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An Overview of VMware vCloud Suite
VMware vCloud® suite delivers a complete, integrated cloud infrastructure that simplifies IT operations while also delivering the best SLAs for all applications. The suite delivers virtualized infrastructure services (storage, network, security and availability) with built-in intelligence to automate on-demand provisioning, placement, configuration and control based on application requirements and defined...
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An Overview of VMware vCloud® Networking and Security (vCNS)
VMware vCloud® Networking and Security (vCNS) is the leading software-defined networking and security solution that enhances operational efficiency, unlocks agility and enables extensibility to rapidly respond to business needs. By abstracting networking and security from physical infrastructure and pooling resources, customers can create scalable logical networks. Integrated management of these...
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Optimizing your Virtual Environment with VMware vCenter Operations Management Suite
For virtual infrastructure administrators, understanding how physical resources are being consumed can seem like an impossible challenge. VMware vCenter Operations changes what’s possible, enabling you to identify and isolate sources of contention and gain deep visibility into how physical resources are being consumed. See how vCenter Operations makes it fast...
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What’s New in VMware vCloud Director 5.1
VMware vCloud® Director™ orchestrates the provisioning of software-defined datacenter services as complete virtual datacenters (VDCs) that are ready for consumption in a matter of minutes. While a virtual machine provides only virtualized compute, the virtual datacenter provides virtualized compute, networking, storage, security and availability. With vCloud Director, an administrator can...
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A Secure Cloud: Is There Such a Thing?
A secure cloud is attainable. In fact, industry luminaries David Hunter of VMware and Arthur Coviello of EMC say clouds can be more secure than physical infrastructure. These professionals explain how to keep your cloud secure and the security solutions offered by VMware and RSA.
Sponsored By VMware
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Reaping the Benefits of Business Agility with Cloud Computing: Real-World Profiles
Forward thinking CIOs are recognizing how cloud computing delivers benefits beyond mere cost reduction by increasing business agility. Three different real-world examples illustrate how leading organizations are adopting and expanding cloud computing to reduce costs, but also grow revenue and improve responsiveness to risk. The benefits realized by companies like...
Sponsored By VMware
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Top 10 Considerations for Getting Started with VMware Virtualization
Moving your workloads from physical servers to a virtualized environment can help your business drive down costs, increase IT efficiencies and improve application availability but it's important to carefully plan the transition to virtualization in order to avoid any complications. Read these considerations as you plan your move to virtualization...
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VMware Whitepaper - Performance Analytics: How Normal is Your Data
This VMware paper takes a technical look at a variety of IT performance data (operating system metrics, quality-of-service metrics, business performance metrics, etc.) to determine how well these metrics can be modeled as “normally distributed.” This concept is at the heart of VMware vCenter Operations' performance analytics capability, and provides...
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CIO/IDG - IT Looks to Leverage Cloud Computing’s Transformational Powers
Cloud computing is fast becoming a critical technology in the enterprise. In a CIO global survey of IT decision makers at enterprise companies, two-thirds of IT leaders are already adopting or planning to deploy cloud services, and more than nine in ten rated cloud computing as a priority over the...
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CSO - Cloud Security and Myths and Strategies Uncovered
This executive level paper highlights trends and findings from CIO’s 2011 Global Cloud Computing Adoption survey as it relates to Security and Compliance in the virtualized datacenter. Featured content includes debunked myths of securing cloud environments, how the secure cloud is a key business enabler for the CSO, as well...
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Edison Group - Comparative Management Cost Study Managing Vmware vSphere Using Microsoft System Center Increases Costs and Complexity
A growing number of enterprises have begun to consider multiple hypervisor virtualization solutions. Some vendors claim that they offer hypervisor-agnostic or heterogeneous hypervisor management solutions, as Microsoft does today with its Microsoft System Center 2012 suite. This paper reveals how Microsoft System Center 2012 stacks up for managing datacenters that...
