WHITE PAPER - End-user requirements for reliable, high-performance applications have left SMBs searching for ways to further leverage their virtualized environments. Read this white paper to find out why SMBs are deploying Windows Server 2008 R2, why SMBs will move to Windows Server 8, and how best to configure your infrastructure to optimize this technology.
Posted: February 7, 2012 | Published: February 7, 2012


Topics:  Database Management | Database Performance Management | Hardware Configuration Management | Server Hardware | Server Management | Server Virtualization | SMBs | SQL Server | Windows Server 2008 R2

ANALYST REPORT - In this report Ovum calls for a rethink of the traditional IT technology stack, to ensure better interoperability and adaptability.
Posted: November 23, 2011 | Published: November 23, 2011


Topics:  Architectures | Cloud Computing | Hardware Configuration Management | Hardware Management | Infrastructure Management | Legacy Applications Software | Software | Software Architectures

WHITE PAPER - By using the Oracle Exadata Database Machine as a data warehouse platform you have a balanced, high performance hardware configuration. This paper focuses on the other two corner stones, data modeling and data loading, providing a set of best practices and examples for deploying a data warehouse on the Oracle Exadata Database Machine.
Posted: April 25, 2011 | Published: November 30, 2010


Topics:  Data Modeling | Data Warehouses | Database Performance Management | Database Performance Management Software | Databases | Hardware | Hardware Configuration Management | Hardware Management | OLTP | Oracle (Product)

WHITE PAPER - There has been great interest in the subject of Windows 7 in recent months, perhaps most strongly from organizations that passed over Windows Vista and are looking at a migration from Windows XP.
Posted: February 24, 2010 | Published: February 24, 2010


Topics:  Applications Management | Device Drivers | Hardware Configuration Management | Operating Systems | Windows | Windows Server Software | Windows Vista | Windows XP

EGUIDE - In this Pocket Guide, brought to you by SearchServerVirtualization.com, Dell and VMware, discover the central tasks in the assessment and planning stages of a virtualization project.
Posted: June 22, 2009 | Published: June 22, 2009


Topics:  Disaster Recovery | Hardware | Hardware Configuration Management | Project Management | Server Consolidation | Server Provisioning | Server Virtualization | VMware

WHITE PAPER - The planning sequence described in this paper covers the design of the data center's physical infrastructure layer, whose job it is to house, power, cool, and protect the data center's computing and network functions.
Posted: February 4, 2009 | Published: February 3, 2009


Topics:  Capacity Planning | Data Center Design | Data Center Management | Hardware Configuration Management | Hardware Management | Infrastructure Management | Storage Management | Systems Design and Development