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Hot Spots: Tap Virtual Servers, Storage for All They're Worth by Storage Magazine
could throw a monkey wrench into virtual server environments, but there are alternatives to traditional methods. It's no secret that virtualization services are proliferating in the data center. Server virtualization has become one of the most significant agents of change in today's IT shop. In addition to enabling far greater server utilization rates, this...
Oracle VM and NetApp Storage-Best Practices Guide by Oracle Corporation
share resources like servers, storage, and networking. This combination helps reduce power and space requirements. This white paper reviews a virtualization strategy that leverages grid technology to dynamically share resources like servers, storage, and networking among different enterprise applications. The combination of server...
IBM BladeCenter S - Big Benefits for the Small Office by IBM
in a small office. It integrates servers, storage, networking and I/O into a single chassis, which uses a standard electrical outlet... IBM BladeCenter S offers big benefits for the small office

The all-in-one configuration of the IBM BladeCenter S makes it a perfect fit in a small office. It integrates servers, storage, networking and I/O into a single chassis, which...
Breakthroughs in Enterprise Server Architecture by Dell, Inc. and Intel
Can your data center support current and future server, storage, networking, and management technologies? This white paper reviews a modular server enclosure that incorporates the latest advances in power, cooling, I/O, and... Does your data center have the capability to support current and future server, storage, networking, and management...
A Holistic View of Virtualization in the Data Center by Agilysys-Sun Technology Solutions
Each type of virtualization - server, storage, desktop, application, and network - offers its own ROI. Learn about features and benefits of the five main types of virtualization to cater your virtualization strategy to your organization. This webcast will show you how to look at the big picture of your data center and prioritize to select an appropriate...
A Three-step Approach to Enterprise-wide Virtualization by Insight and Sun Microsystems, Inc
Data center growth has led to sprawling server, storage, and supporting infrastructure. This white paper describes how to achieve better utilization and more eco-efficient systems by combining the energy-efficient systems with virtualization technologies. Virtualization's benefits are obvious, but deploying it across the enterprise can be challenging. This...
Transform Your Data Center Into An Energy-Efficient Operation by Insight and Sun Microsystems, Inc
Data center growth has led to sprawling server, storage, and supporting infrastructure. This white paper describes how to achieve better utilization and more eco-efficient systems energy-efficient systems with virtualization technologies. Data center growth in number of users, applications, and data, have all led to sprawling server, storage, and supporting...
Where Are You Going with Virtualization? Next Steps in Technology by CDW Corporation
to watch. They include blade servers, storage area networks, more robust management tools, optimized hardware and input/output virtualization. This white paper briefy explores each
Oracle Real Application Clusters in Oracle VM Environments by Oracle Corporation
This white paper explains how to run sophisticated or highly-available applications in virtualized environments by creating a software-based virtualization infrastructure that offers high availability and grid readiness. Running sophisticated or highly-available applications in virtualized environments has been a challenge...
Rightsizing Blades for the Midmarket by Hewlett-Packard Company
Already accounting for nearly 10% of all server shipments, blades are expected to grow to represent more than 25% of server shipments by 2011.

For all this success, however, blades have been primarily limited to large-scale deployments into the enterprise market because they can help alleviate the power and cooling and space constraints felt by large...
Dell PowerVault MD 3000i Configuration Guide for VMware ESX Server Software by Dell, Inc.
The Dell PowerVault MD3000i storage solution consists of a standard or high availability configuration. This whitepaper provides instructions to setup the MD3000i iSCSI storage solution for usage with VMware ESX Server software. The Dell™ PowerVault™ MD3000i storage solution consists of a standard or high availability configuration...
Combining Storage and Server Virtualization by LSI Corporation
virtualization product with VMware's server virtualization product. This white paper describes the powerful combination of StoreAge SVM storage virtualization product with VMware's server virtualization product. The rapid proliferation of server virtualization technologies and especially VMware, is due to the value of easily consolidating...
Storage and networking hardware considerations for virtualized environments by NetApp
Servers are the primary hardware medium for server virtualization-but what other hardware components do you need for a successful deployment? This Q&A session from VMworld 2008 reviews the role of storage and network hardware in a virtualized environment. Servers are the primary hardware medium for server virtualization-but what other hardware components...
Disaster Recovery for Remote Offices: It's Easier to Get Right Than You May Have Thought by Overland Storage
must provide a strategy for long-term offsite storage of backups to protect against disasters. Because remote offices have limited IT resources and personnel, the solutions must also be easy to set up and use.

