Data Center Management Reports

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

EGUIDE: In this HP-sponsored E-guide, learn how virtualization and open source systems management tools better enable a data center to weather tight economic times. Discover why it is critical to scale back data center energy use to limit long-term capital expenditure.

Posted: 18 Mar 2009 | Published: 18 Mar 2009

EZINE: Read this month's issue to find out why it's time to rethink high availability (HA) strategies and how current virtualization tools can complement familiar high availabilities techniques.

Posted: 17 Mar 2009 | Published: 17 Mar 2009

DATA SHEET: To help companies reduce the costs of storing and managing inactive data, Iron Mountain has created an enterprise-class cloud-based storage archive service, the Virtual File Store (VFS). The VFS service is part of Iron Mountain's Storage-as-a-Service portfolio, which includes email management/archiving, eDiscovery, and data backup/recovery.

Posted: 16 Mar 2009 | Published: 16 Mar 2009

WEBCAST: Forrester Consulting recently conducted primary customer research to determine how the global economic downturn would affect IT priorities and technology deployments in 2009 and how these changes...

Posted: 16 Mar 2009 | Premiered: Mar 31, 2009