Virtualization
Find full coverage of virtualization technologies, including reviews, how-tos, best practices, and tips.
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IBM SmartCloud Desktop Infrastructure Reference Architecture: Citrix VDI-in-a-Box powered by IBM System x
With the explosion of mobile devices and an increasingly mobile society, employees expect the workplace to come with them wherever they go and on whatever device they use. While this mindset of anytim...
Sponsored By IBM
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IBM SmartCloud Desktop Infrastructure
Today, employees expect the workplace to come with them wherever they go and on whatever device they use. This anytime, anywhere “bring-your-own-device” (BYOD) mindset poses a dilemma for organization...
Sponsored By IBM
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Video: Taming Virtualization sprawl with HP Server Automation
Joe DeBlaquiere, HP Server Automation Product Manager, and Andy Mackay, HP Server Automation Product Marketing, take you through how customers can achieve full visibility and complete lifecycle manage...
Sponsored By HP
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Video: HP Cloud Automation - Deliver end to end automated infrastructure to application services
The cloud beckons a wide array of IT services delivered quickly and painlessly. Hybrid service delivery is not just a project it is a process that requires automation as a prerequisite.
Sponsored By HP
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Squeeze more power from virtualization
Like most promising new technologies, virtualization has its dark side. Production environments are far more complex - and herein lies the challenge for IT organizations traveling down the virtualizat...
Sponsored By HP
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Executive's guide to virtualization in the enterprise (APAC)
This ebook from ZDNet and TechRepublic will help IT and business leaders learn about the risks, challenges, and benefits of virtualization technologies.
Sponsored By ZDNet
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Virtualizing the Enterprise: A Q&A with the Editors in Chief (APAC)
This question-and-answer session with ZDNet editor in chief Larry Dignan and TechRepublic editor in chief Jason Hiner provides a broad industry view of our latest special feature, Virtualizing the Ent...
Sponsored By ZDNet
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More companies turning to desktop virtualization (APAC)
Desktop virtualization is growing in popularity, even though it's been around for several years. TechRepublic did a survey to see who is using virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI) and the benefits, bo...
Sponsored By TechRepublic
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The falling cost - and rising value - of desktop virtualization
The growing strategic value of desktop virtualization, from a more flexible, productive workforce to lower real estate costs, has made it a key IT strategy. At the same time, costs are falling for ev...
Sponsored By Citrix
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Video: Co-operative Group provides a mobile, flexible workstyle for employees
The Co-operative Group uses Citrix solutions for networking and virtualization to attract top employees by providing a mobile, flexible workstyle for employees.
Sponsored By Citrix
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Video: Suncorp utilizes virtualization to ensure business continuity
Suncorp, a large financial services institution in Australia, uses Citrix solutions for networking and virtualization to provide a flexible work experience for employees and support their business con...
Sponsored By Citrix
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Video: Transforming healthcare with desktop virtualization
See how Seattle Childrens Hospital virtualized their systems from server to desktop, enabling clinicians access to patient data at the point of care, and maximising time spent with patients.
Sponsored By Citrix
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Solitaire Interglobal-Platform Security Report-Tracked, Hacked, and Attacked
A new research study, based on real world production data from 79,360 customer sites, “Comparing Virtualization Alternatives – What’s best for your business ?” is now available. The paper reviews quan...
Sponsored By IBM
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Williams & Fudge on Transforming IT with EMC
Watch Williams & Fudge Data Center Director Phillip Reynolds discuss why this accounts receivable management firm turned to EMC. By using EMC VNX unified storage and EMC RecoverPoint, Williams & Fudge...
Sponsored By EMC
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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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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 virtu...
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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Kettering Health Network and their use of P4800 and VDI
Learn how Kettering Health Network uses HP Client Virtualization with VMware View so staff can reclaim 62,500 staff hours a year for patient care instead of computer systems. To make this client virtu...
Sponsored By HP & Intel® Xeon® Processors
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Introduction to ESXi
Brian Watrous, VCI, discusses how to transition to ESXi 5.1. This first video introduces ESXi and is intended for VMware vSphere administrators managing VMware ESX 4.x hosts but want to leverage the a...
Sponsored By VMware
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vSphere Snapshot Overview
Joe Desmond, VMware Certified Instructor, provides an overview of the vSphere Snapshot tool to support guest O/S administrators. Snapshots allow safe change to virtual machines without the worry of fa...
Sponsored By VMware
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Building a Home Lab for VMware sphere 5.1
I often get asked by my students how to setup a home lab for study after class, and the result is this white paper. This paper is broken down into three major sections: the hardware required, the VMwa...
