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.

Note

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.

In technology, the ancient regime was driven by Wintel (Windows and Intel), mostly: a famously paranoid Andy Grove, paired with Bill Gates, the most competitive strategist (or strategic competitor) in the world. Everyone else got table scraps.

Template/Policy

Deploying standard server configurations is a proven method of reducing operating risk. Implementing a server configuration policy is the best way to ensure that all servers have been hardened with consistent security configurations and processes.

Windows Server 2008 early adopters deploy on new servers or replace existing Windows instances, according to a recent Info-Tech Research Group survey. A handful of enterprises are deploying the new Microsoft operating system to replace...

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...

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...

Apple continues to update the hardware and software for its Xserve rack-mount server. For Apple Mac-centric businesses that want a robust and recognized basic workgroup server, the Xserve is worth consideration.

As the number of servers grows within an enterprise, the time and effort needed to manage those servers grows even more rapidly. Server management tools provide automated capabilities to ease the pain of day-to-day provisioning, patching, and...

IT staff at many small enterprises continue to manage servers one-on-one. Even if the enterprise has only a few or a few dozen servers, server management tools provide automated capabilities to reduce the time needed for day-to-day provisioning,...

The consolidation of servers within the data center provides well defined savings for the enterprise. By creating and implementing a clearly defined migration strategy for existing servers, the effectiveness and efficiency of any consolidation...

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...

Deploying standard server configurations is a proven method of reducing operating risk. Implementing a server configuration policy is the best way to ensure that all servers have been hardened with consistent security configurations and processes.

The wide variety of highly capable blade servers from top vendors makes selecting the right blade server more challenging. Balance acquisition, management, support, and energy costs with specific business requirements to select the right blade...

Job Description

The Unix System Administrator's role is to operate and tune Unix systems, servers, and related components to ensure high levels of availability and security of the supported business applications. This individual also participates in the...

Job Description

The Mainframe Computer Operator's role is to observe and control the company's mainframe computer systems and peripheral equipment for the purpose of uninterrupted data processing, operating runs, and batch program jobs. This includes monitoring...

Migration from Solaris to Linux-based systems is not a trivial task. Existing Solaris shops evaluating a migration to Linux should undertake an end-to-end review of the technical differences and methods to complete a migration successfully.