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Case Study: Building Materials Company Virtualizes SAP Applications [Unified Computing]
sponsored by Cisco Systems, Inc.
WHITE PAPER: When it came time to replace its blade servers, Pacific Coast Building Products, Inc. sought a new platform that would support growth. Read this case study to learn how Pacific Coast implemented a platform that simplified provisioning and management of their SAP applications in a virtualized environment.
Posted: 21 Nov 2011 | Published: 31 Dec 2010

Cisco Systems, Inc.

Solutions Guide: Business Ready Configurations for Data Center Virtualization
sponsored by Dell and VMware
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: 17 Nov 2009 | Published: 01 Jul 2009

Dell and VMware

Energy Logic: Reducing Data Center Energy Consumption by Creating Savings that Cascade Across Systems
sponsored by Emerson Network Power
WHITE PAPER: Energy Logic is a vendor-neutral roadmap for optimizing data center energy efficiency that starts with the IT equipment and progresses to the support infrastructure. This paper shows how it can deliver a 50 percent or greater reduction in data center energy consumption without compromising performance or availability.
Posted: 21 Jan 2010 | Published: 21 Jan 2010

Emerson Network Power

Take the "scale-right" Approach to Optimize the ROI from IT
sponsored by IBM
WHITE PAPER: With IBM, you can scale right with a specially tailored strategy that provides the greatest IT ROI for your company.
Posted: 10 Jun 2008 | Published: 01 Jun 2008

IBM

The Journey to Unified Computing
sponsored by Cisco Systems, Inc.
WHITE PAPER: This white paper explains how data center needs have changed over the last five years and discusses the reasons why management of virtualized compute, network, and storage access should be integrated. Discover the vision behind a private cloud and learn how to avoid making common mistakes as you prepare for this new IT model.
Posted: 14 Jan 2012 | Published: 01 Apr 2010

Cisco Systems, Inc.

HP BladeSystem c-Class SAN Connectivity Technology Brief
sponsored by PC Connection and HP
WHITE PAPER: This paper describes the hardware and software required to connect HP BladeSystem c--Class server blades to Storage Area Networks1 (SANs) using Fibre Channel (FC) interconnect technology.
Posted: 15 Apr 2008 | Published: 01 Jun 2007

PC Connection and HP

Migrating from IBM POWER Server Silos to HP BladeSystem and Converged Infrastructure
sponsored by HP & Intel®
WHITE PAPER: This paper looks at the options IT managers have for hosting enterprise applications when replacing end-of-life POWER 4 or 5 servers. It compares an HP Converged Infrastructure, based on HP Integrity and Proliant server blades, to approaches based on IBM POWER. It also addresses customer options for business-critical application migration.
Posted: 09 Feb 2011 | Published: 09 Feb 2011

HP & Intel®

Sizing HP ProLiant and BladeSystem 64-bit Servers for Exchange 2007 and Large Mailbox Storage Constraints
sponsored by Hewlett Packard Enterprise
WHITE PAPER: This document provides sizing information for running Microsoft® Exchange Server 2007 mailbox servers on HP ProLiant servers with large mailbox storage constraints.
Posted: 14 Jan 2009 | Published: 14 Jan 2009

Hewlett Packard Enterprise

Networking Best Practices for VMware Infrastructure 3 on Dell PowerEdge Blade Servers
sponsored by Dell and VMware
WHITE PAPER: This whitepaper provides an overview of the networking architecture for VMware Infrastructure 3 on Dell PowerEdge blade servers. It provides best practices for deploying and configuring your network in the VMware environment.
Posted: 17 Nov 2009 | Published: 01 Apr 2009

Dell and VMware

RAID 50 Interleave White Paper
sponsored by Xtore
WHITE PAPER: Improve RAID performance, lower the likelihood of critical drive failure and rebuild faster. Read this white paper and learn how to develop a truly Automated Tiered Storage Solution.
Posted: 01 Jan 2007 | Published: 01 Dec 2006

Xtore