Virtualization White Papers

Forrester on the Converged Infrastructure

To understand infrastructure and operations (I&O) perceptions of converged infrastructure (CI), Forrester Consulting surveyed 200 I&O decision-makers from six different countries. Decision-makers were asked about their expectations of benefits and barriers to implementation of CI and those who have implemented CI were questioned on their actual experiences. This white paper reveals the results of this study and explains why Forrester believes that CI should be considered for any major infrastructure refresh or net new investment.

Sponsor: HP

A Comprehensive Framework for Securing Virtualized Data Centers

Understand the real need for security solutions that can address the reality of expanding virtualization. You will also learn how HP TippingPoint's secure virtualization framework allows organizations to gain control of the virtual environment by introducing in-line security policy enforcement.

Sponsor: HP

Dell 3-2-1 Reference Configurations: High-availability virtualization with Dell PowerEdge R515 servers

Dell 3-2-1 Reference Configurations help companies simplify the design, ordering and deployment of a highly available virtualized infrastructure. This proven architecture is comprised of three servers, two switches and one storage array, plus the software you'll need to manage the environment to support over 500 users.

Sponsor: Dell

Riverbed Services Platform Feature Brief

Consolidation and virtualization are hot trends in IT, helping organizations increase their flexibility in delivering valuable services and reduce costs. The enhanced Riverbed® Services Platform (RSP) provides customers with the capability to run up to five additional services and applications virtually on VMware in a protected partition on the Steelhead® appliance.

Sponsor: Riverbed

The CIO's Guide to Optimizing Virtual Desktops

Desktop virtualization promises many benefits, including simplified and standardized desktop support, greater consistency and control, and better security and compliance. But if customers want true desktop virtualization success, they would be well advised to evaluate WAN optimization solutions. Read this white paper to learn how Riverbed solutions can help you realize the full benefits of desktop virtualization.

Sponsor: Riverbed

Real-World Virtualization for Your Business eBook

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 more.

Sponsor: Dell VMware

SMBs Get Virtualization, Plus the Benefits of High Core Count Processors

Given the complexity of their operations and their relatively sophisticated staffs, enterprise IT departments were the first computing customers to broadly embrace data center virtualization. Small to medium businesses (SMBs) soon followed suit, attracted by the same IT and business benefits that virtualization offers to larger firms. A recent IDG Research Services survey of SMB IT managers reveals that data center virtualization has become a high-priority investment for them.

Sponsor: AMD

Virtualized for Agility

Server virtualization is a transformative technology offering a myriad of benefits to companies of all sizes. By consolidating hardware and placing multiple virtual machines on a single server, organizations can decrease both capital and operational expenses while boosting server utilization rates and easing management. This paper explores how the right processor platform can maximize virtualization benefits for mid-sized companies.

Sponsor: AMD

The Accelerated : Moving at the Speed of Virtualization

Mid-market corporations increasingly rely on technology to serve as the enablers and accelerators of the business-not just to reduce costs but also to empower new business initiatives and increase the top line. This means that IT leaders are under intense pressure to reduce costs, while making services increasingly functional and reliable. Mid-Market companies must move quickly to capture competitive advantages. Read on and see what Nemertes Research found out and recommends to IT leaders for making their infrastructure agile.

Sponsor: AMD

Make Virtual Desktops a Valuable Reality with AMD

This paper will explore how the fast-emerging trend of "desktop virtualization" is giving IT managers a potent solution for tackling the problems associated with PC sprawl. Making use of the latest virtualization software solutions, maturing end-user client devices and more powerful server hardware - especially high-density, multi-core microprocessors - companies are now capable of managing a considerable percentage of their desktop computers on servers in the datacenter.

Sponsor: AMD

The SMB Top Choice for Virtualization

Small and Midsize Businesses face the unique challenge of ensuring high application availability and managing an increasingly complex IT environment all without the budgets of much larger IT organizations. End users expect greater flexibility and access to resources from multiple devices, but are stuck with desktop-centric email solutions with limited offline capabilities.

Protect your business with vSphere, the industry's leading virtualization platform, which provides built-in business continuity for all your applications.

Sponsor: HP, Intel, VMware

IT Consolidation with HP and VMware for the Midmarket

Midsized businesses in particular have benefited from increased adoption of various hardware and software technologies. However, this incremental adoption of servers, storage devices, storage capacity, and networking capabilities has often resulted in fragmented, even sprawling infrastructure; underutilization of hardware devices; and an abundance of IT management complexities.

