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Virtual Data Center eZine - Volume 6 by Virtual Data Center eZine - Volume 6
This expert e-zine shows you how lacking a solid plan can sabotage your virtualization implementation. Read on for proven best practices for virtual lab management planning and physical-to-virtual migrations. Virtualization can drastically transform and improve an organization, but using P2V tools and doing migrations without assessing the...
Transform Your Data Center Into An Energy-Efficient Operation by Insight and Sun Microsystems, Inc
Data center growth has led to sprawling server, storage, and supporting infrastructure. This white paper describes how to achieve better utilization and more eco-efficient systems energy-efficient systems with virtualization technologies. Data center growth in number of users, applications, and data, have all led to...
Increase Performance and Efficiency with the HP Integrity NonStop BladeSystem by Hewlett-Packard Company
business systems, and by reducing your data center facility costs. In this white paper learn more about the HP Integrity NonStop NB50000c BladeSystem that achieves the same high availability, data integrity, and scalability formerly obtainable only with HP Integrity NonStop rack-mounted systems but offers smaller data center footprint, lower per...
Migrate Data without Mistakes by Storage Magazine
migrations are a fact of life. In many cases, the migration ends up being a tedious process. Automated tools can help ease migration woes. Host-based migration software takes the load off the storage array and can easily bridge the gap when migrating data between heterogeneous storage systems. But array-based migration may be preferred for technology refreshes...
Keeping Your Head above the Cloud: 7 Data Center Challenges before Going Virtual by F5 Networks
This White Paper details seven data center challenges before deploying a virtual data center. Virtualization machine platforms are the simplest way to implement virtualization, but this disruptive technology requires a re-architecting of the existing data center. This white paper shows you how to achieve a seamless migration by avoiding these...
Tideway Foundation ™ Community Edition 7.1.7 by Tideway Systems
estate helps take cost and risk out of critical data center projects. Product Type: Discovery and Dependency Mapping

Target User: IT Managers, System Administrators and Configuration Managers

IT Problem: Tideway automatically maps physical & virtual servers, applications and dependencies to provide an actionable baseline of your infrastructure. This 360-degree...
Case Study: Hitachi Breathes New Life into Critical Applications at UHC by Hitachi Data Systems
Consortium partnered with Hitachi Data Systems to deploy a virtualized, tiered storage environment. Learn how UHC achieved such dramatic results by reading this end user case study. The University HealthSystem Consortium (UHC) is an alliance of academic medical centers and affiliated hospitals representing approximately 90 percent of the nation...
Exchange Migration by Azaleos Corporation
provides straight knowledge about various migration technologies. This webinar provides straight knowledge about various migration technologies. It covers five queries:

  • What is Azaleos.
  • Pre Migration or Design Migration.
  • Exchange Migration.
  • Group Migration.
  • Some common Migration and issues.
Podcast: Virtualization Demystified: Breaking Out Virtualization Technologies by F5 Networks
client environment all the way back through the Data Center into application, storage, and delivery networks. While Virtualization is solid technology, one definition for this word doesn't cover all parts of the virtualization story. What does virtualization mean within the context of end-users, operating systems, application server, management,...
Effectively Securing Virtualized Data Centers by Apani
large organizations, securing virtualized data centers is a major concern. Server virtualization offers several benefits including better total cost of ownership, increased operational efficiencies and more flexible management capabilities. But server virtualization may also increase security risks. Virtual machines (VMs) themselves are no less...
Best Practices: Pull the Plug on High Energy Costs by Storage Magazine
Storage systems account for a big chunk of the data center electric bill. Here are some ways to reduce your costs. There's been a flurry of activity among IT vendors to develop lower energy products and with good reason--the cost of electricity continues to rise in every part of the country. Energy experts' opinions differ on the size of the rate hikes, but one thing remains...
Server Virtualization - Putting an End to Server Sprawl by CDW Corporation
reduces the amount of floor space needed for the data center, enhances security and saves money for the whole organization. Running several virtual machines on one physical server improves utilization, reduces the amount of floor space needed for the data center, enhances security and saves money for the whole organization. Find out what you need to virtualize...
MDS 9000 SAN-OS Software: The Virtual Machine Aware SAN by Cisco Systems, Inc.
44; scalable, and mobile. Virtualization of the data center, which includes servers, storage, and networks, has addressed some of the challenges related to consolidation, space constraints, demand for high power, and cooling requirements. End-to-end virtualization helps increase efficiency and reduces overall total cost of ownership (TCO). Virtual...
Switching on the Virtual World: The Role of Fabric-Driven Services for the Virtualized Environment by Cisco Systems, Inc.
Virtualization in the data center is widely accepted and deployments are growing at a fast clip, the advantages of virtualizing servers, networks and storage are compelling: consolidating and utilizing resources. Server virtualization creates a disparity between physical and virtual environments in terms of managing and securing...
Sun™ xVM Virtualization Portfolio: Enabling Dynamic IT from the Desktop to the Datacenter by Sun Microsystems, Inc.
as simplified management of the virtualized data center. Read on to learn about a simple way to do the following:
  • Run multiple systems and services securely and reliably in one cost-effective physical environment running the Solaris, Windows, or Linux operating system
  • Simplify operations through unified management of physical asset and virtualized environments
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Better Business Continuity with VMware Virtual Infrastructure by Hewlett-Packard Company
both planned and unplanned downtime.

