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Over the past five years, virtual environments have moved from “interesting” to an essential part of the IT management job
description. There are as many challenges as there are benefits, and it’s important to have a plan for managing and monitoring
this new environment. Learn the pitfalls of virtu (...)
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Five Guidelines for Selecting a Virtual Monitoring and Management Solution. Source: Uptime Software. Document
Type: White Paper Description ...
Published:
2010-05-25
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Like other successful technology solutions, once proven in an enterprise environment, virtualization spreads quickly. While
virtualized resources can address your growing capacity needs, they can also pose significant challenges—with long-term success
depending on how well you can manage the virtualize (...)
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... system. Learn about what tools you’ll need in order to provide seamless physical and virtual
server management. Download <strong ...
Published:
2010-03-11
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For disaster recovery, remote replication is a simpler alternative to traditional servers. However, simple replication in
a virtual server can affect the consistency of files or applications and create longer recovery cycles. Find out how two virtual
machine (VM) solutions can overcome these limitations (...)
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For disaster recovery, remote replication is a simpler alternative to traditional servers. However, simple replication in
a virtual server can aff... ...
Published:
2010-03-11
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Are virtual appliances really more advantageous than physical appliances? For businesses looking to decrease server complexity,
increase load balance, and optimize scalability and mobility, the answer is yes. Virtualization has brought distributed computing
to a new level and provides many key benefits. (...)
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Are virtual appliances really more advantageous than physical appliances? For businesses looking to decrease
server complexity, increase load bala... ...
Published:
2010-03-11
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Your Challenge: Get Decision Makers' Approval for Choosing a Server Virtualization Technology. Specific, Measurable, Achievable,
Relevant and Time-Bound. The playing field for server virtualization has become much more crowded over the last few years.
It can be very time-consuming to digest each vendor’ (...)
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Your Challenge: Get Decision Makers' Approval for Choosing a Server Virtualization Technology. Specific, Measurable, Achievable,
Relevant and Time-...
Published:
2010-03-11
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Abstract:
Today’s business processes place high demands on IT infrastructure, and the answer often is integration of software and hardware
resources. Now you can integrate by separating: divide logical processing and storage resources from the physical hardware
on which they run, and help make virtualization a p (...)
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Distributed Virtual Data Center Dynamic Resource Allocation and 24-7 Application Uptime. Source: Sanbolic.
Document Type: White Paper ...
Published:
2010-03-11
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As you implement a virtualized environment, knowing how to monitor and maintain them becomes yet another challenge. Monitoring
network and application traffic in an environment containing one-to-many relationships between physical hardware devices and
virtual application servers presents a number of conc (...)
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... network and application traffic in an environment containing one-to-many relationships between physical
hardware devices and virtual application servers ...
Published:
2010-03-11
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Abstract:
Virtualization technologies allow IT organizations to consolidate workloads running on multiple operating systems and software
stacks, and allocate platform resources dynamically to meet specific business and application requirements. This paper discusses
the advantages of virtualization, highlights IBM (...)
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A Comparison of PowerVM and x86-Based Virtualization Performance. Source: IBM. Document Type: White Paper Description: Virtualization
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Published:
2010-04-09
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VMware and blade servers have taken the IT world by storm. Virtual server use has grown over 50 percent, and blade servers
account for 12.5 percent of all new servers. Can you incorporate them into your existing frameworks? Yes. Routers can scale
server numbers with virtual interfaces, and with fibre cha (...)
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VMware and blade servers have taken the IT world by storm. Virtual server use has grown
over 50 percent, and blade servers account for 12.5 percen... ...
Published:
2010-03-11
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In the computing world, a dramatic shift is taking place—enabling a new way for IT departments to manage services. The promise
of a leaner, more efficient data center has many businesses clamoring to go virtual. In the rush to virtualize, however, they
have forgotten the painful and expensive lessons l (...)
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... to manage services. The promise of a leaner, more efficient data center has many businesses clamoring
to go virtual. In the rush ...
