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RSS workloadServer 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... [13 Nov 2009]
Making the Business Case for File Server Consolidation
White Paper Consolidating servers to place the organization's workload onto a smaller number of Network Attached Storage (NAS) devices is an increasingly popular concept. However, it can be difficult to gather hard data to make the... [13 Nov 2009]
Preventing Password Expiration Proactively
White Paper Requests to reset expired passwords can constitute a sizable portion of the total help desk workload. Password expiration is a well-known pain for IT helps desk personnel. Because password expiration is periodic, the... [13 Nov 2009]
Towards SLA-Based Optimal Workload Distribution in SANs
White Paper This algorithm tries to balance the workload as evenly as possible over all storage devices. Storage Area Networks (SANs) connect storage devices to servers over fast network interconnects. The paper considers the... [12 Nov 2009]
Server Workload Analysis for Power Minimization Using Consolidation
White Paper In this work, the author presents the first detailed analysis of an enterprise server workload from the perspective of finding characteristics for consolidation. Using the insights from the workload... [12 Nov 2009]
SQL Server Workload Consolidation: VMware ESX 3.5
White Paper Database workloads are very diverse. While most database servers are lightly loaded, larger database workloads can be resource-intensive, exhibiting high I/O rates or consuming large amounts of memory. [12 Nov 2009]
Benchmarking Microsoft SQL Server Using VMware ESX Server 3.5
White Paper This paper presents the results of a benchmarking study, in which Brocade used an industry-standard online Transaction Processing Benchmark (TPC-C) in an ESX Server cluster to determine if ESX Server version 3.5 could run 10... [12 Nov 2009]
On Dynamic Resource Provisioning for Consolidated Servers in Virtualized Data Centers
White Paper In the presence of workload fluctuations that cause diverse and unforeseeable resource usages building such tools is challenging. Server consolidation based on Operating System (OS) virtualization technologies aims to... [12 Nov 2009]
SLA-Driven Distributed Application Development
White Paper Experiments demonstrate that the system can indeed adapt to changing workload conditions, saving roughly 70% of the network bandwidth in one particular experiment. The management of Service Level Agreements (SLA) in the... [12 Nov 2009]
ITIL That Fits Your Business
White Paper A significant percentage of ITIL implementations are simply never completed, after months of training, certification tests, and effort, while it is also common to find that an ITIL implementation has actually increased the... [11 Nov 2009]
Naked CIO: Is IT responsible for workers' output and errors?
Comment Now while it is not up to CIOs to understand what every employee does or to restructure their workload, I believe as part of any technology transformation in which automation and efficiency will significantly impact... [10 Nov 2009]
Power Solutions Article:Â Highly Available Virtualization with Microsoft Hyper-V and SCVMM 2008
White Paper Combining Microsoft® Hyper-V technology with Microsoft System Center Virtual Machine Manager (SCVMM) 2008 on Dell platforms can help organizations create highly available virtualized systems while offering simplified management,... [05 Nov 2009]
Photos: Inside a Microsoft datacentre
Photo Microsoft isn't saying which services are being run out of Chicago, although the Bing posters that covered the second floor server rooms suggest one possible workload. Microsoft recently opened its Chicago datacentre. [04 Nov 2009]
Plain Talk about Training Payment Options
White Paper Staffing and budgets are flat or declining, but the IT workload is rising. You know you need training; the trick today is how to pay for it and work it into your demanding schedule. Yet even with today's lean budgets,... [03 Nov 2009]
SQL Server 2008's Dynamic Duo: Management Views and Functions
White Paper This white paper will explore a few of their capabilities and give examples to show how they can ease the workload of a database administrator. The dynamic management views and functions, which were introduced in SQL... [03 Nov 2009]