Implementing virtualization addresses many of your business' technology challenges. In essence, it helps you do more with less-enabling you to be more strategic and able to grow your business.

Sponsor: HP, Intel, VMware

What Is VMware vCenter Site Recovery Manager?

Traditional disaster recovery solutions often fail to meet business requirements because they are too expensive, complex and unreliable. As a result, IT departments-uncertain if the quality of the protection is worth its cost hesitate to expand disaster protection beyond their most critical applications. The best disaster recovery solution should provide great protection, with minimum hassle, at the lowest possible cost. IT organizations use VMware vSphere and vCenter Site Recovery Manager to ensure highly reliable RTOs and RPOs at a much lower cost and level of complexity than traditional disaster recovery. With Site Recovery Manager, organizations can expand disaster protection to all applications that they run on the vSphere platform, and to smaller sites.

Sponsor: HP, Intel, VMware

How SMBs Get on Board with Virtualization

Minimize the time and risks associated with creating a virtualization solution from scratch or mixing components from multiple vendors. This paper details the five key areas for virtualization success and offers pre-tested, preconfigured solutions that provide small and midsize businesses with a comprehensive virtualized infrastructure.

Sponsor: HP, Intel, VMware

SMBs Launch into Cloud Computing and Virtualization

As SMBs consider their future business and technology plans, virtualization is bound to be part of the conversation. Given their value and importance to SMBs, it is critical that companies select the best-suited partners to help guide their virtualization and cloud implementations and technologies.

VMware and HP, longtime partners and well-established leaders in helping organizations adopt this new tool for cost savings and efficiency, are eager to deliver virtualization's benefits to more small and midsize organizations and help grow more businesses, profits, and opportunities.

Sponsor: HP, Intel, VMware

HP VirtualSystem VS1 for VMware

Over the years, virtualization has been proven to reduce costs, increase flexibility and improve business continuity-these are some of the key benefits of virtualization. But first-generation virtualization solutions were often custom designs that constrained scalability, increased IT complexity, limited security and siloed management.

Today, these problems have been virtually eliminated with advanced virtualization technologies from HP and VMware.

Sponsor: HP, Intel, VMware

HP Virtualization Smart Bundles with VMware: Simple, Cost-effective Virtualization Solutions

Virtualization can assist you reduce costs and simplify IT management. However, getting started can be challenging. HP Virtualization Smart Bundle can help.

HP Virtualization Smart Bundles include everything you need to get started with virtualization-from VMware vSphere virtualization software to the next generation of HP ProLiant servers, HP BladeSystem, HP Insight software, HP SANs, HP Virtual Connect technology, and HP Networking solutions.

Sponsor: HP, Intel, VMware

Accelerate Virtualized Results: HP VirtualSystem VS1 for VMware

As the world market gathers momentum, the pace of business continues to accelerate and business challenges continue to grow. To maintain your competitive advantage, you need to find creative ways to control costs, improve business continuity for all applications, and construct new environments while also maintaining legacy systems.

Today, you can begin to win the battle against IT complexity by deploying HP VirtualSystem VS1 for VMware (HP VS1 for VMware). Download this tech brief to learn more.

Sponsor: HP, Intel, VMware

HP Client Virtualization with VMware View

Considering a client virtualization implementation? By deploying HP Client Virtualization with VMware View, you can simplify desktop management and reduce costs, improve data protection, and promote compliance.

Sponsor: HP, Intel, VMware

HP Client Virtualization with VMware View for the Financial Services Sector

At a time of unprecedented change for the financial industry, CIOs and IT departments need to find ways to balance multiple objectives: maximize return, mitigate risk, improve performance, and increase agility and availability. In addition, financial institutions like yours are facing increased security concerns brought on in part by the growing number of remote workers accessing data from notebooks and other remote devices. In many cases, this includes offshore workers with access to your firm's critical intellectual property (IP).

Financial firms and institutions are looking for IT solutions that help them solve a wide range of business-critical challenges. The HP portfolio of Client Virtualization solutions with VMware View can help you achieve the objectives that financial firms need today. In addition, it can help you use your IT to add value for your customers.

Sponsor: HP, Intel, VMware

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