In this e-guide from SearchServerVirtualization.com, gain expert advice on how to handle data center growth with capacity planning and resource provisioning. Learn how performance management and capacity planning go hand-in-hand and find out how to interpret capacity management metrics to reduce costs and simplify management. 

Virtualization is a white hot topic in the IT world, and with good reason. It's vital for networking professionals to understand how server virtualization and networks affect each other. In this expert e-guide learn about managing virtualization networking, distributed virtual switching, network capacity planning for virtualization and more. 

Schulz discusses threats, challenges and new strategies effecting storage and networking performance and capacity. 

This presentation transcript offers recommendations for moving your virtualization project from the testing phase to production. Learn how to plan virtualization design to ensure a smooth transition to production rollout. Discover ways to align your implementation with best practices and determine which next steps to take to prepare for production. 

Remember when virtualization was the hottest technology around? Back then, things were easy. Of course, those were virtualization’s early days, with low-hanging fruit and opportunities for improvement aplenty. But, then, something happened. Read on to learn more. 

Increased adoption of VMware infrastructure and continued performance advances in hardware and software have driven the virtualization of Microsoft Exchange. This paper will detail experiments that demonstrate the efficient performance and scalability of Exchange when running inside a virtual machine on a VMware vSphere™ 4 environment. 

This white paper discusses important questions for IT managers to ask as they consider deploying deduplication in a midrange data center. 

In this presentation transcript, featuring Exchange expert Lee Benjamin, learn how to use a storage calculator for optimal performance of your Exchange environment. Discover the new storage features of Exchange 2010 and how to utilize them for increased flexibility and reduced costs. 

Operational cost savings have proved elusive for many customers adopting virtualization, either in-house or with outsourcers. However, some customers have achieved significant cost efficiencies thanks to five best practices that are surprisingly high-level in approach. Read this Gartner report to learn key findings and recommendations. 

This SearchVirtualStorage.com VDI FAQ guide can help you by outlining how to design your VDI solution, the impact VDI has on storage, how to solve capacity and performance problems in a VDI environment and more. 

The economic drivers for VoIP are catching the attention of CFOs, CIOs, and others involved in costs. Learn how to justify the costs of implementing VoIP and how to plan for its bandwidth. 

Virtualization is changing everything for IT professionals who must plan and manage data center infrastructure. In order to achieve greater agility and lower operating costs, companies are becoming more innovative in how they provision computing resources and juggle support for hardware, software and network infrastructure.