2013-
ThunderCat teamed with the National Nuclear Security Administration's (NNSA) Chief Technology Officer, J. Travis Howerton, to talk about how the Department of Energy's NNSA is achieving energy savings and other benefits by implementing data center consolidation within a cloud computing environment.
"Success in the Next Wave of Data Center Consolidation" solution brief is now available. Included is Government viewpoint on delivering IT energy savings and Industry viewpoint on 5 key lessons learned for ...
ESG Whitepaper: Your Next Generation Data Center Starts with Virtualization [ Source: VMware ]
January 2013-
Server virtualization is perhaps the most significant evolution in information technology of this time. But why aren't more organizations taking advantage of both its immediate and long-term benefits?
This paper will explain why and how you should take the first steps toward your next generation data center.
IDC: Virtualize Desktops for Better Management and Operations Across Devices [ Source: VMware ]
January 2012- Centralized virtual desktop (CVD) technology is an innovation receiving closer attention today as its potential impact on IT departments and users becomes clearer. The push for client virtualization technologies originated with organizations that successfully implemented server virtualization. Now, customers are intrigued by the possibility of a better desktop management model. They're also drawn to the long-term operational savings that CVD can deliver. With the wide range of offerings, customers face a set of difficult decisions ...
Decrease Costs and Gain a Competitive Advantage By Improving Data Center Infrastructure Management [ Source: Raritan ]
January 2013-
For any organization to be successful, its IT arm must align with business objectives and deliver applications efficiently and effectively. But with increasingly complex infrastructures, how do data center operations managers control expense, improve productivity, provide reliable service and project future needs? And how can executive management set realistic objectives and make informed decisions?
This paper looks at how DCIM software will give companies the visibility, control and insight to leverage IT assets ...
Shands HealthCare Saves 50% in Asset Tracking Efficiency with Raritan's DCIM dcTrack® Solution [ Source: Raritan ]
January 2013- Shands Healthcare needed a way in which to track data center assets, specifically identifying the exact location of every server, UPS, and device, across multiple data centers - three of which were new. Additionally, the IT team wanted to improve the energy efficiency within the data centers. Working together with Raritan, Shands has moved from an inflexible tracking method of Excel spreadsheets and Visio floor plans to Raritan's dcTrack DCIM solution, and now enjoys a 50% ...
The New Truth in Data Center Management [ Source: Raritan ]
January 2013- As data center management becomes more difficult, we must look beyond traditional tools and methods. Learn how our Data Center Infrastructure Management (DCIM) software revitalizes the management of space, power, equipment and connections, ultimately increasing the value you already provide to your company or organization.
Moving or adding a new Data Center? Leave your outdated tools behind! [ Source: Raritan ]
January 2013- Due to the many changes that will be taking place, including updating inventory records and defining new space and power requirements, the relocation or adding of a new data center is the perfect time to relook at the tools used to manage your data center. Raritan's Data Center Infrastructure Management (DCIM) solution guides your new site's growth, provides information to enable informed decisions, and helps keep your new data center healthy from day one.
Hyperversity Driven by Technical & Cost Differences [ Source: Red Hat ]
December 2012- Gabriel Consulting Group’s recent annual x86 Data Center Surveys have shown that the average x86 enterprise customer is using three different hypervisors to virtualize their workloads. Their latest survey shows that most customers aren’t simply test-driving them in hopes of finding the “One True Hypervisor.” They have solid reasons, primarily focused on cost and technical differences, for using multiple solutions and will continue to do so for the foreseeable future. This survey digs ...
EO 13514 and Smart Federal Government Data Center Management [ Source: Raritan ]
February 2013- EO 13514 has made the reduction of greenhouse gas emissions a priority. Federal agency data centers need to perform more efficiently and reduce energy usage. This white paper examines data center management measurement, use and saving of energy in relation to the goals established by EO 13514.
Deploying High Power to IT Equipment Racks [ Source: Raritan ]
February 2013- With average rack power consumption still increasing, the deployment of high power to racks is becoming more of a necessity for data center managers. This white paper will help you learn about high power best practices, trends, common configurations, future industry speculation and more.
