Centrinet case study

Centrinet launched an innovative business service - Smartbunker - based on renewable energy and energy-efficient technology(efficient IBM BladeCenter servers and Cisco networking hardware), It's the UK's first managed data centre...

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IBM System x Enterprise Servers in the New Enterprise Data centre

Virtualization changes everything! Once you start to virtualize your servers and storage, you will find that you can enjoy a higher degree of server utilization and simpler, more comprehensive server management....

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• Infrastructure Management

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.

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• Mainframes

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

Optimizing VMware View Desktop Virtualization with IBM System Storage N series, System x and BladeCenter

With desktop virtualization, system administrators can host and centrally manage desktop virtual machines and their applications in the data center, and securely deliver them to local and remote clients, online...

Automated Energy Efficiency for the Intelligent Business

Energy should be spent when and where it provides business benefits. Intel® Microarchitecture, codenamed Nehalem, delivers performance on demand and conserves power through judicious use of the available resources. Within...

Dynamic Infrastructure Helping Build a Smarter PlanetDelivering Superior Business and IT Services with Agility and Speed

In this smarter world, we need our infrastructure to propel us forward, not hold us back. This infrastructure becomes instrumented, interconnected and intelligent to bring together the business and IT...

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Scotmid readies for expansion by consolidating and virtualizing with a complete IBM solution

The IBM solution has also given Scotmid the resources to enhance their business intelligence capabilities, allowing them to leverage large amounts of sales data to improve product placement and sourcing...

Desktop Virtualization on IBM BladeCenter and System x Servers: Taking Back Control of the Desktop

"Operational efficiency is imperative in today's competitive marketplace. Thus, the IT strategies and data center management at the heart of any organization need to be cost-effective and efficient. And with the complexity and...

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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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

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

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...

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• Mainframes

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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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

Virtualization strategy for mid-sized businesses

Virtualization of business applications allows IT operations in companies of all sizes to reduce costs, improve IT services and manage risk. The most dramatic cost savings are the result of reducing...

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• Mainframes

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

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