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VMware vSphere 5.1 Updates Including Web Client, Disaster Recovery sponsored by VMware, Inc. WHITE PAPER: Access this resource for expert insights to help IT admins get familiar with the new availability and storage features of vSphere 5.1. Learn how the next-gen features can transform your IT environment today. Posted: 29 Jul 2013 \| Published: 29 Jul 2013 TOPICS: Data Center Consolidation \| Data Center Design \| Data Center Infrastructure Efficiency \| Data Center Management \| Data Centers \| Server Hardware \| Server Management \| Server Virtualization \| Server Virtualization Software

Using Virtualization and Digital Control Technologies to Increase Data Center Operating Efficiency sponsored by Emerson Network Power WHITE PAPER: In this paper, learn about tools being developed to balance workload and improve thermal management in the data center. Access now to discover predictive information - combined with server virtualization, a service-oriented architecture and digital power and operating system controls - can optimize operating efficiencies and reduce costs by 20-30%. Posted: 07 Jul 2009 \| Published: 07 Jul 2009 TOPICS: Capacity Planning \| Data Center Consolidation \| Data Center Infrastructure Efficiency \| Data Center Power Management \| Data Centers \| Digital Asset Management \| Energy Efficiency \| Network Capacity \| Operating Equipment Efficiency or Effectiveness (OEE) \| RAS (Reliability, Availability, Serviceability) \| Server Virtualization \| SOA \| Storage Capacity \| Workload Automation

Energy Logic: Calculating and Prioritizing Your Data Center IT Efficiency Actions sponsored by Emerson Network Power WHITE PAPER: This paper reviews the challenges of measuring data center energy efficiency and proposes a solution: a new metric called CUPS, or Compute Units per Second, that allows data center managers to calculate data center efficiency. Posted: 07 Jul 2009 \| Published: 07 Jul 2009 TOPICS: Data Center Infrastructure Efficiency \| Data Center Management \| Data Center Power Management \| Energy Efficiency \| IT Best Practices \| IT Infrastructure \| IT Management \| IT Spending \| Metrics \| Operating Equipment Efficiency or Effectiveness (OEE) \| Operational Metrics (Systems) \| RAS (Reliability, Availability, Serviceability) \| Server Virtualization \| Systems Maintenance

Meeting Economic Challenges Through Accelerated Virtualization sponsored by DellEMC and Intel® WHITE PAPER: With the current economic state the way it is CIOs must rethink how they manage IT costs and operations. This white paper will take a closer look at how virtualization can help cut down the costs as well as improve efficiency of the data center. Posted: 02 Jul 2009 \| Published: 01 Jun 2009 TOPICS: Budgeting \| CIOs \| Data Center Consolidation \| Data Center Design \| Data Center Infrastructure Efficiency \| Economic Environment \| Server Virtualization \| Server Virtualization Software \| TCO

HP white paper: Complete Data Protection for VMware Virtual Environments sponsored by Hewlett Packard Enterprise WHITE PAPER: This paper examines the issues of backup and recovery in VMware virtual server environments, and outlines the key features of HP Data Protector. Posted: 26 Jun 2009 \| Published: 01 Nov 2008 TOPICS: Backup Server Hardware \| Backup Software \| Backups \| Data Center Physical Security \| Data Centers \| IT Infrastructure \| IT Systems \| Server Management \| Server Virtualization \| VMware

Auto-Snapshot Manager/Vmware Edition Automated, Integrated, and Scalable Protection of Virtual Machines sponsored by DellEMC and Intel® WHITE PAPER: This paper will discuss High performance, space-efficient hypervisor-aware SAN-based snapshot and replication support, backup and recovery, IT infrastructure, as well as virtual security. Posted: 24 Jun 2009 \| Published: 24 Jun 2009 TOPICS: Infrastructure Management \| IT Infrastructure \| IT Management \| Security Architectures \| Security Infrastructure \| Security Management \| Server Virtualization \| Storage Infrastructure \| Storage Virtualization

11 Questions Every CIO Should Ask Their IT Manager sponsored by Red Hat and JBoss WHITE PAPER: What is your IT really costing you? Could you be doing more with the technology you have? Could you reduce costs and provide better service to your organization? Read Red Hat's suggestions on "11 Questions Every CIO Should Ask Their IT Manager", and how Red Hat open source solutions can help. Posted: 19 Jun 2009 \| Published: 10 Jun 2009 TOPICS: Grid Computing \| Information Technology End Users \| IT Managers \| Linux \| Open Source Software \| Server Accelerators \| Server Consolidation \| Server Virtualization \| Software as a Service

