Departmental Private Cloud Reference Architecture [ Source: HP/Intel® ]

November 2012- With the addition of systems management such as Microsoft System Center, customers can move beyond virtualization and begin to implement private clouds. A private cloud extends virtualization features designed into Windows Server, enabling standardized design, simple back-up, and self-service deployment of IT services. By removing the need to customize each and every IT service and by enabling line of business or application owners to control when they deploy services, IT organizations can further reduce operational ...

ESG: How to Expand and Accelerate Virtualization Value [ Source: HP/Intel® ]

November 2012- As many have discovered in recent years, virtualization is a key strategy for infrastructure optimization and a requirement for converged infrastructure. By separating physical devices from the computing, storage, and networking services they deliver, organizations are able to make much more efficient use of these resources. As a result, IT organizations are looking to invest in virtualization-optimized solutions that enable consolidation, mission-critical resiliency, disaster recovery, and faster application deployment.

When built-in properly, virtualization ...

Real-World Virtualization for Your Business eBook [ Source: VMware ]

October 2012- Small and midsize firms virtualize IT infrastructure to meet real-world challenges: simplifying operations to focus on business issues, speeding up application rollouts to get more done, safeguarding data and operations to stay open and productive, and saving money for the bottom line. It's a new way to think about IT - and getting started is easy, fast, and inexpensive, using VMware solutions designed for your real-world small or midsize business. Read this eBook to learn ...

Splunk Helps Ping Identity Contain Costs, Improve Cloud Security and Deliver Business Insights [ Source: Splunk ]

December 2012- Ping Identity is a technology company that provides Cloud identity security solutions to more than 800 of the world's largest organizations in both the private and public sectors. With the acceleration of SaaS and Cloud computing, the company has seen substantial growth.

Today, the company delivers its solutions from three data centers supporting over 400 virtualized servers and counting. The management of this growth has raised the bar significantly for Ping Identity's internal IT operations.<...

Technical Whitepaper: What's New with VMware vCloud Director 5.1 [ Source: VMware ]

September 2012- VMware vCloud® Director™ orchestrates the provisioning of software-defined datacenter services, to deliver complete virtual datacenters for easy consumption in minutes. Software-defined datacenter services and virtual datacenters fundamentally simplify infrastructure provisioning and enable IT to move at the speed of business

Numerous enhancements are included within vCloud Director 5.1, making it the best infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS) solution in the marketplace today. This document highlights some of these key enhancements and is targeted toward users who are ...

ESG Analyst White Paper: Virtualization Management Critical to Achieving Scale and Efficiency [ Source: VMware ]

September 2012- This paper explains why customers are moving beyond traditional tools and processes when it comes to how they manage their virtual environments. ESG global field survey provides proof points, while analysts provide recommendations for next steps in the virtualization journey.

Utility Storage: The Ideal Platform for Virtual and Cloud Computing [ Source: HP/Intel® ]

September 2012- Server virtualization has transformed corporate IT-- companies have enjoyed major cost savings and have gained flexibility and efficiency. But this has also led to a proliferation of virtual machines and servers that threaten to overwhelm data movement and storage technologies.

In this IDG Tech Dossier, learn how utility storage makes for massive consolidation, flexibility and scalability, so IT departments can reduce storage infrastructure and lower costs while improving their ability to respond to ...

IDG Tech Dossier: A Faster Path to Client Virtualization [ Source: HP/Intel® ]

September 2012- Client virtualization encapsulates a user's desktop including operating system, applications, data and personalization-and stores it in the data center, rather than on the end-point device.

This has several advantages. The desktop is stored and maintained centrally, so it's much easier to manage, maintain and support. It's not tied to a particular computer, so it can be accessed from different devices. And the end-point device stores neither desktop nor data, so the security danger ...