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TechNet Webcast: Microsoft Virtualization Roadmap (Level 300) by Microsoft
Virtualization technology can play a key role in uncoupling workloads from server resources and enabling an automated datacenter. This session presents Microsoft's virtualization roadmap and strategy, starting with Microsoft Virtual Server 2005. Today's information technology organizations are under pressure to...
Virtualization: Clouds on the Horizon - Managing Virtualized Data Centers Now and in the Future by Akorri

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 distant future we will see server virtualization become the bedrock of a truly dynamic cloud computing model of IT services delivery. This "cloudy" vision of...
Podcast: Virtualization Demystified: Breaking Out Virtualization Technologies by F5 Networks
This podcast explores the different types of virtualization available for deployment and how each independent category should be addressed before your company migrates to a fully virtual environment. Over the past few years Virtualization has become the new IT buzzword, cropping up in technologies from the end-user client environment all the way back through the...
Virtualizing the Client PC: A Proof of Concept by Intel Corporation
system from the hardware platform using virtualization. In this paper Intel IT explores a proof of concept study that examined the viability of abstracting the client operating system from the hardware platform using virtualization. Existing concerns may be resolved as virtualization technology matures. Key developments include hypervisors expected to...
Combining Storage and Server Virtualization by LSI Corporation
product. The rapid proliferation of server virtualization technologies and especially VMware, is due to the value of easily consolidating many servers and applications into a small amount of physical hardware. In this manner, it is possible to take tens - or even hundreds - of small physical servers and consolidate them into a few, easy to manage servers while maintaining the...
Windows Server 2008 Hyper-V Product Overview by Microsoft
Microsoft's Hyper-V, a powerful virtualization technology that 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...
Experts Uncover the Benefits of SAP Virtualization by VMware and Intel
com E-Guide, explore SAP's take on virtualization in today's market and discover what SAP-friendly virtualization and managed hosting solutions are available. The creation of virtualization has led to SAP's desire to integrate virtualization technology more closely with their general application and business functions. SAP's ecosystem of 12...
Delivering Virtualization Benefits by Refreshing Client PCs by Intel Corporation
that include faster processors with Intel Virtualization Technology can eliminate concerns about client virtualization performance and offer many other benefits. In Intel IT tests, a laptop PC based on Intel Centrino 2 with vPro technology running a virtualized client environment performed up to 125 percent faster than a three-year-old native-mode system due for...
Application and Server Virtualization Working Together by Citrix
help IT managers navigate the complex stack of virtualization technologies and prescribe some pragmatic methods to combine server and application virtualization together to deliver a more dynamic, agile and cost-effective IT infrastructure...
TechNet Webcast: Examining Virtualization with Windows Server 2008 (Level 300) by Microsoft
This session examines the Microsoft virtualization ecosystem and how to implement it with Windows Server 2008. Virtualization is a high-priority topic for many enterprise IT organizations. Virtualization technology helps to improve hardware utilization, lower power consumption, and decrease physical space requirements. Most importantly,...
Virtualization for Windows: A Technical Overview by Microsoft
This overview introduces Microsoft's virtualization technologies, focusing on hardware virtualization, presentation virtualization, and application virtualization. It examines Microsoft's tools for a virtual world - what they do... Virtualization is one of the hottest trends in information technology today. This is no accident. While a variety of technologies fall...
Increase Utilization, Decrease Energy Costs With Data Center Virtualization by Hewlett-Packard Company
and more. Many organizations are turning to virtualization technologies that facilitate consolidation and increased utilization. However, implementing virtualization solutions must be approached and planned with care, and the benefits and risks should be fully understood up front. This webcast explores answers to some of the key questions around getting started with...
Achieving Compliance in a Virtualized Environment by Tripwire, Inc.
IT infrastructure. However, virtualization technologies are increasingly being used in business processes that have IT compliance requirements.

The goal of this paper is to present the unique considerations that virtualization presents to regulatory and standards compliance, and then prescriptively describe how to mitigate those risks:

  • Discuss the
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Virtualization 101: A Guide to Using Virtualization in Any Environment by Citrix
XenServer provides simple, economical server virtualization designed for easy implementation in any IT environment. Virtualization adoption is concentrated among large enterprises, but mid-sized companies are faced with challenges around fragmentation, application performance, vendor lock-in, and more. Check out this white paper to learn how you can deploy...
Podcast: Evolving Virtualization Usage Models Enabled by HP and Intel by Hewlett Packard Company and Intel
Advanced virtualization technology enables your organization to respond dynamically to the demands of your business. Learn about hardware investments that facilitate a flexible, efficient deployment of this technology. Advanced virtualization technology enables your organization to move beyond consolidation and use...
Evolving Virtualization Usage Models Enabled by HP and Intel by Hewlett Packard Company and Intel
Advanced virtualization technology enables your organization to respond dynamically to the demands of your business. Learn about hardware investments that facilitate a flexible, efficient deployment of this technology. Advanced virtualization technology enables your organization to move beyond consolidation and use...
Storage Virtualisation Podcast: Making Virtual Backups Real by Data Domain
one size fits all.

