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White Paper Power Solutions Article: Getting Started with Microsoft Windows Server 2008 Hyper-V on Dell Servers Get an overview on Hyper-V virtualization, its architecture and underlying technologies, plus best practices for deployment on Dell PowerEdge servers.

Tags: Cloud Computing, Utility Computing, Storage Management, Storage, Software

Sponsored by: Dell EqualLogic
Date: November 2009
Dell EqualLogic
White Paper Edison Group, Comparative Management Costs Study: Oracle Database 11g vs. Microsoft SQL Server 2008 The results are in: Oracle Database can save your organization 43% in time and 41% in database management costs over Microsoft SQL Server 2008.

Tags: Data Management, Software, Oracle Database, Oracle Corp., Microsoft SQL Server 2008

Sponsored by: Oracle
Date: July 2009
Oracle
White Paper Five Steps to Successful IT Consolidation This Riverbed paper presents a clear 5-step approach to making sure every IT consolidation project is successful. (Riverbed)

Tags: Data Centers, Data Management, Hardware, Information Technology, IT Consolidation

Sponsored by: Riverbed
Date: March 2009
Riverbed
White Paper Sun Oracle Exadata Storage Server and Database Machine Discover how you can speed database performance, handle growth in scalable and incremental steps, deliver mission-critical data availability, and more.

Tags: Data Management, Storage Server, Storage, Software, Server

Sponsored by: Oracle
Date: January 2009
Oracle
White Paper Riverbed Raises the Ante Again in WAN Optimization with RiOS 5.0 Remote workers craving higher performance computing? See why Riverbed RiOS 5.0 offers functionality that puts it ahead of the WAN optimization pack.

Tags: Human Resources, Network Technology, Networking, Optimization, Performance Management

Sponsored by: Riverbed
Date: March 2008
Riverbed
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White Paper Infrastructure Consolidation Consolidation may be a key tool for realizing the goals of many organizations. In particular, if some form of consolidation advances the business goals of...

Tags: Consolidation, Dell Computer Corp., Infrastructure Consolidation

Company: Dell
Date: May 2009
Dell
White Paper Server Workload Analysis for Power Minimization Using Consolidation Server consolidation has emerged as a promising technique to reduce the energy costs of a data center. In this work, the author presents the first...

Tags: Analysis, Consolidation, Server

Company: IBM
Date: April 2009
IBM
White Paper Six Best Practices for Windows File Server Consolidation Is storage growth driving up costs in your data center? Are you looking for ways to simplify operations? Server consolidation can help. It can streamline...

Tags: Best Practice, Software, Servers, Server Consolidation, ONStor

Company: ONStor
Date: September 2006
ONStor
White Paper 8 Phases of a Successful Consolidation Initiative As organizations look to reduce the physical and environmental footprint of their IT operations, consolidation is a logical first step. However, a poorly planned or...

Tags: Data Center, Storage, Servers, Server Consolidation, PlateSpin Inc.

Company: PlateSpin
Date: August 2007
PlateSpin
White Paper Goal: Implement a Consolidation Strategy TeamQuest can help people build a roadmap for consolidation that will provide desired performance levels, efficiency gains, and cost savings. Their experts can guide them...

Tags: Consolidation, It Management, It service Management, Performance, Strategy

Company: TeamQuest
Date: June 2007
TeamQuest
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White Paper Server Consolidation Technologies - A Practical Guide This paper talks about server consolidation, which describes a variety of ways of reducing capital and operating expenses associated with running servers. Gartner research divides...

Tags: Consolidation Mean, Hardware, Leostream, Server Consolidation, Servers

Company: Leostream
Date: November 2002
Leostream
White Paper Achieving an Enterprise-wide View of Data through Database Consolidation While many organizations have undertaken IT consolidation projects in recent years, very few have completed database consolidations. But there are compelling reasons to do so....

