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Saving Six Figures Annually With the HP BladeSystem and Managed Services

Business managers are looking for more flexible business models, more competitive operations, and faster time to market. All of this means that IT organizations must find operational savings while staying within their budget. They must find new infrastructure solutions that are more efficient and more cost-effective than their current solutions. They must do all of this and, at the same time, accomplish the following: improve service levels, provide faster response times, cover more users, and ensure better-integrated applications that are always available. Request Free!

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The Business Value of Consolidation on Energy- Efficient Servers: Customer Findings

Many of virtualization’s additional benefits – including built-in, cost-effective High Availability (HA) and Disaster Recovery (DR) – require external shared storage with a comprehensive feature set to support HA and DR. Unfortunately, it is all too easy to spend the savings from server virtualization on inefficient storage systems. Because they overcome many of the cost and management limitations of traditional SANs, iSCSI SANs are becoming the preferred choice to support virtualized environments. Request Free!

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Rethinking Server Virtualization: Breaking Performance and Manageability Barriers

Hewlett-Packard (HP) designed the HP BladeSystem portfolio to address some of the key total cost of ownership (TCO) issues facing today’s datacenter, including server management costs, utilization, and power and cooling. Since the launch of the HP BladeSystem c-Class family in 2006, HP has risen to claim the number 1 spot in the blade server market. As part of the BladeSystem, HP features three fundamental technologies: HP Insight Software for infrastructure management HP Virtual Connect for virtual I/O networking HP Thermal Logic for power and cooling These technologies play a central role in reducing overall datacenter operating expenses. They also differentiate HP BladeSystem both from competitive blade offerings and from rack-optimized servers. Request Free!

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Next -Generation Management Software for Blade Environments

The current economic downturn has increased the magnitude and difficulty of the challenges facing data center managers. Many data center managers have abandoned their traditional refresh cycles, keeping servers that would normally be decommissioned in operation for an extra year — or more. Although it may seem counterintuitive, the best economic strategy for many data centers is to accelerate refresh cycles, not extend them. Request Free!

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Faster, Cheaper and Easier to Maintain: Can You Afford Not to Upgrade Your Servers to Today’s Advanced, Energy-Efficient Technologies?

The research finds that the use of more advanced virtualization technology, along with increasingly sophisticated systems management tools that manage both the guest environments and the virtualization engines themselves, can further extend the benefits of virtualization significantly. An optimally managed or “advanced virtualization” infrastructure, described as an infrastructure that includes penetration of virtualized servers of more than 25%, storage virtualization, and the use of systems. Request Free!

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Business Value of Virtualization: Realizing the Benefits of Integrated Solutions