SmartBiz IT Research Library

PODCAST - This podcast, featuring Brian Madden and Gabe Knuth, provides expert advice to help you select the right thin client for your environment. Learn which features are important and how to manage thin clients effectively.
Posted: November 20, 2009 | Premiered: November 20, 2009


Topics:  Data Center Infrastructure Efficiency | Desktop Management | Desktop Virtualization | Operating Systems | Server Management | Thin Client Hardware | Thin Client Software | Virtual Desktop Infrastructure

CASE STUDY - This case study looks at the experience of a a mid-sized Fortune 1000 company that was dealing with the challenges of disparate servers and desktop systems as well as underutilized servers with huge energy consumption. See how they used desktop virtualization to obtain power cost savings and increased management efficiency.
Posted: November 20, 2009 | Published: November 20, 2009


Topics:  Cost Benefit Analysis | Data Center Infrastructure Efficiency | Data Centers | Desktop Management | Desktop Virtualization | Network Management | Server Consolidation | Server Virtualization | Systems Management

WHITE PAPER - This whitepaper will discuss how the push for continued virtualization and the "cloud"- along with a consolidated view that manages the infrastructure - is quickly becoming a reality due to market and end-user demand. You'll also learn what questions to ask yourself to assist in creating an organizational strategy for the best management approach.
Posted: November 20, 2009 | Published: November 20, 2009


Topics:  Business IT Alignment | Data Center Infrastructure Efficiency | Data Centers | Data Management | ITIL | Storage Best Practices | Storage Virtualization | Storage Virtualization Software

WHITE PAPER - Once you decide to deploy Oracle within the data center, a continuous lifecycle begins - moving from initial development, test, and deployment, to ongoing migration, to new releases of Oracle and deployment of new features with each release. The EMC Solutions Practice for Oracle can help you get started quickly.
Posted: November 20, 2009 | Published: November 19, 2009


Topics:  Backups | Business Continuation Services | Data Center Infrastructure Efficiency | Data Center Management | Data Centers | Data Recovery | Data Storage | Database Administration | Oracle (Product) | Tiered Storage

WHITE PAPER - Read this white paper for a discussion of the many benefits of virtualization, how it has evolved, and how it intersects with data center optimization strategies.
Posted: November 19, 2009 | Published: October 30, 2009


Topics:  Data Center Consolidation | Data Center Cooling | Data Center Design | Data Center Infrastructure Efficiency | Data Center Power Management | Server Consolidation | Server Management | Server Virtualization | Server Virtualization Software

PRODUCT DEMO - View this Flash demo on virtualization to understand how CA can help you accelerate your time to market, achieve operational excellence across physical and virtual environments and reduce risk associated with virtualization.
Posted: November 19, 2009 | Published: November 19, 2009


Topics:  Business Process Automation | Business Systems | Data Center Infrastructure Efficiency | Data Center Management | Risk Management | Server Virtualization | Server Virtualization Software | Virtualization Security

PRESENTATION TRANSCRIPT - This presentation transcript details an approach to optimize your virtualized infrastructure performance. Learn how to leverage key performance indicators and cross-domain analytics to plan for future capacity demands and improve service levels. Discover the secret to managing your VMware infrastructure performance for optimal resource utilization.
Posted: November 19, 2009 | Published: November 18, 2009


Topics:  Capacity Planning | Data Center Infrastructure Efficiency | Data Center Management | High Availability | Network Management | Network Performance | Server Virtualization | Service Level Management | Storage Capacity | Systems Management

CASE STUDY - MySpace knows better than anyone the high demands that consumers can make on application and web servers. It maintains two sets of servers depending on application transaction load. Even so, continued transaction growth on these servers was resulting in poor performance. MySpace decided to give Fusion-io a try.
Posted: November 18, 2009 | Published: November 18, 2009


Topics:  Data Center Cooling | Data Center Infrastructure Efficiency | Data Center Management | Data Center Power Management | Green Data Center | Power Consumption Monitoring | Server Management | Server Provisioning

WHITE PAPER - As mid-size enterprises find themselves strapped for time, money and management resources, they have to find ways of doing more with less. Age-in-Place is a data management strategy that means no more tiers – the easiest and most cost effective way to manage the life-cycle of your data.
Posted: November 18, 2009 | Published: November 18, 2009


Topics:  Data Center Infrastructure Efficiency | Data Governance | Data Loss Prevention (DLP) | Data Management | Data Mirroring | Data Recovery | Data Security | Data Storage | Storage Capacity | Tiered Storage

WEBCAST - Please watch this presentation featuring Brad Blake, Director, IT at Boston Medical Center. The presentation will illuminate topics such as Boston Medical Center’s decision process and successful implementation of Data Domain deduplication storage - as well as the economic benefits received by going tapeless for backup and disaster recovery.
Posted: November 18, 2009 | Premiered: November 18, 2009


Topics:  Backups | Data Center Infrastructure Efficiency | Data Center Management | Data Deduplication | Data Management | Data Recovery | Data Storage | Disaster Recovery

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

WHITE PAPER - In this profile you will explore how to maximize future investment returns in more detail and review the key requirements for optimization solutions. You'll then be introduced to the Virtualization Management Maturity Model, an assessment and planning guide for achieving greater operational efficiency at any stage of virtualization.
Posted: November 17, 2009 | Published: November 17, 2009


Topics:  Data Center Infrastructure Efficiency | Data Center Management | Data Management Software | ROI | Server Consolidation | Server Virtualization | Service Level Management | Systems Management | Virtual Desktop Infrastructure

WEBCAST - Many organizations lack visibility into the physical and virtual infrastructure in their data center, preventing them from achieving effective infrastructure management. This webcast explores how dependency mapping addresses this issue by enabling you to track and control configurations, model and test proposed changes and execute failure analysis.
Posted: November 17, 2009 | Premieres: December 10, 2009


Topics:  Data Center Consolidation | Data Center Infrastructure Efficiency | Data Center Management | Data Centers | Server Virtualization | VMware

PRODUCT LITERATURE - 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!
Posted: November 17, 2009 | Published: November 17, 2009


Topics:  Data Center Infrastructure Efficiency | Data Center Power Management | Data Centers | Multi-core Processors | ROI | Server Hardware | Server Virtualization | Systems Management | TCO

PRESENTATION TRANSCRIPT - Read this transcript of the "Mission Critical Computing" webcast to learn about changing trends in the data center infrastructure. Discover tools to ensure high availability at a low cost to improve IT performance and find out more about innovations to data center operations to help you remain competitive.
Posted: November 13, 2009 | Published: November 13, 2009


Topics:  Data Center Infrastructure Efficiency | Data Center Management | High Availability | Network Performance | Systems Management