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Agentless Application Virtualization: Enabling the Evolution of the Desktop by VMware, Inc.
VCC, and how solutions that combine desktop and application virtualization can enable a dynamic desktop environment, improve storage efficiency and simplify management...
Webcast on Client- and Server-Side Application Virtualization by Citrix
solution offers both client- and server-side application virtualization. Virtualization promises to play an increasingly important role across all aspects of application delivery in the future. Citrix provides an application delivery solution that offers both client- and server-side application virtualization. You can virtually deliver Windows apps to users from the...
Application and Server Virtualization Working Together by Citrix
This paper shows that server and application virtualization are complementary and how they can and often should be combined, not only to amplify the capabilities of the respective technologies but to achieve greater positive impact to IT and the business. IT organizations successfully deploy virtualization every day to maximize utilization of existing computing...
Desktop and Application Virtualization: Getting Started by Citrix
This discussion lead by industry analyst and virtualization expert Barb Goldworm of Fous Consulting will show you what it means to virtualize desktops and applications. Is desktop virtualization is right for your environment? Do you know what it takes to get started? This discussion lead by industry analyst and virtualization expert Barb Goldworm of Fous Consulting...
Podcast: Next Gen Application Virtualization - Never Install a Windows Application Again by Citrix
in XenApp - Application Experience 2.0, next gen application virtualization, superior application management and support, enhanced service level monitoring, and that's just the beginning.

Learn how XenApp 5 enables you to install an application once in the data center and deliver to both servers and endpoints for the best performance...
Microsoft Virtualization Fundamentals: Overview of the Microsoft Virtualization Vision by Microsoft
product: Server Virtualization, Application Virtualization, and Presentation Virtualization and the purpose of each. This overview will explain the various type of virtualization, the benefits of management using System Center and how virtualization results in more efficient resource utilization and supports greater flexibility...
Application Virtualization Security Best Practices by Microsoft
begin planning and deploying Microsoft Application Virtualization 4.5 (App-V), an understanding of the security capabilities and best practices for administrative and operational tasks is important for any infrastructure administrator. Security of the App-V system relies on proper setup of the software and the environment in which it operates. This document covers, describes...
Application Virtualization and Desktop Virtualization Are Better Together by Citrix
to deliver virtual desktops to further reduce application and desktop computing costs. This document is designed to help Citrix XenApp customers understand how and when Citrix XenDesktop can be used with Citrix XenApp to deliver virtual desktops to further reduce application and desktop computing costs and provide greater IT and user flexibility compared to...
Software Demo: An Introduction to Citrix XenApp by Citrix
Experience, and key features showing how Application Virtualization works in the real world. This demo, in the form of an 8-minute automatic Flash video of the application delivery solution, shows how Citrix application virtualization provides a better than installed experience for both users and IT. Applications start up to 10 times faster, the user experience is dramatically...
Virtualization for Windows: A Technical Overview by Microsoft
44; presentation virtualization, and application virtualization. It examines Microsoft's tools for a virtual world - what they do... Virtualization is one of the hottest trends in information technology today. This is no accident. While a variety of technologies fall under the virtualization umbrella, all of them are changing the IT world in significant ways.