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ESG Whitepaper - Your Next Generation Data Center Starts with Virtualization
The Virtualization Revolution
The majority of organizations have deployed virtualization technology within their data centers—many have done so extensively—and all signs point to further virtualization growth going forward. According to ESG research:- Over two-thirds (69%) of organizations reported using server virtualization technology in production or test/development environments....
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Forrester - Business Value of Virtualization
This paper is an evaluation of the business value of x86 server virtualization. Forrester interviewed individuals responsible for the IT infrastructure and architecture and asked executives to rate the benefits received from consolidating servers, performing business continuity/disaster recovery, reclaiming data center capacity, and executing similar initiatives. The findings indicate that...
Sponsored By VMware
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Forrester Research - Disaster Recovery Exercises Fall Short of the Finish Line
Though many enterprises have advanced disaster recovery technologies put in place, they still fall short when it comes to actual preparedness due to a lack of formal processes and a strict regimen for exercising DR plans. This report details 10 tips for updating and improving your current DR exercise program...
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IT Process Institute - Cloud Strategy Brief: IT Value Transformation Roadmap
IT organizations are perceived by the business in two ways - as a cost center or a center of strategic value. This paper provides a virtualization and private cloud centric road map for IT value transformation, highlighting the objectives, challenges, required competencies, success factors and success measures at each stage.
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Journey to Your Cloud Taking Your Organization From Reactive to Innovative
This Whitepaper talks about why make the journey to the Cloud. It talks about empowering your IT Organization with Cloud Computing, the Path to Innovate, Essential Cloud Capabilities to Advance a Cloud Operating Model. It also talks about three approaches: Reactive: Managing the Growing Demands of the Business and moving...
Sponsored By VMware
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Organizing for the Cloud
Cloud computing represents a major opportunity for IT. At the same time it presents challenges. Lines of Business are already by-passing IT and going directly to external cloud providers. Running workloads on external cloud provider infrastructure isn’t necessarily a bad thing but to regain control, IT must begin to think...
Sponsored By VMware
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People and Processes: Keys to IT as a Service Success
IT as a service (ITaaS) provides a unique opportunity for IT and line-of-business leaders to realign to transform business. Over the past decade, IT organizations have worked hard to reduce delivery time and costs through automation and commoditization. At the same time, line-of-business owners have demanded more and unique offerings...
Sponsored By VMware
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Tech Tips: VMware vSphere Data Protection
Straight from our experts at VMware®, follow these technical tips for a successful and smooth implementation of VMware vSphere® Data Protection™. From retention policies to best practices for deploying appliances, reference these tips as you create or improve your data protection plan.
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VMware vCenter Site Recovery Manager 5.1 QuickStart Series Part 1: SRM Preparation and Setup
VMware vCenter™ Site Recovery Manager™ (SRM) is the market-leading disaster recovery product that complements VMware vSphere® to ensure the simplest and most reliable disaster protection for all virtualized applications. In this first webcast in a two-part series, we will discuss SRM architecture, setting up and configuring sites, and creating protection...
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VMware vCenter Site Recovery Manager 5.1 QuickStart Series Part 2: Using Recovery Plans For Disaster Recovery and Site Migration
VMware vCenter™ Site Recovery Manager™ (SRM) is the market-leading disaster recovery product that complements VMware vSphere® to ensure the simplest and most reliable disaster protection for all virtualized applications. In this second session in a two-part series, we will discuss configuring recover plans, testing failover, executing planned migrations, reporting and...
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Chalk Talk Video Series (2): Realizing the Full Benefits of VMware vSphere with Operations Management
Chris Westphal, VMware Sr. Marketing Manager discusses how to increase the value you can get from vSphere with Operations Management and your VMware virtualized environment from VMware.
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Chalk Talk Video Series (3): Ensuring Data Protection with VMware
Chris Westphal, VMware Sr. Marketing Manager discusses your options in protecting critical business data with data protection solutions from VMware.
