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- TechNet Webcast: Virtual Server: Architectural Best Practices (Level 300)
- Information Technology IT organizations are under pressure to reduce costs and prioritize spending on new equipment. Virtualization technology is emerging as an effective way to increase productivity and deployment flexibility. Virtualization can provide an effective way to consolidate production servers. This webcast provides a discussion of using Microsoft Virtual Server...
- Tags: Microsoft Virtual Server, Webcast, Server, Microsoft Corp., Best Practice, Microsoft TechNet, Virtualization Technology, Virtualization, Storage Management, Utility Computing, Hardware, Storage
- Webcasts
- TechNet Webcast: Microsoft Virtualization Roadmap (Level 300)
- Information technology organizations are under pressure to reduce costs and prioritize spending on new equipment. Virtualization technology is emerging as an effective way to increase both productivity and deployment flexibility. Virtualization technology can play a key role in uncoupling workloads from server resources and enabling a dynamic and automated datacenter....
- Tags: Webcast, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft TechNet, Virtualization Technology, Virtualization, Storage Management, Utility Computing, Hardware, Storage
- Webcasts
- Storage Virtualization and the HP StorageWorks Enterprise Virtual Array
- This white paper presents an overview of storage virtualization at the controller level of a storage system. Virtualization technology allows companies to respond quickly to ever-changing storage capacity requirements. Virtualization has multiple definitions and many different implementations in a storage area network SAN. The paper also describes...
- Tags: Storage Virtualization, Hewlett-Packard Co., HP StorageWorks, Virtualization Technology, Virtualization, Storage, Storage Management, Utility Computing, Hardware
- White papers 2008-02-01
- Xen and Server Consolidation
- Enterprises are witnessing a server sprawl as low cost x86 boxes make their way into datacenters. Application provisioning on dedicated servers and provisioning hardware capacity for peak loads have led to unprecedented server proliferation and abysmally low utilization. Virtualization technology has the potential to play a significant role in enabling...
- Tags: Provisioning, Xen, Enterprise, Virtualization Technology, Server Consolidation, Virtualization, Servers, Storage Management, Utility Computing, Hardware, Storage
- White papers 2007-12-20
- Rapid Recovery With Less Hassle: Low-Cost, Easy-to-Use Downtime Recovery With Acronis True Image and Microsoft Virtual Server
- The key to an effective disaster recovery plan is restoring all of the servers onto available hardware. Virtualization technology is naturally suited for recovery from unplanned downtime, and it can be incorporated into an effective backup and restore strategy. This strategy starts with Acronis True Image, which enables to easily...
- Tags: Microsoft Virtual Server, Recovery, Virtual Server, Acronis True Image, Microsoft Corp., Acronis, Virtualization Technology, Disaster Recovery, Virtualization, Servers, Data Management, Hardware
- White papers 2007-09-01
- Energy Efficiency Strategies: Sun Server Virtualization Technology
- Virtualization technology is a key to transforming an IT organization's server, storage, and network devices into a shared, global pool of resources. This can help reduce space, power, and cooling requirements while simultaneously helping make datacenters more flexible and agile. The two server virtualization technologies discussed in this paper -...
- Tags: Strategy, Sun Microsystems Inc., Sun Server, Virtualization Technology, Solaris Containers, Sun Solaris, Virtualization, Server Virtualization, Storage Management, Utility Computing, Operating Systems, UNIX, Servers, Software, Hardware, Storage
- White papers 2007-08-01
- Virtualization Technology Enables a Common Automation Platform
- Virtualization has proven to be an effective method for enabling information systems to support new business needs in an increasingly complex IT environment. Server consolidation, increased security and increased reliability are just a few of the strong benefits already demonstrated by corporate IT. A virtualized operating model within manufacturing IT...
- Tags: Information Technology, ARC Advisory Group, Virtualization Technology, Virtualization, Storage Management, Utility Computing, Hardware, Storage
- White papers 2006-08-01
- Microsoft SQL Server 2005 Virtualization in the Dell Scalable Enterprise
- The Dell scalable enterprise architecture uses industry-standard components to help simplify operations, improve resource utilization, and scale cost-effectively. Virtualization technology is advancing IT infrastructure standards by abstracting software from hardware, which can facilitate deployment and management of software in the scalable enterprise. To demonstrate this, the Dell Scalable Enterprise Technology...
- Tags: Dell Computer Corp., Microsoft SQL Server, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft SQL Server 2005, Virtualization Technology, Virtualization, Storage Management, Utility Computing, Tools & Techniques, Hardware, Storage, Management
- White papers 2006-11-01
- Citrix Desktop Virtualization
- Infrastructure virtualization is a powerful trend in the industry nowadays, but the concept of virtualization has been around for many years. Virtualization technology has been pursued by vendors as a framework to divide the resources of a computer into multiple execution environments using a variety of hardware and software abstraction...
- Tags: Citrix Systems Inc., Infrastructure Virtualization, Virtualization Technology, Virtualization, Storage Management, Utility Computing, Hardware, Storage
- White papers 2006-09-28
- A Study of Introduction of the Virtualization Technology Into Operator Consoles
- This paper introduces a virtualization technology into the control system as operator consoles. The virtualization technology is a hot topic for server computing. The virtualization technology enables to consolidate a lot of server computers to a few host computers and reduces system maintenance cost drastically. Recently a dozen of commercial...
