WHITE PAPER - This whitepaper explores business continuity, and disaster recovery. Learn how to develop a good disaster recovery plan, and about the advantages that VMware brings in terms of consolidation.
Posted: August 18, 2008 | Published: August 18, 2008


Topics:  Backups | Business Continuity Planning | Data Centers | Disaster Recovery | Information Management | Infrastructure Management | Server Virtualization | Storage Virtualization | VMware

WHITE PAPER - Recent studies show that your data center could be wasting up to 60% of its cooling capacity. This final chapter in a three-part Data Center Design and Infrastructure guide delves into this issue.
Posted: July 31, 2008 | Published: July 31, 2008


Topics:  Cooling Equipment | Data Center Management | Data Centers | Environmental Compliance | EPA | IT Infrastructure

WHITE PAPER - Data center facility planning and design is one of the most complex and important undertakings for any company. This chapter focuses on site selection and data center design elements.
Posted: July 31, 2008 | Published: July 24, 2008


Topics:  Computer Room Air Conditioning Units | Data Center Management | Data Centers | Infrastructure Services | IT Infrastructure

WHITE PAPER - This chapter focuses on power management in the data center. Learn about the mounting pressure on data center managers to find more reliable-and yet less expensive-ways to power IT infrastructure, achieve energy savings, and avoid elect...
Posted: July 31, 2008 | Published: July 24, 2008


Topics:  Business Continuity Planning | Data Center Management | Data Centers | Downtime | IT Asset Management | Loss Prevention | Power Integrated Circuits | RAS | Server Virtualization | UPS

WHITE PAPER - This White paper describes about the data center capacity challenges; and how data center consolidation and centralized management of IT resources can offer huge savings and reduce strain on IT resources.
Posted: July 21, 2008 | Published: July 1, 2008


Topics:  Best Practices | Data Center Consolidation | Data Centers | Data Storage | Disaster Recovery | ROI | Strategic Planning

WHITE PAPER - This white paper describes about the virtualization, data center transformation and IT challenges that are driving virtualization and data center transformation.
Posted: July 21, 2008 | Published: July 1, 2008


Topics:  Best Practices | Data Centers | ERP | Security | Server Virtualization | Storage Virtualization | VMware

WHITE PAPER - This white paper describes about the convergence of two significant trends that we are seeing across our client base, and also the four specific drivers that are causing people to think about transforming their data centers.
Posted: July 21, 2008 | Published: July 1, 2008


Topics:  BASIC | Business Intelligence | Data Centers | Environmental Compliance | Environmental Industry | Environmental Law | Leadership | Risk Assessment | SOA

WHITE PAPER - Learn about how dynamic deduplication based on an HP-patented deduplication algorithim packs up to 50 times more backup data into the same disk footprint.
Posted: June 30, 2008 | Published: June 1, 2008


Topics:  Backups | Data Centers | WAN

WHITE PAPER - In this eGuide from SearchCIO-Midmarket.com read about the five tips that could change your data center including computer recycling, virtualization, SaaS-based ERP, choosing a disaster recovery service provider and server consolida...
Posted: June 30, 2008 | Published: June 27, 2008


Topics:  Data Center Consolidation | Data Centers | Disaster Recovery | ERP | ERP Software | Server Consolidation | Server Virtualization

WHITE PAPER - In this paper, The Green Grid™ provides a framework for improving the energy efficiency of both new and existing datacenters. The nature of datacenter energy consumption is reviewed and best practices are suggested that can significantly impa...
Posted: June 12, 2008 | Published: February 6, 2007


Topics:  Best Practices | Business Intelligence | Data Centers | ERP | Power Generation Equipment | Server Software | Systems Design and Development

WHITE PAPER - This paper describes issues of high processor and server density within existing data center infrastructures. It identifies methods to optimize the effectiveness of power and cooling resources in facilities that are deploying high-density equipment...
Posted: June 11, 2008 | Published: August 1, 2007


Topics:  Cooling Equipment | Data Centers | Microprocessors | Multi-core Processors | Power Supplies | Server Virtualization

WHITE PAPER - Robert Frances Group (RFG) believes power and cooling optimization will become the most significant IT issue in the data center over the next 3-4 years. RFG believes there are many actions that can be taken immediately to improve the efficiency of...
Posted: June 11, 2008 | Published: January 1, 2007


Topics:  Application Portfolio Management | Data Centers | Environmental Compliance | Environmental Industry | Environmental Law | IT Infrastructure | IT Managers