Sponsored By VMware
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Chalk Talk Video Series (4): Simplifying Disaster Recovery with VMware
Chris Westphal, VMware Sr. Marketing Manager discusses how to protect your business from the effects of a potential disaster in your IT environment with solutions from VMware.
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How Virtualization is Key to Managing Risk
Is your IT environment ready for a disaster? Virtualization can save your infrastructure before an outage occurs and can also ensure an efficient recovery without data loss. Read this eBook to learn how VMware® virtualization solutions can help prepare your systems for a disaster and protect your data if one...
Sponsored By VMware
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Beyond Cost Savings: Four Compelling Reasons to Expand Virtualization of Your IT Environment
Cost savings is a key benefit of virtualization that you may have already experienced, but what else can be gained through expansion of your virtualized IT environment? In this eBook, find out how other VMware® customers have extended their virtualization deployment and have uncovered significant benefits, such as simplified IT...
Sponsored By VMware
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Crash Insurance: Protect Your Business with Virtualization
Think that your business is safe from an IT outage caused by a natural or man-made disaster? Think again. Read this trend brief to learn more about potential risks to IT services and how a comprehensive disaster recovery plan is essential to keeping your systems up and running at all...
Sponsored By VMware
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Don’t Get Stuck on your Virtualization Journey: Where to Focus Next
You've virtualized a significant number of server workloads and have likely experienced significant cost savings and performance improvements so, what's next? Read this trend brief to identify which phase of virtualization you are in and where you should be headed to reap even more business benefits with expansion of your...
Sponsored By VMware
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Beyond Cost Savings: Four Compelling Reasons To Virtualize Your IT Environment
Cost savings is a well-known benefit of virtualization, but what else can be gained from a shift to a virtualized IT environment? Find out how other results of virtualization, such as improved business continuity and simplified IT management, can also have significant effects, as told by VMware® customers in this...
Sponsored By VMware
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Tech Tips: VMware vCenter Site Recovery Manager
Straight from our experts at VMware®, follow these technical tips for a successful and smooth implementation of VMware vCenter™ Site Recovery Manager™. From application dependencies to replication engines, reference these tips as you create or improve your disaster recovery plan.
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What’s New in VMware View 5.1: Technical Deep Dive
VMware View™ 5.1 helps deliver desktop as a service from your cloud, while enabling end-user freedom and IT control. Join us for this technical webcast where we will cover what’s new in VMware View 5.1.
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Chalk Talk Video Series (1): Enabling Virtualization and More with VMware
Chris Westphal, VMware Sr. Marketing Manager discusses how VMware solutions help you reduce operation expenses (opex), capital expenses (capex), and increases availability and efficiency in your IT environment.
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Enterprise Strategy Group Analyst Whitepaper - VMware View and Desktop Virtualization
Desktop virtualization is quickly becoming a top IT priority as businesses of all sizes adapt to the proliferation of endpoint devices, mobilization of the workforce, and simplified endpoint management. Desktop virtualization is now ready for prime time and chances are high that some segment of the employee population could benefit...
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Address Key Desktop Virtualization Use Cases with VMware View
As desktop virtualization garners more momentum, IT organizations are looking for a solution that is cost-effective and easy to deploy, manage, and scale. VMware View meets these requirements with a proven desktop virtualization solution designed to optimize both end user freedom and IT management and control. View provides a comprehensive...
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Introduction to Virtual Desktop Infrastructure with VMware View
Although the capital expenditures for traditional computers have decreased over time, the operational costs of managing these desktops have increased significantly because of the escalating complexity of tasks, labor costs and security concerns. End users are also tied to a single piece of hardware to access all their data and...
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Quantifying the Business Value of VMware View - Webcast
Many enterprises have discovered that the use of virtualization to support desktop workloads creates a range of significant benefits. These benefits include price efficiencies, improved IT management and greater agility and choice for end users.
