The lines are blurring between physical and virtual servers and the challenge for IT to effectively deploy and manage these resources has never been greater. Looking for tangible ROI? Read what IDC has to say. Learn the latest on blade servers, logical servers, server management tools and server virtualization. Check out the resources below to learn about the new ways to manage your servers and your costs to achieve data center efficiency.

Realize the full potential of your virtual environment by following the five specific rules spelled out in this whitepaper. These rules stem from the idea that IT shops need to take a broader service-centric approach to virtualization to deliver real business value. Download this report today.

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Build and maintain an infrastructure that delivers the performance you need to drive your best business outcomes. Discover a variety of products that support a scale out architecture where you can add additional building blocks whenever your business requires more capacity. Get all of the details now.

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Reduce the cost and complexity of your VMware environment by choosing a storage solution that compliments the benefits that VMware promises. Increase availability, better balance workloads and enhance your disaster recovery efforts with a clustered iSCSI storage area network. Read this whitepaper now to learn more.

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Respected consulting firm IDC explains why adopting energy-efficient server technology is the right choice in this informative whitepaper. Reduce server costs by 33% with server virtualization and a datacenter consolidation plan. Holding on to aging server assets will increase your operation costs. Avoid this budgetary nightmare. Download this whitepaper now.

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IDC explores the green and business dividends that datacenter consolidation and virtualization delivers. Better understand how the process of improving IT and datacenter efficiency reduces greenhouse gasses and costs for the enterprise. Also learn about more efficient power and cooling solutions available today.

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Optimize your datacenter assets and eliminate costly excesses with the real-world tips and recommendations shared in this whitepaper. The benefits include reduced costs, improved efficiencies and capital expenditure cost avoidance. Download this informative report now to learn more.

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The proliferation of under-utilized servers and the over-provisioning of resources are real problems in today's data center. Learn about an integrated solution from HP that will allow you to manage physical and virtual resources in the same way. See how you can accelerate project schedules, reduce the steps and costs associated with server provisioning upgrades and free untapped resources to make better use of power, cooling and space.

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In this white paper, IDC provides a detailed analysis of the business benefits of virtualization. IDC examines three different levels of virtualization deployment and outlines the total cost of ownership of each one. See the dramatic differences among the scenarios presented and learn how a highly virtualized environment can deliver a 3x increase in the number of users supported per server.

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Multitier architectures and the rapid spread of server virtualization have made managing the data center increasingly complex. IDC has conducted an ROI analysis of the benefits of server management tools from HP. See how those who have deployed these solutions have increased IT staff productivity by 42% as well as seen an increase in line-of-business user productivity and IT infrastructure cost savings.

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Are the server management tools bundled with your systems sufficient? They might be. It all depends upon your environment. In this white paper, Info-Tech covers the key considerations of server management tools to take the pain out of day-to-day provisioning, patching and operational support. Make sure you don't duplicate server management functions and invest in tools you don't need.

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The fluid architecture of logical servers enhances operational efficiencies and accelerates the speed of IT change throughout every process in the data center: planning, setup, ongoing maintenance and changes due to capacity or availability. Learn how administrators can tackle problems in ways that were previously impossible.

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One of the key drivers of server management costs is the interdependency between servers and network and SAN administrators. The goal of being able to wire once and add servers or change data center connections on the fly has been elusive –until now. HP can help your organization virtualize I/O connections without disruption or outage and reduce the involvement of network and SAN admins while preserving compatibility with networking standards.

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