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Optimizing Networks for the Cloud

Source: HP

Cloud computing and virtualization trends are expected to change the face of the enterprise network in the next decade. Upgrading or redesigning traditional network infrastructures to take full advantage of the cloud and support enhanced automation, orchestration and provisioning can be challenging and costly. Join guest speaker, Rohit Mehra, IDC Director of Enterprise Communications Infrastructure, to explore current trends, discuss best practices for optimizing Data Center and enterprise campus network infrastructures for the Cloud, and identify ways to better allocate network resources, reduce operating costs and improve application performance. You'll also hear from Ahmad Zamer, Sr. Product Marketing Manager with HP, who will discuss how to architect your network to meet the stringent performance, security and agility demands of cloud computing while reducing network complexity.

Register now and get the white paper "Building Cloud-Optimized Data Center Networks."

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Customer Spotlight: How IPC The Hospitalist Company Implemented Oracle on VMware

Source: VMware

Have you been looking to hear about customer's experiences with the new VMware vCenter Site Recovery Manager product? View this webcast to learn about VMware customer, Navicure, and their experiences testing and evaluating the recovery manager, their progress in implementing it in their environment and their advice other customers considering using vCenter.

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Apps QuickStart Series Part 2: Designing and Deploying SQL Server on VMware vSphere

Source: VMware

Download this webcast to learn about the design considerations for virtualizing SQL workloads, performance and scalability information and high-availability options, as well as support considerations

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Apps QuickStart Series Part 1: Designing and Deploying Exchange 2010 on VMware vSphere

Source: VMware

Download this webcast to learn the virtual hardware design considerations for Exchange 2010, deployment using the building block approach, options for high-availability and disaster recovery and support considerations.

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Virtualizing Microsoft and Oracle on VMware vSphere: Benefits and Best Practices

Source: VMware

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.

Attend this webcast to learn about:
- Best practices for virtualizing Microsoft and Oracle applications
- Customer case studies that provide insight into industry trends
- Planning your own roadmap to virtualizing Microsoft and Oracle applications

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Virtualize Business-Critical Applications with Confidence

Source: VMware

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.

Attend this webcast to learn about:
- New capabilities in vSphere 5 to virtualize business-critical applications
- Customer stories of successful virtualization of Oracle and SQL
- How vSphere 5 provides simplified disaster recovery, efficient automated operations and app security

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Discover the Benefits of Virtualization for Federal Applications

Source: VMware

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.

Attend this webcast to learn how VMware can help you:
- Virtualize your agency's applications and Oracle databases as a first step towards compliance with OMB's mandate to move IT services to the cloud.
- Consolidate your infrastructure by up to 10x and comply with the Presidential mandate to reduce the number of datacenters by 40 percent by 2015.
- Dramatically decrease power and cooling requirements in the datacenter and comply with the Presidential mandate to reduce IT energy consumption by 20 percent.

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Quantifying the Business Value of VMware View - Webcast

Source: VMware

Many enterprises have discovered that the use of virtualization to support desktop workloads creates a range of significant benefits. These benefits include price efficiencies, improved IT management and greater agility and choice for end users.

This VMware sponsored webcast with IDC will provide both quantitative measurement of the business value -- defined as the expected ROI -- and qualitative analysis associated with the use of VMware View™. IDC will also provide an analysis of the View Composer and ThinApp™ features of VMware View, including the business value of these solutions and an overview of how they work.

Attend this webcast to learn about:
- Challenges and barriers that might impede the adoption of desktop virtualization
- Navigating roadblocks to facilitate a strategic implementation
- Optimizing qualitative and quantitative benefits to IT and your business

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When Java EE Is Overkill: Lightweight Application Server Benefits

Source: VMware

The complexity, cost and technological bloat of traditional Java EE application servers are often barriers to running a lean and efficient IT organization. Increased need for scalability and rapid application delivery are driving businesses to reconsider the platform they use for application deployment. By combining the portability and agility of the Spring framework with a lightweight application server, your organization can meet business demands while staying within budget constraints. VMware vFabric™ tc Server is a modern, lightweight Java application server based on Apache Tomcat. It improves developer productivity, control and manageability-and is the most flexible platform for virtualizing Java applications and workloads for the cloud.

View this webcast to learn about:

- Real-world examples of companies that have adopted VMware vFabric tc Server
- The decision process for moving to VMware vFabric tc Server
- Realized benefits of using Spring and VMware vFabric tc Server
- When it is appropriate to stay on a JEE platform
- Planning for future cloud deployments

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The Enterprise Data Center Recipe

80% of the IT budget is consumed by mundane keeping the lights on activities. This tech dossier examines the components of a truly efficient data center with expert guidance on how to standardize, simplify and automate. Learn how you can free more budget for innovation and strategic projects.

Sponsored by Dell  Read More »

 

Improve Service Levels while Cutting Costs

Identification of underperforming processes for databases, operations, systems, storage and capacity management is the first step to service optimization. But where do you start? This paper will help you identify the areas for improvement and explains how IT workload automation can significantly reduce complexity and IT staff inefficiencies.

Sponsored by BMC  Read this White Paper »

 

Reduce Windows 7 Costs by 60%

Getting ready for a Windows 7 upgrade requires careful planning. To start, youll need to ensure application and hardware compatibility, give careful consideration to VDI and learn the advantages of new tools to automate the migration process. This tech dossier provides expert advice on deployment best practices and highlights experiences of early adopters.

Sponsored by Dell  Read this White Paper »

The Mobile Computing Conundrum

In this Webcast you will learn how a convertible PC delivers the tablet experience without sacrificing necessary laptop capabilities, including light weight, seamless wireless connectivity - and the ability to run Windows applications.  View Now »

 

Are your employees asking "When can I get Windows 7?" Learn how a mid-size, global company Enterasys is Upgrading to Windows 7 Enterprise

Keep costs down. Support a sophisticated, mobile workforce. Increase productivity. Streamline PC management. That's just the start of the to-do list for Enterasys Networks' IT department. The maker of enterprise wired and wireless network infrastructure and security solutions turned to Windows 7 desktop operating system from Microsoft to meet those and other, more ambitious goals. Join us to learn why Enterasys employees were tracking down IT staff in the cafeteria to ask "When can I get Windows 7?  View Now »

 

Virtualization and Cloud: Keeping Pace with the Evolving Data Center

As virtualization's role evolves in the data center, savvy IT leaders are beginning to focus on a complementary technology to drive data center agility-cloud computing. Learn how a cloud delivery model will move virtualization in the data center to the next level, driving standardization within infrastructures, improving efficiencies, increasing business value and lowering TCO.  View Now »