Choosing the Best Servers for Virtualization
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Presenting the Upsides and Downsides of Server Virtualization to Management
By: TechTarget Data Center
Type: eBook
Server virtualization solves two major pain points for data centers: physical server sprawl and hardware costs. However, the high cost of implementing virtualization and figuring out how to manage the new environment may undercut some of those savings in management’s eyes.
This e-book helps you gain a thorough understanding of the pros and cons of server virtualization. Access now to learn how to best pitch a virtualization proposal to top management.
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Virtual Environments are Different from Physical Environments
By: TechTarget Data Center
Type: eGuide
While virtual environments are easier to management and hold the potential for greater availability and uptime, they carry their own set of risks and need to be managed separately from purely physical environments.
Check out this e-guide to learn how to effectively manage virtualized environments and overcome challenges such as complexity, greater density and greater automation.
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VM Storage: Dos and Don’ts
By: TechTarget Storage
Type: eGuide
Storage can make or break the success of your virtual environment - that’s why it’s critical that you have the right products and practices in place as you’re getting started.
This e-guide examines server virtualization through a storage lens and outlines tools and techniques you can leverage to maximize performance. Read on to explore six strategies that make storage more VM-friendly and learn how to avoid potential resource contention and capacity issues.
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E-Brief: Capacity Planning for Virtualized Infrastructure
By: TechTarget Data Center
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Explore current trends and tools for capacity planning in this e-brief. Discover how you can maximize server space and overcome top challenges of capacity planning to increase server utilization and ROI these tips from virtualization pro David Davis.
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Virtualizing your Exchange Server: Fact vs. fiction
By: TechTarget Data Center
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Find out what's fact and what's fiction about virtualizing your Exchange Server. What steps should you take, and how can you ensure success? Explore all these questions and more in this e-book.
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IT Handbook: Exchange Virtualization for VMware
By: TechTarget Data Center
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VMware has received a lot of attention for its flexibility and reliability, but that doesn't guarantee it's the best hypervisor for your Exchange environment. This IT handbook examines how VMware compares to Microsoft and Citrix and discusses tools and tips to help you navigate the Exchange virtualization process with ease.
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Understanding the pros and cons of network virtualization
By: TechTarget Security
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This expert E-Guide from SearchServerVirtualization.com explains the benefits of virtualizing the network. Find out how to utilize this technology to combine multiple networks into a single logical network. Plus, get answers to common questions about network virtualization technology to ensure a smooth transition.
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E-Book: Virtualizing Your Infrastructure - Selecting Server Hardware for Virtualization
By: TechTarget Data Center
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Choosing the right server hardware to maximize virtualization benefits is an important investment. To gain the high consolidation ratios you're after, you need powerful-enough hardware to support your workloads and applications. In this expert ebook, explore the hardware consideration to keep in mind as you virtualize.
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4 ways to reap virtualization benefits through budgeting
By: TechTarget Data Center
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When it comes to virtualization, budget planning is the key to success for any organization. This e-guide reviews why no matter what kind of cost saving benefits virtualization promises, having an established budget is essential to help with new purchases, ongoing support and software licensing costs.
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The Secret Weapon in the Fight Against Sprawl
By: TechTarget IT Operations
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In this 3-part guide, learn about the ongoing battle against virtual machine sprawl and measures that can be taken when you've found an abandoned VM in your system. Access now to also learn about available automation tools that can be used to streamline virtualization duties and address VM provisioning and deprovisioning.
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Virtual Data Center E-Zine Volume 37: Maximizing Virtual Data Center Consolidation
By: TechTarget Data Center
Type: Ezine
Virtualization may be well underway, but it doesn't mean new challenges won't arise as you continue to navigate your initiative. This expert e-zine offers detailed guidance for achieving the right balance in your virtual data center and presents key findings concerning your peers' consolidation objectives for 2012.
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IT Handbook: Security Best Practices for Server Virtualization
By: TechTarget Security
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Without the right plan for managing security, much of your proprietary data and information is at great risk. Access this expert resource, from the editors at SearchServerVirtualization.com, to learn the essential best practices for maintaining security in your virtualized data center.
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Learn the warning signs of impending SAN problems
By: TechTarget Storage
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This expert SearchStorage.com E-Guide points out red flags of SAN management problems-to-come so you can catch them before they manifest in your virtual environment. Check it out to learn how your peers are responding to these pain points.
