Design and Facilities

One of the most difficult problems faced by today's designers is figuring out how to leverage pay-as-you-go-clouds to build optimal data mgmt platfoms

Learn why your peers are replacing JEE containers with lightweight application servers - and what you can gain from the move.

The road map outlines a set of evolving objectives, challenges, required competencies, and success measures needed to transform IT from a cost center to a strategic value driver. It is designed to address key success factors at the executive sponsorship level and at the infrastructure level.

Virtualization is the essential catalyst for enabling the transition to cloud computing. VMware, the fastest growing enterprise software company and virtualization industry leader, builds on virtualization to deliver cloud infrastructure and management solutions that significantly reduce IT complexity.

Deciding on colocation and trying to select a provider? Download the guide to learn about driving factors, benefits, assessment considerations and more.

Companies who have implemented solid state disks make better use of server infrastructure, support concurrent user loads and improve user satisfaction

This technology brief provides 5 topics to think about as you design your long-term data retention plans.

This white paper shows how upgrading to LTO-5 technology and consolidating storage onto fewer tapes enables organizations to achieve a 5yr ROI and a 17-month payback period.

This paper outlines some of the important considerations for encrypting data on tape, and is intended to help IT administrators make the right decision for their environment and their company's data security needs.

Need a Long-Term Archive Solution? Quantum Adds LTO-5 to Scalar Tape Libraries. Find our more in this whitepaper!

Tape's evolving data storage role - Balancing Performance, Availability, Capacity, Energy for long-term data protection and retention

In this white paper, you'll learn about how Novell Sentinel can make protecting your system against these costly security threats easy and efficient. Keep security threats out and your data safe.

This EMA White Paper examines in more detail the building blocks for private cloud computing - automation, virtualization, and cloud service management - and provides EMA's recommendations for a phased approach to cloud computing, based on EMA's maturity model, research data, and enterprise activities, with prescriptive approach and some sample use cases to help get started.

Read this white paper to learn how IT organizations can implement an effective Service Catalog that will enable them to reap the full benefits of self-service in virtualized and cloud computing environments.

Listen in as Andras Cser, Principal Analyst at Forrester Research, speaks about trends he is seeing in the Identity & Access Management (IAM) market, and specifically about the challenges and benefits of user provisioning.

In this on-demand webinar, John Kindervag, Senior Analyst at Forrester Research, defines "zero-trust architecture," outlines the 5 steps needed to make this model actionable, and explains how his clients are adopting a "zero-trust architecture."

Historically, no clear standard exists for specifying sufficient cooling to achieve predictable behavior within wiring closets; this paper describes the science and practical application of an improved method for the specification of cooling for wiring closets.

This paper examines these typical mistakes, explains their principles, quantifies their impacts, and describes simple remedies.

This menu interface provides a high-level overview, product demonstrations, expert interviews, and resource links for the IBM Energy Management solution.

Find out more about how the x3400 M3 makes a strong foundation can solve a number of interesting business challenges for small and medium businesses.

This video describes that maturity lifecycle and the key management activities you will need to get past these tipping points, drive virtualization maturity and deliver virtualization success, at every stage of your virtualization lifecycle.

The focus of this paper is the power consumed by the support equipment which includes the losses of the power path equipment plus all power used by non-power-path support equipment.

The purpose of this paper is to outline practical and effective strategies of deployment of high density enclosures and blade servers.

This paper explains how to quantify the electricity savings and provides examples of methods that can greatly reduce electrical power consumption.

This paper provides an overview of energy cost and carbon allocation strategies and their precision.