Server Virtualization

Get started quickly on the road to virtualization, simplifying your sprawling IT infrastructure and reducing your costs while still maintaining flexibility for future growth. Examine how end-to-end infrastructure virtualization delivers better management of physical and virtual server environments; reduced operational costs; and increased agility and responsiveness.

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Businesses of every size are rapidly virtualizing their physical infrastructures to reap these benefits: 1. Lower power and cooling costs 2. Simplify administration 3. Conserve data center floor space Download this HP white paper to lean how the next-generation ProLiant servers can help companies achieve rapid ROI and dramatically lower their operational expenses.

Companies realize the benefits of moving to virtualization, however, most virtualized environments today are being deployed in an insecure manner. Download this HP White Paper to learn how to protect your high value virtual assets with a combination of purpose-built IPS platforms and enterprise-class management solutions.

Maximize Efficiency and Availability with Hyper-V R2 and NetApp. View this on-demand Webcast to learn how you can increase resource utilization, streamline management, and maximize uptime in your Microsoft environment.

You'll learn about the best storage configurations for Hyper-V, NetApp's virtualization "sweet spot," and Avanade's firsthand experience with two much-anticipated R2 features: Cluster Shared Volumes and Live Migration.

This paper addresses how NetApp storage supports all strategies for SQL Server consolidation.

View this on-demand webcast to gain insight into design considerations and deployment best practices for SharePoint in a virtualized environment.

This article examines how you can go about virtualizing your SharePoint environment (either SharePoint 2007 or SharePoint 2010) using Microsoft Hyper-VT and NetApp® storage.

Prevent user complaints and increase business productivity with monitoring that includes application performance on your physical and virtualized servers with component and user-experience monitoring.

This paper focuses on the challenges of virtualizing Windows environments and the need to consider network storage as a part of the overall solution.

This whitepaper explores the reasons for consolidating Windows environments and the benefits of doing so with a joint NetApp-VMware solution.

This paper discusses how consolidating your Microsoft® SQL Server®, Exchange, and SharePoint® Server data along with your Windows® files using NetApp® storage for Windows environments reduces the cost of physical storage as well as ongoing management costs in Windows environments.

This report documents the results of ESG Lab hands-on testing of a NetApp Unified Storage Architecture deployed in a VMware virtual server environment with a goal of simplifying, protecting, and consolidating physical servers hosting Microsoft applications.

In this article hear from Keith Alioto, IT Director at Osiris Therapeutics discuss the evolution of their infrastructure and describe where they are now and where they're headed.

Review Windows consolidation best practices and architecture.

Get your free DCIG Midrange Array Buyer's Guide, which scores and ranks over 70 data storage solutions from more than 20 providers. This comprehensive report is the first of its kind to offer an independent competitive evaluation from a user's perspective. It has been published by the well-known independent industry analyst firm, the Data Center Infrastructure Group (DCIG), to offer a wholly objective evaluation. The 105-page report goes far beyond most consumer guides in both detail and scope to provide granular information on the performance of each feature in each solution. Products are weighted, scored and ranked from a user's perspective, taking into account each feature and application that most organizations are looking for in a secure data storage array. The factors considered are fully disclosed. Each solution is given a full-page review with easy-to-read tables showing how each feature performed in comparison to the competition. Solutions are ranked Entry-Level, Good, Excellent and Recommended to offer users an easy guideline for what to look for in a solution of a certain price range and performance level.

In an effort to reduce costs and streamline operations, today's large, distributed organizations are investing more in data center transformation, consolidation, and server virtualization. And yet many IT consolidation projects suffer from poor planning and implementation issues that ultimately impact application performance and user productivity. This technology brief investigates the processes and tools that are needed to provide complete enterprise visibility and WAN acceleration for high-priority traffic.

WAN optimization plays an important role in today's highly distributed datacenters and cloud computing architectures. Massive consolidation and data mobility, enabled by virtualization, have radically altered how we build servers, design applications, and deploy storage for the emerging "cloud" decade. This paper discusses how Riverbed solutions effectively eliminate IT performance constraints in such environments.

Read this Technology Evaluation Centers paper for information on how to use Information Technology to drive better information quality and better decision-making.

The Emergence of the Application Delivery 2.0 Era: The primary goal of this handbook is to help IT organizations plan for that transformation.

Using the CA Wily Application Performance Management (APM) solution consisting of CA Wily Introscope® and CA Wily Customer Experience Manager™, JN Data better manages Web applications through faster diagnosis of problem root causes in its customers' heterogeneous environments.

Virtualization is a top priority for SMBs. This Forrester research examines the four stages of virtualization deployment. Forrester highlights their key findings and makes concrete recommendations on how SMBs can accelerate successful virtualization adoption and avoid common mistakes

This Forrester report examines how small and mid-size businesses (SMBs) can take virtualization to the next level of maturity and realize gains beyond consolidation. It offers recommendations on how SMBs should approach the server and network infrastructure and explains how to build a virtualization roadmap.