Published:
2010-03-11
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Cox Communications, a leading cable provider, needed to find a way to centralize the IT requirements of its customer support
team. With over a hundred users, its challenge was to move from single desktop applications to a centralized server which
would offer many concurrent instances of the application (...)
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... With over a hundred users, its challenge was to move from single desktop applications to a centralized
server which would offer many concurrent instances of ...
Published:
2010-03-11
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Abstract:
Traditional disaster planning and recovery solutions, including tape backup, image capture, and clustering, fail to deliver
the necessary combination of recovery speed and integrity within reasonable budgetary constraints. That’s why organizations
are increasingly leveraging virtualization to achieve s (...)
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Using Virtualization to Achieve Affordable Disaster Recovery. Source: PlateSpin Ltd. Document Type: White Paper Description:
Traditional ...
Published:
2010-03-11
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Abstract:
You wouldn’t be entirely wrong in assuming that the security practices and policies you apply to your physical infrastructure
can be transferred to your virtual. But you need to be aware of the complications of virtual infrastructure security. Learn
about a solution that can help overcome the challenge (...)
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How to Protect Your Virtual Infrastructures. Source ... virtual. But you
need to be aware of the complications of virtual infrastructure security. ...
Published:
2010-03-11
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Abstract:
How to Use a Network Appliance SAN for Server and Storage Consolidation. Reports and Other Software Package to Use In Your
Dynamic System for Server and Storage Consolidation. If you’re dealing with increasing demands on your server storage by adding
servers one at a time, the number of servers is growi (...)
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How to Use a Network Appliance SAN for Server and Storage Consolidation. Reports and Other Software Package to Use In Your
Dynamic System for Serve...
Published:
2010-03-11
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Server virtualization isn’t a new concept. But the benefits of extending server virtualization to the desktop may not be
common knowledge. A virtual desktop solution can allow companies to run virtualized PCs and computer desktops on servers located
inside the data center. Besides allowing centralized (...)
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... But the benefits of extending server virtualization to the desktop may not be common
knowledge. A virtual desktop solution can allow companies to run ...
Published:
2010-03-11
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Abstract:
While virtualization technology can simplify server management and reduce operating costs, in production environments it
presents a disaster-recovery challenge. The problem: simply backing up a host server doesn’t always ensure that data within
virtual machines is recoverable. With Acronis’s True Ima (...)
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... challenge. The problem: simply backing up a host server doesn’t always ensure that data
within virtual machines is recoverable. With ...
Published:
2010-03-11
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Abstract:
Data center network design architecture is changing to reflect growing IT trends in distributed applications and virtual
computing. New computing models require a flatter network that is flexible enough to handle unpredictable traffic patterns.
Find out what that means for your company in this interview (...)
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... White Paper Description: Data center network design architecture is changing to reflect growing IT trends
in distributed applications and virtual computing. ...
Published:
2010-11-05
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Abstract:
Facing a projected 400 percent increase in transactional volumes for its key grain handling application, CBH Group needed
to boost performance, resilience, and availability. Learn how the company’s new server consolidation and virtualization program
helped it achieve a 400 percent increase in transacti (...)
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... Learn how the company’s new server consolidation and virtualization program helped it
achieve a 400 percent increase in transaction volumes, cut costs ...
Published:
2010-04-09
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Virtualization is a key element of the IT strategy for businesses of all sizes, with a variety of benefits for small and
midsized businesses. It helps them to build an IT infrastructure with enterprise-class capabilities and it does so with a
form factor—and a return on investment (ROI)—that fits any (...)
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Virtualization Reduces Costs and Complexity for Midsized Businesses. Source: IBM. Document Type: White Paper Description:
Virtualization ...
Published:
2010-06-02
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Abstract:
Data centers are complex mixtures of legacy platforms, hardware, operating systems (OS), data, and applications. They are
inflexible, costly, and difficult to manage, so instead of optimizing the current OS, users are adding new ones. By using
OS Portability and streaming servers across physical or virtu (...)
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... across physical or virtual infrastructures over the network, users better utilize their
data centers. Download <strong>Optimizing Server Infrastructure through ...
Published:
2010-03-11