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Podcasts
WhiteWater West Drives Agility, Tackles Unprecedented Growth with NetApp and Microsoft
Jun 2012
Learn how WhiteWater West leveraged flexible IT to accommodate intense growth that has resulted in a 10-fold increase in storage demands in less than 3 years. The solution encompassed: forging...
Provided by NetApp
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Whitepapers
WhiteWater West Drives Agility, Tackles Unprecedented Growth with NetApp and Microsoft - Whitepaper
Jun 2012
Learn how WhiteWater West leveraged flexible IT to accommodate intense growth that has resulted in a 10-fold increase in storage demands in less than 3 years. The solution encompassed: forging...
Provided by NetApp
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White Papers
Chesapeake Bay Foundation Optimizes Data Center with CTI, VMware, and NetApp
Jun 2012
Learn how Chesapeake Bay Foundation optimized their data center infrastructure by creating a technology foundation that meets the challenges of the coming years. They were able to unify their...
Provided by NetApp
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White Papers
A Framework for Management of Virtualization Clusters
Mar 2012
Computer clusters have become a main stream of high performance computing platforms. To harvest these high performance systems, cluster operating environment has pressed on an additional...
Provided by AICIT
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White Papers
Autonomic Computing Strategy for Server Virtualization
Apr 2010
This paper presents a technique specially adapted for the implementation of some techniques for self-supply and self-optimization for autonomic computing with application in server virtualization....
Provided by University of Craiova
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Whitepapers
Northstar Trade Finance
Jun 2012
Case Study: Financial Services Company Cuts Costs and Boosts Productivity With Unified Storage NorthStar Trade Finance, Inc. is a mid-sized financial services company in Vancouver. Until...
Provided by EMC
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Whitepapers
Balen Municipality
Jun 2012
Balen Municipality Improves Public Services and Cuts Costs with A Modern Storage Platform The Belgian town of Balen has over 21,000 inhabitants and employs approximately 110 civil employees. Due...
Provided by EMC
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Whitepapers
Top Three Reasons Why Customers Deploy VMware on EMC VNX
Jun 2012
Checklist: Balancing Required Space with Various Applications One of the biggest challenges facing storage administrators today is balancing how much space will be required by the various...
Provided by EMC
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White Papers
Leveraging real-time analytics and automation
Jun 2012
Traditional approaches to infrastructure operations management are incapable of keeping up with highly dynamic virtual environments. VMware announced an extension of its management solutions aimed...
Provided by VMware
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White Papers
Extend the benefits of server virtualisation without shared storage
Jun 2012
Learn how small and midsized businesses are increasingly adopting virtualisation to deliver consolidation, improve data backup and disaster recovery and increase security with an in-depth new...
Provided by VMware
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White Papers
Benefits of virtualisation for small to midsize businesses
Jun 2012
Your business counts on you for reliable, secure, responsive IT services. It's a nonstop job, with no time off to figure out complex new technologies, wade through marketing promises, or wrestle...
Provided by VMware
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White Papers
Energy Efficiency and Server Virtualization in Data Centers: An Empirical Investigation
Jan 2012
With a growing concern on the considerable energy consumed by data centers, research efforts are targeting toward green data centers with higher energy efficiency. In particular, server...
Provided by Nanyang Technological University
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Whitepapers
Improve Price-Performance and Agility by Moving to Linux on HP ProLiant Scale-up Family of Servers with Intel® Xeon® processors
May 2011
When it comes to getting the most performance, efficiency, and reliability, out of your network, the two things that matter most are your servers and operating system. Those factors have a...
Provided by Hewlett-Packard (HP)
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Whitepapers
VITRO Architecture: Bringing Virtualization to WSN World
Aug 2011
This paper presents the architecture of the VITRO system concept developed under the VITRO project for the realization of Virtual Sensor Networks. The aim of the proposed architecture is to enable...
Provided by Centre Tecnològic de Telecomunicacions de Catalunya (CTTC)
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Whitepapers
Choosing the right cloud for your business
Jun 2012
Choosing which type of cloud deployment is right for you depends on many factors, including the industry your organisation is involved in, the regulatory requirements it may be subject to and even...
Provided by Brocade
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Whitepapers
How cloud computing poses challenges for networks
Jun 2012
Today's cloud-based infrastructures and complex datacentres need networks that are capable of carrying multiple types of data, each with different types of requirements. How does one go about...
