Tagged - Virtualization

Cutting costs can be an overwhelming and painful task, but knowing where to focus your efforts can make it easier. Take a look at our top ten favorite strategies. It doesn't have to be as painful as you think, and who knows, you could become the...

To support key consolidation, performance, and reliability objectives, enterprises must plan to evolve from disparate networks for compute and storage traffic to a converged data center networking infrastructure. This shift represents a major...

Citrix Synergy 2010 Keynote Announcements

The opening keynote of Citrix Synergy 2010 unveiled new products from Citrix partners for an anti-virus solution for virtual machines, as well as a new Wyse zero client. However, the most significant announcement was for the new XenClient...

Three Rules for Evaluating a Cloud

Info-Tech developed these three rules of utility infrastructure investment as a way of establishing what matters to the business in increasingly abstracted infrastructures. Though cloud buzz calls both internal and external utility...

Cloud computing offers a compelling opportunity for small businesses to reduce IT costs. Cloud costs are orders of magnitude lower than the per unit costs of internally developed IT resources.

Take virtualization to the next level (internal cloud). Bring the management and resiliency of server virtualization to 80 to 100% of server workloads by building and managing appropriate compute, network, and storage capacity.

Situation. Implementers generally report success in their virtualization projects.

As vendors like VMware seek to make virtualization the operating system of the Cloud, management will go beyond virtual machine management to virtual resource management. Managing virtual infrastructure can support of business processes...

Intel's Xeon 5500 processors have been a boon to two areas of server management: power savings and virtualization. The recession in 2009 meant a slow start for the new technology, but deployment will start gaining speed.

Exchange is a legitimate candidate for virtualization, but only if the business goals are around availability, flexibility, and recovery. Do not look for a consolidation quick win.