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Best Practices Guide: Network Convergence With Emulex LP21000 CNA & VMware ESX Server
January 31, 2009, 12:00am PST
Fibre Channel over Ethernet (FCoE) technology enables convergence of storage and LAN networks in enterprise data centers. The key benefits of the technology include cost savings and improved...
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VMware View 3: Designing a Scalable Server and Storage Architecture With VMware Infrastructure 3, Dell EqualLogic PS5000XV, and Dell PowerEdge 2950 Servers
November 1, 2008, 12:00am PDT
This paper describes the results of work done by VMware in conjunction with Dell to create a scalable server and storage architecture for VMware View environments. The configuration presented here...
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Java in Virtual Machines on VMware ESX: Best Practices
June 16, 2009, 12:00am PDT
This paper discusses best practices for running Java-based software in VMware ESX virtual machines. These guidelines will help to get the best from the Java applications and application servers...
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Performance of Virtual Desktops in a VMware Infrastructure 3 Environment
January 13, 2009, 12:00am PST
The benefits of virtualization for enterprise servers have been well documented. These include reduced hardware, power, and cooling costs; improved manageability; and higher availability....
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Using IP Multicast With VMware ESX 3.5
November 5, 2008, 12:00am PST
IP multicast is a popular protocol implemented in many applications for simultaneously and efficiently delivering information to multiple destinations. Multicast sources send single copies of...
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VMware Distributed Power Management Concepts and Use
March 11, 2010, 12:00am PST
Consolidation of physical servers into virtual machines that share host physical resources can result in significant reductions in the costs associated with hardware maintenance and power...
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VMware Consolidated Backup - Partner Integration Guide
July 1, 2009, 12:00am PDT
VMware Consolidated Backup provides a centralized backup facility for virtual machines that works in conjunction with many leading backup software providers. It enables third party backup software...
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Virtual Appliances: A New Paradigm for Software Delivery
September 12, 2008, 12:00am PDT
With the advent of virtualization, the industry was in need of a new software delivery system that leveraged all the benefits of virtual infrastructures. The current approach to software delivery...
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Best Practices Guide: Emulex Virtual HBA Solutions and VMware ESX Server 3.5
July 1, 2008, 12:00am PDT
IT organizations are turning more and more to VMware Virtual Infrastructure 3 (VI3) server virtualization to transform data centers into "Service-centric" shared pools of resources which can be...
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Using EMC SRDF Adapter for VMware Site Recovery Manager: Best Practices Planning
September 18, 2008, 12:00am PDT
VMware Site Recovery Manager provides workflow and business continuity and disaster restart process management for VMware virtual infrastructure. The software leverages storage array replication...
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VMware Management and Automation Products: Deployment Approaches and Considerations
August 4, 2008, 12:00am PDT
Businesses need to respond rapidly to changes in market conditions, while minimizing risk and ensuring compliances. The role of the IT department within the business is to create, deliver and...
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Performance Best Practices and Benchmarking Guidelines
July 17, 2008, 12:00am PDT
Rapid Virtualization Indexing (RVI) - also called Nested Page Tables (NPT) or hardware virtual memory management unit (hardware virtual MMU) - is a hardware feature included in some recent AMD...
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Data Protection Options for Exchange
June 21, 2008, 12:00am PDT
VMware Infrastructure is deployed in data centers for deploying mission critical applications. Deployment of Microsoft Exchange is a very important task for the IT staff. Email system is an...
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Scalable Storage Performance
June 3, 2008, 12:00am PDT
VMware ESX enables multiple hosts to share the same physical storage reliably through its highly optimized storage stack and VMware Virtual Machine File System (VMFS). Centralized storage of...
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Oracle Database Scalability in VMware ESX
August 6, 2008, 12:00am PDT
Database applications running on individual physical servers represent a large consolidation opportunity. However enterprises considering such consolidation want guidance as to how well databases...
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Implementing Virtual Provisioning on EMC Symmetrix DMX With VMware Virtual Infrastructure
July 14, 2008, 12:00am PDT
EMC Symmetrix DMX-3 and DMX-4 storage arrays continue to provide increased storage utilization and optimization, enhanced capabilities, and greater interoperability and security, as well as...
