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Inquiry Spotlight: Server Virtualization, Q3 2008 by NetApp
2008 to date, 72 were specifically in regard to server virtualization. As organizations continue to deploy server virtualization, questions have shifted from "if" to "how." Out of all 220 inquiries Forrester's IT infrastructure and operations team answered on data centers, servers, and virtual appliances in 2008 to date, 72 were specifically in regard to server...
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...
Hot Spots: Tap Virtual Servers, Storage for All They're Worth by Storage Magazine
services are proliferating in the data center. Server virtualization has become one of the most significant agents of change in today's IT shop. In addition to enabling far greater server utilization rates, this technology offers corresponding power and cooling benefits that many IT organizations find attractive. In response to successful server virtualization efforts, many...
Servers and the data center by Hewlett-Packard Company
company. How do you consolidate your servers or data centers and still plan for growth? Server consolidation is about more than virtualization. There are advantages to consolidating the physical locations where servers are housed. Midmarket organizations are physically consolidating servers, while thinking about utilization rates and consolidation of...
Forrester on Virtualization: Unraveling Advanced Virtualization Architectures & Techniques by IBM
will address what's keeping IT Executives and Data Center Managers awake at night and how advanced virtualization techniques can help deliver on the core business drivers, technology imperatives and challenges that will shape next generation computing infrastructures.

Energy-Efficient Performance for the Data Center by Intel Corporation
capacity without adding servers to the data center. This white paper discusses how virtualization can provide high performance, energy efficiency, and lower operational costs in the IT infrastru... Consolidating four physical machines into one running four virtual machines (VMs) creates a more energy and cost efficient infrastructure. IT engineers face...
IBM System x Enterprise Servers in the New Enterprise Data Center by IBM and Intel
44; combined with consolidation and advanced virtualization solutions that expand on demand, result in superior performance, high scalability, unmatched flexibility, and superior efficiency.

See how virtualizing and consolidation on IBM System x™ and Intel systems can provide you with 27% better performance and 15% lower power consumption than the...
Creating Order from Chaos in Data Centers and Server Rooms by APC
Data center professionals can rid themselves of messy racks, sub-standard under floor air distribution, and cable sprawl with a minimum of heartache and expense. This paper outlines several innovative approaches. Unplanned, uncontrolled growth accompanied by new applications has created a hectic, deadline-driven...
Hot Spots: Managing Storage in a Virtual Server World by Storage Magazine
reap the benefits of virtualization. Server virtualization is quickly becoming the norm in data centers. The ability to host several operating systems and applications on a single server cuts capital costs for new equipment, and the reduction in physical servers helps trim the power and cooling, floor space and number of people required to keep them running. In many areas...
Security Implications of the Virtualized DataCenter by F5 Networks
own, & are quickly moving into the enterprise data center & becoming a universal tool for all people & groups within IT departments everywhere.

There are two primary types of platform virtualization: transparent & host-aware (often referred to as paravirtualization). Transparent virtualization is implemented so that the guest is not aware that it's running in...
Podcast: How to Green Your Data Center from the Server Out by Dell, Inc. and Intel
trends and economics of greener computing. Data center complexity and the ever-growing number of servers are the primary drivers of increased energy consumption, making them the most important targets for energy efficiency efforts. In this webcast and podcast, virtualization and blade server expert and industry analyst Barb Goldworm discusses the drivers...
How to Green your Data Center from the Server Out by Dell, Inc. and Intel
trends and economics of greener computing. Data center complexity and the ever-growing number of servers are the primary drivers of increased energy consumption, making them the most important targets for energy efficiency efforts. In this webcast, virtualization and blade server expert and industry analyst Barb Goldworm discusses the drivers, impacts, trends...
Virtual Data Center eZine - Volume 5 by Virtual Data Center eZine - Volume 5
According to the Data Center Decisions 2008 Purchasing Intentions Survey, server selection and disaster recovery (DR) are front-burner issues for data center decision makers. According to the Data Center Decisions 2008 Purchasing Intentions Survey, server selection and disaster recovery (DR) are front-burner issues for data center...
Citrix XenServer: Server Virtualization and Dynamic Data Center by Citrix
way to virtualize servers and deliver a dynamic data center - a flexible aggregated pool of computing and storage resources. Citrix XenServer is the simplest and most efficient way to virtualize servers and deliver a dynamic data center - a flexible aggregated pool of computing and storage resources. Citrix XenServer extends the development and testing resources of...
Accelerated Server Refresh Reduces Data Center Cost by Dell, Inc. and Intel
server refresh is part of our broader data center efficiency program, which includes initiatives such as data center consolidation and server virtualization and aims to generate overall savings of USD 1 billion or more. Accelerated server refresh is part of our broader data center efficiency program, which includes initiatives such as data center...
Six Key Problems in the Virtualized Data Center and Tips to Solve Them by Juniper Networks, Inc.
of servers is the strongest trend in today's data center. Boiling down racks of servers into smaller, cheaper, and more efficient virtual machine farms is a key direction. Virtualization of servers is the strongest trend in today's data center. Boiling down racks of servers into smaller, cheaper, and more efficient virtual machine farms is a key direction...
Maximizing Business Agility with the Dynamic Data Center by Egenera, Inc.
footprint. Leveraging virtualization. Most data center managers that have successfully deployed virtualization for server consolidation now want to use this technology to provide higher service levels, greater reliability, and TCO reductions. This white paper guides you through the process of leveraging virtualization to implement an integrated management...
Increase Utilization, Decrease Energy Costs With Data Center Virtualization by Hewlett-Packard Company
the key questions around getting started with virtualization. It addresses cost savings, weighing benefits vs. risks, transitioning from older platforms to new ones, best practices and more. Many organizations are turning to virtualization technologies that facilitate consolidation and increased utilization. However, implementing virtualization solutions must be...
Virtualization: Clouds on the Horizon - Managing Virtualized Data Centers Now and in the Future by Akorri
ways to stay in front of the pack, while other server virtualization platforms such as Citrix XenServer and Microsoft Hyper-V are emerging as viable alternatives.