Provided by Brocade
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Whitepapers
Migrating to the cloud? Develop a roadmap
Jun 2012
To help ensure your organisation's cloud migration is successful and that you get the maximum benefits from cloud computing, it is vital to develop a roadmap both for the cloud migration and the...
Provided by Brocade
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Whitepapers
Q&A: Extending datacentre capabilities across the network
Jun 2012
What are the key factors affecting today's networks? How will the cloud impact how organizations build their networks? Brocade CMO John McHugh explains the common challenges organisations face...
Provided by Brocade
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Whitepapers - Video
Oracle Fact Finders Video Series - Episode 2: Improving Storage Utilization
Jun 2012
Is your storage infrastructure keeping up with data growth and performance demands? Oracle's Aaron Newcomb finds the answers to help you grow your storage environments while maintaining optimal...
Provided by Oracle
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Whitepapers
Taking Advantage of Multicore/Multiprocessor Technologies to Meet Today's Storage Needs
Jun 2012
Data growth is not only driving up storage costs, but also transforming performance and efficiency requirements for storage systems. If you're looking for new storage solutions that can address...
Provided by Oracle
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Whitepapers
Using storage virtualisation for IT efficiency
Jun 2012
Creating a more efficient IT infrastructure is an essential ingredient in today's business environment. Recently, the focus on efficiency has increased during difficult economic times. An...
Provided by IBM
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Whitepapers
Economics and ROI of IBM Storwize V7000
Jun 2012
This study by Forrester Consulting examines the total economic impact and potential return on investment (ROI) that enterprises may realise by deploying IBM Storwize V7000. The purpose of this...
Provided by IBM
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Whitepapers
Cerner Transforms Healthcare
Jul 2010
Learn about Cerner's Corporation's IT improvements helping it meet it's service level commitments for hosted clinical applications by way of HP storage and server technologies! Co-Sponsored...
Provided by HP and Intel®
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Whitepapers
Small Is Big: Functionally Partitioned File Caching in Virtualized Environments
May 2012
File cache management is among the most important factors affecting the performance of a cloud computing system. To achieve higher economies of scale, virtual machines are often overcommitted,...
Provided by IBM
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Whitepapers
A Case for Virtualization of Content Delivery Networks
Nov 2011
Content Delivery Networks have gained a popular role among Application Service Providers (ASPs) and infrastructural companies. A CDN is an overlay network that gives more control of asset delivery...
Provided by Institute of Electrical & Electronic Engineers
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Whitepapers
Modeling Dynamic Virtualized Resource Landscapes
Apr 2012
Modern data centers are subject to an increasing demand for flexibility. Increased flexibility and dynamics, however, also result in a higher system complexity. This complexity carries on to...
Provided by Association for Computing Machinery
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Whitepapers
VMFlow: Leveraging VM Mobility to Reduce Network Power Costs in Data Centers
Apr 2011
Networking costs play an important role in the overall costs of a modern data center. Network power, for example, has been estimated at 10-20% of the overall data center power consumption....
Provided by International Federation for Information Processing
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Whitepapers
An Empirical Study of Memory Sharing in Virtual Machines
May 2012
Content-based page sharing is a technique often used in virtualized environments to reduce server memory requirements. Many systems have been proposed to capture the benefits of page sharing....
Provided by University of Massachusetts
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Whitepapers
Sharing-Aware Algorithms for Virtual Machine Colocation
Jun 2011
Virtualization technology enables multiple Virtual Machines (VMs) to run on a single physical server. VMs that run on the same physical server can share memory pages that have identical content,...
Provided by Association for Computing Machinery
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Whitepapers
Forrester: The Total Economic Impact Of IBM System Storage SAN Volume Controller
Jun 2012
In June 2011, IBM commissioned Forrester Consulting to examine the total economic impact and potential return on investment (ROI) enterprises may realize by deploying System Storage SAN Volume...
Provided by IBM Corp.
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Whitepapers
Why IBM's Storage Hypervisor is an Excellent Idea
Jun 2012
IBM's Storage Hypervisor concept is the best news since server-less back-up, and easier to understand. Thanks to the popularity of server virtualization, most business folks have some idea of what...
Provided by IBM Corp.
