IT Systems Management: Exploiting the Infrastructure for Business Value
| sponsored by CA
WHITE PAPER:
Managing in a virtualised environment has a number of specific and unique challenges, and these are as much about having a tool as they are about having well-defined IT processes and procedures.
Posted: 08 Jan 2009 | Published: 08 Jan 2008
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Configuration Control for Virtual and Physical Infrastructures with Tripwire ConfigCheck
| sponsored by Tripwire, Inc.
TRIAL SOFTWARE:
Check out this free IT download of Tripwire's ConfigCheck and experience the benefits of greater security for VMware's ESX hypervisor.
Posted: 08 Jan 2009 | Published: 31 Jul 2008
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How to Secure and Manage Virtual Servers
| sponsored by Tripwire, Inc.
VIDEOCAST:
Virtualization is a hot topic for IT departments, but for all its benefits, it raises a lot of security and management concerns that have gone largely unaddressed. In this videocast, gain insight into some of the key issues surrounding virtualization.
Posted: 08 Jan 2009 | Premiered: 10 Jan 2008
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VMware Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI) Acceleration: Technology and Best Practices
| sponsored by Cisco Systems, Inc.
WEBCAST:
VMware Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI) acceleration has become increasingly important, because most desktop users work remotely from the data center and are likely to experience availability, security, and performance issues.
Posted: 07 Jan 2009 | Premieres: 22 Jan 2009, 11:00 EST (16:00 GMT)
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Application Delivery Challenge
| sponsored by Akamai Technologies
WHITE PAPER:
This report explains various topics like: The critical role of an ADC in the data center, Foundry Serveriron application delivery controller, transforming data center into a dynamic delivery center and managed services to complement ADC.
Posted: 30 Dec 2008 | Published: 30 Dec 2008
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eGuide: Channel Success Story: Managed Services
| sponsored by Dell PartnerDirect and Intel
EGUIDE:
This Channel Success Story gives you insight into how B Resource has been able to grow its business without growing its staff, and it provides practical advice and guidance from a company that has achieved spectacular results.
Posted: 30 Dec 2008 | Published: 23 Dec 2008
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Erasing storage pain points in virtualization
| sponsored by NetApp
VIDEO:
This Q&A videocast from VMworld 2008 offers proven best practices to address the storage and network administration challenges that accompany a virtualization implementation. Learn about common problems and policies that can solve them.
Posted: 29 Dec 2008 | Premiered: 29 Dec 2008
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Virtual Data Center eZine - Volume 6
| sponsored by VMware, Inc.
EZINE:
This issue demystifies some of the magic behind virtualization, examining virtual lab management planning best practices and physical-to-virtual migration.
Posted: 23 Dec 2008 | Published: 16 Dec 2008
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NetApp and VMware Virtual Infrastructure 3 Storage Best Practices
| sponsored by NetApp
WHITE PAPER:
This technical report reviews the best practices for implementing VMware® Virtual Infrastructure on NetApp fabric-attached storage (FAS) systems.
Posted: 19 Dec 2008 | Published: 19 Dec 2008
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Inquiry Spotlight: Server Virtualization, Q3 2008
| sponsored by NetApp
WHITE PAPER:
Out of all 220 inquiries Forrester's IT infrastructure and operations team answered on data centers, servers, and virtual appliances in 2008 to date, 72 were specifically in regard to server virtualization.
Posted: 19 Dec 2008 | Published: 19 Dec 2008
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Total Cost Comparison: Storage Solutions in Enterprise VMware Environments
| sponsored by NetApp
WHITE PAPER:
This study explains the impact of power, cooling, space considerations on VMware storage deployments and the estimates for cost of downtime in order to ensure validity for all types of environments.
Posted: 19 Dec 2008 | Published: 19 Dec 2008
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Secrets to Shrinking Your Storage for VMware
| sponsored by NetApp
WHITE PAPER:
This brief looks at the challenge of harnessing storage growth within growing VMware environments, based on input from third parties, analysts, as well as current VMware users.
Posted: 19 Dec 2008 | Published: 19 Dec 2008
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Presentation Transcript: Storage Virtualisation - Making Virtual Backups Real
| sponsored by Data Domain
PRESENTATION TRANSCRIPT:
This document is based on a DataDomain/TechTarget webcast entitled "Making Virtual Backups Real" where Curtis Preston discusses server virtualization and backups.
