Paravirtualization

WHITE PAPER: This white paper features a report on the dangers and successes of Tier 1 application virtualization, based on a research study of a number of enterprises who have taken on this initiative. The paper discusses how to deal with the remaining key risks: performance degradation and gaps in business continuity.

Posted: 13 Mar 2013 | Published: 13 Mar 2013

WHITE PAPER: Read this white paper to discover the tools and practices you need in order to implement an application portfolio rationalization strategy that can help you improve agility, shift more resources into innovation, reduce costs, and ensure the alignment of IT to the business.

Posted: 22 Jan 2013 | Published: 31 Dec 2012

WHITE PAPER: Read this white paper to discover the tools and practices you need in order to implement an application portfolio rationalization strategy that can help you improve agility, shift more resources into innovation, reduce costs, and ensure the alignment of IT to the business.

Posted: 01 Apr 2013 | Published: 01 Apr 2013

WHITE PAPER: Explore this resource that examines the new opportunities and challenges arising from virtualization of business-critical services. Learn more about how to ensure business continuity across your physical and virtual infrastructures and gain a complete view of your service landscape.

Posted: 10 May 2013 | Published: 10 May 2013

WHITE PAPER: This white paper discusses what to look for in a virtualization protection solution and explores the features and benefits of both separate and unified solutions for protecting the virtual components of a modern infrastructure. Read on to discover the total cost of ownership of these two types of solutions and learn the ins and outs of each.

Posted: 07 May 2013 | Published: 28 Feb 2013

WHITE PAPER: This brief paper explains how moving to the cloud can help ease the cumbersome task of infrastructure implementation and maintenance by providing improved agility, flexibility, productivity and more.

Posted: 16 Aug 2012 | Published: 16 Aug 2012

WHITE PAPER: Access this case study to see how one organization chose to run mainframe workloads on Linux servers to create a more stable and flexible IT environment. Learn how your organization can reduce software and maintenance costs with Linux.

Posted: 12 Jun 2012 | Published: 12 Jun 2012

WHITE PAPER: Download this complimentary white paper written by Brien Posey and learn best practices for backing up Hyper-V. Explore some common "gotchas" that can undermine your disaster recovery initiatives, and more.

Posted: 17 Jan 2013 | Published: 17 Jan 2013

WHITE PAPER: This paper discusses critical details of backup policy in the virtualized era. Read on to learn new strategies for designing a backup plan, including details on what, how, and where to back up.

Posted: 16 Jan 2013 | Published: 16 Jan 2013

WHITE PAPER: This research report clarifies a common misunderstanding concerning the relationship between virtualization and cloud computing. Discover how application performance management fits into your cloud project and obtain advice to help you avoid pitfalls throughout the execution process.

Posted: 04 May 2012 | Published: 01 Apr 2011

WHITE PAPER: This document is designed to help Citrix XenApp customers understand how and when Citrix XenDesktop can be used with Citrix XenApp to deliver virtual desktops to further reduce application and desktop computing costs.

Posted: 05 Nov 2008 | Published: 05 Nov 2008

WHITE PAPER: Adopting the private cloud infrastructure is a prime goal for many organizations, however, the first critical step to achieving this goal is ubiquitous server virtualization. Access this exclusive resource to learn how you can apply factory principles to your processes and virtualize nearly 75% of your data center.

Posted: 08 Aug 2011 | Published: 08 Aug 2011

WHITE PAPER: This white paper points out the challenges of virtualizing a large quantity of servers and describes seven clearly defined steps that comprise the virtualization process. Get detailed information on each one of these phases and obtain lessons learned from one company that employed this approach.

Posted: 28 Sep 2011 | Published: 01 Feb 2011

WHITE PAPER: This white paper will explain how each of the main ITIL areas can be applied specifically to IP address management (IPAM), and the benefits that can be accrued from using this management framework.

Posted: 20 Dec 2010 | Published: 20 Dec 2010

WHITE PAPER: Virtualization is becoming a standard IT practice. It is becoming more popular among ArcGIS customers as well. ESRI uses virtualization technologies for the development, QA and certification processes of ArcGIS Server. This paper provides an overview of virtualization and addresses some common questions regarding ArcGIS Server and virtualization.

Posted: 14 Apr 2010 | Published: 01 Jan 2010

WHITE PAPER: This paper explains how cloud computing is now also evolving in a private variant whereby enterprises set up cloud-like, centralized shared infrastructure with automated capacity adjustment that internal departmental “customers” utilize in a self-service manner. Realization of efficiency, performance, and agility benefits is reinforcing this trend.

Posted: 20 Dec 2010 | Published: 20 Dec 2010

WHITE PAPER: Dell's Auto-Snapshot Manager / Microsoft Edition is an innovative bundled data protection feature of the Dell EqualLogic PS Series iSCSI SAN. It's designed to help deliver high-performance, redundant, highly-available storage platforms for Hyper-V deployments - supporting departmental to mission-critical Windows server applications.

Posted: 25 Mar 2009 | Published: 25 Mar 2009

WHITE PAPER: This paper will discuss High performance, space-efficient hypervisor-aware SAN-based snapshot and replication support, backup and recovery, IT infrastructure, as well as virtual security.

Posted: 24 Jun 2009 | Published: 24 Jun 2009

WHITE PAPER: Read our fourth newsletter featuring research from Gartner to learn how to support business requirements and customer demands in the datacenter while reducing capital and operational expenses.

Posted: 01 Oct 2010 | Published: 20 Aug 2010

WHITE PAPER: This whitepaper discusses how to define, track and enforce IT policies; automate IT compliance processes; and reduce the effort and cost of managing business applications.

Posted: 10 Sep 2009 | Published: 16 Oct 2008

WHITE PAPER: Automated, centralized message control and resource monitoring can help you manage your System i more easily and with fewer staff. This white paper describes some of the tasks you’ll face, some tips to help you get started, and the benefits of automating your system management with Robot/CONSOLE.

Posted: 25 May 2010 | Published: 25 May 2010

WHITE PAPER: Continuous compliance can help you narrow the gap between identifying compliance vulnerabilities and repairing systems to an audit-passing state. Read this paper to learn more.

Posted: 03 Aug 2010 | Published: 03 Aug 2010

WHITE PAPER: This white paper highlights several new features within EMC® Avamar® 6.0 that specifically target and greatly advance the capabilities and performance of VMware® data protection.

Posted: 23 Apr 2012 | Published: 31 Oct 2011

WHITE PAPER: This ESG white paper is your key to improving backup operations in your virtual environment. Read on to learn more.

Posted: 16 Apr 2012 | Published: 31 Mar 2011

WHITE PAPER: This white paper explains the differences between the de-duplication approaches, discusses the strengths and limitations of each, shows how different backup tasks are likely to benefit from them, and talks about the business benefits.

Posted: 23 Oct 2008 | Published: 23 Oct 2008