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Mon, November 24, 2008

Preferred Hotels Group will soon become a cloud computing early adopter, moving its whole data center into the cloud. Here's a look at how they'll jump into the cloud, where virtualization fits in, and what they'll save.

Comments | Keywords: cloud, cloud computing, terremark
Tue, November 18, 2008

Think your desktop virtualization and WAN worries are complex? Linklaters, one of the world's largest law firms, has to support lawyers in 23 countries, working on 9 million documents with about 30 million versions. To keep pace with the torrent of data being shared via core business apps, the company had to make over its WAN.

Comments | Keywords: WAN optmization, WAN, Linklaters, Silver Peak Systems, Citrix, thin client, desktop virtualization
Tue, November 18, 2008

How can enterprises overcome poor WAN performance to reap the rewards of virtualization? Consider these five tips.

Comments | Keywords: virtualization, WAN, Silver Peak Systems
Tue, August 26, 2008

Munder Capital Management used Microsoft Hyper-V virtualization technology and Compellent SANs to revamp its disaster recovery strategy, eliminate 42 servers and slash cooling costs. Here's a look inside their plans and decisions.

Comments | Keywords: virtualization, server virtualization, storage virtualization, Microsoft Hyper-V, VMware, Compellent, SAN, Munder Capital Management
Fri, August 15, 2008

Keeping up with pre-teen traffic for "Camp Rock" made relying on a build-out and load balancing of physical servers impractical. Virtual servers, content delivery network helped save the musical.

Comments | Keywords: Content delivery networks, Disney, load balancing, virtualization
Fri, July 11, 2008

In a highly secure, naturally cooled former limestone mine located 220 feet underground, virtualization fuels Marriott's new disaster recovery strategy. With help from Iron Mountain, the hotel giant is cutting energy costs and recovery time while adding flexibility.

Comments | Keywords: Disaster recovery, virtual server, Iron Mountain
Thu, June 26, 2008

Vincent Biddlecombe, CTO of Transplace, explains how his company used virtualization in a four-step disaster recovery plan. The process offers a simple way to recover operations fast and at a relatively lower cost than traditional disaster recovery systems.

Comments | Keywords: disaster recovery, virtualization, data center, cost, savings, low-cost, tip, downtime
Fri, June 13, 2008

One IT leader's cautious move into virtual servers and storage virtualization tastes sweet so far. Here's a look at the strategy and savings.

Comments | Keywords: virtualization, virtual servers, storage virtualization, hypervisor, VMware, Dell, Microsoft, Pepsi
Tue, June 10, 2008

Kane County CTO David Siles shares lessons learned from his ongoing desktop and server virtualization efforts.

Comments | Keywords: virtualization
Wed, May 21, 2008

As this IT shop contiunues to expand its virtual server infrastructure, it uses CiRBA's data center intelligence tool to eliminate the guesswork in what-if scenarios. Here's how it works.

Comments | Keywords: virtualization, virtualization management, virtual server, virtualization management tools, CiRBA, IBM, VMware, Burton Group, Forrester Research, Underwriters Laboratories
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