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Virtualization Meets Automation to Enable a Dynamic Cloud Infrastructure
| sponsored by Opalis Software, Inc.
WHITE PAPER:
To keep services humming in a virtual environment companies must move beyond manual management. With so many services running in virtual environments, companies are searching for the best way to manage physical and virtual services. The goal is to reduce costs, increase standardization and deliver higher quality without virtual sprawl.
Posted: 01 Jul 2009 | Published: 01 Jul 2009
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Global bank improves virtual service delivery from hours to minutes
| sponsored by Opalis Software, Inc.
CASE STUDY:
A financial services provider offering personal, commercial, corporate and institutional services across Canada and the US needed to standardize requests and eliminate manual management. With the Opalis solution, the bank automated five processes - a VM request portal, provisioning, decommissioning, backup, and lease expiry of all virtual machines.
Posted: 01 Jul 2009 | Published: 01 Jul 2009
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Extend Management Tools to Virtual Services
| sponsored by Opalis Software, Inc.
WHITE PAPER:
Virtual Sprawl stands in the way of achieving the promise of virtualization. In order to optimize virtualization without increasing the staff, time and cost required to manage these environments IT departments need to automate management best practices by extending their existing management tools to virtual services.
Posted: 01 Jul 2009 | Published: 01 Jul 2009
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Case Study: First Trade Union Bank Adds Vault for LAN-Speed Restores and Robust Replication
| sponsored by i365, A Seagate Company
CASE STUDY:
Despite the economic downturn, First Trade Union Bank is continuing to grow... this case study examines the data center challenges the bank faced in the midst of this growth and show's how by working with i365, they were able to create faster backups/restores, in some cases reduce RTO's by up to 98%, enhance DR and protect their virtual servers.
Posted: 30 Jun 2009 | Published: 30 Jun 2009
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VMware® ESX 3.5 Deployment with Sun Storage 7000 Series Unified Storage System
| sponsored by Sun Microsystems, Inc.
WHITE PAPER:
This paper details a few of the possible deployment scenarios when using Sun Storage 7000 Unified Storage System (called Unified Storage System hereon ) with Vmware Infrastructure ESX 3.5. This paper also describes how each of the deployment differs from one another.
Posted: 30 Jun 2009 | Published: 08 Dec 2008
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Blue Coat and VMware
| sponsored by Blue Coat
PRODUCT LITERATURE:
Check out this solution brief to see how the joint Blue Coat and VMware solution enables IT organizations to consolidate servers and perform disaster recovery operations in real-time, without the risk of performance degradation due to latency or limited bandwidth.
Posted: 29 Jun 2009 | Published: 26 Dec 2008
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HP white paper: Complete Data Protection for VMware Virtual Environments
| sponsored by Hewlett-Packard Company
WHITE PAPER:
This paper examines the issues of backup and recovery in VMware virtual server environments, and outlines the key features of HP Data Protector.
Posted: 26 Jun 2009 | Published: 01 Nov 2008
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Enhancing Virtualization Performance with VMware VStorage
| sponsored by Dell, Inc.
WHITE PAPER:
VMware® vSphere™ is the industry's first private cloud operating system that provides a comprehensive framework from which Dell can help deliver enhanced virtualization capabilities to clients.
Posted: 24 Jun 2009 | Published: 24 Jun 2009
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Planning For Performance Optimization in a Virtual Environment
| sponsored by VKernel
VIDEO:
Proper planning is a crucial element when tackling the task of optimizing your virtual environment. From assessing your environment to determining business requirements with your management team, Shannon Snowden, Associate Consulting Partner at New Age Technologies guides you along the steps toward optimization.
Posted: 23 Jun 2009 | Premiered: 23 Jun 2009
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Everything you wanted to know about running Hyper-V on Sun Microsystems systems
| sponsored by Sun Microsystems, Inc. and Microsoft
WEBCAST:
Watch this webcast to explore how Sun Microsystems' Intel and AMD based servers, coupled with Microsoft Windows Server 2008 R2 with Hyper-V can enhance your data center virtualization effort, as well as the various capabilities this new approach enables...
Posted: 23 Jun 2009 | Premiered: Available On Demand
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Which Virtualization Management Tool Is Right For Your Organization?
| sponsored by Dell and VMware
EGUIDE:
In this informative Pocket Guide, brought to you by SearchServerVirtualization.com, Dell and VMware, learn more about the virtual management tools on the market and their functionality. Discover which product capabilities organizations should consider when evaluating virtual infrastructure management technologies.
Posted: 22 Jun 2009 | Published: 22 Jun 2009
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Planning and Deploying Server Virtualization
| sponsored by Dell and VMware
EGUIDE:
In this Pocket Guide, brought to you by SearchServerVirtualization.com, Dell and VMware, discover the central tasks in the assessment and planning stages of a virtualization project.
Posted: 22 Jun 2009 | Published: 22 Jun 2009
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Unleashing the Power of Virtualization
| sponsored by Cisco, EMC, & VMware
WEBCAST:
Today's businesses struggle to scale, manage and reduce the time to deploy new applications and have flexibility to keep pace with rapidly changing business demands. This webcast details VMware's new advances in vSphere and cloud computing technology and how to integrate an efficient IT infrastructure for your organization.
