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Unleashing Application Performance with Solid-State Drivers and Sun Servers
sponsored by Sun Microsystems, Inc. and Intel Corporation
 | White Paper: | Posted: 17 Sep 2009
| | Published: | 01 Mar 2009 | |
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This paper is intended for executives and managers and tells how Sun servers equipped with Flash-enabled solid-state drives (SSDs) offers dramatic improvements to HPC, Web 2.0, and data center application performance.
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The Solaris Operating System – Optimized for the Intel® Xeon® Processor 5500 Series
sponsored by Sun Microsystems, Inc. and Intel Corporation
| White Paper: | Posted: 17 Sep 2009
| | Published: | 30 Mar 2009 | |
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This document is intended as a quick reference guide for developers and system administrators that want to optimize the Solaris™ OS on the Intel® Xeon® processor 5500 series platform.
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SCALING VIRTUAL DESKTOPS ON SUN FIRE™ X4450 SERVERS: Evaluating Performance and Capacity with VMware
sponsored by Sun Microsystems, Inc. and Intel Corporation
| White Paper: | Posted: 17 Sep 2009
| | Published: | 01 Mar 2009 | |
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Managing desktop environments across the enterprise can be challenging for many organizations. Virtualization of desktop systems is an increasingly popular solution, but requires scalability and balanced design for successful implementation. This white paper discusses the use of Sun Fire X4450 servers as a virtual desktop infrastructure platform.
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Dealing with Linux Server Sprawl - Expert Webcast
sponsored by Red Hat
 | Webcast: | Posted: 16 Sep 2009
| | Premiered: | Available On Demand | | | Speaker: |
Ronald McCarty, Founder and CEO Your Net Guard
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Organizations that do not have an active management strategy are often left with significant server sprawl issues. This expert webcast discusses a three pronged approach for overcoming these issues and explores different options for virtualization on Linux platforms.
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Six-Core AMD Opteron™ Processors: Top-line performance that’s bottom-line efficient
sponsored by HP, Vmware and AMD
| Brochure: | Posted: 15 Sep 2009
| | Published: | 15 Sep 2009 | |
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Unlike competitive products focused on raw performance, AMD technology-based servers deliver one platform to support the top-line demands of your business with a total cost advantage you can take right to the bottom-line.
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Planning and deploying a Virtual Desktop Infrastructure on HP hardware: Creating a 150 user VDI proof-of-concept implementation
sponsored by HP, Vmware and AMD
| White Paper: | Posted: 15 Sep 2009
| | Published: | 01 Feb 2008 | |
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This document is intended for IT decision makers, planners, architects, service professionals and installers that are evaluating VDI. A moderate level of technical expertise and familiarity with VMware, Microsoft Windows Server and Desktop Operating Systems as well as HP ProLiant and StorageWorks hardware is considered essential.
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HP reference configuration for BladeSystem: BL495c with Flex-10 and VMware View
sponsored by HP, Vmware and AMD
| Technical Article: | Posted: 15 Sep 2009
| | Published: | 01 Feb 2009 | |
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This paper is for decision makers that are familiar with and interested in VMware View as a desktop replacement strategy. An understanding of networking and fibre channel infrastructure and how they interact with HP Virtual Connect technologies, virtualization benefits and techniques, VMware software, and datacenter practices is recommended.
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HP ProLiant G6 Servers & Server Blades: AMD and HP providing over a decade of technological innovation
sponsored by HP, Vmware and AMD
| Brochure: | Posted: 15 Sep 2009
| | Published: | 15 Sep 2009 | |
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This brochure provides an overview of the HP Proliant G6 live of Servers. Based on AMD’s Opteron processor, HP delivers a line of servers offering high performance while reducing power and cooling requirements.
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Achieving Breakthrough Performance in Analytics and Reporting - Vendor Webcast
sponsored by Sybase, Inc.
| Webcast: | Posted: 11 Sep 2009
| | Premiered: | Available On Demand | | | Speaker: |
Bill Jacobs, Director of Technical Marketing and Evangelism for Sybase analytics and BI products
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This webcast discusses how you can accelerate your data analysis, reporting and business intelligence (BI) applications with the help of a column-based analytics server.
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Consolidating Multiple SQL Server 2000 systems using Hyper-V
sponsored by Dell, Inc.
| White Paper: | Posted: 10 Sep 2009
| | Published: | 10 Sep 2009 | |
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This document covers the key overall concepts and procedures you need to setup and configure your Hyper-V platform. It reviews in detail the approach that PT and Dell recommend for a tested and validated installation of Windows Server 2008 and Hyper-V.
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Consolidate SQL Server 2008 on Dell 4 Socket - Multi-Core Servers - using Hyper-V
sponsored by Dell, Inc.
| White Paper: | Posted: 10 Sep 2009
| | Published: | 10 Sep 2009 | |
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This Guide is a companion to How to Guide: Consolidating multiple SQL Server systems onto Dell PowerEdge Servers using Microsoft’s Hyper-V. In this Guide, we use the Dell PowerEdge R900 and PowerEdge R905 as target servers.
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SQL Server 2008 - 10-20Terabyte Data Warehousing
sponsored by Dell, Inc.
| White Paper: | Posted: 10 Sep 2009
| | Published: | 01 Nov 2008 | |
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This white paper documents the performance of Microsoft SQL Server 2008 Business Intelligence and Data Warehouse solutions deployed on Dell PowerEdge servers with Dell PowerVault storage. Using the knowledge gained through joint development this white paper illustrates the cost-effective performance of Dell Solutions for SQL Server 2008.
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Mainstreaming the vSwitch: HP Network Automation Extends Control to Virtual
sponsored by Hewlett-Packard Company
| White Paper: | Posted: 10 Sep 2009
| | Published: | 01 Sep 2009 | |
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HP recently announced availability of a driver for their long-fielded HP Network Automation product which delivers integrated support of virtual switches (vSwitches) – virtual network elements that exist within VMWare’s ESX virtual server platform.
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Virtual Servers, Real Savings
sponsored by CDW Corporation
| White Paper: | Posted: 09 Sep 2009
| | Published: | 09 Sep 2009 | |
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With server virtualization, you do more with less. Instead of filling your data center with underutilized boxes, you run multiple operating systems and applications on a single physical machine. You make the most of your space while taking full advantage of your hardware investment. Read this whitepaper to learn more about these benefits.
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P2V Benefits: Moving Servers From the Physical to the Virtual World Cuts Costs, Saves Space and Parallels Green Initiatives
sponsored by CDW Corporation
| White Paper: | Posted: 08 Sep 2009
| | Published: | 08 Sep 2009 | |
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Virtualization basically means inserting a software layer between your hardware and your operating system. This decouples the operating system from the hardware and allows you to run many operating systems at the same time on top of that same physical piece of hardware. Read this short paper to learn about the benefits of using virtual servers.
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