Tags: Consolidation, Data Management, Databases, Enterprise Software, Hardware

Company: Hewlett-Packard (HP)
Date: November 2005
Hewlett-Packard (HP)
White Paper Consolidation and Virtualization: Business Strategy for a Successful Consolidation Implementation For all the incentives to enterprise consolidation, there are also some powerful lines of resistance to overcome. Because many organizations don't have a centralized IT...

Tags: Business Strategy, Consolidation, Datatec Ltd., Information Technology, Virtualization

Company: Datatec
Date: May 2007
Datatec
White Paper Maintain Fewer Servers - Overview: Nine Steps to Server Consolidation Increased automation, e-commerce, Web portals, and Internet traffic have contributed to a rapid growth of server infrastructure for many IT organizations. The result is a...

Tags: Hardware, Server Consolidation, Servers

Company: Microsoft
Microsoft
White Paper Tape Consolidation With the Sun Storagetek L1400 Tape Library - Achieving Midrange Storage Efficiencies: An Overview and Comparison With the Quantum Scalar i2000 This paper introduces general tape consolidation concepts and describes the Sun StorageTek L1400 tape library features that support consolidation. Consolidation benefits fall into three key...

Tags: Backups, Sun Microsystems Inc., StorageTek, Storage Management, Storage

Company: Sun Microsystems
Date: September 2007
Sun Microsystems
White Paper A Pragmatic Approach to Server and Data Center Consolidation This paper provides an overview of the factors driving consolidation initiatives and considers best practices for ensuring a successful consolidation initiative and a maximum return...

Tags: Consolidation Initiative, Servers, Server Consolidation, Roi/Tco, PlateSpin Inc.

Company: PlateSpin
Date: March 2007
PlateSpin
White Paper A Pragmatic Approach to Server and Data Center Consolidation This whitepaper provides an overview of the factors driving consolidation initiatives and considers best practices for ensuring a successful consolidation initiative and a maximum return...

Tags: Citrix Systems Inc., Servers, Server Consolidation, Roi/Tco, Managerial Accounting

Company: Citrix Systems
Date: September 2008
Citrix Systems
White Paper 8 Phases of a Successful Consolidation Initiative This white paper provides an overview of the factors driving server and data center consolidation and considers best practices for ensuring a successful consolidation initiative...

Tags: Data Center, Data Centers, Data Management, Hardware, Novell Inc.

Company: Novell
Date: May 2009
Novell
White Paper Energy Aware Consolidation for Cloud Computing Consolidation of applications in cloud computing environments presents a significant opportunity for energy optimization. As a first step toward enabling energy efficient consolidation, the paper...

Tags: Aware, Cloud Computing, Consolidation

Company: Microsoft
Date: September 2008
Microsoft
White Paper Database Consolidation: Reducing Cost and Complexity Database consolidation projects offer companies the hope of lower costs, greater ease of database administration, and the chance to improve the quality of their database...

Tags: Consolidation, Data Management, Database Consolidation, Databases, Enterprise Software

Company: Microsoft
Date: September 2004
Microsoft
White Paper IT Consolidation: Improved Agility for a New Era This white paper introduces HP’s concept of the “adaptive enterprise,” a model that enables companies to synchronize business and IT to capitalize on change. Because...

Tags: Hewlett-Packard Co., Information Technology, IT Consolidation, Management, Strategy

Company: Hewlett-Packard (HP)
Date: February 2004
Hewlett-Packard (HP)
White Paper Storage Consolidation: Moving From DAS to SAN/NAS The proliferation of on-line data and the need for instant access 24x7 has put pressure on IT professionals to do more with less. Consolidation is...

Tags: Dell Computer Corp., Hardware, NAS, SAN, Storage

Company: Dell
Date: August 2002
Dell
White Paper Microsoft SQL Server Consolidation: A Business Case Microsoft released the 64-bit version of its premier enterprise database, SQL Server 2000, in April 2003. The most successful workload for Microsoft SQL Server 2000...

Tags: Business Case, Servers, Microsoft SQL Server 2000, Microsoft SQL Server, Microsoft Corp.

