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Securing the Benefits of Virtualization by Stonesoft Inc.
be an afterthought in the transformation of the data center. Companies are rapidly adopting virtualization, incented by the tremendous benefits it brings to static and inflexible data centers. Virtualization offers better utilization of server resources but also, more importantly, it creates an agile application platform that business can use to accelerate...
How Customers Are Cutting Costs and Building Value with Microsoft Virtualization by Microsoft
servers, organizations can better manage the data center. Server consolidation can cut costs by decreasing the amount of physical servers needed.

Businesses have never been under more pressure to reduce costs and operate more efficiently. Virtualization is one of the most effective means for making this happen. It provides powerful, tangible ways to streamline many...
Cost-cutting strategies for a virtualized data center: Disaster recovery and readiness by Dell, Inc. and Intel
Learn how data center virtualization enables your company to implement cost-effective disaster recovery (DR) solutions and reduce DR testing and maintenance costs. Virtualizing the data center can save you money on disaster recovery (DR) maintenance and testing. Many midmarket companies can benefit from the reduction in DR...
Data Center Virtualization by Compellent
Many organizations are adopting server virtualization technologies to reduce capital costs, create a flexible pool of resources and shrink the data center footprint. But to take full advantage of the benefits of server virtualization, organizations need the support of an advanced storage platform. This data sheet gives more details. Many organizations are...
ESG Brief: Hitachi Data Systems Helps Users Realize Maximum Benefits from Virtualization by Hitachi Data Systems
Server virtualization, data center consolidation, and IT efficiency all act as catalysts for the highly virtualized next generation data center. Hitachi storage systems enable customers to accelerate the adoption of virtualization and improve IT's service to the business. Server virtualization, data center consolidation, and IT efficiency...
Transforming a Global Data Center Environment by Hewlett Packard Company and Intel
purchases. This white paper will cover Global Data Center Environment Strategies such as:

  • Consolidating data centers, concentrating computing resources into fewer large, highly efficient hub data centers, and closing other local data centers
  • Accelerating server refresh, while implementing grid computing and server virtualization to increase utilization, and
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Automate Virtualization in Your Data Center by Hewlett-Packard Company
and other benefits, looks at the challenges for data center management that virtualization introduces, and explains why most current approaches to virtual system management fall short. Virtualization by definition is a technology that creates abstract versions of physical environments. As a result creating a virtual environment can be both disruptive and...
Virtual Data Center E-Zine - Volume 9 by Virtual Data Center E-Zine - Volume 9
In this month's issue of Virtual Data Center, learn how to reduce the number of physical servers even more by focusing on the process of virtual machine placement on host servers. How much money can data centers save with server virtualization? In this month's issue of Virtual Data Center, learn how to reduce the number of physical servers even more by...
Three Must Haves for the Virtual Data Center by Compellent
virtualization, and create a true virtual data center, IT departments need a holistic storage solution that allows fully shared resources, easy and automated storage classification and migration and complete data protection. Read this white paper for three "must haves" to achieve those objectives. Traditionally, data centers have attempted to respond to growth...
Managing VMware Platform Security in the Data Center by HyTrust
Server virtualization in the data center is becoming ubiquitous driven by benefits in server consolidation and management flexibility it provides. This paper describes the changes that occur in data centers with the adoption of virtual infrastructure and the resulting security challenges. Server virtualization in the data...
E-Guide: A Guide To Improving Data Center Efficiency with Virtualization by Agilysys Technology Solutions Group
today recognize the critical role data center efficiency plays in overall business performance. Yet, they often lack the tools essential for maximizing data center agility, flexibility and recovery. In this expert E-Guide, brought to you by SearchDataCenter.com and Agilysys, you will discover the critical role virtualization technologies play in data...
Virtual Data Center E-Zine - Volume 10 by Virtual Data Center E-Zine - Volume 10
with less. Read in this latest issue how to use server virtualization to boost utilization while saving money. Renewed interest in data centers is presenting a unique challenge to IT professionals who must do more with less. Read in this latest issue how to use server virtualization to boost utilization while saving money. Virtualized data centers are rethinking their approach...
Introduction to Virtualization E-Book, Chapter 2: Optimizing Server Virtualization by Hewlett Packard Company and Intel
capacity. This e-book explains optimizing server virtualization and server management and can help optimize a virtual server deployment. Businesses have faced server sprawl and underutilization problems for a long time. Most servers are rarely used at more than 5% to 10% of computing capacity, resulting in a proliferation of power-hungry systems that aren't working up to...
Server Virtualization, Business Continuance and Disaster Recovery by Storage Decisions
tricks on building an accessible BC/DR strategy server virtualization and the storage products that enable efficient, flexible green and virtual data centers. Server virtualization has the potential to bring sophisticated business continuance (BC) and disaster recovery (DR) techniques to organizations that previously didn't have the means to adopt them. Likewise, virtualized as...
Advanced virtualization management for Hyper-V and System Center environments by Citrix
provisioning Hyper-V infrastructure. Server virtualization with Windows Server® 2008 Hyper-V allows you to make the best use of server hardware investments, reduce management overhead and create a more dynamic IT infrastructure. However, as is common with new, game-changing technologies, server virtualization can challenge traditional approaches to IT delivery. For...
Introduction to Virtualization E-book, Chapter 1: Virtualization Concepts in Disaster Recovery by Hewlett Packard Company and Intel
or virtual server working in the primary data center can be copied into a virtual instance on almost any other server hardware located at the DR site. The DR site can run the virtual instance regardless of differences in the remote server's hardware. Read on to gain insight on the following topics:

