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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Virtualizing Microsoft Exchange
What are your peers doing in terms of virtualizing Exchange? This 2008 Computerworld Research study explores initiatives surrounding virtualizing Microsoft Exchange. It analyzes Exchange 2007 migration and upgrade plans, the many drivers behind virtualizing Exchange, the challenges faced when virtualizing Exchange, the current status of virtualized server environments and more.
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Total Economic Impact™ of VMware Virtual Desktop Infrastructure –- Healthcare Industry
Find out how a VMware healthcare customer used VMware® View™, formerly VMware Virtual Desktop Infrastructure, to reduce costs, free up office space and increase worker productivity in its remote offices. Forrester takes an in-depth look at the potential benefits of a virtual desktop infrastructure based on VMware technology.
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Total Economic Impact™ of VMware Virtual Desktop Infrastructure -- Financial Services Industry
Find out how a VMware financial service customer used VMware® View™ 3, formerly VMware Virtual Desktop Infrastructure, to reduce costs, free up office space and increase worker productivity in its remote offices. Forrester takes an in-depth look at the potential benefits of a virtual desktop infrastructure based on VMware technology.
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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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Proactively Reduce Risk and Improve IT Security in Physical and Virtual Environments
Learn more about the security risks and vulnerabilities faced by organizations, and the elements of a proactive security approach. This paper also covers how to help your organization attain and maintain a good security posture using industry-leading configuration assessment and change auditing to harden systems against security breaches, automate compliance with security standards and policies, identify configuration changes and resolve vulnerabilities.
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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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Virtual Applications, Real Advantages
Virtually every IT department has a virtualization project underway. Beyond the bandwagon feel of this trend, what are the real opportunities for cost savings, improved IT efficiency and new competitive advantages? This white paper discusses how to significantly accelerate the migration of your applications to Windows Vista with a vendor-neutral solution -- and improve IT efficiency without sacrificing flexibility
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Increased Revenue, Reduced Workload with Zenith Infotech
Watch this on-demand video and learn how SL Powers enjoys significantly increased revenue and the equivalent of "half an employee" freed for billable work -- thanks to Zenith Infotech.
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Optimizing Storage in a Virtualized Environment
Organizations of all sizes that seek to implement a server virtualization strategy also have to take into account server issues, including SAN implementation and storage proliferation. This series discusses those challenges and recommends best practices for implementing and managing storage systems -- including Exchange -- as a part of a comprehensive virtualization strategy.
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Inquiry Spotlight: Server Virtualization, Q3 2008
Based on recent research, this Forrester report covers vendor comparisons, optimum physical to virtual consolidation ratios, expected ROI and situation-specific concerns regarding the possible benefits that virtual servers could provide.
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Microsoft Exchange 2007 -- End-to-End Messaging Infrastructure Solution
Are you looking for a complete end-to end messaging solution in a virtualization-enabled platform for Microsoft Exchange 2007 that takes advantage of the best-of-class technologies from Cisco, EMC and VMware? Then read this paper and learn how to simplify disaster recovery and build a more flexible and reliable infrastructure that reduces complexity and makes e-mail messaging highly available.
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Discover the Best Optimized Desktop Delivery Solutions!
View this one-hour webcast hosted by Microsoft and Citrix.
As IT budgets become leaner, adopting the best joint VDI solution is a great way to choose client computing scenarios that meet the unique needs of your business, while making a positive impact on the environment. Learn what Microsoft® and Citrix® experts have to say about energy-saving & flexible desktop virtualization, desktop optimization and VDI scenarios, management solutions for physical and virtual environments and delivery of desktops and applications on-demand through dynamic provisioning.
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Comprehensive Backup and Recovery of VMware Virtual Infrastructure
Symantec Backup Exec™ 12.5 for Windows Servers
No longer is it enough to protect the data located in a single physical machine. In fact, protecting data created and utilized in virtual machines is a business requirement. Introducing Backup Exec 12.5 -- Protect your VMware environment with the solution of choice for thousands of IT administrators.
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Fast and Simple Recovery of Your Critical Microsoft® Applications with Symantec Backup Exec™
Microsoft Exchange, SQL, Active Directory and SharePoint have quickly risen to mission-critical status. As a result, keeping these applications highly available and protecting the associated data is not an option, but a mission-critical responsibility. Find out how Symantec Backup Exec 12.5 reduces the complexity and challenge of protecting these Microsoft applications.
