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White Paper
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Accelerate Software Development, Testing and Deployment with the VMware Virtualization Platform
VMware virtualization platform has transformed IT operations in enterprise data centers worldwide, by allowing common computing workloads to be freed from the underlying hardware, thereby enabling more efficient and dynamic resource reallocation.
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Agentless Application Virtualization: Enabling the Evolution of the Desktop
In this study, IDC analyst Michael Rose discusses how VMware ThinApp, an agentless virtualization solution, addresses the challenges of desktop computing. Read about the pros and cons of virtualized client computing, and learn how desktop and application virtualization can enable a dynamic desktop environment, improve storage efficiency and simplify management.
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Automated, Affordable Disaster Recovery Solutions
A growing number of organizations are deploying networked storage in conjunction with server virtualization to consolidate, reduce costs, and improve the flexibility and availability of mission-critical applications. IT managers choosing networked storage for virtualized environments are looking for easy and cost effective disaster recovery without sacrificing performance. This report explores how servers and storage from IBM, combined with Site Recovery Manager software from VMware, can be used to automate and simplify disaster recovery testing and failover in a virtual server environment.
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Boosting Server Virtualization Performance - VMWare
We correlated workload performance, platform performance, and power consumed with financial data to determine TCO. With this methodology, we demonstrated as much as a 2x performance improvement and up to 53 percent reduction in TCO for the Dual-Core Intel Xeon processor 5150 as compared to its predecessor.
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Building the Virtualized Enterprise with VMware Infrastructure
IT organizations are still grappling with the legacy of the IT explosion of the 1990s, which left many of them with high costs, slow response times, and an inconsistently managed infrastructure. This paper examines how a virtualized enterprise with VMware can change everything by helping your organization to dramatically reduce costs, improve availability, and even simplify management.
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Case Study
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Solvay Saves $1.5 Million and Meets Validation Requirements with VMware Virtual Infrastructure
VMware Infrastructure increased scalability and performance in the datacenter for Solvay Pharmaceuticals, saving more than $1.5 million in hardware costs, decreasing paperwork and server procurement costs and decreasing server deployment time from 6 hours to 30 minutes.
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Ad Agency Uses VMware Virtual Infrastructure to Contain Server Sprawl and Improve Customer Service
This case study shows how VMware ESX Server helped boost GSD&M’s CPU utilization to 80 percent, cut power and cooling costs, and facilitate swift provisioning process.
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Army Corps of Engineers Case Study
This case study examines how the Huntington District needed to solve several problems— all directly related to disk storage, and how they were able to accomplish their goals with a paradigm shift using state-of-the-art technology to manage their IT infrastructure issues with a single solution.
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Bluelock LLC Creates a Scalable and Available IT Environment with VMware and LeftHand Networks
As a leading provider of Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS), Bluelock LLC is redefining how companies provision and manage their technology infrastructure. When Bluelock, LLC needed to create pre-configured, virtual IT environments for their clients, they turned to VMware and LeftHand Networks.
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Bowdoin College
Having to support a vast array of operating systems, Bowdoin College was running out of space and resources in its data center, and also lacked a disaster recovery plan. Using VMware Infrastructure 3, Bowdoin College has partnered with Loyola Marymount University on the West Coast to build a co-located data center, boasting cross-country disaster recovery. Read this case study to learn more.
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Podcast
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Building an Adaptive Infrastructure with VMware and HP
Learn how VMware and HP have teamed up to deliver an adaptive infrastructure that helps you reduce costs, increase agility and be more competitive.
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Designing and Implementing a Scalable Virtual Desktop Deployment, part 1
Planning a successful desktop virtualization solution using VMware Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI) hinges on a quality assessment of the needs, constraints and users of an organization.
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Designing and Implementing a Scalable Virtual Desktop Deployment, part 2
Designing a successful desktop virtualization solution using VMware Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI) includes five critical components, consisting of the client access devices layer, access infrastructure layer, VMware Infrastructure layer, virtual desktop or VDI Virtual Machine layer, and applications layer.