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Network Segmentation in Virtualized Environments
May 19, 2009, 12:00am PDT
This paper provides information that will enable to configure virtualized trust zones correctly and deploy them seamlessly. It provides detailed descriptions of three different virtualized trust...
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Performance Comparison of Virtual Network Devices: VMware ESX Server 3.5
March 4, 2008, 12:00am PST
The networking performance of a virtual machine is greatly influenced by the choice of virtual network devices in the virtual machine and the physical devices configured on the host machine. ESX...
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What's New in VMware Infrastructure 3: Performance Enhancements
February 27, 2008, 12:00am PST
The new features in VMware Infrastructure 3 make it even easier for organizations to virtualize their most demanding and intense workloads. The new version of VMware Infrastructure 3 provides...
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Breakthrough Performance for Business-Critical Apps With VMware and Intel
March 10, 2010, 12:00am PST
VMware vSphereTM 4 and the latest Intel Xeon processors provide breakthrough performance and unparalleled flexibility for business-critical server applications such as Microsoft Exchange, Oracle...
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It's Time to Upgrade From VMware ESX to ESXi - Learn How
March 9, 2010, 12:00am PST
Currently running VMware ESX? By migrating to VMware ESXi 4, one can simplify hypervisor management while improving security and reliability. The attendee will learn why and how VMware customers...
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SPECweb2005 Performance on ESX Server 3.5
January 28, 2008, 12:00am PST
Virtualization is revolutionizing data center computing by making it easy for people to run multiple operating systems and multiple applications seamlessly on the same computer. More and more...
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VMware View™ on NetApp Storage
April 1, 2010, 12:00am PDT
Learn how VMware View 4 and virtual desktop storage options from NetApp deliver flexible, cost effective, secure virtual desktops. Enterprises can now deploy cost effective virtual desktop...
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Remote and Branch Office Solutions from VMware View 4
April 1, 2010, 12:00am PDT
Desktops in remote and branch offices are much more challenging to manage, protect and maintain. Learn how the VMware View solution will enable IT organizations to control and manage all servers...
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Reference Architecture Brief: Dell Remote Virtual Desktop Featuring VMware View 4
April 1, 2010, 12:00am PDT
In today's challenging economy, many organizations are evaluating virtualization technology to deliver desktops as a managed service. Learn how Dell and VMware have partnered to create the Dell...
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The Virtualization Imperative For Client Operating System Migrations
April 1, 2010, 12:00am PDT
This paper is an evaluation of companies' migration plans of their current operating systems. IT professionals around the world are exploring application and desktop virtualization not only to...
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The VMware Reference Architecture for Cisco UCS and EMC CLARiiON with VMware View™ 4
April 1, 2010, 12:00am PDT
This is a summary of a validated virtual desktop solution with a total datacenter infrastructure cost of under $750 per seat. This validation was performed at scale in a lab environment and...
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NetApp and VMware View Solution Guide. Best Practices for Design, Architecture, Deployment and Management
April 1, 2010, 12:00am PDT
This document provides architectural, deployment and management guidelines for customers planning to implement VMware View on NetApp virtualized storage. It provides a brief overview of the VMware...
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Cisco Solutions for a VMware View 4.0 Environment Design Guide
April 1, 2010, 12:00am PDT
This document provides design and configuration guidance for deploying and optimizing VMware View 4.0 in a Cisco data center, campus, branch and for Internet-based users. This document describes...
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Improving Energy Efficiency with Intel® Xeon® Processor-based Servers and VMware Virtualization Infrastructure
May 1, 2010, 12:00am PDT
VMware virtualization technology can substantially reduce power and cooling costs by consolidating multiple workloads onto the latest energy-efficient multi-core Intel®-based processors. By using...
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Case Studies
Dunedin Casino Comes Up Trumps With Datacenter and Desktop Virtualization
February 12, 2009, 12:00am PST
The Dunedin Casino, which was operated by a New Zealand-based private company, is a hub for gaming and entertainment. This case study talks about how VMware virtualization helped Dunedin Casino to...
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Virtual Desktop Sizing Guide: With VMware View 4.0 and VMware VSphere 4.0 Update 1
May 13, 2010, 12:00am PDT
On a standard 14-slot IBM, BladeCenter equates to running 2,800 concurrent virtual desktops within a single chassis. The Task Worker testing shows the ability of the IBM HS22 with vSphere 4 to...
