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Server hardware choices: Virtualization increases challenges by Dell and Microsoft
Richard Jones provide insight on overcoming server selection issues. You can't achieve the improved scalability and availability by implementing virtualization if you don't choose the appropriate server platform for your project. Indeed, selecting the appropriate platform requires considering a variety of factors so that the workload can meet designated...
eGuide: SQL Server Consolidation - An IT Manager's Guide by Hewlett-Packard Company
SQL Servers, also provides insight on why SQL Server consolidation is an optimization technique. For years, SQL Server consolidation has been a widely used strategy. As servers have become more powerful, they can handle more services on a single piece of hardware. With the introduction of multi-core processors a few years ago, servers with the same number...
Tackling the Virtualization Chargeback Challenge by VKernel
chargeback model of users paying for physical server hardware simply no longer works. In the new virtual datacenter where all hardware is shared, IT organizations must charge users for the resources they actually consume (CPU, memory, storage and network). VKernel's Chargeback Virtual Appliance allows IT to provide its end user departments with instant reports about...
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...
Technology Assessment: The Impact of Virtualization Software on Operating Environments by VMware, Inc.
to consider, IDC examines the different types of hardware virtualization as well as new technology drivers and business goals...
BladeCenter HS 12 and JS 12 Video by IBM
Find out how the IBM BladeCenter HS12 and JS12 deliver availability, scalability and redundancy by watching this video. Extend the benefits of BladeCenter beyond the data center.

Don't let your servers take over your office. The cost-effective IBM BladeCenter HS12 and JS12 blades enable you to neatly consolidate multiple servers into a...
NetApp and VMware Virtual Infrastructure 3 Storage Best Practices by NetApp
guidelines for the FAS systems and ESX Server. These techniques have been documented and are referred to as best practices. This technical report describes them...
Security Implications of the Virtualized DataCenter by F5 Networks
resources as if it were natively running on the hardware platform, oblivious to the fact that it's being managed by an additional component, called the VMM (Virtual Machine Monitor), or hypervisor. The more standard forms of virtualization today, such as those by VMware, implement transparent hypervisor systems. These systems can be thought of as proxies...
Better Business Continuity with VMware Virtual Infrastructure by Hewlett-Packard Company
downtime by eliminating most scheduled hardware maintenance outages. VMware's groundbreaking VMotion™ technology allows IT administrators to move running virtual machines (software containers that hold a complete operating system and applications) from one physical server to another without downtime. This capability makes it possible to conduct...
Hyper-V Deployment and Best Practices by Microsoft
capabilities built into Windows Server 2008. It offers an overview of system requirements, and best practices for successful depl... Server virtualization, also known as hardware virtualization, is a hot topic in the IT world because of the potential for serious economic benefits. Server virtualization enables multiple operating systems to...
Dell Solutions Overview Guide for Microsoft Hyper-V by Dell, Inc.
your environment. The Hyper-V role in Windows Server 2008 is comprised of several components, including the following:

  • Hypervisor
  • Parent and Child partitions
  • Virtual Machines and Guest Operating Systems
  • Synthetic and Emulated devices
  • Integration Services

The Hyper-V hypervisor is the core component of Hyper-V and is responsible for creating and...
Performance Evaluation and Certification of Oracle VM Server from the Tolly Group by Oracle Corporation
delivers performance on par with a bare-metal server without the expense of deploying and supporting additional hardware. Report Confirms Oracle VM Delivers Exceptional Performance, Scalability and Efficiency.

