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White Papers
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10 Reasons to Modernize the Desktop: CIO
IT departments need a solution that meets the evolving needs of both the employees and IT— something not possible with a traditional PC model. This paper illustrates the benefits of moving beyond the physical PC to a modern desktop that is highly flexible, easy to manage, customizable to suit users’ needs, and ready for new and future technology.
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A Guide to Modern IT Disaster Recovery
Deploying automated disaster recovery is the way to protect IT and business from unpredictable events. This eBook highlights the VMware perspective on disaster recovery in the data center.
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Accelerate Software Development, Testing and Deployment with the VMware Virtualization Platform
VMware virtualization platform has transformed IT operations in enterprise data centers worldwide, by allowing common computing workloads to be freed from the underlying hardware, thereby enabling more efficient and dynamic resource reallocation.
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Agentless Application Virtualization: Enabling the Evolution of the Desktop
In this study, IDC analyst Michael Rose discusses how VMware ThinApp, an agentless virtualization solution, addresses the challenges of desktop computing. Read about the pros and cons of virtualized client computing, and learn how desktop and application virtualization can enable a dynamic desktop environment, improve storage efficiency and simplify management.
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An Alternative Shared Storage Solution for SMBs
Without shared storage configured in a vSphere environment, customers have not been able to exploit the unique features available in vSphere 5.0 This technical whitepaper presents an overview of the vSphere Storage Appliance (VSA) architecture, deployment of a VSA storage cluster and basic monitoring and managing.
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Case Studies
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Solvay Saves $1.5 Million and Meets Validation Requirements with VMware Virtual Infrastructure
VMware Infrastructure increased scalability and performance in the datacenter for Solvay Pharmaceuticals, saving more than $1.5 million in hardware costs, decreasing paperwork and server procurement costs and decreasing server deployment time from 6 hours to 30 minutes.
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Ad Agency Uses VMware Virtual Infrastructure to Contain Server Sprawl and Improve Customer Service
This case study shows how VMware ESX Server helped boost GSD&M’s CPU utilization to 80 percent, cut power and cooling costs, and facilitate swift provisioning process.
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Army Corps of Engineers Case Study
This case study examines how the Huntington District needed to solve several problems— all directly related to disk storage, and how they were able to accomplish their goals with a paradigm shift using state-of-the-art technology to manage their IT infrastructure issues with a single solution.
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Associated Newspapers Keeps Websites Competitive with VMware vFabric tc Server
The Digital Services Division (DSD) of Associated Newspapers (ANL) provides all online development and infrastructure services to ANL’s online portfolio of newspaper web sites. For DSD, the ability to turn around new websites and feature releases without disrupting website availability were essential to maintaining a leadership position in UK online news. By migrating all web applications to VMware vFabric tc Server, DSD achieved fast testing and live deployments, rapid turnaround on production fixes, proactive problem solving and high website availability.
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Baylor College of Medicine Ensures Integrity of Groundbreaking Scientific Research
The Human Neuroimaging Laboratory at Baylor College of Medicine specializes in groundbreaking hyperscanning experiments. To provide comprehensive monitoring on the application level, Baylor deployed VMware vFabric Hyperic to manage its infrastructure. Read this case study to learn how Hyperic enabled Baylor College of Medicine to reduce response time from hours or days to minutes, improve system performance and reduce time to resolution.
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Podcasts
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Building an Adaptive Infrastructure with VMware and HP
Learn how VMware and HP have teamed up to deliver an adaptive infrastructure that helps you reduce costs, increase agility and be more competitive.
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Designing and Implementing a Scalable Virtual Desktop Deployment, part 1
Planning a successful desktop virtualization solution using VMware Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI) hinges on a quality assessment of the needs, constraints and users of an organization.
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Designing and Implementing a Scalable Virtual Desktop Deployment, part 2
Designing a successful desktop virtualization solution using VMware Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI) includes five critical components, consisting of the client access devices layer, access infrastructure layer, VMware Infrastructure layer, virtual desktop or VDI Virtual Machine layer, and applications layer.
