server virtualization

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Virtualisation and Cloud Computing - Optimised Power, Cooling and Management Maximises Benefits

January 16, 2013 12:00am PST

IT virtualisation, the engine behind cloud computing, can have significant consequences on the data centre physical infrastructure (DCPI). Higher power densities that often result can challenge...

Provided by: Schneider Electric - AU

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Ensure a Successful Virtual Workspace

January 16, 2013 12:00am PST

With many companies adopting cloud-based software and file management, employees have new opportunities to work from home. In fact, many offices encourage flexible work arrangements because they...

Provided by: ShareFile

Case Studies

PwC Exordia: Hosting Firm Eyes Latest Server Software as Path to Lower Costs, More Scalable Service

January 16, 2013 12:00am PST

PwC Exordia has hundreds of existing virtual servers, but there are certain limitations with the various existing technologies used. PwC Exordia was looking for a way to more efficiently deliver...

Provided by: Microsoft

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PACE: Policy-Aware Application Cloud Embedding

January 16, 2013 12:00am PST

The emergence of new capabilities such as virtualization and elastic (private or public) cloud computing infrastructures has made it possible to deploy multiple applications, on demand, on the...

Provided by: Tsihai

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Profit-Maximizing Virtual Machine Trading in a Federation of Selfish Clouds

January 15, 2013 12:00am PST

The emerging federated cloud paradigm advocates sharing of resources among cloud providers, to exploit temporal availability of resources and diversity of operational costs for job serving. While...

Provided by: University of Calcutta

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On Tackling Virtual Data Center Embedding Problem

January 15, 2013 12:00am PST

Virtualizing data center networks has been considered a feasible alternative to satisfy the requirements of advanced cloud services. Proper mapping of Virtual Data Center (VDC) resources to their...

Provided by: University of Washington School of Public Health & Community Medicine

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VDC Planner: Dynamic Migration-Aware Virtual Data Center Embedding for Clouds

January 15, 2013 12:00am PST

Cloud computing promises to provide computing resources to a large number of service applications in an on-demand manner. Traditionally, cloud providers such as Amazon only provide guaranteed...

Provided by: University of Washington School of Public Health & Community Medicine

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Paradigm-Based Adaptive Provisioning in Virtualized Data Centers

January 15, 2013 12:00am PST

Virtualized data centers host multiple applications with distinct objectives in a shared infrastructure. Accommodating several dynamic applications in virtual data centers is a challenging task...

Provided by: University of Toledo

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Intra-Data-Center Traffic Engineering With Ensemble Routing

January 15, 2013 12:00am PST

Today's data centers are shared among multiple tenants running a wide range of applications. These applications require a network with a scalable and robust layer-2 network management solution...

Provided by: Princeton Software

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Optimal Design of Virtual Links in AFDX Networks

January 14, 2013 12:00am PST

The Avionics Full Duplex Switched Ethernet (AFDX) backbone constitutes one of the major technological breakthroughs in modern avionic architectures. This network is based on routing Ethernet...

Provided by: CNRS

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On Arbitrating the Power-Performance Tradeoff in SaaS Clouds

January 13, 2013 12:00am PST

In this paper, the authors present an analytical framework for characterizing and optimizing the power-performance tradeoff in Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) cloud platforms. Their objectives are...

Provided by: Huazhong University of Science & Technology

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Best of 2012 Top Dell Software Virtualisation Management Articles

January 11, 2013 12:00am PST

Welcome to our Best of 2012 eBook. We selected the documents for inclusion based on continued interested from the virtualisation community. Performance oriented topics continued to dominate the...

Provided by: Quest Software, Inc., now a part of Dell

Blog Post

Cloud trends for 2013

January 10, 2013 11:20am PST

Thoran Rodrigues writes about some of the things he expects to develop in the cloud technology market this coming year.

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IT environment for today and tomorrow: What you need to know about Windows 8

January 10, 2013 12:00am PST

Windows 8 is ready to give your business the tools you need to meet your workers' changing IT needs in a way that's reliable, productive and secure. Designed to respond equally well to touch as it...

Provided by: Dell & Microsoft

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Why Upgrading from XP to Windows 7 Makes Business Sense

January 10, 2013 12:00am PST

Many large enterprises still rely on Windows XP-based PCs. For some, reliance on legacy applications made it easy to delay an operating system upgrade and migration. Others just never got around...

Provided by: Dell & Microsoft

Case Studies

IT Solutions Provider Helps Boost System Performance and Security for Travel Industry Leader with VShield Implementation

January 10, 2013 12:00am PST

Neos is a global technology services and IT operations provider catering for mid-to large sized enterprises across the globe. The company became the first Hyperic VMware partner in Germany and is...

Provided by: VMW Games

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Total Economic Impact Of The AppSense Management Suite

January 9, 2013 12:00am PST

This Forrester Consulting paper examines the total economic impact and potential return on investment (ROI) enterprises may realize by deploying the AppSense Management Suite. It provides readers...

Provided by: AppSense

Blog Post

Rackspace: An overview of a major cloud player

January 8, 2013 12:25pm PST

Nick Hardiman looks at what Rackspace is all about. What does it mean by Fanatical Support, and is OpenStack the platform of the future for cloud management?

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Blog Post

Tech trends to watch out for in 2013

January 8, 2013 4:42am PST

IT leaders need to be smart about the decisions they make and truly leverage next-generation tools and strategies. Here are some technology trends that will shape their decision-making in 2013.

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Whitepapers

Adversarial VNet Embeddings: A Threat for ISPs?

January 8, 2013 12:00am PST

An Internet Service Provider's (ISP) network infrastructure and its properties often constitute a critical business secret, not only because the smarter investment of a given resource budget...

Provided by: ABB Corporate Research Center