WHITE PAPER - Oracle VM delivers performance on par with a bare-metal server without the expense of deploying and supporting additional hardware.
Posted: November 12, 2008 | Published: November 12, 2008


Topics:  ERP | Oracle (Product) | Server Management | Server Virtualization | Systems Management | VMware

WHITE PAPER - This chapter from Windows Servers and Storage (Revised edition, November 2008) contains information to guide administrators and IT managers in the selection and installation of servers, systems and subsystems.
Posted: November 12, 2008 | Published: November 12, 2008


Topics:  Bandwidth Management | Blade Servers | Clustering | Data Centers | Grid Computing | Scalability Testing | Server Management | Server Virtualization

WHITE PAPER - Chapter 2 of Windows Servers and Storage (Revised edition, November 2008) discusses the physical aspects of server installation and topics include what a server room should contain, installation efficiency, and environmental factors.
Posted: November 12, 2008 | Published: November 12, 2008


Topics:  Blade Servers | Capacity Planning | Data Centers | Environmental Compliance | Server Appliances | Server Management | Server Virtualization | Standards

WHITE PAPER - Check out this white paper and find out more about how an inability to see deep inside its network to determine security weaknesses and other potential concerns prompted Weill Cornell Medical College to seek an intrusion detection system.
Posted: November 5, 2008 | Published: November 5, 2008


Topics:  Business Intelligence | Enterprise Systems | Internet Security | Intrusion Detection | Intrusion Prevention | Network Management | Server Management

WHITE PAPER - Read this document to learn how integrating platforms for both server and storage virtualization is key to realizing virtualization's full benefits.
Posted: October 31, 2008 | Published: October 31, 2008


Topics:  Business Processes | IT Managers | Productivity | SAN | Server Management | Server Virtualization | Storage Consolidation | Storage Infrastructure | Storage Virtualization

WHITE PAPER - In this paper, NetForecast analysts interviewed customers who have deployed Wide-Area Data Services (WDS), and the results show that WDS technology has significant strategic business value to companies.
Posted: October 31, 2008 | Published: October 31, 2008


Topics:  Data Centers | Databases | Enterprise | IT Infrastructure | ROI | Server Management | TCP | WAN

WHITE PAPER - Is your business planning a migration to Exchange Server 2007? It's not easy. This Quest white paper discusses how proper planning and execution help overcome migration challenges.
Posted: October 29, 2008 | Published: October 29, 2008


Topics:  Collaboration | Email Server Software | Enterprise Systems | Instant Messaging | Microsoft Exchange | Server Management | Unified Messaging

WHITE PAPER - This paper will explain why you may have IPv6 on your network and why having the right tool can enable network professionals to quickly identify those devices and ensure the integrity of your network.
Posted: October 23, 2008 | Published: October 23, 2008


Topics:  Host Management | Internet Engineering Task Force | IPv6 | Network Security | Operating Systems | Security Threats | Server Management

WHITE PAPER - This white paper explains how users, managers, and network administrators view and utilize SharePoint. It also explains how SharePoint works for both SharePoint users and architects.
Posted: October 14, 2008 | Published: October 11, 2008


Topics:  Active Directory | Document Management | Security Management | Server Management | Server Software | Spreadsheets | SQL Server | SSL

WHITE PAPER - This white paper describes how NearPoint complements and extends Exchange 2007 and how it adds important benefits for compliance, storage management, and recovery.
Posted: October 7, 2008 | Published: October 3, 2008


Topics:  Compliance (Systems Operations) | Email Archiving | Email Server Software | GUI | Microsoft Exchange | Server Management | Storage Management | WAN

WHITE PAPER - This white paper discusses how Mimosa NearPoint can reduce Exchange storage and keep email accessible to end users, without requiring stub files in Exchange.
Posted: October 7, 2008 | Published: October 3, 2008


Topics:  Email Archiving | Microsoft Exchange | Microsoft Outlook | Server Management | Storage Management | Storage Systems | User Experience | Web Browsers

WHITE PAPER - This document is intended to be a starting point to tune and optimize the storage system within the Exchange environment.
Posted: October 3, 2008 | Published: October 3, 2008


Topics:  Active Directory | Backups | Best Practices | Data Storage | Disaster Recovery | Microsoft Exchange | RAID | Server Management

