Virtualization

Business are reaping the rewards of faster, simplified and efficient infrastructures through virtualization.

  • White Papers // Jan 2013

    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—overnight—with hardware they already have. Learn about optimized I/O and how it efficiently boosts IOPS and reduces...

    Sponsored By Condusiv Technologies

  • White Papers // Jan 2013

    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

  • White Papers // Mar 2012

    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 be vendor-neutral; in other words, the basic concepts and advantages are the same whether you choose to use Citrix XenServer, VMware vSphere, Microsoft...

    Sponsored By Global Knowledge

  • White Papers // May 2012

    The CISO's Guide to Virtualization Security

    In today’s data centers, IT often virtualizes new applications and workloads by default. Virtualization is the norm; deploying a physical server is the exception. The technology is mature and enterprise adoption is high, yet information security does not have a significant focus on virtual security.

    This guide describes the...

    Sponsored By Kaspersky Lab

  • White Papers // Aug 2013

    4 Customers who never has to refresh their PCs

    As mobile workstyles reinvent the way people and businesses operate, IT organizations can enable new levels of mobility and productivity—but not if the high cost of legacy endpoint environments prevent them from making strategic investments in innovation. Desktop virtualization, paired with thin client computing, lets IT escape costly PC refresh...

    Sponsored By Citrix

  • White Papers // Aug 2013

    Top 10 Reasons to Strengthen Information Security with Desktop Virtualization

    Information security has become an increasingly critical concern for organizations of all kinds. Trends such as consumerization, worker mobility, cloud computing and workshifting mean that more people are accessing enterprise desktops, applications and data from more places and in more ways than ever before. In this paper we explore ten...

    Sponsored By Citrix

  • White Papers // Aug 2013

    The Falling Cost and Rising Value of Desktop Virtualization

    No longer just for early adopters and innovators, desktop virtualization has become a mainstream IT strategy for companies of all sizes. Still, many organizations remain leery, concerned about the perceived need to purchase, manage and maintain a costly and complex infrastructure. This view is increasingly out of date, however. Rapidly...

    Sponsored By Citrix

  • White Papers // Mar 2013

    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 extra hardware. Since Exchange is one of the most widely used server programs in the world, openBench set up a full-scale test environment...

    Sponsored By Condusiv Technologies

  • Podcasts // Sep 2013

    EMC VSPEX

    EMC VSPEX - World's fastest-growing reference architecture. EMC VSPEX, now delivers 2X more virtual machines at the same price, and an even broader spectrum of choice for workloads that matter.

    Sponsored By Technologent

  • White Papers // Apr 2013

    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 been seen as a cost-effective alternative to proprietary virtualization platforms, new management tools and capabilities have also made it an effective and secure...

    Sponsored By Global Knowledge

  • White Papers // Jun 2013

    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 VMware Workstation configuration, and installing vSphere and Virtual Center (VC). This white paper...

    Sponsored By Global Knowledge

  • White Papers // Aug 2013

    Virtualization for Newbies

    One of the most popular topics in Information Technology (IT) the last several years has been virtualization. This paper introduces virtualization, beginning with reasons why a company would want to virtualize in the first place. One of the main reasons that most businesses like virtualization is to save money. Of...

    Sponsored By Global Knowledge

  • White Papers // Jun 2011

    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 business goals (66%), and controlling IT costs (50%). For each of these areas, desktop virtualization offers a...

    Sponsored By Global Knowledge

  • White Papers // Oct 2010

    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 your business network. The author discusses topics such as whether you need MED-V and how to get it, requirements, core features, and implementing and managing MED-V.

    Sponsored By Global Knowledge

  • White Papers // Oct 2010

    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 your business network. The author discusses topics such as whether you need MED-V and how to get it, requirements, core features, and implementing and managing MED-V.

    Sponsored By Global Knowledge

  • White Papers // Jul 2011

    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 virtualization offers the means for attaining comprehensive, automated applied user environments on a desktop. AppSense provides the same managed yet personal experience regardless of the type...

    Sponsored By Global Knowledge

  • White Papers // Oct 2011

    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 of the key pain-points that administrators deal with in regards to virtualizing desktops. More specifically, we'll look at how...

    Sponsored By Global Knowledge

  • White Papers // Nov 2011

    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 configuring the HA (High Availability) and DRS (Distributed Resource Scheduler) features. We'll begin by looking at five common...

