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- Sizing Guide for Microsoft Hyper-V on HP Server and Storage Technologies
- This paper presents basic sizing guidance for deploying applications into a Microsoft Hyper-V virtualized architecture. It focuses on Hyper-V sizing from a generic or horizontal view, and does not focus on any specific application running on top of Hyper-V. Instead, it provides guidance on the key factors on which to...
- Tags: HP Server, Hewlett-Packard Co., Storage, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Windows Server Hyper-V, Desktop Virtualization, Servers, Utility Computing, Hardware, Virtualization
- White papers 2009-08-01
- General Mills IT Supports Continued Business Evolution With HP Servers
- General Mills was operating one of the largest SAP R/2 installations in the world on a mainframe system. The company faced a crucial decision when planning an upgrade to SAP R/3 to take advantage of new features: stay with the mainframe, or move to HP-UX 11i? When research at that...
- Tags: HP Server, Hewlett-Packard Co., General Mills Inc., Information Technology, SAP AG, Mainframes, Servers, Hardware
- Case studies 2009-07-01
- Reliable HP Server Blades Support VoIP Backbone, Resulting in a Projected 30-Month Return on Investment
- Vancouver-based Teligence is a high-tech success story with a decidedly human touch. Profitable and sustainable, Teligence provides the telecommunications network and custom software for telephone-based social networking services including Livelinks, Vibeline, and Fonochat. Teligence implemented two-site architecture with built-in redundancy to support new Voice-over-IP VoIP network and consolidate legacy infrastructure....
- Tags: Backbone, HP Server, Blade Server, Hewlett-Packard Co., Blade, Telephony, VOIP, Social Networking, Telecommunications, Servers, Networking, Online Communications, Marketing, Advertising & Promotion, Hardware
- Case studies 2009-07-01
- Quantifying the Benefits of HP Server Automation
- Over the past few years, managing data centre environments has become one of the most costly functions of IT, with over 70 per cent of budgets going toward the management of existing systems. IT teams are under more pressure than ever to reduce costs and risks while delivering increasing value...
- Tags: HP Server, Hewlett-Packard Co., Information Technology, Benefit, Automation, IT Team, Strategy, Servers, Management, Hardware
- White papers 2009-07-01
- Implementing Microsoft Windows Server 2008 R2 Release Candidate on HP Servers
- This paper describes the level of support available for Microsoft Windows Server 2008 R2 Release Candidate build on HP ProLiant and Integrity servers. The purpose of this paper is to assist customers during installation of the Windows Server 2008 R2 Release Candidate Operating System OS build. This paper addresses several...
- Tags: HP Server, Hewlett-Packard Co., Microsoft Windows Server, Release Candidate, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Windows Server 2008, Servers, Microsoft Windows, Operating Systems, Software, Hardware
- White papers 2009-06-01
- "Intelligent Infrastructure" Leverages HP Servers, Virtualization
- Virtualization has become a powerful tool to improve the cost-effectiveness, flexibility and reliability of IT infrastructures. Few organizations appreciate this more than the technology team at Indiana University IU, where a pioneering virtualization initiative has dramatically cut costs, enhanced flexibility, and changed people's thinking about IT. IU established a new...
- Tags: Intelligent Infrastructure, HP Server, Hewlett-Packard Co., Information Technology, Cloud Computing, Utility Computing, Storage Management, Virtualization, Servers, Storage, Hardware
- Case studies 2009-06-01
- Hoteles Estelar Books a First-Class Upgrade With HP Servers, Software and Storage; Increases Sales and Efficiency
- Hoteles Estelar is the leading hotel chain in Colombia, with 18 hotels in major cities across the country and plans to add two more. Estelar wanted to improve Customer Relationship Management CRM and Enterprise Resource Planning ERP systems, increase sales through better customer knowledge, lower costs through more efficient business...
