Server Virtualization White Papers

WHITE PAPER: VMware and RIM have worked together over the past two-plus years to provide official support of Blackberry Enterprise Server (BES) solutions on VMware virtual infrastructure. In this white paper, learn about the best practices for running BlackBerry® Enterprise Server on VMware® Infrastructure 3 or VMware vSphere™ 4.

Posted: 26 Oct 2010 | Published: 01 Feb 2010

WHITE PAPER: While virtualization can enable more efficient infrastructures, it does not address the single largest cost element for most data centers—the labor to manage this environment. Read the white paper to find out how IBM Service Management Solutions can help you implement and manage your virtualized environment.

Posted: 25 Oct 2010 | Published: 08 Jul 2009

WHITE PAPER: This white paper discusses why virtualization and cloud initiatives are putting so much pressure on workload management and security requirements and describes how emerging intelligent workload management approaches can potentially streamline operations.

Posted: 21 Oct 2010 | Published: 21 Oct 2010

WHITE PAPER: Through this white paper, PTS Data Center Solutions (PTS) personnel validate these energy efficiency savings estimates using the upgrade of the IT system within its own data center facility and operations as a test bed.

Posted: 19 Oct 2010 | Published: 19 Oct 2010

WHITE PAPER: Learn how to support your SQL Server instances and control your costs and administration requirements.

Posted: 15 Oct 2010 | Published: 14 Oct 2010

WHITE PAPER: You can virtualize SQL Server successfully using VMware Infrastructure. The vast majority of SQL Server deployments are good candidates for virtualization and can benefit from improvements offered by a virtualized infrastructure—such as improved management, availability, and scalability—thus reducing overall TCO.

Posted: 15 Oct 2010 | Published: 14 Oct 2010

WHITE PAPER: Run your business-critical applications, including Exchange, SQL, SAP, and Oracle, on VMware vSphere with breakthrough performance and outstanding reliability.

Posted: 14 Oct 2010 | Published: 14 Oct 2010

WHITE PAPER: This IDC white paper explains how much of the Enterprise IT community is at a crossroads in extending their journey to the private cloud: Companies must virtualize their business critical applications in order to reap the benefits of cloud computing.

Posted: 14 Oct 2010 | Published: 01 Jan 2010

WHITE PAPER: This high level overview of the IBM WebSphere CloudBurst Appliance discusses current issues being faced in the information technology industry and how WebSphere CloudBurst addresses many of them.

Posted: 14 Oct 2010 | Published: 19 Feb 2010

WHITE PAPER: This paper also describes IBM WebSphere® Virtual Enterprise, a product designed to virtualize enterprise applications and services across the IT infrastructure.

Posted: 13 Oct 2010 | Published: 14 Apr 2008

WHITE PAPER: As a leader of a SMBs, your expertise lies in improving your business, not the technology that runs it. With virtualization, it’s enough to know that your business can decrease costs, increase IT productivity and protect corporate assets. And VMware is the clear leader in virtualization solutions for SMBs. Continue reading to learn more.

Posted: 11 Oct 2010 | Published: 11 Oct 2010

WHITE PAPER: Introducing the Sun SPARC Enterprise M3000 Server. Oracle’s Sun SPARC Enterprise servers are highly reliable, easy-to-manage, vertically scalable systems with all the benefits of traditional mainframes—without the associated cost, complexity, or vendor lock-in.

Posted: 05 Oct 2010 | Published: 27 Apr 2010

WHITE PAPER: As IT organizations support dynamically changing business priorities and cope with economic pressures, maintaining datacenter agility is critical. By consolidating systems onto the latest server technology and taking advantage of virtualization techniques, enterprises can optimize datacenter efficiency, gain flexibility, and reduce operating costs

Posted: 05 Oct 2010 | Published: 22 Apr 2010

WHITE PAPER: Intel® Xeon® processor 7500 series-based servers offer extraordinary new value for virtualizing SAP solutions. They deliver near-native performance for applications running in virtual machines, while providing levels of reliability and scalability never before seen in industry-standard servers. Read this white paper to learn more!

Posted: 29 Sep 2010 | Published: 05 May 2010

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: 29 Sep 2010 | Published: 05 May 2010

WHITE PAPER: Virtualization is no longer strictly an enterprise technology; it is increasingly being adopted by IT groups in small and mid-size businesses (SMBs). However, those organizations are quickly learning that virtualization can also increase complexity in certain areas of IT, particularly in data protection. Read this white paper to learn more.

Posted: 29 Sep 2010 | Published: 29 Sep 2010

WHITE PAPER: The VMware SMB Survey is designed to help small and medium businesses (SMBs) understand the benefits their peers are achieving with virtualization. It is also intended to provide SMBs with benchmarks on how their peers are getting the most from their investments in IT infrastructure. Continue reading to find out the results.

Posted: 28 Sep 2010 | Published: 28 Sep 2010

WHITE PAPER: In this paper we compare a typical Exchange 2003 configuration of 10,000 mailboxes on somewhat legacy hardware with two examples of an Exchange 2010 configuration to show the potential efficiencies attainable by migrating to Exchange 2010 on new server and storage hardware from Dell.

Posted: 22 Sep 2010 | Published: 01 May 2010

WHITE PAPER: This white paper describes the virtualization of a given user workload, and provides a useful sizing guide for enterprise deployments of VMware View™ 4, the VMware software platform for building a virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI) environment.

Posted: 22 Sep 2010 | Published: 22 Sep 2010

WHITE PAPER: IT organizations that find server deployment complex and inefficient are looking at new options, such as HP's BladeSystem Matrix. Using this converged infrastructure approach, organizations can reduce acquisition costs for servers, storage and network infrastructure, while reducing total cost of ownership.

Posted: 20 Sep 2010 | Published: 20 Sep 2010

WHITE PAPER: Read this white paper to learn about how Dell is providing answers to key virtualization questions for the enterprise. Topics include; how to migrate to a fully virtualized environment as well as how the IT infrastructure should be configured for maximum benefit.

Posted: 15 Sep 2010 | Published: 01 Nov 2008

WHITE PAPER: Read this white paper for an examination of a new software development language and technology called SequenceL, as well as a description of how it works, why there is a need for it and how well it performs in parallel environments.

Posted: 08 Sep 2010 | Published: 26 Aug 2010

WHITE PAPER: Read this white paper to learn how Dell ProConsult Services helped develop and implement a flexible, scalable, automated virtualized infrastructure for several companies, allowing them to take advantage of cloud computing and focus on their core business.

Posted: 31 Aug 2010 | Published: 11 Jun 2010

WHITE PAPER: Learn why data protection is the nexus that connects deduplication and virtualisation, how to go about achieving efficient data protection, as well as considerations and concerns to be aware of.

Posted: 31 Aug 2010 | Published: 30 Aug 2010

WHITE PAPER: The decisions of CIOs today are high on the business agenda as they prepare their companies for post-slump growth while continuing major cost reductions. In this paper you'll hear from Steve Schuckenbrock, President, Large Enterprise at Dell, as he discusses the role of the CIO, dilemnas CIOs face today, and much more!

Posted: 30 Aug 2010 | Published: 30 Aug 2010