WHITE PAPER - This Shortcut Guide to Virtualization and IT Service Automation provides an insightful overview of virtualization and IT Service Management. It helps demystify virtualization and helps you determine if virtualization is right for your environment.
Posted: October 10, 2008 | Published: October 10, 2008


Topics:  Data Center Management | Enterprise | Hardware | IT Service Management | ITIL | Network Infrastructure | Server Consolidation | Server Virtualization | Server Virtualization Software | Systems Development Life-cycles | Systems Management Software

WHITE PAPER - The dynamic data center is within reach today, but how it is achieved and how well it performs can vary widely from among the many approaches being offered. This paper looks at the requirements for the dynamic data center and how to get there.
Posted: October 10, 2008 | Published: October 10, 2008


Topics:  Clustering | Data Center Management | Data Centers | Server Virtualization | Server Virtualization Software

WHITE PAPER - Egenera's Processing Area Network (PAN) architecture combines stateless, diskless processing blades with unique virtualization software (PAN Manager) to dramatically reduce data center complexity and deliver an agile, highly-available infrastructure.
Posted: October 10, 2008 | Published: October 10, 2008


Topics:  Blade Servers | Data Center Management | Data Centers | Disaster Planning | Disaster Recovery | ERP | Server Provisioning | Server Virtualization | Server Virtualization Software

WHITE PAPER - The first phase of virtualization - server consolidation- delivers lower costs, less crowded floor space, and a smaller carbon footprint. Leveraging virtualization.
Posted: October 10, 2008 | Published: October 10, 2008


Topics:  Data Center Consolidation | Data Centers | High Availability | Server Virtualization | Server Virtualization Software | TCO

WHITE PAPER - This document is based on a Dell/TechTarget webcast entitled "Storage and Virtualization: Options for Smaller Environments."
Posted: October 3, 2008 | Published: October 3, 2008


Topics:  Email | iSCSI SAN | Networking | Operating Systems | Server Virtualization | Server Virtualization Software | Storage Management

WHITE PAPER - This document explains how Fibre Channel will continue to improve and be an important SAN technology.
Posted: October 1, 2008 | Published: September 30, 2008


Topics:  DAS | Fibre Channel | LAN | NAS | RAID | SAN | Server Virtualization Software | Storage Consolidation | Storage Virtualization

WHITE PAPER - One of the biggest challenges today for infrastructure administrators is how to provide a secure environment. This white paper provides administrators with the starting place for designing security into the App-V infrastructure.
Posted: October 1, 2008 | Published: September 30, 2008


Topics:  Best Practices | Configuration Management | IT Infrastructure | Networking | SAN | Security | Server Virtualization | Server Virtualization Software

WHITE PAPER - Read this transcript from an expert Q&A videocast to get key tips on advanced virtualization management and the answers to the most recently asked questions by IT administrators.
Posted: September 23, 2008 | Published: September 23, 2008


Topics:  Blade Servers | Data Center Management | Networking | Remote Access Server Hardware | Remote Network Management | Server Virtualization | Server Virtualization Software

WHITE PAPER - This white paper seeks to help application owners, operations managers and data center managers ensure their virtualization initiatives effectively support applications and end users.
Posted: September 18, 2008 | Published: September 18, 2008


Topics:  Business Continuity Planning | Disaster Recovery | Downtime | Server Consolidation | Server Management | Server Virtualization | Server Virtualization Software

WHITE PAPER - 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.
Posted: September 8, 2008 | Published: September 8, 2008


Topics:  Authentication | Data Centers | Disaster Recovery | Interoperability | Server Consolidation | Server Virtualization | Server Virtualization Software | Storage Systems

WHITE PAPER - This E-Guide includes a variety of tips and articles on how to leverage virtualization for high availability. Learn how to design a HA strategy and how to avoid potential roadblocks.
Posted: August 8, 2008 | Published: August 1, 2008


Topics:  Clustering | Disaster Planning | Downtime | Fault Tolerance | High Availability | Network Performance | Security | Server Virtualization | Server Virtualization Software

WHITE PAPER - As enterprises deploy more virtualization solutions that are scattered across the enterprise, managing the technologies is challenging for IT staffs. This paper will outline the unified management of virtualized systems using one management tool.
Posted: July 29, 2008 | Published: November 1, 2006


Topics:  Capacity on Demand | Capacity Planning | Data Integration | Network Infrastructure | Networking | Server Consolidation | Server Virtualization | Server Virtualization Software

WHITE PAPER - Server virtualization has easily identifiable benefits that are strongly aligned with organizations expectations and business drivers. View this survey to learn about the tremendous growth of virtualization and the significant challenges that lay ahead.
Posted: July 29, 2008 | Published: June 1, 2007


