Blade Server Strategies: Optimizing the Data Center

Enterprise IT departments are being pulled in many directions today. Not only are they struggling to keep up with the staggering increase of network traffic in the data center, but also users are demanding new and updated systems to support the workloads that drive the business. Expectations of quality and service from IT are at an all-time high. Change is needed in the data center. Server blades play an important role in the transition to the modern, efficient data center.
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Big Data is Talking. Are You Listening?

This interactive white paper from CIO Magazine and EMC lays out the benefits of big data and predictive analytics, provides tips on how to get started, and shares the remarkable results that businesses have achieved by marrying these two powerhouses. Embedded videos feature Gerry McCartney, CIO of Purdue University and Jeremy Burton, Chief Marketing Officer of EMC with Bill Cook, President of EMC's Greenplum Division. And a quick survey provides benchmarking between CIO peers.
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Big Data. Evolution? Game Changer? Definitely.

In a recent survey of CIOs conducted for EMC by CIO Magazine, almost half the respondents said they agreed with this statement: "Big Data analytics is an evolution but not a revolution in the area of data warehousing, databases, and big file systems." The rest were about evenly divided among "game changer", "pipedream", "and not sure". What's up with that? Isn't Big Data changing the world?
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PureFlex-Next Smart Step in Enterprise IT Evolution

More and more organizations are getting by just supporting data center status quo. However utilizing the majority of IT budgets to just keep data center lights on is crippling todays IT and strangling hopes of capturing future benefits. By just keeping pace how will you be able to meet the changing needs of tomorrow?
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Serving the Cloud by TBR

An analysis and perspective from leading IT Industry analysts, Technology Business Research (TBR) on how x86 servers and the implementation of private clouds offer a secure and cost-effective means for midmarket to reduce costs and provide flexible computing capacity.
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Integrate for Insight

Enterprises must learn to understand how best to leverage big data soon, since the amount of data being generated shows no signs of slowing down. See how Oracle offers a broad portfolio of products to help enterprises acquire, manage, and integrate big data with existing information, with the goal of achieving a complete view of business in the fastest, most reliable, and cost effective way.
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Transitioning Business Continuity To The Cloud

In the past, server, storage and data center redundancy were the only options that met corporate resilience objectives. Read this white paper to gain an understanding of the resiliency challenges facing organizations today and how you can transition to cloud-based resiliency.
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The Value of Smarter Datacenter Services

This paper provides an overview of how IT organizations can optimize across the entire life cycle of their datacenters and build a strong foundation for future IT operations. Opportunities for optimization remain strong, including increasing efficiency on both the IT side and the facilities side, improving user support and protection, and increasing the flexibility of the datacenter to be more responsive to the business.
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The Evolution of the Datacenter and the Need for a Converged Infrastructure

As the economy begins to recover from the recession, organizations will begin to reevaluate how they deploy technology. Currently, enterprise datacenters are very heterogeneous environments that typically handle a lot of applications running on a variety of platforms. In this very complex environment, there's a burgeoning need within datacenters to drive efficiencies by changing how staff members spend their time and how money is spent.
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