Solution Set

This vendor landscape looks at the blade system market in order to provide recommendations on which vendors are most suitable for your organization's server needs.

Note

This vendor landscape looks at the blade system market in order to provide recommendations on which vendors are most suitable for your organization's server needs.

Tool

This tool allows enterprises to generate a customized shortlist of vendors based on required capabilities and future requirements for blade systems.

Vendor Research

This report is designed to help vendors and solution providers understand the market dynamics surrounding consolidated storage. The analysis and guidance provided will help in selling and marketing consolidated storage solutions.

Vendor Research

This report is designed to aid vendors and solution providers in understanding the market dynamics surrounding Storage Area Networks (SAN). The analysis and guidance provided will help in selling and marketing SAN solutions.

More businesses are finding that they require mission critical operations to support key applications. Mission critical means an application is operational when it is needed. This can range from 24/7 Website access to guaranteed ERP access...

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Blades make effective building blocks for a consolidated server utility infrastructure. But first be sure that blades are really appropriate for your enterprise server goals. Then decide which blade system is best.

Info-Tech finds that one in four organizations will be involved in virtualizing some part of their desktop infrastructure by 2010. Citrix and VMware are the top two virtual desktop solutions currently deployed. However, given that the technology...

VMware and Citrix are ahead of the pack when it comes to providing software for connecting end users with virtual machine-based desktops hosted on a server. With its product View, VMware is moving toward a more comprehensive approach to supply...

Networked storage vendors are aggressively targeting small enterprises in an attempt to grow market share. However, there remains considerable confusion around storage area network technology in the small to mid-range space due to considerable...

As economic conditions worsen, the tech world is abuzz with two new concepts: virtualization and the cloud. Combining these two concepts is driving vendors and analysts into climaxes of utopic speculation. The whole thing sounds very 1999, but...

Any small enterprise that wishes to create an agile, highly optimized server infrastructure can do so using the hardware and tools currently available. The utility infrastructure will continue to evolve and improve as more server rooms migrate...

The competition in x86 server virtualization became hotter in 2008 as Citrix and Microsoft made significant bids to dethrone market leader VMware. There are also new entrants in the field from Oracle and Sun. Learn how the vendor landscape has...

A recent Info-Tech Research Group survey sees more than 50% of enterprises running Linux or UNIX alongside flavors of Microsoft Windows. However, Windows is nearly ubiquitous and IT shops tend to deploy more instances of Windows at smaller...

On September 2, 2008 HP announced a new processor blade, the BL495c, aimed at virtualization environments. While targeted heavily towards enterprises with major virtualization initiatives, the marketing communications are tangled with mixed...

In the ongoing competition to maintain the performance edge in the Reduced Instruction Set Computer (RISC) market, Sun has again taken the lead. With the introduction of the Sparc64 VII quad-core processor the benchmark performance leadership...

HP's eight-socket ProLiant DL785 G5 server offers small enterprises a high performance, expandable platform for multiple applications or a critical database operation. Enterprises that need more power in a single chassis should investigate this...

The server operating system market is not a zero-sum game. Over 95% of enterprises with more than 500 employees use Microsoft Windows. Between 40% and 47% also run Linux, UNIX, or an IBM operating system (OS). As single-pane-of-glass management...

The small enterprise data center can be created with a few high-performance mid-range servers, based on multi-core x64-based processors. A few of these servers can offer the performance and functionality for virtually all small and mid-sized...

The Sun Blade 8000 product is heavily focused on high performance computing environments with pricing to match. While this current product is not appropriate for most SMEs it can be a good fit for environments where there is a need for very high...