In this month's issue of Virtual Data Center, learn how to reduce the number of physical servers even more by focusing on the process of virtual machine placement on host servers. 

Enterprise job scheduling is a mature and mission-critical IT capability that supports some of the most important business processes throughout a modern enterprise. This EMA whitepaper will review the implementation and benefits of agentless job scheduling. 

Protecting SharePoint via traditional methods can be difficult because of its complex implementation architecture, the SharePoint application server and the back-end SQL database server. Attend this webinar to learn about a simplified, cost-effective approach to SharePoint high availability using Marathon's everRun high availability software. 

The Sun Reference Architecture for Video Surveillance with ipConfigure ESM provides a scalable digital surveillance platform that allows organizations to adjust infrastructure to fit their exact needs. 

In this transcript, senior enterprise IT architect Nelson Ruest breaks down the seven different layers of the server virtualization architecture, and explains the role the hypervisor plays in the success of that infrastructure. 

If you’re considering cutting costs by switching to email archiving and management in the cloud, this white paper contains useful information and best practices. Download it and learn 10 ways MimeCast can save you time and money using cloud-based email management. 

This podcast, featuring Brian Madden and Gabe Knuth, provides expert advice to help you select the right thin client for your environment. Learn which features are important and how to manage thin clients effectively. 

Scope creep kills innovation. Over $1 trillion is spent each year on R&D, and 60% of the projects fail due to requirements issues. By using requirements management best practices you can achieve 2x higher profits and 6x faster development cycles. 

Flash storage is now a top contender for new enterprise storage applications. The I/O randomization caused by widespread virtual machine adoption demands higher I/O performance. Faster than disks, cheaper than DRAM, flash is occupying a new layer in the storage pyramid. Read this paper to further investigate flash storage. 

This white paper details a strategy that enables companies to painlessly gain PCI compliance and ensure effective security. 

Optimizing the benefits of a data grid built with Oracle Coherence relies upon creating a modular, balanced architecture. Matching the number of application servers, memory capacity, and quantity of processing nodes to the target workload characteristics is important to achieving the best performance. 

This document describes the Sun reference architecture for next-generation data backup using Symantec NetBackup software. 

MySpace knows better than anyone the high demands that consumers can make on application and web servers. It maintains two sets of servers depending on application transaction load. Even so, continued transaction growth on these servers was resulting in poor performance. MySpace decided to give Fusion-io a try.