The Enterprise Engineering Center Blog : Documentation

Free eBook: Introducing Windows Server 2008 R2

EEC — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 16:31:00 GMT

A great new book on the new features and refinements in Windows Server 2008 R2 is available in the Microsoft download center. It’s called Introducing Windows Server 2008 R2 and is targeted primarily at Windows server administrators who are responsible...(read more)

Hyper-V Support, Performance and Load Tools

EEC — Tue, 22 Sep 2009 22:05:00 GMT

During one of our engagements with Tuev Nord , (one of the world’s largest technical service providers of the Mobility, Industrial Services, International, Natural Resources and Training and Human Resources fields), the Windows Server Hyper-V feature...(read more)

UC Releases OCS R2 Site Resiliency White paper

EEC — Tue, 28 Jul 2009 21:51:00 GMT

Earlier this year the Office Communications Group (OCG) approached the EEC and our Partners ( HP , F5 and Shunra ) to help them build an environment where they could perform the necessary testing to create this much needed white paper. This was a challenging...(read more)

Sun releases Virtualizing Windows on Sun Ray Thin Client White Paper

EEC — Fri, 17 Jul 2009 01:24:00 GMT

As part of the expansion of the EEC, our team looked at a way to improve the customers’ experience of accessing their virtualized environments to perform their testing while at the EEC or from a remote location. We have accomplished this with our VDI...(read more)

Virtualized Exchange Saves Power

EEC — Tue, 16 Jun 2009 19:25:00 GMT

Earlier this year, Rob Simpson, Exchange Program Manager completed some testing while at the EEC to document the power savings that are possible when you virtualize your Exchange environment. What he found was that you can have a 50% power savings with...(read more)

Memory Primer for Nehalem Servers from EEC OEM Partners

EEC — Tue, 09 Jun 2009 18:52:00 GMT

With the new Intel Nehalem based processors coming out some questions that our EEC OEM Partners get are around the memory configurations based on the new architecture. I have gone out and found some articles for you to review if you are interested. Dell...(read more)

Dell™ Case Study on Reducing Spending on Power, Hardware & Software

EEC — Wed, 06 May 2009 21:10:00 GMT

Dell Global Infrastructure Consulting, led by Terry Storey, Senior Global Architect for the Dell Microsoft Practice, has been collaborating with the Windows Server and Client product groups since April 2008 on validating the release of Windows Server®...(read more)

Brocade Releases White Paper on Deploying ServerIron with SharePoint 2007

EEC — Fri, 01 May 2009 21:28:00 GMT

Earlier this year the EEC hosted our Partner, Brocade, and the SharePoint product team for a product engagement. The goal of the engagement was to create a new White Paper that provides the reference architecture and procedures for deploying Brocade ServerIron...(read more)

Performance and Capacity Requirements for SharePoint on Hyper-V

EEC — Sat, 22 Nov 2008 01:12:00 GMT

Back in September the SharePoint Product Group came to the EEC to do some testing of Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 in a Hyper-V™ virtual environment. Their goal was to gather performance and capacity data for our customers to use in their evaluation...(read more)

Power Management in the EEC

EEC — Fri, 24 Oct 2008 18:38:00 GMT

In today’s business environment with the need for companies to conserve energy to help save money and contribute a stronger bottom line, data center operators are looking at consolidation and power management options to help them in their quest. A great...(read more)