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Designing and Implementing a Scalable Virtual Desktop Deployment, part 3
Implementing a successful desktop virtualization solution using VMware Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI). Learn more about the assessment methodology and considerations for each of the five critical components.
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Designing and Implementing a Scalable Virtual Desktop Deployment, part 4
Before deploying a desktop virtualization solution using VMware Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI), consider these five tips that will help make the transition easier. This podcast focuses on the end user experience, equipment reuse and repurposing, and benefits of a modular architecture.
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Webcast
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Achieving a Dynamic Datacenter with Dell, VMware, and Intel Virtualization Solutions
IT is under significant pressure to deliver flexible IT services that enable business to turn on a dime. At the same time, many are faced with little to no growth in their IT budgets and, in fact, may have to cut spending to meet today’s challenging economic conditions. To be successful in this world of conflicting objectives, IT needs an enterprise architecture that can be scaled rapidly and efficiency, while maintaining strict controls and staying on budget and on schedule.
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Customer Spotlight: VMware Site Recovery Manager
Have you been looking to hear about customer’s experiences with the new VMware vCenter Site Recovery Manager product? Learn about one customer’s experience in testing and evaluating the product and their advice to those customers considering using the vCenter recovery manager.
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Desktop Virtualization: The Next Big Thing
Desktop virtualization promises a new growth opportunity for solution providers, bringing lower cost and less complexity to managing multiple systems. Although the 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.
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Dynamic Infrastructure: Virtualization 2.0
Users are running more virtual machines and critical applications on those machines than ever before. Thanks to advancements in server hardware and VMware software, performance is no longer an issue of concern when it comes to running critical applications. Watch this webcast to learn why IBM System X and BladeCenter Servers offer the best performance, reliability, and scalability for virtualization, and more specifically for business-critical applications such as Exchange and SAP.
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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.
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Product Literature
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VMware Infrastructure 3: Data Center Management and Optimization Suite
VMware Infrastructure is the most widely deployed software suite for optimizing and managing industry standard IT environments through virtualization – from the desktop to the data center.
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Advertorial
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Virtualization, High Availability and Data Protection for Always On IT
VMware vSphere is the industry’s first cloud operating system, transforming IT infrastructures into a private cloud—a collection of internal clouds federated on-demand to external clouds—delivering IT infrastructure as an easily accessible service. Enable the next generation of flexible, reliable IT services with the efficiency and low cost of cloud computing—featuring uncompromising control over service levels.
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eWeek Podcast
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Freeing the Virtual Machine
Jim Rapoza talks to eWEEK Labs Senior Analyst Jason Brooks about Jason`s review of VMware Server 1.0.
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VMware Embraces `Mactel`
VMware President Diane Greene talks with eWEEK Senior Editor Peter Galli about its announcement to offer a virtualization solution for the Mac on the Intel platform.
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Research Report
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The True Cost of Virtual Server Solutions
In March of 2009, VMware contacted Taneja Group to conduct an assessment of how VMware ESXi 3.5 and Microsoft Hyper-V compare when it comes to hosting multiple virtual machines (VM) – what is referred to in this Technology Validation Report as “VM Density.” At VMware’s request, Taneja Group executed a set of tests to evaluate hypervisor performance under different types of workloads.
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Tolly Test Report
In a recent test conducted by Tolly Enterprises, Vmware View 3 for desktop virtualization was tested against Citrix XenDesktop 2.1. The test demonstrated that Vmware View was superior to the Citrix solution in terms of deployment simplicity, efficient image and storage management and user experience. Read the report.
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Yankee Group: Disaster Strikes! Is Your Business Ready? Disaster Preparedness for Mid-Sized Firms
Many firms are inadequately protected and mistakenly think that a disaster is rare and won't happen to them anytime soon. This custom Yankee Group Report uses customer interviews, statistical data and Yankee Group SMB survey results to examine disaster recovery (DR) issues for mid-sized businesses.