This VMware sponsored webcast with IDC will provide both quantitative measurement of the business...Sponsored By VMware
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ESG Whitepaper - Virtualization moves the SMB market forward
The whitepaper talks about the pressures that SMB is facing --including small budgets, limited skill sets among IT staff, and limitations in their existing processes. But today, they have opportunities to break through perceived technology barriers to achieve greater business success. Technologies such as virtualization enable them to expand their...
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IDC Technology Spotlight: Virtualize Desktiops for Better Management and Operations Across Devices
Centralized virtual desktop (CVD) technology is an innovation receiving closer attention today as itspotential impact on IT departments and users becomes clearer. The push for client virtualization technologies originated with organizations that successfully implemented server virtualization. Now, customers are intrigued by the possibility of a better desktop management model. They're...
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Taneja Group: Overview of Virtualization and Cloud Market Vendor Landscape for SMBs
Taneja Group presents an evaluation of the virtualization and cloud solution market for small and medium business (SMB) users (companies with less than 1000 employees). This executive summary evaluates virtual infrastructure and management, end user computing, and cloud service provider solutions from leading vendors, to enable senior decision makers in...
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Taneja Group Executive Summary: An overview of the Virtualization and Cloud Market Vendor Landscape for Small and Medium Businesses
Taneja Group presents an evaluation of the virtualization and cloud solution market for small and medium business (SMB) users (companies with less than 1000 employees). This executive summary evaluates virtual infrastructure and management, end user computing, and cloud service provider solutions from leading vendors, to enable senior decision makers in...
Sponsored By VMware
- Over two-thirds (69%) of organizations reported using server virtualization technology in production or test/development environments....
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Cloud Security Myths and Strategies Uncovered
Forward-thinking CSOs are embracing the right security strategy and exercising appropriate caution without dampening cloud optimism. By overcoming the number one perceived challenge—security—CIOs can move beyond their fears to pursue their IT transformation to cloud computing.
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Aligning CFO and CIO Priorities
Forward-thinking organizations are viewing cloud computing as an investment in business transformation, not just a way to cut costs for IT. Thanks to the cloud, CFOs and CIOs are moving beyond the “either/or” discussions that once forced themto make tradeoffs between IT cost cutting and the creation of new business...
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Quantifying the Business Value of VMware View
IDC performed an in-depth analysis for this white paper, providing a quantitative measurement of the business value, defined as the expected ROI, associated with the use of VMware View as a platform for the targeted deployment of a centralized virtual desktop architecture. It further provides a quantification of the value...
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eBook: A Guide to Modern IT Disaster Recovery
This online eBook provides insight and advice on how to build an effective disaster recovery strategy in the evolving world of virtual infrastructures, while mitigating the impact of so-called 'Black Swan' events in the datacenter. Practical, how-to best practices, real customer success testimonials and links to additional resources.
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Forrester Total Economic Impact of VMware View
In August 2012, VMware commissioned Forrester Consulting to examine the total economic impact and potential return on investment (ROI) enterprises may realize by efficiently managing their virtual desktop infrastructure from a single console using VMware View. The purpose of this study is to provide readers with a framework to evaluate...
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IDC Technology Spotlight: Virtualize Desktiops for Better Management and Operations Across Devices
Centralized virtual desktop (CVD) technology is an innovation receiving closer attention today as itspotential impact on IT departments and users becomes clearer. The push for client virtualization technologies originated with organizations that successfully implemented server virtualization. Now, customers are intrigued by the possibility of a better desktop management model. They're...
Sponsored By VMware
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Beyond Cost Savings: Four Compelling Reasons to Expand Virtualization of Your IT Environment
Cost savings is a key benefit of virtualization that you may have already experienced, but what else can be gained through expansion of your virtualized IT environment? In this eBook, find out how other VMware® customers have extended their virtualization deployment and have uncovered significant benefits, such as simplified IT...
