sponsored by Virtual Data Center E-Zine - Volume 10
EZINE:
Renewed interest in data centers is presenting a unique challenge to IT professionals who must do more with less. Read in this latest issue how to use server virtualization to boost utilization while saving money.
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.
WHITE PAPER:
Enterprises of all sizes are building flexible storage infrastructures using iSCSI and advanced virtualization technologies to achieve a flexible and dynamic IT infrastructure that is simple to manage and scale. Read this white paper to learn more.
CASE STUDY:
A leading global financial institution embarked on a data center consolidation and reclamation project that spanned nearly 2000 servers and 76 EMC arrays. The results included US$4 million in savings by reducing physical storage capacity 40 to 60 percent.
WHITE PAPER:
The HP Virtualized Infrastructure Solutions for mySAP Business Suite provide the infrastructure components, management tools, and best practice methodologies to implement and operate SAP's Adaptive Computing infrastructure.
PRESENTATION TRANSCRIPT:
This presentation transcript features Andrew Baker, Vice President of IT operations at ARGI and Steven Sommer, Principal and Founder of SLS Consulting who discuss how their respective organizations have cut costs with virtualized datacenters.
WHITE PAPER:
Virtualization helps reduce IT costs and increases business agility. Because of this, virtualization technologies are particularly suited to these economic times. This white paper explores the evolution of virtualization, and then gives practical advice on how virtualization can benefit your organization.
PRESENTATION TRANSCRIPT:
In these hard economic times, so much information is already out there about how to bring down the costs of storage infrastructures, but none of them describe how the design of a flexible and agile (adaptive) infrastructure actually facilitates these potential savings.
