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Whitepapers
Linux without limits: IT without compromise
Mar 2012
Is your IT infrastructure holding you back? In today's business environment, you need to manage for value, position for the future and effect change. The challenge for IT is clear: improve...
Provided by IBM
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Whitepapers
The Total Economic Impact Of IBM's Real-Time Compression Solution
Mar 2011
Despite the economic slowdown, storage capacity has been continuing to grow at a fast pace for the past few years. Although the portion of the overall IT budget allocated to storage is growing for...
Provided by IBM
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Whitepapers
HRG Assessment: Comparing IBM PureSystems and HP Converged Systems
Aug 2012
Today customers and employees have increasingly more bi-directional interactions with companies and all of these transactions have to be served up and supported by IT. Business applications and...
Provided by IBM
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Whitepapers
Self-Tuning Virtual Machines for Predictable EScience
May 2009
Unpredictable access to batch-mode HPC resources is a significant problem for emerging dynamic data-driven applications. Although efforts such as reservation or queue-time prediction have...
Provided by Institute of Electrical & Electronic Engineers
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Whitepapers
Autonomic Resource Management for Virtualized Database Hosting Systems
Jul 2009
The hosting of databases on Virtual Machines (VMs) has great potential to improve the efficiency of resource utilization and the ease of deployment of database systems. This paper considers the...
Provided by University of Florida
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Whitepapers
VPFS: Bandwidth Virtualization of Parallel Storage Systems
Sep 2011
This paper presents vPFS, a new parallel file system performance management approach to support the allocation of shared storage bandwidth on a per-application basis. Existing parallel file...
Provided by University of Florida
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Whitepapers
Modeling Virtualized Applications Using Machine Learning Techniques
Mar 2012
With the growing adoption of virtualized datacenters and cloud hosting services, the allocation and sizing of resources such as CPU, memory, and I/O bandwidth for Virtual Machines (VMs) is...
Provided by Association for Computing Machinery
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Whitepapers
Fuzzy Modeling Based Resource Management for Virtualized Database Systems
May 2011
The hosting of databases on Virtual Machines (VMs) has great potential to improve the efficiency of resource utilization and the ease of deployment of database systems. This paper considers the...
Provided by University of Florida
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Whitepapers
Performance Modeling of Virtual Machine Live Migration
May 2011
System virtualization is becoming pervasive and it is enabling important new computing diagrams such as cloud computing. Live Virtual Machine (VM) migration is a unique capability of system...
Provided by Florida International University
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Whitepapers
Adaptive Virtual Resource Management With Fuzzy Model Predictive Control
Apr 2011
Virtualized systems such as utility datacenters and clouds are emerging as important new computing platforms with great potential to conveniently deliver computing across the Internet and...
Provided by University of Florida
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Whitepapers
Cooperative Virtual Machine Scheduling on Multi-Core Multi-Threading Systems - A Feasibility Study
Nov 2010
Virtual Machines (VMs) and Multi-core Multi-threading Micro-Processors (MMMP) are two emerging technologies in software and hardware, respectively, and they are expected to become pervasive on...
Provided by Florida International University
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Whitepapers
Preemption-Aware Energy Management in Virtualized DataCenters
May 2012
Energy efficiency is one of the main challenges that datacenters are facing nowadays. A considerable portion of the consumed energy in these environments is wasted because of idling resources. To...
Provided by University of Melbourne
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Whitepapers
Transparent Accelerator Migration in a Virtualized GPU Environment
May 2012
This paper presents a framework to support transparent, live migration of virtual GPU accelerators in a virtualized execution environment. Migration is a critical capability in such environments...
Provided by Argonne National Laboratory
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Whitepapers
Pegasus: Coordinated Scheduling for Virtualized Accelerator-Based Systems
Apr 2011
Heterogeneous multi-cores - platforms comprised of both general purpose and accelerator cores - are becoming increasingly common. While applications wish to freely utilize all cores present on...
Provided by Georgia Institute of Technology
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Whitepapers
CHERI: A Research Platform Deconflating Hardware Virtualization and Protection
Feb 2012
Contemporary CPU architectures conflate virtualization and protection, imposing virtualization-related performance, programmability, and debuggability penalties on software requiring fine-grained...