Sponsored By VMware
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Crash Insurance: Protect Your Business with Virtualization
Think that your business is safe from an IT outage caused by a natural or man-made disaster? Think again. Read this trend brief to learn more about potential risks to IT services and how a comprehensive disaster recovery plan is essential to keeping your systems up and running at all...
Sponsored By VMware
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Don’t Get Stuck on your Virtualization Journey: Where to Focus Next
You've virtualized a significant number of server workloads and have likely experienced significant cost savings and performance improvements so, what's next? Read this trend brief to identify which phase of virtualization you are in and where you should be headed to reap even more business benefits with expansion of your...
Sponsored By VMware
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Beyond Cost Savings: Four Compelling Reasons To Virtualize Your IT Environment
Cost savings is a well-known benefit of virtualization, but what else can be gained from a shift to a virtualized IT environment? Find out how other results of virtualization, such as improved business continuity and simplified IT management, can also have significant effects, as told by VMware® customers in this...
Sponsored By VMware
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How Virtualization is Key to Managing Risk
Is your IT environment ready for a disaster? Virtualization can save your infrastructure before an outage occurs and can also ensure an efficient recovery without data loss. Read this eBook to learn how VMware® virtualization solutions can help prepare your systems for a disaster and protect your data if one...
Sponsored By VMware
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Taneja Group: Overview of Virtualization and Cloud Market Vendor Landscape for SMBs
Taneja Group presents an evaluation of the virtualization and cloud solution market for small and medium business (SMB) users (companies with less than 1000 employees). This executive summary evaluates virtual infrastructure and management, end user computing, and cloud service provider solutions from leading vendors, to enable senior decision makers in...
Sponsored By VMware
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Tech Tips: VMware vCenter Site Recovery Manager
Straight from our experts at VMware®, follow these technical tips for a successful and smooth implementation of VMware vCenter™ Site Recovery Manager™. From application dependencies to replication engines, reference these tips as you create or improve your disaster recovery plan.
Sponsored By VMware
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Principled Techologies - Total Cost Comparison: Vmware vSphere vs. Microsoft Hyper-V
Total cost of ownership (TCO) is the ultimate measure when comparing IT infrastructure platforms. This Principled Technologies test report compares VMware vSphere® 5 and Microsoft Windows Server® 2008 R2 SP1 Hyper-V™ in several operational scenarios and details what you can expect from both platforms.
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Chalk Talk Video Series (1): Enabling Virtualization and More with VMware
Chris Westphal, VMware Sr. Marketing Manager discusses how VMware solutions help you reduce operation expenses (opex), capital expenses (capex), and increases availability and efficiency in your IT environment.
Sponsored By VMware
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VMware vCenter Site Recovery Manager 5.1 QuickStart Series Part 1: SRM Preparation and Setup
VMware vCenter™ Site Recovery Manager™ (SRM) is the market-leading disaster recovery product that complements VMware vSphere® to ensure the simplest and most reliable disaster protection for all virtualized applications. In this first webcast in a two-part series, we will discuss SRM architecture, setting up and configuring sites, and creating protection...
Sponsored By VMware
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VMware vCenter Site Recovery Manager 5.1 QuickStart Series Part 2: Using Recovery Plans For Disaster Recovery and Site Migration
VMware vCenter™ Site Recovery Manager™ (SRM) is the market-leading disaster recovery product that complements VMware vSphere® to ensure the simplest and most reliable disaster protection for all virtualized applications. In this second session in a two-part series, we will discuss configuring recover plans, testing failover, executing planned migrations, reporting and...
Sponsored By VMware
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Chalk Talk Video Series (2): Realizing the Full Benefits of VMware vSphere with Operations Management
Chris Westphal, VMware Sr. Marketing Manager discusses how to increase the value you can get from vSphere with Operations Management and your VMware virtualized environment from VMware.
