Many of today’s businesses lack the tools essential for developing location-independent storage initiatives, being forced to manage multiple, separate, and often heterogeneous, storage subsystems. In this expert E-Guide, brought to you by SearchVMware.com and Xiotech, you will discover the top storage considerations for Virtual Machines. 

The very same virtualization infrastructure you use for your servers today can be naturally extended to support the hosting of desktops as well. As a result, users gain the flexibility of connecting to a well-managed desktop from virtually any network endpoint. But how do you get there? 

Watch this webcast to learn how to ensure application security and availability in your VMware environment. Discover how to provide quick recovery of applications and how to use automation for server application protection. 

Critical to any successful implementation of desktop virtualization is to understand how desktop virtualization can help and which implementations will be most successful. View this webcast for an overview of desktop virtualization, several virtual desktop solutions, and the operational efficiency gains possible with desktop virtualization. 

In this podcast, virtualization expert Anil Desai talks with WhatIs.com's Alex Howard about the many ways virtualization can be used to improve software testing and development. 

Virtualization offers the opportunity for a more hands off approach to security. It eliminates the need for local hardware, as well as the time required for security administration. It frees users from worrying about arcane technical details, and eliminates the need for constant attention. Read on to learn more about the benefits of virtualization. 

Check out this podcast to learn how VMware and Dell are leveraging VMware vStorage with the Dell EqualLogic PS Series SANs for greater virtual server performance and more efficient management. 

This paper is actually a combination of four smaller papers all rolled into one PDF. It features articles on revisiting old virtualization practices for new business purposes, desktop virtualization strategies for faster provisioning and migration, network security concerns in a virtual environment, and more. 

Watch this demo to find out how enterprise organizations use VMware desktop virtualization products and solutions to manage and support the flexible needs of their extended, global workforce while strengthening security and control over corporate resources and sensitive information. 

This Essential Guide offers a collection of tips, tools and techniques that you can use to back up your virtual servers more efficiently. Find out about the intricacies of using VMware's Consolidate Backup (VCB) application, get tips on how to fine-tune your current backup app for virtual servers, and read about the common problems and solutions. 

Using the VKernel Capacity Bottleneck Analyzer, Hasbro is able to continuously monitor shared CPU, memory, and storage usage to properly allocate the required resources among all of its deployed virtual machines. 

In this expert E-Guide, brought to you by SearchEnterpriseDesktop.com and Dell, you will gain insight into the top reasons to deploy virtual desktops in your organization.