After an extensive performance benchmark evaluation, Oracle VM server virtualization software is now certified by The Tolly Group, a...
Messaging Security Goes Virtual: Improve Email Security and Lower Costs with Virtual Appliances by Proofpoint, Inc.
without having to invest a dime in additional hardware translates into huge cost savings. Savings not only in terms of hardware costs ... It doesn't take a degree in accounting to understand that the ability to increase server and storage capacity without having to invest a dime in additional hardware translates into huge cost savings. Savings not only in terms of...
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...
Podcast: How to Green Your Data Center from the Server Out by Dell, Inc. and Intel
webcast and podcast, virtualization and blade server expert and industry analyst Barb Goldworm discusses the drivers, impacts, trends and economics of greener computing. Data center complexity and the ever-growing number of servers are the primary drivers of increased energy consumption, making them the most important targets for energy efficiency efforts. In...
Dell's Sponsorship of a LearningGuide on SearchDataCenter by Dell, Inc. and Intel
Blade servers are popular for virtualization and consolidation projects, but do the increased engineering headaches outweigh the benefits? This expert guide outlines trends, benefits, and drawbacks. Organizations are using blades increasingly for virtualization projects and data center consolidations. But for many data centers...
How to Green your Data Center from the Server Out by Dell, Inc. and Intel
In this webcast, virtualization and blade server expert and industry analyst Barb Goldworm discusses the drivers, impacts, trends and economics of greener computing. Data center complexity and the ever-growing number of servers are the primary drivers of increased energy consumption, making them the most important targets for energy efficiency efforts. In...
Maximizing IT Value by Using High-End Server Processors by Dell, Inc. and Intel
servers for design computing and enterprise server virtualization. Software acquisition and licensing costs are the largest drivers of TCO for server deployment in most IT shops. This white paper compares the performance of low- and high-end processors in enterprise and technical computing environments. You'll learn why servers that run on high-end processors...
Comprehensive Backup and Recovery of VMware Virtual Infrastructure Symantec BE 12.5 for Windows Server by Symantec Corporation
approaches that can be used to back up VMware ESX Server 3.x and its underlying components using Symantec Backup Exec 12.5 for Windows Servers and the Backup Exec Agent for VMware Virtual Infrastructure (AVVI). Server virtualization is quickly becoming a standard technology in many data centers today. While VMware augments hardware utilization significantly...
More Functionality, Less Infrastructure: Managed IT with Netboot/i by Double-Take Software
Read this paper to learn how the netBoot/i technology separates state from compute devices, allows them to run from iSCSI SAN, and provides 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...
Dell Transition Guide to Microsoft Windows Server 2008 by Dell, Inc.
Windows Server 2008 features simplified power management and offers power savings for the data center. Dell offers world-class Power and Cooling hardware solutions and is a leader in environmental strategies. Windows Server 2008 features simplified power management and offers power savings for the data center. Dell...
Hot Spots: Step One for DR: Server Virtualization by Storage Magazine
machine or a physical system with dissimilar hardware.

Another advantage is the ability to test DR more efficiently. Regular DR testing--confirming failover and failback processes, and testing documentation--is necessary to ensure DR preparedness. In server virtualization environments, DR tests can be performed on a virtual machine without affecting another...
Best Practices: Pull the Plug on High Energy Costs by Storage Magazine
off the existing electrical grid. To bring in new hardware, they have to unplug older hardware first, making the migration effort to updated hardware difficult and risky...
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Saving money on the mainframe in tough economic times by Wayne Kernochan, Contributor
In the early 1990s, the answer was to buy cheaper hardware; software and administration costs were much less important. In the early 2000s, software and administrative people costs were much more important, so the answer was to consolidate; running multiple workloads on the same machine, thus saving per-server software/hardware license costs... More...
The role of virtualization in data center disaster recovery by Richard Jones, VP and Service Director for Data Center Strategies, Burton Group

It seems that virtualization in the commodity server world continues to spread like wildfire. The return on investment (ROI) achieved through consolidation of older servers onto newer multi-core, multi-processor powerful servers is so compelling that many IT organizations cannot virtualize their servers fast enough.

I have talked to a... More...

Liquid cooling buyers' guide by Adam Trujillo, Assistant Editor
These are closed systems, meaning that the server environment is completely contained, which keeps the cooling from dissipating into the server room.

Rittal Liquid Cooling Packages: Has a useful cooling range from 30 to 37kW, depending on the environment, with a nominal cooling range listed at 30kW. Like systems of similar design, chilled... 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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