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Designing and Implementing a Scalable Virtual Desktop Deployment, part 3
Implementing a successful desktop virtualization solution using VMware Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI). Learn more about the assessment methodology and considerations for each of the five critical components.
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Designing and Implementing a Scalable Virtual Desktop Deployment, part 4
Before deploying a desktop virtualization solution using VMware Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI), consider these five tips that will help make the transition easier. This podcast focuses on the end user experience, equipment reuse and repurposing, and benefits of a modular architecture.
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Webcasts
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What’s New in VMware vSphere 4.1 for Small and Midsize Businesses
For small and midsize businesses, the new VMware vSphere 4.1 delivers higher efficiency, greater agility and more freedom of choice than ever before. View this webcast to learn about the new features and affordable pricing of VMware vSphere 4.1.
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A Practical Guide to Capacity Management with VMware vCenter CapacityIQ
In this webcast, you’ll learn how to make better decisions about resource deployments, how to eliminate the business risk of owning not enough infrastructure and the financial risk of owning too much.
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Accelerate Application Deployment to Desktops with Virtualization
VMware ThinApp agentless architecture delivers complete application-to-application and application-to-OS isolation for desktop software. It helps to deploy applications more quickly to end points without requiring costly server hardware or software infrastructure to be installed.
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Achieving a Dynamic Datacenter with Dell, VMware, and Intel Virtualization Solutions
IT is under significant pressure to deliver flexible IT services that enable business to turn on a dime. At the same time, many are faced with little to no growth in their IT budgets and, in fact, may have to cut spending to meet today’s challenging economic conditions. To be successful in this world of conflicting objectives, IT needs an enterprise architecture that can be scaled rapidly and efficiency, while maintaining strict controls and staying on budget and on schedule.
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Application Modernization in Practice
The pressure to deliver real-time, highly-scalable applications is more intense than ever before. Businesses are under increasing pressure to build faster applications and to build them quickly. Join IDC analyst Maureen Fleming and NewEdge Data Architect Mike Benillouche as they share their real-world experiences in addressing the need to modernize custom business applications and infrastructure. See how NewEdge and other leading firms are taking strategic advantage of modern, high-performance data and application requirements.
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Product Literature
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A Guide for Enterprise VMware ThinApp Deployments
VMware ThinApp is an enterprise-class application virtualization solution that eliminates conflicts and compatibility issues by decoupling applications from their underlying operating systems. This guide outlines the design considerations and architecture that customers and partners need for enterprise implementations of VMware ThinApp for both physical and VMware View desktop environments.
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Manage Application Performance Across Physical, Virtual & Cloud Infrastructure
VMware vFabric Hyperic is the application monitoring component of the VMware vFabric Cloud Application Platform, enabling IT professionals to manage the performance and availability of custom web applications in physical, virtual and cloud environments. Its unique ability to automatically discover, inventory, and monitor servers, regardless of type or location, enables application operations teams to ensure that business critical application run without fail.
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vCenter Operations: Enabling Administrators to Morph into Managers
Traditional approaches to infrastructure operations management are incapable of keeping up with highly dynamic virtual environments. VMware announced an extension of its management solutions aimed at simplifying and helping to mold a new operations model of virtual and cloud environments called vCenter Operations. This product brief highlights key findings of ESG's 2011 Virtualization Management survey to illustrate a shift in the way customers are approaching the management of their infrastructure and operations tools, people and processes.
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VMware Infrastructure 3: Data Center Management and Optimization Suite
VMware Infrastructure is the most widely deployed software suite for optimizing and managing industry standard IT environments through virtualization – from the desktop to the data center.
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VMware Reference Architecture for Stateless Virtual Desktops with VMware View 4.5
This document provides a high-level summary of a reference architecture for stateless virtual desktops with VMware View. A stateless desktop architecture is ideally suited for “task worker” environments where the desktop image is consistent from user to user. By leveraging the tiered storage capability in VMware View to support stateless virtual desktops, organizations can lower costs by about USD $500 per desktop.
