Many companies have turned to virtualization technologies for their servers and in their data centers to simplify administration and to reduce management chores and operating costs while maintaining reliability and safeguarding against disasters. Companies are now looking to apply the same technology to their desktop computers. 

Desktop virtualization—the replacement of physical desktops with virtualized versions hosted and delivered from the datacenter—not only allows you to equip your users more efficiently and cost-effectively; it enables a broad range of strategies for reducing cost, improving service and providing more agile support to the organization. 

Real-time NetFlow Analyzer displays inbound and outbound traffic separately for granular analysis that makes problem diagnosis quick and easy. Even better, you can view the historical NetFlow data broken out by application, conversation, domain, endpoint, and protocol. That way you know exactly how your bandwidth is being used and by whom. 

Learn how an Alabama company seeking a replacement tool for their mainframe administration and automation discovered SEGUS’ Smart products that not only delivered better functionality with a good GUI, but would save the company $80,000 over a five year period, while also avoiding future costly upgrade fees. 

This paper will help you understand the prospects that Postgres Plus RDBMS from EnterpriseDB and the JBoss Application Server from Red Hat can provide when used in combination. 

Participants at industry conferences and events often ask where the right place to start implementing security is. This is similar to starting off a talk with a doctor by asking “What medicine should I take?” The answer is going to be more questions. This article presents three questions to ask yourself before starting a security implementation. 

Manufacturers are feeling new pressure on their operations from many directions. Dynamic market needs, increased compliance requirements, more distributed manufacturing operations, rapid product innovation, lean manufacturing, and the transition to new IT technology all manifest themselves on the plant floor and throughout the enterprise. 

The release of Windows Vista SP1 enables customers to take advantage of improvements that Microsoft and its partners have developed. It's a continuation of Microsoft and its partners' drive to provide the best experience possible. 

This tech report demonstrates how using Dell EqualLogic SAN Snapshots can improve data protection in a VMware Virtual Infrastructure environment. 

Read this white paper to to learn how VMware View can help IT administrators decrease operating costs by centralizing management, data protection and security. 

Today's data centers are in the midst of a revolution originating from the move to virtual server architectures powered by solutions such as VMware. Based on Datalink's experience protecting enterprise data centers, this white paper provides practical advice and considerations surrounding backup and recovery of virtual server infrastructures. 

This webcast discusses ways to reduce costs and improve return on investment with desktop virtualization. Learn how implementing this technology enables you to reduce IT staff costs by more than 40 percent. Discover ways to reduce infrastructure expenses and total cost of ownership by more than 50 percent. 

Protecting the virtual data center doesn't need to be any more difficult than protecting a physical network. The key is to remain vigilant. In this chapter, you'll learn how to mitigate potential security risks to your resource pool and virtual machines without over-allocating administration.