Software for SQL Resources

  • Consolidating Database Servers

    In this IT Link podcast hosted by Mike Vizard, Ntirety CEO Michael Corey explains how the next generation of databases and virtualization technologies will combine to drive a new wave of database server consolidation and related infrastructure investments.

  • SQL Server Consolidation Delivers Data Center Power Savings

    Data center power usage has become a primary concern for IT managers as power consumption and energy costs continue to increase. When looking for solutions to lower data center footprints, IT managers often look at SQL Server consolidation. Read this white paper and learn how HP's consolidation technology can help customers reduce server and storage count by up to 75 percent. Discover how a consolidated environment not only decreases power consumption and general overhead costs, it also increases availability and utilization rates.

  • SQL Server Consolidation Demo

    Attend this demo and explore how SQL Server consolidation complements VMs and allows IT administrators to virtualize their databases without compromise. Learn how to streamline your database infrastructure and match capacity appropriately to need, provide high availability without introducing extra complexity and extra cost, and simplify management.

  • Consolidating Microsoft SQL Server with HP: Illuminata explores the user experience

    Microsoft SQL Sever's relatively low cost, steadily increasing capabilities and ease of deployment have all combined to accelerate its growth.

  • SQL Server Consolidation: A highly available, flexible and simple approach

    The success of SQL Server in recent years has produced a phenomenon of SQL Server sprawl the rampant proliferation of SQL Server databases.

  • The Shortcut Guide to SQL Server Infrastructure Optimization

    Leading IT author Don Jones explores the management burdens and hidden costs of sub-optimal data center infrastructures and lays out the paths that IT organizations can follow to find dramatic system-wide improvements in management, performance and security locked within their existing infrastructure.

  • British Energy Case Study: SQL Server Consolidation Decreases Costs and Improves Performance

    British Energy is the UK's largest producer of electricity and it trades its output. This case study explains how the company used HP PolyServe Software for Microsoft SQL Server to migrate and consolidate its infrastructure, reduce costs, improve flexibility and agility, and assure a highly available environment.

  • Homeplans Case Study: Improve Performance and Reduce Costs with SQL Server Consolidation

    This case study explains how Homeplans used HP PolyServe Software for Microsoft SQL Server to improve availability, decrease risk, and simplify administration.