Many enterprises today are looking to cut expenses, reduce the number of physical servers operated and optimise system flexibility in order to effectively meet business requirements. This white paper examines how one IT consulting company implemented Windows Server 2008 Hyper-V technology to enhance data centre operations. 

Minimising your physical infrastructure can significantly reduce operational costs, but it is often easier said than done.  This white paper reveals how one retail business accomplished this goal by deploying Windows Server 2008 Datacenter and Hyper-V technology to manage over 300,000 store-based endpoints. 

This exclusive white paper offers a quick checklist that you can use to take the next step to managing and controlling IT across the IT ecosystem to the private cloud. Discover how the private cloud offers many of the same benefits as the public cloud, including self-service, scalability, and elasticity, along with additional security features. 

Juniper  Research defines the Indian Sub  Continent as encompassing the following five countries: Bangladesh; India; Nepal; Pakistan; and Sri Lanka.Despite comprising just five countries, the region  – with more than 1.6 billion inhabitants  – includes nearly a quarter of the global population. 

Many of today’s organisations are trying to meet customer demands for highly scalable, high-performance services solutions while reducing overall IT costs. This white paper discusses how one IT company achieved this by building solutions for the Windows Azure platform to leverage its versatile storage and easy integration with on-premise solutions. 

This white paper provides an overview for deploying SQL Server in a virtualized environment for VMware ESX 3.5 Update 4 (U4) running on the latest PowerEdge M610 and M710 blade servers and EqualLogic PS6000XV iSCSI storage arrays. 

This white paper explores the challenges of upgrading Microsoft Exchange and explains why it is essential that you successfully coordinate between server, storage, and network stacks to ensure stable business operations. Read this white paper to learn how a unified computing system can help you achieve this goal. 

This white paper outlines a methodology for comparing the total cost of ownership (TCO) of endpoint management technologies including IBM Tivoli Endpoint Manager. Learn why the TCO of Tivoli Endpoint Manager is much lower than other solutions on the market, delivering superior functionality at a fraction of the cost of competitive offerings. 

This white paper describes validated architectures for Dell | VMware™ virtual infrastructures. The Virtualization RA is intended to provide customers with an example basis to consider, evaluate, and select the Dell virtualization solution components that best fit their requirements. 

Intel® Virtualization Technology FlexMigration allows virtualization software vendors to deliver live migration solutions across different generations of Intel® Xeon® processor-based servers. This white paper explains how Intel VT FlexMigration works, including how and why some instructions are masked by the hypervisor while others are not. 

Virtualization technology is on a roll, driven by adoption of x86-based servers. While the software market ecosystem around virtualization is heating up, hardware vendors are leveraging that momentum and creating platforms that are optimized for virtualization. 

This white paper points out the challenges of virtualizing a large quantity of servers and describes seven clearly defined steps that comprise the virtualization process. Get detailed information on each one of these phases and obtain lessons learned from one company that employed this approach. 

This white paper explores the similarities and differences between virtualization and cloud computing. Find out how these IT models can help SMB's reduce costs and risks and compare the main features of each.