This white paper examines the performance figures obtained by the Riverbed® Stingray™ Traffic Manager Virtual Appliance (VA) running on VMware vSphere 4.0, which was installed on the Cisco Unified Computing System (UCS). It compares those figures with tests run on a previous generation of Intel Xeon processors. 

<p>Despite the benefits blade servers and virtualization offer, there are still some pressing issues in the data center. This resource reviews several of these pain points and recommends a unified computing system designed to address them.</p> 

<p>Until you actually implement a unified computing system, it is difficult to justify your investment in one. This report quantifies the benefits of these systems as well as costs to factor into your purchasing decision.</p> 

Legacy midsize computing systems offer limited processing abilities, but still require significant power and cooling resources. To maintain high performance, flexibility, reliability, and sustainable growth, midsize businesses need a game-changing platform. Oracle’s Sun systems based on the Intel Xeon processor 5500 series provide that platform. 

Big businesses are planning to grow their mainframe computer capacity despite the downturn  this survey of 1,347 large mainframe users worldwide by BMC Software reveals. 

This E-Guide from SearchHealthIT.com examines why cloud backup and disaster recovery is becoming an increasingly more viable option for health care facilities looking to meet HIPAA requirements while safeguarding critical data off-site. 

This resource explores how to overcome 8 common power management challenges with a new generation of intelligent, logical, and complete power management solutions. Learn how to improve power efficiency and cost-effectiveness inside. 

The second installment of this series, our conversation expands on the use of Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization 3.0 in virtualizing and consolidating data centers utilizing Cisco Unified Computing System.  Our discussion includes specific benefits derived from the joint integration and development work across Red Hat, Cisco, and Intel. 

Is your data center ready for cloud computing? Access this resource to learn how you can optimize your infrastructure for the cloud with data center virtualization. Inside, discover how virtualization can make cloud computing a reality, learn how to solve the network bottleneck with more than just hardware, and more. 

Properly addressing HIPAA is about more than mere data security. This virtual seminar will examine the other key components of HIPAA compliance within an organization, including disaster recovery, network security and hardware encryption. 

This best practices guide explores ways in which your health care facility can employ the most effective compliance strategies, ensuring not only HIPAA compliance, but secure patient information. 

This resource offers a checklist for best practices that go beyond HIPAA compliance, ensuring your health care facility remains in good standing with the law and the public. 

Because virtualization and cloud computing separate workloads from physical machines, they add to the difficulties of managing systems within the data center. This expert lesson explores the landscape for systems management and reveals statistical findings concerning systems management technologies and trends.