The Ultimate Virtualization Buyers Guide
Virtualization Review now presents the industry's first print guide to virtualization products in a handy PDF format. Featuring myriad products in over a dozen categories, this guide is a must-have for the IT professional.
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Disaster Recovery Solutions from VMware
Transforming Disaster Recovery -- VMware Infrastructure for Rapid, Reliable and Cost-Effective Disaster Recovery
In today's business environment having robust disaster recovery is no longer a luxury, it is a necessity. Given the high probability and variety of events that cause outages, including natural disasters and man made events, a disruption to business systems is not a question of if, but when. Disaster recovery needs to be core to your IT strategy. In this white paper you'll learn about the fast, reliable and cost-effective solutions offered by VMware.
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Improving Business Continuity with VMware Virtualization
A VMware Solution Brief
Implementing plans to ensure business continuity for IT infrastructure is an essential requirement for organizations today. Downtime of important applications is a costly proposition and extended downtime can even be fatal -- industry research has shown that a significant number of companies that experience extended interruption to IT services are likely to go out of business.
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Watch What's New in XenServer 5?
Join Simon Crosby for a lively discussion about the exciting new features in Citrix XenServer 5 including unique, built-in high availability for workloads and management, dynamic workload streaming and the ability to dynamically manage the storage environment. Find out how XenServer 5 delivers powerful features with the best TCO.
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Virtualization Everywhere
Many mid-sized companies have hesitated to adopt server virtualization because of concerns about cost, complexity and vendor lock-in. In this paper we discuss how Citrix XenServer™ provides powerful, economical server virtualization for any IT environment. Start realizing the benefits now: reduce costs while improving business agility and disaster preparedness.
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What is Policy-Driven Self-Service?
This paper addresses the IT Service Dilemma and how to fulfill both IT missions -- maintain mission critical production initiatives and support infrastructure needs of non-production "application lifecycle users" -- with a self-service solution that empowers lifecycle users. Learn how IT is attempting to address the issue today and how a policy-driven self-service solution solves the IT Service Dilemma.
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Server Virtualization for x86: Trends, Best Practices and the Future
View this on-demand webcast to learn best practices in deploying and managing server virtualization technologies. This Gartner webcast covers how you should select server virtualization technologies and how this technology will evolve through 2012.
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Disaster Strikes! Is Your Business Ready? Disaster Preparedness for Mid-Sized Firms
A Report from Yankee Group Research, Inc.
This custom report uses customer interviews, statistical data and Yankee Group SMB survey results to examine disaster recovery (DR) issues. It covers the latest trends such as virtualization and offers affordable practical recommendations and strategies for mid-sized firms.
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X86 Server Virtualization for High Availability and Disaster Recovery
A Forrester Analyst Report
Read how x86 server virtualization can improve the availability of business-critical systems that are important to the business but not critical enough to warrant the investment in expensive and complex resiliency technologies like fault-tolerant hardware or clustering.
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Virtualizing Storage for VMware Success
Find out how to improve your VMware environment by not only virtualizing your servers, but your storage as well. Find out how to significantly lower your storage costs and improve recovery time objectives in this white paper.
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Making IT Invisible: NetApp Storage for Virtual Server Environments
The goal of IT is to become an invisible entity within a larger organization. Find out how Enterprise Strategy Group says IT professionals can achieve IT transparency, by eliminating IT's visibility. Discover how virtualization plays a large role in meeting this goal.
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Best Practices for VMware ESX Server
Discover how to effectively support host-based backups in a SAN environment with the best practices presented in this white paper. Learn how selecting the right storage platform will allow you to better handle the changes present in the VMware ESX Server 3.0.
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IT Decision Maker Perspective Storage Solutions in Enterprise VMware Environments
This independent research report reviews what an organization should consider when calculating the total cost of ownership for managing storage in VMware server virtualization environments. The findings cover the total cost of acquiring, deploying, operating and managing storage environments from EMC, HP and NetApp to support VMware server virtualization solutions, and how the total cost of a NetApp SAN storage solution for VMware is over 38% lower than comparable offerings from EMC or HP.
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Automated Platform Management in a Virtualized World
Server virtualization adds IT management complexities that can be difficult to grasp, especially if IT has not yet implemented consistent, repeatable processes. IT must use virtualization as a strategic practice that enables it to deliver on increasingly difficult requirements for the business. Comprehensive monitoring, analysis, diagnostic and alerting solutions across both physical and virtual servers make it possible to meet business requirements and become more proactive.
