RSSVirtualization was just what the doctors ordered for Huntsville Hospital and its data center. Here's a look at why virtual servers were just the start for this IT group. One hitch so far: some software vendors have balked at supporting a virtualized environment.
Evan Jafa, CIO for First American, has already learned plenty about server virtualization during his data center revamp. But he says the greatest virtualization challenges for IT leaders are yet to come. Think process management, network provisioning, and IT organization makeovers.
At Sesame Workshop, imagination is limitless but data center space and budgets are not. Take a look at how this non-profit is using open source virtualization tools to revamp its server strategy and count up substantial savings.
Think your current IT project's scope is daunting? Alcatel-Lucent CIO Elizabeth Hackenson just finished the first leg of a three-year job to consolidate her company's 25 data centers and 125 server rooms down to just six data centers, including a unique new center near Paris that opens this week.
Want to virtualize 95 percent of your production servers within a year? Vincent Biddlecombe did. Here's how the CTO of logistics company Transplace went from having no virtualization expertise in house to running the company's mission-critical app on a VM.
VM Sprawl. Hypervisor holes. Rogue virtual machines. Network traffic gone bad. What are the biggest virtualization security risks now and how can you combat them? It's time to separate fact from fiction and get down to work.
Virtualized servers create power and hardware savings, but also come with management headaches. A growing set of tools can help.