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Advertorials
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Virtualization, High Availability and Data Protection for Always On IT
VMware vSphere is the industry’s first cloud operating system, transforming IT infrastructures into a private cloud—a collection of internal clouds federated on-demand to external clouds—delivering IT infrastructure as an easily accessible service. Enable the next generation of flexible, reliable IT services with the efficiency and low cost of cloud computing—featuring uncompromising control over service levels.
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eWeek Podcasts
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Freeing the Virtual Machine
Jim Rapoza talks to eWEEK Labs Senior Analyst Jason Brooks about Jason`s review of VMware Server 1.0.
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VMware Embraces `Mactel`
VMware President Diane Greene talks with eWEEK Senior Editor Peter Galli about its announcement to offer a virtualization solution for the Mac on the Intel platform.
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Research Reports
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7 Qualities of Wildly Desirable Software: Forrester Report
Great software applications seldom happen by accident: Wise design decisions are the key. Yet many application development teams only design for one, two, or three of these qualities, and others have strayed from design altogether as teams, distracted by shiny new technologies, methodologies, and platforms, fail to engage design principles and talent effectively. Is your business demanding more innovation?
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Accelerate Hybrid Cloud Success: Adjusting IT Mindset
This paper discusses the radical change in datacenter and IT processes brought about by virtualization and by the inception of a cloud- or service-led model for delivery of IT resources. Perceived risks and organizational hurdles are analyzed, and guidance is given for organizations as they move to the cloud.
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Cloud Computing: The Next Generation of Outsourcing
The IT industry is in the midst of a fundamental shift, as more enterprises start to use services enabled by cloud technologies. This will heavily impact IT services providers, who must now consider strategies for coping with profound changes in the marketplace or risk being left behind. This research will be of interest to IT services vendors, as well as consumers of IT services.
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Desktop Total Cost of Ownership: 2011 Update - Gartner Research
Declining hardware and software costs have an impact on total cost of ownership (TCO), but how desktop PCs are managed remains the most critical factor in reducing TCO. This Gartner article illustrates how a higher management level for desktops can achieve lower TCO and improved user productivity.
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From Secure Virtualization to Secure Private Cloud
The way in which enterprises provision and deliver security services must evolve in order to secure private cloud computing. This paper explores the subject of security as enterprises move beyond virtualizing their data centers to build private cloud-computing infrastructures and outlines the foundational capabilities that are required.
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Reviews
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VMware Expands Virtualization Options
Workstation 6 sports improved Operating System, USB 2.0 support. (eWEEK Review)
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VI3 Bolsters Virtualization
VMware Suite helps consolidate and extend server capabilities. (eWEEK Review)
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VMware ‘ACEs’ Virtual Desktops
VMware’s software eases VM deployment and beefs up its security. (eWEEK Review)
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VMware Player
The free VMware Player brings many of the benefits of virtual machines to the average user. (PC Magazine Review)
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VMware Widens OS Options
VMware Workstation 5 gains management muscle. (eWEEK Review)
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Technology Briefs
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Better Business Continuity with VMware Virtual Infrastructure
This Technology Brief discusses how VMware virtual infrastructure software helps organizations increase availability by reducing both planned and unplanned downtime.
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Designing a Scalable Server and Storage Architecture with VMware Infrastructure
Organizations must support a wide variety of users – local, mobile and remote - making it difficult to support end users in a consistent and secure manner. This tech brief covers a number of details of the VMware virtualization solution to provide a virtual desktop infrastructure.
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Enterprise Strategy Group: Infrastructure Virtualization Brief
With its recent announcement of VMware View 3, VMware improves its virtual desktop offerings by advancing management, scalability, and end-user experience. Read why Mark Bowker, Analyst at ESG, says VMware is in a unique position as the leading server virtualization vendor to capitalize on the desktop virtualization market.
