SmartBiz IT Research Library

VIRTUAL SEMINAR - Attend this live two-day virtual event, December 9-10, 2008, and determine what IT investments to make in order to control escalating costs and ensure an efficient and profitable future.
Posted: November 14, 2008 | Published: December 9, 2008


Topics:  Business Development | Data Center Consolidation | Data Centers | Financial Management | ROI | Server Consolidation | Strategic Planning | TCO

PRODUCT OVERVIEW - This short data sheet from Citrix provides a checklist to help you decide which level of virtualization is appropriate to fit your needs.
Posted: November 14, 2008 | Published: August 20, 2008


Topics:  Disaster Recovery | Hardware | Server Consolidation | Server Virtualization | SQL Server | Testing

WHITE PAPER - Ultimately, virtualization promises to deliver a better, less expensive and more flexible IT infrastructure. IT organizations, when considering all of the benefits of virtualization should pay close attention to the real goal - applicat...
Posted: November 14, 2008 | Published: August 20, 2008


Topics:  Applications Software | Globalization | Hardware | Regulatory Compliance | Server Consolidation

SOFTWARE LISTING - ROC Maestro for Open Systems, a key component of the ROC Enterprise Suite™, provides a very easy method for scheduling and managing workloads, processes, dependencies and events across complex, heterogeneous IT environments.
Posted: November 14, 2008 | Published: March 1, 2008


Topics:  Job Scheduling | Job Scheduling Software | Linux | Network Management | Open Source Software | Open Systems | Open Systems Standards | Print Management | Print Management Software | Printing Utilities | Server Consolidation | UNIX

WHITE PAPER - Zenith Infotech, along with A-Server, has the industry's first comprehensive solution suite to bring the power of cloud computing to you and your customers.
Posted: November 12, 2008 | Published: November 12, 2008


Topics:  Data Center Management | Data Centers | Disaster Recovery | Enterprise | Server Consolidation | Web Services

WHITE PAPER - Multi-core processors offer performance and productivity benefits beyond the capabilities of today's single-core processors.
Posted: November 4, 2008 | Published: August 22, 2008


Topics:  Hardware | IT Managers | Multi-core Processors | Operating Systems | Security | Server Consolidation | Software

PRODUCT LITERATURE - This paper reports scalability test results for concurrent user sessions on Dell PowerEdge R805 servers running either Dual-Core or Quad-Core AMD Opteron processors.
Posted: October 31, 2008 | Published: October 31, 2008


Topics:  Data Centers | Disaster Recovery | Performance Testing | Processor Architectures | Scalability Testing | Server Consolidation | Server Virtualization | Server Virtualization Software

WHITE PAPER - By using a combination of VirtualCenter and CA Unicenter ASM you can visualize and manage logical entities as easily and as well as physical entities, enabling you to dynamically map virtual system resources to business processes.
Posted: October 31, 2008 | Published: October 30, 2008


Topics:  Data Visualization | IT Infrastructure | Operating Systems | Server Consolidation | Server Virtualization | Systems Management | VMware

WHITE PAPER - This paper exposes five of the top myths that have emerged from static view and taken hold in the industry and digs into the truth underlying them to present you with the facts that can have a significant impact on your data center budget.
Posted: October 30, 2008 | Published: October 30, 2008


Topics:  Best Practices | Data Centers | IT Infrastructure | Server Consolidation | Server Virtualization | Storage Consolidation

JOURNAL ARTICLE - Network consolidation is just one of the technologies forcing storage pros to build stronger IT teams.
Posted: October 23, 2008 | Published: October 1, 2008


Topics:  Collaboration | Data Center Consolidation | Data Centers | Network Convergence | Network Infrastructure | Server Consolidation | Server Virtualization | Storage Systems

WHITE PAPER - Read this white paper to learn valuable ways to improve customer service and access more business intelligence, ensure fast and responsive application delivery and protect users, systems and applications from malicious threats.
Posted: October 20, 2008 | Published: October 17, 2008


Topics:  Application Deployment | Application Life-Cycle Management | Business Intelligence | Internet | Security | Server Consolidation | VoIP | WAN

WHITE PAPER - The HP Adaptive Infrastructure portfolio creates the foundation for delivering better business outcomes by enabling you to reduce operational costs, accelerate speed of IT change, and deliver higher quality of service to the business.
Posted: October 16, 2008 | Published: October 16, 2008


Topics:  Enterprise | ERP | High Availability | Investments | Security | Server Consolidation | Software | Storage Devices

WHITE PAPER - Virtualization can significantly improve the utilization of computing resources. In this white paper learn how virtualization can assign unused resources to workloads in other parts of an organization that can benefit from them.
Posted: October 16, 2008 | Published: October 16, 2008


Topics:  Disaster Recovery | High Availability | IT Managers | NAS | Server Consolidation | Vendors | Work Environment | Workflow Software | Workforce Management Software

WHITE PAPER - This paper examines the economic justification for server consolidation of Microsoft SQL Server databases on HP Integrity servers through the financial analysis of two distinct customer environments.
Posted: October 16, 2008 | Published: October 16, 2008


Topics:  Business Intelligence | Databases | ERP | Server Consolidation | Software Licensing | SQL Server | TCO

WHITE PAPER - IT shops can ensure availability of network and storage resources by addressing availability issues caused by changes in system configurations. This white paper explores a modular system that can help simplify this task.
Posted: October 16, 2008 | Published: October 15, 2008


Topics:  Application Performance Management | Blade Servers | Data Center Management | High Availability | Server Consolidation | Server Virtualization | Software Configuration Management | VMware