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Energy Logic: Calculating and Prioritizing Your Data Center IT Efficiency Actions
sponsored by Emerson Network Power
WHITE PAPER: This paper reviews the challenges of measuring data center energy efficiency and proposes a solution: a new metric called CUPS, or Compute Units per Second, that allows data center managers to calculate data center efficiency.
Posted: 07 Jul 2009 | Published: 07 Jul 2009

Emerson Network Power

Cisco UCS – A Real World TCO Analysis
sponsored by Cisco Systems, Inc.
WHITE PAPER: This white paper reveals five opportunities for infrastructure cost savings. Learn how to simplify management of your data center through integration and automation of network, compute, and virtualization technologies.
Posted: 03 Jun 2011 | Published: 01 Apr 2011

Cisco Systems, Inc.

Bridge the SAP Basis Support Gap
sponsored by Symmetry Corporation
WHITE PAPER: View this informative white paper to learn how you can get round-the-clock coverage and proactive monitoring for your SAP environment, all at a reasonable price with the right partner for SAP Basis.
Posted: 20 May 2014 | Published: 20 May 2014

Symmetry Corporation

PlateSpin® Recon: Virtual Capacity Management and Consolidation Planning
sponsored by Novell, Inc.
WHITE PAPER: PlateSpin® Recon from Novell is a sophisticated workload analysis, planning and management solution that provides new levels of intelligence, visual analysis and forecasting for optimizing the data center.
Posted: 01 Oct 2009 | Published: 01 Oct 2009

Novell, Inc.

Protecting Against the New Wave of Malware
sponsored by GFI Software
WHITE PAPER: Managing threats to the endpoint infrastructure is becoming increasingly difficult for most organizations. At the same time, many anti-malware defenses are not keeping up with the growing threats posed by malware. This white paper addresses the variety of issues facing organizations today in the context of their system manaagement challenges.
Posted: 14 Mar 2011 | Published: 11 Mar 2011

GFI Software

Gartner: Fabric Computing Poised as a Preferred Infrastructure for Virtualization and Cloud Computing
sponsored by Cisco Systems, Inc.
WHITE PAPER: This research note presents results from a recent survey on virtualization and cloud computing. Find out why many of your peers are looking into fabric-based infrastructures and get recommendations to help you leverage the full benefits of this technology.
Posted: 24 May 2011 | Published: 11 Feb 2011

Cisco Systems, Inc.

IDC White Paper: Maximizing System Performance to Manage the Cost of IT Operations
sponsored by Oracle Corporation
WHITE PAPER: This informative paper describes the implications of managing the availability of IT infrastructure across the enterprise and looks at the typical cost of downtime for various industries and regions. Read today for best practices to minimize downtime and discover the role of support and advance support services in maximizing system performance.
Posted: 17 May 2013 | Published: 30 Apr 2012

Oracle Corporation

Cisco Tidal Intelligent Automation Solution for SAP System Refresh
sponsored by Cisco Systems, Inc.
WHITE PAPER: By simplifying and making system refresh execution consistent, automation can decrease the potential for errors inherent in standard approaches. Read this paper to discover an automation solution that can be used for traditional SAP systems as well as SAP’s Business Warehouse (BW).
Posted: 23 Nov 2011 | Published: 31 Dec 2010

Cisco Systems, Inc.

Oracle Database 11g High Availability
sponsored by Oracle Corporation
WHITE PAPER: In this paper, we will review the common causes of application downtime and discuss how technologies available in the Oracle Database can help avoid costly downtime and enable rapid recovery from unavoidable failures.
Posted: 15 Oct 2007 | Published: 01 Oct 2007

Oracle Corporation

Cloud Based Disaster Recovery for SAP®
sponsored by Symmetry Corporation
WHITE PAPER: The impacts of a system outage are felt within minutes of the incident and range from production and shipping stoppages to lost business, industry penalties and failed audits. Read this paper to learn how a disaster recovery (DR) plan based in the cloud mitigates these risks and protects the interests of shareholders, investors and customers.
Posted: 13 Jan 2012 | Published: 13 Jan 2012

Symmetry Corporation