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- Virtual environment documentation made easy
- Having a clear and concise piece of documentation gives an edge of professionalism to any task. While using Visio like this surely gives the eye candy, it also delivers quality information to any virtualization administration. The first step in preparing documentation for a virtual environment is to...
- Tags: Environment, Virtual Machine
- Download resources 2008-04-30
- TechNet Webcast: Managing Virtualization With System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2007 (Level 200)
- This webcast describes how the Microsoft System Center products can help to manage a virtualized data center. The presenter explores the features and benefits of using Microsoft System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2007 and Microsoft System Center Operations Manager 2007 with the Microsoft Virtual Server 2005 R2 Service Pack 1...
- Tags: Virtualization, Webcast, Microsoft Corp., Virtual Machine, Microsoft TechNet, Digital Media, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology
- Webcasts
- Global-Scale Service Deployment in the XenoServer Platform
- The authors are building the XenoServer platform for global computing; a public infrastructure capable of safely hosting un-trusted distributed services on behalf of uncooperative paying clients. Service components execute on one or more XenoServers within resource-managed Virtual Machines VMs which provide resource isolation, protection, and allow the execution of arbitrary...
- Tags: Platform, Virtual Machine, Operating Systems, Software
- White papers
- TechNet Webcast: Microsoft Virtual Server 2005 R2 Technical Overview (Level 200)
- This webcast describes how Microsoft Virtual Server 2005 R2 can help to address the many challenges to face when providing support for legacy applications and systems. The webcast explains about the new features, resource allocation, and architecture of Virtual Server 2005 R2, and see examples of some specific usage scenarios....
- Tags: Microsoft Virtual Server, Webcast, Microsoft Virtual Server 2005, Microsoft Corp., Virtual Machine, Microsoft TechNet, Server Virtualization, Virtualization, Digital Media, Servers, Hardware, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology
- Webcasts
- VMware Increases Overhead Storage for TQ3Navigant
- Navigant International, Inc., doing business as TQ3Navigant, is the second largest provider of corporate travel management services in the United States based on airline tickets sold. TQ3Navigant's data center housed more than 200 standalone Cubix blade servers, each server with its own network card, on five racks. This number was...
- Tags: VMware Inc., EMC Corp., Virtual Machine, TQ3Navigant, Storage, Data Centers, Blade Servers, Servers, Hardware, Data Management
- Case studies
- Short Paper: Policy Driven Virtual Machine Monitor for Protected Grids
- This paper advocates virtualization technology as a methodology to solve the security problems that an organization has to face when contributes with its resources to a grid. In particular, this technology makes it possible to increase the overall security of any system by inserting a set of controls into the...
- Tags: Security, Virtual Machine
- White papers
- Optimizing Grid Site Manager Performance With Virtual Machines
- Virtualization can enhance the functionality and ease the management of current and future Grids by enabling on demand creation of services and virtual clusters with customized environments, QoS provisioning and policy-based resource allocation. This paper considers the use of Virtual Machines VMs in a data-center environment, where a significant portion...
- Tags: Hewlett-Packard Co., Performance, Goal, Virtual Machine, Analysis
- White papers
- Statistics Canada Harvests $1.3 Million in Savings
- STatistics Canada STC is a government agency responsible for producing data that helps Canadians better understand their country's population, resources, economy, society, and culture. STC with its Strategic Streamlining Initiative SSI had focused on four major areas for department-wide use: centralized storage, centralized backup/restore, file/print, and server consolidation. This was...
- Tags: EMC Corp., Virtual Machine, Server Consolidation, Storage, Servers, Hardware
- Case studies
- Leading Insurance Company Test Lab Turns to Virtual Machines to Improve Efficiency
- Allstate, one of the leading insurers in the United States, was adding hundreds of servers to its data centers each year. If that rate of increase continued, even with the average server using typically less than 10 percent of its CPU capacity, the company would have required additional facilities. To...
- Tags: Insurance, Virtual Machine, Server Consolidation, Servers, Hardware
- Case studies
- Healthcare Company Uses Virtual Machines to Pare Data Center Costs and Speed Deployment
- AtlantiCare, a prominent New Jersey healthcare organization, wanted to expand its technology capabilities without expanding its data center, which was running out of electrical capacity and space. AtlantiCare's IT company, InfoShare, also needed more test servers and a cost-efficient way to replace aging hardware running Microsoft Windows NT Server 4.0-based...
- Tags: Data Center, Virtual Server, Health Care, Microsoft Corp., Virtual Machine, AtlantiCare, Data Centers, Server Virtualization, Virtualization, Storage, Servers, Hardware, Data Management
- Case studies
- Food Manufacturer Consolidates Servers, Reduces IT Costs With Virtual Machines
- Delta Holding S.A. has experienced rapid growth in recent years as more subsidiary companies have joined its food manufacturing group. To accommodate that growth and improve the organization's IT infrastructure, Delta decided to centralize the IT systems of its individual companies. Delta deployed Microsoft Virtual Server 2005, the virtual machine...
