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Working Smart in IT Operations: The Case for Consolidated Operations
sponsored by Hewlett-Packard Company
 | White Paper: | Posted: 26 Jun 2009
| | Published: | 01 Oct 2008 | |
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This paper explores the problems IT operations can encounter in coordinating the activities of application and infrastructure specialist teams, and it proposes an approach-- consolidated operations-- designed to get incidents to the right person with the right information fast so problems can be resolved quickly, with no duplication of effort.
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Five Myths of Infrastructure Monitoring: How End-User Monitoring Can Help You Improve Customer Satisfaction
sponsored by Hewlett-Packard Company
| White Paper: | Posted: 26 Jun 2009
| | Published: | 01 May 2008 | |
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This paper discusses some of the common myths about infrastructure monitoring, and addresses how to ensure your infrastructure monitoring is responsive enough to satisfy and retain your customers.
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The Evolving Role of Disk and Tape in the Data Center
sponsored by Hewlett-Packard Company
| White Paper: | Posted: 23 Jun 2009
| | Published: | 01 Jun 2009 | |
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This whitepaper describes five best practices for backup and long-term data protection and explores the aspects of disk and tape solutions that, when combined into a disk-to-disk-to-tape solution, provide the most robust answer to backup and archival for the data center.
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Open Source in the Next Computing Wave
sponsored by Red Hat
| White Paper: | Posted: 18 Jun 2009
| | Published: | 09 Jan 2009 | |
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The current economic climate is forcing more systematic thinking about costs in general, including those associated with overall complexity and the security and resiliency of large distributed infrastructures. These trends intersect in powerful ways; a new wave of computing is gathering momentum as a result. And open source is playing a major role.
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Tackle the Challenges of Virtualization Management
sponsored by BMC Software, Inc
| White Paper: | Posted: 17 Jun 2009
| | Published: | 15 Jun 2009 | |
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Virtualization adds a whole new level of complexity to the IT infrastructure, introducing new challenges in every step of the process - from planning to configuration and management. Read how effective service management can help tackle the challenges of virtualization in this white paper from BMC Software.
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Five Steps to Gaining Control and Managing Complexity in the Data Center through Service Automation
sponsored by BMC Software, Inc
| White Paper: | Posted: 15 Jun 2009
| | Published: | 15 Jun 2009 | |
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Automating your data center can improve operational efficiency and give you control over service quality, security, and business agility, while simultaneously reducing risk and costs. Learn how five simple steps can help you chart your course to automation and show you how to develop a deliberate and well-planned incremental approach.
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Data Center Automation - Facing the Air of Change
sponsored by Wipro Technologies
| White Paper: | Posted: 12 Jun 2009
| | Published: | 12 Jun 2009 | |
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Many IT organizations still perform a majority of Data Center administration tasks manually. Today, manual techniques are obsolete as Information Technology is required to manage complex multivendor infrastructures cost-effectively. There is one way to meet this challenge and that is Automation.
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Embracing the Cloud: Top Seven Imperatives for an Organization
sponsored by Wipro Technologies
| White Paper: | Posted: 12 Jun 2009
| | Published: | 01 Mar 2009 | |
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This paper analyzes the impact of the cloud on the IT Ecosystem and provides answers to what an organization needs to do in embracing a right cloud strategy.
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Data Deduplication Background - A Technical White Paper
sponsored by Quantum Corporation
| White Paper: | Posted: 10 Jun 2009
| | Published: | 10 Jun 2009 | |
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The purpose of data deduplication is to increase the amount of information that can be stored on disk arrays and to increase the effective amount of data that can be transmitted over networks. Read this white paper to learn more about data deduplication as well as Quantum Dxi-Series disk-based backup solutions.
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Advancing Integration of Microsoft Hyper-V and Dell EqualLogic Virtualized SANs
sponsored by Dell and Microsoft
| White Paper: | Posted: 09 Jun 2009
| | Published: | 09 Jun 2009 | |
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This paper will discuss the importance of an enterprise-class storage infrastructure as you migrate to a virtualized data center. Dell™ EqualLogic™ PS Series Internet SCSI (iSCSI) storage area network (SAN) arrays enable advanced integration with the robust server virtualization.
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The Importance of a Single Platform for Data Integration and Quality Management
sponsored by SAP America Inc
| White Paper: | Posted: 08 Jun 2009
| | Published: | 08 Jun 2009 | |
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This paper examines the evolution of the data integration and quality industry, and explains the benefits of moving toward a single data services architecture. It outlines requirements for a software platform for supporting such an architecture, and, as an example, reviews the BusinessObjects“ Data Services XI Release 3 platform.
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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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SUN SPARC® ENTERPRISE! M4000, M5000, M8000, AND M9000 SERVER ARCHITECTURE: Flexible, Mainframe-Class Compute Power
sponsored by Sun Microsystems, Inc.
| White Paper: | Posted: 05 Jun 2009
| | Published: | 01 Jul 2008 | |
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Sun SPARC® Enterprise M4000, M5000, M8000, and M9000 servers are highly reliable, easy to manage, vertically-scalable systems with many of the benefits of traditional mainframes - without the associated cost, complexity, or vendor lock-in.
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REDUCING COSTS THROUGH BETTER SERVER UTILIZATION: An IT Director's Guide
sponsored by Sun Microsystems, Inc.
| White Paper: | Posted: 04 Jun 2009
| | Published: | 01 Mar 2009 | |
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Keeping datacenters agile is key as IT organizations support dynamically changing business priorities and cope with economic pressures. By consolidating systems onto the latest server technology and taking advantage of virtualization techniques, enterprises can optimize datacenter efficiency, gain flexibility, and reduce operating costs.
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SUN SPARC® ENTERPRISE T5120, T5220, T5140, AND T5240 SERVER ARCHITECTURE: Unleashing the UltraSPARC® T2 and UltraSPARC T2 Plus Processors with CoolThreads™ Technology
sponsored by Sun Microsystems, Inc.
| White Paper: | Posted: 04 Jun 2009
| | Published: | 01 Apr 2008 | |
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Employing the UltraSPARC® T2 and UltraSPARC T2 Plus processors - the industry's first massively threaded Systems on a Chip (SoC) - Sun SPARC®
Enterprise T5120/T5220 and T5140/T5240 servers offer breakthrough performance and energy efficiency to drive Web 2.0 infrastructure and address other demanding datacenter challenges.
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