As we look into the future, virtualization technologies are set to push the envelope even further. Virtual Desktop Infrastructure is on the immediate agenda of many companies, and we believe that in the not...
Effectively Securing Virtualized Data Centers by Apani
This white paper will examine trends in server virtualization security and reveal the many compelling advantages of cross-platform VM isolation solutions. For security directors at large organizations, securing virtualized data centers is a major concern. Server virtualization offers several benefits including better total cost of ownership, increased...
A Holistic View of Virtualization in the Data Center by Agilysys-Sun Technology Solutions
show you how to look at the big picture of your data center and prioritize to select an appropriate virtualization solution for your organization. Each type of virtualization-server, storage, desktop, application, and network-serves a specific purpose and offers its own ROI. These types are all related in some way, and implementation of one type may drive needs in other...
Dell's Sponsorship of a LearningGuide on SearchDataCenter by Dell, Inc. and Intel
increasingly for virtualization projects and data center consolidations. But for many data centers, the increased engineering headaches associated with blades outweigh the benefits. This dynamic guide outlines trends, benefits and drawbacks to help you determine if and how blade servers fit into your data center strategy.

Explore this learning guide to learn...
Scalability Test Results for Concurrent User Sessions on Servers Running Dual-Core or Quad-Core AMD Opteron Processors by Citrix
key metric when evaluating the performance of a server virtualization solution is the number of concurrent user sessions a virtual machine can support before system responsiveness negatively affects user experience. This paper reports scalability test results for concurrent user sessions on Dell PowerEdge R805 servers running either Dual-Core or Quad-Core AMD Opteron...
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...
Virtualization: Fueling the Next Stage of IT Innovation & Virtualization Changes Virtually Everything by Microsoft
flexibility to move data and workflows from one data center to another and the flexibility to respond to the needs of their changing business.

It also examines the move towards desktop virtualization -- how desktop virtualization will change how we work with information; how information will become available no matter where we are or what device we happen to be...
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Use Nagios to trend and troubleshoot performance issues by Kyle Rankin, Contributor
monitoring tools to track system performance in your data center and use graphs to troubleshoot bottlenecks on I/O-bound or CPU-bound systems... More...
Data center disater recovery runbook--Chapter three: Software and services by Adam Trujillo, Associate Editor
You don't have to go through your data center disaster recovery efforts alone. A growing disaster recovery services industry includes software services, outsource facilities and technologies to help data center managers plan, test and execute their DR and business continuity strategies. This section of our disaster recovery... More...
Control CICS and CPSM with IBM Rexx interface by Robert Crawford, Contributor
two functions, TPARSE and TBUILD, which are used to get data in to and out of CPSM through Rexx variables.

The second interface uses the Rexx ADDRESS function to execute commands as follows: ADDRESS CPSM "". Though this interface seems more straightforward than invoking the EYUAPI function, I haven't been able to get it to work. Hence, I won't include it in... More...

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Experian drills backup water supply to cool data center by Mark Fontecchio, News Writer
Experian, which relied on city water to supply the chillers that cool its McKinney data center.

"We lost all city utility as far as water pressure," said Russ Burlew, the data center facility manager. "It took three and a half days to repair that line, and we were without water. We had vendors come in with water trucks and pumps to keep our tower full."

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Running Linux and z/OS on a single mainframe poses no problem by Mark Fontecchio, Nes Writer
and even more so with the z10 it introduced this year, IBM has promoted big iron as a server consolidation savior – in particular, for x86 Linux server consolidation.

In the same vein, IBM has hardly been shy about supporting a Linux-only mainframe in which hundreds or even thousands of virtual Linux servers run on z/VM, along with a bunch of Integrated... More...