Provided by University of Cambridge
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Whitepapers
Weighted Fairness Resource Allocation of Disks in XEN
Jun 2012
Virtualization improves the utilization ratio of resource, saving considerable amount of equipment, energy, management, etc. However, the benefits of virtualization are at the penalty of fairness...
Provided by Huazhong University of Science & Technology
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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
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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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
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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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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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
Dell Global Infrastructure Consulting Helps DeKalb Medical Create a Virtualized Server Environment to Eliminate Up to 90 Servers and Reduce Power Consumption by an Anticipated 20 Percent
Sep 2008
For Georgia's DeKalb Medical, technology is vital to enhancing efficiency, ensuring safety, and delivering high-quality healthcare. DeKalb Medical wanted to design and deploy a virtualized server...
Provided by Dell
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Case Studies
The Dell IT Group Has Virtualized More Than 5,000 Servers and Saved the Company Over US$29 Million Using a Scalable, Worldwide Virtualization Model
Oct 2008
Business growth and a fast-paced product development cycle require the Dell IT team to accelerate deployment of new servers and applications - without exceeding data center space and within power...
Provided by Dell
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Case Studies
Virtualizing on Dell Servers Helps Xtralis Reduce Servers by Over 85 Percent, Improve System Performance, and Reduce Downtime
Nov 2008
Xtralis sought to align IT with the company's strategy of tripling its business in three years by quickly standardizing on a global technology infrastructure and reducing downtime. Virtual servers...
Provided by Dell
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Case Studies
By Simplifying Its Operations, the Rackspace Hosting IT Team Can Grow With No Additional Manpower
Oct 2008
Founded in 1998 in San Antonio, Texas, Rackspace quickly found its niche hosting Web, back-office and database applications for companies all over the world. To stay competitive, Rackspace must...
Provided by Dell
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Case Studies
To Simplify Its IT Infrastructure, InVentiv Health Is Virtualizing 90% of Its Servers and Avoiding $95,000 in Costs
Sep 2008
Data center power consumption and heat generation were growing by 10 to 20 percent per year at one of inVentiv Health's core business segments. If the trend continued, the company would have to...
Provided by Dell
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Case Studies
School District Deploys New Servers in Minutes Rather Than Days With Dell Server Virtualization Solution
Aug 2008
The school district needed to replace distributed end-of-life servers and improve its storage infrastructure while providing protection for data to serve K-12 students with a visionary program in...
Provided by Dell
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Case Studies
Dell PowerEdge Blade and Rack Servers Provide the Foundation of a High-Density Virtualized Infrastructure at ALERT Life Sciences Computing - Supporting Simplified Management, High Performance, and Rapid Deployment
Nov 2008
With the IT infrastructure at ALERT Life Sciences Computing growing by more than 100 percent annually, the IT department needed to take action to avoid running out of rack space or spending...
Provided by Dell
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Case Studies
Parallels Software and Intel Quad-Core Processors Accelerate Virtual Private Servers for Service Providers
May 2008
HostEurope wanted to select key technologies that will help enable a new Virtual Private Server (VPS) hosting services model that combines the low cost of shared hosting and the guaranteed...
Provided by Intel
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Case Studies
NaviSite Chooses Sun Blade Server Modules With Multi-Core Intel Xeon Processors to Virtualize Its Data Center and Help Enable New Dedicated Hosting Offerings
Nov 2008
NaviSite is one of the world's leading providers of managed, dedicated hosting solutions and application services, with 17 data centers around the globe. Supporting hundreds of thousands of new...
Provided by Intel
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Case Studies
Solvay Pharmaceuticals, Inc. Chooses Quad-Core Intel Xeon Processors to Virtualize Its Data Center
May 2008
Continuous new product development is a hallmark of the pharmaceutical industry, and Solvay Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (Solvay) depends on its IT infrastructure to support a growing research and...
Provided by Intel
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Case Studies
ACS Increases the Efficiency of IT Services by Creating a Virtualized Environment With Intel Xeon Processors
Sep 2008
Affiliated Computer Services (ACS) is a FORTUNE 500 company that delivers business process and IT services to a wide range of clients around the world. To enhance the efficiency of IT services...