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Whitepapers
Gartner: Use Heterogeneous Storage Virtualization as a Bridge to Cloud
Jun 2012
Data center operators who are interested in private cloud storage technologies struggle with moving existing storage infrastructure into a cloud storage paradigm. Heterogeneous storage...
Provided by IBM Corp.
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Whitepapers
IDC: Storwize V7000 with Real-time Compression expands IBM's IT Optimization lead and provides and easy upgrade path
Jun 2012
It should come as no surprise that storage budgets are constantly under pressure from opposing forces: On one hand, economic forces are pushing budgets to either stay flat or, in many cases,...
Provided by IBM Corp.
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Whitepapers
Forrester: Total Economic Impact Study of IBM Storwize V7000
Jun 2012
In June 2011, IBM commissioned Forrester Consulting to examine the total economic impact and potential return on investment (ROI) that enterprises may realize by deploying Storwize V7000. The...
Provided by IBM Corp.
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Whitepapers
The Tod Point Group: IBM Storwize V7000 Unified Provides Enterprise-Class Value in a VMWare Environment
Jun 2012
Server virtualization from VMware provides a powerful environment for consolidating a large number of physical servers, thereby delivering cost savings, asset optimization and enhanced flexibility...
Provided by IBM Corp.
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Whitepapers
The Tod Point Group: IBM Storwize V7000 Unified Provides Enterprise-Class Value in a Exchange Environment
Jun 2012
Microsoft Exchange Server 2010 provides a powerful environment for users to conduct business through scheduling their time (calendar), managing their relationships (contacts), and communicating...
Provided by IBM Corp.
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Whitepapers
Rethink the Virtual Machine Template
Mar 2011
Server virtualization technology facilitates the creation of an elastic computing infrastructure on demand. There are cloud applications like server-based computing and virtual desktop that...
Provided by Association for Computing Machinery
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Whitepapers
Towards Exitless and Efficient Paravirtual I/O
Jun 2012
Virtualization is a prominent technology used in data centers around the world. While many kinds of workloads can run at near-native performance even when virtualized, I/O intensive workloads...
Provided by Association for Computing Machinery
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Whitepapers
eGuide: Tomorrow's SAN Technology
Jun 2012
Many companies are reaching the limits of their current storage systems. Fortunately, innovations in storage area networks (SAN) technology can now more easily provide maximum capacity, peak...
Provided by Oracle
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Whitepapers
Cluster Management in a Virtualized Server Environment
Feb 2008
One of the most attractive topics of today is server virtualization. Sever virtualization is not a new concept. However technologies and market demand are increasing the use of server...
Provided by International Telecommunication Union
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Case Studies
School Saves £10,000 and Improves Service to Students and Teachers With Virtual Infrastructure
Oct 2008
With critical programmes linked to IT, Ousedale School needed an IT infrastructure that would guarantee access during school hours. Dell deployed a simplified, virtualized environment based on...
Provided by Dell
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Case Studies
Compared to the Previous Solution, Dell Servers With Virtualization Help Bumrungrad International Save More Than 60 Percent in Total Cost of Ownership
Aug 2008
Bumrungrad International thrives on technology to drive its success. Following advancements in virtualization technology, the hospital was looking for a stable server platform on which to migrate...
Provided by Dell
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Webcasts
TechNet Webcast: Best Practices for Sizing Server Workloads With Microsoft Hyper-V and Intel Xeon Processor Families (Level 300)
Dec 2008
Server virtualization has been widely used in the past to consolidate development and test server workloads, but recent advances in virtualization technologies now support effective virtualization...
Provided by Microsoft
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Webcasts
IT Manager Webcast: Platform Solution Blueprints: Virtualization and Infrastructure Management (Level 200)
Dec 2008
Virtualization in the enterprise helps IT managers in two critical ways. First, virtualization reduces costs by consolidating servers, eliminating unnecessary hardware contracts, and simplifying...
Provided by Microsoft
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Webcasts
Welcome to the Microsoft Webcast on Microsoft Client Virtualization
Dec 2008
The presenter of this webcast will introduce to two virtualization technologies from Microsoft: APP-V (or Application Virtualization - formerly SoftGrid Application Virtualization) and MED-V...