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Guide to Virtual Infrastructure Implementation
The decision to implement a virtual infrastructure within your enterprise is a smart one that will provide numerous financial and operational benefits to your organization. This guide provides a practical implementation strategy that will help you continue to grow as you introduce a fully virtualized environment.
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Improving Business Continuity with VMware Virtualization
Learn more about Business Continuity Challenges, Ensuring Availability with VMware Virtualization, and Delivering Effective Disaster Recovery by understanding key benefits of each topic.
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Product Demos
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VMware Virtual Infrastructure Demo
VMware virtual infrastructure architecture enables businesses to lower IT costs through increased efficiency, flexibility and responsiveness. In this demo, learn how VMware’s virtualization solutions can address these server infrastructure needs.
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Tech Analyses
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Virtualization Market Reshapes
VMware’s IPO, Citrix-XenSource deal represent change in an expanding space.
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Videos
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Cloud Computing
IT infrastructures have become too complex and brittle for the pace and dynamism of business today. Cloud computing offers a new model that cuts through IT complexity by leveraging the efficient pooling of on-demand, self-managed virtual infrastructure, consumed as a service.
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Customer Testimony: Huntsville Hospital
Huntsville Hospital, the largest community owned non-profit hospital in Alabama, chooses an IBM Virtual Client Solution on IBM BladeCenter running VMware. This solution offers secure remote access to their physican and nursing staff and the ability to check on patient information from anywhere.
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Intel and VMware Virtualization Video
Hear from experts at Intel and VMware about the benefits of virtualization.
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The Power of Virtualization
This video explains how Northwestern Memorial Hospital used VMware, Dell and EMC virtualization solutions to consolidate servers and streamline their IT environment.
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VMware HP Round Table Discussions
A trio of industry experts sounds off on applying virtualization in business. Watch this video to learn more.
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eWeek Slide Shows
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eWEEK Labs Walk-Through of VMware Fusion
VMware`s new Fusion product does a good job making Windows applications available to OS X. Join eWEEK Labs on a tour of Fusion`s highlights.
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eWEEK Labs Walk-Through: VMware Fusion Beta 1
This slide provides a look at VMware`s Fusion and how runs and looks after being installed.
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eWEEK Labs Walk-Through: VMware Server 1.0
eWEEK Labs takes this opportunity to provide an in-depth visual walk-through on the features and appearance of VMware’s Server 1.0.
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eWEEK Labs Walk-Through: VMware’s Virtual Infrastructure 3.0.1
This slideshow takes a look at VMware VI3’s allocation tools, converter application and monitoring and tracking system.
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Articles
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Forbes: Virtualization as an Expansion Strategy
A little over a year after Tully Rinckey PLLC opened a second office in Washington, D.C., in 2008, the fast-growing Albany, N.Y.-based law firm confronted some basic challenges with overloaded servers and network links. Download this article to learn more.
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From Datacenter Consolidation to the Cloud: Reducing Costs & Gaining Efficiency in IT Operations
By 2015, federal IT organizations have been mandated to consolidate data centers by 40%, for an overall reduction of 800 data centers. Trouble is, how do agencies get there from here?
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SAP Supports Applications on VMware Platform: An Industry Milestone
In December 2007, VMware announced that SAP will support its suite of enterprise applications running in VMware production environments. VMware Infrastructure is the first, and so far only, virtualization platform on which SAP applications will be directly supported across all major servers and operating systems. The news also represents an important milestone for the server virtualization industry, which has been struggling for years to gain respect within the data center.
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Virtual Infrastructure Yields Real TCO and ROI Advantages
There is no question that virtualization technology can help you cut costs out of your IT infrastructure. This article quantifies how VMware improved TCO and ROI for three companies’ IT landscapes.
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Smart Papers
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Your Guide to Virtualization for Growing Companies with HP and VMware
This Smart Paper explains how virtualization solutions from HP and VMware can deliver a smooth and successful implementation that meets the unique needs of growing companies.
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