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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...
Inquiry Insights: Client Virtualization, Q3 2008 by Citrix
have shown an interest in taming the hype around desktop virtualization, with local and hosted desktop virtualization accounting for 59% of all client virtualization inquiries. Day-to-day desktop operations headaches continue to grow at an alarming pace as employees become more mobile, application incompatibilities increase, and the importance of data security...
Desktop Virtualization Emerging to Replace Traditional Desktop Lifecycle Management by Citrix
place is virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI) or desktop virtualization which uses virtualization technologies to isolate desktop components-applications, the operating system and user settings-back in the datacenter and virtualizes the desktop experience on the user device. VDI delivers a centrally managed virtual desktop, simplifying IT support and serving every...
Virtualization and the Changing Windows Desktop by Hewlett-Packard Company
their shops on the path to virtual success as desktop virtualization needs arise. This year, the IT industry is abuzz over desktop virtualization. But as new terms and technologies continue to emerge, many Windows IT managers are finding it difficult to determine which options best suited their shops' needs. Here you will find resources that explain the jargon and examine...
Beyond Server Consolidation: Bringing the Benefits of Virtualization to the Desktop by CDW Corporation
Desktop virtualization allows IT control over applications, without depriving end users of the experience they get from a traditional computer. While server virtualization is becoming commonplace in data centers, desktop virtualization is still in its infancy. Now the technology is maturing fast, and it can improve security...
Application Virtualization and Desktop Virtualization Are Better Together by Citrix
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 traditional...
Virtualization: Fueling the Next Stage of IT Innovation & Virtualization Changes Virtually Everything by Microsoft
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 working on. Finally this webcast explores how virtualization will change the workforce and how people will be able to work with one another.

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Simplifying Virtualized Desktop Infrastructure (VDI) Management: Addressing critical issues to improve user productivity by triCerat Inc.
developments. Many IT managers are considering desktop virtualization to ease pushback against the server system and increase visibility, but this technology isn't without challenges - it requires administrators to manage more windows profiles and respond to more helpdesk calls. Watch this videocast to learn about VDI approaches that can simplify these setbacks. You will learn...
Desktop and Application Virtualization: Getting Started by Citrix
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 will show you what it means to virtualize desktops and applications, including the business and technical drivers and trends, high level...
Optimizing Desktop Performance Security by Citrix
operations need to adopt technologies 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...
IDC: Business Value of Virtualized IT: Ensuring That Your Virtualized Servers and Storage Work in Harmony by Citrix
This IDC White Paper takes a specific look at the business value associated with the movement from a nonvirtualized server infrastructure to a server infrastructure where hypervisor technology is an integral component of the overall system architecture. The expansion in the range of applications and server environments that companies are...
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...
The Benefits Of Virtualizing Citrix XenApp with Citrix XenServer by Citrix
end strategy including server, application and desktop virtualization - you'll find it only from Citrix.

Learn about:

  • Use cases for Virtualization
  • Selecting the appropriate technology mix
  • Rapid server, application and capacity provisioning
Is virtualization a black hole in your security? 5 ways to ensure it isn't by Sophos Inc.
threats raised by unauthorized, unsecured desktop virtualization, and gives five effective ways to secure yourself against them. The ease with which virtual computer image files can now be downloaded means there is a much higher risk of end users running unauthorized applications - from games to browsers to beta software - in a virtual environment, making corporate systems and...
Sun™ xVM Virtualization Portfolio: Enabling Dynamic IT from the Desktop to the Datacenter by Sun Microsystems, Inc.
The Sun™ xVM virtualization portfolio enables you to simplify the management of your heterogeneous environment across the entire stack, from the desktop to the datacenter. Despite virtualization's benefits, day-to-day management is increasingly complex. IT professionals much manage both VMs and physical machines, using different...
The Benefits of Server Virtualization in 10 Minutes! by Citrix
end strategy including server, application and desktop virtualization - you-ll find it only from Citrix.

Learn about:

  • Use cases for Virtualization
  • Selecting the appropriate technology mix
  • Rapid server, application and capacity provisioning
Virtual Desktop ROI Calculator: Calculating Comparative Return On Investment for Virtual Desktops by Citrix
assumptions, Citrix XenDesktop may reduce desktop operations costs by an average of 40% and pay for itself within 6 months...
Storage Bin 2.0: Virtually Changing Everything by Storage Magazine
isn't seeing the whole picture. Server and desktop virtualization will have a major impact on storage and storage networking. As the server side of the data center becomes more virtualized, the storage side will be required to follow suit. Additionally, this will drive the re-invention of how we manage, protect, store and access information...
Agentless Application Virtualization: Enabling the Evolution of the Desktop by VMware, Inc.
solution, addresses the challenges of desktop computing. Read this paper to learn about the pros and cons of virtualized client computing. Today's IT departments must manage increasingly complex desktop environments that must be flexible and agile enough to accommodate changing business requirements. As a result, virtualization technologies have...
Live Online Events! Transform Your Datacenter Into a Dynamic Delivery Center by Citrix
at how Citrix is making the next generation of virtualization a reality. Citrix Delivery Center Live! is a series of premier worldwide virtual events that will provide a look at how Citrix is making the next generation of virtualization a reality. Join us for these live online events where you will get an in-depth view of Citrix products and how you can transform your...
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: Transform Your Desktop with Virtualization: VDI solutions from AMD, HP and VMware by VMware, Inc.
Listen to this podcast to find out how Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI) can help you to improve desktop reliability, decrease desktop support costs, reduce power consumption, and centrally secure sensitive information. Traditional desktop deployments are getting increasingly more difficult and expensive for IT to manage. Sensitive data sitting on end user...
Demo -- An Introduction to Citrix XenDesktop by Citrix
This short webcast walks the user through a session with XenDesktop. From login, to launching applications, the user experience is illustrated. An 9-minute automatic Flash demo from login, to launching applications, the user experience is illustrated.
  • "Instant on" technology, with no long boot-up
  • Printing, USB connectivity
  • Branch office / Home office
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Sun xVM Virtualization Portfolio: Virtualizing the Dynamic Datacenter by Continental Resources
the benefits and challenges of traditional virtualization strategies, the advantages of Sun's approach, and the core capabilities of the Sun xVM portfolio. Virtualization has proven to be a powerful lever in increasing corporate flexibility while reigning in costs and risks. Sun wants to see the momentum behind virtualization continue to build. The...
A Holistic View of Virtualization in the Data Center by Agilysys-Sun Technology Solutions
Each type of virtualization - server, storage, desktop, application, and network - offers its own ROI. Learn about features and benefits of the five main types of virtualization to cater your virtualization strategy to your organization. This webcast will show you how to look at the big picture of your data center and prioritize to select an...
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The mainframe as a "Green Monitor" by Wayne Kernochan, Contributor
supporting data center energy use monitoring, using virtualization to pack more computing power into a single machine, and figuring out how to reduce per-chip and per-disk energy requirements. According to IBM, the mainframe consumes 80-90% less energy than an equivalent-computing-power PC-server distributed system.

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Supplier disasters: The case for ISO 27001 by Richard Jones, VP and Service Director for Data Center Strategies, Burton Group
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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.

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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...

With IBM blades and VMware, firm shrinks data center footprint, cost by Bridget Botelho, News Writer
Co. ProLiant servers and replaced them with IBM blade servers running VMware Inc.'s virtualization technology to reduce space requirements, cut power and cooling costs, and make data center management easier.

Until a few years ago, the real estate company's technology was warehoused in a colocation facility with 17 racks of about 93 HP and Compaq servers. The cost... More...