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Symantec Backup Exec™ System Recovery 8.5: The Gold Standard in Complete Windows System Recovery
Symantec Backup Exec System Recovery 8.5 is a complete disk-based system recovery solution for Microsoft Windows based servers, desktops, and laptops allowing businesses to recover from system loss or disasters quickly -- even to dissimilar hardware and virtual environments. Find out how Symantec Backup Exec System Recovery 8.5 can keep you open for business.
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The Essentials Series: Eliminating Administrator Rights
Too often in IT environments the solution for users who need to run applications that require additional privileges is to simply grant them administrator rights. Yet that accumulated distribution of admin rights significantly weakens security and hurts IT's ability to control the environment. This white paper contains three (3) articles about the issues of granting users admin rights and solutions to enable Least Privilege.
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Transparent Solutions for Security and Compliance with Oracle Database 11g
Historically organizations have relied on network and application security, leaving their databases and the sensitive information inside exposed. Read this paper and learn that with Oracle Database 11g, you can now deploy reliable data security solutions that do not require any changes to existing applications.
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Transform Requirements Into Design -- and Make It Look Easy
Turning business requirements into IT specifications with Toad for data analysts and Toad Data Modeler.
By translating business requirements into technical specifications -- and redesigning existing systems to work with new systems -- you're making business goals a reality. But it's not easy! In Quest Software's new solutions brief, see how to meet the challenges of supporting both business and IT requirements through data modeling and discovery.
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EMC Solutions for Microsoft Exchange Environments on VMware
Learn how your business can benefit from running Microsoft Exchange in a VMware/EMC environment in the webcast, EMC Solutions for Microsoft Exchange Environments on VMware. Listen to the experts as they review virtualization benefits, including improved sizing and provisioning, flexibility with Exchange building blocks, improved availability and simplified disaster recovery.
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Green IT: Reducing your Carbon Footprint with Citrix
Learn how Citrix® products can help bring environmental and organizational objectives into alignment by alleviating the energy impact of equipment needed to serve both the datacenter and the desktop. You'll discover how Citrix XenServer™, Citrix XenApp™ and Citrix XenDesktop™ work independently, and in concert, to dramatically reduce your carbon footprint as well as your power costs.
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Convergence of Endpoint Security and Management
Learn how Symantec's integrated approach protects and manages system endpoints with complete visibility and remediation; reducing IT TCO and allowing you to focus on strategic priorities.
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Essential Managers Guide for Intelligent Communications
This guide shows how embedding communications into the fabric of your business processes enables you to optimize the connections among your people, customers and processes. Explore the benefits of Intelligent Communications, including how to optimize your workforce with Unified Communications, in this complimentary guide from Avaya.
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Communications Tools for the Effective Worker
Understand how innovations in Unified Communications (UC) are key to success, competitive advantage and both employee and customer loyalty. Discover the positive impact of Unified Communications on both day-to-day interactions as well as on higher level goals such as business process efficiency, customer loyalty and profitability.
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Optimize Your VMware Infrastructure with the New Releases from the Symantec Backup Exec Family
There are many benefits to virtualizing a server environment but one of the challenges is how to efficiently backup and recover the critical data distributed across a virtual infrastructure. Watch and learn about the value and cost benefits of migrating to a VMware Infrastructure and how to efficiently protect the critical data residing on each virtual system.
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Oracle Application Express Overview 3.1
This paper provides a technical overview of Oracle Real Application Clusters 11g with the emphasis on the features and functionality that can be implemented to provide the highest availability and scalability for enterprise applications.
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Insiders' Guide to Evaluating Remote Control Software
Three Fundamental Rules for Choosing the Best
This paper examines remote control software functionality that best serves organizations that need a highly secure tool that crosses all platforms and devices and is completely scalable in any environment. It will help IT professionals select a remote control solution that increases productivity and customer satisfaction and enhances the flexibility of the IT organization.
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Trimming the Fat from Exchange
Strategies to Consolidate Resources Dedicated to Running Microsoft Exchange Server Infrastructure
This Forrester Research paper discusses that with careful and thorough planning IT managers can reduce the risk of Exchange consolidation while successfully paring down the costs sunk into their e-mail system.
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Best Practices Guide: Deploying Microsoft Exchange in VMware Infrastructure
Many organizations have invested heavily in new virtual infrastructures based on VMware Infrastructure technologies. This paper discusses techniques and best practices for determining the resources you should provision for a virtual Exchange infrastructure.
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Virtualizing Microsoft Exchange Server 2007
Building a Better Platform with VMware® Infrastructure 3
To meet the needs of a continually shifting business landscape, today’s messaging environments must also be highly available, flexible and cost efficient. This paper discusses how using VMware Infrastructure 3 as the preferred platform for Exchange 2007 can help you better align your messaging environment to your business goals.
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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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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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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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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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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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