WHITE PAPER - This guide covers the fundamentals of how applications work, how applications flow, where applications fail and best practices and methodologies for troubleshooting network and application problems.
Posted: October 3, 2008 | Published: October 3, 2008


Topics:  Application Life-Cycle Management | Application Performance Management | Best Practices | Network Performance | Performance Testing | Server Management | Troubleshooting | User Experience

WHITE PAPER - This document is based on an Alcatel-Lucent/TechTarget webcast entitled "Selling the CIO on Business Services."
Posted: October 1, 2008 | Published: October 1, 2008


Topics:  Business Service Management | Desktop Management | ERP | Network Management | Outsourcing | Server Management | Vendors

WHITE PAPER - Learn the basics of quick migration and the Hyper-V technology and how to apply quick migration to enhance the availability of services.
Posted: October 1, 2008 | Published: September 30, 2008


Topics:  DHCP | Network Management | RAM | Server Management | Server Virtualization | Virtual Machine Monitor | VLAN

WHITE PAPER - This E-Guide offers advice on the business value, cost and timing and explains how to build a virtual test lab to ensure your Windows shop is adequately prepared for the migration to Windows Server 2008.
Posted: September 29, 2008 | Published: September 27, 2008


Topics:  Change Management | Database Management | Database Security | ROI | Server Management | Server Virtualization | SMBs | Windows Server Software

WHITE PAPER - Data centers are bursting at the seams for power, space and budget. This paper explains the Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) benefits of a Spansion EcoRAM- based server versus traditional DRAM- based servers.
Posted: September 26, 2008 | Published: September 26, 2008


Topics:  Cooling Capacity | Data Center Consolidation | Data Centers | DRAM | Rack Servers | Server Management | TCO | UPS

WHITE PAPER - Endpoint DLP is a powerful tool for reducing the risk of data loss while enabling the mobile workforce, especially when part of a full suite DLP solution with network and stored data capabilities.
Posted: September 24, 2008 | Published: September 24, 2008


Topics:  Best Practices | Business Processes | Mobile Workers | Reporting Software | Server Management | Storage Virtualization | Workflow Software

WHITE PAPER - Protecting critical data stored on servers in small and midsized businesses is increasingly challenging. This paper examines current methods use in protecting server data -- as well as the solutions designed to optimize data protection programs.
Posted: September 19, 2008 | Published: September 19, 2008


Topics:  Data Recovery | Data Security | Disaster Recovery | Information Management Software | Server Management | SMBs

WHITE PAPER - This paper addresses the major concerns you should consider when selecting an online backup service and demonstrates how LiveVault Service address each.
Posted: September 19, 2008 | Published: September 19, 2008


Topics:  Authentication | Data Security | Online Backups | Security | Server Management

WHITE PAPER - This paper explores the challenges of maintaining the availability and security of applications during disasters and disruptions in order to distill the characteristics of an ideal solution.
Posted: September 19, 2008 | Published: September 18, 2008


Topics:  Application Life-Cycle Management | Business Continuity Planning | Data Centers | Disaster Recovery | High Availability | Load Balancing | Security | Server Management | SNMP

WHITE PAPER - It is essential that SAP applications and network infrastructures be considered together as a "application infrastructure" that supports strategic business objectives. This paper examines the challenges associated with SAP application delivery
Posted: September 19, 2008 | Published: September 18, 2008


Topics:  Application Performance Management | Load Balancing | Productivity | SAP (Product) | Security | Server Management | SSL | Switching | TCP | User Experience

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 - This paper explains how HP StorageWorks All-in-One Storage System can be used as the storage repository for a VMware ESX server using iSCSI connectivity between the iSCSI initiator on the VMware server and the iSCSI Target built into the AiO.
Posted: September 17, 2008 | Published: September 17, 2008


Topics:  Backup Software | Backups | IT Infrastructure | NAS | RAID | SAN | Server Management | Storage Capacity

WHITE PAPER - This white paper provides an overall approach to tuning I/O performance and also provides specific guidelines for using the storage array tuning controls.
Posted: September 17, 2008 | Published: September 16, 2008


Topics:  Applications Software | Cache | Clustering | Operating Systems | RAID | Server Management | Storage Management