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Sun™ xVM Virtualization Portfolio: Enabling Dynamic IT from the Desktop to the Datacenter by Sun Microsystems, Inc.
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 tools for each operating system. This white paper explores a broad approach that addresses consolidation as well as simplified management of the...
Desktop Virtualization Emerging to Replace Traditional Desktop Lifecycle Management by Citrix
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 worker on any device from any location.

By essentially removing the PC from the equation, IT can radically improve desktop security and manageability as...
Virtualization from the Datacenter to the Desktop by Microsoft
This paper looks at the role virtualization should take in an optimized IT infrastructure, and presents a set of principles and best practices to build a comprehensive virtualization strategy for the organization. Virtualization has gained much attention across organizations looking to address these challenges,...
Monitoring and Managing the DataCenter in Today's Environment by Splunk
approach to IT data. Monitoring and managing the data center is one of the most important - and challenging - tasks IT managers must perform. In today's environment, IT teams are forced to do more with less using traditional tools that often lag behind the innovation curve. This expert E-Guide from SearchDataCenter.com walks you through proven techniques for a wide...
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...
Sun xVM Virtualization Portfolio: Virtualizing the Dynamic Datacenter by Continental Resources
and management from the desktop to the datacenter, interoperability in heterogeneous environments, and world-class support to maximize the benefits-today and well into the future.

This paper summarizes the benefits and challenges of traditional virtualization strategies, the advantages of Sun's approach, and the core capabilities of the...
Sun™ Virtual Desktop Infrastructure Software 2.0: Your Desktop, Wherever You Are by Sun Microsystems, Inc.
personal computers, consolidate them in the datacenter. Read this white paper to learn how to design an infrastructure that enables organizations to move desktop instances of operating systems and applications off physical personal computers, consolidate them in the datacenter, and then present them to end users through remote display protocols on a wide array...
Desktop Delivery: Making Desktop Virtualization Work by Citrix
Delivery:

• Simply moving desktops into the datacenter using a Desktop Virtualization approach is not sufficient. An optimal desktop delivery strategy includes centralizing and separating both applications and desktops.

• The initial acquisition cost of a Desktop Virtualization solution is small compared to the ongoing savings that are possible using...
Webcast on Client- and Server-Side Application Virtualization by Citrix
virtually deliver Windows apps to users from the datacenter or stream them down to the desktop for mobile use. In both cases, a single copy of the application is run and managed centrally, reducing support and maintenance costs by as much as 40 percent. More than 100M users and 99% of the Fortune Global 500 use the industry's de facto standard for delivering Windows-based...
Easily Manage, Provision & Deploy Virtual Desktops by VMware, Inc.
Data and information remains secure in the datacenter and never has to leave – except with your permission and security policies intact.

With View Manager, IT departments can manage large desktop environments with speed and efficiency, and end users can easily connect to their virtual desktops.

