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Built-in Manageability and Proactive Security for Business Desktop PCs sponsored by Intel Corporation WHITE PAPER: Read this white paper to learn how built in desktop management can help address today?s key IT challenges such as avoiding malicious attacks, accurate inventory of assets, and the demand for IT services. Posted: 05 Sep 2006 \| Published: 01 Oct 2006 TOPICS: Desktop Management \| Downtime \| Endpoint Security \| IT Asset Management \| IT Managers \| IT Spending \| Multi-core Processor Architecture \| Multi-core Processors \| Operating Systems \| Personal Computers \| Remote Network Management \| Security Threats \| Software Virtualization \| Virtual Machine Monitor

The Solaris Operating System - Optimized For The Intel Xeon Processor 5500 Series sponsored by Sun Microsystems, Inc. and Intel Corporation WHITE PAPER: This document is intended as a quick reference guide for developers and system administrators that want to optimize the Solaris OS on the Intel Xeon processor 5500 series platform. Posted: 24 Apr 2009 \| Published: 24 Apr 2009 TOPICS: Business Intelligence \| Data Center Management \| Data Centers \| Operating Systems \| Server Virtualization \| Solaris \| Storage Management

Lab Test: AppZero Turbo-Charges Server Consolidation sponsored by AppZero WHITE PAPER: This paper examines the impact of application virtualization technology on overall system performance. It documents a simple performance evaluation of application virtualization using AppZero virtual application appliance (VAA) compared to a VMware ESXbased system using virtual machines (VM). Posted: 04 Mar 2009 \| Published: 04 Mar 2009 TOPICS: Application Deployment \| Cost Benefit Analysis \| Operating Systems \| Server Consolidation \| Server Hardware \| Server Virtualization \| Systems Management Services \| VMware

Virtual Desktop Infrastructure sponsored by VMware, Inc. WHITE PAPER: Learn about the benefits of desktop virtualization: administrative and management tasks are reduced; applications can quickly be added, deleted, upgraded, and patched; security is centralized; and data is easier to safeguard and back up. Posted: 07 Oct 2008 \| Published: 03 Oct 2008 TOPICS: Applications Management \| Backups \| Data Centers \| Desktop Management \| Operating Systems \| Security \| Server Virtualization \| VMware

SOA Platforms - Evolving to Meet Stringent Market Realities sponsored by Fiorano Software, Inc. WHITE PAPER: This white paper details the evolution of SOA platforms from point products to second-generation architectures such as the enterprise service grid. Posted: 13 Jun 2007 \| Published: 01 Jun 2007 TOPICS: Application Performance Management \| Business IT Alignment \| Business Process Management \| Computer Hardware \| Operating Systems \| Project Management \| SOA \| Standards

Citrix XenApp 5.0: Preparing for a Successful Migration sponsored by visionapp WHITE PAPER: Citrix XenApp 5.0 offers new functionality: with preferential load balancing, preset values can now be applied to both specific users and particular applications. Posted: 14 Nov 2008 \| Published: 14 Nov 2008 TOPICS: Application Performance Management \| Best Practices \| Data Migration \| Load Balancing \| Operating Systems \| Quality Control \| RAM \| Software Migration \| USB

The Scalability Revolution: From Dead End to Open Road sponsored by GigaSpaces Technologies Inc. WHITE PAPER: Learn how applications can improve performance and achieve linear scalability by switching from a tier-based model to space-based architecture (SBA). Posted: 06 Mar 2007 \| Published: 01 Feb 2007 TOPICS: Application Development \| Application Performance Management \| Client-Server Architectures \| Grid Computing \| Load Testing \| Operating Systems \| SOA \| Software Migration

Agentless Application Virtualization: Enabling the Evolution of the Desktop sponsored by VMware, Inc. WHITE PAPER: In this study, IDC analyst Michael Rose discusses how VMware ThinApp, an agentless virtualization solution, addresses the challenges of desktop computing. Read this paper to learn about the pros and cons of virtualized client computing. Posted: 10 Dec 2008 \| Published: 11 Dec 2008 TOPICS: Business IT Alignment \| Data Security \| Desktop Management \| IT Managers \| Operating Systems \| Software Virtualization \| VMware

Getting Started with Microsoft Windows Server 2008 Hyper-V on Dell Servers sponsored by Dell EMC and Microsoft WHITE PAPER: This article provides an introduction to Hyper-V virtualization, discusses the overall architecture and underlying technologies, and offers guidance on best practices for deployment on Dell PowerEdge servers. Posted: 11 Dec 2008 \| Published: 11 Dec 2008 TOPICS: Best Practices \| Data Center Management \| DHCP \| Enterprise \| High Availability \| Operating Systems \| SAN \| Server Virtualization \| Virtual Machine Monitor \| VMware

Streaming and Virtual Hosted Desktop Study sponsored by Intel WHITE PAPER: Read this paper to learn what Intel IT found when they compared the impact on servers and the network for both streaming software and virtually hosted computing models. Posted: 21 Nov 2008 \| Published: 21 Nov 2008 TOPICS: Desktop Applications Management \| Desktop Management \| Network Performance \| Operating Systems \| Remote Computing \| Server Virtualization \| Streaming Video Software \| Testing