Provided by Microsoft
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Webcasts
Using Virtualization to Make the Most of Your IT Budget
Dec 2008
Server virtualization enables multiple operating systems to run on a single physical machine as virtual machines. With server virtualization, administrators can consolidate workloads of...
Provided by Microsoft
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Case Studies
North American Financial Services Company Achieves Rapid Business Growth Through Server Virtualization Using BMC Capacity Management
Jun 2008
A large North American financial services company has achieved years of double-digit sales and revenue growth. To sustain its commitment to customer service while keeping IT costs in check, the...
Provided by IDG (International Data Group)
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Webcasts
Momentum Webcast: Taking Advantage of Virtualization on the Desktop (Level 100)
Nov 2008
The attendee of this webcast will learn about the benefits of desktop operating system virtualization, and discover how to save time and money by implementing virtualization on desktop computers...
Provided by Microsoft
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Webcasts
Going Green From Data Center to Desktop With Virtualization
Nov 2008
The attendee of this webcast will learn about Microsoft's comprehensive virtualization strategy for server, presentation, application and desktop. The presenter will discuss and demonstrate how...
Provided by Microsoft
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Webcasts
Momentum Webcast: Virtualization on the Desktop and Server (Level 100)
Nov 2008
Virtualization is much more than simply consolidating physical servers and cutting data center costs. At Microsoft, virtualization means helping IT departments maximize Return On Investment (ROI)...
Provided by Microsoft
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Webcasts
TechNet Webcast: How to Implement Microsoft Hyper-V Server and Intel Virtualization Technology (Level 200)
Nov 2008
The attendee of this webcast will learn about the Intel Virtualization Technology (VT) hardware virtualization technology offerings that enable using Microsoft Hyper-V Server to streamline and...
Provided by Microsoft
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Webcasts
TechNet Webcast: Agile Desktops: Microsoft Application Virtualization and Intel vPro Technology (Level 200)
Nov 2008
Microsoft Application Virtualization and Intel vPro hardware management provide a winning combination to cost-effectively manage a distributed desktop environment while still providing superior...
Provided by Microsoft
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Webcasts
Accelerating Virtual Machines
Oct 2008
Of all of the technology trends in the world of enterprise IT, virtualization may be the most profound. Almost every organization is implementing virtualization. However, most have not moved...
Provided by Cisco Systems
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Case Studies
Innovative School District Supports Growing IT Environment With Application Virtualization
Mar 2008
Kent School District (KSD) is recognized throughout Washington for using technology to enhance education. With 10,000 workstations already in use and a new initiative that will provide all...
Provided by Microsoft
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Case Studies
Swiss Municipality Realizes Concrete Benefits With Application Virtualization
Sep 2008
The City Council of Biel, Switzerland uses approximately 650 client computers to help run the municipal government. Due to outdated technology for maintaining client software, the City's IT staff...
Provided by Microsoft
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Case Studies
Microsoft Application Virtualization Moves School Board to the Head of the Class
Oct 2008
With 14,000 computers distributed among 132 schools, the Durham District School Board faced a big IT challenge, supporting a diverse inventory of computers located in classrooms, labs, and offices...
Provided by Microsoft
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Case Studies
IT Provider Uses Application Virtualization for Mission-Critical Software Upgrade
Nov 2008
Kommunale InformationsVerarbeitung Baden-Franken (KIVBF) provides IT services to more than 550 German municipalities. KIVBF needed to install new software on 2,000 PCs overnight to enable its...
Provided by Microsoft
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Case Studies
GMK Centric Closes Books on IT Management Stress With Virtual Application Delivery
Dec 2007
IT staff at accounting firm GMK Centric struggled with an endless cycle of application updates to keep up with changing regulations. Deploying each upgrade manually to more than 90 computers could...
Provided by Microsoft
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Case Studies
Healthcare Provider Eliminates Application Conflicts With Application Virtualization
Jun 2008
Community Medical Centers operates three acute-care hospitals and several long-term care and outpatient centers in California's San Joaquin Valley. With more than 350 computer applications to...
Provided by Microsoft
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Case Studies
BASF Keeps Its Engineers Productive With the Latest Optimization Software
Apr 2008
BASF IT Services supports networks and computers for nearly 60,000 users worldwide. The company followed an expensive certification process to ensure flawless operation of the applications it...
