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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...; Tags: Virtual Data Center, Dell Computer Corp., Dell EqualLogic, Microsoft Corp., Data Center Virtualization, Server Virtualization, Virtualization, Cloud Computing, Servers, Storage, Hardware, Data Centers, Data Management; White papers 2009-11-04
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...; Tags: Virtual Data Center, Dell Computer Corp., Webcast, Microsoft Windows Server, Dell EqualLogic, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Windows Server 2008, Data Center Virtualization, Microsoft Windows, Servers, Operating Systems, Software, Storage, Hardware, Data Centers, Data Management, Virtualization; Webcasts 2009-11-03
GroundWork Monitor 6.0 offers new view into virtual data center: GroundWork is a leading open source systems and network provider and recently enhanced its platform with JBoss and Microsoft System Center support. That's not all. Â GroundWork Monitor 6.0, which shipped on September 2, offers a new "Seurat" view designed to allow administrators to access the status and...; Tags: Virtual Data Center, Performance, Dashboard, Microsoft Corp., JBoss, GroundWork, Data Center Virtualization, Virtualization, Performance Management, Open Source, Storage, Hardware, Data Centers, Data Management, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Paula Rooney; Blog posts 2009-10-01
Consulting Expertise for the Virtual Data Center - Accelerating Your Journey to the Private Cloud: Many organizations today want to do more than just virtualize their applications - they want to fundamentally transform how IT operates so they can deploy applications faster to get to market before the competition. Private cloud computing delivers the provisioning speed of virtualization and the flexible choice of consuming internal...; Tags: Virtual Data Center, Provisioning, Consulting, EMC Corp., Data Center Virtualization, Virtualization, Storage, Hardware, Data Centers, Data Management; Webcasts 2009-09-03
Securing the Virtual Data Center With RSA, the Security Division of EMC: Virtualization delivers tremendous flexibility in how IT resources are deployed and used - resulting in operational and cost efficiency. The presenter will give an outline of the common security risks in virtual environments, and the attendee will learn practical security guidelines that mitigate these risks. The attendee will find out...; Tags: Virtual Data Center, RSA Security Inc., EMC Corp., Storage, Security, Hardware; Webcasts 2009-08-27

Managing the Virtualized Data Center: Virtualization is not just a consolidation technology. With a new approach to people, process, and technology, it can be the catalyst to change data center management once and for all. As one move to a virtualized environment, he/she will be faced with new management challenges and will need tools that...; Tags: Virtual Data Center, Information Technology, EMC Corp., Data Centers, Storage, Virtualization, Cloud Computing, Storage Management, Utility Computing, Hardware, Data Management; Webcasts 2009-07-16
A Cost-Effective Approach to Increasing Protection With EMC SRDF Extended Distance Protection: The attendee of this webcast will learn more about Symmetrix V-Max, the new Symmetrix Virtual Matrix Architecture, and powerful new software capabilities that accelerate the transition to a virtual data center infrastructure.; Tags: EMC Symmetrix, Virtual Data Center, EMC SRDF, EMC Corp., Data Center Virtualization, Storage, Virtualization, Storage Management, Hardware, Data Centers, Data Management; Webcasts 2009-06-24
Security for the Cloud Infrastructure: Trusted Virtual Data Center Implementation: The Trusted Virtual Data Center TVDc is a technology developed to address the need for strong isolation and integrity guarantees in virtualized environments. In this paper, the author extends previous work on the TVDc by implementing controlled access to networked storage based on security labels and by implementing management prototypes...; Tags: Security, Integrity, Virtual Data Center, IBM Corp., Trusted Virtual Data Center, Data Center Virtualization, Virtualization, Storage, Hardware, Data Centers, Data Management; White papers 2009-06-19
Growing Your VMware Deployments With EMC Symmetrix V-Max: The attendee of this webcast will learn more about Symmetrix V-Max, the new Symmetrix Virtual Matrix Architecture, and powerful new software capabilities that accelerate the transition to a virtual data center infrastructure.; Tags: EMC Symmetrix, Virtual Data Center, VMware Inc., EMC Corp., Data Center Virtualization, Storage Management, Storage, Virtualization, Hardware, Data Centers, Data Management; Webcasts 2009-06-11
Cisco rallies channel to target virtualized data centers: Cisco said today that it will "grow, motivate and evolve" its channel partners as a way of turbo-boosting the adoption of virtualized data centers. At its partner summit, the company announced plans to expand its partner profitability program and launch IT certification training, as well as an expansion of its...; Tags: Virtual Data Center, Data Center, Cisco Systems Inc., Data Centers, Storage, Hardware, Data Management, Sam Diaz; Blog posts 2009-06-03
Breaking Through Physical Boundaries With EMC Symmetrix Virtual Matrix Architecture: The attendee of this webcast will learn more about Symmetrix V-Max, the new Symmetrix Virtual Matrix Architecture, and powerful new software capabilities that accelerate the transition to a virtual data center infrastructure.; Tags: EMC Symmetrix, Virtual Data Center, EMC Corp., Data Center Virtualization, Storage Management, Storage, Hardware, Data Centers, Data Management, Virtualization; Webcasts 2009-05-28
