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To respond to rapid business environmental changes, enterprises are now adopting a more agile and services-oriented model for centralized IT, often characterized as “private cloud.”  Public cloud service providers have become adept at adding new customers, new applications, and more compute-intensive workloads with minimal delay.  While traditional enterprise IT may not be able to fully emulate this model, they can use virtualization...

Over the past couple of years the mid-range storage market has become a hotbed of ongoing innovation.  The mid-market demands enterprise capability -- performance, resiliency, and features -- but with an innovative level of simplification and a unique level of adaptability.  In this Product in Depth paper, Taneja Group surveys mid-range storage systems across key criteria that represent an intersection of mid-range storage challenges, with speci...

Email has been a mission-critical application for years and at the heart of organizations' communications and business practices.  From an architecture perspective, email has frequently been walled off, sitting on separate servers and using separate back-end storage systems.  With advances in server hardware and the rise of virtualization, this appears to be changing.  Read this Forrester Consulting paper to learn the key considerations for w...

The primary challenge when virtualizing Tier 1 applications is storage performance. Learn how to get around I/O bottlenecks and eliminate downtime risk. ...

Storage virtualization has moved from “nice-to-have” to “must-have” status. This paper introduces storage virtualization and surveys the challenges that it can help to solve in the critical areas of engineering, operational and financial efficiency. ...

Blades allow for small hardware footprints, eliminate the cable clutter typically found in data centers, and streamline setup and maintenance over the server’s life cycle. They are designed to enable IT organizations to scale out the infrastructure for efficient service provisioning and to meet fluctuating demand levels. This whitepaper discusses five compelling reasons to deploy blades as you build out your virtualized infrastructure. In...

Enterprise and midsize businesses are increasingly turning to blade servers as the platform of choice to deliver the next generation of virtualized applications. Blade servers can yield significant cost efficiencies over rack servers - while taking up a smaller footprint, consuming less power and providing significant advantages in terms of manageability, scalability and flexibility. Intel, the Intel Logo and Intel Xeon Processor Inside are trad...

This IDC paper “Business Value of Blade Infrastructures” indicates the considerable cost savings and the improved agility of the IT infrastructure by migrating to an HP BladeSystem environment. In fact, HP BladeSystems cut data costs by up to 68%. Customers participating in this study were able to pay back their initial investment in just over 7 months, a significant factor given the financial constraints most IT organizations are facing. ...

HP BladeSystem with HP OneView delivers a whole new experience for IT with the Power of One—one infrastructure, one management platform to speed the delivery of services. Only the Power of One delivers leading infrastructure convergence, availability with federation, and agility through data center automation. HP BladeSystem helps you lower data center costs by 68 percent so you can shift investment from routine maintenance to innovation, maxim...

Blade servers bring efficiency and agility to IT infrastructures by making it easy to add and move resources and applications. In a recent study, IDC found that companies using blade servers were able to cut operating expenses by 64 percent. But to extract the optimal benefits from blade servers, IT shops must chose a vendor whose strategy and tools reduce complexity, simplify management, support lifecycle automation and deliver the flexibility to ...