- Tags: HP Server, Hewlett-Packard Co., Storage, Hoteles Estelar, Sales Strategy, Utility Computing, Servers, Enterprise Software, Sales, Hardware, Software
- Case studies 2009-04-01
- HP Server Helps Iowa County Keep Essential Services Running
- Shelby County, Iowa, (www.shco.org) is a farming community with 13,500 residents and a growing manufacturing base. Shelby County wanted to replace aging server with new hardware with remote management for maximum reliability of critical emergency and e-mail systems. Shelby County deployed HP ProLiant ML350 G5 Server; leveraged HP remote management...
- Tags: HP Server, Hewlett-Packard Co., E-mail, E-mail Servers, Servers, Groupware, Online Communications, Enterprise Software, Software, Hardware
- Case studies 2009-01-01
- Green Grows Saddleback Valley
- Saddleback Valley Unified School District needed to refresh its aging HP server farm in an environment of severe budget cutting. Existing servers were poorly utilized and required extensive amounts of power and cooling. The district consolidated and virtualized its HP servers onto 7 Dell PowerEdge 1955 blades running VMware ESX...
- Tags: Dell Computer Corp., HP Server, Utility Computing, Servers, Ip storage, Hardware
- Case studies 2008-10-01
- James Madison University Celebrates Its Centennial by Replacing Its HP Servers With Green, Power Efficient Dell Servers
- James Madison University needed to ensure high availability for its Oracle database and PeopleSoft Enterprise Resource Planning ERP system, as well as provide reliable desktops and notebooks for students and staff. The university purchased Dell PowerEdge servers, Dell/ EMC storage and Oracle Real Application Clusters RAC software for a redundant,...
- Tags: Dell Computer Corp., HP Server, Hewlett-Packard Co., James Madison University, Dell Server, Blade Servers, Servers, Data Centers, Notebooks, Databases, Enterprise Software, Hardware, Storage, Data Management, Notebooks & Tablets, Software
- Case studies 2008-09-01
- Best Practices for Deploying Microsoft Office PerformancePoint Solutions on HP Servers
- This paper provides guidelines and best practices in the planning and implementation of Microsoft Office PerformancePoint Server 2007 on HP servers and storage. This white paper covers both stand-alone and distributed services implementation strategies as recommended by Microsoft. Additional recommendations were provided from the experiences of early adopters such as...
- Tags: HP Server, Hewlett-Packard Co., Microsoft Corp., Best Practice, Utility Computing, Microsoft Office, Servers, Office Suites, Software, Hardware
- White papers 2008-06-01
- How Bank NISP Ensured Business Continuity by Employing HP's Server Solution to Improve Efficiency and Reduce Downtime
- The fourth oldest bank in Indonesia, Bank NISP began operating as a savings bank in 1941 in Bandung, West Java, Indonesia. Bank NISP wanted to consolidate Bank NISP's 46 servers into a virtual data centre and to ensure business continuity through a disaster recovery solution. Bank NISP virtualised 46 existing...
- Tags: Bank, HP Server, Hewlett-Packard Co., Downtime, Business Continuity, Financial Services, Servers, Hardware
- Case studies 2008-05-01
- Momentum Webcast: HP Industry-Standard Solutions for Windows Server 2008 (Level 200)
- This webcast provides an introduction to Hewlett-Packard HP server and storage solutions using industry-standard servers designed for the Windows Server 2008 operating system. The attendee will discover how HP servers provide benefits to the deployment of modular architectures and the management of the business technology infrastructure. During the webcast, the...
- Tags: Hardware, Hewlett-Packard Co., HP Server, Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Windows Server, Microsoft Windows Server 2008, Servers, Utility Computing, Webcast
- Webcasts 2008-03-20
- VMware signs deal to embed software in HP servers
- VMware signs deal to embed software in HP serversIt won't workVMware runs operating systems in an explorer page.You are in Windows and in an explorer page there is Windows XP.You start the OS in VMware it boots up and so on.The operating system in your computer records from the hard...
