WHITE PAPER - This paper examines the trends towards server consolidation and virtualization, and how wide-area data services can help IT organizations address the challenges of application performance and information availability within these environments.
Posted: October 3, 2008 | Published: October 3, 2008


Topics:  Application Infrastructure | Application Integration | CIOs | Databases | Disaster Recovery | Infrastructure Management | Server Consolidation | Server Virtualization

WHITE PAPER - This document explains essential attributes of email archiving, which aids in managing mail server growth, meeting compliance standards, and managing system usage.
Posted: October 1, 2008 | Published: September 30, 2008


Topics:  Email Archiving | Email Archiving Software | Records Management | Records Management Software | Regulatory Compliance | Server Consolidation | Systems Integration | Systems Maintenance

WHITE PAPER - This white paper seeks to help application owners, operations managers and data center managers ensure their virtualization initiatives effectively support applications and end users.
Posted: September 18, 2008 | Published: September 18, 2008


Topics:  Business Continuity Planning | Disaster Recovery | Downtime | Server Consolidation | Server Management | Server Virtualization | Server Virtualization Software

WHITE PAPER - In many corporations, network management practices are out of date. New tools and approaches are needed. In this white paper IT departments are advise to change from reactive to proactive and become more vigorous in the process of network management.
Posted: September 17, 2008 | Published: September 17, 2008


Topics:  Network Management | Security | Server Consolidation | Server Virtualization | Systems Management | Systems Management Software | WAN

WHITE PAPER - Are the virtualization challenges you face typical? This white paper draws upon a survey of your IT peers to show the typical obstacles and progress of IT shops around virtualization (e.g. technical complexities, skill set deficiencies, and cost control).
Posted: September 16, 2008 | Published: September 16, 2008


Topics:  CIOs | Data Center Management | Disaster Recovery | Enterprise | ROI | Server Consolidation | Server Virtualization | Storage Virtualization | TCO | Testing

WHITE PAPER - Cassatt Active Power Management technology continually optimizes power consumption based on the time of day, demand, curtailments imposed by power companies, or other facilities-based events.
Posted: September 15, 2008 | Published: March 15, 2008


Topics:  Best Practices | Data Center Management | Data Centers | Server Consolidation | Server Virtualization | Software Configuration Management

WHITE PAPER - This white paper explores a completely new approach to availability for virtual machines-an approach recognized with the Best of VMworld 2007 - New Technology award.
Posted: September 9, 2008 | Published: September 8, 2008


Topics:  Clustering | Disaster Recovery | Downtime | Grid Computing | IT Managers | Server Consolidation | Server Virtualization | Windows

WHITE PAPER - This paper summarizes the benefits and challenges of traditional virtualization strategies, the advantages of Sun's approach, and the core capabilities of the Sun xVM portfolio.
Posted: September 8, 2008 | Published: September 8, 2008


Topics:  Authentication | Data Centers | Disaster Recovery | Interoperability | Server Consolidation | Server Virtualization | Server Virtualization Software | Storage Systems

WHITE PAPER - Next-generation PC X server requirements fall into one broad category: the ability to support today's remote, distributed, highly collaborative business environments.
Posted: September 2, 2008 | Published: August 29, 2008


Topics:  Authentication | Data Center Management | Encryption Standards | Security | Server Consolidation | UNIX

WHITE PAPER - This paper discusses the problems associated with SQL Server sprawl and explains how to solve the problems by consolidating SQL Servers.
Posted: August 5, 2008 | Published: March 24, 2008


Topics:  Database Administration | Database Management | Relational Database Management Software | Server Consolidation | Server Virtualization | SQL Server

WHITE PAPER - Server virtualization has easily identifiable benefits that are strongly aligned with organizations expectations and business drivers. View this survey to learn about the tremendous growth of virtualization and the significant challenges that lay ahead.
Posted: July 29, 2008 | Published: June 1, 2007


Topics:  Cost Benefit Analysis | Networking | Server Consolidation | Server Virtualization | Server Virtualization Software | Systems Implementation

WHITE PAPER - As enterprises deploy more virtualization solutions that are scattered across the enterprise, managing the technologies is challenging for IT staffs. This paper will outline the unified management of virtualized systems using one management tool.
Posted: July 29, 2008 | Published: November 1, 2006


Topics:  Capacity on Demand | Capacity Planning | Data Integration | Network Infrastructure | Networking | Server Consolidation | Server Virtualization | Server Virtualization Software

WHITE PAPER - High-density rack-mounted servers reduce space, cooling, networking, cabling, and management costs - as well as total power consumption - compared to low-density configurations having far few servers per rack.
Posted: July 24, 2008 | Published: October 1, 2007


Topics:  Data Centers | Financial Services | Information Security | Productivity | Server Consolidation | TCO | UPS

WHITE PAPER - Before you can deploy server virtualization in the data center, you need a broad vision of how the process will work. Read this white paper for a step-by-step guide for virtualization planning, implementation, and management. Topics covered include...
Posted: July 18, 2008 | Published: May 14, 2007


Topics:  Data Centers | Disaster Recovery | Fibre Channel | Network Infrastructure | Operating Systems | SAN | Server Consolidation | Server Virtualization | VMware

WHITE PAPER - This report outlines the state of current server virtualization data protection and recovery approaches, while also keeping an eye on the future. Numerous improvements in virtualization data protection are on the horizon, and with creative use...
Posted: July 18, 2008 | Published: August 1, 2007


Topics:  Continuous Data Protection | Data Centers | Enterprise | Fibre Channel | Server Consolidation | Server Virtualization | Virtual Machine Monitor | Virtual Offices | VMware