- Tags: Console, Virtualization Technology, Virtualization, Storage Management, Utility Computing, Hardware, Storage
- White papers 2005-10-14
- Not just a buzz word, virtualization technology can improve your application development
- In this document you will learn some of the key ways that you can use virtualization technologies to improve your application development experience. No longer do you have to mix two applications that don't get along together just because you only have one PC on which to...
- Tags: TechRepublic Inc., Application Development, Virtualization Technology, Virtualization, Storage Management, Utility Computing, Software Development, Hardware, Storage, Software/Web Development
- Download resources 2006-05-01
- Enhanced Virtualization on Intel Architecture Based Servers: Improve Utilization, Manage Change, Reduce Costs
- Virtualization technology is already transforming the way many IT organizations provision and manage their systems and applications. Server virtualization enables the flexible and secure consolidation of multiple operating systems and applications onto a single platform. This helps to reduce server proliferation, increase utilization, simplify IT infrastructure, and reduce management costs....
- Tags: Server, Intel Corp., Intel Architecture, Server Virtualization, Virtualization Technology, Virtualization, Storage Management, Utility Computing, Hardware, Storage
- White papers 2006-02-01
- Introduction to server virtualization
- What is virtualization and why use it When to use virtualization How to avoid the "all eggs your in one basket" syndrome Physical to virtual server migration Patch management for virtualized servers Licensing and support considerationsWhat is virtualization and why use itVirtualization is a method of running multiple independent virtual operating systems on a single...
- Tags: CPU, George Ou, hardware, server, server virtualization, virtualization
- Technical articles 2006-05-22
Additional Resources
- Virtualization for Windows: A Technology Overview
- Virtualization is unquestionably one of the hottest trends in information technology today. This is no accident. While a variety of technologies fall under the virtualization umbrella, all of them are changing the IT world in significant ways. This paper introduces Microsoft's virtualization technologies, focusing on three areas: hardware virtualization, presentation...
- Tags: Microsoft Windows, Virtualization, Storage Management, Utility Computing, Hardware, Storage
- White papers 2007-07-01
- Intel Virtualization Technology for Directed I/O
- Intel Virtualization Technology for Directed I/O (VT-d) is the next important step toward comprehensive hardware support for the virtualization of Intel platforms. VT-d extends Intel's Virtualization Technology VT roadmap from existing support for IA-32 (VT-x) and Itanium processor (VT-i) virtualization to include new support for I/O- device virtualization. This paper...
- Tags: I/O, Intel Corp., VT-d, Virtualization, Storage Management, Utility Computing, Hardware, Storage
- White papers 2006-08-09
- Intel Virtualization Technology
- Intel is taking server and workstation virtualization to a new level with Intel Virtualization Technology - a complementary hardware-assisted technology available on new Intel platforms that makes virtualization solutions even better. Intel Virtualization Technology provides greater support for increasing server utilization in the data center by consolidating more applications, at...
- Tags: Data Center, Intel Corp., Intel Virtualization Technology, Virtualization, Data Centers, Storage Management, Utility Computing, Hardware, Storage, Data Management
- Webcasts
- Top Ten Considerations for Choosing a Server Virtualization Technology
- This Parallels white paper is a valuable decision-support resource that offers guidance for evaluating competing server virtualization solutions. It opens with a review of the three types of virtualization technologies available today: hardware virtualization, para-virtualization, and OS virtualization. The paper explains the basic concepts behind each approach and provides a...
- Tags: Parallels Inc., Virtualization, Server Virtualization, Storage Management, Utility Computing, Hardware, Servers, Storage
- White papers 2008-03-21
- Virtualization on the IBM System x3950 Server
- Virtualization is becoming more and more a key technology enabler to streamline and better operate data centers. In its simplest form, virtualization refers to the capability of being able to run multiple operating system instances, such as Linux and Microsoft Windows, on a physical server. This paper discusses the technology...
- Tags: Server, IBM Corp., Virtualization, Storage Management, Utility Computing, Hardware, Storage
- White papers 2006-06-01
- Hardware-Assisted Virtualization for Today's Businesses
- Intel is taking server and workstation virtualization to a new level with Intel® Virtualization Technology - a complementary hardware-assisted technology available on new Intel® platforms that makes virtualization solutions even better. Intel Virtualization Technology provides greater support for increasing server utilization in your data center by consolidating more applications,...
- Tags: Data Center, Intel Corp., Intel Virtualization Technology, Virtualization, Data Centers, Storage Management, Utility Computing, Hardware, Storage, Data Management
- White papers 2006-01-01
- Sun Microsystems' Solutions for Virtualization Across the Enterprise
- Virtualization is quickly becoming an important technology across all parts of the IT environment. The technology is rapidly being deployed in server, storage, networking, as well as client environments. By far the most visible adoption of virtualization technology is happening in servers - from the largest Unix server down to...
- Tags: Sun Microsystems Inc., Technology, Virtualization, Storage Management, Utility Computing, Hardware, Storage
- White papers 2007-08-01
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