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Application Presentation to VMware View Desktops With Citrix XenApp
May 13, 2010, 12:00am PDT
VMware Thinapp has the ability to provide users with a function whereby they can stream or deliver applications into VMware View desktops. Called application virtualization, the applications made...
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PCoIP Display Protocol: Information and Scenario-Based Network Sizing Guide
May 13, 2010, 12:00am PDT
PC over IP (PCoIP) is a desktop virtualization tool that reduces the total cost of ownership for desktop management. This technology is used to compress, encrypt, encode, and transmit the entire...
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Adobe Acrobat Connect Pro 7.5 and VMware ESX Server
November 4, 2009, 12:00am PST
The Adobe Acrobat Connect Pro 7.5 is the perfect tool for engaging in live eLearning, webinars and web conferencing. A secure application, it offers highly adaptable deployment options with open...
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Fujitsu Publishes the First SAP Three-Tier Benchmark on VMware vSphere
May 7, 2010, 12:00am PDT
The engineers at Fujitsu have designed an ideal solution for large organizations which have a very large number of SAP users who need support in virtual environment spread across multiple hosts...
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The VMware Reference Architecture for Cisco UCS and EMC Clariion With VMware View 4
November 20, 2009, 12:00am PST
Organizations today need dexterous Information Technology (IT) solutions which need to take care of many considerations. The IT system should take care of data storage needs, follow the Service...
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VMCI Socket Performance
November 20, 2009, 12:00am PST
The Virtual Machine Communication Interface (VMCI) device, offered thorough VMCI Sockets Library is a powerful system that allows efficient and fast communication solutions for multiple VM's based...
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Performance Evaluation of VMXNET3 Virtual Network Device
January 16, 2010, 12:00am PST
A virtual network bundles hardware and software network resources and functionality into a combined software-based administrative identity. Network performance is more relevant today as an...
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Understanding Memory Resource Management in VMware ESX Server
August 26, 2009, 12:00am PDT
VMware ESX is an efficient hypervisor which effectively manages usages of hardware resources like memory storage and CPU as well as provides effective networking solutions for multiple virtual...
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Virtualization Performance of SAP ERP on the Intel Xeon Processor 7500 Series with VMware
September 24, 2010, 12:00am PDT
The SAP ERP application helps companies address the ups and downs of markets, business cycles, and compliance by providing software solutions that include operations, financials, corporate...
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Southwestern/Great American - Vmware and Intel Technology Provide Rock-Solid Platform for SAP deployment
September 24, 2010, 12:00am PDT
Southwestern/Great American has a long history: 155 years, to be precise. In 1855, the company's focus was religious tracts, but today it has a dozen distinct lines of business, including direct...
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EMC Runs Its Business-Critical Oracle E-Business Suite on VMware and Intel® Technology
September 24, 2010, 12:00am PDT
Information is one of an organization's most important assets, and EMC Corporation (EMC) provides the technologies and tools that help release the power of that information. EMC works with...
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How business-critical database workloads perform when virtualized with Intel® Xeon® processor 7500 series-based servers and VMware vSphere™
May 1, 2010, 12:00am PDT
This white paper documents the performance of mission-critical database workloads running on servers equipped with the Intel Xeon processor 7500 series and VMware vSphere 4. Using standard and...
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Virtualizing Business Critical Applications
September 24, 2010, 12:00am PDT
Most IT organizations are already using virtualization to consolidate their infrastructure, reduce costs and improve service levels through live migration and automated failover of virtual...
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VMware vSphere 4: The Most Efficient SQL Server Consolidation Platform
September 24, 2010, 12:00am PDT
Do you have a large and rapidly increasing number of SQL Server instances to support? Are your SQL Server costs and administration requirements growing out of control? Many IT departments are...
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Virtual Infrastructure Yields Real TCO and ROI Advantages
May 1, 2010, 12:00am PDT
There is no question that virtualization technology can help you cut costs out of your IT infrastructure. For SAP customers, using the VMware vSphere virtualization platform for SAP solutions...
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Virtualizing Business-Critical Applications on VMware vSphere
September 24, 2010, 12:00am PDT
Business agility depends on IT agility, and VMware vSphere enables IT to deliver. By standardizing on the vSphere internal cloud to virtualize 100 percent of your applications, you can reduce...
