WHITE PAPER - This Shortcut Guide to Virtualization and IT Service Automation provides an insightful overview of virtualization and IT Service Management. It helps demystify virtualization and helps you determine if virtualization is right for your environment.
Posted: October 10, 2008 | Published: October 10, 2008


Topics:  Data Center Management | Enterprise | Hardware | IT Service Management | ITIL | Network Infrastructure | Server Consolidation | Server Virtualization | Server Virtualization Software | Systems Development Life-cycles | Systems Management Software

WHITE PAPER - Egenera's Processing Area Network (PAN) architecture combines stateless, diskless processing blades with unique virtualization software (PAN Manager) to dramatically reduce data center complexity and deliver an agile, highly-available infrastructure.
Posted: October 10, 2008 | Published: October 10, 2008


Topics:  Blade Servers | Data Center Management | Data Centers | Disaster Planning | Disaster Recovery | ERP | Server Provisioning | Server Virtualization | Server Virtualization Software

WHITE PAPER - The dynamic data center is within reach today, but how it is achieved and how well it performs can vary widely from among the many approaches being offered. This paper looks at the requirements for the dynamic data center and how to get there.
Posted: October 10, 2008 | Published: October 10, 2008


Topics:  Clustering | Data Center Management | Data Centers | Server Virtualization | Server Virtualization Software

WHITE PAPER - The first phase of virtualization - server consolidation- delivers lower costs, less crowded floor space, and a smaller carbon footprint. Leveraging virtualization.
Posted: October 10, 2008 | Published: October 10, 2008


Topics:  Data Center Consolidation | Data Centers | High Availability | Server Virtualization | Server Virtualization Software | TCO

WHITE PAPER - This document is based on a Dell/TechTarget webcast entitled "Storage and Virtualization: Options for Smaller Environments."
Posted: October 3, 2008 | Published: October 3, 2008


Topics:  Email | iSCSI SAN | Networking | Operating Systems | Server Virtualization | Server Virtualization Software | Storage Management

WHITE PAPER - This document explains how Fibre Channel will continue to improve and be an important SAN technology.
Posted: October 1, 2008 | Published: September 30, 2008


Topics:  DAS | Fibre Channel | LAN | NAS | RAID | SAN | Server Virtualization Software | Storage Consolidation | Storage Virtualization

WHITE PAPER - This E-Guide provides tips on using blades and virtualization, details new virtualization product enhancements and offerings and sets the record straight on myths and misconceptions surrounding power, cooling and consolidation.
Posted: October 1, 2008 | Published: September 30, 2008


Topics:  Blade Servers | Cooling Equipment | NAS | Networking | Power Supplies | SAN | Server Virtualization | Server Virtualization Software

WHITE PAPER - One of the biggest challenges today for infrastructure administrators is how to provide a secure environment. This white paper provides administrators with the starting place for designing security into the App-V infrastructure.
Posted: October 1, 2008 | Published: September 30, 2008


Topics:  Best Practices | Configuration Management | IT Infrastructure | Networking | SAN | Security | Server Virtualization | Server Virtualization Software

WHITE PAPER - Want to improve energy efficiency and reduce the carbon footprint in your data center? This report reviews the pulse of today's IT shops, providing insight on common topics and approaches so you can improve performance in your own organization.
Posted: September 30, 2008 | Published: September 30, 2008


Topics:  Asset Management Services | Best Practices | Budgeting | Business Processes | Cooling Equipment | Data Center Management | Data Centers | Power Supplies | Server Virtualization | Server Virtualization Software

WHITE PAPER - Forrester spoke with executives at leading enterprises that have successfully executed IT consolidation efforts. This report provides guidance on how to prioritize and get started with a successful IT consolidation.
Posted: September 24, 2008 | Published: September 24, 2008


Topics:  Capacity Planning | Cooling Equipment | Enterprise | IT Asset Management | IT Spending | Power Supplies | Server Virtualization | Server Virtualization Software | Software Virtualization | Storage Capacity | Storage Infrastructure | Storage Virtualization | Storage Virtualization Software

WHITE PAPER - Adopting a virtualized infrastructure can result in a reduction of up to 35% of total annual server costs per user. This paper describes “basic virtualization,” which refers to basic x86 server consolidation using virtualization software.
Posted: September 24, 2008 | Published: September 24, 2008


Topics:  Architectures | Business Intelligence | Cooling Equipment | ERP | High Availability | Microprocessors | Operating Systems | Power Supplies | Server Hardware | Server Virtualization | Server Virtualization Software | Software Virtualization | Storage Virtualization | Storage Virtualization Software | Systems Management

WHITE PAPER - Read this transcript from an expert Q&A videocast to get key tips on advanced virtualization management and the answers to the most recently asked questions by IT administrators.
Posted: September 23, 2008 | Published: September 23, 2008


Topics:  Blade Servers | Data Center Management | Networking | Remote Access Server Hardware | Remote Network Management | Server Virtualization | Server Virtualization Software

WHITE PAPER - This white paper seeks to help application owners, operations managers and data center managers ensure their virtualization initiatives effectively support applications and end users.
Posted: September 18, 2008 | Published: September 18, 2008


Topics:  Business Continuity Planning | Disaster Recovery | Downtime | Server Consolidation | Server Management | Server Virtualization | Server Virtualization Software

WHITE PAPER - This paper summarizes the benefits and challenges of traditional virtualization strategies, the advantages of Sun's approach, and the core capabilities of the Sun xVM portfolio.
Posted: September 8, 2008 | Published: September 8, 2008


Topics:  Authentication | Data Centers | Disaster Recovery | Interoperability | Server Consolidation | Server Virtualization | Server Virtualization Software | Storage Systems

WHITE PAPER - As enterprises deploy more virtualization solutions that are scattered across the enterprise, managing the technologies is challenging for IT staffs. This paper will outline the unified management of virtualized systems using one management tool.
Posted: July 29, 2008 | Published: November 1, 2006


Topics:  Capacity on Demand | Capacity Planning | Data Integration | Network Infrastructure | Networking | Server Consolidation | Server Virtualization | Server Virtualization Software