In this brochure, you'll read about how VMware View Manager...
Live Online Events! Transform Your Datacenter Into a Dynamic Delivery Center by Citrix
that will provide a look 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...
Consolidate Storage Infrastructure and Create a Greener Datacenter: Scale and save with Tape Technology Innovation by Incentra Solutions
and budgets continue to shrink, datacenter managers are looking for ways to scale storage infrastructure and reduce operating costs. Sun's latest tape drive and tape library solutions can help companies grow automated tape environments without disruption, and consolidate mainframe and open system operating environments while minimizing...
Consolidate Storage Infrastructure and Create a Greener Datacenter: Scale and save with Tape Technology Innovations by Sun StorageTek
and budgets continue to shrink, datacenter managers are looking for ways to scale storage infrastructure and reduce operating costs. Sun's latest tape drive and tape library solutions can help companies grow automated tape environments without disruption, and consolidate mainframe and open system operating environments while minimizing...
Sun StorageTek T10000B Tape Drive by Sun StorageTek
Read this paper to learn how the Sun StorageTek T10000B enterprise tape drive blends highest capacity, reliability, performance, and data security to support demanding, 24x7 datacenter operations. The Sun StorageTek T10000B enterprise tape drive blends highest capacity, reliability, performance, and data security to support...
Putting the Green in Green IT: How Distributed Computing Delivers Dramatic Cost Savings, as Well as Green IT Benefits, by Leveraging Existing Resources and Curbing Data Center Growth by Univa UD
growth and contain power and cooling costs. The payoff is extremely beneficial for both the company and the environment. Companies today are becoming much more aware of their impact on the environment. As part of improving and growing the business, IT executives are focusing on how to optimize resources and minimize waste. The trick is finding technology...
SAP Solutions on VMware Infrastructure: Customer Use Cases by VMware and Intel
This document explores the ways real SAP customers have used VMware virtualization to: Optimize datacenter resources; Ease SAP upgrades, new implementations, and platform migrations; Better meet SLAs and Support service delivery to the business. At the most basic level, virtualization allows you to run multiple workloads in "...
Security Implications of the Virtualized DataCenter by F5 Networks
The concept that virtual operating environments are just as secure as their physical counterparts can be a very expensive and destructive fallacy. Read why Today's system and security administrators need to begin focusing on virtual security. The concepts behind application & operation system...
Application and Server Virtualization Working Together by Citrix
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 resources and more quickly provision systems, services, applications and desktops...
How to Implement Chargeback in a Virtualized Data Center Using the Resource Consumption Model by VKernel
IT professionals make massive investments in the virtualized data center, financial controls to contain sprawl and maintain control are essential. This white paper shows you how to do so by implementing chargeback. As data centers undergo the biggest overhaul in 25 years and are faced with virtual machine sprawl, IT professionals must make massive...
Take control of Your Desktops and Applications by VMware, Inc.
View 3, a Universal Client solution that breaks the bonds between desktop and OS, applications and hardware to improve security, lower costs and simplify desktop management. This brochure outlines benefits and features of this product. VMware® View™ 3 is a Universal Client solution that breaks the bonds between the desktop and associated OS...
Architectural Requirements for a Datacenter-Ready Virtualization Platform by VMware, Inc.
Read why the Taneja Group, Technology Analysts, believe VMware has fundamental 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...
Sun xVM Virtualization Portfolio: Virtualizing the Dynamic Datacenter by Sun Microsystems, Inc.
This paper summarizes the benefits and challenges of traditional virtualization strategies, the advantages of Sun's approach, and the core capabilities of the Sun xVM portfolio. This paper summarizes the benefits and challenges of traditional virtualization strategies, the advantages of Sun's approach, and the core...
Windows Server 2008 Hyper-V Product Overview by Microsoft
enables businesses to take full advantage of the benefits of virtualization with without the need to purchase third-party software. Today's datacenter is a complex ecosystem with different kinds of servers, operating systems, and applications interacting with a wide variety of desktop computers and mobile client computers. For IT departments,...
TechNet Webcast: Microsoft Virtualization Roadmap (Level 300) by Microsoft
datacenter. Microsoft is investing heavily in the next generation of virtualization technology and the management tools that will drive it. This session presents Microsoft's virtualization roadmap and strategy, starting with Microsoft Virtual Server 2005. We then discuss the Windows hypervisor technology, which will be incorporated into the next release...
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Saving money on the mainframe in tough economic times by Wayne Kernochan, Contributor
recently in 2001-2003 and in 1990-1993, and each time the prescription for cost savings was a little different. In the early 1990s, the answer was to buy cheaper hardware; software and administration costs were much less important. In the early 2000s, software and administrative people costs were much more important, so the answer was to... More...
Economizer performance: Applying CFD modeling to the data center's exterior by David Seger and Andy Solberg, Contributors
a premium on innovative cooling design solutions for the data center industry. Increased focus on energy conservation has necessitated designs that reduce energy consumption and carbon emissions. The application of economizers to cooling systems addresses both of these concerns: Air economizers reduce energy use, which translates into... More...
Is your disaster recovery plan out of date? by Richard Jones, VP and Service Director for Data Center Strategies, Burton Group
In this tip, Richard Jones makes the case for integrating disaster recovery into your configuration management processes, testing often and tracking recovery time objectives closely.

It's easy for disaster recovery plans to get stale. Companies are constantly in flux -- trying to keep up with rapid growth during good times... More...

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Experian drills backup water supply to cool data center by Mark Fontecchio, News Writer
a disaster for credit services giant 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... More...

After Transitive acquisition, will IBM shed translation software beneficial to competition? by Bridget Botelho, News Writer
operating system (OS) to run on various combinations of CPU and OS without modifying the source code or binaries. Terms of the deal have not been announced.

IBM already uses Transitive technology as the basis of its PowerVM Lx86 software, which allows x86 Linux workloads to run on IBM Power-based platforms. Transitive's own QuickTransit is also used to... More...

CA announces Mainframe 2.0 by Mark Fontecchio, News Writer
week, software giantCA announced its Mainframe 2.0 iniative, which aims to untangle the complexity of mainframe management.

Chris O'Malley, the head of CA's mainframe business unit, said Mainframe 2.0 strives to make its mainframe management software easier to use for less experienced IT staff, to create greater uniformity among products, and to... More...