consolidation
Virtualisation: Real-life tales of how to get it right
Comment But I think there has been a dampening of enthusiasm around virtualisation and consolidation projects over the last 18 months probably due to a combination of the economic climate and increasing complexity around the... [20 Nov 2009]
Outsourcers to fall victim to cloud computing rush?
News There will probably be a lot of consolidation, particularly of small and medium-sized companies getting rolled into larger ones. Could some of the big names in outsourcing be among the victims of the much-hyped shift to... [19 Nov 2009]
Making the Business Case for File Server Consolidation
White Paper This paper describes a process that allows one to gather the necessary data to build a business case to get sponsorship for server consolidation projects. Consolidating servers to place the organization's workload onto a... [13 Nov 2009]
The FactPoint Group: 12 Ways Unified Threat Management Firewalls Are Driving Security Consolidation
White Paper Just as virtualization has boosted server consolidation in data centers, so too are technology changes spurring consolidation of single-application security appliances on corporate networks Instead of... [13 Nov 2009]
Server Consolidation and Workload Optimization
White Paper Moving forward with server consolidation will be a necessity for reducing data center costs as well as providing better workload management, workload availability as well as provisioning and workload portability. [13 Nov 2009]
Complying With International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS): Getting Your Systems Ready to Meet Financial Consolidation and Reporting Requirements
White Paper Given the length of time it takes to change an organization's people, process and technologies, and to adopt governance practices globally, now is the time to assess and plan for the impacts of an IFRS transition on organization. [13 Nov 2009]
EventTracker Architecture Handling Millions of Events Each Day: The Importance of Consolidation, Correlation, and Detection Enterprise Security Series
White Paper The purpose of this paper is to highlight the major advantages of employing EventTracker to consolidate, correlate, and manage event log data. The paper introduces at a high level the major design concepts that enable EventTracker to... [13 Nov 2009]
Taxing Issues in Strategic Sourcing Decisions
White Paper This analysis encompasses strategic sourcing options such as relocation and consolidation to use shared services, insourcing, outsourcing and co-sourcing. Today's economic environment is forcing companies to assess their... [13 Nov 2009]
Top Ten Reports to Identify "Junk" Data in Your Storage Network
White Paper To overcome this challenge, companies are reducing the physical number of file and print servers using consolidation strategies. Many companies face a common problem - they need to reduce storage management costs while... [13 Nov 2009]
Consolidating Enterprise Network Security Infrastructure: Ways to Cut Costs and Complexity
White Paper Enterprises are leading the way and reaping the benefits of consolidation, centralizing data centers and embracing virtualization initiatives. Off late economy, large enterprise businesses and their IT organizations need... [13 Nov 2009]
The SonicWALL Approach to Consolidating Network Security Infrastructure and Cutting Costs
White Paper It further explains the combination of innovative features/functions and robust, platform-level capabilities that enable customers of SonicWALL UTM products to maximize their gains due to consolidation. [13 Nov 2009]
SQL Server Workload Consolidation: VMware ESX 3.5
White Paper An important consideration in consolidation scenarios is application performance when packing multiple virtual machines on a single hardware platform. Database workloads are very diverse. While most database servers are... [12 Nov 2009]
Server Workload Analysis for Power Minimization Using Consolidation
White Paper Server consolidation has emerged as a promising technique to reduce the energy costs of a data center. In this work, the author presents the first detailed analysis of an enterprise server workload from the perspective... [12 Nov 2009]
Sun and VMware Solutions Guide for Windows Server Consolidation
White Paper Designing a Windows server consolidation initiative creates a new set of challenges for the storage infrastructure - storage solutions must offer simplicity, performance, availability, and ease of management. [12 Nov 2009]
Consolidation of Media Servers and Open Service Creation
White Paper Legacy Interactive Voice Response (IVR) systems suffer from the disadvantages of slow service changes, inefficient resource allocation, awkward scaling and the inability to accommodate next generation networks. [12 Nov 2009]