Accelerate Deployment of mission-critical Virtualization on HP Integrity Server Blades [ Source: HP ]
November 2012- This technical white paper outlines the mission critical reference configuration that is part of the HP Virtual System family. This configuration for HP Integrity Server Blades provides a starting point for introducing virtualization into the mission critical data center. Consolidate old and new HP-UX computing environments, improve resource utilization, save on energy costs, and improve application availability during maintenance. Grow your configuration as you grow your data center.
Accelerate Deployment of mission-critical Virtualization on Integrity Superdome 2 Servers [ Source: HP ]
November 2012-
Break through the IT sprawl, and turn technology assets into interoperable, shared pools of resources with a common management platform using HP VirtualSystem for Superdome 2/HP-UX . With this integrated solution, reduce the complexity of data center management, accelerate deployments, increase server utilization, and provide higher levels of service.
This white paper outlines and explains the core components and benefits of the HP VirtualSystem solution.
The Total Economic Impact To IBM WebSphere Application Server Migrating From An Open Source environment [ Source: IBM ]
November 2012- This analyst report shows the total economic impact of migrating from an open source solution to IBM WebSphere Application Server -- a 44%% return on investment (ROI) producing a net value of over $1 million, with numerous benefits, including reduced support costs, reduced support incidents, higher application availability, and more. This report from Forrester, a highly respect independent analyst, provides readers with a framework to evaluate the potential financial impact of the WebSphere Application Server on their ...
ESG Analyst Whitepaper - Virtualization Management Critical to Achieving Scale and Efficiency [ Source: VMware ]
October 2012-
This paper explains why customers are moving beyond traditional tools and processes when it comes to how they manage their virtual environments.
ESG global field survey provides proof points, while analysts provide recommendations for next steps in the virtualization journey.
Performance Analytics: How Normal is Your Data [ Source: VMware ]
October 2012-
This VMware paper takes a technical look at a variety of IT performance data (operating system metrics, quality-of-service metrics, business performance metrics, etc.) to determine how well these metrics can be modeled as "normally distributed."
This concept is at the heart of VMware vCenter Operations' performance analytics capability, and provides a deeper insight into how the technology helps adapt and learn typical IT behaviors to then provide automated policies that keep alerts and ...
Organizing the Cloud [ Source: VMware ]
October 2012-
Cloud computing represents a major opportunity for IT. At the same time it presents challenges. Lines of Business are already by-passing IT and going directly to external cloud providers. Running workloads on external cloud provider infrastructure isn't necessarily a bad thing but to regain control, IT must begin to think and act like a cloud provider.
This Whitepaper talks about traditional versus cloud view of the IT Operations organization while addressing the business ...
Journey to Your Cloud Taking Your Organization From Reactive to Innovative [ Source: VMware ]
October 2012-
This Whitepaper talks about why make the journey to the Cloud. It talks about empowering your IT Organization with Cloud Computing, the Path to Innovate, Essential Cloud Capabilities to Advance a Cloud Operating Model.
It also talks about three approaches: Reactive: Managing the Growing Demands of the Business and moving beyond a reactive state of IT as well as being proactive: how IT can act as a Service Broker and Innovative: A Strategic ...
Forrester - Business Value of Virtualization [ Source: VMware ]
October 2012-
This paper is an evaluation of the business value of x86 server virtualization. Forrester interviewed individuals responsible for the IT infrastructure and architecture and asked executives to rate the benefits received from consolidating servers, performing business continuity/disaster recovery, reclaiming data center capacity, and executing similar initiatives.
The findings indicate that server virtualization technologies have delivered benefits that executives could clearly explain.
10 Reasons to Modernize the Desktop [ Source: VMware ]
October 2012-
IT departments need a solution that meets the evolving needs of both the employees and IT - something not possible with a traditional PC model.
This paper illustrates the benefits of moving beyond the physical PC to a modern desktop that is highly flexible, easy to manage, customizable to suit users' needs, and ready for new and future technology.