September 02, 2011 - (Free Research) A network-centric approach to providing security in the data center delivers benefits such as scalability, unified security policy definition and enforcement, visibility into application traffic, and reduced operations overhead.
April 18, 2012 - (Free Research) This paper outlines a system that includes industry-leading capabilities at the infrastructure management level. Read on to discover how this option offers the potential to transform the server, storage and network infrastructures that support SAP enterprise environments and allows organizations to extend common management services to non-SAP apps.
August 01, 2009 - (Free Research) The Mercury platform leverages a hybrid-core architecture that delivers the highest performance available in mid-range systems. Employing field programmable gate arrays (FPGAs) and traditional multi-core processors, this architecture separates data movement and management processes that normally compete for system resources.
August 01, 2008 - (Free Research) The BlueArc Mercury™ Server is a next generation network storage platform that consolidates capacity across multiple applications and simplifies storage management for businesses with mid-range storage requirements - without compromising performance and scalability.
October 25, 2011 - (Free Research) This is a presentation transcript of "Creating A Dynamic Data Center; Best Practices For Integrating A Virtualized Server Infrastructure Into Your Network." The presentation discusses trends evolving in the data center, adopting new operating models, data center virtualization, cloud computing and more.
April 02, 2010 - (Free Research) Today’s traditional IT model suffers from resources located in different, unrelated silos—leading to low utilization and gross inefficiency. Enterprise servers reside in one area of the data center and network switches and storage arrays in another. This document describes the design of - and the rationale behind - the Secure Cloud Architecture.
December 20, 2010 - (Free Research) The following report contains answers to 5 crucial data center questions posed by Hitachi Data Systems to Benjamin S. Woo, program vice president of IDC's Worldwide Storage Systems research, on behalf of Hitachi Data Systems' customers.
January 2008 - (Free Research) In this white paper the new BlueArc Titan 1100 model is explored. The Titan 1100 enables a more cohesive end-to-end enterprise storage infrastructure strategy when combined with the rest of Titan family of products.
March 2011 - (Free Research) Data centres today are undergoing a dramatic shift in terms of the design objectives, technology options and configurations, and functional requirements. This GlassHouse white paper discusses a comprehensive strategy consisting of key interdependent elements that need to be thoughtfully planned.
January 2011 - (Free Research) When faced with the moment-by-moment business and IT pressures swirling around any large data center, a boiling cauldron may come to mind. Today's enterprise organizations are keenly seeking ways to securely and cost-effectively address rampant multifaceted data growth with flat or shrinking budgets.
June 2008 - (Free Research) Organizations in every industry are exploiting advanced technologies to gain a competitive advantage. In this whitepaper learn about IBM's vision for the new enterprise data center which offers an evolutionary new model for efficient IT delivery.
November 2008 - (Free Research) Long term data center or network room capacity planning may seem impossible in the face of evolving IT technology and business requirements. This paper shows a simple and effective way to develop a capacity plan for a data center or network room.
May 2011 - (Free Research) Many businesses, faced with limited space, power, and cooling in their data centers as well as a chilly economic climate, are looking to outsource some, or all, of their IT infrastructure. This white paper reveals how new service providers offer key advantages to businesses, and explains how to successfully manage issues of consolidation.
June 2008 - (Free Research) Read this white paper and learn how Cisco Catalyst switches and Cisco MDS 9000 family storage area network (SAN) switches address new design requirements.
April 2009 - (Free Research) To gain full value of virtualization, you need servers that are built to handle the heavy and ever-changing demands of a virtualized and consolidated computing environment. To help you get maximum benefits from virtualization, Intel has built a better physical server platform with unique hardware-assist features to enhance the virtual data center.
February 2009 - (Free Research) The planning sequence described in this paper covers the design of the data center's physical infrastructure layer, whose job it is to house, power, cool, and protect the data center's computing and network functions.
February 2012 - (Free Research) In this case study, discover how one health care provider employed a pay-as-you-go, cloud-based storage model to help them save hundreds of thousands of dollars on their long-term archiving and disaster recovery requirements.
September 2009 - (Free Research) System Center lowers the cost of delivering datacenter services through integrated, end-to-end management of physical and virtual environments, and supports the optimization of the datacenter in three primary ways. Each of these benefits, and the solutions that enable them, are discussed in this paper.
January 2008 - (Free Research) The corporate data center is a huge power consumer and a substantial contributor to global warming. Download this whitepaper to learn and discover the business benefits of a more eco-friendly data center.
April 2009 - (Free Research) Citrix Essentials for Microsoft Hyper-V extends the management capabilities of Hyper-V and System Center Virtual Machine Manager with advanced virtualization tools for managing storage in virtual environments, automating the virtual machine lifecycle, and dynamically provisioning Hyper-V infrastructure.
November 2012 - (Free Research) This white paper introduces a next-generation converged cloud, which combines traditional IT with public, managed and private clouds, and discusses the benefits of an automated hybrid delivery model. Read on to learn more.
August 2010 - (Free Research) Learn why data protection is the nexus that connects deduplication and virtualisation, how to go about achieving efficient data protection, as well as considerations and concerns to be aware of.