Sponsored By Global Knowledge
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Evaluating Blade Servers for your IT Infrastructure eBook
This eBook will cover the following topics: Blade Up: Cost Savings Is Just the Beginning A Closer Look at Using Blade Servers for Virtualization A Closer Look at the HP BladeSystem
Sponsored By Hewlett-Packard (HP)
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Optimize your Virtualization Efforts with a Blade Infrastructure
The increased adoption of virtualization is placing new demands on IT infrastructure. The interdependencies between server, storage, and network elements must be finely balanced to maximize virtual ma...
Sponsored By Hewlett-Packard (HP)
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IBM System x M4 Servers Deliver Compelling Performance and Energy Efficiency
The M4 generation of IBM® System x® servers, featuring Intel® E5-2600 processors, brings compelling benefits to datacenters, even where existing servers are a just few generations old. Processor techn...
Sponsored By IBM
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IBM SmartCloud Entry on System x with VMware vSphere Essentials Plus
To address rapidly changing IT demands, small and midsize businesses (SMBs) can now go beyond virtualization and tap into the economic advantages of private clouds, enabling them to reinvent their bus...
Sponsored By IBM
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KVM Security in the Cloud: A Choice That Matters
With many IT departments moving their infrastructure to the cloud, security-related concerns due to a shared environment have become increasingly prominent. While open source virtualization has always...
Sponsored By Global Knowledge
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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 h...
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 oth...
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 p...
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 busines...
Sponsored By VMware
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Top 10 Considerations for Getting Started with 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 ca...
Sponsored By VMware
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openBench: V-locity VM Accelerates Exchange 2010 Over 60%
openBench Labs recently tested Condusiv’s V-locity VM, seeking to validate the claim that V-locity I/O optimization software accelerates applications in virtual environments by 50% or more—with no ext...
Sponsored By Condusiv Technologies
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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....
Sponsored By VMware
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VMware vSphere Essentials
Gain a basic understanding of some of the concerns or planning points to consider when you get ready to deploy vSphere in your organization.
Sponsored By Global Knowledge
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How to Boost Physical Servers by 50%—Without New Hardware
IT faces immense data growth and heavier server workloads, but there is no longer a need to add hardware for performance: IT now has the ability to manage the I/O explosion and gain high-performance—o...
Sponsored By Condusiv Technologies
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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 en...
Sponsored By VMware
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Top Reasons Customers Virtualize Desktop Infrastructures With EMC VSPEX
Want to boot 1,000 virtual desktops in less than 8 minutes? You can with EMC FLASH 1st in reason #9.
Sponsored By EMC
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HP Newsletter with Gartner Research: Maximizing Your Infrastructure through Virtualization
Virtualization continues to be one of the most effective ways to consolidate, reduce cost, and make data centers more efficient. Gartner research outlines how to get the most from your virtualization ...
Sponsored By Hewlett-Packard (HP)
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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 managemen...
Sponsored By VMware
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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 p...
Sponsored By VMware
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To Know MED-V In Windows 7
This white paper introduces MED-V (Microsoft Enterprise Desktop Virtualization), Microsoft's enterprise-oriented tool for delivering legacy applications in virtual machines running on clients across y...
Sponsored By Global Knowledge
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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 managemen...
Sponsored By VMware
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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 p...
Sponsored By VMware
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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 ...
Sponsored By VMware
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Ten vSphere HA and DRS Misconfiguration Issues
VMware has a popular and powerful virtualization suite of products in the vSphere and vCenter family of products. This white paper will focus on ten of the biggest mistakes people make when configurin...
Sponsored By Global Knowledge
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VMware vSphere Essentials
Gain a basic understanding of some of the concerns or planning points to consider when you get ready to deploy vSphere in your organization.
Sponsored By Global Knowledge
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Six Desktop Virtualization Pain-points and How XenDesktop 5 Helps Overcome Them
While desktop virtualization provides the look-and-feel with which users are comfortable, it still involves a range of management issues or pain-points for IT. In this white paper, we'll look at some ...
Sponsored By Global Knowledge
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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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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 virtu...
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 (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 en...
Sponsored By VMware
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Citrix XenDesktop 5: Key Advantages for Virtualizing Your Desktop Environment
According to CIO Magazine's 10th Annual State of the CIO survey for 2011, the top priorities for IT managers in 2011 are: developing IT strategies to accelerate business goals (70%), aligning IT and b...
Sponsored By Global Knowledge
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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 oth...
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 p...
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 h...
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 busines...
Sponsored By VMware
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Top 10 Considerations for Getting Started with 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 ca...
Sponsored By VMware
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KVM Security in the Cloud: A Choice That Matters
With many IT departments moving their infrastructure to the cloud, security-related concerns due to a shared environment have become increasingly prominent. While open source virtualization has always...
