PDF: A virtualized environment increases flexibility because a diverse range of resources can be added, changed, and moved as needed, to meet shifts in business demand. Resources can be scaled up or down quickly based on changing workloads. Virtualization techniques also improve resiliency by simplifying backup, failover, and disaster recovery solutions. »

Case Study: Learn how Opus Interactive, a managed service provider in Portland, Ore., saw a 10-fold boost in CPU utilization, a 75% reduction in customer cost per server, and can carry out 95 percent of server administration remotely. »

Solutions Guide: This guide features HPs latest industry-leading technologies products designed to help you build and maintain an infrastructure that delivers the performance you need to drive your best business outcomes. As the world changes, many business initiatives require technology that is easy to manage and makes every dollar count. »

Technology Guide: Just as VMware Infrastructure 3 software provides a virtualized pool of servers, HP SAN/iQ Software provides a scalable, reliable, high-performance, virtual pool of storage to those servers. HP LeftHand SANs use patented clustering techniques to create a storage system that distributes incoming requests across servers in the cluster. »

Whitepaper: Datacenters must deliver operational savings to stay within budget. They must achieve better staff utilization and asset utilization while building business flexibility and resilience with lower capital expenditures and lower operational expenditures. They must achieve all of this within a predictable ROI and a lower TCO. »

IDC Whitepaper: IDC research indicates that companies reducing their metric tons of carbon per datacenter workload by a factor of 55 percent also incurred 35 percent less cost per user session on a server. »

Technology Brief: CIOs everywhere face conflicting goals. There is pressure to spend more of the technology budget on business projects and priorities, and correspondingly less on management, maintenance, and ongoing operations. At the same time, there is also pressure to lower overall technology costs and manage risks. In order to make this happen, you must optimize your data center assets, including your facilities, and shed the excess. »

Whitepaper: Organizations with years of virtualization experience have found that initial gains from virtualization can lead to cost increases elsewhere because virtualized environments are more complex and mobile than their physical counterparts. Download this paper for five tips to avoid these problems and virtualize efficiently. »

Technology Brief: ATI Enterprises, Inc. prepares students for careers in health care, computer repair, information technology, automotive repair, graphic design, business administration, HVAC, and welding. The company uses the HP BladeSystem and management tools from HP and Microsoft to consolidate its IT infrastructure and simplify day-to-day operations with remote management. »

Whitepaper: Advances in server technology have transformed the mathematics of data center operation. Although it may seem counterintuitive, the best economic strategy for many data centers is to accelerate refresh cycles, not extend them. Download this paper to explore the performance characteristics, energy demands, and maintenance requirements of todays new, energy-efficient servers, and their potential impact on cost-containment strategies. »

Case Study: Businesses can improve IT efficiency with HP Insight Dynamics-VSE, which helps reduce hardware, software, and support costs, lower change costs, and raise usiness resilience. »

Technology Brief: The costs associated with deploying, monitoring, and managing servers have escalated to the point where IT organizations are actively seeking tools to help them manage costs by streamlining management and automating key server management tasks throughout the datacenter. Learn how HP can help. »

Guide: HP ProLiant servers provide a complete server infrastructure that supports both your business objectives and your business growth. ProLiant servers are available with an extensive selection of management tools, virtualization software, storage and networking products, and services and support along with close collaboration with world-class independent software vendors (ISVs) and systems integrators (SIs). »

eBook: A sys admin in a large server room, or rooms, will most likely need tools to help him or her keep the servers running effectively. This is where software to manage, monitor, and configure the server infrastructure comes in to play. Download this free guide now from our editors at Enterprise Networking Planet and learn why the question is not whether you need some of the tools, but which ones and from whom. »

Technology Overview: Sixth-generation ProLiant DL, ML, and BL servers are the broadest range of servers in the industry based on the Intel Xeon processor 5500 series. The lineup includes rack, tower, and server blades that provide industry-leading energy efficiency, extreme flexibility, and scalable performance. HP has also developed smart management tools that help you squeeze every bit of productivity out of each ProLiant G6 server and get the best return for your budget. »

Technology Brief: An HP ProLiant c-Class server blade is a complete server that slides into an HP BladeSystem c-Class Enclosure. It features Intel Xeon 5500 Series processors, Thermal Logic technologies, advanced memory technologies, multiple I/O slots, and more. »

Technology Brief: HP servers host almost half of all installations of SAP solutions. HP runs SAP benchmarks, testing different business application scenarios on specific hardware. The primary objective is to use the results to determine an optimal hardware configuration for a customer system. The benchmarks analyze system configurations and parameter settings. »

Technology Brief: As demands grow and budgets shrink, many IT shops are struggling with aging servers. You know you need to upgrade, but you just can't justify the expense. Or can you? »