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- Vmware-Disaster Recovery Solutions from Vmware
- VMware Infrastructure transforms disaster recovery by providing you rapid, reliable and cost-effective disaster recovery: • Makes disaster recovery affordable through consolidation savings and re-use of existing servers for your disaster recovery site • Provides rapid recovery that is hardware independent, simpler to backup...
- Tags: VMware Inc., VMware Infrastructure, Disaster Recovery, Data Management
- White papers 2008-11-05
- Building the Virtualized Enterprise With VMware Infrastructure
- IT organizations are still grappling with the legacy of the IT explosion of the 1990s, which left many of them with high costs, slow response times, and an inconsistently managed infrastructure. VMware Infrastructure allows IT teams to continuously consolidate workloads to maximize server utilization and decrease operational costs. It allows...
- Tags: Information Technology, Intel X86, VMware Inc., EMC Corp., IT Organization, VMware Infrastructure, Strategy, Servers, Management, Hardware
- White papers 2008-04-23
- Accelerate Oracle DB 10g Creation and Deployment Using VMware Infrastructure and EMC Celerra Writeable Checkpoints
- VMware Infrastructure provides a great framework for creating and deploying encapsulated virtual machines. The benefits include cost savings, improved manageability, added flexibility, and shortened service time, among many others. VMware Infrastructure has proven to be the ideal architecture for many business applications such as Oracle. This paper described a process...
- Tags: EMC Celerra, Oracle Corp., VMware Inc., EMC Corp., VMware Infrastructure, Virtualization, Storage, Hardware
- White papers 2008-03-01
- Application Performance Testing in VMware Environments: Identify and Control Performance and Capacity Risks
- VMware Infrastructure allows IT organizations to consolidate underutilized servers, reduce power consumption, improve agility in introducing new business services, and improve disaster recovery and business continuity planning. It does so by introducing a level of abstraction between the underlying hardware and the operating system that run the business applications. This...
- Tags: Hewlett-Packard Co., Performance, Environment, VMware Inc., Hardware, Abstraction, VMware Infrastructure
- White papers 2007-10-01
- VMware offers virtualization as a service
- VMware launched a new program to enlist service providers to deliver virtualized server infrastructure as a hosted service. It's a natural step for companies that want to move to a utility computing, capacity on demand model, which can provide improved levels of reliability, scalability and cost efficiency. Hosting providers can...
- Tags: VMware, virtualization, Utility computing, IT Management, Hardware Infrastructure, Datacenter
- Blog posts 2007-06-05
- Security Design of the VMware Infrastructure 3 Architecture
- VMware Infrastructure is the most widely deployed software suite for optimizing and managing IT environments through virtualization - from the desktop to the data center. The only production-ready virtualization suite, VMware Infrastructure is proven at more than 20,000 customers of all sizes, used in a wide variety of environments and...
- Tags: Security, VMware Inc., VMware Infrastructure, Virtualization, Hardware
- White papers 2007-02-15
- VMware Infrastructure Architecture Overview
- VMware Infrastructure is the industry's first full infrastructure virtualization suite that allows enterprises and small businesses alike to transform, manage and optimize their IT systems infrastructure through virtualization. VMware Infrastructure delivers comprehensive virtualization, management, resource optimization, application availability and operational automation capabilities in an integrated offering. With a whole suite...
- Tags: VMware Inc., VMware Infrastructure, Virtualization, Cloud Computing, Storage Management, Utility Computing, Hardware, Storage
- White papers 2006-09-06
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- 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...
- Tags: CIO, Cloud Computing, Virtualization, Hardware, cloud, Indu Kodukula
- News items 2009-11-17
- Planning for Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery Using CA Recovery Management Solutions and VMware vSphere Cloud Operating Systems for High Availability
- Today, IT organizations face significant growth of mission-critical business processes and services, fueling two parallel trends. One is the increase in the deployment of new applications and the IT infrastructure required to support them, in ways that are economical, flexible, fast and well managed. The other is an increase in...
- Tags: Recovery Management Corp., Operating System, CA XOSoft, High Availability, VMware Inc., Computer Associates International Inc., Business Continuity, Disaster Recovery, It Services, Data Management
- White papers 2009-11-17
- Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery with CA Recovery Management and VMware Infrastructure
- The expansion of IT systems to support the growth of mission-critical business processes and services is fueling two parallel trends. One is the increase in the deployment of new applications and the provision of access to them and their information in ways that are economical, flexible, fast and well managed....
