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E-Guide: Best Practices for Virtualizing Mission-Critical Applications
EGUIDE: In this expert e-guide from SearchServerVirtualization.com learn how virtualizing applications like SQL Server and Exchange can reduce data center space and power usage, improve disaster recovery and increase deployment flexibility. Plus get best practices and considerations for each specific application.
Posted: 14 Dec 2010 | Published: 14 Dec 2010


E-Book: Virtualization for Mission-Critical SAP Environments
EBOOK: This e-book examines the trend towards running mission-critical SAP applications on virtualized servers. It will also answer questions about SAP Platforms, virtualization packs, skill requirements to run SAP software, and how to manage virtualization needs without lengthy support calls.
Posted: 24 Nov 2010 | Published: 24 Nov 2010


Deploying Oracle on VMware: Challenges and Opportunities
WEBCAST: In this webcast, AbitibiBowater, the eighth largest publicly traded pulp and paper manufacturer in the world, shares how they successfully virtualized mission-critical Oracle solutions such as JD Enterprise One, Oracle Databases and Oracle Business Intelligence data warehouses.
Posted: 15 Oct 2010 | Premiered: May 6, 2010


VMware vSphere 4: The Most Efficient SQL Server Consolidation Platform
WHITE PAPER: Learn how to support your SQL Server instances and control your costs and administration requirements.
Posted: 15 Oct 2010 | Published: 14 Oct 2010


Microsoft SQL Server and VMware Virtual Infrastructure
WHITE PAPER: You can virtualize SQL Server successfully using VMware Infrastructure. The vast majority of SQL Server deployments are good candidates for virtualization and can benefit from improvements offered by a virtualized infrastructure—such as improved management, availability, and scalability—thus reducing overall TCO.
Posted: 15 Oct 2010 | Published: 14 Oct 2010


Essential Deployment Tips: Oracle Databases on VMware vSphere 4
TECHNICAL ARTICLE: This paper provides the essential tips necessary to successfully deploy Oracle on VMware virtual infrastructure to enable database administrators (DBAs) to meet their performance and availability goals.
Posted: 14 Oct 2010 | Published: 14 Oct 2010


How Your Business Can Attain Maximum ROI from Virtualization: A Guide for Business and IT Leadership
WHITE PAPER: As a leader of a SMBs, your expertise lies in improving your business, not the technology that runs it. With virtualization, it’s enough to know that your business can decrease costs, increase IT productivity and protect corporate assets. And VMware is the clear leader in virtualization solutions for SMBs. Continue reading to learn more.
Posted: 11 Oct 2010 | Published: 11 Oct 2010


Controlling Datacenter Costs with Virtualization: Intel and VMware Help Companies Meet Dynamic Business Demands While Lowering Total Cost of Ownership
ANALYST BRIEF: Read this solution brief to learn how virtualizing your infrastucture with Intel® Xeon® processor 5500 series servers and VMware vSphere™ 4 can consolidate resources and improve your total cost of ownership by decreasing management costs and increasing asset utilization.
Posted: 11 Oct 2010 | Published: 11 Oct 2010


Virtualization Performance of SAP® ERP on the Intel® Xeon® Processor 7500 Series with VMware
WHITE PAPER: Intel® Xeon® processor 7500 series-based servers offer extraordinary new value for virtualizing SAP solutions. They deliver near-native performance for applications running in virtual machines, while providing levels of reliability and scalability never before seen in industry-standard servers. Read this white paper to learn more!
Posted: 29 Sep 2010 | Published: 05 May 2010


How mission-critical database workloads perform when virtualized with Intel® Xeon® processor 7500 series-based servers and VMware® vSphere™
TEST RESULTS: This white paper documents the performance of mission-critical database workloads running on servers equipped with the Intel Xeon processor 7500 series and VMware vSphere 4.
Posted: 29 Sep 2010 | Published: 01 May 2010


New Power for Data Center Virtualization
WHITE PAPER: Virtualization on industry-standard servers has transformed IT service delivery, enabling companies to dramatically consolidate infrastructure, reduce costs, and much more. Read this paper to learn about the features and benefits of Vmware vSphere and the Intel Xeon processor 7500 series-based servers.
Posted: 29 Sep 2010 | Published: 05 May 2010


VMware® and Intel® Technology Provide Rock-Solid Platform for SAP Deployment
CASE STUDY: Southwestern/Great American chose to swap its dual environment (SAP ERP ran off of a legacy IBM AS/400) for a leaner infrastructure based on VMware ESX and IBM blade servers with Intel Xeon processors that could run both SAP ERP and its Windows applications. Read this case study to learn about the combined VMware and Intel solution.
Posted: 28 Sep 2010 | Published: 28 Sep 2010