Posted: 18 Dec 2008 | Published: 18 Dec 2008
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Tideway Foundation ™ Community Edition 7.1.7
| sponsored by Tideway Systems
TRIAL SOFTWARE:
Tideway automatically maps physical and virtual servers, applications and dependencies to provide an actionable baseline of your infrastructure. This 360-degree view of the IT estate helps take cost and risk out of critical data center projects.
Posted: 18 Dec 2008 | Published: 18 Dec 2008
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The Backup Exec Challenge: Does Your Backup Stack Up
| sponsored by Symantec Corporation
SOFTWARE DEMO:
Does your backup stack up to Backup Exec 12.5? Take the challenge and answer six quick questions to learn the answer today.
Posted: 18 Dec 2008 | Published: 18 Dec 2008
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Finding the ‘Right Fit' for Protecting Virtual Machine Workloads
| sponsored by Symantec Corporation
WHITE PAPER:
Read this paper to learn how Symantec NetBackup enables new capabilities in data protection and addresses some drawbacks of server virtualization by delivering solutions that match requirements and workloads in various virtualization deployment scenarios.
Posted: 18 Dec 2008 | Published: 18 Dec 2008
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The SAP Virtualization Ecosystem
| sponsored by VMware and Intel
PRESENTATION TRANSCRIPT:
This paper discusses the options available to you for virtualizing SAP, the big cost savings you can expect from virtualization, and why you should go virtual right away.
Posted: 18 Dec 2008 | Published: 18 Dec 2008
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STORServer Best Practices for Protecting VMware Virtual Machines
| sponsored by STORServer
WHITE PAPER:
This paper explains alternative methods for backing up virtual machines.
Posted: 18 Dec 2008 | Published: 18 Dec 2008
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eGuide: Hyper-V - What You Need to Know before Getting Started
| sponsored by Dell and Microsoft
EGUIDE:
In this E-Guide learn how Microsoft Hyper-V fits into the server virtualization landscape, with insight on exactly what Hyper-V has to offer, and analysis of how the Microsoft technology stacks up against the competition.
Posted: 17 Dec 2008 | Published: 17 Dec 2008
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eGuide: Meshing Virtual Machine and Physical Systems Management
| sponsored by Dell and Microsoft
EGUIDE:
This paper explains, how to provide adequate network redundancy and isolation, adaptive automation practices for high availability and the best tools to eliminate separate virtual and physical management structures.
Posted: 17 Dec 2008 | Published: 17 Dec 2008
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eGuide: Hyper-V - Microsoft's Approach to Server Virtualization
| sponsored by Dell and Microsoft
EGUIDE:
In this informative E-Guide learn specifically how Hyper-V is designed to meet high availability requirements, how this technology is being used at the hardware level, role of a 64-bit operating system with virtualization and more.
Posted: 17 Dec 2008 | Published: 17 Dec 2008
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eGuide: A Guide to Virtualization Ready Servers
| sponsored by Dell and Microsoft
EGUIDE:
This expert E-Guide from the writers at SearchServerVirtualization.com brings you up-to- date on the latest virtualization developments and explains how they can benefit your IT shop.
Posted: 17 Dec 2008 | Published: 17 Dec 2008
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Converting Linux and Windows Physical and Virtual Machines to Oracle VM Virtual Machines
| sponsored by Oracle Corporation
WHITE PAPER:
This document describes the virtual machine conversion functions built into Oracle VM in Release 2.1.2, and how you can plan and execute the virtual machine conversions using Oracle VM.
Posted: 17 Dec 2008 | Published: 17 Dec 2008
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Virtual Data Center eZine - Volume 6
| sponsored by Virtual Data Center eZine - Volume 6
EZINE:
This expert e-zine shows you how lacking a solid plan can sabotage your virtualization implementation. Read on for proven best practices for virtual lab management planning and physical-to-virtual migrations.
Posted: 16 Dec 2008 | Published: 16 Dec 2008
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Case Study: Hitachi Breathes New Life into Critical Applications at UHC
| sponsored by Hitachi Data Systems
CASE STUDY:
After outgrowing its storage infrastructure, University HealthSystem Consortium partnered with Hitachi Data Systems to deploy a virtualized, tiered storage environment. Learn how UHC achieved such dramatic results by reading this end user case study.
Posted: 16 Dec 2008 | Published: 16 Dec 2008
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