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Citrix's Vision for the Virtualized Enterprise

Wed, February 24, 2010 - Virtualization software vendor Citrix bets partnerships with rivals will help it capture a larger share of the enterprise.

Scalent Systems

Tue, May 06, 2008 - Scalent's tools are designed to help migrate physical servers to virtual by remotely reconfiguring and reassigning individual server images to virtual machines.

Opalis

Tue, May 06, 2008 - Known for IT process automation and systems management, Opalis built support for VMware and Microsoft virtual servers into its server-provisioning and policy administration tool.

Leostream

Tue, May 06, 2008 - Leostream's products are designed to help automate the conversion from physical servers to virtual ones.

Tue, May 06, 2008 - Double-Take is one of a growing number of developers making utilities and add-on products designed to build manageability, and RAS (reliability/availability/serviceability) functions into both virtual servers as well as the physical servers on which they run.

B-hive Networks

Tue, May 06, 2008 - B-hive's primary product, Conductor, runs as an appliance, monitoring user connections and network traffic to and from virtual servers in order to provide a detailed view of activity for both performance management and network mapping and optimization.

FalconStor

Tue, May 06, 2008 - FalconStor's support for many vendors allows customers to mix and match storage hardware into a single virtual storage setup.

ManageIQ

Tue, May 06, 2008 - Adopting the manager-of-managers concept from network management, ManageIQ's EVM Control is designed to manage other management products, starting with VirtualCenter.

Red Hat

Tue, May 06, 2008 - Red Hat, known for its Linux and open-source operating system expertise and related software, built a hypervisor into the base version of Red Hat Enterprise Linux.

Parallels

Tue, May 06, 2008 - Parallels, a maker of a multi-operating-system based hypervisor and guest OS management tools, broke the pattern of Unix-or-Windows based virtual servers by expanding to build one that can run on top of Macintosh hardware and operating systems.

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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.

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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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