Sponsored By VMware
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Chalk Talk Video Series (3): Ensuring Data Protection with VMware
Chris Westphal, VMware Sr. Marketing Manager discusses your options in protecting critical business data with data protection solutions from VMware.
Sponsored By VMware
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Chalk Talk Video Series (4): Simplifying Disaster Recovery with VMware
Chris Westphal, VMware Sr. Marketing Manager discusses how to protect your business from the effects of a potential disaster in your IT environment with solutions from VMware.
Sponsored By VMware
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Tech Tips: VMware vSphere Data Protection
Straight from our experts at VMware®, follow these technical tips for a successful and smooth implementation of VMware vSphere® Data Protection™. From retention policies to best practices for deploying appliances, reference these tips as you create or improve your data protection plan.
Sponsored By VMware
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An Overview of VMware vCloud Suite
VMware vCloud® suite delivers a complete, integrated cloud infrastructure that simplifies IT operations while also delivering the best SLAs for all applications. The suite delivers virtualized infrastructure services (storage, network, security and availability) with built-in intelligence to automate on-demand provisioning, placement, configuration and control based on application requirements and defined...
Sponsored By VMware
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An Overview of VMware vCloud® Networking and Security (vCNS)
VMware vCloud® Networking and Security (vCNS) is the leading software-defined networking and security solution that enhances operational efficiency, unlocks agility and enables extensibility to rapidly respond to business needs. By abstracting networking and security from physical infrastructure and pooling resources, customers can create scalable logical networks. Integrated management of these...
Sponsored By VMware
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Optimizing your Virtual Environment with VMware vCenter Operations Management Suite
For virtual infrastructure administrators, understanding how physical resources are being consumed can seem like an impossible challenge. VMware vCenter Operations changes what’s possible, enabling you to identify and isolate sources of contention and gain deep visibility into how physical resources are being consumed. See how vCenter Operations makes it fast...
Sponsored By VMware
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What’s New in VMware vCloud Director 5.1
VMware vCloud® Director™ orchestrates the provisioning of software-defined datacenter services as complete virtual datacenters (VDCs) that are ready for consumption in a matter of minutes. While a virtual machine provides only virtualized compute, the virtual datacenter provides virtualized compute, networking, storage, security and availability. With vCloud Director, an administrator can...
Sponsored By VMware
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A Secure Cloud: Is There Such a Thing?
A secure cloud is attainable. In fact, industry luminaries David Hunter of VMware and Arthur Coviello of EMC say clouds can be more secure than physical infrastructure. These professionals explain how to keep your cloud secure and the security solutions offered by VMware and RSA.
Sponsored By VMware
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Reaping the Benefits of Business Agility with Cloud Computing: Real-World Profiles
Forward thinking CIOs are recognizing how cloud computing delivers benefits beyond mere cost reduction by increasing business agility. Three different real-world examples illustrate how leading organizations are adopting and expanding cloud computing to reduce costs, but also grow revenue and improve responsiveness to risk. The benefits realized by companies like...
Sponsored By VMware
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Top 10 Considerations for Getting Started with VMware Virtualization
Moving your workloads from physical servers to a virtualized environment can help your business drive down costs, increase IT efficiencies and improve application availability but it's important to carefully plan the transition to virtualization in order to avoid any complications. Read these considerations as you plan your move to virtualization...
Sponsored By VMware
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VMware Whitepaper - Performance Analytics: How Normal is Your Data
This VMware paper takes a technical look at a variety of IT performance data (operating system metrics, quality-of-service metrics, business performance metrics, etc.) to determine how well these metrics can be modeled as “normally distributed.” This concept is at the heart of VMware vCenter Operations' performance analytics capability, and provides...
Sponsored By VMware
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CIO/IDG - IT Looks to Leverage Cloud Computing’s Transformational Powers
Cloud computing is fast becoming a critical technology in the enterprise. In a CIO global survey of IT decision makers at enterprise companies, two-thirds of IT leaders are already adopting or planning to deploy cloud services, and more than nine in ten rated cloud computing as a priority over the...
