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BladeSystem: The business case for adopting HP Integrity server blades in the data center

Source:
Hewlett-Packard
Posted:
May 18, 2009

Blades are widely viewed as compact and efficient servers that primarily save space and power. However, the full story behind blades goes far beyond considerations of the individual server. Built from the ground up for tomorrow's IT demands, the HP BladeSystem represents the logical evolution of traditional rack-mount infrastructures. Based on HP's award-winning HP Integrity servers, HP ProLiant servers, and HP StorageWorks portfolio, a bladed architecture can accelerate the integration and transformation of your data center.
HP BladeSystem is an infrastructure in a box. With it, you can build vital business solutions that are more affordable, take less time to maintain, use less power, and are ready to grow with you. With its all-in-one
design, you have the essentials to build, maintain, and upgrade your infrastructure from start to finish giving
you the business agility you need today and throughout the lifecycle of your infrastructure.

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Optimizing Your Datacenter for Cost and Efficiency

Source:
Dell
Posted:
Jun 22, 2009

CIOs today have a two-pronged agenda of controlling costs and adding value to the business. They understand this means transforming the current datacenter, which requires a different way of sourcing, managing and deploying IT within their datacenter.

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JUNOS Software: The Power of One Operating System – Reduce Complexity, Achieve Operations Excellent, and Dynamically Deliver Services with Lower TCO

Source:
Juniper
Posted:
May 04, 2009

Juniper Networks JUNOS Software offers the power of one operating system to reduce complexity, achieve operational excellence, and dynamically deliver services with lower total cost of ownership (TCO). What sets JUNOS apart from other network operating systems is the way it is built-one operating system delivered in one software release train and with one modular architecture.

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A Single Network OS: Maximizing Operational Efficiency and Flexibility – Why Cutting Costs and Supporting New Apps Require a Single Network OS

Source:
Juniper
Posted:
May 04, 2009

Do you work in the Internal IT department of a Service Provider, responsible for inter/intra office networks, LAN's, Datacentres or network security? If so, read on. Our approach to solving complex Ethernet, IP and Network security challenges is unique, so unique you may not have heard about us! It's called the Power of one - a single operating system approach to Routing, Ethernet switching and Network Security. You may be thinking that can't be done - your current vendors approach is a Network OS per platform. Well, we have done it and have been doing it for many years, it's just that we have not talked to you about it. The benefit? Don't just listen to us, download this key report from Forrester Consulting on the benefits of a Single Network Operating System Approach.

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Rightsizing Blades for the Midmarket

Source:
IDC
Posted:
Apr 13, 2009

Learn the requirements for servers, storage, and blade systems and see the capabilities of the HP c3000. Discover some of the challenges and opportunities HP faces as it seeks to extend its innovative HP BladeSystem c-Class product line. This WP is a must read as blades are the new industry standard in your server storage solutions. Become more educated today.

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Five Ugly Truths about WAFS and Caching

Source:
Riverbed
Posted:
Apr 13, 2009

WAFS and caching are approaches used to accelerate specific applications. They sound good in theory - saving bandwidth and making files go faster over the WAN - but did you know there are serious limitations in the architecture of these approaches? This white paper will give you the real story on why WAFS and caching aren't the best approaches available for application acceleration.

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Rightsizing Blades for the Midmarket

Source:
IDC
Posted:
Apr 13, 2009

Learn the requirements for servers, storage, and blade systems and see the capabilities of the HP c3000. Discover some of the challenges and opportunities HP faces as it seeks to extend its innovative HP BladeSystem c-Class product line. This WP is a must read as blades are the new industry standard in your server storage solutions. Become more educated today.

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Server Virtualization for Small and Medium-sized Businesses

Source:
StoreVault
Posted:
Apr 13, 2009

This solution brief demonstrates how integrating StoreVault technologies in a virtual infrastructure can solve the unique challenges in¬herent with ESX deployments in the areas of storage utilization and management, data protection, and backups. This brief explains how simplifying your hardware and server applications with virtualization software provides key improvements to your IT environment. It also provides a simple overview of how to achieve these benefits of virtualization with a StoreVault.

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Building the Virtualized Enterprise with VMware Infrastructure

Source:
VMWare
Posted:
Apr 13, 2009

VMware virtualization software has been adopted by over 20,000 enterprise IT organizations worldwide. Contain server sprawl by running software applications in virtual machines on fewer, highly scalable, reliable enterprise-class servers. Consolidating underutilized servers lowers capital costs by reducing the need to buy additional hardware for new projects, and removing servers from the data center enables a proportional reduction in operational costs for power, cooling and floor space. This paper clarifies how adopting VMware infrastructure as a fundamental IT strategy helps organizations achieve their cost- and space-saving goals.

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Microsoft Dynamics RoleTailored Interface Business Productivity

Source:
Microsoft Dynamics
Posted:
Apr 13, 2009

The key to helping businesses become more agile and productive in the global economy is to empower individual workers -- giving them tools that improve efficiency and enable them to focus on the highest-value work.  And a new generation of software is an important ingredient to make this happen. Within the Microsoft Dynamics Research & Development group specifically, their implementation of this is the "RoleTailored approach." 

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Comparing Multi-Core Processors for Server Virtualization

Source:
Intel
Posted:
Apr 13, 2009

Intel IT shows better performance and lower costs running virtual servers on quad-core architecture. View the results of Intel IT testing of select multi-core processors and their potential role in Intel's data center server virtualization strategy.

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