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Data Protection Options for Virtualized Servers
Demystifying Virtual Server Data Protection -- Best Practices and Technologies
Server virtualization continues to be a popular industry focus. This Industry Trends and Technology Perspectives white paper from the StorageIO Group provides the answers you need to protect your data in a virtualized environment.
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Enabling End-to-End IT Management with Microsoft System Center and Quest Software
One of the greatest challenges facing IT managers today is controlling complex infrastructures -- and doing it within a tight budget. And a lack of centralized support for numerous heterogeneous IT systems and devices only makes things worse. In the new Quest white paper, Enterprise Management Associates discuss how Quest can extend the power of Microsoft System Center for true end-to-end IT management.
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Web Threats Challenges and Solutions
This white paper describes Web threats, how they function and their impacts. It explains why conventional methods fail and describes the characteristics of a new approach required to ensure security, regulatory compliance and business continuity.
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Trend Micro Gets Smart with a Hybrid Approach
This brief provides an overview of today’s dangerous cyber crime world and outlines the challenges that security professionals face in developing solutions to address the growing number and variety of Web threats. Finally, this paper explores how the Trend Micro Smart Protection Network can deliver next-generation security to automatically protect against web threats.
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Architectural Requirements for a Datacenter-Ready Virtualization Platform
Server virtualization is rapidly entering the mainstream, as companies of all sizes adopt it to run everything from their development and test software to production level applications. Read why the Taneja Group Technology Analysts believe VMware has fundamental architectural advantages over competing virtualization platforms, which should enable VMware to remain the technology leader in this space for some time to come.
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Five Steps to Determine When to Virtualize Your Servers
Server virtualization isn't just for big companies. Entry-level virtualization tools are free or low-cost and there are many benefits to virtualization (including saving money). It's not a quest of "if" you should virtualize your servers; it's a question of "when." This paper outlines five steps you should take to determine when to virtualize your servers.
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Best Platform Brief: Microsoft Windows Runs Best on VMware
VMware virtualization makes it easier and more cost-effective to deploy and maintain your Windows server infrastructure. VMware is the global leader in virtualization and offers a best-in-class hypervisor, centralized management and powerful array of load-balancing backup and recovery capabilities, giving you a dramatically better computing platform for delivering Windows-based services and applications. 
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Qualcomm: Standardizing on Virtualization
A customer case study
This paper discusses how the experiment in consolidating physical server computers proved successful, and how the Qualcomm IT department aggressively pursued virtualization starting in 2003. Read how VMware® Infrastructure offered extraordinarily good return on investment almost immediately.
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Ten Ways SMBs Can Get More from Their IT Budgets
Small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs) are always looking for new and innovative ways to cut costs, without affecting business output or future growth. This paper contains some well known cost savings opportunities -- and a few you may not have explored yet!
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Oracle Application Express Overview 3.1
Oracle Application Express, a feature of Oracle Database 11g, combines rapid web application development with the power of the Oracle Database. This paper describes the benefits, architecture and features of Oracle Application Express and how it can help you quickly develop web deployed reporting and data entry applications on consolidated data in an Oracle Database.
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Serving New Business Is Easier with Zenith Infotech
See and Listen as Billy Adams of ACS Services explains why Zenith Infotech makes flat-fee billing attractive to clients as well as managed service providers.
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How to Join Queries Across Multiple Platforms
A Step-by-Step Guide Using Toad® for Data Analysis
Finding data across multiple platforms can be challenging. In this new Quest technical brief learn how join queries across the entire enterprise -- regardless of platform -- to quickly and easily find the information you need when you need it.
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Acresso AdminStudio -- Citrix XenApp Benchmark Conducted by The Tolly Group
Optimize the packaging of applications for streaming.
In lab tests conducted by The Tolly Group, AdminStudio® from Acresso Software reduced the time required to convert an application into a Citrix XenApp™ profile by up to 60 percent and can deliver significant savings in time and resources when deploying a broad set of virtualized applications. Learn more in this application virtualization benchmark study.
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Securing Email Against Today’s Threats: A Wake-Up Call on the Benefits of Comprehensive Messaging Security
Today's messaging security products must provide broad protection from a wide range of threats to enterprise security. A recent IDC survey was designed with the aim of revealing, understanding, analyzing and presenting the predominant issues relating to perceptions about messaging security, both positive and negative. The survey revealed that most organizations lack adequate protection against spam and data leakage. Download this paper to read IDC’s analysis of the survey results and recommendations for action based on the study’s findings.
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Virtualization Technologies and Their Impact on Disaster Recovery
Read this white paper to learn how your business can leverage virtual technologies to achieve complete confidence in the unparalleled data protection, availability and recoverability while simplifying your overall IT management.
