The server marketplace has undergone dramatic change in the past decade. Impressive technical advances, dramatic improvements in price/performance and increasingly imaginative ways to package servers have made them the heart of compute infrastructure, often replacing—or at least supplementing—legacy mainframes. Reconsidering your technology alternatives is a good idea under any circumstances, if for no other reason than to fully evaluate your options and ensure that your current supplier remains your best choice going forward. But the IBM-Lenovo transition has been a catalyst for a deeper and more strategic evaluation of compute infrastructure choices. It’s important to look for and recognize the signs that now may be a good time to reconsider your server vendor, especially for high-volume x86 requirements. This paper reviews six signs that it may be time for you to make the switch.
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Business demands for high-speed databases are growing, driven by the need for real-time decision support based on huge volumes of data. Dell provides a variety of cache-based and in-memory solutions to meet the new need for speed. Dell’s solutions address not only performance, but data security and cost as well. Discusses Dell Fluid Cache for SAN, PowerEdge servers, workloads like SAP HANA, HADOOP, OpenManage, SQL Server.
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Advanced server and storage technology from Dell helps businesses achieve better database performance, improve control through the application lifecycle, and deliver business results. Discusses R920 and proficiency with SAP and Oracle OLAP workloads.
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As virtualization becomes pervasive, and application servers are more than ever at the heart of the business, what makes a truly “manageable” system has changed. New technology provides a simple and affordable way to manage local and remote servers in today’s increasingly virtualized data centers. Servers with Intel® Xeon® processors provide a superior hardware platform for virtualization that delivers industry-leading performance.
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No one debates the logic of consolidating 20 lightly used systems into one virtualized server, but the case for creating a virtual cloud or software-defined data center isn’t so clear. Take the risk out of virtualizing your data center by using hardware and management systems designed with virtualization in mind.
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Purpose-built systems address demands created by the increasing reliance on data analytics and CRM to drive business opportunities. Here’s a look at server innovations designed to meet the new business reality.
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Read the full report for an in-depth analysis of the European market for cloud-enabled managed hosting and the vendors to watch out for.
After running a variety of benchmarks over a long period of time (to ensure that the test gave an accurate look over an extended window), they shared their findings with the world.