Blades Reports

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

IBM

Expert guide to using blades for virtualization
sponsored by Hewlett Packard Company and Intel
EGUIDE: In this expert e-guide from SearchServerVirtualization.com, learn the advantages of using blades for server virtualization. Find out when it makes the most sense and what considerations to evaluate when creating a blade virtualization strategy.
Posted: 14 Jul 2010 | Published: 14 Jul 2010

Hewlett Packard Company and Intel

Cisco UCS C-Series Rack Servers with Intelligent Intel Xeon Processors for Microsoft Exchange Server
sponsored by Insight
WHITE PAPER: This solution brief details the features and benefits of an innovative rack server series and discusses the benefits of running Exchange on this architecture. Read on to determine if this is an optimal hardware for your messaging and collaboration environment.
Posted: 25 Apr 2013 | Published: 25 Apr 2013

Insight

Rack Powering Options for High Density
sponsored by Schneider Electric
WHITE PAPER: In this APC whitepaper, alternatives for providing electrical power to high density racks in data centers and network rooms are explained and compared as well as defined guidelines for rack power systems that can reliably deliver power to high density loads while adapting to changing needs.
Posted: 01 Apr 2010 | Published: 09 Jul 2009

Schneider Electric

E-Book: Buying Your Next Physical Servers
sponsored by Dell, Inc. and Intel®
EBOOK: Midmarket organizations considering physical server upgrades must evaluate their environments, sift through offerings and integrate the servers with existing tools. This e-book will guide you through these complex efforts by covering three components: determining needs and requirements, understanding your options, and putting it all together.
Posted: 17 Nov 2010 | Published: 17 Nov 2010

Dell, Inc. and Intel®

Virtual Data Center E-Zine - Volume 31: How to Make the Transition from Physical to Virtual and Back
sponsored by VMware, Inc.
EZINE: “Workloads in transition” is one way to characterize virtualization, which ranges from physical-to-virtual to virtual-to-virtual and virtual-to-physical. Although each type of migration has its advantages, it has its challenges too. Find out where potential problems lurk, and keep them from dragging down your process.
Posted: 25 Mar 2011 | Published: 25 Mar 2011

VMware, Inc.

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

Red Hat and JBoss

HP ProLiant BL465c G7 Server Blade
sponsored by AMD, Hewlett-Packard and Microsoft
VIDEO: Join Andrew Hawthorn as he introduces you to the new HP ProLiant BL465c G7 Server Blade. Featuring the latest AMD Opteron processors and integrated HP Virtual Connect FlexFabric architecture, the BL465c G7 helps simplify network connections, lower infrastructure costs, and delivers the performance you expect for demanding application workloads.
Posted: 09 Aug 2010 | Premiered: 05 Aug 2010

All resources sponsored by AMD, Hewlett-Packard and Microsoft

E-Guide: Tips for rackmount server purchasing and consolidation best practices
sponsored by Colfax International
EGUIDE: This expert e-guide provides a comparison of blade and rack servers. Find out what key factors you should consider in your hardware decision and learn how to prevent sprawl through effective server consolidation.
Posted: 05 May 2011 | Published: 05 May 2011

Colfax International

Doubling the Value of Virtualization with HP ProLiant G6 Servers and HP StorageWorks
sponsored by Hewlett Packard Enterprise
CASE STUDY: When Opus Interactive needed to provide customers with a cost-efficient, highly available pay-as-you-grow server and storage model, they turned to HP ProLiant server blades, the HP LeftHand P4000 SAN, and VMware. As a result there was 75% reduction in customer cost per server and higher availability.
Posted: 03 Mar 2010 | Published: 03 Mar 2010

Hewlett Packard Enterprise