The Overland Storage® Snap Server® family of NAS storage servers deliver solutions that provide the right-sized hardware and software to protect...
Hot Spots: Managing Storage in a Virtual Server World by Storage Magazine
reap the benefits of virtualization. Server virtualization is quickly becoming the norm in data centers. The ability to host several operating systems and applications on a single server cuts capital costs for new equipment, and the reduction in physical servers helps trim the power and cooling, floor space and number of people required to keep them...
IDC: Business Value of Virtualized IT: Ensuring That Your Virtualized Servers and Storage Work in Harmony by Citrix
with the movement from a nonvirtualized server infrastructure to a server infrastructure where hypervisor technology is an integral component of the overall system architecture. The expansion in the range of applications and server environments that companies are deploying will have a significant effect on how they set up their datacenters...
Storage Bin 2.0: Virtualization: It's Not Just for Breakfast Anymore by Storage Magazine
is still higher on the food chain, but storage virtualization will have its day. A lot of storage types are put off by the overwhelming hoopla that's been generated by VMware and server virtualization. That's because storage intellectuals feel that it's unfair for server virtualization to get all of this attention considering application and...
Disaster Recovery Planning for VMware Virtualized Environments by Hewlett-Packard Company
virtualized servers and other topics. VMware server virtualization is being touted as a near panacea for disaster recovery (DR) by making it easier than ever to recover servers to a secondary site. But, just as virtual servers complicate backup procedures, server virtualization has an impact on storage infrastructures and may require tweaking disaster recovery...
Virtual DR: Disaster Recovery Planning for VMware Virtualized Environments by Storage Decisions and i365, A Seagate Company
VMware server virtualization is being touted as a near panacea for DR by making it easier than ever to recover servers to a secondary site. VMware server virtualization is being touted as a near panacea for DR by making it easier than ever to recover servers to a secondary site. But, just as virtual servers complicate backup...
Podcast: Reducing Storage Costs in a Virtual Server Environment: Seven Questions and Answers by Forsythe Technology Inc.
This podcast highlights server virtualization and shows solutions for dramatically improving the efficiency of backup applications. Server virtualization continues its momentum in mainstream IT operations. While it appears server virtualization is everywhere, it still represents less than 12% of all installed servers. Customers...
Reducing Storage Costs in a Virtual Server Environment: Seven Questions and Answers by Forsythe Technology Inc.
This videocast highlights server virtualization and shows solutions for dramatically improving the efficiency of backup applications. Server virtualization continues its momentum in mainstream IT operations. While it appears server virtualization is everywhere, it still represents less than 12% of all installed servers. Customers...
eBook - Chapter 2: Planning Your Server Room by Dell, Inc. and Intel
2008) discusses the physical aspects of server installation and topics include what a server room should contain, installation efficiency, and environmental factors. Server installations of all sizes can benefit from a dedicated server room. But proper planning must include more than simply equipment and space. Chapter 2 of Windows Servers and Storage...
More Functionality, Less Infrastructure: Managed IT with Netboot/i by Double-Take Software
many benefits to an organization. Storage has been evolving throughout the history of computer systems. Storing both operating system state and data within the computer caused management challenges such as storage over provisioning, data duplication as well as expensive and ineffective backup solutions. Shifting data storage to Storage Area...
Sun Microsystems How to Migrate from Microsoft Exchange 2000/2003 to Exchange Server 2007 by Incentra Solutions
for a typical migration to Microsoft Exchange Server 2007 along with a few critical considerations before the deployment takes place. This guide documents the process for a typical migration to Microsoft Exchange Server 2007 along with a few critical considerations before the deployment takes place.

Although Microsoft has made recommendations based on the...
Clustered Storage: From SMB, to Scientific, to File Serving, to Commercial, Social Networking and Web 2.0 by Storage Decisions and i365, A Seagate Company
Clustered Storage is useful for server and storage consolidation without introducing bottlenecks or excessive energy consumption while enabling modular growth. Clustered Storage is useful for server and storage consolidation without introducing bottlenecks or excessive energy consumption while enabling modular...
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Mainframes playing catch up: Open source advantages surpass traditional programming by Wayne Kernochan, Contributor
Metamatrix via the Red Hat acquisition), storage management (Sun OpenSolaris open storage solutions), and business process management (Intalio), open source is now an important part of the landscape.

Moreover, open source is not just a collection of software; it's a new development process that emphasizes testing from the start of the... More...

Economizer performance: Applying CFD modeling to the data center's exterior by David Seger and Andy Solberg, Contributors
Protection Agency, in its Report to Congress on Server and Data Center Energy Efficiency, recommends the development of "systems and guidelines for reliable use of outside air economizers." The report also acknowledges the need to develop a "scientific understanding of the impact of environmental conditions (temperature, humidity... More...
Is your disaster recovery plan out of date? by Richard Jones, VP and Service Director for Data Center Strategies, Burton Group
technology provider. A customer had lost its email server (hardware failure including losing the disks). The customer stood up a new server and proceeded to restore the system from tape backup. The restored system failed to come up, indicating that the email database was corrupt. They restored the email database again and again but to no avail. They... More...
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After Transitive acquisition, will IBM shed translation software beneficial to competition? by Bridget Botelho, News Writer
the story; email Bridget Botelho, News Writer. And check out our data center blogs: Server Farming, Mainframe Propellerhead, and Data Center Facilities Pro.

IBM plans to acquire Transitive Corp., whose translation software enables applications to run on various combinations of CPU and OS. But will IBM continue to enable translation for non-IBM x86... More...
Running Linux and z/OS on a single mainframe poses no problem by Mark Fontecchio, Nes Writer
and even more so with the z10 it introduced this year, IBM has promoted big iron as a server consolidation savior – in particular, for x86 Linux server consolidation.

In the same vein, IBM has hardly been shy about supporting a Linux-only mainframe in which hundreds or even thousands of virtual Linux servers run on z/VM, along with a bunch of Integrated... More...

AMD releases 45-nm Shanghai Opteron processor on schedule by Bridget Botelho, News Writer
and is more cost-effective, said Burke Banda, the product marketing manager of AMD's Server and Workstation Division.

In addition, Shanghai's release comes on schedule with it's processor roadmap, which signals AMD's effort to get back on track after a public drubbing following the release of Barcelona and a subsequent discovery of errors in the processor.

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