Open Source in the Next Computing Wave sponsored by Red Hat and JBoss WHITE PAPER: The current economic climate is forcing more systematic thinking about costs in general, including those associated with overall complexity and the security and resiliency of large distributed infrastructures. These trends intersect in powerful ways; a new wave of computing is gathering momentum as a result. And open source is playing a major role. Posted: 18 Jun 2009 \| Published: 09 Jan 2009 TOPICS: Cloud Computing \| Collaborative Applications Software \| Data Center Management \| Data Centers \| Distributed Computing \| Distributed Data Management \| Linux \| Open Source \| Open Source Software \| SaaS ERP \| Server Virtualization \| Server Virtualization Software \| Software as a Service

The Top Five Virtualization Mistakes sponsored by Vyatta Inc. WHITE PAPER: This paper describes five mistakes common to many implementations of enterprise virtualization. Most of these mistakes relate to virtualization and networking infrastructure. Ideally, after reading this paper, you'll be sensitized to these issues so that you can plan for them and make your virtualization projects more successful. Posted: 17 Jun 2009 \| Published: 01 Jun 2007 TOPICS: Data Center Management \| Data Centers \| Disaster Recovery \| Network Security \| Security \| Security Management \| Security Threats \| Server Virtualization \| Vulnerability Assessments \| Vulnerability Management

Advancing Integration of Microsoft Hyper-V and Dell EqualLogic Virtualized SANs sponsored by Dell EMC and Microsoft WHITE PAPER: This paper will discuss the importance of an enterprise-class storage infrastructure as you migrate to a virtualized data center. Dell™ EqualLogic™ PS Series Internet SCSI (iSCSI) storage area network (SAN) arrays enable advanced integration with the robust server virtualization. Posted: 09 Jun 2009 \| Published: 09 Jun 2009 TOPICS: Data Center Management \| Enterprise Architectures \| Enterprise Resource Management \| High Availability \| iSCSI SAN \| Server Management \| Server Virtualization

A Smart Path to Virtualization sponsored by DellEMC and Intel® WHITE PAPER: Read this white paper to learn about how Dell is providing answers to key virtualization questions for the enterprise. Topics include; how to migrate to a fully virtualized environment as well as how the IT infrastructure should be configured for maximum benefit. Posted: 14 May 2009 \| Published: 01 Nov 2008 TOPICS: Business Intelligence \| Business Intelligence Software \| Data Center Consolidation \| Data Management \| Data Migration \| Data Synchronization \| Enterprise Architectures \| Enterprise Systems \| Server Virtualization

Dark Pools of Liquidity: Understanding & Technology dependencies for the future sponsored by Wipro WHITE PAPER: This white paper provides insight into the dark pools of liquidity, discusses the mechanism of dark pools trading, advantages and how technology would impact the operations or provide benefits in trading over this medium. Posted: 13 May 2009 \| Published: 12 May 2009 TOPICS: Application Development \| CRM \| Data Center Management \| Financial Services Industry \| Identity Management \| Open Source \| Server Consolidation \| Server Virtualization \| SOA \| Storage Management \| VMware \| VoIP

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

First the Tick, Now the Tock: Next Generation Intel Microarchitecture - Nehalem sponsored by Intel Corporation WHITE PAPER: Read this paper and get a look at how the next generation microarchitecture's dynamically scalable and design-scalable features directly contribute to power efficiency and performance. Posted: 03 Apr 2009 \| Published: 02 Apr 2009 TOPICS: Application Server Hardware \| Data Centers \| Database Server Software \| Hardware \| Server Appliances \| Server Hardware \| Server Virtualization \| Web Server Software

ISCSI SAN Boot - Simplifying Server Operations On SANS sponsored by DellEMC and Intel® WHITE PAPER: Storage area networks (SAN) deliver consolidated storage and advanced storage management features. This paper explains the benefits of three different server boot operations provided by one advanced SAN configuration. It counsels that you should weigh the benefits and drawbacks of each before committing your organization's storage system to one. Posted: 25 Mar 2009 \| Published: 25 Mar 2009 TOPICS: Backups \| Data Management \| Disaster Recovery \| NAS \| SAN \| Server Virtualization \| Storage Virtualization

Storage Virtualization - The Next Step in Controlling Spiraling Costs sponsored by DellEMC and Intel® WHITE PAPER: Storage consolidation provides a partial solution to soaring storage administrative costs by expanding device connectivity and reducing points of management. It does this by simplifying cumbersome tasks-like allocating storage, load balancing, configuring RAID, and backing up and restoring data. Get the details here. Posted: 25 Mar 2009 \| Published: 25 Mar 2009 TOPICS: Backups \| Data Management \| Disaster Recovery \| NAS \| SAN \| Server Virtualization \| Storage Virtualization \| TCO

