Virtual SMB Centre in a Box?

What types of organizations have the most efficient IT operations? Data centers that provide highly available and resilient services with a minimum of human intervention and management? IT shops that can...

Virtualisation of SAP Applications with VMware ESX Server on IBM System x3850/x3950 M2

This whitepaper looks at how Virtualization is the concept of decoupling the hardware from the operating systems and applications. This can be implemented a number of ways as we will...

Increasing Energy Efficiency with x86 Servers

The current economic crisis has most companies scrambling for ways to get the most out of every dollar they spend. However, to date, many of the gains have been illusory...

Trend Watch: Mission Critcial x86

This paper examines how, over the past several years, research has shown many organisation moving mission-critical systems onto x86 servers.

Business Analytics and Optimization for the Intelligent Enterprise

Based on our survey of 225 business leaders worldwide, we found that enterprises are operating with bigger blind spots and that they are making important decisions without access to the right information....

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• Diagnostics And Analysis

Enterprise mobility: connecting to a world of opportunity

Benefits of enterprise mobility span the business-to-employee (B2E), business-to-business (B2B) and business-to-consumer (B2C) spectrums. Enterprise mobil-ity can improve an organization's productivity, optimizelogistics operations, enhance customer relationships and streamline supply chain...

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• Access Technologies

The Journey Along an Information-Led Transformation

A shift is underway from simple automation to business optimization, and information is at the center of it. Information, when aligned with your business strategy, holds the key to driving profitable...

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• Knowledge And Data Management

The business value of Web 2.0 technology.

Benefits of enterprise mobility span the business-to-employee (B2E), business-to-business (B2B) and business-to-consumer (B2C) spectrums. Enterprise mobil-ity can improve an organization's productivity, optimizelogistics operations, enhance customer relationships and streamline supply chain...

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• Broadband

The new information agenda:Do you have one?

The lack of trusted information — information that is accurate, timely and relevant— is on the minds of CEOs and senior executives around the world. a paradigm shift from siloed...

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• Infrastructure Management

Fact Sheet : IBMXIV Storage System

The IBM XIV® Storage System is a ground-breaking, high-end disk system, designed to support business requirements for a highly available information infrastructure. Built from a grid of standard Intel®/Linux® components, it is...

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• Disaster Recovery

IBM XIV® Storage System: Ease of Management Reinvented

Managing a storage system has become a costly and complicated task. The direct labour cost associated with its management is increasing. In addition, organizations incur hidden indirect costs due to...

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• Disaster Recovery

IBM XIV® Storage System: Ideal Storage for the New Media Era

The last decade has seen a revolution in the way in which digital information is generated and organized. The IBM XIV® Storage System provides a revolutionary solution for these requirements,...

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• Disaster Recovery

IBM XIV® Storage System: Thin Provisioning Reinvented

Managing IT storage infrastructure is an endless balancing act of providing enterprise-class functionality and services while controlling costs. "Thin provisioning" is the practice of allocating storage to applications on a...

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• Disaster Recovery

IBM XIV® Storage System: Performance Reinvented

One of the major requirements of any SAN administration team is to provide users and applications with adequate performance levels. This task becomes increasingly difficult with demands for high performance...

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• Disaster Recovery

IBM XIV® Storage System: Power Consumption Reinvented

Reducing power consumption is one of the most significant challenges of IT centers today. With storage needs on a steep rise, it is increasingly clear that new approaches must be...

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• Disaster Recovery

IBM XIV® Storage System: Snapshots Reinvented

The ability to create and manage snapshots of existing volumes is among the most fundamental features commonly offered by enterprise-class storage systems today. In this white paper, we describe the...

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• Disaster Recovery

Optimizing Enterprise Storage Total Cost of Ownership with IBM XIV

A high-end storage system's total cost of ownership (TCO) is like an iceberg: the vast majority of costs are hidden from view. Comparing systems by looking at obvious factors, like...

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• Disaster Recovery

Product Overview: IBMXIV Storage System

The IBMXIV® Storage System is a revolutionary high-end open disk system designed to support key current and future business require-ments for a highly available information infrastructure. Its design is a...

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• Disaster Recovery

Technical Description: IBMXIV Storage System

The IBMXIV® Storage System offers a new level of high-end disk system performance and reliability. It is a core component of theIBMInformation Infrastructure which helps clients address their needs for...

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• Disaster Recovery

Making the case for migration

This brief describes how Gerber Scientific, working with an IBM storage implementation team, migrated its production SAP applications and Oracle database from an existing proprietary storage infrastructure to the IBM...

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• Disaster Recovery