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Virtual Desktop Architecture: Portal to the Clouds by SearchVirtualDesktop.com
Cloud computing has brought about a shift in data center architecture. We're centralizing computing into massive organizational units aka clouds. As with any major industry shift, ancillary technologies are needed to enable these new...
Optimising Your VMware Environment by GlassHouse Technologies (UK) Ltd.
vital information about the components of a well-managed virtual environment and how to incorporate them into your virtual environment. Over the past six years virtualisation has become the hottest "thing" in IT, much as Client Server...
Citrix XenDesktop Architecture and Implementation on Proliant Servers by Citrix and HP
XenDesktop delivers Microsoft Windows XP or Vista virtual desktops to users on a wide variety of endpoints, which are devices such as thin clients that provide users with a desktop computing environment. In a traditional PC...
Increasing Availability and Improving Performance of Your WebSphere Infrastructure by IBM
more and more organizations are deploying IBM WebSphere Virtual Enterprise to better manage the health of their WAS environments. IBM WebSphere Virtual Enterprise provides unsurpassed application health management...
Understanding virtualization with Microsoft Hyper-V by Sun Microsystems, Inc. and Microsoft
the company's previous virtualization solution, Virtual Server. The new product features an entirely different virtualization architecture designed for better and faster performance, and can support far more complex...
HP Virtual Server Environment Reference Architecture: Shared Infrastructure for Databases by Hewlett-Packard Company
alignment between business and IT. This HP VSE Reference Architecture represents a Shared Infrastructure for Databases suitable for organizations advancing from dedicated infrastructures to the shared IT model, it is based on a real...
Halifax Bank of Scotland Uses Virtual Instruments' NetWisdom Monitoring Tools to Help Manage its Ever-Expanding Storage Area Network (SAN) by Virtual Instruments
you will learn how The Halifax Bank of Scotland leveraged Virtual Instruments' NetWisdom SAN I/O performance and analysis solution to proactively isolate and resolve SAN issues as well as design optimal SAN storage to easily scale...
HP Reference Architecture for Oracle Grid on HP Integrity server blades: Oracle Grid Infrastructure configured for E-Business Suite R12 by Hewlett-Packard Company
of this infrastructure is HP StorageWorks Enterprise Virtual Array (EVA) shared storage and its support for boot from SAN. HP refers to this combination of technologies and resulting functionality as the HP Reference...
Citrix and HP Virtual Desktops - Here and Now! by Citrix and HP
In this technical session we will detail how you can support a variety of office-based workers with the next generation of desktop delivery infrastructure from Citrix and HP - powered by HP VDI with...
The New Generation of De-duplication Technology Offers Clustered Architecture and Linear Performance Aggregation by FalconStor Software
requirements with unique features such as clustered architecture and linear performance aggregation. IT managers and executives face explosive data growth, driving up costs for primary storage as well as storage for backup and...
Simple, Affordable Disaster Recovery Automation in the Virtualized IT Datacenter by Dell, Inc.
the latest advancements in protecting against disaster in virtual environments and highlight real-world customer experiences. Quick recovery of operations after a site failure requires major planning and testing, dependent on an...
Business Value of Virtualization: Realizing the Benefits of Integrated Solutions by Hewlett-Packard Company
allows systems to accommodate both physical and virtual migration which promotes uptime and efficient resource usage. This IDC white paper will look at how the IT industry is changing from static x86 server configurations...
Podcast: Best of Breed Virtualization Scenarios and Hyper-V Features by Dell and Microsoft
the seven different layers of the server virtualization architecture, and explains the role the hypervisor plays in the success of that infrastructure. With a 10-year lag behind VMware in the virtualization realm, Microsoft certainly had...
E-book: Choosing Your Server-- What Every IT Manager Must Know About Selecting, Installing and Implementing the Proper Server Architecture by Dell, Inc. and Intel
This eBook provides comprehensive information about servers and server implementation to help IT managers choose the best option for their storage needs. Check out this eBook to learn all the...
Virtual Data Center E-Zine - Volume 11 by Virtual Data Center E-Zine - Volume 11
Data center managers face increasing challenges as virtual machines spread across the enterprise. Automation, monitoring and management tools can offer some much needed relief in the battle to keep control in a virtualized...
Best of Breed Virtualization Scenarios and Hyper-V Features by Dell and Microsoft
the seven different layers of the server virtualization architecture, and explains the role the hypervisor plays in the success of that infrastructure. With a 10-year lag behind VMware in the virtualization realm, Microsoft certainly had...
On Demand Webcast: Cost Efficient - High Impact Business Solutions with Dell and VMware vSphere by Dell, Inc.
planning considerations for cost efficiently deploying a virtual data center. Virtualization is no longer only about consolidation. It has emerged as a key strategic driver for maximizing IT cost savings and enables you to deliver...
A Modern Approach to On-Demand Email and Data Security by Proofpoint, Inc.
in different deployment configurations, from hardware and virtual appliances to software. Another option, “on-demand” or “software as a service” (SaaS), is rapidly gaining traction as... Email and data security solutions are...
The Green and Virtual Data Center - CHAPTER 8: Data Storage - Disk, Tape, Optical, and Memory by SearchStorage.com
simplified and cost-effective IT services from their virtual data center in a clean green profitable manner. Written by Greg Schulz, Founder and a Senior Analyst for the StorageIO Group, The Green and Virtual Data Center examines...
How Service Providers Can Offer Premium Services and Increase Revenue by Effectively Managing VPNs by CA
Service providers are rapidly rolling out managed Virtual Private Network (VPN) services, including MLPS VPNs, which enable carriers to offer differentiated levels of service commensurate with customer needs. One of the...
Best Practices for Mainframe 2009 by CA
In this videocast watch expert Wayne Kernochan talk about consolidation of more than 20 applications onto the mainframe, global demand of business transactions in IT leading to long term cost...
Podcast: The Mainframe - Best Practices 2009 by CA
In this videocast on 2009 best practices learn about consolidation, the evolution of hub and moderization of legacy mainframe applications. In this discussion, learn about the basic idea of real world...
Unleashing the Power of Virtualization by Cisco, EMC, & VMware
integrated approach to delivering the Unified Computing architecture. Cisco will provide an overview of the Unified Computing System; VMware will outline key advances in vSphere 4 which enable the next generation of flexible, reliable IT...
VMware Resource Center
Power options for graceful VMware virtual machine power-offs by Eric Siebert, Contributor

Have you ever clicked the Power Off or Reset icon on a virtual machine (VM) only to have it power off in a way that resembles pulling the plug on a physical server... More...

Jun 24, 2009
Connecting VMware Workstation guest virtual machines to the Internet by David Davis, Contributor
on your desktop or laptop. With Workstation, you can create multiple private networks, connect virtual machines (VMs) to a host, bridge networks to a local area network (LAN) or use Network Address... More...
Jun 12, 2009
Installing VMware Tools on Linux by Edward Haletky, Contributor
can be unfamiliar territory for Windows administrators who now have a Linux machine in their virtual environment, making it difficult to install VMware Tools. VMware Communities always features... More...
Jun 9, 2009
Related Definition
VMware Server
physical server into multiple virtual machines. VMware server works with Windows, Solaris, Linux and Netware, any or all of which can be used concurrently on the same hardware.

With VMware Server 1.0 (the current official version as of March 2008), a virtual... More...

May 8, 2008