Provided by Intel
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Case Studies
Designing a Model for Growth
Nov 2007
Humana wanted to replace an aging data center with a new facility that has the flexibility to accommodate business change and the scalability to support continued company growth and evaluate an...
Provided by Intel
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Case Studies
Wikibon Case Study: Virtualization Energizes Cal State University
Oct 2008
Learn how Cal State University CIO John Charles averted a datacenter power crisis, reducing power consumption by 26%--from 67 kVA to 50 kVA--even after having adding more than twenty new...
Provided by 3PAR
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White Papers
Gartner Report: Quantifying the Value of Green Storage Technologies
Sep 2008
Most disk storage features that vendors have labeled as "green" were initially developed to increase utilization rates, to optimize storage system resource usage, to improve staff productivity or...
Provided by 3PAR
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White Papers
Virtualization 2.0: Opportunities and Challenges for Next-Generation Datacenter Networks
Oct 2008
Server virtualization is now widely accepted as a key method to consolidate computing resources. As companies take advantage of the cost savings of virtualization, they will begin to migrate to...
Provided by BLADE Network Technologies, Inc.
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White Papers
10 Gigabit Ethernet Technology Overview and Applications for Enterprise Data Centres
Oct 2008
This Technology Brief is divided into two parts. The first part discusses the evolution of Ethernet, and then focuses on 10 Gigabit Ethernet and related transceiver and cabling technologies. The...
Provided by BLADE Network Technologies, Inc.
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Whitepapers
"We Have Met the Enemy, and He is Us."
Jan 2009
Organisations are being force towards indentity- based acess lifecycle management tools in order to support IT agility & flexability, safeley empowering staff and rapid evolution of data cetres...
Provided by IBM
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Case Studies
Beyond Consolidation: Virtualization Helps Speed Change and Manage Risk
Aug 2008
Because of National Foods' long history and a number of mergers and acquisitions, the company's IT infrastructure could best have been described as an "Amalgamation" prior to its implementation of...
Provided by IDG (International Data Group)
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White Papers
Sun xVM Virtualization Portfolio: Virtualizing the Dynamic Datacenter
Aug 2008
Over the past few years, virtualization has evolved from a novel concept to an important tool in most datacenters. However, the full potential of virtualization has yet to be realized. And along...
Provided by Sun Microsystems
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White Papers
The Critical Role of an ADC in the Data-center and the Internet
Sep 2008
The data center is the heart of a corporation's information infrastructure. Having the right Application Delivery Controller (ADC) is critical because it plays a key role in directing traffic, and...
Provided by Akamai Technologies
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Webcasts
Business Continuity in a Virtual Environment
Sep 2008
Are you prepared for virtual environment outages that affect business continuity? What are the potential threats in virtual systems? This webcast covers the strategies and approaches for...
Provided by NEC Corporation of America
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White Papers
Gene Kim's Practical Steps to Mitigate Virtualization Security Risks
Sep 2008
Tripwire founder/CTO Gene Kim provides seven practical steps that IT organizations can take to mitigate the unique security challenges of virtualization. While some are directed specifically at...
Provided by Tripwire
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White Papers
Proactively Reduce Risk and Improve IT Security in Physical and Virtual Environments
Sep 2008
Learn more about the security risks and vulnerabilities faced by organizations, and the elements of a proactive security approach. Then find out how Tripwire helps organizations attain and...
Provided by Tripwire
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White Papers
File Integrity Monitoring: Secure Your Virtual and Physical IT Environments
Sep 2008
Looking for a File Integrity Monitoring Solution? With the numerous servers, devices and applications organizations rely on to support their everyday business, outages and security breaches due to...
Provided by Tripwire
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Case Studies
With Virtualization, Newspaper Reduces Costs, Gains Infrastructure Flexibility
Aug 2008
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution (AJC), the largest newspaper in the Southeast, was adding servers to its data center at the rate of over 10 percent a year. The data center was experiencing power...