Provided by Microsoft
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Webcasts
On Demand Video: Hyper-V Deployment and Best Practices
Nov 2008
Microsoft's Hyper-V provides software infrastructure and basic management tools in Windows Server 2008 that you can use to create and manage a virtualized server computing environment. In this...
Provided by Microsoft
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White Papers
The Tolly Group - Oracle VM Benchmark
Sep 2008
Read this Tolly Group report, commissioned by Oracle, to see how Oracle VM Server Virtualization Software supports a variety of workloads efficiently in a virtualized environment with nominal...
Provided by Oracle
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White Papers
VMware HA and DRS: Capacity Planning
Jan 2008
VMware is the leading provider of infrastructure virtualization products with a mature and robust suite of products available for nearly every aspect of IT infrastructure. VMware products have...
Provided by Kingston Technology
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White Papers
SAN Deployment on Microsoft Windows Server 2008 Hyper-V Using Emulex HBAs and CNAs
Oct 2008
With the unrelenting escalation of costs for power, cooling and data center footprint, IT managers are under pressure to extract even more performance from their hardware and software. Server...
Provided by Emulex
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White Papers
Reducing IT resource needs and service costs through Intel Core 2 processor with vPro technology
Feb 2008
This is a particularly compelling whitepaper on how Intel University's techs opeerate in a demanding environment of servicing 800 PCs at over 30 sites across 3 continents. Weekly re-imaging of...
Provided by Intel
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White Papers
Leading Virtualization Performance and Energy Efficiency in a Multi-processor Server: Intel Xeon processor 7400 series
Aug 2008
Fewer servers. More performance. With the architecture that's specifically built for virtualization, the Intel® Xeon® processor 7400 series gives you more than 40% better performance and up to 38%...
Provided by Intel
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Case Studies
ISV Quotes for the Intel Xeon Processor 7400 Series
Oct 2008
Read testimonials touting the benefits of Inte's Xeon Processor 7400 Series froms some of today's leading technology companies. Includes quotes from: Citrix, IBM, Microsoft, Novell, Oracle,...
Provided by Intel
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Case Studies
21st-century-learning Infrastructure Supported by Intel vPro Technology: Viglen helps Green School drive innovation in learning
Jul 2008
Established in 1796, the Green School - located on green fields in the heart of Hounslow - appears to be a school with tradition at heart. After talking to Jack Mayhew, Assistant Head Teacher at...
Provided by Intel
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Presentations
Virtualised Web Hosting featuring the Quad Core AMD Opteron Processor
Aug 2008
This short video profiles the role that AMD plays within Rackspace's 40,000 servers across the globe, with virtualised web hosting that delivers energy savings and flexible, scalable ease-of-use.
Provided by Advanced Micro Devices (AMD)
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White Papers
The Role of the x86 Processors in the Virtualized, Energy-Contstrained Datacentre
Nov 2008
This IDC White Paper analyzes the latest technology and market developments in the x86 server space, which has been significantly impacted by the spread of virtualization solutions and the rise of...
Provided by Advanced Micro Devices (AMD)
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Case Studies
Telecom Company Uses Virtual Machines to Speed New-Service Rollout and Reduce Costs
Oct 2008
Czech telecommunications company Telefonica O2 faces intense competition and rapid market growth. To speed the rollout of new services, the company is using the Windows Server 2008 operating...
Provided by Microsoft
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Whitepapers
Keeping Your Head Above the Cloud: Seven Data Center Challenges to Consider Before Going Virtual
Aug 2008
One of the pillars of the Virtual Data Center is virtual platform infrastructure, or the virtual machine; however virtual platforms are dependent on many other, oft forgotten components of both...
Provided by F5 Networks
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Whitepapers
ROI Analysis for Intelligent File Virtualization
Oct 2008
Take a closer look at the financial benefits of Intelligent File Virtualization with F5 ARX. F5 Acopia products virtualize existing file storage resources for dramatically reduced storage costs,...
Provided by F5 Networks
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Presentations
F5 Demo: F5 and VMware Virtualization Technology
Aug 2008
View this short Flash demo to see how to maximize performance and availability in a virtualized environment with F5 BIG-IP LTM and VMWare ESX.
Provided by F5 Networks
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Presentations
F5 Demo: F5 and Microsoft Virtualization Technology
Aug 2008
View this short presentation to see how you can dynamically optimize resources and maximize performance in the virtualized environment with F5 BIG-IP LTM and Microsoft Hyper-V.
