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How Virtualization Can Make IT the Good Guys by Storage Decisions
keynote presentation gives a broad view of virtualization, including storage and server virtualization, and storage optimization for the whole virtual infrastructure (server, storage, desktop, network). This Executive keynote presentation gives a broad view of virtualization, including storage and server virtualization, and storage optimization for the whole...
The Truth about Virtualizing Storage by Storage Decisions
the technical details of implementing storage virtualization. The practical benefits of storage virtualization will be discussed, including how to assess your environment to determine the cost-effectiveness of virtualization. This presentation is a "roll up your sleeves" look at the technical details of implementing storage virtualization. The practical benefits of...
Advanced virtualization management for Hyper-V and System Center environments by Citrix
Center Virtual Machine Manager with advanced virtualization tools for managing storage in virtual environments, automating the virtual machine lifecycle, and dynamically 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...
Removing Barriers To Better Server Virtualization Efficiency by Tripwire, Inc.
Forrester believes that more virtualization-aware management tools and processes are necessary before we can fully virtualize our production servers and reach the lowest-possible cost per VM. Read this paper to discover more details. Server virtualization technology has drastically improved hardware utilization, disaster recovery capabilities...
The Top Five Virtualization Mistakes by Vyatta Inc.
common to many implementations of enterprise virtualization. Most of these mistakes relate to virtualization and networking infrastructure. Ideally, after reading this paper, you'll be sensitized to these issues so that you can plan for them and make your virtualization projects more successful. Virtualization is taking the IT world by storm. After years of IT build-out...
Microsoft Virtualization Self-Assessment Kit: Discover what Virtual means for you by Microsoft
The Virtualization Self-Assessment brings together some of Microsoft's best customer tools under one solution. It allows customers to self-discover the benefits and impact Microsoft Virtualization can have on their individual businesses. Download this Microsoft Virtualization Self-Assessment Kit now to learn how Microsoft...
When You Get Serious About Virtualization: Top Considerations by Hewlett-Packard Company
This videocast series provides virtualization infrastructure advice for IT groups at different stages of development, from experts with real-world field experience with virtualization. Now that virtualization is becoming mature, experts in the space realize that not all advice is relevant for all IT groups. This videocast series provides...
Business Value of Virtualization: Realizing the Benefits of Integrated Solutions by Hewlett-Packard Company
This IDC white paper will look at how the IT industry is changing from static x86 server configurations to a more integrated approach. The introduction of modern solutions, such as blade architectures, allows systems to accommodate both physical and virtual migration which promotes uptime and efficient resource usage. This IDC white paper will...
Succeeding at the Speed of Virtualization - Nemertes Research by HyTrust
Organizations are quickly moving to virtualization, which, in turn, offers them the opportunity to move and adapt to change much faster -- for the first time, even faster than the business can move. Organizations are quickly moving to virtualization, which, in turn, offers them the opportunity to move and adapt to change much faster -- for the first time, even faster...
Virtualization for Dummies: Sun and AMD Special Edition by Sun Microsystems, Inc. and Microsoft
Virtualization for Dummies explains how virtualization works and how it can benefit your organization. The book covers the kinds of issues virtualization can address and how it addresses them. Virtualization is everywhere these days, as more and more companies seek solutions to storage space, energy efficiency, and cost...
Control Capacity with Storage Virtualization by SearchStorage.com
from disparate storage systems, storage virtualization can help control spiraling growth while easing storage provisioning and management. With ever-growing capacity, storage managers are struggling to ensure that their installed disk capacity is being used as effectively and efficiently as possible. By pooling capacity from disparate storage systems...
Clearly better virtualization with Citrix XenServer™ 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...
Desktop Virtualization: Overcoming five real-world challenges by Citrix
Success with server virtualization is leading many firms to explore the next frontier - virtualizing employee desktops. The opportunities are significant, but so are the challenges, both technical and psychological. Success with server virtualization is leading many firms to explore the next frontier - virtualizing employee desktops. The...
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...
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...
Desktop Virtualization: Best Bet for a Dwindling IT Budget? by Quest Software
Server virtualization is a wonderful way to decrease server spend and better utilize computing resources in the datacenter. BUT... Desktop Virtualization offers equally significant savings in the areas of hardware, power consumption, desktop downtime, as well as a plethora of additional benefits. No doubt you've at least...
Presentation Transcript: File Virtualization with Greg Schulz by Iron Mountain Digital
Find out who should be using file virtualization and why. Get answers to questions about how file virtualization is performed, the pros and cons of file virtualization appliances, limitations to the technology -- and more. Existing storage management methods and tools are coming up short when it comes to meeting the demands of today's exploding storage...
File Virtualization with Greg Schulz by Iron Mountain Digital
Find out who should be using file virtualization and why. Get answers to questions about how file virtualization is performed, the pros and cons of file virtualization appliances, limitations to the technology -- and more. Existing storage management methods and tools are coming up short when it comes to meeting the demands of today's exploding storage...
Making Virtual Backups Real by Data Domain
to follow when getting involved in a storage virtualization project. Storage virtualization continues to be an important topic because it addresses a number of significant challenges. Storage vendors, the media and other sources expound on virtualization's merits in ways that might lead one to conclude that the term has a single, agreed-upon meaning and value--that...
Podcast: Making Virtual Backups Real by Data Domain
to follow when getting involved in a storage virtualization project. Storage virtualization continues to be an important topic because it addresses a number of significant challenges. Storage vendors, the media and other sources expound on virtualization's merits in ways that might lead one to conclude that the term has a single, agreed-upon meaning and value--that...
Nehalem EP Virtualization Animation by Intel Corporation
include many features including flexible virtualization. This informational demo will outline key features such as flexible data migration, I/O management, how it processes network overhead tasks such as packet sorting, grouping, and routing. Intel Xeon Processor 5500 series include many features including flexible virtualization. Data centers need to quickly...
Microsoft Virtualization Live Chat 3.31.09 Edited Q&A by Microsoft
technical product manager for Integrated Virtualization in the Windows Enterprise Management division, answers questions about Microsoft Virtualization Solutions. Edwin Yuen, senior technical product manager for Integrated Virtualization in the Windows Enterprise Management division, answers questions about Microsoft Virtualization Solutions. Some...
How Customers Are Cutting Costs and Building Value with Microsoft Virtualization by Microsoft
examines how Microsoft customers are using virtualization technology to simplify their IT infrastructure and IT processes and save money. It discusses the savings inherent in using virtualization to consolidate servers and accelerate desktops. By virtualizing servers, organizations can better manage the data center. Server consolidation can cut costs by...
How to improve performance, security and manageability of VMware by Hewlett-Packard Company
management, performance and security. Now that virtualization is becoming mature, experts in the space realize that not all advice is relevant for all IT groups. This videocast series provides virtualization infrastructure advice for IT groups at different stages of development, from experts with real-world field experience with virtualization.

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CMDB pitfalls in the current IT environment by Jasmine Noel, Contributor
configurations -- no drifting allowed. Virtualization and dynamic provisioning have converted the infrastructure into a vast ocean of constant change. Meeting service level agreements requires visibility into how technologies interact, and how infrastructure changes affect those interactions.


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IBM z10 mainframes and event-driven architectures: Pull the trigger by Wayne Kernochan, Contributor

Moving beyond SOA to EDA
The increasing Linux-style virtualization of mainframes makes it an excellent place to capture a wide range of events. EDA on the mainframe can capture events across event types and organizational boundaries. The mainframe's advantage of physical co-location of most of the event-generating processes, along with the attendant... 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...