Hardware White Papers

WHITE PAPER: As data centers reach the upper limits of their power and cooling capacity, efficiency has become the focus of extending the life of existing data centers and designing new ones. As part of these efforts, IT needs to refresh existing infrastructure with servers that deliver more performance and scalability, more efficiently. Read on to learn more.

Posted: 08 Jul 2009 | Published: 08 Jul 2009

WHITE PAPER: Intel IT is evaluating solid-state drive (SSD) technology to better understand the benefits to users and the impacts on the enterprise. We have initiated a proof of concept (PoC) study that includes extensive benchmark testing as well as deployment of notebooks with SSDs to the Intel workforce.

Posted: 27 May 2009 | Published: 05 Jan 2009

WHITE PAPER: Read this paper and get a look at how the next generation microarchitecture's dynamically scalable and design-scalable features directly contribute to power efficiency and performance.

Posted: 03 Apr 2009 | Published: 02 Apr 2009

WHITE PAPER: This white paper briefly describes PCI requirements, the benefits of compliance and the penalties for noncompliance.

Posted: 13 Feb 2009 | Published: 13 Feb 2009

WHITE PAPER: Small business firewall software and hardware firewalls are the methods used to protect computers against hacker attacks and other Internet threats.

Posted: 02 Feb 2009 | Published: 02 Feb 2009

WHITE PAPER: This white paper will discuss HP Data Protector Software which fully supports HP data deduplication technologies allowing you to recover files more quickly while reducing your data management and storage costs.

Posted: 10 Dec 2008 | Published: 10 Dec 2008

WHITE PAPER: This paper explains an approach to virtualization software that relies on the host operating system to provide the service to talk directly to the underlying hardware.

Posted: 10 Dec 2008 | Published: 11 Oct 2008

WHITE PAPER: This paper describes the technical limitations inherent in the architecture of traditional databases and other MPP (massive parallel processing) alternatives.

Posted: 09 Dec 2008 | Published: 09 Dec 2008

WHITE PAPER: Thinking about deploying Windows Vista? This guide gives an overview of how to successfully manage a pilot program that provides the best experience for pilot users and helps to provide positive project justification to business decision makers.

Posted: 26 Nov 2008 | Published: 26 Nov 2008

WHITE PAPER: In this paper Intel IT explores a proof of concept study that examined the viability of abstracting the client operating system from the hardware platform using virtualization.

Posted: 21 Nov 2008 | Published: 21 Nov 2008

WHITE PAPER: VMware Infrastructure is transforming the way disaster recovery is done today and in the future; it changes the disaster recovery paradigm to one that is cost effective, rapid and reliable.

Posted: 20 Oct 2008 | Published: 18 Oct 2008

WHITE PAPER: Read this white paper to learn how the new Real Application Testing capabilities in the Oracle Database 11g allows database administrators to adapt to changes easily, lower their testing costs and reduce hardware and software investments.

Posted: 14 Oct 2008 | Published: 14 Oct 2008

WHITE PAPER: In this whitepaper learn how by combining technologies with NI Lab VIEW parallel programming software and NI TestStand test management software, test engineers can create high-performance test systems.

Posted: 16 Sep 2008 | Published: 16 Sep 2008

WHITE PAPER: This white paper explores the origins of the Programmable Automation Controllers (PAC), how PACs differ from Programmable Logic Controllers (PLC) and PCs, and the future direction of industrial control with PACs.

Posted: 16 Sep 2008 | Published: 16 Sep 2008

WHITE PAPER: While there are dozens of procurement software solutions available, there are really only two types offered: "on-premise" procurement software and newer "ondemand" procurement software. This paper outlines an approach to compute and compare them.

Posted: 10 Sep 2008 | Published: 10 Sep 2008

WHITE PAPER: This white paper describes a tested and validated storage solution for a 1000 mailbox Exchange Server 2007 environment with Local Continuous Replication (LCR) feature.

Posted: 27 Aug 2008 | Published: 27 Aug 2008

WHITE PAPER: This white paper describes a tested and validated storage solution for a 3000 mailbox Exchange 2007 environment with Single Copy Cluster in a high availability clustering mechanism based on the Microsoft Cluster Service shared storage.

Posted: 27 Aug 2008 | Published: 27 Aug 2008

WHITE PAPER: High density computing is today's standard in best-in-class performance and availability, and those that fail to keep pace or fall behind will find themselves no longer competitive in today's markets.

Posted: 11 Aug 2008 | Published: 01 Aug 2008

WHITE PAPER: Upgrades help businesses to maintain a competitive edge in the market. Yet, upgrades pose their own set of challenges. This white paper lists the best practices that should be followed when upgrading to achieve maximum reliability.

Posted: 10 Jul 2008 | Published: 16 May 2008

WHITE PAPER: This white paper captures the experiences of six large companies running SAP applications using IBM® System p™ virtualization.

Posted: 17 Jun 2008 | Published: 16 Jun 2010

WHITE PAPER: This white paper discusses how virtualization technology can help connect educators and students to applications and information from almost any device.

Posted: 12 Jun 2008 | Published: 01 Oct 2007

WHITE PAPER: This paper explains the disk options and their capabilities as well as the other new features in NetBackup 6.5 that make up the Enterprise Disk Foundation, also it provides guidance in choosing the appropriate disk options for your environment.

Posted: 03 Jun 2008 | Published: 01 Oct 2007

WHITE PAPER: This benchmark evaluates Oracle Internet Directory performance under scales and throughput rates representative of those encountered in production use in both the communications industry and as part of large scale delivery architectures.

Posted: 10 Apr 2008 | Published: 01 Mar 2008

WHITE PAPER: This paper discusses how Symantec Backup Exec System Recovery Restore Anyware can dramatically change the way organizations perform a wide range of IT tasks, including bare-metal system recovery and restoration to dissimilar hardware.

Posted: 20 Mar 2008 | Published: 01 Dec 2007

WHITE PAPER: This paper provides the data needed to understand the options and the limitations for implementing remote replication solutions on a clustered HP server and storage area network (SAN)-based storage infrastructure.

Posted: 12 Mar 2008 | Published: 01 Jan 2008