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Practical Steps to Mitigate Virtualization Security Risks
Tripwire founder/CTO Gene Kim provides seven practical steps that IT organizations can take to mitigate the unique security challenges of virtualization. While some are directed specifically at virtualized environments, many of these steps are solid best practices that apply to both physical and virtualized environments.
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Server Virtualization Security: 90% Process, 10% Technology
In this paper Forrester Research discusses how security virtualization has created some growing pains and disruption and how they believe that it will have a positive effect on security in the longer term.
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Protecting Against the New Wave of Malware
This Osterman Research white paper examines why older, traditional anti-virus approaches don't work and why a new approach to endpoint security is required to better protect your users, your data and your long-term viability as a company from malicious threats. Learn about the scope of the malware problem and strategies that can help you defend against evolving malware threats.
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The Benefits of SaaS Security: How Companies of All Sizes Can Save Money and Improve Efficiency with SaaS
Organizations must proactively defend their networks and data from relentless malware attacks, attempts at unauthorized access and other security threats. In addition, compliance mandates must be met. Get this white paper and learn how security software-as-a-service (SaaS) can represent a scalable, cost effective and efficient solution to meet your security and compliance needs.
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Visual Studio Magazine 2008 Readers Choice Awards and Buyers Guide
This special annual issue lists an astounding number of third-party products available to developers who use Visual Studio. This year's list includes more than 400 products and services from nearly 250 vendors, across 22 categories, plus our 2008 Readers Choice Award and Editors Choice Award winners.
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Continuous Data Protection and Recovery for Microsoft Exchange
In spite of advances in technology, most organizations are relying on backup techniques that are very similar to those used several decades ago. Although these techniques are known to be reliable, they are rapidly becoming impractical in today's world. In this white paper, Brien M. Posey discusses the reasons why tried and true backup techniques are no longer a viable option.
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Systems Management Buyer's Guide For Medium Enterprises
Finding and deploying an effective and scalable systems management solution is becoming a top priority within the medium enterprise market. KACE has developed this Systems Management Buyer's Guide to help articulate that buyer's criteria via a comprehensive feature/function checklist.
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Protecting (You and) Your Data with Exchange Server 2007
by Microsoft Exchange MVP, Steve Bryant
In this white paper, Steve shows you the bare and necessary facts you should know to proactively maintain your Exchange Server 2007 environment. In addition to providing critical strategies for predicting and responding to failures, he offers useful information for implementing proactive measures to ensure that your investment is well protected.
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Leveraging Web 2.0 Securely
How small and mid-sized business can minimize risk and benefit from Web 2.0 technologies.
The core of Web 2.0 is built on a foundation of open collaboration and communication that blur network boundaries and increase risk. Learn about the risks involved and the steps you should take to eliminate or mitigate the security threats.
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Combining Deduplication and VMware Disaster Recovery: Cascading Savings Improves Cost Effectiveness
The shift from physical servers to consolidated, virtualized server infrastructures has had undeniable IT benefits. However, the rapid move to VMware has caused traditional approaches to disaster recovery (DR) to become outmoded and added a layer of complexity to DR implementation.
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Realizing the Value of Unified Communications
How information goes to work.
Microsoft and EMC are spearheading a technology and services effort to help businesses realize the benefits of unified messaging. Learn how you get better employee productivity, faster decision-making and more efficient IT administration with Unified Communications.
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Remote Control Software: A Primer
Remote control software helps IT professionals better manage help desk support, mobile computing, desktop management, software training, distance learning and system automation. Learn about the key features to look for while researching remote management solutions.
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Still Sneaking In: The Threats Your Security Tools Aren't Telling You About

Web 2.0 opens us up to many kinds of new attacks. IT Administrators have been forced to adjust their thinking in order to deal with these new attacks and keep systems and data secured. How can you ensure that your systems are safe in this new world of IT Threats?
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Seven Design Requirements for Web 2.0 Threat Prevention
Drawing on customer experience, Forrester Consulting, and data gathered from TrustedSource™ (the Secure Computing® global Web and messaging reputation system), as well as third-party sources, this paper outlines the new Web 2.0 threats and explains why most security solutions in place today are not adequate to protect against these threats. The paper then goes on to propose a set of Seven Design Requirements for Web 2.0 Threat Prevention, and reviews Secure Computing’s relevant product and technology offerings.
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Did you GET the memo? Getting you from Web 1.0 to Web 2.0 Security
The Web is becoming more dangerous. Read about the inherent security threats and design considerations for implementation of Web 2.0 application services and how to protect users within the enterprise network from the new security threats.
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