In this month's issue of Virtual Data Center, learn how to reduce the number of physical servers even more by focusing on the process of virtual machine placement on host servers. 

Deduplication can decrease the physical spend on data center footprint, power, cooling, and physical tape and media costs. This podcast defines deduplication and explains how it can make your data center more efficient. It will also shed some light on what factors you should evaluate when considering a deduplication strategy. 

CA Virtualization Management solutions provide integrated end-to-end management, business-driven automation and security. As such, CA facilitates virtualization's promise of cost reduction and efficiency gains through consolidation, standardization and lower energy consumption, which drive better business outcomes. 

Tape export is process of moving data from virtual tape to physical tape. Tape stacking allows multiple virtual tapes to be consolidated onto a single physical tape in order to save on tape media consumption. The concept is very simple and also very useful. Please watch this video for examples of how FalconStor VTL functions. 

In this expert webcast, learn the basic steps to take when selecting and setting up your organization's server room, with details on security considerations, environmental factors and more. 

View this Flash demo on virtualization to understand how CA can help you accelerate your time to market, achieve operational excellence across physical and virtual environments and reduce risk associated with virtualization. 

In this paper, various configurations of Exchange Server 2007 are tested in physical and virtual environments to evaluate the performance scalability and to understand the sizing requirements for Exchange Server 2007 in a virtualized environment. 

System Center lowers the cost of delivering datacenter services through integrated, end-to-end management of physical and virtual environments, and supports the optimization of the datacenter in three primary ways. Each of these benefits, and the solutions that enable them, are discussed in this paper. 

Increasingly WAN-centric enterprises make mobile equipment and services more important for business continuity. To determine the role wireless should play in an organization's business continuity plan, IT should consider a mix of factors including type of business, physical locations and applications. Read on to learn more. 

This whitepaper will discuss how the push for continued virtualization and the "cloud"- along with a consolidated view that manages the infrastructure - is quickly becoming a reality due to market and end-user demand. You'll also learn what questions to ask yourself to assist in creating an organizational strategy for the best management approach. 

ITV.com’s IT management sought a future-proofed solution that would improve overall performance and future proof for High Definition editing without increasing the physical storage footprint requirements of their small datacenter. Nexsan was the only company that could deliver the solution they required. 

With its new unified management and auditing tools, SQL Server 2008 makes it easier to manage multiple instances on fewer servers. And by hosting these instances on Dell PowerEdge Servers powered by multi-core processors, you can guarantee the best levels of availability, as well as ensure the best possible performance. 

Evaluating the various data security options to protect your PCs can be challenging. This paper examines the options, discusses why passwords alone are not sufficient and makes the case for strong data encryption.