Chris Wolf talks about the tools that are used to increase virtual server performance. Later, virtualization platform decision points are covered with emphasis on OS and application compatibility and support, high availability, automation and management. 

In this first session, Wolf introduces principles of virtual infrastructure optimization and covers virtual machine placement optimization and bottleneck identification. 

New products and strategies in data storage and networking, including storage virtualization, IP and Fiber Channel hybrids and the evolution of hard disk drive storage. 

Greg begins with an introduction to storage and networking terminology, which helps to demystify complicating acronyms and other jargon used by storage and networking specialists. 

In this week’s Computer Weekly, we look at the IT challenges facing retailers, as consumers turn increasingly to web and mobile shopping channels. Oracle president Mark Hurd talks about how the supplier intends to simplify IT infrastructures. And new government CIO Andy Nelson discusses how he plans to transform Whitehall IT. Read the issue now. 

In August 2011, Forrester Consulting surveyed over 200 leading IT firms in North America and Europe to answer the question, “What are the implications of expanding testing in development, and what does it mean to development quality?”. Read this report to see the results. 

This final installment of a three-part series explores how automation builds on the stable, efficient base formed by a standardized, simplified, virtualized infrastructure to create a scalable resource to serve business needs. 

Quantum's solutions allow data de-duplication technology to become part of a complete backup and retention solution set that also includes conventional disk backup, tape, and encryption, all supported with common management tools. 

This webcast is the final part of a three-part course series that reviews best practices for installing, configuring and managing your VMware vsphere 5 environment. Explore key insights on vCenter server and learn how to successfully leverage this technology in your organization. 

The enterprise must be ready to embrace technologies that facilitate the blurring of the boundaries between work and life, in order to maximise the productivity, insight, innovation and collaboration gained from investments in its people, as well as technology itself. 

Sun’s customer-driven approach for how companies implement a virtual environment will enable customers to choose the right virtualization tool for the job yet still maintain cohesive management of a heterogeneous environment. 

The partnership with SAP gives VMware the opportunity to address an additional large segment of the enterprise market, and enables SAP to sell its products on the industry-leading virtualization platform.