Provided by Microsoft
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Case Studies
Hawaii Bank Saves Money and Time by Consolidating Server Environment
Aug 2008
American Savings Bank is the third-largest financial institution in Hawaii based on 2007 year-end assets. As its server network grew, American Savings Bank faced increased costs for technology...
Provided by Microsoft
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Case Studies
Auto Manufacturer Virtualizes IT Environment to Help Meet Shifting Opportunities
Aug 2008
The SOK Group is Russia's largest automotive components manufacturer and second-largest automobile producer. With more than a dozen industrial enterprises, including joint international projects...
Provided by Microsoft
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Case Studies
Educators Aim to Improve Education, Trim Servers by 60 Percent Using Virtualization
Aug 2008
The Kentucky Department of Education (KDE) wanted to streamline data center and administration costs so it could direct more resources to new educational services. It also wanted to improve server...
Provided by Microsoft
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Case Studies
Hosting Provider Uses Virtualization to Expand Services and Reduce Costs
Aug 2008
NetBenefit is a leading provider of managed hosting services in the United Kingdom. Faced with ever more expensive London data center costs, the company was looking for ways to expand the hosting...
Provided by Microsoft
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Case Studies
Hosting Company Taps Growth Market by Offering Latest Virtualization Technology
Aug 2008
Layered Tech provides IT infrastructure, including dedicated servers, managed hosting, and grid computing, to businesses of all sizes. To offer its customers maximum choice, the company added...
Provided by Microsoft
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Case Studies
Server Virtualization Improves Business Processes for Service Provider and Outsourcer
Aug 2008
Wipro Technologies provides IT solutions and services to global corporations. To deliver its services more efficiently and help meet its ICT environmental sustainability goals, Wipro needed a...
Provided by Microsoft
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Case Studies
Latin-American Airline Cuts Costs, Gains High Availability With Virtualization Solution
Aug 2008
Copa Airlines is an international air carrier based in Panama that is well known for its customer service. It operates 136 daily flights to 42 destinations in 22 countries in North, Central, and...
Provided by Microsoft
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Case Studies
Private Bank Virtualizes Data Centers for IT, Business, and Environmental Benefits
Sep 2008
Banque de Luxembourg is one of that country's leading private banks, serving private investors across the continent. To uphold its tradition of innovation and demonstrate its commitment to...
Provided by Microsoft
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Case Studies
Human Resource Service Provider Enhances Development Efficiency and Business Agility
Aug 2008
TALX, provider of Equifax Workforce Solutions, delivers automated, Web-based human resource, payroll, and employment-verification services to more than 9,000 business customers. To maintain its...
Provided by Microsoft
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Case Studies
Financial Firm Reduces Server Costs, Increases Reliability With Virtualization
Sep 2008
Gartmore is an asset manager headquartered in London. The company wanted to reduce server costs in its London data center and find a way to cost effectively and securely place and manage servers...
Provided by Microsoft
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Case Studies
Hospital Uses Virtualization to Speed Rollout of New Services and Improve Uptime
Sep 2008
Saint Raphael Healthcare System runs the Hospital of Saint Raphael in New Haven, Connecticut, which is renowned for excellence in patient care, customer service, and medical education. To maintain...
Provided by Microsoft
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Case Studies
Construction Firm Uses Virtualization to Reduce Costs and Improve Availability
Sep 2008
Paris-based Bouygues Construction experienced high costs and complex administration due to server proliferation. The firm decided to implement the Windows Server 2008 Enterprise operating system...
Provided by Microsoft
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Case Studies
Costco Uses Virtualization to Save Space, Reduce Costs, and Increase IT Agility
Sep 2008
Costco Wholesale Corporation is a major international wholesale distributor with revenues approaching U.S.$70 billion. Costco began using virtualization technology in 2006 and has expanded its...
Provided by Microsoft
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Case Studies
Hosting Company Expands Services and Reduces Costs With Server Virtualization
Sep 2008
Hostbasket is a Belgian hosting company that strives to keep its services fresh, innovative, and price-competitive. With success and growth, the company acquired a burgeoning number of servers,...