Topics:  Cost Benefit Analysis | Networking | Server Consolidation | Server Virtualization | Server Virtualization Software | Systems Implementation

WHITE PAPER - This guide is for virtual infrastructure users who want a clearer understanding of the basic design of the networking capabilities and how that design affects deployment in the datacenter.
Posted: May 28, 2008 | Published: July 18, 2007


Topics:  Network Monitoring | Network Performance | Server Virtualization | Server Virtualization Software | Switches | VLAN

WHITE PAPER - The range of virtualization technologies, multitude of platforms, and array of vendors raises significant issues around people, process, and technology. This white paper looks at how pairing IT process automation with virtualization addresses these issues
Posted: May 20, 2008 | Published: May 1, 2008


Topics:  Blade Servers | Security | Server Consolidation | Server Virtualization | Server Virtualization Software | SLA | Storage Devices | Storage Virtualization Software | Virtualization

WHITE PAPER - With HP thin client computing, the complexity of managing the desktop environment is greatly reduced by centralizing applications.
Posted: April 28, 2008 | Published: August 1, 2008


Topics:  Desktop Management | Financial Services Industry | Network Management | Networking | Productivity | Security | Server Provisioning | Server Virtualization Software | Servers | TCO | Thin Client Hardware | Thin Client Software

WHITE PAPER - Virtualization is not a new concept. Today it appears that virtualization is everywhere, which because of its ambiguity can be applied to any and all parts of an IT infrastructure. This whitepaper focuses on virtualization in the data center.
Posted: April 28, 2008 | Published: April 28, 2008


Topics:  Data Center Management | Data Centers | IT Infrastructure | NAS | Network Management | Operating Systems | SAN | Server Management | Server Virtualization | Server Virtualization Software | Storage Management

WHITE PAPER - In this is a question and answer session, Erik Giesa, VP of Product Management and Marketing, discusses what's driving the need for data center virtualization, the benefits of it, and what companies should consider when virtualizing their data.
Posted: April 28, 2008 | Published: January 1, 2006


Topics:  Database Replication Software | Network Infrastructure | Server Virtualization | Server Virtualization Software | Software Virtualization | Storage Virtualization | Storage Virtualization Software

WHITE PAPER - In this paper, we will discuss how Citrix XenServer provides simple, economical server virtualization designed for easy implementation in any IT environment.
Posted: April 20, 2008 | Published: April 1, 2008


Topics:  Data Center Management | Infrastructure Management | Manufacturing | Network Management | Network Security | Server Virtualization | Server Virtualization Software | SMBs | Testing

WHITE PAPER - InfiniBand defines an industry-standard implementation of remote direct memory access, protocols and kernel bypass to minimize CPU overhead allowing computing resources to be fully used on application processing rather than network communication.
Posted: March 4, 2008 | Published: December 1, 2007


Topics:  Data Management | Fibre Channel SAN | Infiniband Architecture | iSCSI SAN | Server Virtualization | Server Virtualization Software | Storage Best Practices | Storage Capacity | Storage Virtualization | Storage Virtualization Software

WHITE PAPER - The focus of this article is to discuss what application developers need to know to enable their IP, SCSI, iSCSI, sockets or file system based applications to operate over InfiniBand.
Posted: March 4, 2008 | Published: December 1, 2007


Topics:  Data Management | Fibre Channel SAN | Infiniband Architecture | iSCSI SAN | Server Virtualization | Server Virtualization Software | Storage Best Practices | Storage Capacity | Storage Virtualization | Storage Virtualization Software

WHITE PAPER - I/O technology plays a key role in meeting many of the spending drivers - provisioning capacity for future growth, efficient scaling of compute, LAN and SAN capacity helping reduce TCO and doing so while enhancing data center agility.
Posted: March 3, 2008 | Published: February 1, 2008


Topics:  Data Management | Fibre Channel SAN | Infiniband Architecture | iSCSI SAN | Server Virtualization | Server Virtualization Software | Storage Best Practices | Storage Capacity | Storage Virtualization | Storage Virtualization Software

WHITE PAPER - When 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.
Posted: February 27, 2008 | Published: February 1, 2008


Topics:  Asset Management (Finance) | Capacity Planning | Cost Benefit Analysis | Data Center Management | Enterprise Resource Management | Network Appliances | Server Virtualization | Server Virtualization Software

WHITE PAPER - This whitepaper discusses the benefits of virtualization. It describes some of the technical challenges in virtualized environments and the steps you can take to avoid some of the pitfalls.
Posted: August 6, 2007 | Published: March 1, 2007


Topics:  Benefits | Business Continuity Planning | Clustering | Disaster Recovery | Server Virtualization | Server Virtualization Software | Software Virtualization | VM