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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 TOPICS: Blade Servers \| Server Accelerators \| Server Hardware \| Server Management \| Server Provisioning \| Server Virtualization \| Virtual Machine \| Virtual Machine Migration

Highly-Scalable Virtualization: Optimizing your Infrastructure with IBM eX5 and VMware vSphere sponsored by IBM WHITE PAPER: For small and midsize companies, System x, BladeCenter, and VMware virtualization solutions offer cost-effective options for transforming IT into a simple more powerful computing infrastructure. Look to IBM and VMware to show you how you can be distinctly competitive and profitable. Posted: 19 Jan 2011 \| Published: 19 Jan 2011 TOPICS: Blade Servers \| Cloud Computing \| IT Infrastructure \| ROI \| Server Virtualization \| System x \| Virtual Machine \| VMware \| VMware ESX

Red Hat Cloud Foundations, Edition One: Implementation Cookbook sponsored by Red Hat and JBoss WHITE PAPER: This paper provides an overview of a reference architecture prepared by Red Hat that fully documents how to build your own private cloud. Posted: 15 Feb 2011 \| Published: 09 Feb 2011 TOPICS: Application Development \| Application Infrastructure \| Blade Servers \| Cloud Computing \| Infrastructure Management \| Private cloud computing \| Public cloud computing \| Server Virtualization \| Virtual Machine

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 TOPICS: Blade Servers \| Enterprise \| Productivity \| ROI \| Server Consolidation

HP Integrity Server Blades: Meeting Mission-Critical Requirements with a Bladed Form Factor sponsored by HP & Intel® WHITE PAPER: This paper outlines the trends in the industry relating to blade server deployments, the challenges relating to systems management and power and cooling in that computing environment, and HP's approach to addressing those challenges. Posted: 25 Aug 2010 \| Published: 20 Aug 2010 TOPICS: Blade Servers \| Data Center Cooling \| Data Center Management \| Data Center Power Management \| Data Centers \| Systems Management

Reference Architecture Guide sponsored by Hitachi Vantara WHITE PAPER: It can be difficult to design, deploy, manage and support Microsoft Exchange 2010 environments with hardware components from multiple vendors. This solution reduces the complexity of Exchange environments by using servers and storage. Read on to learn more. Posted: 30 Sep 2011 \| Published: 30 Sep 2011 TOPICS: Blade Servers \| Data Center Design \| Network Architectures \| SAN \| Storage Architectures \| Storage Devices \| Systems Management

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 TOPICS: Blade Servers \| Cooling Capacity \| Data Center Design \| Data Center Infrastructure Efficiency \| Data Center Power Management \| Energy Efficiency \| Power Consumption Monitoring \| Server Virtualization

Memory Provisioning Recommendations for Vmware Infrastructure 3 sponsored by Kingston Technology Company, Inc. WHITE PAPER: In order to successfully base server consolidation on VMware Infrastructure 3, it is important to have appropriately sized physical memory. Learn how to determine the right amount of memory for a VI3 deployment and the consequences of sub-optim... Posted: 19 Oct 2007 \| Published: 19 Oct 2007 TOPICS: Blade Servers \| Memory Management \| Microprocessors \| Server Consolidation \| Server Virtualization \| Storage Management \| VMware

Midsize businesses enhance performance and reduce costs sponsored by IBM and Intel WHITE PAPER: Read this white paper to see how IBM® System x® and IBM BladeCenter® servers can offer an outstanding platform for virtualization and consolidation. Posted: 06 Jun 2011 \| Published: 06 Jun 2011 TOPICS: Blade Servers \| Data Center Management \| Data Centers \| Server Hardware \| Server Management \| Server Virtualization

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 TOPICS: Blade Servers \| Network Architectures \| Network Best Practices \| Network Management \| Network Managers \| Networking \| Systems Management \| VMware \| VMware Infrastructure 3