Provided by Microsoft
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Case Studies
Dutch College Deploys High Performance Virtualized Server System to Support ICT Strategy
Jul 2008
Vechtdal College in the Netherlands is committed to the provision of comprehensive ICT facilities and resources for its 3,300 students and 375 teaching staff. The system has grown rapidly,...
Provided by Dell
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Case Studies
UK Hospital Reduces Server Management and Power Consumption by 70 Per Cent and Delivers New Services Faster With Award-Winning Virtual Infrastructure
Jun 2008
Rapid server infrastructure expansion meant that Liverpool Women's Hospital - part of Liverpool Women's NHS Foundation Trust needed a consolidated infrastructure that would guarantee information...
Provided by Dell
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Case Studies
Coppell ISD Achieves 90 Percent Server Consolidation With a Dell Virtualization Solution
Dec 2007
A growing demand for IT services from students, teachers, administrators, and parents outpaced the school district's resources, impairing system availability. As a solution a Dell virtual...
Provided by Dell
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Case Studies
UK Council Simplifies Management and Saves Up to £15,000 Per Year in Electricity Costs With Virtualized Infrastructure
Mar 2008
Winchester City Council found that management of its fast-growing server infrastructure was time-consuming and expensive. In addition, the distributed storage environment could not scale to...
Provided by Dell
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Case Studies
Danish Construction Firm Achieves Maximum Business Continuity With Virtual Server Solution
Oct 2007
Customer-facing employees at the Danish firm Lind & Risor are dependant on the availability of its management system. But its existing IT environment was causing down-time becoming expensive and...
Provided by Dell
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Case Studies
Italian Food Distributor Reduces Infrastructure Management Time to Minutes Per Day
Sep 2008
By spending so much time on management tasks, IT personnel at Alimenta in Italy had little chance to focus on strategic planning. The existing infrastructure wasn't flexible enough to scale with...
Provided by Dell
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Case Studies
MKB Bank Centralized Database Accounts in AD and Eliminated Helpdesk Calls on DB Passwords
Aug 2008
MKB Bank wanted to avoid providing new username and passwords to their data warehouse users as well as deploying new provisioning connectors for their existing provisioning system from BMC. MKB...
Provided by Oracle
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Case Studies
ASPICON GmbH Reduces Data Center Energy Costs by 50% With Virtualization
Aug 2008
Oracle Certified Partner ASPICON GmbH develops concepts for high availability IT infrastructures jointly with customers and partners. ASPICON works mainly with small and medium-sized enterprises...
Provided by Oracle
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Case Studies
Siemens Saves Money, Space, and Power With Microsoft Virtualization Technology
Sep 2008
Siemens Standard Drives is a manufacturing wing of the global electronics company Siemens. The company's servers were increasing in number, but physical space and power were in short supply, and...
Provided by Microsoft
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Case Studies
Municipality Virtualizes Data Center to Lower Costs and Expand Services
Aug 2008
Slough Borough Council (Slough BC), the governing authority for the borough of Slough, England, needed to expand its municipal services but faced data center space and power constraints for...
Provided by Microsoft
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Case Studies
Del Monte Uses Virtualization to Save Power and Speed Software Deployment
Sep 2008
Headquartered in San Francisco, California, Del Monte Foods has been producing food since 1916. The company depends on accurate demand forecasting, which requires extensive collaboration and...
Provided by Microsoft
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White Papers
Accelerating the Next Phase of Virtualization
Apr 2008
How do you make virtualization a reality for your enterprise without your users taking a performance hit? Start by downloading this white paper from Riverbed. Wide-area data services (WDS) is a...
Provided by Riverbed
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Whitepapers
IBM Power Systems offer a smart alternative to Windows servers
May 2008
Maintaining data security, performance, availability and recoverability is a growing challenge. The IBM Power platform offers many advantages in performance, scalability and key functional...
Provided by IBM
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Case Studies
DataCore Software Case Study: Alameda County Medical Center
Jul 2008
The IT environment at ACMC was fundamentally based upon products from Dell and EMC as well as virtual machines from VMware. ACMC has struggled to maintain a disaster recovery or business...
Provided by DataCore Software
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Case Studies
BEA Systems Case Study: The First American Corporation
Mar 2008
The First American Corporation (NYSE: FAF) is a Fortune 500 company and is America's largest provider of business information. The company wanted to reign in server sprawl and develop a unified...
