Virtual Machine White Papers

WHITE PAPER: Small and medium businesses cannot afford to lose access for their data. Research shows that even brief server failures lead most smaller businesses to shut their doors for good. In light of this, any business should develop a workable backup and disaster recovery plan.

Posted: 04 Jul 2011 | Published: 30 Jun 2011

WHITE PAPER: This document provides guidelines for configuring a standard Windows 7 image to be used within a VMware View™ environment, providing administrators with the information necessary to create a standard image of Windows 7 leveraging the Microsoft Deployment Toolkit or a script-based approach to optimize a traditionally installed Windows 7 VM.

Posted: 21 Jun 2011 | Published: 21 Jun 2011

WHITE PAPER: To extend virtualization to the business-critical and performance-critical applications that are under the ownership of dedicated application support teams, the IT Operations group who owns the virtual environment must provide accurate and credible performance assurances for the virtual infrastructure that will be supporting these applications.

Posted: 13 Jun 2011 | Published: 31 Mar 2011

WHITE PAPER: This study compares the performance and efficiency of several system configurations to determine which configuration is best for processing transactions.

Posted: 09 Jun 2011 | Published: 06 Jun 2011

WHITE PAPER: This ESG white paper confirms that momentum continues to build around server virtualization. Learn about an in-depth survey of 463 senior IT professionals in both large midmarket and enterprise-class organizations in North America and resulting trends.

Posted: 01 Jun 2011 | Published: 01 Jun 2011

WHITE PAPER: Access this white paper to learn how this Quickstart will introduce virtualization to your environment without infrastructure interruptions. Also discover the benefits of Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization and requirements needed to ensure a smooth service delivery process.

Posted: 25 May 2011 | Published: 25 May 2011

WHITE PAPER: This document is designed to give you information about Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization Hypervisor and its many features including large scale consolidation, high performance, storage and networking support and memory management.

Posted: 19 May 2011 | Published: 19 May 2011

WHITE PAPER: Access this white paper to discover a centralized management system that administers and controls all aspects of a virtualized environment, from host and guest management to storage management and high availability. Some of the many features of this virtualization manager include; live migration, power saving, monitoring, system scheduler and more.

Posted: 19 May 2011 | Published: 19 May 2011

WHITE PAPER: A virtualization platform can be very expensive. It's important to consider all costs included in the virtualization process  to ensure a successful virtual environment. Read on to discover how the combination of two Red Hat operating systems will lower your total cost of ownership and increase your infrastructure value

Posted: 19 May 2011 | Published: 19 May 2011

WHITE PAPER: This white paper discusses the benefits of virtual desktops over traditional delivery models and reveals the drawbacks to certain virtual desktop solutions that you may not be aware of.

Posted: 19 May 2011 | Published: 19 May 2011

WHITE PAPER: The virtualization on x86 platforms has been a true game changer for desktop delivery. IT pros can now centrally manage, maintain, and enforce policies on desktops in ways never before possible with traditional desktops. This white paper explores the exact ways that the virtual desktop model can benefit companies.

Posted: 18 May 2011 | Published: 18 May 2011

WHITE PAPER: Development and test is optimally suited for cloud service, given the security and demand variability characteristics of that key workload.  In addition to cost reduction, development team should consider the value cloud services can provide during the development lifecycle, and how cloud can help an organization become more agile and responsive...

Posted: 02 May 2011 | Published: 02 May 2011

WHITE PAPER: IT pros have been virtualizing Notes and Domino on VMware virtual infrastructures for a while now. With recent product releases from IBM, VMware, Intel, and AMD, it is important to understand how these updates can benefit your Domino environment. Explore the top benefits here.

Posted: 29 Apr 2011 | Published: 29 Apr 2011

WHITE PAPER: Managing the IT infrastructure for small and mid-sizedcompanies is a thankless job. People just don’tunderstand the expertise, time and patience required.Kaseya presents the top ten IT management pain pointsand our solution for making your life easier.

Posted: 12 Apr 2011 | Published: 12 Apr 2011

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

WHITE PAPER: In this white paper, we will examine the virtualization issues that challenge today’s data centers and discuss their best options for securing virtual networks.

Posted: 29 Mar 2011 | Published: 28 Mar 2011

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

WHITE PAPER: Intel® Virtualization Technology FlexMigration allows virtualization software vendors to deliver live migration solutions across different generations of Intel® Xeon® processor-based servers. This white paper explains how Intel VT FlexMigration works, including how and why some instructions are masked by the hypervisor while others are not.

Posted: 18 Mar 2011 | Published: 18 Mar 2011

WHITE PAPER: Read this paper to learn how IT professionals can use a proven approach to leverage the benefits of virtualization to reduce costs, improve services and enhance business agility. Continue reading to learn how to accelerate the business value of virtualization.

Posted: 02 Mar 2011 | Published: 02 Mar 2011

WHITE PAPER: For enterprise IT and cloud service providers who need to use their existing data center infrastructure to supply cloud services to their customers, this guide, as part of the Intel® Cloud Builders, provides a comprehensive solution overview that covers technical planning and deployment considerations.

Posted: 24 Feb 2011 | Published: 24 Feb 2011

WHITE PAPER: Successful business leaders know when to increase investment and when to hold cash- when to pursue new markets and when to focus on maintaining their current market position. What is true of investment strategy is also true of the data center: there is a time to scale back or hold steady and there is a time to scale out for future growth.

Posted: 23 Feb 2011 | Published: 23 Feb 2011

WHITE PAPER: This white paper outlines each of these issues, why they are important for SMBs to address and how to resolve them while maximizing business continuity and minimizing IT resources necessary to accomplish the demands of maintaining Windows servers.

Posted: 18 Feb 2011 | Published: 18 Feb 2011

WHITE PAPER: This white paper outlines each of these issues, why they are important for SMBs to address and how to resolve them while maximizing business continuity and minimizing IT resources necessary to accomplish the demands of backing up and recovering Windows desktops and laptops in your environment.

Posted: 18 Feb 2011 | Published: 18 Feb 2011

WHITE PAPER: This paper provides an overview of a reference architecture prepared by Red Hat that fully documents how to build your own private cloud.

Posted: 15 Feb 2011 | Published: 09 Feb 2011

WHITE PAPER: Red Hat's suite of open source software provides a rich infrastructure for cloud providers to build public/private cloud offerings. This Volume 1 guide for deploying the Red Hat infrastructure for a private cloud describes the foundation for building a Red Hat Private cloud.

Posted: 15 Feb 2011 | Published: 10 Feb 2011