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Optimizing Networks for the CloudSource: 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."
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.
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
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.
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
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
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.
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
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

