Research Papers

EGUIDE - In this informative Pocket Guide, brought to you by SearchServerVirtualization.com, Dell and VMware, learn more about the virtual management tools on the market and their functionality. Discover which product capabilities organizations should consider when evaluating virtual infrastructure management technologies.
Posted: June 22, 2009 | Published: June 22, 2009


Topics:  Disaster Recovery | Hardware | Project Management | Server Consolidation | Server Management | Server Provisioning | Server Virtualization | Server Virtualization Software | Service Creation Tools | VMware

EGUIDE - In this Pocket Guide, brought to you by SearchServerVirtualization.com, Dell and VMware, discover the central tasks in the assessment and planning stages of a virtualization project.
Posted: June 22, 2009 | Published: June 22, 2009


Topics:  Disaster Recovery | Hardware | Hardware Configuration Management | Project Management | Server Consolidation | Server Provisioning | Server Virtualization | VMware

PRODUCT OVERVIEW - Put state-of-the-art intelligence to work on the challenges of tomorrow by running Red Hat Enterprise Linux on the latest Intel® Xeon® processors. Red Hat's open source, commercial-strength innovation delivers optimized results for performance, energy efficiency, and advanced virtualization on Intel platforms, all at an affordable price.
Posted: June 19, 2009 | Published: June 1, 2009


Topics:  Hardware | Linux | Open Source | Open Source Software | Server Consolidation | Server Hardware | Server Virtualization

WHITE PAPER - This is the second paper in a four-part series of sponsored white papers from IDS that examine the business benefits that midsize firms can archive by deploying next-generation IT solutions. The series sponsored by Sun Microsystems and AMD describes server solutions from Sun that are based on the new Quad-Core AMD Opteron processors.
Posted: June 2, 2009 | Published: April 1, 2009


Topics:  Business Intelligence | Business Management | Data Center Design | Hardware | Infrastructure Management | ROI | Server Hardware | Server Management

WHITE PAPER - This is the third paper in a four-part series of sponsored white papers from IDC that examines the business benefits midsize firms can achieve by deploying next-generation IT solutions. The series, sponsored by Sun Microsystems and AMD, describes server solutions from Sun that are based on the new Quad-Core AMD Opteron processor.
Posted: June 2, 2009 | Published: April 1, 2009


Topics:  Data Center Design | Data Center Management | Hardware | Server Management | Server Virtualization | SMBs | Systems Integration | Systems Management

WHITE PAPER - This is the fourth paper in a four-part series of sponsored white papers from IDC that examines the business benefits that midsize firms can achieve by deploying next-generation IT solutions. The series, sponsored by Sun Microsystems and AMD, describes server solutions from Sun that are based on the new Quad-Core AMD Opteron processor.
Posted: June 2, 2009 | Published: April 1, 2009


Topics:  Business Development | Business Management | Hardware | Infrastructure Management | Middleware | ROI | SMBs | Systems Management

WHITE PAPER - This is the first paper in a four-part series of sponsored white papers from IDC that examines the business benefits that midsize firms can achieve by deploying next-generation IT solutions. The series, sponsored by Sun Microsystems and AMD, describes server solutions from Sun that are based on the new Quad-Core AMD Opteron processor.
Posted: June 2, 2009 | Published: April 1, 2009


Topics:  Business Development | Business Intelligence | Hardware | Middleware | Midrange Server Hardware | Processor Architectures | Server Management | SMBs

VIDEO - In this video, Intel IT explains the benefits we've seen from using Intel Solid State Drives in our environment, including gains in productivity and reliability, and savings in energy costs. We also show a demo comparison between a laptop with a SSD and a conventional hard drive.
Posted: May 27, 2009 | Premiered: April 6, 2009


Topics:  Disk Drives | Hard Disk Drives | Hard Disks | Hardware | Hardware Management | Solid State Disks

WHITE PAPER - Intel IT is evaluating solid-state drive (SSD) technology to better understand the benefits to users and the impacts on the enterprise. We have initiated a proof of concept (PoC) study that includes extensive benchmark testing as well as deployment of notebooks with SSDs to the Intel workforce.
Posted: May 27, 2009 | Published: January 5, 2009


Topics:  Hard Disk Drives | Hard Disks | Hardware | Remote Access Hardware | Remote Access Security | Remote Network Management | Solid State Disks

CASE STUDY - Researchers found that by creating a dynamic IT environment- standardized, centralized, automated, and mobile-California can achieve a greener, more secure computing complex that improves productivity, delivering greater efficiency at a lower cost to taxpayers and the environment.
Posted: May 27, 2009 | Published: May 27, 2009


Topics:  Government Agencies (U.S.) | Government Information Security | Green Data Center | Hard Disks | Hardware | Mobile Device Management | Mobile Workers | Solid State Disks

WEBCAST - In this webcast, Microsoft MVP Greg Shields offers up some best practices for each of these areas when working with Hyper-V. Here you'll learn how high levels of performance can be achieved during the Hyper-V installation process, as well as some key prerequisites and "gotchas" to be aware of when creating backups with Hyper-V.
Posted: May 22, 2009 | Premiered: May 22, 2009


Topics:  Blade Servers | Hardware | Server Consolidation | Server Hardware | Server Management | Server Virtualization | Storage Virtualization | Systems Management | Windows | Windows Server Software

PRODUCT LITERATURE - These slides offer a broad overview of some common compliance topics and an overview of the Hardware Security Model that can help address current security issues.
Posted: May 21, 2009 | Published: May 14, 2009


Topics:  Compliance (Systems Operations) | Hardware | Regulatory Compliance | Security | Security Audits | Security Hardware

WEBCAST - Who says world-class high performance computing (HPC) should be reserved for large research centers? Watch this webinar to discover the power, flexibility, and ease-of-use offered in the Cray CX1™, personal supercomputing available in a deskside system.
Posted: April 29, 2009 | Premiered: April 29, 2009


Topics:  Blade Servers | Business Intelligence | Clustering | Computer Hardware | Data Integration | Hardware | Hardware Selection | High Performance Computing | Parallel Processing | Supercomputers | Workgroups

VIDEO - The new Intel® Xeon® 5500 Series of processors have new instructions and features. There are new SSE instructions as well as counters that allow users to monitor several operations. There are 4 programmable and 3 fixed counters that give better visibility into applications and help identify data bottlenecks.
Posted: April 29, 2009 | Premiered: April 29, 2009


Topics:  Hardware | Hardware Configuration Management | Processor Architectures | Server Consolidation | Server Hardware | Server Management | Server Virtualization | SQL

VIDEO - Currently when OpenSolaris is idle it is really energy efficient. Despite this, there is actually background activity that does exist. The majority of this background noise is from a clock feature that fires periodically, 100 times a second that does all sorts of house keeping such as tick processing and clocks.
Posted: April 29, 2009 | Premiered: April 29, 2009


Topics:  Hardware | Hardware Configuration Management | Hardware Engineering | Server Accelerators | Server Appliances | Server Hardware | Server Provisioning | Solaris | SQL