Provided by F5 Networks
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Whitepapers
VMware DRS: Why You Still Need Assured Application Delivery and Application Delivery Networking
Sep 2008
VMware Infrastructure products provide the next generation virtual platform for the new data center, but they don't virtualize the network or application delivery. F5 BIG-IP LTM works with VMware...
Provided by F5 Networks
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Whitepapers
7 Virtualization Challenges: Building a Virtualization-Ready Networking Infrastructure
Sep 2008
To ensure the full potential of your virtual platform solution, you need to make sure your application and storage network is prepared to handle the added stresses of a virtual machine (VM)...
Provided by F5 Networks
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Case Studies
F5 Case Study: BlueLock.com
Nov 2008
Read this study to see how BlueLock launched a unique virtual Cloud Computing platform with VMware Virtualization and F5 BIG-IP LTM to reap such benefits as: Seamless traffic delivery during very...
Provided by F5 Networks
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Downloads
F5 Podcast: Virtualization Demystified - Breaking Out Virtualization Technologies
Nov 2007
Listen to this podcast to understand why before you begin to move towards a fully virtual user and Data Center environment, you should learn where each independent virtualization category sits in...
Provided by F5 Networks
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Whitepapers
F5 and the 8 Ways to Virtualization
Mar 2008
F5 pioneered the concept of breaking up data center virtualization technologies into eight unique categories within the data center. Any virtualization products or technologies implemented in the...
Provided by F5 Networks
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Whitepapers
Sharing-Aware Algorithms for Virtual Machine Colocation
Jun 2011
Virtualization technology enables multiple Virtual Machines (VMs) to run on a single physical server. VMs that run on the same physical server can share memory pages that have identical content,...
Provided by Association for Computing Machinery
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Whitepapers
Forrester: The Total Economic Impact Of IBM System Storage SAN Volume Controller
Jun 2012
In June 2011, IBM commissioned Forrester Consulting to examine the total economic impact and potential return on investment (ROI) enterprises may realize by deploying System Storage SAN Volume...
Provided by IBM Corp.
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Whitepapers
Why IBM's Storage Hypervisor is an Excellent Idea
Jun 2012
IBM's Storage Hypervisor concept is the best news since server-less back-up, and easier to understand. Thanks to the popularity of server virtualization, most business folks have some idea of what...
Provided by IBM Corp.
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Whitepapers
Gartner: Use Heterogeneous Storage Virtualization as a Bridge to Cloud
Jun 2012
Data center operators who are interested in private cloud storage technologies struggle with moving existing storage infrastructure into a cloud storage paradigm. Heterogeneous storage...
Provided by IBM Corp.
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Whitepapers
IDC: Storwize V7000 with Real-time Compression expands IBM's IT Optimization lead and provides and easy upgrade path
Jun 2012
It should come as no surprise that storage budgets are constantly under pressure from opposing forces: On one hand, economic forces are pushing budgets to either stay flat or, in many cases,...
Provided by IBM Corp.
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Whitepapers
Forrester: Total Economic Impact Study of IBM Storwize V7000
Jun 2012
In June 2011, IBM commissioned Forrester Consulting to examine the total economic impact and potential return on investment (ROI) that enterprises may realize by deploying Storwize V7000. The...
Provided by IBM Corp.
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Whitepapers
The Tod Point Group: IBM Storwize V7000 Unified Provides Enterprise-Class Value in a VMWare Environment
Jun 2012
Server virtualization from VMware provides a powerful environment for consolidating a large number of physical servers, thereby delivering cost savings, asset optimization and enhanced flexibility...
Provided by IBM Corp.
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Whitepapers
The Tod Point Group: IBM Storwize V7000 Unified Provides Enterprise-Class Value in a Exchange Environment
Jun 2012
Microsoft Exchange Server 2010 provides a powerful environment for users to conduct business through scheduling their time (calendar), managing their relationships (contacts), and communicating...
Provided by IBM Corp.
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Whitepapers
Rethink the Virtual Machine Template
Mar 2011
Server virtualization technology facilitates the creation of an elastic computing infrastructure on demand. There are cloud applications like server-based computing and virtual desktop that...
