Virtualization Software White Papers

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Modern Virtualized Workload Face Off: UNIX versus x86
sponsored by IBM
WHITE PAPER: This whitepaper examines the effectiveness of IBM Power 730, with IBM PowerVM and AIX, in contrast to comparable x86-based systems when it comes to transactions per second and other performance metrics.
Posted: 15 May 2014 | Published: 15 May 2014

IBM

Move To Application-Driven Virtualization for Real IT Savings
sponsored by Oracle Corporation
WHITE PAPER: Going beyond traditional server virtualization, Oracle VM's application driven virtualization approach not only provides the traditional server virtualization benefits of consolidation, reliability and flexibility but also delivers a unique integrated solution to addressing critical business needs.
Posted: 09 Aug 2013 | Published: 31 Aug 2011

Oracle Corporation

NetApp Clustered Data ONTAP 8.3 and 8.2x - An Introduction
sponsored by NetApp
WHITE PAPER: This technical report provides an overview of NetApp® clustered Data ONTAP® 8.3 and 8.2x, including basic components of the hardware and software architecture.
Posted: 12 Jun 2013 | Published: 12 Jun 2013

NetApp

NetScaler VPX: Harness the Power of Virtualized Web App Delivery
sponsored by Citrix
WHITE PAPER: This technical white paper shows you how the NetScaler VPX virtual appliance offers maximum physical, functional, and operational flexibility for delivering web apps. Learn how virtual application delivery controllers can unleash the power of a virtualized dynamic data center! Compliments of Citrix.
Posted: 08 Jun 2010 | Published: 08 Jun 2010

Citrix

New Power for Data Center Virtualization
sponsored by Dell, Inc. and Intel®
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: 10 May 2010 | Published: 05 May 2010

Dell, Inc. and Intel®

Next Generation Analytics for Optimizing Critical Application Operations in Virtualized Environments
sponsored by SIOS Technology Corp
WHITE PAPER: This white paper explores the benefits and challenges of moving critical applications such as SQL Server, Oracle, and SAP to the new hybrid data center. Additionally, learn about an advanced analytics platform that can help meet stringent requirements for performance, efficiency, reliability, and resilience in virtualized environments.
Posted: 02 Mar 2015 | Published: 02 Mar 2015

SIOS Technology Corp

Nimble Storage for VMware View VDI
sponsored by Nimble Storage
WHITE PAPER: This resource explores an adaptive storage system that can handle peak loads of disruption or activity as well as service the steady-state operations in a cost-effective and easily administered package.
Posted: 31 Jul 2013 | Published: 31 Dec 2012

Nimble Storage

Optimize Virtual Desktop Performance & VMware Integration with Simplified Storage Management
sponsored by Dell and VMware
WHITE PAPER: This brief paper explores an approach designed to deliver significant benefits for VDI implementations. Find out how to ensure your VDI infrastructure is ready to deal with increased I/O demands.
Posted: 13 Nov 2013 | Published: 30 Sep 2013

Dell and VMware

Optimize VMware Environments with the Smartest Virtualized Storage
sponsored by Dell Compellent
WHITE PAPER: Data center virtualization not only consolidates IT resources and boosts efficiency, but increases flexibility, performance and availability. By combining storage virtualization by Compellent with server virtualization by VMware, users know their data center will operate efficiently today and adapt to change tomorrow.
Posted: 11 Jul 2011 | Published: 11 Jul 2011

Dell Compellent

Optimize Your Network with Dell and Silver Peak and Reap the Benefits
sponsored by Dell EMC and Microsoft
WHITE PAPER: This informative paper explores a partnership that addresses today's consolidation, backup, replication and unified communications. Discover how this cost effectively increase network capacity, optimize network quality, and help ensure maximum performance over distance—all while helping to reduce ongoing IT operating costs. Read on to learn more.
Posted: 12 Nov 2013 | Published: 31 Jul 2013

Dell EMC and Microsoft

Optimized Virtualization with Citrix, Dell, and Intel
sponsored by Dell and VMware
WHITE PAPER: By taking an end-to-end approach, Citrix, Dell and Intel have integrated their products and made highly flexible, centralized, optimized and virtualized computing a reality. This paper introduces the key components of this approach: simplifying IT, enabling flexible computing, optimizing datacenters, and rethinking the desktop.
Posted: 04 Mar 2011 | Published: 04 Mar 2011

Dell and VMware

Optimizing Clinical Workflows with VMware View and Cisco VXI
sponsored by VMware, Inc.
WHITE PAPER: This white paper outlines the benefits of adopting a virtual desktop infrastructure for healthcare delivery, and goes beyond the usual IT-centric discussion about CapEx and OpEx reductions to explore the ways in which VDI improves clinical workflow at the actual point of care, where it matters most.
Posted: 11 Jan 2012 | Published: 01 Jul 2011

VMware, Inc.