- Tags: Food, Solution, Information Technology, Microsoft Virtual Server 2005, Server, Microsoft Corp., Virtual Machine, Strategy, Management
- Case studies
- AXA Group Uses Virtual Machines to Curb IT Expenses and Modernize Data Centers
- AXA Group is an international financial protection company with 50 million clients and more than 117,000 employees. In 2003, AXA launched a companywide server consolidation program to lower data center costs. When Microsoft Virtual Server 2005 became available, the North American IT group at AXA evaluated it, and the chief...
- Tags: AXA Group, Data Center, Information Technology, Virtual Machine, Data Centers, Storage, Servers, Hardware, Data Management
- Case studies
- Bank Streamlines Data Center and Reduces Hardware Costs Using Virtual Machines
- National City has experienced tremendous growth over the past few years. With nearly 100 new discretionary line-of-business projects each year - each effort requiring at least three servers, for test, quality verification, and production - the bank needed to address hardware acquisition, server management, and data center costs. To curb...
- Tags: Bank, Data Center, Microsoft Corp., Virtual Machine, National City, Data Centers, Servers, Storage, Hardware, Data Management
- Case studies
- TechNet Webcast: Microsoft Virtual Server 2005 - Installing a Two-Node Virtual Machine Cluster (Level 200)
- Looking for an easy way to build a cluster of virtual machines to avoid the cost and complexity of a physical environment? The presenter of this webcast will show how to create a two-node cluster of virtual machines running Windows Server 2003 - a key feature of Virtual Server 2005....
- Tags: Microsoft Virtual Server, Webcast, Microsoft Virtual Server 2005, Microsoft Corp., Virtual Machine, Microsoft TechNet, Digital Media, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology
- Webcasts
- TechNet Webcast: Best Practices for Application Server Consolidation - Level 200
- This webcast will provide guidance and examples of when to virtualize and when to migrate. The presenter will provide an overview of Microsoft Virtual Server 2004. Virtual machine VM technology enables customers to run multiple operating systems concurrently on a single physical server. Microsoft Virtual Server 2004 is Microsoft's Virtual...
- Tags: Microsoft Virtual Server, Webcast, Consolidation, Application Server, Microsoft Corp., Best Practice, Virtual Machine, Microsoft TechNet, Microsoft Virtual Server 2004, Virtual Machine Technology, Servers, Hardware
- Webcasts
- TechNet Webcast: Virtual Server 2005 COM API: Automating Your Virtual World - Level 300
- The viewer of this webcast will learn about the Virtual Server COM API and how to create scripts to automate tasks like virtual machine creation, configuration, enumeration, and provisioning VMs for a test lab. The presenter of this webcast will focus on demonstrating small scriplet building blocks and assembling them...
- Tags: Microsoft Virtual Server, Webcast, API, Microsoft Virtual Server 2005, Virtual Machine, Microsoft TechNet, Digital Media, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology
- Webcasts
- TechNet Webcast: Virtual Server 2005 R2 Technical Overview (Level 200)
- Microsoft Virtual Server 2005 R2 can help to address the many challenges faced when providing support for earlier applications and systems. The presenter of this webcast will explain about the new features, resource allocation, and architecture of Virtual Server 2005 R2, and show examples of some specific usage scenarios. In...
- Tags: Microsoft Virtual Server, Webcast, Microsoft Virtual Server 2005, Virtual Machine, Microsoft TechNet, Server Virtualization, Virtualization, Servers, Hardware
- Webcasts
- TechNet Webcast: Microsoft Virtual Server Technical Overview - Level 200
- Virtual machine technology allows multiple operating systems to run concurrently on a single machine, which can boost administrator productivity and operating efficiency. The technology helps migrate legacy applications and consolidate applications on fewer servers. This presents a look at Microsoft Virtual Server. The presenter will discuss what a Virtual environment...
- Tags: Microsoft Virtual Server, Webcast, Virtual Server, Microsoft Corp., Virtual Machine, Microsoft TechNet, Virtual Machine Technology, Server Virtualization, Virtualization, Servers, Hardware
- Webcasts
- Spyware Resistant Web Authentication Using Virtual Machines
- This paper describes a security system, called SpyBlock, that protects web passwords from malicious spyware and keyloggers. The system consists of two components: a browser extension that runs in an untrusted environment with the browser and other applications, and an authentication agent that runs in an environment that is protected...
- Tags: Stanford University, Environment, Web Browser, Virtual Machine, SpyBlock, Spyware, Spyware, Adware & Malware, Cyberthreats, Web Browsers, Security, Viruses And Worms, Internet
- White papers
- Towards Virtual Networks for Virtual Machine Grid Computing
- Virtual machines can greatly simplify wide-area distributed computing by lowering the level of abstraction to the benefit of both resource providers and users. Networking, however, can be a challenge because remote sites are loath to provide connectivity to any machine attached to the site network by outsiders. This paper explains...
- Tags: Network, Northwestern University, Virtual Machine, Networking
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