Sponsored By VMware
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CSO - Cloud Security and Myths and Strategies Uncovered
This executive level paper highlights trends and findings from CIO’s 2011 Global Cloud Computing Adoption survey as it relates to Security and Compliance in the virtualized datacenter. Featured content includes debunked myths of securing cloud environments, how the secure cloud is a key business enabler for the CSO, as well...
Sponsored By VMware
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Edison Group - Comparative Management Cost Study Managing Vmware vSphere Using Microsoft System Center Increases Costs and Complexity
A growing number of enterprises have begun to consider multiple hypervisor virtualization solutions. Some vendors claim that they offer hypervisor-agnostic or heterogeneous hypervisor management solutions, as Microsoft does today with its Microsoft System Center 2012 suite. This paper reveals how Microsoft System Center 2012 stacks up for managing datacenters that...
Sponsored By VMware
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ESG Whitepaper - Your Next Generation Data Center Starts with Virtualization
The Virtualization Revolution
The majority of organizations have deployed virtualization technology within their data centers—many have done so extensively—and all signs point to further virtualization growth going forward. According to ESG research:- Over two-thirds (69%) of organizations reported using server virtualization technology in production or test/development environments....
Sponsored By VMware
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Forrester - Business Value of Virtualization
This paper is an evaluation of the business value of x86 server virtualization. Forrester interviewed individuals responsible for the IT infrastructure and architecture and asked executives to rate the benefits received from consolidating servers, performing business continuity/disaster recovery, reclaiming data center capacity, and executing similar initiatives. The findings indicate that...
Sponsored By VMware
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Forrester Research - Disaster Recovery Exercises Fall Short of the Finish Line
Though many enterprises have advanced disaster recovery technologies put in place, they still fall short when it comes to actual preparedness due to a lack of formal processes and a strict regimen for exercising DR plans. This report details 10 tips for updating and improving your current DR exercise program...
Sponsored By VMware
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IT Process Institute - Cloud Strategy Brief: IT Value Transformation Roadmap
IT organizations are perceived by the business in two ways - as a cost center or a center of strategic value. This paper provides a virtualization and private cloud centric road map for IT value transformation, highlighting the objectives, challenges, required competencies, success factors and success measures at each stage.
Sponsored By VMware
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Journey to Your Cloud Taking Your Organization From Reactive to Innovative
This Whitepaper talks about why make the journey to the Cloud. It talks about empowering your IT Organization with Cloud Computing, the Path to Innovate, Essential Cloud Capabilities to Advance a Cloud Operating Model. It also talks about three approaches: Reactive: Managing the Growing Demands of the Business and moving...
Sponsored By VMware
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Organizing for the Cloud
Cloud computing represents a major opportunity for IT. At the same time it presents challenges. Lines of Business are already by-passing IT and going directly to external cloud providers. Running workloads on external cloud provider infrastructure isn’t necessarily a bad thing but to regain control, IT must begin to think...
Sponsored By VMware
-
People and Processes: Keys to IT as a Service Success
IT as a service (ITaaS) provides a unique opportunity for IT and line-of-business leaders to realign to transform business. Over the past decade, IT organizations have worked hard to reduce delivery time and costs through automation and commoditization. At the same time, line-of-business owners have demanded more and unique offerings...
Sponsored By VMware
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Taneja Group Executive Summary: An overview of the Virtualization and Cloud Market Vendor Landscape for Small and Medium Businesses
Taneja Group presents an evaluation of the virtualization and cloud solution market for small and medium business (SMB) users (companies with less than 1000 employees). This executive summary evaluates virtual infrastructure and management, end user computing, and cloud service provider solutions from leading vendors, to enable senior decision makers in...
Sponsored By VMware
- Over two-thirds (69%) of organizations reported using server virtualization technology in production or test/development environments....