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Controlling Your Power and Cooling Costs with Dell PowerEdge Servers and Intel Xeon Processors

Posted December 12, 2012 - 2:45 pm

Today's powerful business-critical applications and the sheer amount of data created by businesses require organizations to invest in powerful servers that can handle the load.
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Simplify IT Management with Dell PowerEdge Servers

Posted December 12, 2012 - 12:15 pm

It's critical that today's business be able to provide high-performance business applications to their users, secure and reliable storage for their data and quickly troubleshoot problems when they do occur.
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vSphere upgrade saga: vCloud Director 5.1

Posted December 12, 2012 - 8:28 am

vCloud Director was one of the easiest upgrades but still required some VMware Knowledge Base articles to complete. As always before you do anything you need to "Read the Fine Manual". One misstep may mean starting all over again.
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Making big data smaller

Posted December 11, 2012 - 12:49 pm

MIT researchers develop a new approach to working with big data: reduce it to a size that can be managed and analyzed with conventional tools
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Top 10 tech stories of 2012: a busted IPO, spotlight on workers, titans in transition

Posted December 10, 2012 - 5:03 pm

Change in any industry involves conflict. Evolution and revolution in tech this year took place not only in the marketplace but also in the courtroom, the factory, and on the Web. Here are the top news stories of 2012 as selected by the editors of the IDG News Service.
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vSphere upgrade saga: Upgrading to vCNS 5.1

Posted December 10, 2012 - 3:23 pm

vCNS 5.1 replaces vShield 5.1, and if you do not add new nodes during your installation, you can easily perform all upgrades without removing any components of vShield. vCNS upgrades will upgrade all components of vShield.
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vSphere upgrade saga: vCenter 5.1

Posted December 7, 2012 - 3:40 pm

Moving to vCenter 5.1 comes with quite a few caveats and requirements -- and if you make even one mistake you need to start over.
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Riverbed Granite takes iSCSI across the WAN

Posted December 7, 2012 - 2:40 pm

Granite Core and Edge appliances eliminate the gap between storage in the data center and servers in the branch
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Deriving value from SOA with data grids

Posted December 6, 2012 - 10:30 am

This white paper demonstrates that a data grid infrastructure, built with clustered cahing, can help you avoid "weak link" vulnerabilities that can sabotage SOA strategies.
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Oracle Optimized Solution for Enterprise Cloud

Posted December 6, 2012 - 10:30 am

This guide offers recommendations and best practices for assembling and integrating a range of hardware and software components, such as servers, storage, virtualization software, and operating systems.
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Database Consolidation onto Private Clouds

Posted December 6, 2012 - 10:30 am

Consolidation can be achieved through server, operating system, and database consolidation, and the higher the consolidation density achieved, the greater the return on investment (ROI).
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Reduce Complexity and Accelerate Enterprise Cloud Infrastructure Deployments

Posted December 6, 2012 - 10:30 am

To reap the benefits of cloud computing, IT infrastructure must run efficiently. Many IT infrastructures' are based on disparate technologies that often are labor intensive to maintain and difficult to adapt to changing workloads.
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Lower IT Costs with Oracle Database 11g Release 2

Posted December 6, 2012 - 10:30 am

Learn how you can transform your business, budgets, and service levels with Oracle Database 11g Release 2.
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vSphere upgrade saga: Upgrading HPSIM

Posted December 5, 2012 - 12:04 pm

Since an upgrade requires you to reboot each node of your vSphere cluster this is also the perfect time to update any firmware you may need for your systems as recommended by VMware and the hardware vendor.
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How to Backup Files On Your Computer - Part 1: The Basics

Posted December 5, 2012 - 12:02 pm

Nobody enjoys backing up their computers, but imagine the pain of losing every picture of your children, every vacation, graduation, birthday, and wedding. It usually takes getting burned once to be prodded into a backup strategy. Being prepared before that first disaster is a much saner option.
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10 hard truths IT must learn to accept

Posted December 5, 2012 - 9:00 am

Unsanctioned devices, compromised networks, downtime -- today's IT is all about embracing imperfections
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EMC's Project X may have wide impact on data centers

Posted December 4, 2012 - 8:36 pm

EMC plans to sell flash storage for use across data centers and is developing software to tie all those components together.
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Managing Multiple Operating Systems: Five Best Practices

Posted December 4, 2012 - 3:15 pm

From BYOD and tablet growth, to endpoint security, this paper offers five best practices to manage multiple operating systems in an efficient, scalable and secure way.
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Top 5 Considerations for Cost-Effective Computer Lifecycle Management

Posted December 4, 2012 - 3:15 pm

The new reality is that hardware prices have come down, maintenance costs have gone up and technology is improving to the point where accelerating refresh cycles for desktops and laptops can be the most cost-effective strategy.
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IDC Whitepaper: Delivering an Integrated Infrastructure for the Cloud

Posted December 3, 2012 - 6:00 pm

Cloud computing is one of the prevailing IT trends today. By providing greater levels of provisioning and automation, cloud computing can help organizations better allocate resources and enables organizations to more flexibly scale IT infrastructure.
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Start Small, Grow Tall: Why Cloud Now

Posted December 3, 2012 - 6:00 pm

Cloud is the hottest thing in computing today, and enterprises are eagerly seeking to adopt it. They realize that it holds the promise of curing today's "data center sprawl;" however, companies still face a number of obstacles to cloud adoption.
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HP Whitepaper: The Cloud - Inevitable, But Not Ubiquitous

Posted December 3, 2012 - 6:00 pm

With so much hype surrounding the cloud, most IT professionals are left wondering: Should I move to the cloud? Read this white paper to get answers to your cloud questions and understand when and where the cloud makes sense for your organization.
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Five Myths of Cloud Computing

Posted December 3, 2012 - 6:00 pm

Cloud computing continues to grow in popularity. And more businesses are advertising that they are the front runner for providing cloud services. However, in this race to remain top dog, IT pros remain unsure of the benefits of cloud computing.
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Cisco, VMware and OpenFlow fragment SDNs

Posted December 3, 2012 - 2:29 pm

Juniper Networks Executive Vice President Bob Muglia spelled it out succinctly: the nascent software-defined networking market is morphing into three camps - OpenFlow/open source, Cisco and VMware.
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vSphere upgrade saga: Getting all the bits

Posted December 3, 2012 - 11:16 am

The VMware Enterprise Plus upgrade to vCloud Suite Standard would give me the benefits of being able to make use of vCloud as well as vCNS products in my environment. But before I started the install I had to plan the install, and this produced a long list of software to gather and download.
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