- Tags: Microsoft Windows, Tools & Techniques, Utility computing, Servers, VMware Inc., HP Server, Hewlett-Packard Co., software, operating system, server
- Discussion threads 2008-02-27
- Best Practices for HP Servers and HP Enterprise Virtual Array 8100 in a Microsoft Exchange Server 2007 Environment of 20,000 Users
- The Customer Focused Teating CFT team at HP previously published the Best Practices for HP Servers and HP StorageWorks EVA8000 in a Microsoft Exchange Server 2007 Environment paper, which presented the results of testing a user environment of 5,000 users with both 100-MB and 1-GB mailboxes. This paper builds upon...
- Tags: Microsoft Exchange Server 2007, HP Server, Hewlett-Packard Co., Environment, Microsoft Exchange Server, Microsoft Corp., Best Practice, E-mail Servers, Groupware, Utility Computing, Servers, Enterprise Software, Software, Hardware
- White papers 2008-02-01
- Best Practices for Microsoft Exchange 2007 with HP Server and Storage in Mid-range Environments (MSA60, MSA70, MSA1500)
- This paper provides configuration and performance data, best practices and recommendations to help system administrators deploy Microsoft Exchange Server 2007 on several of the HP MSA family of products. The results presented here are derived from extensive testing. They are intended to help you perform pre-deployment planning and ensure adequate...
- Tags: Microsoft Exchange Server 2007, HP Server, Hewlett-Packard Co., Performance, Microsoft Exchange Server, Storage, Server, Microsoft Corp., Best Practice, E-mail Servers, Performance Management, Groupware, Enterprise Software, Software, Human Resources, Workforce Management
- White papers 2008-02-01
- Optimizing HP Servers with Microsoft SQL Server 2008
- Microsoft announced SQL Server 2008 on February 27th, and potential users are interested in its capabilities, particularly regarding server consolidation and resource management in order to plan for future deployments. When implementing a hardware consolidation project, one major step involves consolidating corporate data, which is mostly managed by multiple database...
- Tags: Microsoft SQL Server 2008, HP Server, Hewlett-Packard Co., Microsoft SQL Server, Microsoft Corp., Servers, Databases, Enterprise Software, Hardware, Software, Data Management
- White papers 2008-02-01
- Implementing Microsoft Windows Server 2008 Release Candidate 1 on HP Servers: Integration Note
- Windows Server 2008 RC1 is the latest extension of the Windows Server family of Operating Systems OS. It builds on the strengths of the Microsoft Windows Server 2003 and Microsoft Windows Server 2003 R2 operating systems. Windows Server 2008 RC1 is designed to provide greater control of the server, thereby...
- Tags: HP Server, Hewlett-Packard Co., Microsoft Windows Server, Microsoft Corp., Integration, Windows Server 2008 RC1, Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Windows Server 2008, Servers, Operating Systems, Software, Hardware
- White papers 2008-01-01
- How green is your PC?
- In my review of HP's MediaSmart Server a few weeks back, some commenters asked how much power this always-on server uses. I promised to do some testing, which is now complete. In the process, I tested a desktop PC and learned a few things about Windows power management that I...
- Tags: HP Server, Hewlett-Packard Co., PC, Power Consumption, Server, Amazon.com Inc., Microsoft Windows, Serial ATA, Servers, Operating Systems, Software, Storage, Hardware, Ed Bott
- Blog posts 2007-11-30
- Performance Characterization of HP ProLiant DL360 G5 With Quad-Core Intel Xeon Processors (3.16 GHz/2x6 MB) in a 64-Bit HP Server Based Computing Environment
- This paper describes a performance characterization performed utilizing the HP 64-bit test harness, which incorporates a Microsoft Office 2003 workload. Test results cannot be compared directly with the results of tests performed using the 32-bit Office XP- or Office 2003-based harnesses. Combining concentrated 1U computing power, HP Integrated Lights-Out 2...
- Tags: HP Server, Hewlett-Packard Co., Performance, Environment, Quad-core, Computing, HP Compaq ProLiant, Performance Management, Microsoft Office, 64-Bit, Servers, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Office Suites, Software, Processors, Semiconductors, Hardware, Components
- White papers 2007-11-01
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