Auto-Snapshot Manager/Microsoft Edition for Hyper-V sponsored by DellEMC and Intel® WHITE PAPER: Dell's Auto-Snapshot Manager / Microsoft Edition is an innovative bundled data protection feature of the Dell EqualLogic PS Series iSCSI SAN. It's designed to help deliver high-performance, redundant, highly-available storage platforms for Hyper-V deployments - supporting departmental to mission-critical Windows server applications. Posted: 25 Mar 2009 \| Published: 25 Mar 2009 TOPICS: Backups \| Data Management \| Disaster Recovery \| NAS \| SAN \| Server Virtualization \| Storage Virtualization \| Virtual Machine Monitor

A Holistic View of Virtualization in the Data Center sponsored by Agilysys-Sun Technology Solutions WHITE PAPER: When most IT Pros and CIOs think virtualization, the first thing that comes to mind is server consolidation using server virtualization. However, there is a lot more to virtualization than just "consolidating your servers with VMware." In this analysis, we'll help you to understand the different types of virtualization and which works best for you. Posted: 09 Mar 2009 \| Published: 09 Mar 2009 TOPICS: Backups \| Data Center Management \| Data Centers \| Disaster Recovery \| Server Virtualization \| Server Virtualization Software

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

Jumping on the Cloud-Wagon? AppZero's Virtual Application Appliance Approach sponsored by AppZero WHITE PAPER: This paper explains the attributes of AppZero's VAA approach to server-side application virtualization and conveys various advantages in the cloud environment. Posted: 04 Mar 2009 \| Published: 04 Mar 2009 TOPICS: Application Deployment \| Cost Benefit Analysis \| Data Center Management \| Enterprise \| Security \| Server Virtualization \| Solaris \| SQL Server \| Windows

ISVs, "This One's for You" sponsored by AppZero WHITE PAPER: Virtual machines and virtual appliances have successfully transformed data center operations. AppZero Virtual Application Appliances extend that transformation to server applications- Linux, Unix, and Windows. This paper explains Instant POCs, simplified implementations, and a cloud friendly slide to the SaaS model. Posted: 04 Mar 2009 \| Published: 04 Mar 2009 TOPICS: Data Center Management \| Data Centers \| ISVs \| Java \| Linux \| Server Virtualization \| SQL Server \| UNIX \| VM \| Windows

The Business Case for Virtualization sponsored by VMware, Inc. WHITE PAPER: The business case is clear: Virtualization can help you save money, increase IT agility and improve business outcomes. Often, virtualization leads to capital and operational cost savings of 50% or more. Learn more about virtualization with HP and VMware. Posted: 23 Feb 2009 \| Published: 23 Feb 2009 TOPICS: Data Center Management \| Data Centers \| Network Management \| Server Virtualization \| Virtual Machine Monitor \| VMware

Rethink Virtualization in Business Terms with HP and VMware sponsored by VMware, Inc. WHITE PAPER: Virtualization is paramount to achieving better business outcomes. It can help you deliver applications and business services more quickly, put unused data center capacity to work, and enhance your availability, continuity and security strategies. Read about how HP and VMware can help you gain greater business advantages with virtualization. Posted: 23 Feb 2009 \| Published: 23 Feb 2009 TOPICS: Data Center Management \| Data Centers \| Network Management \| Server Virtualization \| Virtual Machine Monitor \| VMware

Best Practices for VMware ESX Server 3.0 Backup on NetApp sponsored by NetApp WHITE PAPER: This document discusses how Network Appliance and VMware ESX Server 3.0 work together to provide an effective backup solution in the Loyola Marymount University (LMU) environment. The goal of the VMware/NetApp solution is to provide a crash-consistent process that takes advantage of snapshot-based backups. Posted: 30 Jan 2009 \| Published: 30 Jan 2009 TOPICS: Backups \| Best Practices \| Disaster Recovery \| iSCSI SAN \| Server Virtualization \| SLA \| SQL Server \| Storage Virtualization \| VMware

Use of Virtualization Technology with SAP sponsored by VMware and Intel WHITE PAPER: The arrival of VMware virtualization technology and the multi-core Intel® Xeon® processor specifically designed for virtualization helps upgrading the company's core business systems in a limited amount of time. Posted: 28 Jan 2009 \| Published: 28 Jan 2009 TOPICS: Server Virtualization \| Systems Management \| Systems Management Software \| Virtual Machine Monitor \| Virtual User Interface Software \| VMware