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The Tangible Value of Server Virtualization
sponsored by Dell India
 | White Paper: | Posted: 29 Sep 2009
| | Published: | 17 Dec 2007 | |
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Virtualization is more than just a concept-- it is a concrete business strategy that can provide tangible value for companies in virtually any industry. Read this paper to learn more about Dell's virtual infrastructure solutions.
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Optimizing the Data Center for Cost and Efficiency
sponsored by Dell India
| White Paper: | Posted: 29 Sep 2009
| | Published: | 14 Apr 2009 | |
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The current state of the datacenter demands a transformation that helps in improving space utilization and lowering power consumption while still providing the scale and availability the business requires. Read this report to learn how your organization can optimize data center efficiency and lower costs.
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Getting Virtualisation Right: Five Virtualisation Rules Every Organisation Must Know
sponsored by Hewlett-Packard Company
| White Paper: | Posted: 29 Sep 2009
| | Published: | 20 Aug 2009 | |
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HP has identified five common virtualisation rules employed by organisations that have succeeded where others have not. While technology differs in complexity and scale from one business to the next, nearly every successful organisation deployed the same five rules to realise the full potential of virtualisation.
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Consolidating Multiple Oracle OLTP Workloads on the Dell PowerEdge R710 Server
sponsored by Dell, Inc. and Intel
| White Paper: | Posted: 24 Sep 2009
| | Published: | 01 Jul 2009 | |
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The goal of this study is to determine if a multi?node Oracle RAC cluster can be replaced with a cluster consisting of fewer Dell PowerEdge 11G nodes (powered by Intel® Xeon® processor 5500 Series), and still process the OLTP workload faster with less power consumption and lower Oracle RAC licensing fees. Read this white paper to learn more.
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vSphere Virtual Infrastructure Business Ready Solutions for the R610 and R710 PowerEdge Servers
sponsored by Dell, Inc. and Intel
| White Paper: | Posted: 24 Sep 2009
| | Published: | 01 Jul 2009 | |
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This white paper presents a sample Dell solution -- using the Dell R610 and R710 PowerEdge Servers (powered by Intel® Xeon® processor 5500 Series) -- designed to tolerate faults at multiple infrastructure layers to provide maximum level of availability for the virtual infrastructure.
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Storage Virtualization with the HP StorageWorks
sponsored by Hewlett-Packard Company
| White Paper: | Posted: 24 Sep 2009
| | Published: | 01 Sep 2009 | |
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The most powerful application of virtualization today is at the storage system level. With the HP StorageWorks Enterprise Virtual Array and HP StorageWorks SAN Virtualization Services platform, organizations can take advantage of the many benefits of virtualization with a solution designed specifically for open systems.
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Improving IT Economics with Storage and Server Virtualization
sponsored by Hewlett-Packard Company
| White Paper: | Posted: 23 Sep 2009
| | Published: | 20 May 2009 | |
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This white paper describes the powerful combination of HP StorageWorks SVSP storage virtualization solution with server virtualization products to produce a more dynamic IT infrastructure that improves efficiencies and simplifies operations.
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Microsoft Exchange Server 2007: Performance on VMware vSphere™ 4
sponsored by Global Knowledge
| White Paper: | Posted: 21 Sep 2009
| | Published: | 21 Sep 2009 | |
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Increased adoption of VMware infrastructure and continued performance advances in hardware and software have driven the virtualization of Microsoft Exchange. This paper will detail experiments that demonstrate the efficient performance and scalability of Exchange when running inside a virtual machine on a VMware vSphere™ 4 environment.
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What's New in VMware vSphere™ 4: Virtual Networking
sponsored by Global Knowledge
| White Paper: | Posted: 21 Sep 2009
| | Published: | 21 Sep 2009 | |
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VMware vSphere™ introduces a number of new features and capabilities to virtual networking under VMware® vNetwork. vNetwork is the new name to describe the collection of networking technologies for optimally integrating networking and I/O functionality into vSphere.
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Best Practices for Deploying an SAP Landscape Using the c3000 Blade Enclosure and the EVA4400
sponsored by Avnet, HP and Partners
| White Paper: | Posted: 18 Sep 2009
| | Published: | 18 Sep 2008 | |
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Discover best practices for deploying a 250-user/250-GB three-tiered SAP ERP landscape in an HP BladeSystem c3000 blade enclosure with HP ProLiant BL460c blade servers running Microsoft® Windows® Server 2003, an HP StorageWorks Enterprise Virtual Array (EVA) 4400 disk array, and an Ultrium 448c tape blade with HP Data Protector software.
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Three Steps to Improving Server Virtualization ROI with everRun
sponsored by Marathon Technologies
| White Paper: | Posted: 18 Sep 2009
| | Published: | 18 Sep 2009 | |
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Server virtualization offers a tremendous opportunity for cost savings in the data center. This paper will give three steps you can take to dramatically improve your cost savings from server virtualization as well as show how companies are using Marathon's everRun software to implement those steps.
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Increasing Reliability and Availability in a Virtualized SQL Server Environment
sponsored by Marathon Technologies
| White Paper: | Posted: 18 Sep 2009
| | Published: | 18 Sep 2009 | |
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As companies continue to consolidate and look for best possible uses of both existing and new computer hardware, nowhere is this more apparent than server management. This paper will provide you some best practices and key success stories that you can use in designing and implementing your own virtualized SQL environment.
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Leaping Forward: SQL Server 2008 Compared to Oracle Database 11g
sponsored by Microsoft
| White Paper: | Posted: 18 Sep 2009
| | Published: | 17 Jul 2008 | |
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Microsoft SQL Server has steadily gained ground on other database systems and now surpasses the competition in terms of performance, scalability, security, developer productivity. This paper highlights some of the mission-critical areas in which SQL Server 2008 excels.
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Reassessing Server Costs for Mid-Size Companies
sponsored by Sun Microsystems, Inc. and Intel Corporation
| White Paper: | Posted: 17 Sep 2009
| | Published: | 17 Sep 2009 | |
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This paper argues that while the current economic climate might suggest delaying data center upgrades, the opposite will save you money. Learn how upgrading to Sun Fire servers can put more on your bottom line.
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The Solaris Operating System – Optimized for the Intel® Xeon® Processor 5500 Series
sponsored by Sun Microsystems, Inc. and Intel Corporation
| White Paper: | Posted: 17 Sep 2009
| | Published: | 30 Mar 2009 | |
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This document is intended as a quick reference guide for developers and system administrators that want to optimize the Solaris™ OS on the Intel® Xeon® processor 5500 series platform.
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Exchange Virtualization |
Operating System Virtualization |
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