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Review
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VMware Expands Virtualization Options
Workstation 6 sports improved Operating System, USB 2.0 support. (eWEEK Review)
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VI3 Bolsters Virtualization
VMware Suite helps consolidate and extend server capabilities. (eWEEK Review)
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VMware ‘ACEs’ Virtual Desktops
VMware’s software eases VM deployment and beefs up its security. (eWEEK Review)
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VMware Player
The free VMware Player brings many of the benefits of virtual machines to the average user. (PC Magazine Review)
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VMware Widens OS Options
VMware Workstation 5 gains management muscle. (eWEEK Review)
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Technology Brief
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Better Business Continuity with VMware Virtual Infrastructure
This Technology Brief discusses how VMware virtual infrastructure software helps organizations increase availability by reducing both planned and unplanned downtime.
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Designing a Scalable Server and Storage Architecture with VMware Infrastructure
Organizations must support a wide variety of users – local, mobile and remote - making it difficult to support end users in a consistent and secure manner. This tech brief covers a number of details of the VMware virtualization solution to provide a virtual desktop infrastructure.
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Enterprise Strategy Group: Infrastructure Virtualization Brief
With its recent announcement of VMware View 3, VMware improves its virtual desktop offerings by advancing management, scalability, and end-user experience. Read why Mark Bowker, Analyst at ESG, says VMware is in a unique position as the leading server virtualization vendor to capitalize on the desktop virtualization market.
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Guide to Virtual Infrastructure Implementation
The decision to implement a virtual infrastructure within your enterprise is a smart one that will provide numerous financial and operational benefits to your organization. This guide provides a practical implementation strategy that will help you continue to grow as you introduce a fully virtualized environment.
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Improving Business Continuity with VMware Virtualization
Learn more about Business Continuity Challenges, Ensuring Availability with VMware Virtualization, and Delivering Effective Disaster Recovery by understanding key benefits of each topic.
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Product Demo
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VMware Virtual Infrastructure Demo
VMware virtual infrastructure architecture enables businesses to lower IT costs through increased efficiency, flexibility and responsiveness. In this demo, learn how VMware’s virtualization solutions can address these server infrastructure needs.
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Tech Analysis
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Virtualization Market Reshapes
VMware’s IPO, Citrix-XenSource deal represent change in an expanding space.
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Video
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Intel and VMware Virtualization Video
Hear from experts at Intel and VMware about the benefits of virtualization.
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The Power of Virtualization
This video explains how Northwestern Memorial Hospital used VMware, Dell and EMC virtualization solutions to consolidate servers and streamline their IT environment.
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VMware HP Round Table Discussions
A trio of industry experts sounds off on applying virtualization in business. Watch this video to learn more.
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VMware Online Flash Demo: Disaster Recovery Solutions for SMB “Murphy’s Law”
This video explains in plain language the benefits of building a true disaster recovery plan on VMware Infrastructure. If traditional disaster recovery has been out of your reach due to expense and complexity, VMware offers a better solution
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eWeek Slide Show
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eWEEK Labs Walk-Through of VMware Fusion
VMware`s new Fusion product does a good job making Windows applications available to OS X. Join eWEEK Labs on a tour of Fusion`s highlights.
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eWEEK Labs Walk-Through: VMware Fusion Beta 1
This slide provides a look at VMware`s Fusion and how runs and looks after being installed.
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eWEEK Labs Walk-Through: VMware Server 1.0
eWEEK Labs takes this opportunity to provide an in-depth visual walk-through on the features and appearance of VMware’s Server 1.0.
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eWEEK Labs Walk-Through: VMware’s Virtual Infrastructure 3.0.1
This slideshow takes a look at VMware VI3’s allocation tools, converter application and monitoring and tracking system.
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Article
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SAP Supports Applications on VMware Platform: An Industry Milestone
In December 2007, VMware announced that SAP will support its suite of enterprise applications running in VMware production environments. VMware Infrastructure is the first, and so far only, virtualization platform on which SAP applications will be directly supported across all major servers and operating systems. The news also represents an important milestone for the server virtualization industry, which has been struggling for years to gain respect within the data center.
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