Servers White Papers
Servers white papers and technology resources for implementing and optimizing Servers strategy, solutions, Servers products, and more.
Dell 3-2-1 Reference Configurations help companies simplify the design, ordering and deployment of a highly available virtualized infrastructure. This proven architecture is comprised of three servers, two switches and one storage array, plus the software you'll need to manage the environment to support over 500 users.
Sponsor: Dell
Forrester: Formulate A Database Security Strategy to Ensure Investments Will Actually Prevent Data Breaches and Satisfy Regulatory Requirements
Although most organizations are taking stronger measures to protect their data, significant gaps still exist at the very core - their databases. Many don't have a comprehensive database security strategy to defend against sophisticated attacks, track sensitive data, or even meet emerging regulatory requirements.
Sponsor: Oracle
Has Your Server Infrastructure Kept Pace with User Demands?
Learn how your answer to this question compares to your peers by taking this quick poll. See how your peers are dealing with the challenge of ensuring a highly capable server infrastructure as technological shifts impact the application server platform.
Sponsor: AMD
Consolidating Lotus Domino x86 Workloads on IBM Power Systems
Many data centers run their email systems on numerous underutilized x86 servers. A rigid practice that creates availability, efficiency and user satisfaction issues, it can prove to be costly. Read the white paper to learn how moving up to Lotus Domino 8.5 and consolidating with IBM Power Servers can help you boost performance results and ROI.
Sponsor: IBM
Best Practices for Migrating Linux/x86 Applications to IBM Power Systems
Running your Linux workloads on inefficient x86-based server farms is complex and costly. But switching to a consolidated server solution can be difficult. Read the white paper to learn the best practices for migrating to Power System servers. You'll also see how simple it is to leverage IBM's offerings to maximize performance and cost savings.
Sponsor: IBM
Microsoft SharePoint on the AWS Cloud - Learn How!
Amazon Web Services (AWS) provides services & tools for deploying Microsoft® SharePoint® workloads on its cloud infrastructure platform. This white paper discusses how to use these services and provides detailed technical guidance on how to configure, deploy, & run a SharePoint Server farm on AWS.
Sponsor: Amazon Web Services
Securing Internet File Transfers
Private data-so heavily protected on the corporate network-is instantly exposed to risk and attack once it sails onto the public Internet. Yet the business drivers that demand security within the corporate network-compliance with regulations, preservation of customer privacy, and protection of intellectual property-apply even more to your Internet transfers.
This solution brief describes the four essential elements of secure Internet transfers and tells you how Attachmate FileXpress overcomes the shortcomings of traditional file transfer practices to protect the confidentiality and integrity of data in motion.
Sponsor: Attachmate
ITG Report: Cost/Benefit Case for IBM XIV Systems: Comparing Cost
New research from the International Technology Group demonstrates that the three-year operating and capital expenses for deployment and use of IBM XIV storage systems average 69 percent less than for EMC VMAX equivalents. Download now to learn more.
Sponsor: IBM
Sorting Through the Confusion - Replacing Tape with Disk Backup
In view of the often confusing landscape of how best to replace tape backup, this white paper will discuss the factors to consider when evaluating the alternatives, including a framework for assessing the value to IT for each approach.
Sponsor: ExaGrid
Reducing Costs Through Better Server Utilization
As IT organizations support dynamically changing business priorities and cope with economic pressures, maintaining datacenter agility is critical By consolidating systems onto the latest server technology and taking advantage of virtualization techniques, enterprises can optimize datacenter efficiency, gain flexibility, and reduce operating costs-without sacrificing performance or impacting service levels.
Sponsor: Oracle
Get Serious About SOA Governance: A Five-Step Action Plan for Executives
Whether your organization's service-oriented architecture (SOA) has 50 services being used by one customer, or 50 customers using one service, you need SOA governance; increased business agility depends on it. SOA governance provides the ability to quickly and continuously translate and transmit business strategy and requirements into the processes, policies, and controls that will guide the evolution of your infrastructure and your enterprise. Download this whitepaper, Get Serious About SOA Governance: A Five-Step Action Plan for Executives to see why many organizations are reaping the rewards of successful SOA transformations and what you need to do to make yours one of them.
Sponsor: Oracle
Oracle Database Appliance
Oracle Database Appliance is a new engineered system consisting of hardware and software that saves customers time and money by simplifying deployment, maintenance and support of high availability database solutions. It also offers customers a unique pay-as-you-grow software licensing capability, allowing seamless scalability from 2 to 24 processor cores without any hardware upgrades. Plus it's based on Intel Xeon processors to ensure a high level of performance and scalability. Learn more about why the Oracle Database Appliance is an ideal database system for customers who value simplicity and who seek to lower the costs and the risks of deploying a highly available database solution.
Sponsor: Oracle & Intel
Time Savings and Ease of Deployment Comparison Study: Oracle Database Appliance vs. Microsoft SQL Server
As the amount and importance of corporate data grows, companies of all sizes are finding that they increasingly need to deploy high-availability database solutions to support their business-critical applications. High database administrator workloads have made the ease with which these systems can be installed, administered, and supported an important consideration in their selection. Plus it's based on Intel Xeon processors to ensure a high level of performance and scalability. Read this research report to discover the results of comparison testing between two database management systems - Oracle Database Appliance and Microsoft SQL Server - in terms of the productivity and cost-efficiency differences.
Sponsor: Oracle & Intel
