Data Center

White Papers

• Coming to Grips with Technical Debt - What’s the size of your organization’s technical debt? Unfortunately, many IT leaders can’t answer this question accurately. Not only don’t many IT leaders know the gamut of their organization’s technical debt, but they struggle with knowing fully how it impacts their business. In addition, many IT leaders don’t have a meaningful strategy for addressing their […]
• Tech Spending: Will We See a Rise in 2024? - After a few years of “growth at all costs” and the purchase of systems and services to accommodate such growth, the tech sector saw a slowdown in 2022 and 2023. That’s not news to anyone who makes a living building, buying, or selling technology—in other words, pretty much everyone. Recent numbers from Forrester, however, foretell […]
• Why Sustainable Technology Should Be a Priority for Tech Marketers in 2023 - Sustainable technology is being lauded as a leading strategic technology trend for 2023. Are you ready? Sustainable technology is a hot trend. How hot? Gartner recognized sustainable technology as one of the must-know trends in its “10 Top Strategic Technology Trends 2023” report, which is intended for an enterprise audience of business and IT leaders. […]
• Dual Platform Strategies for the Modern Datacenter - IT organizations are under intense pressure to improve service levels and contain expenses in today's challenging economic climate. Forward-looking organizations are upgrading IT infrastructure and implementing virtualization and cloud computing solutions to improve business agility and drive down costs.
• 5 Steps to building advanced Security in Software-Defined Data Centers - Download "5 Steps to building advanced Security in Software-Defined Data Centers" to get the three common data center challenges and the key ingredients for advanced security in the SDDC. The whitepaper also shows how VMware and Check Point have integrated their best of breed virtualization and advanced threat prevention technologies to boost security and realize the full value of Sofware-Defined Data Center architectures.
• Disruptive technology trends alter the business and have an impact on your data center - This white paper describes the impact of cloud computing, mobile technologies, social media and business analytics on data centers and provides predictive tools and techniques before employing IBM to help companies build a solid data center strategy.
• Is your data center being overwhelmed by rapidly converging technologies - An IBM infographic highlighting the infrastructure implications of today's converging technology forces and the software defined, data center transformation essential to capitalizing on them.
• Pervasive technology trends shaping the business and the implications for your data center - Four technology trends—cloud computing, mobile technology, social collaboration and analytics—are shaping the business and converging on the data center. But few data center strategies are designed with the requisite flexibility, scalability or resiliency to meet the new demands. Read the white paper to learn how a good data center strategy can help you prepare for the rigors and unpredictability of emerging technologies.
• When Business Surges, Can Your IT Keep Pace? On-Demand Webinar - HP Flexible Capacity offers a pay-as-you-grow solution that allows you to scal instantly to handle growth needs without the usual wait for the procurement process. A component of HP Datacenter Care, this unique approach does not tie up capital and creates an environment where you capacity never runs out.
• Flexible Capacity: A Scalable On-Premise Datacenter Platform with Public Cloud Advantages - Managing and operating a datacenter entails working with a myriad of complex technologies that can be difficult to run efficiently and effectively. This Technology Spotlight explores the trends affecting enterprise datacenters and discusses the role that HP plays in providing services that meet today's dynamic computing needs.
• Micro-segmentation for Dummies - Traditional approaches to securing data centers have focused on strong perimeter defenses to keepthreats on the outside of the network. This model is ineffective for handling today's new and evolving threats.
• Micro-Segmentation Builds Security into Your Data Center’s DNA - Most enterprise IT professionals agree that securing the network only at the perimeter is inadequate for today's data centers. Once malware has managed to make its way behind the firewall by latching onto an authorized user (or other means), it can move easily from workload to workload.
• Developing Applications with Cross Data Center Replication (XDCR) - Mission critical apps need a database that's always on. While intra-cluster replication helps with server failures, giving you high availability, your system still remains at risk from catastrophic failures. You may also need a way to improve the response time for users when they're globally distributed.
• Better Data Protection for the Modern Data Center - Sprawling virtual machines and increased data sizes have caused legacy backup tools to  become impractical due to shrinking backup windows, cost, manageability and lack of performance. Regardless of these challenges, data protection is a critical business process that just has to be right.
• Data Protection Without Limits - Globalization has become the norm. The exploding use of mobile devices and the Internet now requires most business' websites to be constantly available.
• 2015 Virtualization & Storage Management Survey Report - Discover what's going on behind the scenes of data centers in 2015.
• Take Virtualization to the Next Level with VMware vSphere with Operations Management - The emergence of the mobile-cloud era has unleashed a rising tide of applications and workflows, and consequently a surge in what business users have come to demand from their IT infrastructures. In order to live up to these expectations, it's pivotal for IT to embracethe Software-Defined Data Center.
• ITG: Comparing IBM Power Systems to Oracle Exadata Database Machine - ITG study comparing three-year costs for use of Oracle Exadata systems and IBM Power Systems for OLTP. Customer comparisons are based on 25 profile installations employing Oracle E-Business Suite (EBS), JD Edwards EnterpriseOne, PeopleSoft and Retail solutions.
• Software-Defined Storage: What it Means for the IT Practitioner - Server Virtualization has changed the way IT runs data centers across the world. Most enterprises now operate with a "virtual first" policy. However, the storage architecture that supports it has not kept pace
• eBook: The Rise of the Disruptive Data Warehouse - The data warehouse, as most people think of it, is passé. Associated with batch reporting, SQL only, long wait times—that's your father's data warehouse, and it shares little resemblance to today's data warehouse.