December 2011 - (Free Research) Today’s data centres lack an established system for classifying software management tools, causing many IT pros to struggle with identifying which tools are necessary to ensure secure and efficient data centre operations. This resource divides the realm of data centre management tools into four distinct subsets and provides examples of each.
October 2011 - (Free Research) Since power and cooling is needed to run the data center, it is essential that data center managers find ways to lower costs. This expert e-guide explores how you can implement the right power and cooling strategies for your environment to reduce overall energy costs.
May 2012 - (Free Research) Find out which company has rolled out a unified storage system that can provide excellent performance and scalability in an affordable package and simplify your mid-sized data center operations.
March 2010 - (Free Research) What do you do to prepeare for the inevitable invasion of server virtualization? How are you going to get from 20% virtualization to 60% virtualization in three years or less. The first and by far most critical step is to make sure that you have in place an infrastructure that is optimized for virtualization.
April 2012 - (Free Research) Access this essential resource to discover how data centre infrastructure management tools can help with daily maintenance operations, data analytics, planning and much more – all while driving down your bottom line.
March 2012 - (Free Research) This talk covers, through a series of examples, how data centre infrastructure management (DCIM) software tools can simplify operational processes, cut costs, and speed up information delivery.
November 2011 - (Free Research) Virtualization can have major consequences on the data center physical infrastructure (DCPI). Higher power densities can challenge the cooling capabilities of an existing system. Reduced energy consumption may actually worsen the data center's power usage effectiveness (PUE). Learn more about the particular effects of virtualization inside.
November 2011 - (Free Research) The efficiency ratings of a data centre can vary substantially depending on what methodologies are used. This paper discusses the importance of measuring data centre efficiency and explores the issues companies face when establishing the PUE of an infrastructure.
April 2011 - (Free Research) More than 90% of Fortune 1000 companies are not confident that they can completely failover to their remote data center within one hour. Given that the costs of downtime can be measured in millions of dollars per minute, companies with unreliable disaster recovery processes are taking a potentially fatal risk.
September 2011 - (Free Research) Increasing data center efficiency is always the end goal for IT managers. Find out which criteria your management software tools need to have to reduce the time and tasks required to increase the efficiency of your overall IT infrastructure.
August 2010 - (Free Research) This white paper describes the link between data center efficiency and business sustainability. Obtain detailed guidelines to help you make the link between these essential elements.
August 2011 - (Free Research) In order to tackle significant data center problems, virtualization must be effectively managed. This white paper discusses the cost savings virtualization can deliver to data centers and outlines the issues that can occur if the technology is not properly managed.
September 2011 - (Free Research) In this video, Brian Carpenter, Director of Information Technology at Heritage Auction Galleries, discusses how they manage data center growth at their organization. He digs into virtualization and the degree to which they have virtualized their environment and how this is managed. Watch this video to learn more.
March 2010 - (Free Research) By turning to a virtual-ready infrastructure, IT has the opportunity to create a next-generation architecture that fundamentally changes the way data centers work for the future. In doing so, IT has the opportunity to transform its own value to the organization by making the infrastructure more flexible and ready to move at the speed of business.
March 2010 - (Free Research) The next-generation virtual-ready data center infrastructure is being achieved through the implementation of innovative solutions such as the Dell Advanced Infrastructure Manager (AIM), which helps to deliver significant improvements in ROI. Read this paper to learn more about this innovative solution.
March 2012 - (Free Research) Inside, learn how using data center fabrics can help you resolve underlying performance challenges while leveraging a simplified architecture to unlock the potential of Big Data analytics for strategic competitive advantage.
November 2011 - (Free Research) <p>Discover why data center power consumption has become a driving force behind operational and investment decisions. Gain insight into cloud and IT service providers need for a data center power management solution – one that enables IT to attain a holistic view of demand and consumption at a device, circuit, and phase level.</p>
March 2012 - (Free Research) While underutilized data centers waste valuable resources, overly used infrastructures can subject organizations to potential hardware failures. This expert tip provides best practices for properly managing your IT environment and the physical, virtual, and cloud resources that comprise it.
October 2011 - (Free Research) Managing a data center has never been harder for IT professionals due to a number of factors, including cost, complexity and shifting business priorities. Data center consolidation often is a valuable way to overcome those challenges.
May 2012 - (Free Research) <p>When mainframes are not properly integrated with the rest of your data center infrastructure, the costs and complexity of managing them increases substantially. This webcast outlines the key phases of a mainframe rationalization approach and provides detailed guidance to help you effectively leverage it.</p>
April 2012 - (Free Research) Download this interactive eBook to learn about the world's #1 application server and why it is the best possible foundation for applications running in the modern data center.
August 2011 - (Free Research) <p>This case study follows one organization's approach to addressing their space, power, and cooling constraints. Explore the virtualization architecture they decided on and the key hardware, software, and service components that comprise it.</p>