  • How to determine if you are ready for a DR SAN
  • Best practices for
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What is Virtualization? by Dell and VMware
of how virtualization addresses common data center challenges. In the traditional IT approach, every new software application required a new server. This added costs to every project and deployment took days to weeks. This also drove server sprawl. Application workloads were directly dependent on server reliability for uptime. Even planned hardware...
Introduction to Virtualization E-Book, Chapter 2: Optimizing Server Virtualization by Dell and Microsoft
capacity. This e-book explains optimizing server virtualization and server management and can help optimize a virtual server deployment. Businesses have faced server sprawl and underutilization problems for a long time. Most servers are rarely used at more than 5% to 10% of computing capacity, resulting in a proliferation of power-hungry systems that aren't working up to their...
Optimize server utilization in real time with HP Virtual Server Environment for HP Integrity servers by Hewlett-Packard Company
advantage. This is a challenge in today's typical data center, where the infrastructure cannot easily be shifted to accommodate changing business needs. In response, enterprises generally provision more servers and storage devices than they need in order to handle the forecasted peak workloads for each application, leading to costly underutilization of resources.

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Nehalem EP Virtualization Animation by Intel Corporation
include many features including flexible virtualization. Data centers need to quickly migrate applications across a mix of server generations to meet IT and business objectives. Intel® Virtualization Technology FlexMigration enables seamless migration across multiple server generations. As virtualization increases so does the amount of data and applications...
Virtualization: Optimized Power and Cooling to Maximize Benefits by APC
is an undisputed leap forward in data center evolution - it saves energy, increases computing throughput, frees up floor space, and facilitates load migration and disaster recovery. With these benefits though, come new challenges to the power and cooling infrastructure. Virtualization is an undisputed leap forward in data center evolution - it...
Unify & Automate Management Of Virtual, Physical, Cloud & Hybrid Computing Infrastructures by FastScale Technology
39;Logical' servers in your next generation data center. Managing a next generation datacenter (NGDC) requires coping with continuous change and struggling with day-to-day reality of increasing complexity. Workloads may be deployed on multiple hardware platforms, virtualized, or possibly moved to an off-premise cloud such as Amazon EC2. Patch management, compliance...
Five Steps to Successful Data Center Consolidation by BMC Software, Inc
saving an estimated $10 million dollars in data center costs. The term “data center consolidation” can mean different things to different people, from simply reducing the number of physical servers in an isolated location to reducing the global footprint of a company's entire infrastructure (including applications and software licenses, etc.).

One goal of a...
7 Ways Compellent Optimizes VMware Server Virtualization by Compellent
As enterprises turn to server virtualization to enhance IT flexibility while reducing costs, Server virtualization solutions such as VMware Infrastructure software are helping organizations achieve those goals by abstracting applications from physical resources. Read this paper for 7 Ways Compellent Optimizes VMware Server Virtualization...
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Mainframe vulnerabilities: Be proactive rather than reactive by Robert Crawford, Contributor
find this helpful? Write to Matt Stansberry about your data center concerns at mstansberry@techtarget.com. What mainframe administrators really need is a discussion of mainframe vulnerabilities. Problem areas include user authentication, system dataset access, disgruntled employees, denial of service attacks, and consoles and monitors that open... More...
Do dual-power supply servers increase redundancy? by Julius Neudorfer, Contributor
loss or poor power quality is a major contributor to data center server down time. I am not referring to a major utility power failure, just to a common pitfall of power distribution system practice and management.

There are several basic, but key, power components in the data center: utility power source(s) and main power panel(s), back-up generator and automatic... More...

Is there a mainframe skills shortage? by Joe Clabby, Contributor
for hardware technicians, help desk staff, and client/server database administrators ― particularly Oracle and SQL Server database administrators." The problem of finding individuals with computer skills is not solely a mainframe problem ― it's a problem across the entire computing industry. On the day that I visited Dice.com's Web site, I... 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...