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Dell Proconsult Windows 7 Readiness Assessment

Sponsor: Dell

Make sure your environment is ready for a Windows 7 upgrade. Dell's Windows 7 Readiness Assessment provides a detailed analysis of your preparedness to upgrade and includes a comprehensive gap analysis to speed time to migration and mitigate risk.

Streaming Compute Vision - An Intel-TCS Collaboration

Sponsor: Dell

Software streaming offers an alternate compute model that reduces server-side processing. Learn how processing power is utilized at the client-side without compromising security. This white paper provides real-world benchmark results.

Reaching New Heights

Sponsor: Dell

An aviation company moved to a clustered supercomputer environment to speed up processes and simplify operations. This change in their technical infrastructure enabled them to solve complex mathematical and engineering problems much more quickly and cut energy consumption by 50%.

SSDNow vs. HDD and Use Cases/Scenarios

Sponsor: Kingston Technology

Kingston's SSDNowdrives extend the life of computers by complementing existing HDDs in desktops and replacing them in notebooks. Available in 40GB, 64GB and 128GB capacities and in bundled accessory kits, they’re backed by a three-year warranty and legendary Kingston reliability. Get performance gains and power consumption reductions at a fraction of the cost of a new system.

Coping with SAN Storage Frustration Caused by Server Virtualization

Sponsor: NEC

Server virtualization is clearly one of the breakout technologies in the first decade of the 21st century. The results are both operationally and economically compelling, however, they are not without their pitfalls as server virtualization unless properly managed with appropriate SAN storage.
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IDC's Views: Mission-Critical Workloads for Windows Servers: How NEC Supports IT Best Practices

Sponsor: NEC

See IDC's views on deploying mission-critical workloads on X86 server infrastructure and how IDC views NEC in the x86 server space.

PCI DSS Compliance in the UNIX/Linux Datacenter Environment

Sponsor: BeyondTrust

This document explains how BeyondTrust PowerBroker supports the Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI DSS) by limiting and tracking authorization to execute commands and programs that access servers and applications storing and using proprietary cardholder. BeyondTrust PowerBroker provides an auditable process that controls, monitors and records that access.

Faster, Cheaper and Easier to Maintain

Sponsor: HP

This paper will explore the performance characteristics, energy demands and maintenance requirements of today's new, energy-efficient servers, and their potential impact on cost-containment strategies such as refresh-cycle adjustment. Download the whole report!

IDC Research Report: The Business Value of Consolidating on Energy-Efficient Servers

Sponsor: HP

Most organizations faced with budget challenges put off capital expenditures (capex) and seek alternatives, such as extending server life cycles and extending software licenses. This paper demonstrates that such a buy and hold strategy actually adds costs to the datacenter. Continue to read the full report from IDC.

The Business Case for Virtualization

Sponsor: HP

The business case is clear: Virtualization can help you save money, increase IT agility, and improve business outcomes. Are you capitalizing on these opportunities? In this whitepaper, HP will guide you through the solution.
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AISO founders envisioned a Web hosting company that was environmentally friendly. While the company employed energy-efficient innovations like solar panels, its infrastructure produced unacceptable power and cooling requirements. Find out how AISO leveraged AMD technology to overcome their challenge in this case study white paper.

In this whitepaper, Scalar explores the opportunity to change the landscape with respect to mission critical databases built around Oracle. Leveraging technologies such as Linux, high-end commodity processing power and Oracle RAC technology to architect, design, build and maintain database infrastructure that delivers maximum availability, reliability and performance at a fraction of traditional cost.

On a typical day, weather.com, the Web site for The Weather Channel in Atlanta, serves up between 15 million and 20 million page views. But in September 2004, when back-to-back hurricanes ransacked Florida, the peak traffic on one day more than tripled: over 70 million page views by more than 7 million unique visitors. Read the full success story now.

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