A Pragmatic Approach to Server and Data Center Consolidation
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This whitepaper provides an overview of the factors driving consolidation initiatives and considers best practices for ensuring a successful consolidation initiative and a maximum return on investment. It also provides an introduction to workload profiling and portability technology which has helped thousands of organisations accelerate their consolidation initiatives and optimise their data centres through continuous server consolidation
Secure Copy™ is a powerful, comprehensive migration solution that automates the copying ofdata between Windows NT/2000/2003/2008 servers without the use of agents or scripts. Whetheryou're migrating from one server to...
Secure Copy™ is a powerful, comprehensive migration solution that automates the copying of
data between Windows NT/2000/2003/2008 servers without the use of agents or scripts. Whether
you're migrating from one server to...
As organizations struggle to cope with the exponential growth of data, especially in the unstructured and decentralized file space, the urgency to gain better control, visibility and transparency of file...
This white paper provides a starting point for organizations contemplating server consolidation. It includes an overview of server consolidation concepts and techniques and provides guidance on methodologies. It also looks...
In the first of this series of three white papers, Mike Ferguson of Intelligent Business Strategies defines what data governance is and then looks at the requirements that need to...
Going green has become an imperative, not an option, for companies facing the new reality of balancing business objectives with dwindling environmental resources. Limited energy supply and skyrocketing costs are...
Ironclad security has become the Holy Grail for companies looking to protect corporate and customer information at large in the modern enterprise. The move toward greater data distribution -- thanks...
Hundreds, even thousands, of applications serve as the life blood of each of today's distributed global enterprises - at use in more places and in more ways than ever before....
For many organisations, migration to Microsoft Windows Vista is not a question of "if" but "when." This inevitability is causing companies to start asking the difficult questions. This white paper...
This whitepaper provides an overview of the factors driving consolidation initiatives and considers best practices for ensuring a successful consolidation initiative and a maximum return on investment. It also...
Throughout the world, public services today are under pressure. The current economic climate, where taxreceipts are naturally suppressed, provides very seriousfunding challenges. Moreover, in good times and bad, increasing regulation at the regional and national level is imposing additional duties and responsibilities on the public services without additional resources to carry them out. Store closures are changing the urban landscape. Demographic and/or economic change isincreasing demand for health and social services.Demand for decreased crime rates is focusing minds in law enforcement. And the threat of internationalterrorism is forcing greater contingency duties on the emergency services. The net result is a need to do more with less—quite a challenge.
With momentum building behind mobile working, are higher costs inevitable when moving staff to laptops? Not necessarily. In fact it's possible to emerge with lower management overheads - and tighter security. Read on to find out more.
Virtualization is a powerful technology and can have profound effects on the datacenter; however, it should be viewed as a component of an overall IT strategy that will be able to support the enterprise's needs. IDC recommends that enterprises look at theentire architecture and determine how to best deploy virtualization
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