Server Virtualization White Papers

The service desk of the future will need to keep on top of metrics and be able to provide reports that demonstrate business value and drive service improvements. That’s why this report advocates starting a comprehensive metrics programme now to ensure that you’re ready for the future (it’s never too early to start collecting data). The service desk has always been the customer-facing portal into IT, it’s future role will be to measure the performance of technology services, act as the ‘dashboard’ for assessing the success of the services operation and provide pertinent, timely and useful information to the business to enable them to make informed decisions.

This report defines storage-centric virtualized infrastructure, its opportunity and use cases, and the emerging vendor landscape that IT infrastructure and operations groups should evaluate as they purse the software-defined data center.

As the demand for capacity continues to escalate, companies must be able to effectively and dynamically manage the storage supply, but also the demand for storage resources. The key is to optimize the infrastructure through standardization and virtualization, and replace manual tasks with policy-based automation.

It is very clear that datacenter managers need, in addition to server virtualization, the virtualization, pooling, and management of all the other resources that interoperate with their VMs. They require virtualized network interconnects and storage. They also need the tools to manage and automate these converged IT assets as an integrated datacenter system. This more agile system is the key to enabling the shift to a cloud-based infrastructure IT delivery model. Solution providers like HP are now addressing the need for more optimized and agile IT solutions. They are delivering virtualized storage, virtual application network (VAN) infrastructure, and the orchestration software to manage and automate all these ingredients as a single system. Read this whitepaper to learn more.

Not long ago, if you asked an IT executive about transformation, there was a good chance you’d get a technology-centric response. You’d hear about consolidation and virtualization, power and cooling, security and availability. Today, the responses are different. This edition of Unleashing IT is all about transformation. Not technology change, but business change through the use of technology.

You've dipped your toe into the virtualization waters, and now you'd like to learn how you can dive in and fully reap the money-saving and business-building advantages.

The time is right for your organization to benefit from the greater hardware utilization, decreased capital expenditures, reduced power and cooling costs, accelerated productivity and enhanced disaster recovery delivered by server virtualization.

A flexible and optimized infrastructure requires unshackling computing from physical servers.

Server virtualization is no longer a luxury but an essential part of the modern data center. By combining the workloads of several underused servers, you can get more out of your hardware when IT budgets stay flat, even as demand goes up.

This technology brief investigates the processes and tools that are needed to provide complete enterprise visibility and WAN acceleration for high-priority traffic.

This whitepaper is a rich media document, and includes industry viewpoints, multimedia content, and up to three detailed customer case studies embedded within this single dossier.

his independent study by the International Technology group found IBM PowerVM more cost-competitive over time, compared to VMware, in terms of IT costs and the costs of downtime.

The paper explains virtualization in the context of mid-sized businesses and shows how they can reduce costs, improve services and simplify management.

Read this data sheet to learn more about configurations optimized for small businesses, application servers, and transactional and database systems.

Cabot Partners offers a glimpse into the market trends for SAP adoption in midsize businesses and imperatives for the supporting platform.

An insightful and and compelling discussion by IDC that reviews the primary reason for maintaining current systems -- Return on Investment.

Tablet computing is one of the fastest growing categories of consumer electronics, led by the Apple iPad. This buzz is leading many businesses to explore new uses for tablet computers, and some devices are finding their way into evaluation trials on forklifts and other vehicle applications in the distribution center. This white paper compares ruggedized enterprise tablets to purpose-built vehicle mount computers, and addresses mounting, survivability, power, compatibility, and cost considerations between the two product categories.

Your business counts on you for reliable, secure, responsive IT services. It's a nonstop job, with no time off to figure out complex new technologies or wrestle with software solutions designed for larger firms. Virtualization is the way to simplify your IT without unnecessary complexity or cost.

Small and mid-sized businesses are hopping on the virtualization bandwagon. A recent study indicates that a healthy number of SMBs have virtualized some aspect of their IT environments.

Cloud computing has a lot of appeal, from auto-scaling to lower costs, and it's all just a few clicks away. Thus, the big question is not "why cloud?" but rather "how cloud?"

This ENTERPRISE MANAGEMENT ASSOCIATES® (EMAT) report looks at IBM's industry leadership in business service management, application availability, and performance management.

This white paper examines North American enterprises' desire for private cloud, the benefits they hope to achieve, the challenges they face in getting there, and also suggests how these challenges can be overcome to deliver cloud success.

IBM Tivoli Provisioning Manager helps organizations with provisioning, configuration, and maintenance of servers and virtual servers, operating systems, middleware, applications, storage, and network devices, switches, firewalls, and load balancers.

SilkPerformer is a cost-effective, enterprise-class performance testing solution for optimizing the performance of business apps. SilkPerformer enables performance tests that accurately simulate peak demand loads and isolate performance bottlenecks.

Download this interactive eBook to learn about the world's #1 application server and why it is the best possible foundation for applications running in the modern data center.