Provided by BEA Systems
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White Papers
Data Management Challenges in the Internet Computing Era
Sep 2008
Data Is Changing - and Growing Disruptive Changes in Data Creation and Usage are Driving Explosive Growth
Provided by Brocade Communications Systems
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White Papers
11 things to consider for File Virtualization
Sep 2008
As organizations struggle to cope with the exponential growth of data, especially in the unstructured and decentralized file space, the urgency to gain better control, visibility and transparency...
Provided by Brocade Communications Systems
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Whitepapers
VIRTUALIZED iSCSI SANs: Flexible, Scalable Enterprise Storage for Virtual Infrastructures
Mar 2008
iSCSI is a flexible and powerful Storage Area Networking (SAN) protocol that delivers superior capabilities and benefits across all market segments. In addition to providing enterprise-class data...
Provided by EMC
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Whitepapers
Desktop Delivery: Making Desktop Virtualization Work
Apr 2008
This whitepaper discusses Desktop Virtualization and the impact on desktop management challenges. While Desktop Virtualization puts the desktop into the data center, it is not a panacea for...
Provided by Citrix Systems
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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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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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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
Dell Global Infrastructure Consulting Helps DeKalb Medical Create a Virtualized Server Environment to Eliminate Up to 90 Servers and Reduce Power Consumption by an Anticipated 20 Percent
Sep 2008
For Georgia's DeKalb Medical, technology is vital to enhancing efficiency, ensuring safety, and delivering high-quality healthcare. DeKalb Medical wanted to design and deploy a virtualized server...
Provided by Dell
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Case Studies
The Dell IT Group Has Virtualized More Than 5,000 Servers and Saved the Company Over US$29 Million Using a Scalable, Worldwide Virtualization Model
Oct 2008
Business growth and a fast-paced product development cycle require the Dell IT team to accelerate deployment of new servers and applications - without exceeding data center space and within power...
Provided by Dell
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Case Studies
Virtualizing on Dell Servers Helps Xtralis Reduce Servers by Over 85 Percent, Improve System Performance, and Reduce Downtime
Nov 2008
Xtralis sought to align IT with the company's strategy of tripling its business in three years by quickly standardizing on a global technology infrastructure and reducing downtime. Virtual servers...
Provided by Dell
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Case Studies
By Simplifying Its Operations, the Rackspace Hosting IT Team Can Grow With No Additional Manpower
Oct 2008
Founded in 1998 in San Antonio, Texas, Rackspace quickly found its niche hosting Web, back-office and database applications for companies all over the world. To stay competitive, Rackspace must...
Provided by Dell
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Case Studies
To Simplify Its IT Infrastructure, InVentiv Health Is Virtualizing 90% of Its Servers and Avoiding $95,000 in Costs
Sep 2008
Data center power consumption and heat generation were growing by 10 to 20 percent per year at one of inVentiv Health's core business segments. If the trend continued, the company would have to...
Provided by Dell
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Case Studies
School District Deploys New Servers in Minutes Rather Than Days With Dell Server Virtualization Solution
Aug 2008
The school district needed to replace distributed end-of-life servers and improve its storage infrastructure while providing protection for data to serve K-12 students with a visionary program in...
Provided by Dell
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Case Studies
Dell PowerEdge Blade and Rack Servers Provide the Foundation of a High-Density Virtualized Infrastructure at ALERT Life Sciences Computing - Supporting Simplified Management, High Performance, and Rapid Deployment
Nov 2008
With the IT infrastructure at ALERT Life Sciences Computing growing by more than 100 percent annually, the IT department needed to take action to avoid running out of rack space or spending...
Provided by Dell
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Case Studies
Parallels Software and Intel Quad-Core Processors Accelerate Virtual Private Servers for Service Providers
May 2008
HostEurope wanted to select key technologies that will help enable a new Virtual Private Server (VPS) hosting services model that combines the low cost of shared hosting and the guaranteed...