WHITE PAPER - This white paper explores technologies and best practice that can help your organization respond to today's power and cooling challenges in a manner that reduces both energy expenditures and environmental impacts--while increasing computi...
Posted: June 11, 2008 | Published: June 10, 2008


Topics:  Best Practices | Business Intelligence | Cooling Equipment | Data Center Management | Data Centers | Environmental Industry

WHITE PAPER - 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...
Posted: June 11, 2008 | Published: June 1, 2008


Topics:  Blade Servers | Capacity Planning | Cooling Equipment | Customer Satisfaction | Data Centers | Disaster Recovery | Financial Services Industry | Server Virtualization | Storage Systems | UPS

WHITE PAPER - The HP StorageWorks 3 Data Center Replication (3DC) architecture technology provides data currency and consistency.
Posted: June 11, 2008 | Published: April 1, 2008


Topics:  Budgeting | Business Continuity Planning | Data Centers | Disaster Recovery | RAID | ROI | TCO

WHITE PAPER - This white paper reviews how the growth of green benefits has resurrected the thin-client computing debate.
Posted: June 10, 2008 | Published: June 10, 2008


Topics:  Cooling Equipment | Data Centers | Desktop Applications Management | Desktop Management | Power Supplies | Server Virtualization | TCO | Thin Client Hardware | Thin Client Software

WHITE PAPER - In this white paper, learn how data center transformation can help your organization outsource applications and shift spending from maintenance and management to projects that support business growth and innovation.
Posted: June 6, 2008 | Published: May 1, 2008


Topics:  Data Center Management | Data Centers | Network Design | Network Management | Systems Integration

WHITE PAPER - In this briefing, learn how Thermal Zone Mapping is a novel way of representing and visualizing the environmental behavior of a "greenfield" or existing data center, allowing for easier and more complete understanding of this behavior.
Posted: June 6, 2008 | Published: September 1, 2007


Topics:  Data Center Management | Data Centers | IT Infrastructure | Network Design | Network Management | Systems Integration

CASE STUDY - In this case study from HP, read how HP launched an IT transformation program with a focus on five initiatives: global data centers, portfolio management, technology workforce effectiveness, building a world-class technology infrastructure...
Posted: June 6, 2008 | Published: March 1, 2008


Topics:  Data Center Management | Data Centers | IT Infrastructure | Network Design | Network Management | Systems Integration

WHITE PAPER - In data centers around the world, energy costs are rising rapidly and consuming an ever-greater portion of IT budgets. This paper highlights how to reduce energy costs, reduce your carbon footprint all while making the most of your IT investment.
Posted: June 6, 2008 | Published: July 1, 2007


Topics:  Cooling Equipment | Data Center Consolidation | Data Centers | IT Infrastructure | Network Management

BROCHURE - This paper looks at the approach to Data Center Transformation and how centers reduce costs, manage risks, and support business growth. It highlights data center managers and how HP is helping its customers address them.
Posted: June 6, 2008 | Published: March 1, 2008


Topics:  Data Center Consolidation | Data Centers | IT Infrastructure | Network Design | Network Management | Systems Integration

WHITE PAPER - In this white paper, read how to meet the challenge of designing and operating mission-critical data centers in an era of constrained resources.
Posted: June 6, 2008 | Published: March 1, 2008


Topics:  Data Center Management | Data Centers | IT Infrastructure | Network Design | Network Management | Systems Integration

WHITE PAPER - Data is no longer stored in a single copy. Communications and collaboration applications are creating multiple copies of the same data. This IDC whitepaper answers top questions on data protection given the current information explosion.
Posted: June 4, 2008 | Published: May 1, 2008


Topics:  Backups | Business Intelligence | Business Systems | Data Centers | Data Replication | Data Storage | Data Warehouses | Server Virtualization

WEBCAST - This webcast covers data center capacity challenges such as space and power & cooling and how data center consolidation and centralized management of IT resources can offer huge savings and reduce strain on IT resources.
Posted: May 21, 2008 | Premiered: June 24, 2008


Topics:  Business Continuity Planning | Business Intelligence | Business Intelligence Software | Capacity Planning | Data Center Consolidation | Data Centers | Disaster Recovery | IT Infrastructure

WEBCAST - This webcast explores answers to some of the key questions around getting started with virtualization. It addresses cost savings, weighing benefits vs. risks, transitioning from older platforms to new ones, best practices and more.
Posted: May 21, 2008 | Premiered: June 19, 2008


Topics:  Best Practices | Business Continuity Planning | Cooling Equipment | Data Center Consolidation | Data Centers | IT Infrastructure | Server Virtualization | Virtual Machine Monitor | Virtual Offices | VMware