Sponsored By Global Knowledge
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IBM System x M4 Servers Deliver Compelling Performance and Energy Efficiency
The M4 generation of IBM® System x® servers, featuring Intel® E5-2600 processors, brings compelling benefits to datacenters, even where existing servers are a just few generations old. Processor techn...
Sponsored By IBM
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IBM SmartCloud Entry on System x with VMware vSphere Essentials Plus
To address rapidly changing IT demands, small and midsize businesses (SMBs) can now go beyond virtualization and tap into the economic advantages of private clouds, enabling them to reinvent their bus...
Sponsored By IBM
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Virtualization: Myths vs. Facts
Examine fifteen common myths surrounding virtualization, including many that prevent IT administrators (or their bosses) from getting the maximum value from virtualization. This paper is designed to b...
Sponsored By Global Knowledge
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Five Tips for Configuring VMware vSphere 5.0
While we all know that textbook best practices don't always work in the real world, there are some best practices that really do make a difference. With this in mind, I have chosen these Five Tips for...
Sponsored By Global Knowledge
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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 f...
Sponsored By VMware
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Five Secrets for Successfully Virtualizing a Data Center
Here are some secrets, tips, and tricks for virtualizing your datacenter. We want to introduce some best practices for virtualization, while not being too biased towards one virtualization vendor or a...
Sponsored By Global Knowledge
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Getting To Know MED-V In Windows 7
This white paper introduces MED-V (Microsoft Enterprise Desktop Virtualization), Microsoft's enterprise-oriented tool for delivering legacy applications in virtual machines running on clients across y...
Sponsored By Global Knowledge
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Virtualization 101
This white paper defines virtualization and focuses on how certain trends, such as server virtualization, are changing the datacenter. We'll look at what makes virtualization so compelling to companie...
Sponsored By Global Knowledge
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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 te...
Sponsored By VMware
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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 de...
Sponsored By VMware
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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....
Sponsored By VMware
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Private Cloud - More than Just Virtualization
What is your plan to move your organization beyond virtualization? Learn more about how developing a cloud strategy can help you achieve the business agility you need to: Accelerate time to market ...
Sponsored By NetApp
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Kettering Health Network and their use of P4800 and VDI
Learn how Kettering Health Network uses HP Client Virtualization with VMware View so staff can reclaim 62,500 staff hours a year for patient care instead of computer systems. To make this client virtu...
Sponsored By HP & Intel® Xeon® Processors
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Seven Tips for Troubleshooting VMware vSphere5
Here are seven tips for working with vSphere, including: Logging in via Command Line, dealing with connection problems using ssh to an ESXi host; network performance issues; possible storage problems;...
Sponsored By Global Knowledge
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Building a Home Lab for VMware vSphere5
I often get asked by my students how to setup a home lab for study after class, and the result is this white paper. This paper is broken down into three major sections: the hardware required, the VMwa...
Sponsored By Global Knowledge
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openBench: V-locity VM Accelerates Exchange 2010 Over 60%
openBench Labs recently tested Condusiv’s V-locity VM, seeking to validate the claim that V-locity I/O optimization software accelerates applications in virtual environments by 50% or more—with no ext...
Sponsored By Condusiv Technologies
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How to Boost Physical Servers by 50%—Without New Hardware
IT faces immense data growth and heavier server workloads, but there is no longer a need to add hardware for performance: IT now has the ability to manage the I/O explosion and gain high-performance—o...
Sponsored By Condusiv Technologies
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Evaluating Blade Servers for your IT Infrastructure eBook
This eBook will cover the following topics: Blade Up: Cost Savings Is Just the Beginning A Closer Look at Using Blade Servers for Virtualization A Closer Look at the HP BladeSystem
Sponsored By Hewlett-Packard (HP)
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Optimize your Virtualization Efforts with a Blade Infrastructure
The increased adoption of virtualization is placing new demands on IT infrastructure. The interdependencies between server, storage, and network elements must be finely balanced to maximize virtual ma...
Sponsored By Hewlett-Packard (HP)
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User Virtualization: What It Is and How It Can Save You Money
Better managed desktops are crucial for achieving the cost benefits of virtual desktop Infrastructure, server-based computing, or some other single-image desktop virtualization solution. User virtuali...
Sponsored By Global Knowledge
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New Features and Benefits of XenApp 6.5
As user requirements continue to be more demanding, the approach in which companies deliver applications and desktops needs to also continue to improve. Citrix continues to raise the bar with features...
Sponsored By Global Knowledge
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Hyper-V Server 2008 R2: Free Virtualization without a Server Operating System
Virtualization is a hot topic, with a number of techniques, tools, and technologies available. Some of the benefits of virtualization include hardware cost savings, role separation, configuration opti...
Sponsored By Global Knowledge