Virtualizing Business-Critical Applications
WHITE PAPER: Many IT organizations are interested in virtualizing their business-critical applications but want to be absolutely certain they can deliver the same or better performance, scalability and availability in a virtualized environment. In the vast majority of cases they can. Read this paper to learn about VMware and Intel solutions.
Posted: 28 Sep 2010 | Published: 28 Sep 2010


Run Business-Critical Oracle E-Business Suite on VMware® and Intel® Technology
CASE STUDY: Oracle E-Business Suite is critical to 90-95% of EMC’s business functions. The solution VMware® Infrastructure and Intel® Xeon® processor based servers create a reliable and highly available platform for the Oracle E-Business Suite. Read this case study to learn more about the features and business benefits of EMC's new virtual platform.
Posted: 27 Sep 2010 | Published: 27 Sep 2010


Presentation Transcript: VMware High Availability
PRESENTATION TRANSCRIPT: Read this transcript of a brief demo and video, and learn what VMware High Availability (HA) is, what its requirements are, and how you set it up.
Posted: 03 Sep 2010 | Published: 03 Sep 2010


Presentation Transcript: Templates and Thin Provisioning - Compelling Business and Technology Drivers for Server Virtualization
PRESENTATION TRANSCRIPT: Read this transcript of a brief demo and video where Mike Laverick covers: Templates, thin virtual disks, how to create new virtual machines with vSphere, as well as how to make a virtual disk be thin-provisioned.
Posted: 03 Sep 2010 | Published: 03 Sep 2010


Presentation Transcript: Backup with VMware Data Recovery
PRESENTATION TRANSCRIPT: VMware Data Recovery protects against data loss in your virtual environment by enabling fast backups to disk and, more importantly, fast and complete recovery. Read this transcript of a brief demo and video as Mike Laverick discusses VMware Data Recovery, shows you how to install it, and takes you through the backup and restoration process.
Posted: 03 Sep 2010 | Published: 03 Sep 2010


Use of Virtualization Technology with SAP
WHITE PAPER: The arrival of VMware virtualization technology and the multi-core Intel® Xeon® processor specifically designed for virtualization helps upgrading the company's core business systems in a limited amount of time.
Posted: 28 Jan 2009 | Published: 28 Jan 2009


The SAP Virtualization Ecosystem
PRESENTATION TRANSCRIPT: This paper discusses the options available to you for virtualizing SAP, the big cost savings you can expect from virtualization, and why you should go virtual right away.
Posted: 18 Dec 2008 | Published: 18 Dec 2008


Streamlining SAP Upgrades with VMware Infrastructure 3
WEBCAST: In this Webcast, speakers from VMware and SAPwill show you how VMware Infrastructure can help you upgrade your SAP applications and efficiently manage your SAP infrastructure.
Posted: 24 Nov 2008 | Premiered: Nov 21, 2008


Best Practice Guidelines for SAP Solutions on VMware® Infrastructure
WHITE PAPER: This paper provides best practice guidelines for deploying SAP software solutions on VMware Infrastructure 3.
Posted: 24 Oct 2008 | Published: 24 Oct 2008


Johnson Controls Back in the Driver's Seat thanks to VMware
CASE STUDY: Learn how small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs) can leverage a virtual infrastructure to cut hardware costs, streamline server deployments and enable secure productivity.
Posted: 15 Nov 2007 | Published: 01 Jan 2006


An Introduction to Virtualization
PRODUCT OVERVIEW: Virtualization technology provides a scalable and cost-effective way to optimize the use of your current technology assets, increase the productivity of your IT staff and protect the data and IT environments that run your business.
Posted: 15 Nov 2007 | Published: 01 Nov 2007


Duke Clinical Research Institute (DCRI) VMware Virtual Infrastructure Cures Anemic CPU Utilization and Heals Hardware for Duke Clinical Research Institute
CASE STUDY: Check out this case study to learn how small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs) can leverage a virtual infrastructure to ensure almost zero system downtime with simple and secure management.
Posted: 15 Nov 2007 | Published: 15 Nov 2007


Server Consolidation Blooming in Production Environments
WHITE PAPER: Learn how a virtual infrastructure empowers small and medium-sized businesses with the ability to transform, manage and optimize their IT infrastructure.
Posted: 15 Nov 2007 | Published: 15 Nov 2007