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Virtualizing Tier 1 Applications: A Critical Step on the Journey Toward the Private Cloud
January 1, 2010, 12:00am PST
Virtualization has evolved rapidly since it first began to be used on x86 servers in 2003, mainly for test and development. By 2007, the second generation, Virtualization 2.0, was under way, and...
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Use Cases: Oracle Databases on VMware
September 24, 2010, 12:00am PDT
Production database administrators are primarily concerned with scalability, performance and overall resource management. Deploying Oracle databases on vSphere is not significantly different from...
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Essential Deployment Tips: Oracle Databases on VMware vSphere 4
May 1, 2010, 12:00am PDT
Even the most demanding Oracle database workloads can now be virtualized with VMware vSphere and ESX 4 - with greater than 95 percent of Oracle instances matching native performance. This paper...
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Use Cases: Microsoft Exchange 2010 on VMware
September 24, 2010, 12:00am PDT
Many VMware customers running Exchange 2003, 2007, and 2010 are already taking advantage of the benefits offered by virtualization to improve their organization's messaging capabilities and...
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Best Practices Guide: Microsoft Exchange 2010 on VMware
September 24, 2010, 12:00am PDT
This guide provides best practice guidelines for deploying Exchange Server 2010 on vSphere. The recommendations in this guide are not specific to any particular set of hardware or to the size and...
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Managing Performance Variance of Applications Using Storage I/O Control
July 10, 2010, 12:00am PDT
Application performance can be impacted when servers contend for I/O resources in a shared storage environment. There is a crucial need for isolating the performance of critical applications from...
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Replacing vCenter Server Certificates
July 8, 2010, 12:00am PDT
VMware products use standard X.509 version 3 (X.509v3) certificates to encrypt session information sent over Secure Socket Layer (SSL) protocol connections between components. For example,...
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Configuring and Troubleshooting N-Port ID Virtualization
April 27, 2010, 12:00am PDT
N-Port ID Virtualization (NPIV) is an ANSI T11 standard that describes how a single Fibre Channel HBA port can register with the fabric using several Worldwide Port Names (WWPNs). This allows a...
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Legacy Host Licensing With vCenter Server 4.x
July 12, 2010, 12:00am PDT
When one uses vCenter Server 4.x to manage ESX 3.x/ESXi 3.5 hosts, they have several mutually exclusive choices in regards to license server configuration: Use a single license server for vCenter...
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SAP Performance on vSphere With IBM DB2 and SUSE Linux Enterprise
June 11, 2010, 12:00am PDT
VMware vSphere 4.1 provides private cloud technology to IT organizations looking to save money on hardware costs, offer their companies a Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) model, and guarantee uptime...
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Understanding Memory Resource Management in VMware ESX 4.1
June 11, 2010, 12:00am PDT
VMware ESX is a hypervisor designed to efficiently manage hardware resources including CPU, memory, storage, and network among multiple, concurrent virtual machines. This paper describes the basic...
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Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 Performance on VMware vSphere 4.1
June 11, 2010, 12:00am PDT
One of the key benefits of virtualization is the ability to consolidate multiple applications onto a single physical server. The importance of this can be seen clearly with multi-tier...
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Increase Longevity of IT Solutions With VMware vSphere
July 1, 2010, 12:00am PDT
Many businesses need to run applications for as long as possible without making any changes to them. Most organizations replace hardware every 3 to 5 years. New hardware may require upgrades to...
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The Design and Evaluation of a Practical System for Fault-Tolerant Virtual Machines
May 11, 2010, 12:00am PDT
The paper has implemented a commercial enterprise-grade system for providing fault-tolerant virtual machines, based on the approach of replicating the execution of a primary Virtual Machine (VM)...
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Ohio Mutual Insurance Group's Deployment of WebSphere Application Server on VMware ESX
April 1, 2010, 12:00am PDT
This paper describes the deployment of the IBM WebSphere Application Server (WAS) software in a set of virtual machines on VMware ESX at the Ohio Mutual Insurance Group (OMIG). This deployment has...
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VMware vSphere: The CPU Scheduler in VMware ESX 4.1
July 13, 2010, 12:00am PDT
The CPU scheduler in VMware vSphere 4.x (ESX 4.x) is crucial to providing good performance in a consolidated environment. Because most modern processors are equipped with multiple cores per...
