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A Guide to Systems Planning for Data Center Management sponsored by Schneider Electric WHITE PAPER: In this paper, you will learn how to eliminate systems planning problems with an orderly sequence of tasks that progressively transform and refine information from initial concept to final data center design. Posted: 04 Feb 2009 \| Published: 03 Feb 2009 TOPICS: Capacity Planning \| Data Center Design \| Data Center Management \| Hardware Configuration Management \| Hardware Management \| Infrastructure Management \| Storage Management \| Systems Design and Development

Ten Critical Success Factors for CRM: Lessons Learned from Successful Implementations sponsored by Oracle Corporation WHITE PAPER: Customer relationship management (CRM) deployments can be complex and difficult. This white paper provides a checklist of the ten critical success factors for organizations to follow to avoid common pitfalls as they design and deploy their CRM system. Posted: 16 Jan 2007 \| Published: 01 Aug 2006 TOPICS: Business IT Alignment \| CRM \| CRM Best Practices \| Information Technology End Users \| ROI \| Systems Design and Development \| Vendor Selection

Smarter system development: a systems engineering trade study to support green initiatives with model-driven development sponsored by IBM WHITE PAPER: Trade study analysis is an effective method of comparing potential solutions to a given problem. Using a model-driven approach allows you to perform trade studies before development or implementation begins and saves time, money, and development headaches. Read on to learn more. Posted: 14 May 2009 \| Published: 01 Apr 2009 TOPICS: Analytic Applications Software \| Decision Support Systems \| Model Driven Architecture \| Program Management \| Project Management \| Software \| Systems Design and Development

Cisco Interconnect Solutions for HP BladeSystem c-Class sponsored by Hewlett Packard Enterprise WHITE PAPER: The latest switch technology allows you to cut down on the amount of physical assets, reduce problem resolution times and ensure information security and regulatory compliance in the data center. Posted: 29 Jun 2007 \| Published: 01 Jun 2007 TOPICS: Blade Servers \| Capacity Planning \| Data Center Management \| Network Security \| Regulatory Compliance \| Server Consolidation \| Storage Management \| Systems Design and Development

Aligning Business and IT through Connected Requirements: Unifying the Development Process sponsored by IBM WHITE PAPER: Check out this white paper to learn how the connected-requirements approach serves as the framework for the use of products and technologies that are designed to allow you to optimize team performance, align the development process with your organization's business goals and meet auditing and regulatory compliance requirements. Posted: 20 Feb 2009 \| Published: 01 Oct 2008 TOPICS: Application Development \| Business IT Alignment \| Configuration Management \| HIPAA \| Performance Testing \| Sarbanes-Oxley Compliance \| Software Best Practices \| Software Development Tools

Software and Services Financing sponsored by IBM WHITE PAPER: Financing information technology hardware is an accepted way of doing business. Clients are discovering the benefits of financing software and services and are making financing of software and services one of the fastest-growing segments of the IT financing industry. This paper explains the importance of aligning financing with IT transformation. Posted: 18 Feb 2009 \| Published: 18 Feb 2009 TOPICS: Financing \| Hardware Selection \| IT Best Practices \| IT Infrastructure \| IT Spending \| Software Licensing \| Software Selection \| Software Upgrades

Using Virtualization and Digital Control Technologies to Increase Data Center Operating Efficiency sponsored by Emerson Network Power WHITE PAPER: In this paper, learn about tools being developed to balance workload and improve thermal management in the data center. Access now to discover predictive information - combined with server virtualization, a service-oriented architecture and digital power and operating system controls - can optimize operating efficiencies and reduce costs by 20-30%. Posted: 07 Jul 2009 \| Published: 07 Jul 2009 TOPICS: Capacity Planning \| Data Center Consolidation \| Data Center Infrastructure Efficiency \| Data Center Power Management \| Data Centers \| Digital Asset Management \| Energy Efficiency \| Network Capacity \| Operating Equipment Efficiency or Effectiveness (OEE) \| RAS (Reliability, Availability, Serviceability) \| Server Virtualization \| SOA \| Storage Capacity \| Workload Automation

Getting Started with Microsoft Windows Server 2008 Hyper-V on Dell Servers sponsored by Dell EMC and Microsoft WHITE PAPER: This article provides an introduction to Hyper-V virtualization, discusses the overall architecture and underlying technologies, and offers guidance on best practices for deployment on Dell PowerEdge servers. Posted: 11 Dec 2008 \| Published: 11 Dec 2008 TOPICS: Best Practices \| Data Center Management \| DHCP \| Enterprise \| High Availability \| Operating Systems \| SAN \| Server Virtualization \| Virtual Machine Monitor \| VMware

Energy Logic: Reducing Data Center Energy Consumption by Creating Savings That Cascade Across Systems sponsored by Emerson Network Power WHITE PAPER: Learn how Emerson Network Power's Energy Logic, a vendor-neutral roadmap for optimizing data center energy efficiency, can deliver a 50% or greater reduction in energy consumption without compromising performance or availability. Posted: 08 Aug 2013 \| Published: 07 Jul 2009 TOPICS: Cooling Capacity \| Data Center Consolidation \| Data Center Cooling \| Data Center Infrastructure Efficiency \| Data Center Power Management \| Energy Efficiency \| Network Management \| Power Consumption Monitoring \| RAS (Reliability, Availability, Serviceability) \| Server Consolidation \| Storage Consolidation

Dell Storage Solutions Guide for Microsoft Hyper-V sponsored by Dell EMC and Microsoft WHITE PAPER: This guide primarily focused on storage arrays based on their support for key virtualization features, such as high availability and virtual machine migration. Posted: 11 Dec 2008 \| Published: 11 Dec 2008 TOPICS: Best Practices \| Enterprise \| High Availability \| RAID \| Storage Devices \| Storage Virtualization \| Virtual Machine Monitor \| VM