Data Center Management Reports

EBOOK: In this eBook the SearchCIO.com team discusses how Data Protection encompasses a host of technologies, business processes and best practices. Government regulations threaten dire consequences for noncompliance, and compromised data quickly becomes a public relations and customer retention issue.

Posted: 22 Apr 2009 | Published: 22 Apr 2009

PRESENTATION TRANSCRIPT: VMware's virtual infrastructure has become the de-facto approach used across the storage industry today for server consolidation. When coupled with Data Domain's backup to disk storage, it provides a compelling solution to consolidate and simplify backup and recovery for VMware environments.

Posted: 20 Apr 2009 | Published: 20 Apr 2009

IT BRIEFING: To gain full value of virtualization, you need servers that are built to handle the heavy and ever-changing demands of a virtualized and consolidated computing environment. To help you get maximum benefits from virtualization, Intel has built a better physical server platform with unique hardware-assist features to enhance the virtual data center.

Posted: 20 Apr 2009 | Published: 20 Apr 2009

IT BRIEFING: By replacing aging single-core processor-based servers with new, more energy-efficient servers, you can gain capacity to grow and to increase IT performance using fewer servers. The estimated cost savings from energy and other operating cost efficiencies can pay for new servers in a an estimated 8 months.

Posted: 20 Apr 2009 | Published: 20 Apr 2009

WHITE PAPER: Intel IT planned, engineered, and has implemented a virtualized business-computing production environment. This multi-year initiative has confirmed virtualization benefits including server consolidation ratios between 10:1 and 16:1, faster deployment, and faster recovery. This white paper explains how they implemented virtualization.

Posted: 17 Apr 2009 | Published: 02 Apr 2008

WHITE PAPER: Recognizing the need for easy-to-manage, eco-friendly, and scalable storage solutions that deliver exceptional business value, Sun created the Sun™ Storage 7000 Unified Storage Systems. These systems incorporate an open-systems approach that selects superior general-purpose servers and storage components.

Posted: 16 Apr 2009 | Published: 16 Apr 2009

PRESENTATION TRANSCRIPT: Despite the growth of remote backup over the network, tape is still a key element in disaster recovery (DR) plans. In this podcast, Pierre Dorion, data center practice director at Long View Systems Inc., answers common tape backup questions as they relate to DR.

Posted: 14 Apr 2009 | Published: 14 Apr 2009

CASE STUDY: In the event of a disaster, Raycom needed to be able to minimize downtime and recover their systems quickly. Read this case study and discover how Replay AppImage can restore Exchange data and provide reliable backup.

Posted: 14 Apr 2009 | Published: 10 Apr 2009

EZINE: Data replication has taken center stage in hot storage technologies and is a fundamental component of DR and backup and recovery operations. This issue's cover story explores where best to deploy replication: in the array, network or servers. Plus, check out features on power-smart disk systems, value-based data protection, deduplication...

Posted: 13 Apr 2009 | Published: 01 Apr 2009

PRESENTATION TRANSCRIPT: This transcript examines the respective challenges that accompany virtualization and green IT initiatives. Learn specific best practices that will enable your business to lower Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) and accelerate ROI.

Posted: 10 Apr 2009 | Published: 10 Apr 2009

CASE STUDY: Before implementing AppAssure's MailRetriever, Imagine's Exchange environment suffered unrecoverable corruption. During the ensuing downtime, the network administrators searched for a better backup solution. Imagine Schools now relies on MailRetriever for Exchange to backup Exchange, SQL servers, and school Web sites.

Posted: 09 Apr 2009 | Published: 09 Apr 2009

WHITE PAPER: This whitepaper is about enterprise architecture as it pertains to finding and maximizing the business value in greener operations. Higher energy efficiency and a smaller carbon footprint are obvious areas of interest for any business, but how do you balance these goals with productivity, customer service, and all your other business concerns?

Posted: 09 Apr 2009 | Published: 31 Dec 2008

CASE STUDY: In this case study learn how Intel® processor-based blade servers helped TIBCO Software keep up with business growth while lowering IT costs.

Posted: 08 Apr 2009 | Published: 01 Dec 2008

PRESENTATION TRANSCRIPT: Read this Presentation Transcript to learn how to build a dynamic IT infrastructure and pro-actively manage your data center.

Posted: 07 Apr 2009 | Published: 07 Apr 2009

PRESENTATION TRANSCRIPT: This segment begins with an explanation of how long to store backups to get the maximum benefit of deduplication, and then discusses the appropriate frequency of full backups.

Posted: 07 Apr 2009 | Published: 07 Apr 2009

EZINE: In this month's issue of Virtual Data Center, learn how to reduce the number of physical servers even more by focusing on the process of virtual machine placement on host servers.

Posted: 06 Apr 2009 | Published: 06 Apr 2009

PRODUCT LITERATURE: This whitepaper covers the newest processor series from Intel. The Xeon 5500 processor series may dramatically improve on the efficiency of IT infrastructures and provide unmatched business capabilities for today's data centers.

Posted: 02 Apr 2009 | Published: 02 Apr 2009

PRODUCT OVERVIEW: Enter the HP Solutions Demo portal for an interactive flash demo and overview on FalconStor CDP with HP Solutions.

Posted: 02 Apr 2009 | Published: 02 Apr 2009

WHITE PAPER: Intel IT offers guidelines for achieving quick returns and long term value with Intel vPro technology based on our experience in the first year of a multi-year deployment program.

Posted: 02 Apr 2009 | Published: 30 Dec 2008

WHITE PAPER: In this ROI investigation , HSBC Mexico can look forward to driving improved operating efficiencies across their IT support model, with a projected positive ROI of 605% and a break-even point achieved in 2 months, while serving as a foundation to drive worldwide adoption and savings through the use of Intel vPro technology.

Posted: 02 Apr 2009 | Published: 02 Apr 2009

PRESENTATION TRANSCRIPT: Knowledge of data protection and backup planning procedures can make selecting an appropriate data protection strategy less complicated. This presentation transcript details re-architecting your data protection processes with data deduplication; Additionally, it highlights a solution that provides superior protection and substantial paybacks.

Posted: 20 Mar 2009 | Published: 20 Mar 2009

PRESENTATION TRANSCRIPT: Knowledge of data protection and backup planning procedures can make selecting an appropriate data protection strategy less complicated. This presentation transcript details re-architecting your data protection processes with data deduplication; Additionally, it highlights a solution that provides superior protection and substantial paybacks.

Posted: 20 Mar 2009 | Published: 20 Mar 2009

TECHNICAL ARTICLE: Learn the powerful set of capabilities for offloading datacenter infrastructure that Citrix NetScaler provides, offering a quick, low-cost way for organizations to cut their web server count by 50 to 60 percent or more.

Posted: 20 Mar 2009 | Published: 08 Jun 2010

EBOOK: Enterprise CIOs are adopting green IT and other new technologies to improve data center efficiencies. In this ebook learn more about how IT organizations are using green IT, virtualization, storage capacity planning and even cloud computing to realize energy savings and lower hardware and power costs in the data center.

Posted: 19 Mar 2009 | Published: 19 Mar 2009

EGUIDE: In this E-Guide learn how Microsoft Hyper-V fits into the server virtualization landscape, with insight on exactly what Hyper-V has to offer, and analysis of how the Microsoft technology stacks up against the competition.

Posted: 18 Mar 2009 | Published: 17 Dec 2008