    Sponsored By Global Knowledge

  • White Papers // Jan 2012

    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 it includes in its products and XenApp 6.5 is no exception. These new features provide a compelling reason to...

    Sponsored By Global Knowledge

  • White Papers // Jan 2012

    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 companies in terms of efficiencies, improved resource utilization, cost reductions, and automation, to name a few. We'll also address the ways in...

    Sponsored By Global Knowledge

  • White Papers // Feb 2012

    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 Managing VMware vSphere 5.0. The first two tips are applicable to previous versions...

    Sponsored By Global Knowledge

  • White Papers // Mar 2012

    5 Tips for Getting the Most Out of Citrix XenDesktop 5.5

    Citrix Systems (CTXS) sees the potential of the VDI market, and has bet much of its future on XenDesktop, a product that is well positioned to capture the VDI space. By following the tips outlined in this document your company can make the most of your XenDesktop 5.5 investment. By...

    Sponsored By Global Knowledge

  • White Papers // May 2012

    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 VMware Workstation configuration, and installing vSphere and Virtual Center (VC). This white paper...

    Sponsored By Global Knowledge

  • White Papers // Apr 2012

    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 another. We'll use some common examples of products and tools that work with VMware's vSphere and Microsoft's Hyper-V, but with...

    Sponsored By Global Knowledge

  • White Papers // May 2012

    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; Log Files to View in vSphere ESXi 5; network performance troubleshooting; migrating to a virtual machine using VMotion.

    Sponsored By Global Knowledge

  • White Papers // Jan 2012

    The Buyers’ Guide to Virtual + Physical Data Protection

    Your data center is constantly becoming more complicated. Today, the proliferation of virtualization — both for virtual servers as well as virtual desktop projects — has added an all-new layer of complexity to the picture. In this new white paper, identify business goals, technical approaches and recovery scenarios for virtual...

    Sponsored By Dell

  • White Papers // Jan 2012

    The Complete Solution: Quest vRanger Version 6.0 Product Analysis

    Storage Switzerland Senior Analyst George Crump details how with vRanger 6.0, Dell has taken this highly regarded product beyond being one of the top VMware backup utilities. vRanger 6.0 now serves as a full-scale backup solution: comprehensive protection both for virtual and physical environments that you can manage from one...

    Sponsored By Dell

  • Webcasts // Sep 2013

    Backup Best Practices for VMware Virtual Machines

    Are you a brand new vSphere administrator? Virtualization has come a long way in a short time, so keeping up with the latest best practices is critical. In this on-demand webcast, Greg Shields of Concentrated Technology discusses the history of virtual backups, how to address VMware and VM backups and...

    Sponsored By Dell

  • White Papers // Aug 2013

    Seven Key Attributes Needed to Automate VM Data Protection

    Virtualization has become the de facto method to deploy the majority of applications. Forrester Research recently reported that, by the end of 2013, 77 percent of companies would be using virtualization, with 6 out of 10 running their application workloads on virtual machines. But to keep those virtualized environments functioning...

    Sponsored By Dell

  • White Papers // Aug 2013

    University Prevents Data Loss with Robust Data Protection Solution

    The University of Miami (UM) is a private research university with more than 15,000 students. It’s also the sixth-largest employer in Miami-Dade County, with a total economic impact to the community of $4.5 billion. In transitioning to a VMware® environment, UM needed a single, scalable solution for protecting 213TB of...

    Sponsored By Dell

  • White Papers // Feb 2011

    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 optimization, less disruption when one specialized VM goes down, easier reallocation of resources such as memory, support for legacy applications, and as a...

    Sponsored By Global Knowledge

  • White Papers // Sep 2009

    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...

    Sponsored By VMware

  • Case Studies // Aug 2013

    Install the LAMP Stack on a Linux virtual machine in Windows Azure

    This document highlights how to install the LAMP Stack on a Linux virtual machine in Windows Azure

    Sponsored By Microsoft

  • White Papers // May 2012

    IBM PureFlex System for consistent SAP solution hosting and management

    With the architecture, operating system and virtualization technologies you need supported by built-in patterns of expertise, an IBM PureFlex System infrastructure offers an integrated, flexible, efficient foundation for your SAP business applications.

    Sponsored By IBM

  • White Papers // Nov 2012

    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

  • Case Studies // Aug 2012

    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...

    Sponsored By VMware

  • White Papers // Sep 2012

    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

  • eBooks // Apr 2013

    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

  • White Papers // Apr 2013

    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

  • White Papers // Apr 2013

    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