WHITE PAPER - Purchasing new hardware may seem counterintuitive to reducing data center power costs. But server upgrades can enable significant energy savings. Learn about various hardware configurations and their key performance characteristics here.
Posted: April 6, 2012 | Published: April 6, 2012


Topics:  Data Center Construction | Data Center Design | Data Center Infrastructure Efficiency | Data Center Management | Data Center Power Management | Data Centers | Green Data Center | Power Consumption Monitoring | Processor Architectures | Server Hardware | Server Management

WHITE PAPER - This white paper analyzes climate data across and outside of the country and differentiates between two types of economization. Determine whether your data center is a good candidate for fresh air cooling and explore servers that can allow you to leverage this concept regardless of the temperature extremes of your region.
Posted: March 6, 2012 | Published: February 1, 2012


Topics:  Data Center Construction | Data Center Cooling | Data Center Design | Data Center Infrastructure Efficiency | Data Center Management | Data Center Power Management | Data Centers | Server Hardware

WHITE PAPER - To keep pace with your peers and position your organisation for the future, you must continuously update your data centre. This white paper explains how one company refined their IT transformation strategy to improve the quality, speed, and efficiency of their business services. Explore their key objectives and best practices for success here.
Posted: February 17, 2012 | Published: December 1, 2011


Topics:  Data Center Construction | Data Center Design | Data Center Infrastructure Efficiency | Data Center Management | Data Centers | IT Management | Systems Maintenance | Systems Management

WHITE PAPER - This white paper discusses a gradual approach to building a new server room. Find out key factors to consider as you proceed with your initiative, such as site selection and size, energy, backup, and more.
Posted: November 1, 2011 | Published: June 24, 2011


Topics:  Data Center Construction | Data Center Cooling | Data Center Design | Data Center Infrastructure Efficiency | Data Center Management | Data Center Physical Security | Data Centers | Server Hardware

WHITE PAPER - Within modern data centers, virtualization has become the means of choice when it comes tooperating efficient server infrastructures for cloud and enterprise computing. On an individualsystem level, this translates into a massive increase of DRAM deployments per server.
Posted: October 20, 2011 | Published: December 28, 2010


Topics:  Data Center Consolidation | Data Center Construction | Data Center Management | Data Center Power Management

WHITE PAPER - This technical white paper discusses a drop-in implementation of Coherence running on Oracle's Sun servers utilizing Oracle Fusion Middleware components, most prominently WebLogic Suite.
Posted: March 11, 2011 | Published: July 1, 2010


Topics:  Cluster Management | Data Center Consolidation | Data Center Construction | Data Center Design | Data Center Infrastructure Efficiency | Data Center Management | Data Centers

WHITE PAPER - Uninterruptible Power Supply (UPS) terminology is a complex subject, often made more confusing by the competing marketing claims of various manufacturers. This paper explains this terminology and discusses the capabilities and limitations of the various classifications.
Posted: January 1, 2011 | Published: April 14, 2011


Topics:  Cooling Equipment | Data Center Construction | Data Center Management | Energy Efficiency | Power Supplies | UPS

WHITE PAPER - Read this white paper to learn how moving to modular data center design can deliver significant benefits that can help organizations adapt to change, and provide flexibility to match short-term capacity requirements with long-term growth, and to do so in a cost-effective manner.
Posted: November 16, 2010 | Published: November 16, 2010


Topics:  Data Center Construction | Data Center Cooling | Data Center Design | Data Center Infrastructure Efficiency | Data Center Management | Data Center Power Management | Data Centers | Green Data Center | Server Virtualization | Storage Virtualization

WHITE PAPER - Many technology leaders understand the need for data center renovation and development – but going from understanding to implementation raises a lot of “how to” questions. As the leader in data center cost-effective and energy efficient approaches, IBM has the “go to” answers for “how to” questions. Read this white paper to learn more.
Posted: November 16, 2010 | Published: November 16, 2010


Topics:  Data Center Construction | Data Center Cooling | Data Center Design | Data Center Infrastructure Efficiency | Data Center Management | Data Center Power Management | Data Centers | Green Data Center | UPS

WHITE PAPER - To meet today’s unpredictable challenges, changing requirements and technical growth areas, a modular data center design and strategy can yield significant benefits that provide flexibility to match short-term capacity requirements with long-term growth, and do so in a cost-effective manner. Read this white paper to learn more.
Posted: November 16, 2010 | Published: November 16, 2010


Topics:  Data Center Construction | Data Center Cooling | Data Center Design | Data Center Infrastructure Efficiency | Data Center Management | Data Center Power Management | Data Centers | Server Hardware | Server Virtualization

WHITE PAPER - Technology upgrades are a constant in any IT environment, often driven by the need for more capacity or a platform’s end of life. Over the past few years, IT shops have been upgrading to improve their return on investment (ROI) as well. Read this white paper to learn about new ways to maximize technology ROI through better operations management.
Posted: September 22, 2010 | Published: September 21, 2010


Topics:  Data Center Consolidation | Data Center Construction | Data Center Infrastructure Efficiency | Data Center Management | Data Management | Data Quality | Data Storage | ROI

WHITE PAPER - Business Ready Configurations for Virtualization are pre-configured, easy to order, bundled solutions that include Dell PowerEdge™ blade servers, Dell EqualLogic™ SAN, and VMware vSphere™. This white paper provides a detailed reference architecture for the Business Ready Configurations.
Posted: November 17, 2009 | Published: July 1, 2009


Topics:  Blade Servers | Data Center Construction | Data Center Design | Server Virtualization | Storage Architectures | Storage Hardware | Storage Virtualization | Virtual Machine | Virtual Machine Migration | VMware | VMware Infrastructure 3

WHITE PAPER - This white paper describes validated architectures for Dell | VMware™ virtual infrastructures. The Virtualization RA is intended to provide customers with an example basis to consider, evaluate, and select the Dell virtualization solution components that best fit their requirements.
Posted: November 17, 2009 | Published: September 1, 2008


Topics:  Data Center Construction | Data Center Design | Data Center Infrastructure Efficiency | Server Management | Server Virtualization | Storage Hardware | VMware | VMware ESX