When seeking modern data protection, many have turned to native array-based snapshot technologies, which combine frequent recovery points and minimum operational disruption. However, snapshot management varies significantly by storage platform and often results in more complexity and risk than most organizations bargained for. 

This white paper introduces an integrated, turnkey data center solution designed to accelerate VM backup and restore operations while keeping IT costs to a minimum. Featuring backup, storage and data protection technologies all-in-one, this integrated solution can protect your most critical VM data. Read on to learn more. 

This paper will introduce you to six medium-sized enterprise European users of the IBM XIV Storage System. Using informal and unscripted interviews, you'll follow them through their choice of the system to installation and, finally, into workload migration, live production, and daily use. 

To create the infrastructure for a private enterprise cloud, Intel IT has set a goal of virtualizing up to 75 percent of its office and enterprise computing environments. To achieve this goal, Intel IT will need to virtualize mission-critical applications, which is challenging due to rigorous performance, availability, and other requirements. 

In this premiere issue of New Enterprise Desktop, you'll learn the ins and outs of application virtualization and how to apply it in the enterprise, as well as finding out how to categorize user groups and match them with the best desktop virtualization solution. 

At the City University of New York (CUNY), 143 students and six faculty members are tak­ing part in a virtual application streaming pilot - as of September 2008, they can access cam­pus software instantaneously from anywhere via the Internet. Read this case study to learn more! 

In this IT Briefing, Richard Nockels, Client Marketing Manager at Intel, gives insight on several approaches to virtualization based on the organizations' needs. Some topics include application virtualization, OS streaming and virtual containers. 

In this brief podcast, expert James Taylor shares examples of how businesses have benefited from taking a holistic approach to integration. 

This IDG paper highlights key findings from a survey of over 300 organizations about their virtualization of business critical applications. Find out what drivers are pushing companies to extend virtualization beyond servers, what value they're realizing, and what the true extent is of feared risks like performance impact and limited ISV support.  

Even though virtualization has brought positive change to enterprise IT over the last decade, some skepticism remains about how valuable virtualization can be. Uncover the truth about how you can run your business critical applications with confidence without sacrificingavailability or service quality—and at lower costs. 

To ensure the reliability of its applications, lead generation and email marketing company Intela deployed VMware vFabric tc Server. Read this case study to learn how tc Server helped Intela increase productivity, improve application performance and availability, save on costs and more. 

This IDC white paper explains how much of the Enterprise IT community is at a crossroads in extending their journey to the private cloud: Companies must virtualize their business critical applications in order to reap the benefits of cloud computing.