Provided by Association for Computing Machinery
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Whitepapers
Towards Exitless and Efficient Paravirtual I/O
Jun 2012
Virtualization is a prominent technology used in data centers around the world. While many kinds of workloads can run at near-native performance even when virtualized, I/O intensive workloads...
Provided by Association for Computing Machinery
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Whitepapers
eGuide: Tomorrow's SAN Technology
Jun 2012
Many companies are reaching the limits of their current storage systems. Fortunately, innovations in storage area networks (SAN) technology can now more easily provide maximum capacity, peak...
Provided by Oracle
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Whitepapers
Cluster Management in a Virtualized Server Environment
Feb 2008
One of the most attractive topics of today is server virtualization. Sever virtualization is not a new concept. However technologies and market demand are increasing the use of server...
Provided by International Telecommunication Union
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Case Studies
CareCore National: Riverbed Virtual Application Delivery Controller Brings New Life to CareCore National
May 2012
When CareCore National, a benefits management company focused on healthcare treatments, experienced hyper-growth, the company decided it was time to migrate to a virtual environment. Their facing...
Provided by Riverbed Technology
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Case Studies
The Depository Trust & Clearing Corporation (DTCC): DTCC Deploys Riverbed Cascade for End-to-End Application Performance and Availability
Feb 2009
DTCC (The Depository Trust & Clearing Corporation) is the largest financial services. Their facing challenges were ensure service availability by obtaining end-to-end application visibility and...
Provided by Riverbed Technology
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Case Studies
Target Corporation: Large Retailer Relies on a Virtual Solution to Deliver Optimal Shopping Experience
Mar 2011
With its attractive stores offering trendy merchandise at affordable prices, Target changed how consumers think about discount shopping. To help Target deliver on its "Expect More. Pay Less."...
Provided by Microsoft
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Case Studies
Northern Ireland Water: Utility Virtualizes 80 Percent of Infrastructure While Doubling Server Capacity
Jun 2012
When Northern Ireland Water needed to relocate its data center, it decided to use an existing building that it owned, instead of renting server space. Although Northern Ireland Water had some...
Provided by Microsoft
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Case Studies
Miele & Cie: Appliance Manufacturer Saves Euro1.5 Million With Global Virtualization Solution
Aug 2010
Miele & Cie is a manufacturer of premium household appliances that are distributed worldwide. They need to reduce server sprawl and data center costs, they had deployed a large virtualization...
Provided by Microsoft
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Case Studies
CH2M HILL: Engineering Firm Virtualizes Field Servers, Saves $3.2 Million, With Switch to Hyper-V
Aug 2010
Engineering firm CH2M HILL was an early user of virtualization software to lower server costs. However, when the global economy began to slump in 2007, the company sought a more cost-effective...
Provided by Microsoft
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Whitepapers
Consolidating databases: Benefits for IT acquisition and costs
Jul 2012
As a C-level executive, you are always on the lookout for ways to reduce IT costs while increasing systems capability in order to grow sales and/or improve service. Leveraging applications with...
Provided by IBM
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Whitepapers
Fit to burst: A practitioner's guide to cloudbursting
Jul 2012
Cloudbursting has frequently been misrepresented, with some believing that bursting can occur almost instantaneously in response to unanticipated outages or unforeseen peaks in demand. Among those...
Provided by Rackspace
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Whitepapers
Consideration for the cloud: The process every enterprise should think through
Jul 2012
Cloud computing is one of the hottest topics in enterprise IT today. However, amidst all the hype and misinformation, it is critical that enterprise decision makers consider the cloud as a viable...
Provided by Rackspace
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Whitepapers
A decision maker's guide to hybrid and cloud computing
Jul 2012
More IT organisations are achieving tangible cost efficiencies from the intelligent use of cloud computing and hosting solutions. At the same time, vendors are busy rebranding their products as...
Provided by Rackspace
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Whitepapers
Unlocking the enterprise cloud: How the OpenStack project eliminates cloud lock-in
Jul 2012
Cloud computing stands well-poised to help enterprises significantly improve their IT speed, agility and costs. However, the fear of technology 'lock-in' - difficulty in efficiently switching...
Provided by Rackspace
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Whitepapers
Versed in virtual desktop
Jul 2012
Distributed computing has been pervasive in IT organisations for nearly two decades, but the tables are beginning to turn. Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI), also known as Hosted Virtual...
