hypervisor

White Papers

Singleton: System-Wide Page Deduplication in Virtual Environments

April 16, 2012 12:00am PDT

The authors investigate memory-management in hypervisors and propose Singleton, a KVM-based system-wide page de-duplication solution to increase memory usage efficiency. They address the problem...

Provided by: Association for Computing Machinery

White Papers

Five Secrets for Successfully Virtualizing a Data Center

April 4, 2012 12:00am PDT

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...

Provided by: Global Knowledge

Discussion Threads

Four things the incumbent hypervisor vendor won't tell you

March 21, 2012 8:24am PDT

Four things the incumbent hypervisor vendor won't tell you article root Wow... The important sentence is the one with the bolded text. I have been a fan of fee-for-service approaches for years,...

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Blog Post

Four things the incumbent hypervisor vendor won't tell you

March 21, 2012 6:00am PDT

Guest blogger Jason Cowie offers his take on the benefits of deploying private and hybrid clouds, integrated with management and automation solutions, and lists four important considerations.

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Case Studies

Housing Service Delivers New Features Faster With Hyper-V-Based Cloud Solution

March 21, 2012 12:00am PDT

The customer is a national online apartment search service. To stay competitive, it needs to roll out new services quickly and deliver outstanding performance for approximately 6 million visitors...

Provided by: Microsoft

Blog Post

VDI or IDV: Which choice makes the most sense?

February 21, 2012 8:42am PST

Intelligent Desktop Virtualization (IDV) is a relatively new concept to hit the technology world and has the potential to turn the whole desktop virtualization game on its head.

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Podcasts

Down the Rabbithole - Special - "Master the Cloud" Calgary (W/Celebrity Guest Adam Growe)

February 11, 2012 12:00am PST

In this podcast, the speakers wrap up the road tour in the frozen city of Calgary. the speaker had the pleasure of sitting down with a comedian and celebrity, a technical expert on virtualization...

Provided by: Wh1t3 Rabbit

Blog Post

Capacity testing for your cloud application

February 7, 2012 9:00am PST

Nick Hardiman goes over some tasks that will help you test the capacity needed for your cloud application and offers a few tips to keep in mind as you measure.

White Papers

Adding Advanced Storage Controller Functionality Via Low-Overhead Virtualization

February 2, 2012 12:00am PST

Historically, storage controllers have been extended by integrating new code, e.g., file serving, database processing, de-duplication, etc., into an existing base. This integration leads to...

Provided by: IBM

White Papers

Virtual Switching Without a Hypervisor for a More Secure Cloud

January 23, 2012 12:00am PST

Cloud computing leverages virtualization to offer resources on demand to multiple "Tenants". However, sharing the server and network infrastructure creates new vulnerabilities, where one tenant...

Provided by: University of Pennsylvania

White Papers

System-Level Implications of Disaggregated Memory

January 13, 2012 12:00am PST

Recent research on memory disaggregation introduces a new architectural building block - the memory blade - as a cost-effective approach for memory capacity expansion and sharing for an ensemble...

Provided by: University of Michigan

White Papers

Stochastic Reward Nets Model for Time Based Software Rejuvenation in Virtualized Environment

January 1, 2012 12:00am PST

Modern business has a 24x7 non-stop running and the availability of the business continuity for everything, from everywhere, at all time is a growing requirement. System outages are more often due...

Provided by: International Journal of Computer Science and Telecommunications

Case Studies

Hostway: Hosting Provider Saves $100,000, Increases Reliability With Cloud Management Solution

November 30, 2011 12:00am PST

In 2010, hosting provider Hostway used Microsoft virtualization software to launch a line of cloud computing services. Before it could expand its cloud business, it wanted a more comprehensive...

Provided by: Microsoft

Case Studies

Progel IT: IT Firm Uses Cloud Management Solution to Boost Agility, Customer Service

November 30, 2011 12:00am PST

Progel IT, a managed services provider in Italy, wanted better management tools to build private clouds in its virtualized development environment and to automate management of its production...

Provided by: Microsoft

Discussion Threads

Five Microsoft apps that will change IT

November 18, 2011 5:28pm PST

Five Microsoft apps that will change IT article root Hyper-what.? Microsoft has decided that having one server fail due to crappy OS is not enough. Now you can have a lot of VM's fail at once, if...

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White Papers

Breaking Up is Hard to Do: Security and Functionality in a Commodity Hypervisor

October 26, 2011 12:00am PDT

Cloud computing uses virtualization to lease small slices of largescale datacenter facilities to individual paying customers. These multi-tenant environments, on which numerous large and popular...

Provided by: Association for Computing Machinery

White Papers

Non-Interactive OS Fingerprinting Through Memory De-Duplication Technique in Virtual Machines

October 25, 2011 12:00am PDT

OS fingerprinting tries to identify the type and version of a system based on gathered information of a target host. It is an essential step for many subsequent penetration attempts and attacks....

Provided by: Institute of Electrical & Electronic Engineers

White Papers

I/O holds up the traffic in virtual systems

October 20, 2011 12:00am PDT

We can now host 512 virtual machines on a single physical server. That's a lot of virtual machines trying to squeeze a lot of I/O out of a single server's networking interfaces. Meanwhile, vSphere...

Provided by: Intel

White Papers

Here come hypervisors you can trust

October 20, 2011 12:00am PDT

Virtualisation has always bothered me. This is perhaps an odd statement to make; after all, I am personally responsible for virtualising thousands of servers. But the truth of it lies in the...

Provided by: Intel

Webcasts

Introduction to Virtualization

October 12, 2011 12:00am PDT

This video webcast is designed to help those with little to no virtualization experience understand why virtualization and VMware are so important to driving down both capital and operational...

Provided by: VMware