This overview...
Inquiry Insights: Client Virtualization, Q3 2008 by Citrix
client virtualization space, application virtualization, and the costs associated with desktop virtualization. While these inquiries are just the tip of the iceberg, they give insights into what is on the minds of desktop operations and architects and where the client virtualization market is headed...
Managing Virtualized Systems - Pinpointing Performance Problems in the Virtual Infrastructure by Akorri
Managers and Directors must deal with after the virtualization of important business applications. This paper explores one of the important issues that IT Managers and Directors must deal with after the virtualization of important business applications. Virtualization stops many existing Performance Management tools from solving this problem, and creates new...
Microsoft Application Virtualization (App-V) 4.5 ADM Template by Microsoft
This white paper provides administrators with the steps necessary to deploy configuration for the App-V client with Group Policies. This white paper provides administrators with the steps necessary to deploy configuration for the App-V client with Group Policies. The App-V Client ADM Template enables administrators to centrally manage the...
Architectural Requirements for a Datacenter-Ready Virtualization Platform by VMware, Inc.
architectural advantages over competing virtualization platforms, which should enable VMware to remain the technology leader in this space for some time to come. Server virtualization is rapidly entering the mainstream, as companies of all sizes adopt it to run everything from their development and test software to production level applications. The...
Optimizing Desktop Performance Security by Citrix
like desktop virtualization, application virtualization, and application streaming, which are all tied together in a single, policy-driven application delivery platform. This application delivery infrastructure allows desktop managers to securely deliver both new and updated applications as well as full computing environments to any corporate and non...
Security Virtualization: Re-architecting the Appliance Mentality by Crossbeam Systems
In order to determine what "security virtualization" really means, it is useful to understand how companies define and enforce their security and accompanying compliance policies today. In order to determine what "security virtualization" really means, it is useful to understand how companies define and enforce their security and accompanying...
Desktop Delivery: Making Desktop Virtualization Work by Citrix
This whitepaper discusses Desktop Virtualization and the impact on desktop management. It explores the challenges for desktop management in a pre-Desktop Virtualization world and issues that are not well addressed by Desktop Virtualization. While Desktop Virtualization puts the desktop into the data center, it is not a panacea for desktop delivery. Desktop...
Virtualization Defined - Eight Different Ways by F5 Networks
Virtualization is not a new concept. Today it appears that virtualization is everywhere, which because of its ambiguity can be applied to any and all parts of an IT infrastructure. This whitepaper focuses on virtualization in the data center. What does "going virtual" really mean in today's IT world? Virtualization as a...
Experts Uncover the Benefits of SAP Virtualization by VMware and Intel
com E-Guide, explore SAP's take on virtualization in today's market and discover what SAP-friendly virtualization and managed hosting solutions are available. The creation of virtualization has led to SAP's desire to integrate virtualization technology more closely with their general application and business functions. SAP's ecosystem of 12...
Security Implications of the Virtualized DataCenter by F5 Networks
behind application & operation system virtualization are not new concepts, they have been around long before server appliances & desktop PCs were readily available in our daily vocabulary. The recent rate of virtualization adoption however, especially that of software operating system virtualization, has grown exponentially in the past few years...
Podcast: Virtualization Demystified: Breaking Out Virtualization Technologies by F5 Networks
This podcast explores the different types of virtualization available for deployment and how each independent category should be addressed before your company migrates to a fully virtual environment. Over the past few years Virtualization has become the new IT buzzword, cropping up in technologies from the end-user client environment all the way back through the...
Virtualization 101: A Guide to Using Virtualization in Any Environment by Citrix
XenServer provides simple, economical server virtualization designed for easy implementation in any IT environment. Virtualization adoption is concentrated among large enterprises, but mid-sized companies are faced with challenges around fragmentation, application performance, vendor lock-in, and more. Check out this white paper to learn how you can deploy...
Five Ways to Ensure Your Virtualization Initiatives Effectively Support Applications and End Users by Quest Software
managers and data center managers ensure their virtualization initiatives effectively support applications and end users. Many organizations that implement virtualization do not fully realize these benefits. Their efforts are hampered by poorly performing applications that fail to meet service levels and the needs of end users. Moreover, what is true in the...
Time to Rethink Backup and Recovery - Virtualization Changes the Paradigm by Vizioncore Inc.
Virtualization is becoming more widely used and accepted. As the level of use rises, experienced users are adopting virtualization to run more of their production applications. This raises the bar for backup and recovery applications like vRanger Pro. Virtualization is becoming more widely used and accepted. As the level of...
Practical tips for unlocking virtualization and cloud computing cost savings by Third Brigade
Check out this webcast and learn how virtualization and cloud computing can help your company reduce operating costs while reducing risks and ensuring overall data security. Cloud computing and virtual technology are providing significant opportunities for today's businesses, but critical security and compliance risks have been introduced with the...
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Five mainframe myths busted by Robert Crawford, Contributor
on campuses.

The mainframe is old technology
Virtualization (VM operating system, PR/SM) and goal-based performance management (WLM) are just two ideas originating on the mainframe that are now making their way onto the smaller platforms. Even so, Windows and UNIX have a long way to go before they match the bigger boxes' ease of maintenance and... More...

Dumb debugging on the mainframe by Robert Crawford, Contributor
challenging root cause. However, an S0C7 in an application program is usually not indicative of a microcode bug in the coupling facility. Most of the time, the answer is something much simpler. Take a deep breath. Try to figure out whether any files are closed, what changed since yesterday or whether there's an abnormal condition that might drive a... More...
System administration skills are key to data center jobs by Robert Rosen
what I was teaching in terms of detail. Some of the best application programmers I ever knew used to be system programmers. They knew beyond what the language was doing; they were able to optimize and improve their programs because they knew what was going on at the lower levels.

Always keep in mind the power of career networking. Besides taking the Windows... More...

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Running Linux and z/OS on a single mainframe poses no problem by Mark Fontecchio, Nes Writer
one another and communicate faster by being on the same hardware. For example, a Linux application might run a Web-facing program for a user that taps into a back-end database application running on z/OS. Housing both applications on the same hardware can speed communication and minimize security concerns.

"You're getting the benefit of using one system instead of... More...

AMD releases 45-nm Shanghai Opteron processor on schedule by Bridget Botelho, News Writer
underlying Shanghai includes some of the popular features of Barcelona, such as virtualization-assist technologies and power-efficiency features, but improves on them and is more cost-effective, said Burke Banda, the product marketing manager of AMD's Server and Workstation Division.

In addition, Shanghai's release comes on schedule with it's processor... More...

How will data centers weather the economic downturn? by Matt Stansberry, Senior Site Editor
data center will continue as they have been due to the cost benefits in the long run.

Virtualization technologies will be just as important and some groups might start eyeing cloud computing as a way to temporarily augment their current infrastructures without extra capital expense. Finally, I think penny pinching will cause more groups to lean toward free... More...