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Virtualizing Business-Critical Applications With Confidence
August 27, 2010, 12:00am PDT
Within any business, a number of applications exist that are critical to the success of the business. As a result, these applications and the systems they run on require a higher level of...
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Case Studies
Tanning-Products Company Consolidates Systems, Saves Money With Centralized ERP Solution
August 1, 2010, 12:00am PDT
New Sunshine manufactures and sells tanning lotions, tanning beds, and software to help run salons. In contrast to the dynamism and growth of its business, New Sunshine's ERP systems were...
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Case Studies
VMware Case Study: Zimmer Gunsul Frasca Architects LLP
October 27, 2009, 12:00am PDT
Zimmer Gunsul Frasca Architects (ZGF) is a nationally recognized architecture, planning and interior design firm, with five locations throughout the United States. ZGF wanted to incorporate...
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VMware Case Study: XM Canada
March 6, 2010, 12:00am PST
XM Canada is the leading provider of audio entertainment services. The company provides subscription-based satellite radio service and online streaming to mobile and Internet devices for more than...
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Case Studies
XL Capital Reduces Costs by Rolling Out Virtualized "Office in a Box" to Branch Offices
November 27, 2007, 12:00am PST
XL Capital Ltd. is a leading provider of insurance and reinsurance coverage and financial products to industrial, commercial and professional service firms, insurance companies and other...
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Case Studies
VMware Case Study: Wyse Technology
November 20, 2007, 12:00am PST
Wyse Technology is the global leader in thin computing. Wyse hardware, software and services ensure customers' desktops are secure, reliable and agile, preserving capitol and increasing...
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VMware Case Study: WWF-Australia
March 3, 2010, 12:00am PST
The Australian arm of the world's largest and most influential conservation organization, WWF-Australia focuses on eight key areas: climate change, weeds and feral animals, land and forests,...
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Case Studies
VMware Case Study: WWF United Kingdom
December 4, 2007, 12:00am PST
WWF is the world's largest and most experienced independent conservation organisation. It operates a global network of offices in more than 90 countries. WWF has five million supporters worldwide,...
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Case Studies
VMware Case Study: Wright State University
October 17, 2009, 12:00am PDT
Wright State University (WSU) is a public university located in Dayton, Ohio. Serving nearly 17,000 students, the University offers more than 100 undergraduate and 50 Ph.D., graduate, and...
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VMware Case Study: WorldMark Holdings
June 25, 2009, 12:00am PDT
The holding company for four businesses, WorldMark Holdings is the largest supplier of automotive aftercare products to Australian automotive dealers. WorldMark Holdings wanted to avoid the...
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Wincor Nixdorf Improves Performance and Reduces Costs by Over 80 Percent Using VMware Solutions
July 6, 2010, 12:00am PDT
As one of the world's leading providers of IT solutions and services for retail banks and commercial enterprises, Wincor Nixdorf aims to optimize business processes in branches of banks and...
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VMware Case Study: Whirlpool Corporation
August 26, 2009, 12:00am PDT
Whirlpool Corporation (Whirlpool) is the world's leading maker of major home appliances, marketing products under such popular brand names as Whirlpool, KitchenAid, Jenn-Air and Amana. Whirlpool...
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Case Studies
Squeezing Every Last Drop From Virtualization
November 12, 2009, 12:00am PST
Welch's is the world's leading marketer of Concord and Niagara-based grape products, with over 400 items ranging from refrigerated juices and sparkling juice cocktails to jams, jellies and more....
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Case Studies
WebCentral Enhances Delivery of Robust, Flexible Hosting Using VMware Virtualization
February 5, 2008, 12:00am PST
WebCentral is Australia's largest Web and application hosting provider and a wholly-owned subsidiary of global online services company, Melbourne IT (ASX: MLB). WebCentral wanted to implement an...
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VMware Case Study: WCM Investment Management
November 15, 2007, 12:00am PST
WCM Investment Management (WCM) is a successful California firm that provides innovative, equity investment advisory services to corporations, public funds, Taft-Hartley plans, endowments,...
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VMware Technology Allows Disruption-Free Upgrade of 911 Call Center
October 20, 2009, 12:00am PDT
Southwestern Pennsylvania's Washington County has a population of 208,000 within its land area of 863.6 square miles. Washington County wanted to upgrade 911 call center facilities without...
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