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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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The pilot test assessment will help guide your evaluation of the state of the pilot project. It provides a place to record technical requirements, KPIs, and existing or potential problems that have been, or will be, experienced by end users and...

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A Project Charter is an integral document to any initiative. This template will help clarify goals, determine guidelines, and establish milestones to keep a VDI implementation on track.

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End user acceptance is one of the biggest challenges to desktop virtualization adoption. IT should have a plan in place to guide communication efforts during the transition. By maintaining a consistent message and a consistent front, IT can set...

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The Desktop Virtualization TCO Calculator model provides organizations with a framework for estimating the costs associated with deploying a virtual desktop solution relative to refreshing a fleet of desktops.

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Info-Tech conducted its own market evaluation of six leading desktop virtualization solutions. Before sitting down with vendors, use this tool to narrow the vendors to a shortlist of solutions that best satisfy the company's requirements.

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Desktop virtualization continues to expand in both function and use case. Select the solution that fits your desktop situation and provides the best user experience and TCO for your organization's needs.

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Each desktop virtualization vendor has its own strengths and weaknesses. Use this tool to ensure that shortlisted vendors meet enterprise requirements.

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Organizations in the selection process for a desktop virtualization solution should issue an RFP to gather required information, and make an informed final decision. This RFP template will help streamline your selection process.

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While Citrix and VMware are the dominant players in the desktop virtualization market, it's important to explore other options.

Solution Set

This solution set will clearly describe the strengths and weaknesses of a full range of vendors in midrange storage and will apply a range of scenarios to provide deeper insight into what solutions are best.

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A utility infrastructure IaaS alone does not equal cloud. A range of emerging solutions offer to pave that last mile to full-function IaaS cloud services.

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A cloud management solution alone does not create an internal cloud. However, it does put the final piece of the cloud puzzle in place once a mature, standardized, and virtualized environment is established.

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Three or four years ago keynotes and announcements at VMworld were all about cool server tricks. Today, as VMware seeks to be an infrastructure cloud platform, servers are just one layer in the infrastructure cake of the "virtual data center."

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Virtual networks, or vNetworks, are coming on the scene to solve the problem of managing public cloud servers as a disparate network. When you can wrap your public cloud servers, rented dedicated servers, and on-premise servers into a single...

Looking forward, server virtualization is a critical enabler of a completely abstracted utility infrastructure (internal cloud) for delivering IT as a service.

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.

(8-Jul-11) According to Gartner, the number of virtualization workloads is set to grow fivefold by 2015, and the market no longer belongs solely to VMware. In a Magic Quadrant report published last week, the analyst firm for the first time...

Allowing end users to personalize their virtual desktops improves the user experience, and boosts an organization's chances for a successful VDI implementation. However, personalization also creates a new pain: management of those virtual user...

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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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...

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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.

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

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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...