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Configuring High Availability for Windows Server 2008 Environments
sponsored by Marathon Technologies
 | White Paper: | Posted: 28 Sep 2009
| | Published: | 28 Sep 2009 | |
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All organizations are becoming increasingly reliant upon their computer systems. The availability of those systems can be the difference between the organization succeeding and failing. This series will examine how we can configure our Windows Server 2008 environments to provide the level of availability our organizations need.
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Cost Effective Security and Compliance with Oracle Database 11g Release 2
sponsored by Oracle Corporation
| White Paper: | Posted: 28 Sep 2009
| | Published: | 28 Sep 2009 | |
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With Oracle Database 11g powerful privileged user and multi-factor access control, data classification, and data masking, organizations can deploy reliable data security solutions that do not require any changes to existing applications, minimizing the costs associated with regulatory compliance and the deployment of strong internal controls.
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Recommendations for Optimizing a Virtual Environment
sponsored by IBM
 | Video: | Posted: 28 Sep 2009
| | Premiered: | 25 Sep 2009 | |
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In this videocast, learn how to optimize your virtual infrastructure performance by allocating resources properly. Gain insight into essential steps you should take to begin the optimization process. Learn how to meet business requirements while increasing resource efficiency.
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FREE Software Download - Wastefinder
sponsored by VKernel
 | Software Download: | Posted: 25 Sep 2009
| | Published: | 25 Sep 2009 | |
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Quickly finds where resource capacity (CPU, memory, and storage) are being wasted in the virtual infrastructure. By identifying zombie VMs, expired snapshots, and other wasteful consumers, users can reclaim expensive capacity to optimize virtual environments and achieve a better, faster ROI.
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Lower IT Costs with Oracle Database 11g Release 2
sponsored by Oracle Corporation
| White Paper: | Posted: 25 Sep 2009
| | Published: | 01 Sep 2009 | |
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Learn how you can transform your business, budgets, and service levels with Oracle Database 11g Release 2. You’ll discover how its new options and features can help you reduce server and storage costs, improve query performance, and ensure availability during database application upgrades.
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Premier Issue of the CIO Decisions Midmarket Ezine - "The Green Monster"
sponsored by CIO Decisions
| Ezine: | Posted: 24 Sep 2009
| | Published: | 01 Jun 2008 | |
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This document highlights what you need to know about power consumption, server virtualization and outfitting data centers to make the most of the new technologies.
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Migrating Large Enterprise (LE) Applications from UNIX to Linux with Minimal Downtime
sponsored by Dell, Inc. and Intel
| White Paper: | Posted: 24 Sep 2009
| | Published: | 01 Jul 2009 | |
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The knowledge gained from this paper will assist in formulating strategies and methodologies to achieve near-zero downtime dynamic database migrations to Oracle10g or Oracle11g. Read this white paper to learn more.
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eBook - Chapter 4: Pay-Per-Use in the Cloud – Cutting Infrastructure Costs
sponsored by SearchCloudComputing.com
| eBook: | Posted: 24 Sep 2009
| | Published: | 24 Sep 2009 | |
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Buying Infrastructure as a Service is a mouth-watering prospect for CIOs and IT
departments eager to drive down costs and speed up provisioning. But once IT is outsourced, keeping control of it is a major challenge.
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Optimize energy use for the data center through enhanced measurement and management
sponsored by IBM
| White Paper: | Posted: 23 Sep 2009
| | Published: | 01 May 2008 | |
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Along with an in-depth discussion of energy measurement and management, this white paper provides a brief overview of IBM solutions that can help organizations support their initiatives for developing energy-efficient and environmentally responsible data centers.
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eGuide: 10Gb Ethernet-- What You Need to Know
sponsored by Gigamon
| eGuide: | Posted: 22 Sep 2009
| | Published: | 21 Sep 2009 | |
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Read this eGuide to learn the latest information about 10Gb Ethernet networks and to get useful insight into how to select the best components to optimize your network, traffic, and data center.
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Server Choices for Virtual Environments
sponsored by Sun Microsystems, Inc. and Intel Corporation
| Video: | Posted: 22 Sep 2009
| | Premiered: | 22 Sep 2009 | |
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In this videocast, get expert advice on selecting a cost-effective server to fit your IT needs. Discover how blade and rack servers compare and learn the pros and cons of unified compute system (UCS) servers. Also, determine which hardware options to choose and decide whether it is better to scale-up or scale-out your virtualization project.
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Simplify and Automate: Building Your Roadmap to Improve IT Delivery and Support - A free one-day virtual seminar brought to you by BMC Software, Inc.
sponsored by BMC Software, Inc
 | Virtual Seminar: | Posted: 22 Sep 2009
| | Published: | 29 Oct 2009 | |
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Find out how you can build a plan for IT simplification and automation and get practical advice for your complex challenges around areas such as: business service management, service desk and self-service, mainframe cost optimization, virtualization and cloud computing.
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Leading VC Firm Keeps Citrix XenApp, Microsoft Exchange and Blackberry Enterprise Server "Always On" with Marathon Technologies
sponsored by Marathon Technologies
| Case Study: | Posted: 18 Sep 2009
| | Published: | 18 Sep 2009 | |
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Find out how Argo Global Capital utilized server virualization to simplify, consolidate and reduce operating costs in their data center. Since implementing XenServer with everRun, Argo has had zero downtime, even during a significant hardware failure.
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Application Grid: Ideal Platform for IT Consolidation
sponsored by Oracle Corporation
| White Paper: | Posted: 18 Sep 2009
| | Published: | 01 Apr 2009 | |
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Application grid brings the same type of efficiency, scalability, and quality of service to the application layer that database clusters brings to the database layer. With an application grid you get greater efficiency, exceptional agility, and superior quality of service. Download this free white paper now.
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Edison Group, Comparative Management Costs Study: Oracle Database 11g vs. IBM DB2 Enterprise 9.5
sponsored by Oracle Corporation
| White Paper: | Posted: 18 Sep 2009
| | Published: | 01 Jan 2009 | |
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A recent study conducted by the Edison Group, shows how Oracle Database extends the lead over IBM DB2 9.5 for database manageability. In the whitepaper, Edison reveals how Oracle Database saves 40% in time for day-to-day administrative functions and 43% in database management costs over IBM DB2 9.5.
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