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The Year's Best Hardware, Software, and Cloud Services

Mon, January 09, 2012 - Was it the philosopher George Santayana who said, "Those who don't remember the past are condemned to repeat it?" Did he offer any hints for those of us who want to repeat the past, especially the successes? We're beyond the teary elegies of 2011 and deep into making resolutions for 2012. If we're going to stand half a chance of creating something great this year, it only makes sense to pause and celebrate what went right in 2011.

Four Virtual Assistants Tackle Real-World Business Tasks

Wed, October 26, 2011 - Low-priced offshore labor is widely available online, but is it worthwhile?

VSphere5 Sets the Virtualization Bar

Mon, September 26, 2011 - VSphere 5.0, the latest iteration of VMware's "Cloud Operating System," boasts a wealth of updates, including new tools to manage fleets of VMs, and vast tiers of virtualized, vMotion-enabled storage links.

Mac Virtualization Face-Off: VMware Fusion 4 Vs. Parallels Desktop 7

Wed, September 21, 2011 - Neither Fusion nor Parallels offer major improvements for Windows users, but they add welcome support for Mac OS X Lion virtual machines

First Look: VMware VSphere 5 Looms Large

Tue, August 23, 2011 - Automated host deployment, revamped HA, large-scale VM support, and storage automation features rev up vSphere for big shops

CloudShare ProPlus Makes App Testing a Snap

Thu, April 14, 2011 - CloudShare ProPlus allows businesses to try out applications safely and easily using their own private cloud.

Virtualization Shootout: Citrix, Microsoft, Red Hat, and VMware

Wed, April 13, 2011 - The leading server virtualization contenders tackle InfoWorld's ultimate virtualization challenge

VMware Makes Cloud Jumping Easy

Sun, March 13, 2011 - VMware's vCloud Connector (VCC) is a free VMware virtual appliance and vSphere plug-in that makes it a snap to transfer VMware virtual machines, templates and vApps between clouds.

The Best Hardware and Software of the Year

Wed, January 12, 2011 - InfoWorld's 2011 Technology of the Year Awards recognize the best products at the forefront of today's top data center, desktop, mobile, and programming trends

InfoWorld Review: Dell ISCSI SAN Sizzles with SSD, Dynamic Storage Tiering

Wed, October 20, 2010 - The Dell EqualLogic PS6010XVS with automated storage tiering leverages fast SAS or faster SSD storage depending on workload

 
White Papers »
Forrester Total Economic Impact (TEI) Case Study - Oracle
In this paper, Forrester Consulting examines the total economic impact and potential return on investment (ROI) realized by three Enterprise organizations as they virtualized mission-critical Oracle databases on the VMware vSphere platform. The purpose of this study is to provide readers with a framework to evaluate the potential financial impact of VMware vSphere on their organizations.
Top 10 Myths About Virtualizing Business-Critical Applications
Even though virtualization has brought positive change to enterprise IT over the last decade, some skepticism remains about how valuable virtualization can be in the way companies deliver and run business applications. Uncover the truth about how you can run your business critical applications with confi dence without sacrifi cing
availability or service quality-and at lower costs.
The Hidden Truth About Virtualizing Business-Critical Applications
This IDG whitepaper highlights key findings based on the Quickpoll Survey conducted with more than 300 Enterprise and Commercial IT decision makers worldwide about the state of their virtualization of business critical applications. This paper answers such questions as: What drivers are pushing companies to extend virtualization beyond servers? and What value are they realizing? Central to the paper are key results that expose risks of the past (fears of limited ISV support, performance impact) no longer are a factor for companies moving to 80+% virtualized.
Indiana University Virtualizes Mission-Critical Oracle Databases
The Kelley School of Business at Indiana University deployed VMware Infrastructure which decreases costs, streamlines server deployment, and reduces energy consumption.
Virtual Infrastructure Yields Real TCO and ROI Advantages
New study quantifies how VMware improved TCO and ROI for three companies' IT landscapes.
Virtualizing Tier 1 Applications: A Critical Step on the Journey Toward the Private Cloud  
This IDC white paper explains how much of the Enterprise IT community is at a crossroads in extending their journey to the private cloud: Companies must virtualize their business critical applications in order to reap the benefits of cloud computing. The paper also includes two case studies and a sidebar highlighting the experiences of three enterprises with virtualizing their business-critical applications, which include Oracle and Microsoft SQL databases, SAP and enterprise Java, and a Microsoft Exchange email system.
Webcasts »
Virtualization Success is a Team Effort
As greater numbers of datacenter servers transition from the physical to the virtual world, the components of virtualization success come to the fore. What scores of organizations have discovered is that success is derived from an optimal pairing of the right software platform with the right hardware platform.
Virtualizing Microsoft and Oracle on VMware vSphere: Benefits and Best Practices
Virtualizing business-critical applications is an essential step in your journey to the cloud. Microsoft SQL Server, Exchange and SharePoint, and Oracle applications, are often the backbone of business IT. The benefits of virtualizing these applications extend far beyond mere consolidation. Understanding how VMware improves quality of service and agility while reducing costs will help you make the case for taking virtualization to the next level in your company.
Virtualize Business-Critical Applications with Confidence
Virtualizing business-critical applications has become a key focus for organizations as they move along their virtualization journey. With the launch of VMware vSphere® 5, VMware is helping customers accelerate the deployment of business-critical applications, including Exchange, SQL, SAP and Oracle.
Discover the Benefits of Virtualization for Federal Applications
Want to say goodbye to missed SLAs? VMware can help you virtualize mission-critical applications such as Oracle, MS Exchange and SharePoint to achieve dramatic improvements in uptime, performance and responsiveness. In this webcast, we'll discuss the key benefits of virtualizing your agency's most critical applications and Oracle databases as a necessary first step in fulfilling OMB's mandate to move IT services to the cloud. With VMware, you'll be on the way to quick, effective and full compliance.
Virtual Desktop Solutions in the Federal Government
Federal IT managers are on the forefront of realizing the benefits that a secure, easy-to-manage virtual desktop environment can provide. The key is how to deliver the end-user experience that is comparable to a physical desktop. This webcast will show how the recently released VMware View 5 environment is being used to deploy virtual desktops to provide mission-critical solutions around Disaster Recover/COOP, telework and secure mobile applications to federal organizations. View this webcast and learn how new features and benefits of the VMware View 5 environment meet the needs of Federal customers
Introduction to Virtualization
This video webcast is designed to help those with little to no virtualization experience understand why virtualization and VMware are so important to driving down both capital and operational costs. The session will start with the introduction of the key concepts and technologies of virtualization, introduce the vSphere Hypervisor, and build up to an overview of VMware vSphere® 5, the world's most robust and complete virtualization platform. This session will also discuss new solutions such as the vSphere Storage Appliance and VMware GO that are making it easier than ever before to get started with virtualization.
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