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Home > Enterprise Applications > Server Virtualization Server Virtualization is the process of presenting a logical grouping or subset of computing resources so that they can be accessed in ways that give benefits over the original configuration. This new virtual view of the resources is not restricted by the implementation, geographic location or the physical configuration of underlying resources. Commonly virtualized resources include computing power and data storage. Results 1 - 25 of 77 matches Sort Results By : Published Date | Title | Company name Fault Tolerance in a Virtual World By : Stratus Technologies Published Date: Aug 03, 2007 The Criticality Quotient of x86 servers and applications directly correlates to the number of business processes, users and applications dependent on virtual machines and infrastructure. This white paper examines five typical use cases for virtualization, answering why, where and how fault-tolerance can help businesses reduce risk. Download Now Going Beyond HA for Business-Critical Virtualization By : Stratus Technologies Published Date: Dec 05, 2007 This paper details how VMware and Stratus together address the full spectrum of planned and unplanned downtime challenges: server hardware failures, operating system failures, server maintenance, operating system maintenance, disaster recovery, support and services. Also presented are scenarios describing how you can use VMware®  Infrastructure 3 and Stratus ftServer® systems at your data center and remote sites. Download Now Gartner Paper: US Data Centers By : VMware Published Date: Sep 25, 2007 According to Gartner, the majority of existing US datacenters have not been designed to handle future energy demands. Strategic decisions, including the implementation of virtualization, must be made quickly. This research outlines why energy and floor space constraints will cause considerable disruption to U.S. datacenters during the next three years. Download Now Interview: New York Stock Exchange and Diane Greene By : VMware Published Date: Dec 10, 2007 Within the datacenter, servers and cooling infrastructure are the biggest consumers of electricity. This nyse magazine interview with VMware CEO Diane Greene discusses how you can realize the financial benefits of energy efficient, greener datacenters through server consolidation. With VMware virtualization, organizations can experience significant power, cooling and space savings. Download Now Interview Article: New York Stock Exchange and Diane Greene By : Dell EqualLogic Published Date: Dec 17, 2007 Within the datacenter, servers and cooling infrastructure are the biggest consumers of electricity. This nyse magazine interview with VMware CEO Diane Greene discusses how you can realize the financial benefits of energy efficient, greener datacenters through server consolidation. With VMware virtualization, organizations can experience significant power, cooling and space savings. Download Now Let's Get Virtual: A Look at Today's Server Virtualization Architectures By : Burton Group Published Date: May 14, 2007 Increasing power demands and space limitations in the data center have begun to transition server virtualization technologies from luxuries to necessities. Server virtualization provides a path toward server consolidation that results in significant power and space savings, while also offering high availability and system portability. Today, vendors are building hardware and software platforms that can deliver virtualization solutions at near-native performance. Download Now Managing Access in a Virtualized Environment By : CA NVM Published Date: Oct 01, 2006 To reduce virtualization security risks, an independent access enforcement technology must be employed in conjunction with system security measures. This white paper discusses ways to reduce virtualization security risks, to learn more, download this white paper today. Download Now Messaging Security Goes Virtual By : Proofpoint Published Date: Nov 21, 2006 It doesn’t take a degree in accounting to understand that the ability to increase server and storage capacity without having to invest a dime in additional hardware translates into huge cost savings. Savings not only in terms of hardware costs, but also in the power consumption, heat dissipation and management costs associated with deploying additional hardware. Download Now 5 Steps Every CIO Should Follow to Increase Operational Maturity through IT Automation By : Stratavia Published Date: Nov 18, 2007 This whitepaper is directed to technology executives and team members who are looking to increase the efficiency and operational maturity of their IT operations. It will discuss in detail the following five steps, each required to fully realize the potential of your technology investments. Download Now Product Overview: VMware Virtual Desktop Infrastructure By : VMware Published Date: Apr 02, 2007 Many companies have turned to virtualization technologies for their servers and in their data centers to simplify administration and to reduce management chores and operating costs while maintaining reliability and safeguarding against disasters. Seeing the significant benefits virtualization delivers in those environments, companies are now looking to apply the same technology to their desktop computers. Download Now 7 Virtues of Virtualization: Avoiding Deadly Mistakes that Doom Business-Critical Service Management By : Stratus Technologies Published Date: Nov 21, 2007 Disaster recovery and business continuity top the list of server virtualization drivers.  And, the stakes are even higher when you virtualize business-critical IT services.  