SmartBiz IT Research Library

INFORMATION CENTER - The demands on your data center are constantly increasing, and with data growing even fifty-fold in three years, how can you stay ahead? How can you optimize your data center? Take this interactive data center tour and learn more.
Posted: December 1, 2009 | Published: November 30, 2009


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

WEBCAST - Watch this webcast to learn key considerations for building a new data center. Receive strategies for each step of your infrastructure construction, from the data center design to finding the right contractor to carry out the project.
Posted: November 20, 2009 | Premiered: November 20, 2009


Topics:  Data Center Construction | Data Center Cooling | Data Center Design | Data Center Management | Data Center Power Management | Data Centers

PODCAST - Listen to this podcast to learn key considerations for building a new data center. Receive strategies for each step of your infrastructure construction, from the data center design to finding the right contractor to carry out the project.
Posted: November 20, 2009 | Premiered: November 20, 2009


Topics:  Data Center Construction | Data Center Cooling | Data Center Design | Data Center Management | Data Center Power Management | Data Centers

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

PRODUCT LITERATURE - This paper examines seven key questions you should ask yourself when choosing the prime hardware vendor for your virtualization solutions.
Posted: November 17, 2009 | Published: November 16, 2009


Topics:  CIOs | Data Center Construction | IT Infrastructure | IT Management | IT Managers | ROI | Server Hardware | Server Virtualization | Storage Virtualization | TCO

WHITE PAPER - Optimizing the benefits of a data grid built with Oracle Coherence relies upon creating a modular, balanced architecture. Matching the number of application servers, memory capacity, and quantity of processing nodes to the target workload characteristics is important to achieving the best performance.
Posted: November 11, 2009 | Published: November 11, 2009


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

WHITE PAPER - Enterprises today are seeking new communication technologies, such as wikis, blogs, and forums, to improve communication and collaboration and increase employee productivity.
Posted: November 11, 2009 | Published: November 11, 2009


Topics:  Data Center Construction | Data Center Management | Data Center Networking | Data Centers | Data Communications Services | Networking | Social Computing | Social Networking

VIRTUAL TRADESHOW - Attend this free virtual event and hear from top data center experts who will provide you with a coherent strategy to consolidate your data center, build a new facility or make an educated decision on the cloud model best suited for your environment.
Posted: November 10, 2009 | Premieres: December 9, 2009


Topics:  Cloud Computing | Data Center Consolidation | Data Center Construction | Data Center Design | Data Center Infrastructure Efficiency | Data Center Management | Data Centers | IT Infrastructure

EBOOK - The chapters in this Techfocus eBook will discuss the importance of site selection and planning, data center conceptualization and cost analysis, and negotiating with contractors.
Posted: November 9, 2009 | Published: November 9, 2009


Topics:  Cost Benefit Analysis | Data Center Construction | Data Center Design | Data Centers | Network Architectures

PRODUCT DEMO - For a limited time, you can evaluate a ZT Systems server for 30 days with no commitment to purchase. Experience the quality, performance, and flexibility that have made ZT one of the fastest growing manufacturers in the data center server space, and learn more about our platform customization capabilities.
Posted: October 23, 2009 | Published: October 23, 2009


Topics:  Data Center Construction | Data Center Design | Data Center Management | Data Centers | Multi-core Processors | Server Hardware

WHITE PAPER - The knowledge gained from this paper will assist in formulating strategies and methodologies to achieve near-zero downtime dynamic database migrations to Oracle10g or Oracle11g. Read this white paper to learn more.
Posted: September 24, 2009 | Published: July 1, 2009


Topics:  Data Center Construction | Data Center Management | Data Management | Data Migration | Linux | UNIX

WEBCAST - Engineering teams from Sun and Intel are collaborating on optimizing how the Solaris ecosystem and the new Intel Core Microarchitecture (formerly code-named Nehalem) for the Intel® Xeon® processor work together, with compelling results. View this webcast to see how these results can improve your own infrastructure.
Posted: September 17, 2009 | Premiered: September 17, 2009


Topics:  Blade Servers | Data Center Construction | Data Center Design | IT Infrastructure | Network Architectures | Rack Servers | ROI | Server Software | Server Virtualization

WHITE PAPER - Building the data center to meet the needs of an uncertain future is an expensive and needless exercise in over-engineering. New designs need to be modular, with built-in expansion capabilities. This paper looks at the concepts and benefits of modularity in all the necessary elements of the power system.
Posted: September 16, 2009 | Published: September 16, 2009


Topics:  Backups | Batteries | Capacity Planning | Data Center Construction | Data Center Design | Data Center Infrastructure Efficiency | Data Center Power Management | Network Design | Power Consumption Monitoring | UPS

ANALYST REPORT - The current state of the datacenter, demands a transformation that helps in improving space utilization and lowering power consumption while still providing the scale and availability the business requires. Today, lowering the energy and administration/management costs are two key focus areas of datacenter managers in the Asia/Pacific region.
Posted: September 3, 2009 | Published: April 1, 2009


Topics:  CIOs | Data Center Construction | Data Center Cooling | Data Center Design | Data Center Infrastructure Efficiency | Data Center Power Management | Data Centers | IT Spending