Indeed, the range of storage virtualization technologies and solutions has continued to evolve as storage hardware, the software that powers them, and external storage management applications have matured. This can often create confusion. Thus, vendor virtualization approaches and strategy are important.

Today, storage managers need to balance the benefits of...
Virtualization Security: Issues, Adoption and Strategy for Success by Stonesoft Inc.
physical and virtual servers. Virtualization technology is being rapidly deployed by today's companies, but traditional security solutions are insufficient for protecting these environments. Taking a risk-based approach that combines the necessary requirements for both virtual and physical security can increase your organization's overall...
Storage Virtualisation Video: Making Virtual Backups Real by Data Domain
all.

Indeed, the range of storage virtualisation technologies and solutions has continued to evolve as storage hardware, the software that powers them, and external storage management applications have matured. This can often create confusion. Thus, vendor virtualisation approaches and strategy are important.

Today, storage managers need to balance the benefits of...
Technology Assessment: The Impact of Virtualization Software on Operating Environments by VMware, Inc.
This IDC Technology Assessment discusses how virtualization technologies impact operating environments, now and in the future. In addition to offering market predictions and actions to consider, IDC examines the different types of hardware virtualization as well as new technology drivers and business goals...
eGuide: The Benefits of Virtualization for Your DR Plan by VMware, Inc.
This guide will show how utilizing virtualization technologies can improve your DR plan, and will also serve as a checklist on what to be aware of when choosing the right solutions for your virtualized environment. Server virtualization is making a positive impact in the area of disaster recovery. Through virtualization, organizations can save money, as well as...
How to Prepare for the Reality of Virtualization by CA
within an organization.

The various virtualization technologies that this paper covers include:

  • Operating system virtualization
  • Server virtualization
  • Clustering
Download today to learn about the many benefits to virtualization...
Preparing for the Reality of Virtualization by CA
within an organization.

The various virtualization technologies that this paper covers include:

  • Operating system virtualization
  • Server virtualization
  • Clustering
    • Download today to learn about the many benefits to virtualization...
    Agentless Application Virtualization: Enabling the Evolution of the Desktop by VMware, Inc.
    requirements. As a result, virtualization technologies have emerged that aim to improve existing environments and create a computing model referred to by IDC as virtualized client computing (VCC). IDC defines VCC as "a collection of virtualization software and delivery technologies that improve upon the limitations associated with a distributed desktop...
    Transcript: Increase Utilization, Decrease Energy Costs with Data Center Virtualization by Hewlett-Packard Company
    Many organizations are turning to virtualization technologies that facilitate consolidation and increased utilization. However, implementing virtualization solutions must be approached and planned with care, and the benefits and risks should be fully understood up front. This paper explores answers to some of the key questions around getting started with...
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    Data center cooling optimization in the virtualized-server world by Julius Neudorfer
    mainframe of 10 years ago. However, "virtualization" has not repealed the laws of physics, the hardware is very real, and it requires a lot of energy and cooling resources.

    The plain truth about all computers is that they turn every Watt (W) of power directly into heat (and, yes, I know that they also do useful computing). With the advent of the... More...

    Cable remediation in the data center by Carrie Higbie, Contributor
    the cable plant to support the new higher speed technologies like 10GBASE-T, Infiniband or 10GBASE-CX4, many of which use higher diameter cables which will exacerbate pathway issues. For instance the new pending category 6A UTP cabling has a maximum allowable diameter of .354" (compared to .250" for legacy category 6).

    Category 6A F/UTP (also known as... More...

    Compression, deduplication and encryption: What's the difference? by Stephen J. Bigelow
    You can find encryption in secure systems like Nexsan Technologies' Assureon CAS appliance.

    Encryption uses a mathematical algorithm with a unique key to encode a file into a form that cannot be read. No one else can access or use the encrypted file until it is unencrypted again using the identical key. Of course, if the encryption key is lost or forgotten, any... More...

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    AMD releases 45-nm Shanghai Opteron processor on schedule by Bridget Botelho, News Writer
    all of its resources--processors, memory, and storage."

    Shanghai offers the same virtualization technologies as Barcelona, including Rapid Virtualization Indexing (RVI), or Nested Page Tables, which reduces the performance overhead of virtualizing large applications, such as databases. In fact, one VMware engineer deemed AMD's Nested Page Table technology the answer to... More...

    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, open source... 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...