Server Virtualization White Papers

WHITE PAPER: Virtualization plays a major role in driving improvements in SAP landscapes. IBM System x and BladeCenter servers with eX5 Technology offer customers benefits including higher utilization, reduced maintenance costs, easier administration and faster response to changing business needs.

Posted: 19 Jan 2011 | Published: 19 Jan 2011

WHITE PAPER: This IDC white paper highlights how IBM eX5 systems with MAX5 memory technology play a significant role in increasing the value of memory dense servers

Posted: 19 Jan 2011 | Published: 19 Jan 2011

WHITE PAPER: For small and midsize companies, System x, BladeCenter, and VMware virtualization solutions offer cost-effective options for transforming IT into a simple more powerful computing infrastructure. Look to IBM and VMware to show you how you can be distinctly competitive and profitable.

Posted: 19 Jan 2011 | Published: 19 Jan 2011

WHITE PAPER: VMware & IBM paper for small and midsize companies, System x, BladeCenter, and VMware virtualzation solutions offer cost-effective options for transforming IT into a simple more powerful computing infrastructure. Look to IBM and VMware to show you how you can be distinctly competitive and profitable.

Posted: 19 Jan 2011 | Published: 19 Jan 2011

WHITE PAPER: Citrix provides a robust set of virtualization technologies to help improve the resilience and usefulness of an organization's information infrastructure, ensuring that not just critical resources remain available but that they are always accessible to all users in any location with any device. Continue reading to learn more.

Posted: 21 Dec 2010 | Published: 21 Dec 2010

WHITE PAPER: This paper will explore some of the more common pitfalls that hamper successful data center transformations and the keys to overcome them.

Posted: 21 Dec 2010 | Published: 20 Dec 2010

WHITE PAPER: This paper explains that to accomplish the objectives of making more-efficient use of IT resources, lowering power consumption, and reducing operating expenses, many companies are turning to server consolidation and virtualization efforts—endeavors that increase server CPU utilization and reduce the number of discrete servers in a datacenter.

Posted: 20 Dec 2010 | Published: 20 Dec 2010

WHITE PAPER: This white paper describes how virtualisation and cloud initiatives are creating new types of management challenges across physical and virtual data centre environments. Continue reading to learn more.

Posted: 13 Dec 2010 | Published: 01 Oct 2010

WHITE PAPER: To solve the dilemma of meeting both data growth and budgetary ultimatums, IT must be agile. This paper examines the four rubrics of data center transformation: virtualization, automation, cloud-readiness and sustainability.

Posted: 02 Dec 2010 | Published: 02 Dec 2010

WHITE PAPER: The latest technologies innovations provide a big, evolutionary stride in economically superior storage designed to swiftly address mounting data challenges and changing business demands. With 3D scaling and dynamic tiering, IT leaders can dynamically scale up, scale out and scale deep for increased performance and scalability.

Posted: 02 Dec 2010 | Published: 02 Dec 2010

WHITE PAPER: Unified networking over 10 Gigabit Ethernet (10GbE) in the data center offers compelling benefits, including a simplified infrastructure, lower equipment and power costs, and the flexibility to meet the needs of the evolving, virtualized data center.

Posted: 01 Dec 2010 | Published: 30 Nov 2010

WHITE PAPER: This white paper details how you can future proof your network and be well position to take advantage of the increased functionality provided by new and ever evolving applications and computing models, including SaaS and virtualization.

Posted: 01 Dec 2010 | Published: 01 Jul 2009

WHITE PAPER: This paper examines both the potential successes of a virtualised environment as well as the challenges. Learn the tools and strategies to help you achieve comprehensive data migration and protection across your company's virtualised infrastructure.

Posted: 30 Nov 2010 | Published: 30 Nov 2010

WHITE PAPER: In the 1960s, computers housed in data centers were few in number and this resource was very expensive. As a result utilization of those compute resources was kept very high. In order to optimize the utilization of those...

Posted: 22 Nov 2010 | Published: 22 Nov 2010

WHITE PAPER: Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization features a unique and revolutionary virtualization technology called KVM (Kernelbased Virtual Machine) that converts the Red Hat Enterprise Linux kernel into a virtualization platform.

Posted: 22 Nov 2010 | Published: 22 Nov 2010

WHITE PAPER: The migration from proprietary UNIX and legacy hardware and software-based environments to Linux on x86 Intel architecture (IA) is an effective way to take cost and complexity out of IT.

Posted: 22 Nov 2010 | Published: 22 Nov 2010

WHITE PAPER: Affordable high availability and disaster recovery solutions are critical to the survival of all SMBs in the event of a disaster. Building on years of helping SMBs protect their information, VMware and Dell provide cost-effective and robust data protection, disaster recovery, and high availability solutions.

Posted: 22 Nov 2010 | Published: 22 Nov 2010

WHITE PAPER: This article provides an introduction to Hyper-V virtualization, discusses the overall architecture and underlying technologies, and offers guidance on best practices for deployment on Dell PowerEdge servers.

Posted: 19 Nov 2010 | Published: 19 Nov 2010

WHITE PAPER: Small and medium businesses need to support growth while wringing every ounce of value out of the investments they’ve already made. This paper looks at the benefits of virtualizing SQL Server databases, as well as how to get the most out of your virtual infrastructure.

Posted: 16 Nov 2010 | Published: 16 Nov 2010

WHITE PAPER: Read this paper for resources to help you determine how much powering and cooling the data center is costing your organization, and learn how the Hyper-V Server 2008 R2 can help reduce these requirements.

Posted: 16 Nov 2010 | Published: 16 Nov 2010

WHITE PAPER: To meet today’s unpredictable challenges, changing requirements and technical growth areas, a modular data center design and strategy can yield significant benefits that provide flexibility to match short-term capacity requirements with long-term growth, and do so in a cost-effective manner. Read this white paper to learn more.

Posted: 16 Nov 2010 | Published: 16 Nov 2010

WHITE PAPER: Because of the obvious total cost of ownership benefits of virtualization, virtual machines are assuming more business-critical roles in the data center. In a recent survey, more than 75% of all enterprise companies listed server virtualization as one of the top technologies they are adopting. Read this white paper to learn more.

Posted: 15 Nov 2010 | Published: 15 Nov 2010

WHITE PAPER: It’s a fact: Information–both its availability and accessibility–is critical for the success of any business in a 21st Century economy. Yet most IT organizations are not organized around information, but around infrastructure of servers, storage, and applications. We are entering perilous times for data. Read this white paper to learn more.

Posted: 15 Nov 2010 | Published: 15 Nov 2010

WHITE PAPER: As the gold standard in data center virtualization technologies, VMware® provides a broad portfolio of capabilities that organizations can leverage to maximize the value, efficiency, and effectiveness of their virtualization initiatives. This white paper discusses the best way to virtualize mission-critical applications with VMware technology.

Posted: 02 Nov 2010 | Published: 01 Nov 2010

WHITE PAPER: This white paper describes technical and business considerations for deploying a virtual infrastructure for SAP landscapes with EMC and VMware technologies. The white paper addresses a variety of key considerations for deploying such an infrastructure.

Posted: 02 Nov 2010 | Published: 01 Mar 2009