Provided by Intel
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Case Studies
NaviSite Chooses Sun Blade Server Modules With Multi-Core Intel Xeon Processors to Virtualize Its Data Center and Help Enable New Dedicated Hosting Offerings
Nov 2008
NaviSite is one of the world's leading providers of managed, dedicated hosting solutions and application services, with 17 data centers around the globe. Supporting hundreds of thousands of new...
Provided by Intel
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Case Studies
Solvay Pharmaceuticals, Inc. Chooses Quad-Core Intel Xeon Processors to Virtualize Its Data Center
May 2008
Continuous new product development is a hallmark of the pharmaceutical industry, and Solvay Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (Solvay) depends on its IT infrastructure to support a growing research and...
Provided by Intel
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Case Studies
ACS Increases the Efficiency of IT Services by Creating a Virtualized Environment With Intel Xeon Processors
Sep 2008
Affiliated Computer Services (ACS) is a FORTUNE 500 company that delivers business process and IT services to a wide range of clients around the world. To enhance the efficiency of IT services...
Provided by Intel
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Case Studies
Designing a Model for Growth
Nov 2007
Humana wanted to replace an aging data center with a new facility that has the flexibility to accommodate business change and the scalability to support continued company growth and evaluate an...
Provided by Intel
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Case Studies
Wikibon Case Study: Virtualization Energizes Cal State University
Oct 2008
Learn how Cal State University CIO John Charles averted a datacenter power crisis, reducing power consumption by 26%--from 67 kVA to 50 kVA--even after having adding more than twenty new...
Provided by 3PAR
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White Papers
Gartner Report: Quantifying the Value of Green Storage Technologies
Sep 2008
Most disk storage features that vendors have labeled as "green" were initially developed to increase utilization rates, to optimize storage system resource usage, to improve staff productivity or...
Provided by 3PAR
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White Papers
Virtualization 2.0: Opportunities and Challenges for Next-Generation Datacenter Networks
Oct 2008
Server virtualization is now widely accepted as a key method to consolidate computing resources. As companies take advantage of the cost savings of virtualization, they will begin to migrate to...
Provided by BLADE Network Technologies, Inc.
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White Papers
10 Gigabit Ethernet Technology Overview and Applications for Enterprise Data Centres
Oct 2008
This Technology Brief is divided into two parts. The first part discusses the evolution of Ethernet, and then focuses on 10 Gigabit Ethernet and related transceiver and cabling technologies. The...
Provided by BLADE Network Technologies, Inc.
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Whitepapers
"We Have Met the Enemy, and He is Us."
Jan 2009
Organisations are being force towards indentity- based acess lifecycle management tools in order to support IT agility & flexability, safeley empowering staff and rapid evolution of data cetres...
Provided by IBM
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Case Studies
Beyond Consolidation: Virtualization Helps Speed Change and Manage Risk
Aug 2008
Because of National Foods' long history and a number of mergers and acquisitions, the company's IT infrastructure could best have been described as an "Amalgamation" prior to its implementation of...
Provided by IDG (International Data Group)
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Webcasts
TechNet Webcast: Virtualizing Test and Development Environments for a Quick Return on Investment (Level 300)
Jan 2009
This webcast follows the Contoso IT department as they prepare to deploy Windows Server 2008 with the Hyper-V role. An initial benefit Contoso can take advantage of quickly while they get used to...
Provided by Microsoft
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Webcasts
TechNet Webcast: Selecting the Right Candidates for Virtualization (Level 300)
Jan 2009
The presenter of this webcast shows the first steps for creating a virtual environment. Virtualization is an ideal solution to help reduce costs in an organization. However, virtualization is not...
Provided by Microsoft
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Webcasts
TechNet Webcast: Virtualization in a Nutshell (Level 300)
Jan 2009
This webcast covers both the Microsoft products and solutions available to create a virtualization environment in the organization and the third-party virtualization options. The presenter answers...
Provided by Microsoft
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White Papers
Automating the Porting of Linux to the VirtualLogix Hypervisor Using Semantic Patches
Dec 2007
Virtualization is a promising technology for running multiple Operating Systems (OS's) on a single processor. Preparing an OS for use with virtualization, however, involves making some changes to...