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E-Guide: Server Virtualization: Expert Overview of Costs, Trends and More
By: TechTarget Data Center
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This expert E-Guide, brought to you by SearchServerVirtualization.com and Dell, provides an overview of the expenses associated with virtualization and highlights virtual server trends. Gain insight into the tangible virtualization costs, and learn how to keep pace with the changing server virtualization market.
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Data Center Modernization Starts With Cloud, SDN and Virtualization
By: TechTarget Security
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This expert guide covers the essentials of modernizing your data center.
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The Best Storage for Virtual Environments
By: TechTarget Storage
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Access this eGuide now to discover what vendors are doing to address the problem of IT pros struggling to support storage for virtual environments and which storage works the best in virtual infrastructures.
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Expert tips for consolidating servers and avoiding sprawl
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eGuide: Storage Challenges in Virtualized Server Environments
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Access this e-Guide to learn tools and tactics you can leverage to address and solve common storage challenges in virtual server environments, such as efficiency, speed, sprawl and end user expectations. Read on for an expert Q&A with Forrester Research Principal Analyst Andrew Reichman.
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Combining Virtual Server Backup Methods for a Complete Strategy
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Discover the benefits of virtual server backup vs. traditional data backup methods and learn how you can combine the two approaches for a complete (and free) VM backup strategy.
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Expert FAQ: Solve your top VM backup concerns
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Explore virtual backup best practices and get answers to frequently asked questions in this expert e-guide. Gain tips and strategies for optimizing your backup processes for virtualized environments to ensure comprehensive data protection and disaster recovery.
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E-Guide: Requirements for Virtualizing Exchange Server 2010
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This expert e-guide provides you with everything you need to know about virtualizing Exchange 2010. Discover the hardware, storage, memory, and availability requirements you will have to meet as well as the steps you must take before getting started with this process.
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How server virtualisation is evolving to cloud native environments
By: TechTarget ComputerWeekly.com
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In this e-guide we discover how, in recent years, server virtualisation has given businesses the ability to abstract applications and the operating system from the underlying hardware. We explore how server virtualisation is gradually evolving towards cloud native environments.
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Storage in a Virtual Environment: Expert Answers to 4 FAQ
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Server Virtualisation: Why it rules the roost
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Virtualization Backup Tools
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This expert briefing offers information on how physical and virtual backups differ and offers advice for integrating these two essential processes. Download now to assess the drawbacks and benefits of backing up your VM, as well as key criteria for evaluating your market options.
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Is virtualization the same as cloud computing?
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E-Guide: Achieve the benefits of virtualized mission-critical applications
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In this expert e-guide, find out about the many benefits of virtualizing your mission critical applications such as improved hardware utilization and efficiency. Also, discover where to virtualize your applications to maximize these benefits.
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Step-by-step Guide to Virtual Infrastructure Management
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Though monitoring and managing your virtual infrastructures can be challenging, the right tools and strategies can help you maintain control over your environment. Access this e-guide to gain key tips and best practices for monitoring applications, physical host servers, hypervisors and more.
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E-Guide: Expert Advice for Evaluating SSD Sharing Options
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Virtual Data Center E-Zine: Volume 39: Managing Virtualization Patches
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Keeping all of your patches up-to-date is a tedious but necessary task in order to ensure a fully protected data center. This dedicated e-zine highlights tips and strategies for making patch management easier and less time-consuming.
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By: TechTarget Security
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By: TechTarget ComputerWeekly.com
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We walk you from the basics of backup methods to the pros and cons of different ways of protecting data and key issues in virtual machine backup.
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Data Center Servers and Storage E-Book Chapter 4: Reallocating Unused Server and Storage Hardware
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Virtual Data Center E-Zine Volume 32: Public vs. Private: Comparing Cloud Architectures
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We are potentially at the beginning of a new generation of IT administrators who manage a range of technologies outside of the traditional realm of virtualization. Read this E-Book to learn more.
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Servers host applications, manage files and perform analytics. Any organization can benefit from the power and versatility that servers provide, but it can be difficult to know which types of server hardware to choose. In this infographic, we take a look into the major types of servers, their advantages and disadvantages.
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In this edition of The Exchange Insider, explore the next steps for your email messaging platform with the following Exchange topics: Evaluating Office 365, auditing Exchange 2010 and troubleshooting virtualized Exchange Servers.
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Access this e-guide to learn how your organization can take advantage of network virtualization. This resource outlines the basics of this new technology and explores its benefits.
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