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Five Steps to Successful Data Center Consolidation
sponsored by BMC Software, Inc
 | White Paper: | Posted: 15 Jun 2009
| | Published: | 15 Jun 2009 | |
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Using the five step process outlined in this white paper, we were able to eliminate more than 2,000 servers from our own IT infrastructure, saving an estimated $10 million dollars in data center costs.
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Increase Application Scalability and Improve System Utilization with Sun™ Logical Domains
sponsored by Sun Microsystems, Inc.
| White Paper: | Posted: 05 Jun 2009
| | Published: | 01 May 2009 | |
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Sun's built-in, no-cost Logical Domains (LDoms) virtualization technology allows applications to effectively leverage these processors. This white paper describes how LDoms can be applied in different scenarios to increase application scalability and system utilization.
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Integrated Infrastructure and Performance Management for Virtualized Environments
sponsored by CA
| White Paper: | Posted: 29 Apr 2009
| | Published: | 01 Apr 2009 | |
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Enterprises, government agencies and service providers are increasingly employing virtualized environments to decrease costs, consolidate data center space and reduce environmental impacts. This paper describes a comprehensive set of CA tools for managing virtual environments.
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BMC Enhances its Performance Assurance for Mainframes solution
sponsored by BMC Software, Inc
| White Paper: | Posted: 17 Apr 2009
| | Published: | 17 Apr 2009 | |
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This research brief examines the new release of the BMC Performance Assurance for Mainframes product. We assess its overall significance and describe the reaction of two early users.
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Data Center Projects: System Planning
sponsored by APC
| White Paper: | Posted: 04 Feb 2009
| | Published: | 03 Feb 2009 | |
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The planning sequence described in this paper covers the design of the data center's physical infrastructure layer, whose job it is to house, power, cool, and protect the data center's computing and network functions.
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eBook: Capacity Planning Eases Path to Virtualization
sponsored by SearchCIO.com
| White Paper: | Posted: 10 Dec 2008
| | Published: | 10 Dec 2008 | |
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Virtualizing any aspect of your data center changes the game for compliance and e-discovery.
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Data Center Projects: Growth Model
sponsored by APC
| White Paper: | Posted: 21 Nov 2008
| | Published: | 20 Nov 2008 | |
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Long term data center or network room capacity planning may seem impossible in the face of evolving IT technology and business requirements. This paper shows a simple and effective way to develop a capacity plan for a data center or network room.
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The Future Carrier Network: Adopting New Outsourcing Business Models
sponsored by Alcatel-Lucent
| White Paper: | Posted: 17 Nov 2008
| | Published: | 17 Nov 2008 | |
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This paper is meant to help operators embrace a new strategy for differentiating and competing successfully in a market characterized
by flux.
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How to Implement Chargeback in a Virtualized Data Center Using the Resource Consumption Model
sponsored by VKernel
| White Paper: | Posted: 27 Feb 2008
| | Published: | 01 Feb 2008 | |
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When IT professionals make massive investments in the virtualized data center, financial controls to contain sprawl and maintain control are essential. This white paper shows you how to do so by implementing chargeback.
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How to Resolve Capacity Bottlenecks and Ensure Great Performance in Your VMware ESX Environment
sponsored by VKernel
| White Paper: | Posted: 26 Feb 2008
| | Published: | 01 Feb 2008 | |
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In virtualized data centers, the fact that all applications and users can impact each other combined with a lack of resource monitoring can cause poor performance and even system downtime. This white paper provides a formula to avoid these problems.
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Eliminating Tape and Trucks from the Disaster Recovery Process
sponsored by Data Domain
| White Paper: | Posted: 30 Aug 2007
| | Published: | 29 Sep 2008 | |
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This whitepaper explores the limitations of tape and traditional disk-based approaches to disaster recovery. It highlights the advantages of deduplication technology in disk-to-disk backup and wide area network (WAN) replication. It also discusses the positive implications of deduplication for remote office backup and tape consolidation.
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Data Center Projects: Establishing a Floor Plan
sponsored by APC
| White Paper: | Posted: 22 Jun 2007
| | Published: | 01 Jun 2007 | |
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A floor plan strongly affects the power density capability and electrical efficiency of a data center. This paper provides structured floor plan guidelines for defining room layouts and for establishing IT equipment layouts within existing rooms.
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Data Center Projects: Standardized Process
sponsored by APC
| White Paper: | Posted: 21 Jun 2007
| | Published: | 01 Jun 2007 | |
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This paper covers projects involving new construction or upgrades to the data center’s physical infrastructure - the power, cooling, and other physical systems that house and protect the data center’s IT equipment.
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Capacity on Demand