Virtualization

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tool Virtualization Availability ROI Calculator
Discover what your direct benefits could be from server virtualization consolidation. Learn how much you could save by protecting productivity and business critical virtual workloads with fault tolerant-class software for virtual machines.
Download  Virtualization Availability ROI Calculator		 technologyBrief Get Virtual: Step-by-Step Guidance with Dell
Dell builds the best virtualization technology solutions around robust PowerEdge servers with Intel Xeon processors and adds management and storage virtualization components from leading vendors such as Altiris, EMC, and VMWare. After customizing the architecture to meet your needs, Dell tests, configures, delivers, and backs the equipment with renowned customer service.
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whitepaper IT Consolidation for Branch Offices
This paper outlines Brocade Communications Systems survey results addressing IT Consolidation for Branch Offices.
Download  IT Consolidation for Branch Offices		 whitepaper Driving Business Value with a Virtualized Infrastructure
Today, virtualization technology can enhance nearly every aspect of the IT infrastructure: servers, operating systems, applications, storage, data and networks. This white paper points the way for organizations to expand on virtualization’s historical benefits and to use virtualization technology to address business challenges.
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caseStudy Making Server Consolidation a Reality
As e-business, enterprise portals, data warehouses and enterprise systems have grown in size and importance, so has the challenge of managing data and ensuring that it is used optimally. Today, it is not unusual for organizations to find themselves sinking under the weight of managing unwieldy systems containing a seemingly endless number of files.
Download  Making Server Consolidation a Reality		 whitepaper Putting Server Virtualization to Work
Enterprises have been using server virtualization technology on mainframes and RISC-based systems to enable better utilization of hardware resources. As x86 servers have become a mainstay in the enterprise, more companies are exploring server virtualization to enable more productive, flexible and scalable data centers while reducing costs and boosting data availability. 64-bit and 32-bit computing technologies from AMD are providing the foundation for today’s—and tomorrow’s—enterprise virtualization technology solutions.
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whitepaper Virtual Desktop Infrastructure
Many companies have turned to virtualization technologies technology for their servers and in their data centers to simplify administration and to reduce management chores and operating costs while maintaining reliability and safeguarding against disasters. Seeing the significant benefits virtualization delivers in those environments, companies are now looking to apply the same virtualization technology to their desktop computers.
Download  Virtual Desktop Infrastructure		 technologyBrief Virtualization
The adoption of virtualization by corporations is being spurred on by the availability of high performance, multi-core servers that deliver the processing power, memory, and connectivity speeds required to support applications running on multiple virtual machines on a single server.
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webcast Can your Storage Boost the Business Benefits of Virtualization?
Enterprise IT organizations face increasing business pressures as data volumes continue to grow. Server consolidation, disk capacity and CPU resource management, disaster recovery/data protection, and a general need to reduce costs – all of these pain points have compelled companies to embrace virtualization technology as a remedy.
Download  Can your Storage Boost the Business Benefits of Virtualization?		 webcast Cross Platform Virtualization: Reducing Complexity
The data center of the future will have both Linux and Windows. Companies that are able to make them work together better by running bidirectional virtualization technology will be able to reduce complexity and costs. Companies that don’t, won’t. Download this webcast to learn more.
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webcast Desktop Virtualization: The Next Big Thing
Desktop virtualization technology promises a new growth opportunity for solution providers, bringing lower cost and less complexity to managing multiple systems. Although the virtualization technology has been around for years, improvements in the desktop virtualization space have made it easier to deploy and manage, providing new areas of growth and revenue.
Download  Desktop Virtualization: The Next Big Thing		 webcast High Growth, Low Competition - The Perfect Storm of Server Virtualization
As one of the fastest growing segments of the IT market, server virtualization is also one of the best opportunities for Solution Providers. While the number of virtual servers is still a tiny part of the total number of servers deployed, server virtualization is on track to take a major share of the server market in the next few years.
Download  High Growth, Low Competition - The Perfect Storm of Server Virtualization