Provided by Rackspace
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Whitepapers
IBM x86 Servers in the Cloud: "Serving the Cloud" by TBR
Jul 2012
An analysis and perspective from leading IT Industry analysts, Technology Business Research (TBR) on how x86 servers and the implementation of private clouds offer a secure and cost-effective...
Provided by IBM
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Whitepapers
Exchange Workload White Paper (Principled Technologies)
Jul 2012
A "case study" analysis from IBM Research that highlights the financial, performance, operational and financial benefits for midmarket companies when they upgrade to the new IBM System x M4...
Provided by IBM
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Whitepapers
How to Enhance Performance and Reduce Energy Costs in the Midmarket with IBM System x and BladeCenter Systems
Jul 2012
This paper highlights new IBM servers and blades based on Intel Xeon 5600 Series processors and how they enable outstanding virtualization/consolidation. They allow you to lower TCO, reduce...
Provided by IBM
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Whitepapers
Virtualize with confidence using MAX5
Jul 2012
This brand-new white paper by Principled Technologies proved what we knew - that x3690 X5 and MAX5 are capable of hosting over 320 virtual machines. PT then went a step further and tested both...
Provided by IBM
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Whitepapers
eX5 The fifth generation of IBM X-Architecture
Jul 2012
High-end workloads drive ever-increasing and ever-changing constraints on innovation. But still, IBM eX5 delivers. Read this white paper to see how IBM eX5 helps you get the greatest value for...
Provided by IBM
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Whitepapers
Achieving success with a flexible workplace
Jul 2012
In our hyperconnected world, employees expect to work from anywhere, at any time and with any device. Each of these new access points, however, increases the IT security perimeter. In the flexible...
Provided by IBM
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Multiroot: Towards Memory-Efficient Router Virtualization
Apr 2011
Router virtualization has become a powerful technique to make efficient use of networking hardware. It allows multiple virtual networks to co-exist on the same physical networking substrate. This...
Provided by Institute of Electrical & Electronic Engineers
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A Container-Based I/O for Virtual Routers: Experimental and Analytical Evaluations
Apr 2011
Network virtualization is a promising technology that offers high levels of flexibility, isolation, extensibility and cost-effectiveness. In this paper, the authors focus on router virtualization....
Provided by Institute of Electrical & Electronic Engineers
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Five steps to successful integrated cloud management
Jul 2012
Cloud computing strategies help IT organisations reduce costs, improve service levels and increase business agility by dynamically sharing IT resources across multiple applications and workloads....
Provided by Hewlett-Packard (HP)
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Shared Backup Network Provision for Virtual Network Embedding
Apr 2011
Network virtualization has been recognized as a promising solution to enable the rapid deployment of customized services by building multiple Virtual Networks (VNs) on a shared substrate network....
Provided by Institute of Electrical & Electronic Engineers
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VM Data Protection for Dummies
Jul 2012
VM Data Protection For Dummies is designed to help IT decision-makers figure out how to handle virtualization data protection in the most cost-effective and efficient way. In this book, you will...
Provided by Quantum
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EMC VNXe3150: Winning Storage Simplicity
Jul 2012
EMC VNXe3150: Winning Storage Simplicity Enterprises do not have to be huge to experience the pain of unbridled information growth and the impact of server virtualization on storage requirements....
Provided by EMC
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IBM SmartCloud Entry on System x with VMware vSphere Essentials Plus
Jul 2012
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...
Provided by IBM
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Fast and Texture-Structure Preservable Inpainting and Its Application for Creating Virtualized-Reality Indoor Models
Feb 2012
This paper discusses the new inpainting algorithm for handling the images in the virtualized-reality indoor models. The untextured regions in the indoor model are textured by this proposed...
Provided by Interscience Open Access Journals
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Combining Server and Storage Virtualization: A New Dimension for SMB's
Jun 2012
The virtualization wave is quickly reaching its way down into the small-to-medium-sized business. Virtualization provides unmatched flexibility, performance, and utilization by allowing one to...
Provided by International Institute of Information Technology
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Cloud Computing: A Survey
Mar 2012
Cloud computing provides huge computing services to the business for improving the organizational growth. Basic requirement needed for this technology is Internet but provides higher capability...
Provided by Interscience Open Access Journals