Company: Hewlett-Packard (HP)
Date: August 2005
Hewlett-Packard (HP)
White Paper The 3 Barriers to IT Infrastructure Consolidation: A Focus on Government Organizations Your remote offices would grind to a halt if you consolidated their servers. In this free Riverbed Technology white paper, learn about the three critical...

Tags: Barrier, Information Technology, IT Infrastructure, IT Infrastructure Consolidation, Management

Company: Riverbed
Date: April 2006
Riverbed
White Paper IBM System p5 570 Server Consolidation Using POWER5 Virtualization This white paper describes how Micro-Partitioning can be employed on IBM System p5 570 servers for server consolidation. This paper includes an example consolidation scenario...

Tags: Hardware, IBM Corp., IBM POWER5, Server Consolidation, Servers

Company: IBM
Date: November 2006
IBM
White Paper An Examination of Server Consolidation: Trends That Can Drive Efficiencies and Help Businesses Gain a Competitive Edge This white paper provides a starting point for organizations contemplating server consolidation. It includes an overview of server consolidation concepts and techniques and provides guidance...

Tags: Hardware, Server Consolidation, Servers

Company: IBM
Date: December 2006
IBM
Webcast TechNet Webcast: Server Consolidation With SQL Server (Level 300) Microsoft SQL Server supports multiple options for server consolidation, providing organizations with the flexibility to choose the consolidation approach that best meets their requirements in...

Tags: Data Management, Software, Servers, Server Consolidation, Microsoft TechNet

Company: Microsoft
Microsoft
White Paper Virtual Hierarchies to Support Server Consolidation Server consolidation is becoming an increasingly popular technique to manage and utilize systems. This paper develops CMP memory systems for server consolidation where most sharing...

Tags: Desktop Virtualization, Hardware, Server Consolidation, Servers, Virtual Machine

Company: Association for Computing Machinery
Date: June 2007
Association for Computing Machinery
White Paper Xen and Server Consolidation Enterprises are witnessing a server sprawl as low cost x86 boxes make their way into datacenters. Application provisioning on dedicated servers and provisioning hardware capacity...

Tags: Cloud Computing, Virtualization Technology, Virtualization, Utility Computing, Storage Management

Company: Infosys Technologies
Date: December 2007
Infosys Technologies
White Paper An Evaluation of Server Consolidation Workloads for Multi-Core Designs While chip multiprocessors with ten or more cores will be feasible within a few years, the search for applications that fully exploit their attributes continues....

Tags: Hardware, Multi-core, Server Consolidation, Servers, University Of Wisconsin-Madison

Company: University of Wisconsin-Madison
Date: July 2007
University of Wisconsin-Madison
White Paper Analysis of Server Consolidation in the Data Center: VMware Vs. Virtuozzo The reduction of the physical number of servers in a modern-day IT organization, otherwise known as "server consolidation," is of utmost importance to IT managers,...

Tags: Analysis, Data Center, Hardware, Mainframes, Parallels Inc.

Company: Parallels (formerly SWsoft)
Date: April 2007
Parallels (formerly SWsoft)
White Paper Financial Consolidation, Reporting, and Analysis Solutions for Government Today's government agencies face a vast range of complex financial reporting and consolidation requirements - and ever-increasing scrutiny by auditors. Transaction systems such as Enterprise...

Tags: Analysis, Consolidation, Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP), Enterprise Software, Finance

Company: Oracle
Date: February 2008
Oracle
White Paper An examination of server consolidation: the trends that can drive efficiencies and help businesses gain a competitive edge This white paper provides a starting point for organizations contemplating server consolidation. It includes an overview of server consolidation concepts and techniques and provides guidance...

Tags: Hardware, Server Consolidation, Servers

Company: IBM
Date: June 2008
IBM
Webcast SQL Server Consolidation on VMware Many IT departments have a large and growing number of SQL Server instances in production, offering a great opportunity for consolidation and cost reduction. VMware...