Provided by University of Copenhagen
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White Papers
Virtualization Support for SLA-Driven Resource Distribution Within Service Providers
Jul 2008
Resource management is a key challenge that service providers must adequately face in order to ensure their profitability. This paper describes a proof-of-concept framework for facilitating...
Provided by Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya
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White Papers
Comprehensive Backup and Recovery of VMware Virtual Infrastructure: Symantec Backup Exec 12.5 for Windows Servers
Sep 2008
Server virtualization is quickly becoming a standard technology in many data centers today. While VMware augments hardware utilization significantly through the use of server virtualization,...
Provided by Symantec
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Whitepapers
VMware Lab Manager: Automated Reconfiguration of Transiently Used Infrastructure
Jan 2008
VMware Lab Manager is purpose-designed for virtualizing, deploying and managing these frequently reconfigured systems. Most business sites, for example, have developer teams that write enterprise...
Provided by EMC
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Case Studies
Business Management Solution Provider Supports Attended & Unattended Systems With Remote Desktop Support Appliance
Aug 2008
In order to ensure that owners have the latest security measures implemented at POS terminals and that hardware/software systems are functioning properly, Innovative Control Systems (ICS) must be...
Provided by Bomgar
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Presentations
CA Disaster Recovery Demo
Dec 2008
Disaster recovery describes the backup and recovery processes that are used to protect computing environments against the loss of data or services that are caused by a catastrophic event or...
Provided by CA
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White Papers
Solution Brief: CA Recovery Management and VMware
Sep 2008
Read this paper to see how VMware Virtual Infrastructure and CA Recovery Management team up to deliver higher availability and risk-resistance for business-critical information and applications,...
Provided by CA XOsoft
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Presentations
CA Virtualization Support Demo
Dec 2008
Server virtualization is becoming widely used to help organizations reduce hardware and power costs. However, virtual machines (VMs) must be protected by using specific data protection...
Provided by CA
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White Papers
Benefits of Deploying VMware Infrastructure on 3PAR Utility Storage
Jan 2009
Using VMware? Then you need 3PAR Utility Storage. Combining server virtualization with highly virtualized storage from 3PAR allows you to increase overall utilization, provisioning agility, and...
Provided by 3PAR
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White Papers
Simplifying the Campus Help Desk
Aug 2008
Supporting faculty, staff, and students in a campus setting is no small task. The challenges of supporting end-users in a geographically dispersed and technologically irregular environment may...
Provided by Bomgar
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White Papers
Healthcare: Secure, Compliant Virtual Support
Jun 2008
IT personnel in the healthcare industry are faced with the daily challenge of supporting technology for doctors and medical staff who are making critical health decisions. However, employees,...
Provided by Bomgar
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Case Studies
Global Manufacturing Company Boosts Agility With Server to Desktop Virtualization
Feb 2009
Ingersoll Rand is a global manufacturing company with diverse product lines. Recent growth by acquisition contributed to an already decentralized, heterogeneous IT infrastructure. To simplify...
Provided by Microsoft
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Case Studies
IT Services Provider Uses Virtualization to Cut Costs and Build Agility for Clients
Feb 2009
Based in Heidenheim, Germany, Voith IT Solutions provides IT services that support the global operations of its parent company, Voith. To maximize service while minimizing costs, Voith IT...
Provided by Microsoft
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Case Studies
Investment Firm Expands Service Recovery, Lowers Costs With Virtualization
Feb 2009
Munder Capital Management of Birmingham, Michigan, thrives on information. Interruptions to business systems often left traders and analysts without access to information needed to make quick...
Provided by Microsoft
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Case Studies
Telco Calls on Virtualization to Speed New-Service Rollout, Cut Costs, Boost Uptime
Jan 2009
Umniah is a leading player in the fast-growing Jordanian mobile communications market. To stay ahead of the competition, Umniah needs to roll out new services continually and maintain exceptional...
Provided by Microsoft
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Case Studies
Globalization Company Standardizes, Cuts Costs, Enhances Security With Virtualization
Dec 2008
Lionbridge Technologies provides globalization, development, and testing services for enterprise applications and IT systems. A public company with U.S.$452 million in revenue, it handles complex...
Provided by Microsoft