- Tags: Recovery Management Corp., CA XOSoft, VMware Inc., Computer Associates International Inc., Business Continuity, Disaster Recovery, It Services, Data Management
- White papers 2009-11-17
- 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...
- Tags: Linux, Microsoft Windows, Operating systems, UNIX, Servers, Virtualization, server virtualization, VMwear, server
- 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...
- Tags: Linux, software cost, Linux Distro, open source, operating system, Microsoft Corp.
- Discussion threads 2009-11-05
- VMware vSphere: Troubleshooting [V4]
- View Available Dates and LocationsThis advanced, lab-intensive course focuses on providing system administrators with the advanced knowledge, skills, and abilities to successfully troubleshoot the VMware® vSphere virtual infrastructure. In this course, you will spend most of the time diagnosing and rectifying configuration problems created on VMware ESX/ESXi hosts and VMware...
- Tags: VMware Inc., Virtualization, Hardware
- Training 2009-11-01
- Windows XP Mode Q and A
- 7/Vista incompatible "Drivers" on XP modeMy otherwise perfectly working HP printer, Logitech webcam, and an analog microphone failed to work with Vista since the hardware vendors won't provide updated drivers while the older ones resulted in BSODs. Can these be made to work by installing the drivers into XP...
- Tags: Microsoft Windows XP, XP Mode, Microsoft Windows
- Discussion threads 2009-10-20
- Windows 7 puts Vista into perspective: Only a 'failure' in retrospect
- The fault lies with MS and Driver manufacturersWe don't criticize macs because they are a package deal, with a price premium to match so they generally work just fine. We don't call for witch hunts of Linux distro's because we expect to have problems and tweaks with Linux, plus it's...
- Tags: Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Operating systems, UNIX, OPEN SOURCE, COMPANIES, Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Windows 7, Microsoft Windows Vista, Linux, Microsoft Corp., Apple Macintosh, Linux Distro, operating system
- Discussion threads 2009-10-19
- With AppSense, making sense of managing the virtual desktop user experience
- As more enterprises turn to virtual desktop infrastructure to save money and leverage the infrastructure they already have, managing the user experience has become critical. But how do you maintain standardization across large organizations while keeping the user happy at each log on? AppSense...
- Tags: AppSense, Virtual Desktop, Desktop Virtualization, Virtualization, Desktops, Hardware, Andrew Nusca
- Blog posts 2009-10-12
- New Eaton UPS line offers VoIP power protection while creating less heat
- Power technology company Eaton has expanded its Eaton 5130 line of uninterruptible power supplies with 1000, 1500 and 2200 VA models. The equipment is designed for the needs of Voice over Internet Protocol VoIP equipment and EDGE/3G/WiMax wireless networking systems. They all come with a three-year limited warranty.One of the...
- Tags: Equipment, Wireless Networking, Telephony, VOIP, Wi-Fi, Telecommunications, Wireless And Mobility, Networking, Heather Clancy
- Blog posts 2009-09-28
- A close-up look at the new Office Web Apps
- Looks like 'View and correct', rather than 'Create and maintain'Basically, it looks like Office Web Apps is for viewing and minor editing, but not risking breaking Office docs.Ok... So it's definitely a version 1.0 product. Meanwhile, Office 2007 is the 6th version since Windows 95. It's also still a BETA...
- Tags: Tools & Techniques, Virtualization, cloud computing, OPEN SOURCE, Office Web Apps, Microsoft Office, Office Web, VMware Inc., software, Web application, new Office Web App, Microsoft Corp.
- Discussion threads 2009-09-20
- Change Reporter for VMware 2.0.45 (Windows)
- The freeware reporting tool for change management of your virtual infrastructure. Reports changes to virtual hardware, configuration of ESX servers, resource pools, clusters, and other virtual and physical objects. The tool sends a daily report, outlining all changes made to virtual infrastructure, including previous values of configuration settings. You can...
- Tags: Microsoft Windows, VMware Inc., Infrastructure, Change Management, Virtualization, Business Intelligence, Ip storage, Leadership, Tools & Techniques, Management, Hardware, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management
- Software downloads 2009-09-16
- VMware and NetApp Virtualization: The Right Investment for a Tough Economy
- The presenters of this webcast discuss how VMware virtualization can provide the company a competitive cost advantage, and the various ways to reduce costs and gain efficiencies in the datacenter. The attendee will also discover why NetApp is the essential storage platform for VMware, and how NetApp can help to...
- Tags: NetApp Inc., Investment, VMware Inc., Virtualization, Storage, Hardware
- Webcasts 2009-09-15
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