Tags: Consolidation, Hardware, Microsoft SQL Server, Server, Virtualization

Company: VMware
Date: February 2009
VMware
White Paper Utility Analysis for Internet-Oriented Server Consolidation in VM-Based Data Centers Server consolidation based on virtualization technology will simplify system administration, reduce the cost of power and physical infrastructure, and improve utilization in today's Internet-service-oriented enterprise...

Tags: Analysis, Virtualization, Utility Computing, Storage Management, Storage

Company: Wayne State University
Date: July 2009
Wayne State University
White Paper Sun and VMware Solutions Guide for Windows Server Consolidation Designing a Windows server consolidation initiative creates a new set of challenges for the storage infrastructure - storage solutions must offer simplicity, performance, availability, and...

Tags: Consolidation, Sun Microsystems Inc., Storage, Software, Servers

Company: Sun Microsystems
Date: May 2009
Sun Microsystems
White Paper The FactPoint Group: 12 Ways Unified Threat Management Firewalls Are Driving Security Consolidation Just as virtualization has boosted server consolidation in data centers, so too are technology changes spurring consolidation of single-application security appliances on corporate networks Instead...

Tags: Consolidation, Security, Security Appliance, SonicWall, Threat Management

Company: SonicWALL
Date: July 2009
SonicWALL
White Paper ZDNet Make the Case: Business Case Template for Server Architecture Consolidation When new applications are adopted and implemented, the IT staff assumes responsibility for additional maintenance and backups, as well as any required testing. For large...

Tags: Business Case, Consolidation, Hardware, Management, Server Consolidation

Company: ZDNet
ZDNet
Webcast Server Consolidation/Virtual Server 2005 This webcast discusses strategies for server consolidation. The topics include heterogeneous and homogenous consolidation approaches, server sizing, virtualization technologies, and management tools.

Tags: Cloud Computing, Hardware, Server Consolidation, Servers, Storage

Company: Microsoft
Microsoft
White Paper HP IT Consolidation Solutions for Microsoft Environments This HP white paper explains how you can streamline operations and cut costs by consolidating your Microsoft environment. HP offers a variety of IT consolidation...

Tags: Environment, Hewlett-Packard Co., IT Consolidation, Microsoft Corp.

Company: Hewlett-Packard (HP)
Date: May 2005
Hewlett-Packard (HP)
Webcast Accelerating IT Consolidation with Blades and SANs HP has helped thousands of corporations successfully consolidate IT operations. This Webcast offers a review of HP's IT Consolidation solutions. Attend to learn how these...

Tags: Blade, Hewlett-Packard Co., Information Technology, Ip storage, IT Consolidation

Company: Hewlett-Packard (HP)
Date: March 2005
Hewlett-Packard (HP)
Case Study Database Consolidation Helps Insurance Company Increase Market Share This short case study from HP describes a data consolidation project undertaken by ING Comercial America, a Mexican company that is a leader in the...

Tags: Business Operations, Consolidation, Corporate Insurance, Database, Hardware

Company: Hewlett-Packard (HP)
Date: July 2004
Hewlett-Packard (HP)
White Paper IT Consolidation for Government Agencies While today’s imperative to do more with less is universal, achieving that goal can be especially difficult for IT leaders in the public sector. Take...

Tags: Agency, Government, Hewlett-Packard Co., Information Technology, IT Consolidation

Company: Hewlett-Packard (HP)
Date: March 2005
Hewlett-Packard (HP)
Download Visualize an Exchange 5.5 to 2003 migration and server consolidation with these Visio diagrams These Microsoft Visio diagrams illustrate a sample Exchange 5.5 to Exchange 2003 migration and server consolidation plan for an enterprise with 15,000 plus users and...

Tags: E-mail Servers, Servers, Server Consolidation, Migration, Microsoft Visio

Company: TechRepublic
Date: September 2005
TechRepublic
Case Study Case Study - Datacentre Consolidation at Ernst and Young Ernst & Young AG is one of Germany's leading certified accounting companies, and is part of Ernst & Young Global operations. The company decided to...

Tags: Consolidation, Ernst & Young LLP, Frankfurt, Management, Reed Business Information

Company: Reed Business Information
Reed Business Information

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