EGUIDE:
The goal of every data center admin has been to simplify hardware platforms while increasing operational agility. Blade server architecture is the reigning champion, but the rising superstar that is hyper-converged infrastructure is aiming to take the crown. Access this e-guide to see which will one you should put your money on.
WHITE PAPER:
This white paper explains why more and more companies are adopting a unified approach to data centre management and offers detailed guidance to help them address concerns over capacity planning, application performance, server sprawl, and more.
WHITE PAPER:
Read this case study and see how the latest IBM System x and BladeCenter servers powered with the new energy efficient Intel Xeon 5500 series processors offer tremendous opportunity for reducing energy consumption, shrinking your data center footprint and lowering operational costs.
CASE STUDY:
When Opus Interactive needed to provide customers with a cost-efficient, highly available pay-as-you-grow server and storage model, they turned to HP ProLiant server blades, the HP LeftHand P4000 SAN, and VMware. As a result there was 75% reduction in customer cost per server and higher availability.
WHITE PAPER:
This white paper describes the virtualization of a given user workload, and provides a useful sizing guide for enterprise deployments of VMware View™ 4, the VMware software platform for building a virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI) environment.
VIDEO:
Blade servers are great for businesses that require much larger computing capacity for performance-intensive business-critical applications. Blade Servers allow your business to add significant performance in an energy efficient and easily managed form factor. Learn more about Dell PowerEdge Blade Servers in this video.
WHITE PAPER:
The System x eX5 family provides not only the performance, but also the flexibility necessary to address businesses most pressing needs: Performance and cost savings, all in one package. This white paper shows how listening to customers priorities helped the IBM System x team achieve their goal.
WHITE PAPER:
This Intel paper analyzes the effects of various factors on the utilization of the primary server resources: compute, memory and I/O. The analysis shows that 4-socket servers, which provide greater headroom than 2-socket servers, may be preferable in a number of situations.
WHITE PAPER:
This white paper explains how data center needs have changed over the last five years and discusses the reasons why management of virtualized compute, network, and storage access should be integrated. Discover the vision behind a private cloud and learn how to avoid making common mistakes as you prepare for this new IT model.