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Highly-Scalable Virtualization: Optimizing your Infrastructure with IBM eX5 and VMware vSphere
sponsored by IBM
WHITE PAPER: For small and midsize companies, System x, BladeCenter, and VMware virtualization solutions offer cost-effective options for transforming IT into a simple more powerful computing infrastructure. Look to IBM and VMware to show you how you can be distinctly competitive and profitable.
Posted: 19 Jan 2011 | Published: 19 Jan 2011

IBM

Red Hat Cloud Foundations, Edition One: Implementation Cookbook
sponsored by Red Hat and JBoss
WHITE PAPER: This paper provides an overview of a reference architecture prepared by Red Hat that fully documents how to build your own private cloud.
Posted: 15 Feb 2011 | Published: 09 Feb 2011

Red Hat and JBoss

Migrating from IBM POWER Server Silos to HP BladeSystem and Converged Infrastructure
sponsored by HP & Intel®
WHITE PAPER: This paper looks at the options IT managers have for hosting enterprise applications when replacing end-of-life POWER 4 or 5 servers. It compares an HP Converged Infrastructure, based on HP Integrity and Proliant server blades, to approaches based on IBM POWER. It also addresses customer options for business-critical application migration.
Posted: 09 Feb 2011 | Published: 09 Feb 2011

HP & Intel®

The Journey to Unified Computing
sponsored by Cisco Systems, Inc.
WHITE PAPER: This white paper explains how data center needs have changed over the last five years and discusses the reasons why management of virtualized compute, network, and storage access should be integrated. Discover the vision behind a private cloud and learn how to avoid making common mistakes as you prepare for this new IT model.
Posted: 14 Jan 2012 | Published: 01 Apr 2010

Cisco Systems, Inc.

Video: Virtualization on IBM System x and IBM BladeCenter Servers
sponsored by IBM Software Group
WHITE PAPER: Learn how virtualization can make your infrastructure more efficient. See the different types of virtualization and how IBM technology can help you achieve a virtualized environment.
Posted: 28 Nov 2007 | Published: 28 Nov 2007

IBM Software Group

Bringing virtualized storage intelligence to converged infrastructure
sponsored by DellEMC and Intel®
WHITE PAPER: This white paper details converging IT resources in your data center to minimize data center footprint, heighten scalability, and centralize management. Discover an innovative solution that enriches these consolidated environments with advanced, virtualized storage in a blade form factor.
Posted: 12 Sep 2013 | Published: 31 Dec 2012

DellEMC and Intel®

The Evolution of the Datacenter and the Need for a Converged Infrastructure
sponsored by IBM
WHITE PAPER: Virtualization is having a profound effect on the data center, and many IT pros are wondering what they can expect and how they should prepare for the future. This white paper explains why the increased adoption of virtualization calls for new approaches to data center management and cites the benefits and drawbacks of converged infrastructure.
Posted: 09 Aug 2011 | Published: 01 Jun 2011

IBM

HP Integrity Server Blades: Meeting Mission-Critical Requirements with a Bladed Form Factor
sponsored by HP & Intel®
WHITE PAPER: This paper outlines the trends in the industry relating to blade server deployments, the challenges relating to systems management and power and cooling in that computing environment, and HP's approach to addressing those challenges.
Posted: 25 Aug 2010 | Published: 20 Aug 2010

HP & Intel®

RAS features of the Mission-Critical Converged Infrastructure
sponsored by HP & Intel®
WHITE PAPER: Read this paper and discover the reliability, availability and serviceability (RAS) features of  HP Integrity Systems: Superdome 2, BL8x0c, and rx2800 i2.
Posted: 09 Feb 2011 | Published: 09 Feb 2011

HP & Intel®

HP BladeSystem Matrix: Delivering the Converged Infrastructure
sponsored by HP & Intel®
WHITE PAPER: IT organizations that find server deployment complex and inefficient are looking at new options, such as HP's BladeSystem Matrix. Using this converged infrastructure approach, organizations can reduce acquisition costs for servers, storage and network infrastructure, while reducing total cost of ownership.
Posted: 20 Sep 2010 | Published: 20 Sep 2010

HP & Intel®