Optimizing VDI data management with unified virtualized storage
sponsored by DellEMC and Intel®
WHITE PAPER: This brief white paper explores how optimizing VDI helps simplify user data management and enables device – and location – independent data access. Find out how a unified virtualized storage technology helps boost IT flexibility.
Posted: 28 Oct 2013 | Published: 31 Dec 2011

DellEMC and Intel®

Optimizing Virtual Desktops With Unified Storage and VMware
sponsored by DellEMC and Intel®
WHITE PAPER: This brief whitepaper explores an approach designed to deliver significant benefits for VDI implementations. Find out you can ensure your VDI infrastructure is ready to deal with increased I/O demands.
Posted: 23 Oct 2013 | Published: 16 Sep 2013

DellEMC and Intel®

Oracle Enterprise Manager Ops Center: Changing the Economics of Datacenter Operations
sponsored by Oracle Corporation
WHITE PAPER: To help you assess both the full costs and overall benefits of datacenter management solutions, this white paper examines the primary inefficiencies found in typical datacenters, and then presents the strategies commonly used to resolve them.
Posted: 23 Mar 2011 | Published: 01 Feb 2010

Oracle Corporation

Oracle VM 3: Integrating Oracle VM into a Disaster Recovery Solution using SAN
sponsored by Oracle Corporation
WHITE PAPER: Check out this informative white paper to find out how to use your SAN to integrate Oracle VM into a multisite disaster recovery solution to combat the challenges of today's IT.
Posted: 09 Aug 2013 | Published: 28 Dec 2012

Oracle Corporation

Oracle VM: Designing, Creating and Testing an Oracle VM 3.2 Environment
sponsored by Oracle Corporation
WHITE PAPER: New to Oracle VM and not sure where to start? This technical whitepaper including best practices will walk you through the process of design, creation and test of Oracle VM.
Posted: 12 Aug 2013 | Published: 30 Apr 2013

Oracle Corporation

Overcoming Five Key Challenges to Successful Virtualization
sponsored by Dell Software
WHITE PAPER: In this new Quest Software white paper, learn about the five common challenges to a successful virtualization project – and how to solve each one. See how to ensure your company’s virtualization project is successful before AND after implementation. Read this white paper today.
Posted: 29 Mar 2011 | Published: 29 Mar 2011

Dell Software

Performance Analysis - Unified Virtual Infrastructure Backup
sponsored by Dell Software
WHITE PAPER: This informative paper explores two backup and recovery software solutions built for today's virtualized environments. Discover what each of them has to offer, how they stack up against each other and find out which one triumphs over the other. Read on to learn more.
Posted: 03 Oct 2013 | Published: 21 Aug 2013

Dell Software

Performance Analysis: Unified Backup: Virtual & Physical
sponsored by Dell Software
WHITE PAPER: This informative paper explores two backup and recovery solutions built for physical and virtual environments. Discover what each of them has to offer, how they stack up against each other and find out which one triumphs over the other. Read on to learn more.
Posted: 04 Oct 2013 | Published: 02 Jul 2012

Dell Software

PHD Virtual is Changing the Game in Backup, Restore and Disaster Recovery
sponsored by PHD Virtual
WHITE PAPER: Check out this exclusive resource to find out about one vendor's three disaster recovery and backup solutions, specifically designed to support virtual machines and cloud-based environments.
Posted: 22 Jan 2014 | Published: 30 Nov 2013

PHD Virtual

PlateSpin® Recon: Virtual Capacity Management and Consolidation Planning
sponsored by Novell, Inc.
WHITE PAPER: PlateSpin® Recon from Novell is a sophisticated workload analysis, planning and management solution that provides new levels of intelligence, visual analysis and forecasting for optimizing the data center.
Posted: 01 Oct 2009 | Published: 01 Oct 2009

Novell, Inc.

Plug Into the Cloud with SDN-based Enterprise Clouds
sponsored by NTT America, Inc.
WHITE PAPER: Discover how one organization is offering a consistent global cloud experience with the help of software-defined networking (SDN) technologies.
Posted: 16 May 2013 | Published: 20 Feb 2013

NTT America, Inc.

Protect Data in VMware-Based Environments with IBM Tivoli Solutions
sponsored by IBM
WHITE PAPER: This brief resource examines the challenges of traditional backup and storage approaches in virtual environments, and introduces a unified platform that enables your organization to meet these challenges and effectively store, analyze, manage, and protect data.
Posted: 07 Nov 2013 | Published: 31 Jul 2013

IBM

Real-time visibility into your virtual data center
sponsored by Hewlett Packard Enterprise
WHITE PAPER: This whitepaper discusses a real-time modeling system for virtualized IT environments that provides an operational view of IT services and the servers, hypervisors, VMs, middleware, databases, applications, and network links that enable them to work.
Posted: 28 Feb 2014 | Published: 28 Feb 2014

Hewlett Packard Enterprise