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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 78 matches Sort Results By : Published Date | Title | Company name 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 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 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 Accelerating the Next Phase of Virtualization By : Riverbed Published Date: Apr 21, 2008 How do you make virtualization a reality for your enterprise without your users taking a performance hit? Start by downloading this white paper from Riverbed. Wide-area data services (WDS) is a class of technology that has rapidly been adopted across enterprises in order to deal with the challenges of bandwidth limitations and latency over the WAN. Download Now Advanced Virtualization and Workload Management By : SWsoft Published Date: Jun 12, 2007 Virtualization and workload management are essential technologies for maximizing scalability, availability and value on high-end computing systems, and Itanium(r) 2-based servers offer many options. One is SWsoft Virtuozzo, a proven, software-based virtualization solution for consolidating Linux and Windows applications.  Download Now AIC Reduces Costs and Boosts Productivity with VMware Infrastructure 3 By : VMware Published Date: Aug 16, 2007 AIC, Canada’s largest privately held mutual fund company, aimed to shrink their data center footprint and manage IT infrastructure more effectively. With the VMware Infrastructure 3 suite, AIC has been able to handily address its IT challenges and create a scalable, manageable IT infrastructure. Find out how much they saved, and how VMware impacted their organization's workload and productivity. Download Now An Introduction to OS Server Virtualization and a Different Approach to Server Virtualization By : SWsoft Published Date: Aug 30, 2006 Today's IT organizations are dealing with the consequences of exploring IT Infrastructure growth and complexity. With its growing complexity and volume, the cost of managing the infrastructure from simple patch management to skill sets requirements for IT administrators is increasing. Download Now Aternity Streamlines Software Testing and Deployment with VMware By : VMware Published Date: Aug 16, 2007 Aternity, Inc. is the leader in Frontline Performance Intelligence for Global 1000 enterprises. Two of the biggest challenges Aternity faces as a software developer are: 1) testing its software in different IT environments; and 2) deploying its software at customer sites.  Fortunately, VMware software was able to address both these challenges. 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 Benefits of Securing Servers: Enhanced Security, Compliance and Operational Excellence By : Blue Lane Published Date: Aug 07, 2007 Needing to implement a patch management solution to comply with SAS 70, Davidson found the solutions on the market lacking. They either required significant resources to test all patches, or were expensive automated solutions. Then, Davidson learned about Blue Lane Technologies, a concept that Davidson loved. 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 Building a Virtual Infrastructure from Server to Storage By : NetApp Virtualization Published Date: Oct 13, 2006 This technical report discusses the virtual storage solutions that reduce cost, increase storage utilization, increase fault tolerance, and address the challenges of backing up and restoring VMware ESX Server environments by using NetApp technologies. Download Now Building A Virtual SAN Using VMware ESX Internal Storage By : LeftHand Networks Published Date: Oct 31, 2007 To derive maximal benefit from system virtualization, storage virtualization, as implemented in a SAN, is a necessary prerequisite. The mobility of a virtual machine (VM) and its data plays an important role in daily operational tasks from load balancing with VMotion™ and VMware Distributed Resource Manager (DRS) to system testing. The issues of availability and mobility really rise to the forefront in a disaster recovery scenario. Download Now Building Scalable, High Performance Cluster and Grid Networks: The Role of Ethernet By : Force10 Networks Published Date: Jun 16, 2004 With Grid computing, computer systems and other resources aren’t necessarily constrained to be dedicated to individual users or applications, but can be made available for dynamic pooling or sharing to meet the changing needs of the organization. Download Now Charlotte County Finds An Ideal Business Continuity Solution By : LeftHand Networks Published Date: Dec 14, 2007 Located in Southwestern Florida, Charlotte County has a population of nearly 150,000 people. The local government of Charlotte County is responsible for handling everything from planning & zoning, to permitting & licensing for this population. Charlotte County found an ideal business continuity solution by combining VMware Infrastructure 3 with LeftHand Network’s multisite SAN architecture. Download Now Closing the IT Availability Gap: New Options for Traditional and Virtualized IT Environments By : Stratus Technologies Published Date: Jun 05, 2008 Faced with a growing number of business-critical applications and services to support, SMBs and enterprises with remote environments are experiencing a real need for high availability.  This paper discusses an easy-to-use, affordable high-availability and virtualization solution using standard x86 servers. 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. Download Now Customer Success: First American By : VMware Published Date: Apr 28, 2008 The First American Corporation is America’s largest provider of business information. Their numerous acquisitions and diverse lines of business meant that First American had multiple datacenters dispersed throughout the country. They turned to VMware virtualization technology to consolidate facilities. They standardized on VMware technology and avoided purchasing 700 physical machines. Download Now Deploying Application and OS Virtualization Technologies Together: Citrix and Virtuozzo By : SWsoft Published Date: Jul 05, 2007 As virtualization becomes more pervasive in the datacenter, organizations are deploying complementary types of virtualization technologies. Read this white paper to learn how blending application and OS virtualization using Citrix and Virtuozzo will provide stronger and more robust virtualization solution. Download Now Enabling Technology by Blade I/O Virtualization By : HP BladeSystem Published Date: Dec 20, 2006 Next generation, complimentary IDC white paper from HP cites relatively new, "simpler" solutions for IT managers. Discover how to quickly identify more cost effective and scaleable ways to manage bandwidth problems caused by the increased complexity of servers and their associated LAN and SAN environments. Download Now Enabling Virtualization in the Datacenter By : Neterion Published Date: Apr 19, 2006 Virtualization is a key strategy for simplifying deployment of IT resources and maximizing their utilization. Specifically, virtualization refers to the concept of abstracting physical resources such as compute cycles, data storage, and network bandwidth, and then provisioning and sharing these resources amongst multiple applications. Download Now 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 Gartner Paper: US Data Centers – The Calm Before the Storm 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 Gene Kim's Practical Steps to Mitigate Virtualization Security Risks By : Tripwire Published Date: Mar 28, 2008 Tripwire founder/CTO Gene Kim provides seven practical steps that IT organizations can take to mitigate the unique security challenges of virtualization. While some are directed specifically at virtualized environments, many of these steps are solid best practices that apply to both physical and virtualized environments. Download Now Getting 10Gbps from Xen: Safe and Fast Device Access from Unprivileged Domains By : Solarflare Communications Inc. Published Date: Mar 05, 2008 Solarflare’s creation of a ‘virtualization aware’ smart network adapter and modified Xen will allow direct, but safe, access to such adapters from guest operating systems in order to improve network performance. 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