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Here's What a Cloud-Ready Infrastructure Looks Like
Virtualization decisions can't just be about meeting an organization's current needs. What you create now needs to be the foundation for an evolving hybrid cloud infrastructure.
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Proactive Measures Help to Ensure Business Continuity
Having a virtualized infrastructure provides significant benefits to businesses, but there needs to be planning to ensure that disasters are limited in frequency and scope.
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Get the Upper Hand on Virtual Machine Sprawl
As hypervisor features have become increasingly similar, the next vendor battleground will be management software. Microsoft and VMware have similar capabilities, and now they'll look to make their product stand out by touting their management tools and complimentary products.
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How to Control Private Cloud Costs
To keep private cloud costs down, IT managers should watch out for hypervisor licensing traps, deals on private cloud software and opportunities to enforce cloud usage policies.
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What Is All That Virtualization Performance Data Telling Us?
Admins are gaining better insight into server and virtual machine performance data, and we are beginning to see a push for tools that can use this data to give admins performance reports and help them improve performance.
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Looking Up for Success: Virtual Management Tools and the Cloud
Selecting the right virtual management tools can help IT get ready for a transition to the cloud, or maximize efficiency if this move has already been made.
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Top 10 VMworld sessions to attend in 2014
There are many sessions to consider attending at VMworld 2014. This photostory, from SearchServerVirtualization.com, explores different sessions offered at VMworld 2014 and discusses what each session will entail, including speaker information as well as the time of each session.
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Virtualization Reaches Beyond the Hypervisor
This expert resource details the importance that management software will have as a deciding factor in which vitualization vendor organizations pick moving forward.
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Choosing Hardware for Virtualization
Changes in IT combined with tightening budgets have made scalability essential in the data center. Learn how to select hardware that will help make the most of your virtual infrastructure.
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Evaluating Cloud Platforms and Tools
Building a sustainable framework for the cloud is paramount to successful data consolidation. Picking the right platform is also imperative, so this chapter examines the options.
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Virtualization Reaches Beyond the Hypervisor
This expert resource details the importance that management software will have as a deciding factor in which vitualization vendor organizations pick moving forward.
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As Virtual Machine Migrations Accelerate, Don't Get Left Behind
View this expert e-guide to determine which key features to look for in server virtualization solutions including migration capabilities, network connectivity, and security. Also, view a point for point comparison of two top server virtualization solution vendors.
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Guide to Private Cloud Capacity Planning
In this exclusive e-book, take a closer look at best practices in private cloud capacity planning, as well as essential articles on: the difference between virtualization and cloud, 5 keys to private cloud automation, and more.
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Choose Storage That’s Smart Enough for Virtual Environments
Find out how virtualization and storage technology can work together for better performance, scalability and disaster recovery.
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How to Stay Relevant in an Automated World
In complex virtual environments, IT admins can use automation tools and scripting to avoid repetition, reduce human error and generate better documentation.
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Tap Into Virtualization’s Benefits for Better Disaster Recovery
Here's how to update your virtual disaster recovery strategy to improve availability and take full advantage of virtualization's time- and cost-saving benefits.
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Your Expert Handbook on Everything Virtualization
This expert IT handbook will teach you all the basics on optimizing your virtual environment and identifies risks and missteps that can lead to sprawl and inefficiency.
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Virtualize Enterprise Applications with Less Peril, More Payoff
Before you virtualize the applications that keep your business running, learn how to avoid performance and availability issues.
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From Virtualization to Cloud Computing, Chapter 3
This expert whitepaper highlights ways to manage costs when adopting a cloud infrastructure.
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With Virtualization and the Private Cloud, the Target Keeps Moving
This expert handbook walks IT pros through the advantages of a private cloud, and best practices for creating one.
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From Virtualization to Cloud Computing
This expert e-guide explores virtual management tools available from many different platforms that can streamline management and prepare virtual data centers for the cloud. Tools from the major virtualization vendors and from third parties offer assistance with automation, self-service, security, monitoring, reporting, backups and more.
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From Virtualization to Cloud Computing, Chapter 1
Many virtualized data centers are ready to take advantage of the cloud model, but first it's important to understand the next steps and find the right platforms and tools to help with the transition.
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Choosing Hardware for Virtualization
Changes in IT combined with tightening budgets have made scalability essential in the data center. Learn how to select hardware that will help make the most of your virtual infrastructure.
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Server Virtualization Basics: Understanding the Virtualization Market
This expert e-book examines the players in today's virtualization market and the ways in which the market continues to grow and evolve.
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Virtualizing Mission-Critical Apps
In this expert resource, learn the crucial steps to take to avoid performance and availability roadblocks when virtualizing your mission-critical applications to ensure the best possible service delivery.