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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...

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. ...

Today’s workforce is more dispersed than ever and relies heavily on cloud-based services to stay productive. Cloud-based services and distributed service consumption are causing more traffic to flow across the public Internet, creating an entirely new set of challenges in the areas of performance, availability, and security. ...

Over the past decade, infrastructure and operations teams have focused large amounts of resources on making their customer-facing websites blazingly fast because website experience had a direct correlation to customer satisfaction and revenue. The introduction of cloud, virtualization, and mobility has expanded the number of types of revenue-producing applications, which means that I&O teams need to optimize a much broader set of user experiences....

Driven by the need to provide measurable business value, the IT environment continues to evolve.  In addition to the increasing adoption of cloud computing and mobility, these initiatives include big data projects as well as the deployment of new applications and the modernization of existing applications, infrastructure platforms, and private network equipment.    ...

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 ...