Virtualization Software White Papers

WHITE PAPER: This white paper introduces a new type of virtual solution designed specifically to improve maintenance, management and mobility in today's virtual infrastructures. By minimizing latency across long distances, this technology allows for the quick and efficient delivery of data and applications from one server to another - all with minimal downtime.

Posted: 05 Jan 2012 | Published: 05 Jan 2012

WHITE PAPER: Citrix and Intel worked together to deliver local virtual machine desktops, aiming to make virtualization ubiquitous on client devices. The result of the collaboration is Citrix® XenClient™, a local desktop virtualization platform that provides new levels of security and user flexibility for enterprise desktops. Continue reading to learn more.

Posted: 10 Jun 2010 | Published: 09 Jun 2010

WHITE PAPER: In this whitepaper, you’ll find a discussion of the various options that FlexCast provides to help meet the computing requirements of various user types.

Posted: 26 Aug 2013 | Published: 26 Aug 2013

WHITE PAPER: Access this resource to learn how one organization in the Professional services industry deployed advanced server technology to achieve significant IT benefits, including 40% lower administration time, 85% faster new server provisioning and much more.

Posted: 24 Jul 2013 | Published: 31 Jan 2013

WHITE PAPER: In this Quest Software white paper by the Enterprise Strategy Group, learn more about the benefits of moving to a virtual desktop environment – and how choosing the right tool for the job makes it easy. Find out about a solution that not only makes implementing virtualization easy, but keeps cost low and uptime and efficiency high while doing so.

Posted: 19 Aug 2010 | Published: 19 Aug 2010

WHITE PAPER: Learn how your organization can take full advantage of all the benefits of cloud computing. Inside, discover a cloud hosting solution that provides speed and agility to your business while allowing you to add workloads as it expands.

Posted: 18 May 2012 | Published: 17 May 2012

WHITE PAPER: As virtualization initiatives have gathered momentum and virtual environments are becoming the norm rather than the exception, the infrastructure necessary to support these environments has exploded, creating new opportunities for inefficiency. Read on to learn more.

Posted: 08 Jul 2011 | Published: 08 Jul 2011

WHITE PAPER: Access this exclusive resource to learn how your business can develop a vPOD architecture to increase agility while dramatically reducing costs.

Posted: 10 Sep 2012 | Published: 10 Sep 2012

WHITE PAPER: This management brief provides a virtualization cost/benefit analysis, examines common deployment patterns, and recommends an architecture that can ensure your clients achieve their desired results.

Posted: 15 Nov 2011 | Published: 21 Nov 2011

WHITE PAPER: For many organizations, up to seventy percent of the overall IT budget is dedicated merely to maintaining the operational status quo—leaving only thirty reserved for development. Read this paper to find out more.

Posted: 21 Oct 2010 | Published: 21 Oct 2010

WHITE PAPER: Find out why companies are choosing to turn to converged infrastructures to enable flexible and highly integrated turnkey solutions. You'll learn how you can spend less time managing your converged infrastructure and more time solving business challenges.

Posted: 12 Nov 2013 | Published: 31 Oct 2013

WHITE PAPER: In this white paper, learn why legacy security tools are hindering cloud success. Click now to discover a cost-effective cloud security solution that ensures data protection and compliance in the virtual sphere to avoid data breaches and business disruption.

Posted: 18 Dec 2013 | Published: 18 Dec 2013

WHITE PAPER: This configuration guide walks you through the critical activities that take place during a virtualization deployment and describes a recommended reference architecture that can help you achieve your desired results. Learn more about the key features of this technology and how to properly enable them in this essential resource.

Posted: 19 Sep 2012 | Published: 19 Sep 2012

WHITE PAPER: This informative resource examines a backup and recovery software solution that's built for today's virtual IT. Read on to explore how this technology can help you, maximize your storage efficiency and footprint, improve system utilization and performance and keep business strategy and storage requirements continuously aligned.

Posted: 09 Oct 2013 | Published: 26 Sep 2012

WHITE PAPER: Dell tested a sample of 1,000 virtual desktops and simulated real-world workloads using a Dell Compellent Storage Center SAN in a Citrix XenDesktop VDI environment with Microsoft Hyper-V 2008 R2 as the hypervisor.

Posted: 30 Aug 2011 | Published: 30 Aug 2011

WHITE PAPER: An efficient storage solution is integral to a successful VDI implementation. With a Fluid Data architecture and integrated software features such as Automated Tiered Storage, Thin Provisioning, Continuous Snapshots and Remote Replication, the Dell Compellent Storage Center SAN proves to be a highly effective storage option for VMware View.

Posted: 02 Aug 2011 | Published: 02 Aug 2011

WHITE PAPER: When a system fails, IT is on the hook to restore data and applications immediately. However, statistics show it takes an average of 18.5 hours to recover data after an outage, and 50 percent of restores end in a loss of critical information. With downtime costs running approximately $5,600 per minute, the stakes are high. Read the White Paper

Posted: 03 Sep 2013 | Published: 31 May 2013

WHITE PAPER: This resource discusses why modernization of the point-of-care desktop has become an urgent health IT priority. Inside, learn how the right virtualization architecture can give caregivers the information access and protection that they need.

Posted: 11 Jun 2013 | Published: 31 Dec 2012

WHITE PAPER: This white paper describes the advantages of consolidating Microsoft SQL Server database application workloads to a virtualization environment, and introduces a server platform that can help you drive success.

Posted: 08 Nov 2013 | Published: 31 Jul 2012

WHITE PAPER: This white paper explores how one organization implemented a modernized backup solution to achieve significant efficiency gains and financial savings.

Posted: 22 Jul 2013 | Published: 30 Mar 2012

WHITE PAPER: A disruption in the availability of data can break business continuity. Any good impact analysis must consider how quickly data access can be restored and how recent the data must be. Tape backup is no longer effective for all scenarios, and disk-based backup presents challenges as well. Is data deduplication the answer? Read the White Paper

Posted: 23 Aug 2013 | Published: 31 Jan 2012

WHITE PAPER: In this white paper, you will gain deeper insight into the four critical resource areas that impact database performance and reliability in a virtual machine.

Posted: 29 Aug 2013 | Published: 29 Aug 2013

WHITE PAPER: Designing an enterprise-level desktop delivery solution must take into account users, applications, desktops and the underlying infrastructure design. This document creates a recommended solution for an organization based on their unique requirements and workforce characteristics, although generalized to remove any confidential information.

Posted: 06 Oct 2009 | Published: 06 Oct 2009

WHITE PAPER: This paper will show how desktop virtualization can positively position educational institutions for the future, enabling them to reduce expenses through hard dollar savings and time efficiencies while delivering the experience that students, faculty and staff need and desire.

Posted: 24 Aug 2011 | Published: 24 Aug 2011

WHITE PAPER: This white paper provides analysis and advice on how Dell Virtual Remote Desktop (VRD), a server-hosted desktop virtualization, can deliver substantial benefits, simplifying lifecycle management, and driving ongoing cost and productivity benefits.

Posted: 15 Feb 2010 | Published: 01 Jul 2009