TEST RESULTS - Dell Inc. (Dell) commissioned Principled Technologies (PT) to consolidate 35 4-year-old HP ProLiant DL385 server and storage solutions onto 5 Dell™ PowerEdge™ M610 blade server and storage solutions using VMware vSphere 4 (vSphere). Read this test report to learn about key findings from PT's consolidation testing.
Posted: March 15, 2010 | Published: October 1, 2009


Topics:  Blade Servers | Data Center Consolidation | Server Consolidation | Server Hardware | Server Virtualization | Server Virtualization Software | Storage Hardware | Testing | VMware

TEST RESULTS - Dell Inc. (Dell) commissioned Principled Technologies (PT) to consolidate 35 4-year-old HP ProLiant DL385 server and storage solutions onto 5 Dell™ PowerEdge™ M610 blade server and storage solutions using Microsoft Windows Server 2008 R2 with Hyper-V. Learn about the benefits achieved from this consolidation solution in this test report.
Posted: March 15, 2010 | Published: October 1, 2009


Topics:  Blade Servers | Data Center Consolidation | Data Center Management | Microsoft Hyper-V | ROI | Server Consolidation | Server Hardware | Server Virtualization | Server Virtualization Software | Testing | Windows Server Software

EBOOK - Design, management and testing can make or break high availability in your virtual environment. Chapter 3 of this Advanced Virtualization E-Book discusses the essentials of high availability planning.
Posted: March 5, 2010 | Published: March 5, 2010


Topics:  Disaster Recovery | High Availability | IT Management | IT Managers | Server Management | Server Virtualization | Storage Replication | Testing | Virtual Machine

WHITE PAPER - This paper examines three proven mainframe application modernization strategies and the business imperative in considering them.
Posted: March 4, 2010 | Published: March 4, 2010


Topics:  Application Development | Applications Management | Business IT Alignment | Data Migration | Enterprise Applications Software | IT Spending | Mainframe Computers | Testing

WEBCAST - Using full-size copies of the production database for testing and development has an exponential effect on data growth. Managing all these full-size copies quickly becomes unwieldy. This webcast from Informatica will show you how to maintain your data relationships, ensure data security and optimize testing and development environment.
Posted: March 2, 2010 | Premiered: October 28, 2009


Topics:  Application Development | Data Quality | Data Security | Database Management | Database Management Software | Database Performance Management | Database Security | Databases | Oracle (Product) | Testing

SOFTWARE DEMO - IT companies often struggle to handle explosive data growth. To successfully deploy new applications, they must be tested using real-world data sets. Many companies struggle with cycle times and infrastructure costs.  This demo explains how Informatica’s Data Subset enterprise data growth solution can help untangle complex transactional systems.
Posted: February 26, 2010 | Published: February 26, 2010


Topics:  Application Deployment | Application Life-Cycle Management | Application Life-Cycle Management Software | Database Administration | Database Management | Database Management Software | Enterprise Applications Software | Enterprise Resource Management | Information Management | Information Management Software | Testing

WEBCAST - In this webinar, you will lean how to operate your entire application testing infrastructure in the cloud to save time and money – enabling you to test more extensively and quickly hand off projects from development to operations.
Posted: February 24, 2010 | Premiered: February 24, 2010


Topics:  Application Deployment | Application Development | Application Life-Cycle Management | Cloud Computing | Data Center Infrastructure Efficiency | IT Infrastructure | Network Management | Security | Testing | Virtual Machine | Workload Automation

EGUIDE - Read this E-Guide to learn how to maintain test consistency throughout the agile process, the benefits and common obstacles of agile test automation, and how to accelerate agile software testing throughout the entire process.
Posted: February 22, 2010 | Published: February 22, 2010


Topics:  Agile Manufacturing | Application Deployment | Application Development | Application Life-Cycle Management | Application Life-Cycle Management Software | Software Testing | Testing

WHITE PAPER - This paper will help you gain a closer understanding of how you can integrate performance testing into your Agile processes. It summarizes key concepts and best practices involved in performance testing, highlights software tools that enable performance validation in Agile environments, and provides practical tips that you can put to work today.
Posted: February 9, 2010 | Published: February 9, 2010


Topics:  Agile Manufacturing | Business Intelligence | Business Performance Management | Performance Testing | Software Configuration Management | Software Quality Assurance | Testing

WHITE PAPER - Read this paper to learn how the expectations of business users have changed and continue to increase in scope. This paper details key capabilities needed for successful end-user monitoring and provides critical considerations for delivering a successful end-user experience.
Posted: February 8, 2010 | Published: February 8, 2010


Topics:  Architectures | Infrastructure Management | Infrastructure Services | IT Service Management | ITIL | Performance Testing | SLA | SLA Management Services | Testing

VIDEO - In this video, David Sherry explains the cloud's many uses, its current advantages and disadvantages, and most importantly, the security risks and compliance issues that must be considered with any cloud computing implementation.
Posted: February 5, 2010 | Premiered: February 5, 2010


Topics:  Cloud Computing | Compliance (Systems Operations) | Compliance Best Practices | Regulatory Compliance | Security | Security Policies | Security Threats | Testing

PRESENTATION TRANSCRIPT - This presentation transcript offers recommendations for moving your virtualization project from the testing phase to production. Learn how to plan virtualization design to ensure a smooth transition to production rollout. Discover ways to align your implementation with best practices and determine which next steps to take to prepare for production.
Posted: January 25, 2010 | Published: December 3, 2009


Topics:  Capacity Planning | Server Virtualization | Storage Capacity | Storage Management | Systems Management | Testing | Virtualization Security

PRODUCT DEMO - Please join Core Security for a live demonstration of CORE IMPACT Pro, the most comprehensive product for performing security assurance testing on an organization’s network systems, endpoint systems, end users and web applications.
Posted: December 30, 2009 | Published: December 30, 2009


Topics:  Intrusion Detection Systems | Intrusion Prevention Systems | Risk Management | Security | Security Audits | Security Spending | Security Threats | Testing | Vulnerability Assessments

ANALYST REPORT - Principled Technologies sought out to see how many Dell PowerEdge 2650s can be consolidated onto a single PowerEdge R805 with a Dell PowerVault MD1000 attached? We defined a consolidation methodology, which we detail later in this report; conducted multiple rounds of testing; and analyzed the results.
Posted: December 28, 2009 | Published: December 28, 2009


Topics:  Data Center Management | Multi-core Processors | Regulatory Compliance | Server Consolidation | Server Hardware | Server Management | Testing

VIDEO - This videocast offers recommendations for moving your virtualization project from the testing phase to production. Learn how to plan virtualization design to ensure a smooth transition to production rollout. Discover ways to align your implementation with best practices and determine which next steps to take to prepare for production.
Posted: December 3, 2009 | Premiered: December 3, 2009


Topics:  Capacity Planning | Server Virtualization | Storage Capacity | Storage Management | Systems Management | Testing | Virtualization Security