Tool

This assessment and roadmap development tool will help you create a roadmap for future development of a managed virtual infrastructure and internal cloud.

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Server virtualization has gone from hot emerging trend to a mainstream reality. As virtual infrastructure becomes core infrastructure, focus investment on getting the most benefit at the lowest total cost.

Solution Set

For many enterprises, server virtualization is moving beyond basic consolidation into a more managed virtual environment, and potentially to the internal Cloud. Understanding the benefits of each of these stages and their associated costs will...

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VMware continues to dominate the server virtualization landscape; however, challengers such as Microsoft, Citrix, and Red Hat are providing competitive features for consolidation and virtual infrastructure management.

Solution Set

VMware continues to dominate the server virtualization landscape; however, challengers such as Microsoft, Citrix, and Red Hat are providing competitive features for consolidation and virtual infrastructure management.

Tool

This tool allows enterprises to generate a customized shortlist of vendors based on required capabilities and future requirements around server consolidation, virtual infrastructure management, and the internal cloud.

Vendor Research

This report helps vendors understand how to sell their server virtualization solutions and emphasizes the rationale of end customer purchases and what this means to the vendor.

Info-Tech Research Group ranks VMware Server Virtualization overall “Champion” with Citrix and Microsoft nipping at their heels and looking to 2012 as a big year London, ON – May 11, 2011 – A recent report published by Info-Tech Research...

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Info-Tech recently conducted several surveys for our research projects. This document is a high level summary of those results and an introduction to the resulting research.

Template/Policy

This template is designed to provide server virtualization vendors with a consistent set of instructions, ensuring an objective comparison of product features, all while evaluating ease-of-use, and ease of setup and configuration. This template...

Tool

This TCO tool provides organizations with a framework for estimating the costs associated with deploying a server virtualization solution relative to a server refresh, or an alternate vendor.

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VMware continues to dominate, but selection isn't just about who is the leader. Competitors are providing legitimate alternatives for consolidation and virtual infrastructure management.

Template/Policy

Organizations embarking on the selection process for server virtualization may elect to issue a Request for Proposal (RFP) after determining their final selection criteria.

Tool

For organizations that have issued a formal Request for Proposal (RFP) to evaluate server virtualization vendors, gathering and scoring the various responses can be difficult and time consuming. This tool enables enterprises to evaluate and...

Tool

Info-Tech Research Group has established that savings through lower one-time and ongoing server acquisition costs is the strongest argument in a business case for server virtualization. Use this calculator to get a broad sense of the...

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An internal cloud requires capacity management to cost effectively match business requirements with infrastructure. Develop a capacity management plan that optimizes infrastructure as a service by inventorying current capacity while planning for...

Tool

Use this capacity tiering workbook to keep track of applications and infrastructure, and introduce tiers of service that deliver "good enough" performance for cost effective capacity management.

Template/Policy

Having an internal cloud strategy can control costs and improve efficiency of a consolidated infrastructure. Use this process checklist to track your organization's progress in developing your internal cloud.

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An internal cloud requires capacity management to cost effectively match business requirements with infrastructure. Develop a capacity management plan that optimizes infrastructure as a service by inventorying current capacity while planning for...

Template/Policy

In an internal cloud, careful assessment of applications is needed in order to make efficient use of current capacity and plan for hardware upgrades to capacity. Use this assessment checklist can be used to gather the requirements of new and...

Solution Set

Provisioning an app or service in a consolidated environment is less about acquiring and deploying technology than it is carving resources out of an existing pool of capacity. Server and storage consolidation breaks a neat 1-to-1 connection that...

Template/Policy

Having an internal cloud strategy can control costs and improve efficiency of a consolidated infrastructure. Use this business plan to demonstrate how ongoing capacity assessment and planning will help deliver service goals at the lowest...

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Consolidated network storage is a strategic enabler that forms the foundation for server consolidation and a unified approach to data and system availability and recovery.

Tool

This is the Storage Vendor RFP Scoring Tool populated with actual evaluation scores created by Ken Juneau and others at TM4.

Template/Policy

The typical trigger for acquiring consolidated networked storage (CNS) is server consolidation; however, getting the most value out of storage purchases requires a strategic context. This business plan template puts the CNS acquisition in the...

Tool

In storage acquisition strategy it is ideal to balance the most storage capacity and performance with the lowest cost per unit of storage. Some solutions have a lower overall price tag, but have a higher TCO per Terabyte because of a lack of...

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Consolidated network storage makes more efficient use of storage resources through the elimination of waste and effort duplication across distributed islands or silos of direct attached storage. Consolidated storage is also a strategic enabler...

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...

Solution Set

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.

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Most enterprises have already seen success in virtualizing the low-hanging fruit in the data center. As the percentage of the data center that is virtualized increases, IT must focus on building an internal cloud that leverages virtualization...