Enabling the Virtual Data Center: Simple, Affordable Virtualized iSCSI Storage for Microsoft Windows Server 2008 Hyper-V Environments: Virtualization has become an essential data center technology, allowing IT administrators to consolidate server infrastructure and reduce costs while enhancing service levels. Today, many organizations are advancing toward the next step, which is to couple storage virtualization with server virtualization in a highly available, scalable, and manageable environment. Building the...; Tags: Storage Virtualization, Virtual Data Center, iSCSI, Data Center, Microsoft Windows Server, Environment, Microsoft Windows Server 2008 Hyper-V, Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Windows Server 2008, Data Centers, Server Virtualization, Storage, Virtualization, Ip storage, Cloud Computing, Storage Management, Servers, Hardware, Data Management; White papers 2009-05-08
VMware Infrastructure: A Guide to Bottom-Line Benefits: Frustrated by the costs of maintain ever larger data centers—or building new ones—many companies are exploring virtualization. Virtualization lets your IT staff turn your data center into an internal cloud of computing resources controlled by a single virtual data center operating system (VDC-OS). Because the VDC-OS seamlessly aggregates network resources,...; Tags: Virtual Data Center, Data Center, VMware Inc., Data Centers, Virtualization, Data Center Virtualization, Cloud Computing, Storage Management, Utility Computing, Roi/Tco, Storage, Hardware, Data Management, Finance, Managerial Accounting; White papers 2009-05-01
Information-Centric Security for the Virtual Data Center: Marrying the flexibility and agility of virtualization with the needs of the contemporary enterprise for information security, privacy and compliance demands that more intelligence and decision-making around security be embedded in the infrastructure itself. RSA's risk-based approach helps customers ensure security and compliance without sacrificing the operational flexibility and mobility...; Tags: Virtual Data Center, RSA Security Inc., Cloud Computing, Virtualization, Storage Management, Utility Computing, Security, Hardware, Storage; White papers 2009-05-01
Benefits of a Virtualized Data Center: Server virtualization is one of the hottest trends in the IT industry today. Server virtualization has its roots in the IBM mainframe world of the 60s, had a rebirth in the late 90s, and finally came of age in 2007. Since that coming of age, the market penetration of server...; Tags: Virtual Data Center, Benefit, Spectrum, Peak 10 Software, Server Virtualization, Virtualization, Servers, Hardware; White papers 2009-04-20
NetApp SANscreen: Optimizing the Virtualized Data Center: Today's business environment is more challenging than ever before. Global market conditions are subject to rapid change while compliance and regulation issues continue to be more demanding on IT. In order to be more responsive to the business, organizations are looking to create greater efficiencies and drive more accountability for...; Tags: Virtual Data Center, NetApp Inc., Data Center, Enterprise Strategy Group, Market Condition, Data Centers, Data Center Virtualization, Web 2.0, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Storage, Hardware, Data Management, Virtualization, Internet, Web Services, Enterprise Software, Software; White papers 2009-04-01
Innovations Behind Cisco Unified Computing System: The Cisco Unified Computing System unites network, compute, and virtualization resources into a seamless system, simplifying setup, improving business results, and enabling just-in-time resource provisioning. A Unified Computing Architecture allows customers to scale their virtualized data center resources, supporting business services faster, dynamically, and more efficiently. This whitepaper describes the...; Tags: Innovation, Virtual Data Center, Cisco Systems Inc., Cisco Unified Computing System, Unified Computing Architecture, Data Center Virtualization, Storage, Hardware, Data Centers, Data Management, Virtualization; White papers 2009-03-16
Effectively Securing Virtualized Data Centers: How an Identity-Aware Network Can Accelerate Server Virtualization Benefits: For security directors at large organizations, securing virtualized data centers is a major concern. Server virtualization offers several benefits including better total cost of ownership, increased operational efficiencies and more flexible management capabilities. But server virtualization may also increase security risks. Virtual machines VMs themselves are no less secure than...; Tags: Aware, Virtual Data Center, Network, Identity, Apani Networks, Server Virtualization, Virtualization, Cloud Computing, Data Center Virtualization, Servers, Hardware, Storage, Data Centers, Data Management; White papers 2009-02-07
Enabling The Virtual Data Center: Virtualization has become an essential data center technology, allowing IT administrators to consolidate server infrastructure and reduce costs while enhancing service levels. Today, many organizations are advancing toward the next step, which is to couple storage virtualization with server virtualization in a highly available, scalable, and manageable environment. Building the...; Tags: Storage Virtualization, Virtual Data Center, Data Center, Data Centers, Server Virtualization, Storage, Virtualization, Ip storage, Cloud Computing, Storage Management, Servers, Hardware, Data Management; White papers 2009-01-01
Automated Disaster Recovery for the Virtualized Data Center: Delivering a Real-Time Infrastructure With Process Automation: This white paper outlines a solution to disaster recovery that combines both technology and process improvement approaches and recognizes that neither alone is sufficient. It addresses the impact of virtualization technology on workload portability and the benefits as well as the remaining operational challenges of the flexibility provided by virtualization....; Tags: Process Automation, Virtual Data Center, Virtualization, Disaster Recovery, Data Management; White papers 2008-09-01