Most data center downtime is typically planned. Organizations using VMware software can slash planned downtime by eliminating most scheduled hardware maintenance outages. VMware's groundbreaking VMotion™ technology allows IT administrators to move running virtual machines (software containers that hold a...
Migration to DOCSIS 3.0 by Motorola, Inc.
channel bonding and multicast services, and migration scenarios to DOCSIS 3.0, are addressed. This paper addresses the factors driving cable operators toward deployment of DOCSIS 3.0. New features, channel bonding and multicast services as well as migration scenarios from existing networks to DOCSIS 3.0 are also addressed...
Best Practices: Tackling Data Migration by Storage Magazine
methodology should address the planning, pre-migration, migration and post-migration phases and include (or reference) detailed information within each phase, such as flowcharts and procedural documents. The degree of specificity within these documents should be high and include platform-/OS-/network-/SAN- and storage- specific tasks. Detailed guidelines should be included for...
File Shares to SharePoint: 8 Keys to a Succesful Migration by Quest Software
host for your company's collaboration data. This white paper discusses what you need to consider when migrating data from file shares to SharePoint. Read it today. It's costly to manage and maintain multiple data platforms, yet many companies still do so. Although file shares work, their limited capabilities and high administration costs make...
Data Discovery and Risk in the Datacenter by Tizor
data risk by discovering critical data in the data center, monitoring and analyzing activity, providing detailed auditing trails, and reporting on all user access. Database activity monitoring (DAM) solutions mitigate data risk by discovering critical data in the data center; intelligently monitoring and analyzing the activity that affects it; providing detailed...
Dell and Microsoft Windows Server 2008 Server Virtualization and Management by Dell and Microsoft
of Windows Server 2008, and Microsoft System Center Virtual Machine Manager, you can now take advantage of a powerful new set of tools to help simplify infrastructure management. With the introduction of Microsoft Hyper-V as part of Windows Server 2008, and Microsoft System Center Virtual Machine Manager, you can now take advantage of a powerful new set...
Quest MessageStats™ by Quest Software
and managers, Exchange administrators, and migration consultants alike. Understanding Microsoft Exchange usage and trends, modeling and justifying expenses, and forecasting operational requirements are fundamental to effective management of an Exchange environment. This necessitates metrics on service delivery, capacity, usage, and inventory from both...
eGuide: A Guide to Virtualization Ready Servers by Dell and Microsoft
explains how they can benefit your IT shop. Live migration without the VMware ESX pricetag? Virtualization-ready blade servers? This expert E-Guide from the writers at SearchServerVirtualization.com brings you up-to- date on the latest virtualization developments and explains how they can benefit your IT shop.

Read on to learn about the following:

  • Hyper V
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SAP Solutions on VMware Infrastructure: Customer Use Cases by VMware and Intel
encapsulating applications, patches, data, and so forth. This structure allows separation of services from the underlying hardware.

Virtualization enjoys fast-growing adoption among SAP customers who are already reaping significant benefits. This document explores the ways real SAP customers have used VMware virtualization to:

  • Optimize
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Quick Migration with Hyper-V by Microsoft
Learn the basics of quick migration and the Hyper-V technology and how to apply quick migration to enhance the availability of services. In this white paper, we begin with an introduction to quick migration and the Hyper-V technology. We then describe how to apply quick migration to enhance the availability of services. We explore how you can...
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Mainframe applications never die: Using the 3270 bridge by Robert Crawford, Contributor
advantage of talking to the old transactions through data areas instead of navigating treacherous 3270 streams. This column provides an overview of the 3270 bridge Link3270 interface.

Overview of 3270 bridge
To discuss the bridge, some definitions are in order.

Server: The transaction to be driven through the bridge
Client: The transaction or... More...

Disaster recovery, business continuity hinge on the right philosophy by Terry Rodgers and Jeffrey Kirchner, Contributors
impact the reliability of the facility and its data center.

Syska Hennessy Group designed the Criticality Levels concept, which assesses the availability and reliability of a business's critical facility. Performing this exercise is useful for existing facilities and in the design process in order to select the proper components that... More...

Mainframe server consolidation should be on your hit list by Wayne Kernochan, Contributor
system instance.

Today, Sun's "Consolidation in the Data Center" (Blueprints series) identifies somewhat different classifications: Server consolidation. Application consolidation. Storage consolidation -- combining several storage systems from several vendors into one SAN (storage-area network) and/or NAS (network-attached storage... More...

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CA announces Mainframe 2.0 by Mark Fontecchio, News Writer
experienced IT staff, to create greater uniformity among products, and to provide a service to remove mainframe burdens.

Rich Ptak, an analyst at Ptak, Noel & Associates, believes that CA's initiative is a good idea.

"It's a step in the right direction," Ptak said. "CA is in competition with mainframe-focused tools from BMC and IBM. They're all working hard to make... More...

TPC eyes energy consumption and virtualization benchmarks by Bridget Botelho, News Writer
systems are idle."

TPC will also offer new ETL (extraction/transformation/loading and service-oriented architecture (SOA) measurements. Further, the organization plans to offer a series of workshops on using performance benchmarks to make server hardware and software buying decisions. The workshops will be held in various locations throughout the U.S., and... More...

HP announces Dynamic Power Capping for ProLiant servers by Mark Fontecchio, News Writer
Capping, HP also announced the following:

Energy-efficiency analysis and design service, much of which is culled from the HP acquisition of EYP Mission Critical Facilities last year. A redesign of the ProLiant BL460c server blade so it uses 44 fewer watts. A new HP 24,000W High Efficiency Hot-Plug Power Supply for its BladeSystem c7000 Enclosure, which HP... More...