Desktop Virtualization with Dell and Citrix: Solving the Desktop Lifecycle Management Challenge
[ Source: Dell/Intel ]
November 2009-
What’s the bane of your IT group’s existence? For most, it’s managing physical desktops, which requires time-consuming attention to activities like discovery, provisioning, updates and patching, and configuration management. Read about how desktop virtualization, in which virtual desktops are hosted on remote servers, is enabling faster and cheaper support with easier deployment, updating and maintenance.
Storage Networking: Critical Enabler of Server Virtualization
[ Source: Brocade ]
November 2009-
This paper from Enterprise Strategy Group (ESG) explains how Brocade storage networking solutions provide a reliable enabling platform for facilitating scalable server virtualization.
Yankee Group Paper - "The Virtual Enterprise Requires a Network that is More Than Good Enough"
[ Source: Brocade ]
November 2009-
This report provides an overview of how virtualization is transforming organizations, describes the role the network plays and provides some practical advice on how IT decision-makers should evaluate network solution partners to support virtual computing.
Trends and Benefits of Client and Server Virtualization
[ Source: CDW ]
June 2009-
Is your company a victim of client and server sprawl?
Are your data center power and cooling costs skyrocketing?
Is your IT environment highly complex to manage and maintain?
Do your end users leverage just a fraction of the capabilities available on their desktops?
If you answered yes to any of the above, you should be taking a closer look at virtualization solutions. Read this Tech Specialist to see what CDW's ....
The Shortcut Guide To Virtualization & Service Automation
[ Source: HP ]
September 2009-
Do you want to shortcut the process to Virtualization in your enterprise? Check out how consolidating servers, desktops, storage or the applications that drive data processing can happen faster with less pain. Read the Guide today!
Seamless Physical and Virtual Server
[ Source: HP ]
March 2008-
While virtualized resources can address your growing capacity needs, they can also pose management challenges. Long-term success depends on how well you can manage your virtualized systems.
Template-based Provisioning
[ Source: Liquid Computing ]
September 2009-
By applying template-based provisioning, IT infrastructure can be configured to deliver services as needed, and projects with disparate and out-of-sync computing requirements can share infrastructure. As a result, operators can improve responsiveness to business demands through rapid service deployment and, at the same time, reduce overhead associated with power, cooling, floor space, and licensing. More significantly, IT organizations can achieve up to a 10:1 time savings in administration, the largest and fastest-growing cost in the ....
Coping with SAN Storage Frustration Caused by Server Virtualization
[ Source: NEC ]
September 2009-
Server virtualization is clearly one of the breakout technologies in the first decade of the 21st century. The results are both operationally and economically compelling; however, they are not without their pitfalls as server virtualization unless properly managed with appropriate SAN storage.
The Case for Consolidated IT Operations
[ Source: HP ]
October 2008-
To achieve the business results needed, IT operations must work smarter. This paper explores the problems IT operations can encounter in coordinating the activities of multiple application and infrastructure specialist teams, and it proposes an approach - consolidated operations -designed to get incidents to the right person with the right information fast so problems can be resolved quickly, with no duplication of effort and at an appropriate level ....
Cost Optimization: Smart Decisions for Surviving the Downturn
[ Source: HP ]
June 2009-
With the heavy cost cutting pressure on IT Management, people are searching for ways to drive short-term operational gains that offer long term value. This analysis details how to reduce costs in: IT Financial Management, virtualization management, automation, and software consolidation.