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October 01, 2008 - (Free Research) Employing UltraSPARC® T2 Plus processors - an evolution of the industry's first massively threaded systems on a Chip (SoC) - the Sun SPARC® Enterprise T5440 server offers breakthrough performance and energy efficiency to drive Web 2.0 infrastructure and address other demanding datacenter challenges.
December 01, 2008 - (Free Research) The Dell PowerEdge M-Series blade servers help cut operating expenses through energy efficiency, product flexibility, and efficient use of data center space.
May 01, 2009 - (Free Research) Dell commissioned Principled Technologies to estimate how many months it would take to recapture initial investment costs when consolidating multiple 4-year-old Dell™ PowerEdge™ 2850 server and storage solutions onto a Dell PowerEdge R710 server and storage solution using Microsoft® Windows Server® 2008 with Hyper-V™
March 01, 2009 - (Free Research) This HP paper provides performance characteristics for the HP BladeSystem BL460cG6 blade server with XenServer and 64 bit workloads.
September 29, 2009 - (Free Research) This paper presents a set of techniques to substantially reduce disk I/Os in high-throughput deduplication storage systems. These techniques are general methods to improve throughput performance of deduplication storage systems.
February 16, 2009 - (Free Research) The widening disparity between CPU performance and that of storage subsystems has spawned numerous solutions that do not fix the problem. This white paper exposes this fundamental flaw and introduces the means available today to substantively reduce power consumption while improving performance: Fusion-io's flash memory-based storage technology.
October 07, 2009 - (Free Research) In recent years, server technology has taken an enormous leap forward, thanks to the incredible advances from Dell's engineering teams and Intel's introduction and evolution of Xeon® processors. No matter what IT challenges you are helping your customers to solve, you'll find the answer with Dell and Intel.
October 01, 2009 - (Free Research) This tool allows you to enter data about your existing server environment and evaluate the benefits of replacing x86 server technology with the latest generation Sun servers powered by Intel® Xeon® processors.
September 17, 2009 - (Free Research) This paper shows how next-generation Sun servers, based on the Intel Xeon processor 5500 series, allow IT organizations to meet these challenges by delivering game-changing performance and virtualization improvements that help enable companies to leverage best practices for IT management, application deployment, work processes, and cost control.
October 01, 2008 - (Free Research) One of the leading questions IT organizations face when thinking about their installed base of servers is when and how to refresh those servers. This white paper discusses why you should refresh, provides common approaches meet new requirements, and explores the x86-based Sun server line using Intel Xeon processors.
October 09, 2009 - (Free Research) Small and midsize companies with strapped IT budgets and limited IT resources do not have to be limited to inflexible, inefficient IT infrastructures that offer unreliable IT services. Instead, smaller companies can empower their IT environments through virtualization, optimizing assets and realizing new opportunities for efficiency.
July 01, 2008 - (Free Research) Sun SPARC® Enterprise M4000, M5000, M8000, and M9000 servers are highly reliable, easy to manage, vertically-scalable systems with many of the benefits of traditional mainframes - without the associated cost, complexity, or vendor lock-in.
September 02, 2009 - (Free Research) Whether you need a tower, rack, or blade server, or a combination of these, Dell's comprehensive, award-winning PowerEdge family can meet your needs. Dell servers excel in virtualization, power and cooling, embedded systems management, and purposeful design.
October 15, 2009 - (Free Research) In this white paper, you'll read about the top objections buyers have for upgrading their current equipment. You'll also hear about the solutions Intel has to offer to help increase the productivity of your workforce, reduce energy consumption, and much more!
December 01, 2008 - (Free Research) Server virtualization delivers many business benefits to datacenters today. Choosing the right server virtualization product is an important business decision, and Sun has the virtualization and server technology portfolio - along
with the experience - to help you make the right one.
July 01, 2009 - (Free Research) This white paper presents a sample Dell solution -- using the Dell R610 and R710 PowerEdge Servers (powered by Intel® Xeon® processor 5500 Series) -- designed to tolerate faults at multiple infrastructure layers to provide maximum level of availability for the virtual infrastructure.
September 17, 2009 - (Free Research) Watch this webcast to learn how the latest blade server modules from Sun Microsystems, based on the Intel® Xeon® processor 5500 series, deliver significant performance gains and energy savings, plus an innovative approach to networking that virtualizes each 10GbE port and provides high-bandwidth connectivity to each virtual server.
November 23, 2009 - (Free Research) Read this whitepaper to learn how truly future-proofing your environment involves a comprehensive approach and engagement with newer technologies and methods, aligning them with overall best practices —and strengthening your ability to innovate.
November 11, 2009 - (Free Research) This paper will discuss the 5 areas of Virtualisation technology and introduce you to a virtualized framework solution from Virtustream that will not only provide the maximum ROI, but will address issues from a business perspective as well as an IT perspective, with a constant eye on the calculator for any business investment - your TCO.
September 01, 2008 - (Free Research) The support team for Microsoft SQL Server has published guidelines for virtualizing this database engine. Read this paper to learn how to move forward with the process and create supported SQL Server virtual machines (VMs) that can be hosted on Dell PowerEdge servers.
November 17, 2009 - (Free Research) A new multi-core server from Dell and powered by Intel can do the work of nine older single-core servers, while using less energy and facility space. Moreover, it can deliver return on investment (ROI) in as little as nine months. Read this paper to learn more!
November 16, 2009 - (Free Research) This IT Briefing describes XenDesktop and XenApp, and how they work together. You'll also learn why storage matters in a virtual desktop environment and how HP LeftHand P4000 SAN solutions complement Citrix desktop virtualization solutions. Finally you'll learn how Intel vPro technologies enhance client virtualization.
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