Posted: 22 Jun 2009 | Premieres: 07 Jul 2009, 11:30 EDT (15:30 GMT)
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Enhanced Data Protection and Manageability of Virtual Servers Using CommVault® Simpana® Solutions
| sponsored by CommVault Systems, Inc.
PRODUCT OVERVIEW:
CommVault<sup>®</sup> Simpana<sup>®</sup> software's Universal Virtual Server Agent helps address the challenges in a virtual environment based on VMware<sup>®</sup> Virtual Infrastructure, VMware Virtual Server, Microsoft<sup>®</sup> Hyper-V™ server and Microsoft Virtual Server Environments.
Posted: 17 Jun 2009 | Published: 17 Jun 2009
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Seven Requirements for Balancing Control and Agility in the Virtual Environment
| sponsored by BMC Software, Inc
WHITE PAPER:
Unparalleled agility is the promise of virtualization. But managing change, staying compliant, and preventing virtual sprawl are just a few of the challenges you could face before you reap the rewards. VMware joined us recently to co-author 7 must-read tips for striking the perfect balance in your virtual environment.
Posted: 17 Jun 2009 | Published: 15 Jun 2009
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Cost-cutting strategies for a virtualized data center: Performance and capacity management tools
| sponsored by Dell, Inc. and Intel
PODCAST:
In this expert podcast, learn how new capacity planning and performance management tools utilize automation and an intuitive interface to increase resource utilization and reduce capital expenditures for your virtualized data center.
Posted: 16 Jun 2009 | Premiered: 16 Jun 2009
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Cost-cutting strategies for a virtualized data center: Blade servers
| sponsored by Dell, Inc. and Intel
PODCAST:
Implementing the newest blade servers will enable you to decrease power consumption and optimize performance in your virtualized data center. Listen to this expert podcast to learn more about how you can consume less power and cut cooling costs.
Posted: 16 Jun 2009 | Premiered: 16 Jun 2009
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Cost-cutting strategies for a virtualized data center: Disaster recovery and readiness
| sponsored by Dell, Inc. and Intel
PODCAST:
Learn how data center virtualization enables your company to implement cost-effective disaster recovery (DR) solutions and reduce DR testing and maintenance costs.
Posted: 16 Jun 2009 | Premiered: 16 Jun 2009
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Cloud Computing - What is its Potential Value for Your Company?
| sponsored by Google
WHITE PAPER:
This paper examines whether cloud computing makes good business sense for your company. Ultimately, you may find that moving your data to the cloud actually improves security, scalability, access, and disaster recovery.
Posted: 12 Jun 2009 | Published: 01 Feb 2009
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Introduction to Virtualization E-book, Chapter 1: Virtualization Concepts in Disaster Recovery
| sponsored by Hewlett Packard Company and Intel
EBOOK:
Virtualization is changing the disaster recovery landscape. This E-Book is a beginners' guide to virtualization with chapters on disaster recovery (DR), test and development, server consolidation, high availability, storage, security and key technologies including VMware ESX,Microsoft Hyper-V and Citrix XenServer.
Posted: 12 Jun 2009 | Published: 02 Feb 2009
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Cloud Computing - Latest Buzzword or a Glimpse of the Future?
| sponsored by Google
WHITE PAPER:
This paper provides a snapshot of what is happening in the arena of cloud computing. What are the benefits? Why are businesses embracing it? What does it mean to a business owner or executive? How does it affect the workplace? What are the payoffs and the pitfalls? Is it really ready for "prime time"?
Posted: 11 Jun 2009 | Published: 01 Feb 2009
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Should Your Email Live In The Cloud? A Comparative Cost Analysis
| sponsored by Google
ANALYST REPORT:
This report presents a spreadsheet cost model to help you calculate your fully loaded on-premise email costs and compare it against cloud-based alternatives. Bottom line: Cloud-based email makes sense for companies or divisions as large as 15,000 users.
Posted: 11 Jun 2009 | Published: 05 Jan 2009
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Virtualization with HP, Intel, and VMware Solution Guide for Midsize Businesses
| sponsored by HP, Intel, & VMware
WHITE PAPER:
Check out this white paper to learn how virtualization technology can help midsize businesses reduce costs, mitigate risks, and accelerate growth. HP and VMware can show you how.
Posted: 08 Jun 2009 | Published: 02 Apr 2009
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Protecting a Paperless Office
| sponsored by Dell, Inc.
CASE STUDY:
Peterson Sullivan PLLC needed a consolidated yet scalable IT infrastructure. They created just that with VMware software, Dell PowerEdge servers, and Dell EqualLogic storage while enhancing data protection with Auto-Snapshot Manager/VMware Edition software for automated, integrated, and scalable protection of virtual machines.
Posted: 05 Jun 2009 | Published: 05 Jun 2009
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Best in Class Virtualization: Using Intel-based HP G6 Servers with VMware vSphere 4
| sponsored by HP, Intel, & VMware
WHITE PAPER:
Read this brief paper to get the details about an HP and VMware solution that both enhances service and reduces cost, while positioning operations for growth when the economy turns around.
Posted: 05 Jun 2009 | Published: 05 Jun 2009
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vSphere: New Features and Benefits
| sponsored by Global Knowledge
WHITE PAPER:
vSphere, VMware's latest release, adds approximately 150 new features to its previous VI3 product! The purpose of this white paper is to highlight the most notable of these features and to discuss the benefits they offer your organization's IT infrastructure.
Posted: 01 Jun 2009 | Published: 01 May 2009
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