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The Value of PowerVM Workload Partitions: New Virtualization Options in IBM AIX v6.1 sponsored by IBM WHITE PAPER: This white paper from the Sageza Group, Inc. explains why Workload Partitions (WPARs) are a more cost-effective way to meet the needs of your organization. Posted: 16 Jan 2009 \| Published: 16 Jan 2009 TOPICS: Application Performance Management \| Data Center Management \| Data Centers \| IT Managers \| Operating Systems \| Server Virtualization

Highly Distributed Computing Is Key to Quality on the HD Web sponsored by Akamai Technologies WHITE PAPER: This paper outlines the basic requirements for delivering high-definition (HD) video via broadband and describes how Akamai, through highly distributed computing, is uniquely able to extend the Internet's capacity. Posted: 07 Mar 2008 \| Published: 01 Jan 2007 TOPICS: Broadband Video Services \| Consumers \| Data Centers \| Deployment \| Internet \| Servers \| Video-on-Demand \| Video-over-DSL

Cisco UCS – A Real World TCO Analysis sponsored by Cisco Systems, Inc. WHITE PAPER: This white paper reveals five opportunities for infrastructure cost savings. Learn how to simplify management of your data center through integration and automation of network, compute, and virtualization technologies. Posted: 03 Jun 2011 \| Published: 01 Apr 2011 TOPICS: Data Center Management \| Data Centers \| Network Management \| Server Management \| Storage Management \| Systems Integration \| Systems Maintenance \| Systems Management

The Virtual Machine Aware SAN sponsored by Cisco Systems, Inc. WHITE PAPER: This white paper describes the innovative approach introduced by the Cisco MDS 9000 Family to support an end-to-end virtualized SAN environment that is flexible, secure, scalable, and mobile. Posted: 24 Oct 2008 \| Published: 24 Oct 2008 TOPICS: Data Center Management \| Data Centers \| Fibre Channel Switches \| Network Infrastructure \| QOS \| SAN \| Security \| Server Virtualization \| TCO

Taming The Power Hungry Data Center sponsored by Fusion-IO WHITE PAPER: The widening disparity between CPU performance and that of storage subsystems has spawned numerous solutions that do not fix the problem. This white paper exposes this fundamental flaw and introduces the means available today to substantively reduce power consumption while improving performance: Fusion-io's flash memory-based storage technology. Posted: 16 Feb 2009 \| Published: 16 Feb 2009 TOPICS: Continuous Data Protection \| Data Center Management \| Data Centers \| Disaster Recovery \| Disk-to-Disk Backup \| Environmental Compliance \| NAS Software \| RAID \| SAN \| Virtual Tape Libraries

The Top Five Virtualization Mistakes sponsored by Vyatta Inc. WHITE PAPER: This paper describes five mistakes common to many implementations of enterprise virtualization. Most of these mistakes relate to virtualization and networking infrastructure. Ideally, after reading this paper, you'll be sensitized to these issues so that you can plan for them and make your virtualization projects more successful. Posted: 17 Jun 2009 \| Published: 01 Jun 2007 TOPICS: Data Center Management \| Data Centers \| Disaster Recovery \| Network Security \| Security \| Security Management \| Security Threats \| Server Virtualization \| Vulnerability Assessments \| Vulnerability Management

Five Technologies Simplifying Infrastructure Management sponsored by Liebert Corporation WHITE PAPER: This paper describes five infrastructure technologies that are making it easier for growing businesses to introduce new IT systems as needed while maintaining high levels of availability. Posted: 20 Feb 2008 \| Published: 01 Jan 2007 TOPICS: Availability \| Data Centers \| High Availability \| Infrastructure Management \| Software

New E-Guide: Securing and Consolidating Remote and Branch Offices sponsored by Brocade WHITE PAPER: The remote office/branch office (ROBO) is now a main part of many organizations' storage initiatives. This eGuide, featuring articles from Storage magazine, outlines the issues of protecting ROBO data and provides insight and strategies for... Posted: 04 Sep 2007 \| Published: 01 Sep 2007 TOPICS: Content Archiving \| Continuous Data Protection \| Data Centers \| Data Management \| Data Security \| Remote Backups \| Remote Network Management \| ROBO \| Storage Best Practices \| Storage Consolidation \| WAN

Enabling Developer Access to Production Data sponsored by Voltage Security, Inc. WHITE PAPER: With sophisticated key management, multiple integration options and a stateless architecture, SecureData enables enterprises to quickly secure their test and development application environments to ensure against the risk of data compromise. Posted: 15 Dec 2008 \| Published: 15 Dec 2008 TOPICS: Backups \| Data Centers \| Data Security \| Databases \| Encryption Standards \| Enterprise \| Identification Systems \| Security Policies \| SOAP

Open Source in the Next Computing Wave sponsored by Red Hat and JBoss WHITE PAPER: The current economic climate is forcing more systematic thinking about costs in general, including those associated with overall complexity and the security and resiliency of large distributed infrastructures. These trends intersect in powerful ways; a new wave of computing is gathering momentum as a result. And open source is playing a major role. Posted: 18 Jun 2009 \| Published: 09 Jan 2009 TOPICS: Cloud Computing \| Collaborative Applications Software \| Data Center Management \| Data Centers \| Distributed Computing \| Distributed Data Management \| Linux \| Open Source \| Open Source Software \| SaaS ERP \| Server Virtualization \| Server Virtualization Software \| Software as a Service