WHITE PAPER:   Posted: July 8, 2008 | Published: January 1, 2008
Server virtualization is one such technology that provides liquidity to IT by delivering improved hardware utilization, physical server consolidation, increased availability and lower data center operating costs.

WEBCAST:   Posted: June 30, 2008 | When: June 30, 2008
In this webcast, analyst Joe Clabby will describe the common data center capacity planning problems IT organizations encounter. New developments in data center power management are covered in this webcast.

PODCAST:   Posted: June 30, 2008 | Premiered: June 30, 2008
In this audiocast, we interview analyst Joe Clabby about capacity planning challenges and improving capacity planning through better power management.

EDITORIAL RESOURCE GUIDE:   Posted: June 27, 2008 | Published: June 27, 2008
Managing storage capacity is a major problem for many organizations these days. Read this eGuide for a number of expert articles and tips that focus on how channel professionals can help their clients effectively address their storage capacity problems.

VIDEOCAST:   Posted: June 23, 2008 | When: June 23, 2008
Greg Schulz, Founder and a Senior Analyst for the StorageIO Group, discusses Storage Services and Managed Services and how both can contribute to the bottom line for channel companies.

VIDEOCAST:   Posted: June 20, 2008 | When: June 20, 2008
Chris Wolf talks about the tools that are used to increase virtual server performance. Later, virtualization platform decision points are covered with emphasis on OS and application compatibility and support, high availability, automation and management.

VIDEOCAST:   Posted: June 20, 2008 | When: June 20, 2008
In this final session, Wolf discusses application selection, focusing on using chargebacks to counter physical storage challenges. He gives network architecture examples, offers some CPU considerations, and tackles issues with heterogeneous VM management.

WHITE PAPER:   Posted: June 19, 2008 | Published: January 1, 2008
This document, takes a brief look at the problems that traditional storage creates in a virtual server environment, and examines how an ideal set of storage virtualization capabilities could address those problems.

VIDEOCAST:   Posted: June 19, 2008 | When: June 20, 2008
In this first session, Wolf introduces principles of virtual infrastructure optimization and covers virtual machine placement optimization and bottleneck identification.

WHITE PAPER:   Posted: June 18, 2008 | Published: May 12, 2008
Learn how HP Storage Essentials can deliver real-time visibility into current use and help you plan for the future.

WHITE PAPER:   Posted: June 11, 2008 | Published: June 10, 2008
This white paper explores what data center managers can do to replenish the power reservoir and at the same time continue to support business growth with an ever-expanding and power-hungry compute infrastructure.

WHITE PAPER:   Posted: June 11, 2008 | Published: June 1, 2008
IDC believes that a true datacenter transformation is taking place and that IT organizations will continue to consolidate the number of sites and number of supported systems and will increasingly place greater emphasis on energy efficiency. This will c...

BOOK:   Posted: June 10, 2008 | Published: June 1, 2008
This chapter provides details about how organizations should monitor their virtual systems to ensure reliability, performance, and uptime.

WHITE PAPER:   Posted: June 5, 2008 | Published: May 1, 2008
Demand Management (DM) is a component of a full-featured Project Portfolio Management (PPM) practice. Demand comes from many sources and all phases of the project lifecycle. Capacity management must consider all of these.

WHITE PAPER:   Posted: June 3, 2008 | Published: June 1, 2008
There has been much discussion about the valuable benefits of CoS; however, there are also common myths, which unless challenged, can impact the success of CoS implementation, this paper exposes the common misconceptions of what CoS can...