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- HP Data Center Management Architecture: Adaptive Infrastructure Supply Chain
- Infrastructure virtualization has provided significant benefits to IT - allowing resource utilization to increase significantly and reducing the cost of many time consuming steps in the deployment lifecycle. This white paper introduces the next step beyond infrastructure virtualization: Infrastructure provided as a service inventory, allocated on order as in a...
- White papers 2009-06-01
- Citrix Desktop Virtualization
- Infrastructure virtualization is a powerful trend in the industry nowadays, but the concept of virtualization has been around for many years. Virtualization technology has been pursued by vendors as a framework to divide the resources of a computer into multiple execution environments using a variety of hardware and software abstraction...
- White papers 2006-09-28
- SmartPeak WLM With HP BladeSystem and VMware ESX Server - Dynamic Workload Management in a Virtual Environment
- Infrastructure virtualization is changing the IT landscape and has become a cornerstone of strategies such as the HP Adaptive Enterprise and the Microsoft Dynamic Systems Initiative. Tools such as SmartPeak WLM is a key to the successful implementation of a virtual infrastructure. This white paper outlines the capabilities of SmartPeak...
- White papers 2006-05-01
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- Responding to "Getting started with Virtualization"
- Importance of VirtualizationWe?ve found that server and storage virtualization can provide huge savings in maintenance, power and cooling, allowing you to take advantage of under-utilized hardware. The key is in developing a plan that can save you money and provide ?green benefits? to the environment as well.We recently did a...
- Discussion threads 2009-12-03
- Intel vs. AMD still isn't a fair fight
- There are more hindrances to AMD’s ability to penetrate the market with its Opteron CPUs; and Intel’s not a fault this time. In an earlier blog post on the AMD-Intel settlement I brought up an example of a type of incompatibility that exists between the two CPU makers that isn’t...
- Blog posts 2009-12-01
- Does virtualization equal cloud computing?
- I would say yesThere is no need to buy 'stand alone' servers any longer in functionality when you can put it in a Blade 'name your flavor' chassis.Virtualization with VMware/RHEL or some vendor is the best way to get it off bare-metal...Doing baremetal rebuilds is time consuming and it takes...
- Discussion threads 2009-11-25
- FAA hit with network glitch; Flight plans go manual
- Another glitch with a linux network? Its hard to believe people still use it for anything critical like the FAA and flight tracking. Its a toy OS and should not be used when the lives of people are dependent upon it.Cisco supplies the network backboneIt will be interesting to see...
- Discussion threads 2009-11-19
- Reduce Cost and Improve Service Levels with Application Performance Monitoring Simplification
- Organizations are feeling the pressure of economic uncertainty. They strive to closely align IT infrastructure to the business and also face challenges to reduce costs. While virtually every IT organization has multiple management solutions in place, the unfortunate truth is that most companies are struggling to develop a product mix...
- Webcasts 2009-11-19
- Next year is THE year for cloud computing
- Here is what Indu Kodukula, CTO of SunGard Availability Services thinks how cloud computing is likely to transform the computing industry landscape in 2010. Commentary - Yogi Berra had it right - it?s difficult to make predictions, especially about the future. It?s especially difficult...
- News items 2009-11-17
- Adopting Server Virtualization for Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery
- In today's competitive business environment, your IT infrastructure must accommodate rapidly changing business needs and unforeseen problems with minimal impact on day-to-day operations. But this level of flexibility, scalability, and high availability can be expensive and difficult to deploy and maintain, especially for small and midsize businesses. No matter what...
- White papers 2009-11-17
- Hey, You, Get Off of My Cloud: Exploring Information Leakage in Third-Party Compute Clouds
- Third-party cloud computing represents the promise of out-sourcing as applied to computation. Services, such as Microsoft's Azure and Amazon's EC2, allow users to instantiate Virtual Machines VMs on demand and thus purchase precisely the capacity they require when they require it. In turn, the use of virtualization allows third-party cloud...
- White papers 2009-11-13
- Yes, Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization 3.0 will run on Linux
- Red Hat created a bit of stir recently when it shipped its Enterprise Virtualization for Servers product because the management component runs on a Window server. Â That's right -- no Linux support. The platform is an enhancement of the former Qumranet's KVM-based platform, which was designed for...
- Blog posts 2009-11-11
- The real pros and cons of server virtualization
- YepVMwear is starting to look like Windoze - adding unneeded functionality just because it can. Moving VMs around from server to server live - is COOL. But why do you need it? If you are on a consolidation binge and utilization is king, then there will be no "extra" capacity...
- Discussion threads 2009-11-07
- Open source needs successful champions
- Open Source powers the Internet period!Open_Source powers the ENTIRE Internet withrouters/switches/servers you name it like Microsoft sitting behind caching Linux distroname servers.Now you tell me what does it need now???It is the FUTURE of smart devices, appliancedriven infrastructure, just like VMware using a Linux derived kernel and it is #1...
- Discussion threads 2009-11-05
- Power Solutions Article:Â A Smart Path to Virtualization
- As server virtualization continues to transform the data center, enterprises have some critical decisions to make. How will they migrate to a fully virtualized environment? How should the IT infrastructure be configured for maximum business benefit? Dell is partnering with other industry leaders to build a flexible, industry-standard approach that...
- White papers 2009-11-04
- Solution Brief: Dell Equalogic PS Series Can Offer Robust, High-Availability Infrastructure for Microsoft's 2008 R2 HYPER-V
- Virtualization has become a popular IT strategy for enhancing hardware utilization, helping organizations decrease power, cooling, and data center footprint costs, and enhance the flexibility of IT. While virtualization can offer a wide range of IT benefits, running multiple applications on each physical server can place availability at risk. If...
- White papers 2009-11-04
- Power Solutions Article:Â Power Solutions Article: Advancing Integration of Microsoft Hyper-V and Dell EqualLogic Virtualized SANs
- An enterprise-class storage infrastructure is essential for organizations transitioning to a virtualized data center. Dell™ EqualLogic™ PS Series Internet SCSI iSCSI storage area network SAN arrays enable advanced integration with the robust server virtualization offered by the Microsoft® Windows Server® 2008 Hyper-V™ virtualization platform—offering the storage foundation for a comprehensive...
- White papers 2009-11-04
- Solutions Brief:Â Dell EqualLogic PS Series and Microsoft WS2008 Hyper-V:Â Enabling The Next Generation Virtualized Data Center
- Server virtualization is one of the most significant technology trends in IT environments today, and a key enabler of the next generation virtualized data center. Server virtualization relies on hypervisors to provide the abstraction layer between the operating systems and the physical hardware, allowing IT administrators the ability to consolidate...
- White papers 2009-11-04
- Survey: Virtualization and physical infrastructures need to be managed in tandem
- Virtualization is seen as a key enabling technology. But on its own it does not address the most important operational and management challenges in a shared infrastructure. by Dana Gardner
- Blog posts 2009-11-03
- Live Webcast: Enhanced Availability in a Virtual Data Center with the Dell PS Series and Microsoft Windows Server 2008 R2 Hyper-V
- Microsoft® Windows® Server 2008 R2 Hyper-V™ introduces new capabilities designed to deliver high availability for virtualized environments. To capitalize on these capabilities, organizations must design an infrastructure that includes a robust, reliable shared-storage solution with built-in redundancy and tight integration of virtualization management capabilities. Join this live...
- Webcasts 2009-11-03
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