Explore the role that proper project planning and management play in keeping these initiatives on track. Download Now Reduce Power Consumption By : VMware Published Date: May 23, 2008 VMware solutions help customers meet their energy saving goals by enabling safe consolidation of underutilized x86 desktops and servers onto less hardware, both through initial consolidation efforts and dynamically as computing requirements change. This white paper explains how VMware virtualization provides the foundation for dramatically more energy efficient IT environments. Download Now Reduce Energy Costs By : VMware Published Date: May 23, 2008 Energy consumption is a critical issue for IT organizations today. VMware virtualization gives you the power to right-size your IT infrastructure through server consolidation and dynamic load balancing across a pool of physical servers. Your IT organization can dramatically increase server utilization and reduce energy costs with VMware solutions. Download Now Server Virtualization: Do's and Don'ts for Mission-Critical Manufacturing Systems By : Stratus Technologies Published Date: Jan 08, 2007 Discover best practices you can use to benefit from server virtualization today. Avoid mistakes that could affect the availability and performance of your mission-critical manufacturing IT solutions. Download Now Server Consolidation and Containment with Virtual Infrastructure By : Dell EqualLogic Published Date: Jul 02, 2007 IT departments constantly face demands to deploy, maintain and grow a broad array of services and applications, but this has lead to server sprawl and high energy costs. Consolidation and containment solutions implemented with a virtual infrastructure meet the challenges of server sprawl and underutilization by reducing hardware and operating costs by as much as 50%. Download Now Solution Brief: Reduce Energy Costs By : Dell EqualLogic Published Date: May 23, 2008 Energy consumption is a critical issue for IT organizations today. VMware virtualization gives you the power to right-size your IT infrastructure through server consolidation and dynamic load balancing across a pool of physical servers. Your IT organization can dramatically increase server utilization and reduce energy costs with VMware solutions. Download Now The Path to Enterprise Desktops: From Personal Computers to Personalized Computing By : VMware Published Date: Jul 13, 2007 This IDC white paper considers the concept of desktop virtualization, specifically as made available by VMware's VDI and ACE. The document also considers the benefits and limitations of these technologies as well as the best use cases for each, exemplified through user case studies. Download Now VMware Customer Success: World Wildlife Fund UK By : VMware Published Date: Dec 03, 2007 WWF is the world’s largest independent conservation organization. As part of its IT department’s contribution to environmentally-friendly business practices, WWF-UK deployed VMware virtualization into its live production environment. They decreased server count, lessened cooling requirements, minimized the space needed to house their datacenter and significantly reduced their overall carbon footprint. Download Now Virtualizing Microsoft Exchange Server 2007: Building a Better Platform with VMware Infrastructure 3 By : NetApp Exchange Virtualization Published Date: Apr 30, 2008 Today's messaging environments must be highly available, disaster tolerant, & cost efficient. Download this white paper based on real customer experiences running Microsoft Exchange on virtual machines. Exchange administrators who read this white paper will learn how to simplify disaster recovery & decrease downtime, increase availability of applications & processes, and more. Download Now VMware Virtual Desktop Infrastructure Connects Bell Canada for Optimized Customer Care By : VMware Published Date: Jul 07, 2006 Bell Canada began an initiative to provide desktop solutions at reduced costs. With 8,000 call center agents, Bell Canada faced hardware attrition and rising costs. Streamlining systems, facilitating outsourcing and increasing capabilities to telecommute would reduce costs while improving service. This would require creating customized workstations for users. Bell Canada approached VMware Partner CGI Group Inc., which provides end-to-end IT and business process services, for a solution. Download Now VMware Virtual Desktop Infrastructure Reduces IT Costs for IRMC Call Centers By : VMware Published Date: Apr 02, 2007 In this case study, you'll discover the tangible benefits to IRMC when they used VMware Virtual Desktop Infrastructure to virtualize their call center operations and support multiple call centers from a central data center. Their IT staff achieved increased flexibility, faster provisioning, redeployed IT staff, reduced IT costs, and improved competitiveness. Finally, review a detailed financial analysis to back up IRMC's 73% annual ROI, and see how they saved. Download Now Automated Server Provisioning: What Every CIO Needs to Know By : Stratavia Published Date: Sep 11, 2007 IT organizations are looking to leverage automation to improve the delivery of business services across the enterprise, while reducing costs. Automation can be implemented in many ways; however, today’s enterprise demands a higher level of sophistication than simple scripts. This whitepaper from Stratavia discusses the key aspects of automated server provisioning that every CIO should know. Download Now A CIO's View of Server Virtualization By : Burton Group Published Date: Nov 01, 2007 Server virtualization is a technology that has taken hold with amazing speed and is now firmly entrenched with overwhelming success in many data centers. This perspective document recaps why you should be moving ahead quickly with virtualization (if you haven’t already done so), what the implications are for IT and the business, and what the future holds as the ramifications of virtualization become apparent. Download Now Best Practices for Server Virtualization in Mission-Critical Healthcare IT By : Stratus Technologies Published Date: Jun 15, 2007 This paper provides an introduction to server virtualization for hospitals and healthcare delivery organizations. It also offers best practices you can use to benefit from virtualization, while avoiding missteps that could affect the availability and performance of mission-critical healthcare IT. Download Now Customer Success: 1800Radiator By : VMware Published Date: Nov 19, 2007 Radiator Express Warehouse (1800Radiator), a fast-growing automotive parts distributor, found that it was running at maximum power and its racks were full. Using VMware virtualization technology, the company was able to take 31 physical servers out of production, resulting in a 25 percent reduction in power and cooling costs. 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