Server Consolidation/Virtualization
The average server workload ranges from five to 40 percent of its potential, reducing data storage capacities and increasing associated costs, such as additional hardware and IT staffing. Server consolidation through virtualization provides the cure to server sprawl and optimizes storage capacity. Virtualization technology presents computing resources in ways that users and applications can easily get the most value out of them, rather than in a manner dictated by their implementation or geographic location. Data from different servers can be accessed from one server, and resources such as computing power and storage capacity are optimized and maintained through one central portal.
Check out these Server Consolidation/Virtualization Resource white papers to learn how to learn more about how server consolidation can help your company.
Hot White Papers
How to Virtualize
This white paper explains why enterprises should account for how business processes, administrative rights, capacity planning, performance monitoring tools and security strategies will need to change before embarking on data center virtualization deployments.
Rethinking Server Virtualization
This white paper discusses why iSCSI SANs are becoming the preferred choice to support virtualized environments.
Do More with What You Have: Virtualization Transforms Storage Management
This white paper examines storage virtualization as a very attractive way to control costs, improve performance and maximize resource utilization, especially for IT departments charged with delivering greater business value in the face of unprecedented data growth.
5 Steps to Successful IT Consolidation
Read this white paper to learn the five steps of a successful IT consolidation project, and ensure that your organization experiences the full benefits of IT consolidation.
Matching Server Virtualization with Advanced Storage Virtualization
Read this white paper to learn how the combination of a clustered iSCSI SAN solution with VMware Infrastructure 3 provides availability, reduced complexity, and even better ease of use.
The Shortcut Guide to Virtualization and Service Automation
Download this shortcut guide to learn how you can effectively manage virtualization and realize the full benefits through service automation across your IT infrastructure.
A Smart Path to Virtualization
Read this white paper to learn how virtualization can help enterprises simplify desktop management and enhance security — while helping to improve business continuity and streamline regulatory compliance.
Why Virtualize?
This white paper explains the basic concepts behind virtualization, potential benefits and key decisions associated with a virtualization project and how to get started with a virtualization assessment.
Hot Topics
From the Resource Centers
- Tablet PCs
- Greening IT with Server Consolidation
- Application Grid
- Cost Cutting through Server Consolidation
- Data Warehousing for Business Intelligence
- Laptop Security
- Information Management
- Mobile Computing Optimization
- Enterprise Manager
- Applications for Mid-size Businesses
- Tape Storage
- Service Oriented Architecture (SOA)
- Power Supply Solutions
- Decision Management
- Energy Efficiency
- Data Center Management
- Optimized Infrastructure
- Data Management Solutions
- Data Management
- Network Optimization
- Security SaaS Solutions
- Data Loss Protection
- Business Intelligence
- Security Information and Event Management
- Data Deduplication
- Virtualization & Business Continuity
- Responding to Change
The Truth about Tape - Nine Myths to Reconsider
This white paper takes a close look at the myths about tape storage and shines new light on them.
Rethinking Server Virtualization — Breaking Performance and Manageability Barriers
This white paper describes the advantages of scale-out iSCSI storage in four areas — cost, high availability and disaster recovery, performance, and management — and illustrate how iSCSI SANs provide better overall support for virtualized environments.
From the Virtualization & Business Continuity Resource Center >
Choosing a Standard for BI and Reporting: Simplify the IT Environment, Reduce Your TCO, Increase Your ROI
Read this white paper to learn how the right BI solution lets business users move among capabilities in a guided way, get the answers they seek, and collaborate while giving IT complete control over the BI environment.
Business Process Management, SOA, and Web 2.0
This white paper assesses the benefits and risks of the combination of business process management (BPM), service-oriented architecture (SOA), and Web 2.0 solutions and presents real-world perspectives and case studies as the foundational elements for its analysis.
From the Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) Resource Center >