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Going Beyond HA for Business-Critical Virtualization |
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This paper details how VMware and Stratus together address the full spectrum of planned and unplanned downtime challenges: server hardware failures, operating system failures, server maintenance, operating system maintenance, disaster recovery, support and services. Also presented are scenarios describing how you can use VMware® Infrastructure 3 and Stratus ftServer® systems at your data center and remote sites.
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Gartner Paper: US Data Centers – The Calm Before the Storm |
| By : VMware |
Published Date: Sep 25, 2007 |
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According to Gartner, the majority of existing US datacenters have not been designed to handle future energy demands. Strategic decisions, including the implementation of virtualization, must be made quickly. This research outlines why energy and floor space constraints will cause considerable disruption to U.S. datacenters during the next three years.
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Gartner Paper: How IT Management Can 'Green' the Data Center |
| By : VMware |
Published Date: Jan 22, 2008 |
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Datacenters consume large amounts of energy, so it is imperative that IT management establishes energy efficiency goals and an integrated approach to energy-saving initiatives. This Gartner research provides IT managers with an outline of the trends affecting datacenters and offers strategies with which to address these changes.
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Getting Real About Virtual Platform Management |
| By : CA WA 2 |
Published Date: May 07, 2008 |
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CA's vision is to unify and simplify the management of enterprise-wide IT. The rapidly growing use of virtualization and clustering in enterprise infrastructures provides a rich environment for increasing complexity. Unlike physically bounded infrastructures, the logical entities in virtualized and clustered environments are not visually apparent. Nevertheless, one needs to know what resources one has and if one is using those resources to their fullest capacity.
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How Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) Impacts Your IT Infrastructure |
| By : IBM |
Published Date: Jan 14, 2008 |
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More than likely you’ve heard quite a bit about service-oriented architecture (SOA) and how it holds the promises of quicker response to market trends, improved customer services and lower application development costs. From an infrastructure perspective, an SOA implementation contains all the same pieces and parts as your traditional environment.
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How Network Routers Affect IP Video Quality |
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Service providers are making the transition to IP infrastructures to deliver video. This move offers significant economic and operational advantages, but it also comes with challenges. One of the main challenges is to ensure that the quality of the video is sufficiently high to attract and retain subscribers. This paper discusses how and why service providers must be able to deliver a superior quality of experience (QoE) to drive adoption of IP video.
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How IBM Serves Smaller and Mid-Sized Companies |
| By : IBM |
Published Date: Nov 12, 2007 |
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IBM is committed to helping companies of all sizes stay competitive and grow. The IBM Express Advantage program, supported by a vast network of local IBM Business Partners, makes it simple to get exactly what you need from IBM. Download and browse the IBM Express Advantage catalog that’s full of useful offerings designed and priced especially for mid-sized companies.
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IBM BladeCenter S Provides Big Benefits for Smaller Offices |
| By : IBM |
Published Date: Sep 18, 2007 |
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See why IBM BladeCenter S chassis is the right choice for independent businesses that need a powerful, yet simple IT. The white papers inside this informative eKit will show you how this system is easy to deploy, easy to use, and easy to manage; and how its modular technology helps avoid a cable mess in your office space.
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Kane County: a VMware Case Study |
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Just west of Chicago's Cook County lies Kane County, the fourth largest in Illinois. Kane County is using VMware Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI) to help manage their dispersed desktop user base, lower IT staff costs and increase user satisfaction.
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Leveraging CA IDMS Business Value for Innovation |
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Business and IT executives should not have to choose between their desire to innovate for future growth and the desire to avoid disrupting current operations. Enterprise innovation that embraces and extends existing infrastructure and applications is possible through modern software architectures such as web services and SOA – as long as those investments perform competitively when measured against alternative platforms and they are able to be modernized to participate in these architectures.
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Magic Quadrant for Integrated SOA Governance Technology Sets |
| By : IBM |
Published Date: Mar 18, 2008 |
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Good governance of a service-oriented architecture is becoming a core competency. This Magic Quadrant report by Gartner examines the market for SOA governance through a set of integrated technologies. It evaluates leaders, challengers and innovators in the SOA governance technology market, providing feature information and strengths and cautions for each.
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MPLS Plug-and-Play for Metro Ethernet Networks |
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Carriers are discovering an opportunity to revolutionize the way their MPLS Metro Ethernet Networks are built by applying the concept of Plug-and-Play to reduce operating expense and network complexity. This paper shows service providers how to easily map their access MPLS network into their larger core MPLS network, or create a completely new architecture.
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No Free Lunch White Paper |
| By : Riverbed |
Published Date: Jan 03, 2008 |
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This white paper discusses the CAP theorem (consistency, availability, partition-tolerance), the incongruities of the claims that competitors make against this theorem, and the pareto-optimal approach Riverbed takes to reconciling the CAP theorem. Download this white paper now.
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5 Steps to Successful IT Consolidation |
| By : Riverbed |
Published Date: Jun 26, 2006 |
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Has your Enterprise made the strategic decision to consolidate remote site IT infrastructure into central data centers? Then you have probably discovered that consolidation projects are fraught with technical, organization, and implementation challenges that require a well thought-out strategy. Download this paper by Riverbed and discover a clear 5-step approach to making sure every consolidation project is successful.
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Optimizing Infrastructure Control |
| By : Tripwire |
Published Date: Jun 06, 2008 |
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This paper outlines the nature of infrastructure integrity, change auditing, and compliance solutions. It describes how an investment in configuration assessment and change auditing solutions can stabilize IT operations, lowering the operational costs associated with the IT infrastructure; be a force multiplier; and provide a solid foundation that increases the effectiveness of the investment in information security.
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Reducing IT Energy Costs: The Mid-Size & Small Business Approach |
| By : IBM |
Published Date: Dec 20, 2007 |
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As total costs of small and mid-sized businesses increase, growing companies look ever closely at how their IT needs affect energy costs. The IBM case studies and survey results herein discuss opportunities to reduce IT energy costs, save money and devise IT investment strategies. Read them and learn how you can expand your business while helping the environment.
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Server Consolidation and Containment with Virtual Infrastructure |
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IT departments constantly face demands to deploy, maintain and grow a broad array of services and applications, but this has lead to server sprawl and high energy costs. Consolidation and containment solutions implemented with a virtual infrastructure meet the challenges of server sprawl and underutilization by reducing hardware and operating costs by as much as 50%.
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United Bank and Trust: A VMware Case Study |
| By : VMware |
Published Date: Nov 14, 2007 |
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Faced with an aging set of servers within its IT infrastructure, United Bank and Trust decided to embrace virtualization as way to move forward. United deployed the VMware Infrastructure 3 solution together with an EqualLogic PS Series virtualized iSCSI SAN, which established an enterprise storage platform to achieve the high availability, data protection and performance required for United’s new generation, virtualized IT environment.
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