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IDC: Virtual servers set to overtake physical boxes
News IT departments in Western Europe will deploy more virtual machines than physical servers for the first time this year, according to a new report from IDC. By 2013, the ratio of virtual to physical machines in a typical datacentre will be 3:2.
[May 15, 2009, 16:02]
Parallels Software and Intel Quad-Core Processors Accelerate Virtual Private Servers for Service Providers
White Papers The challenge was to deliver the processing performance required to support at least 15 to 20 virtual private servers on each physical server and minimize energy costs to help ensure a profitable business model.
[January 1, 2009, 0:00]
HP OpenView Storage Mirroring and Virtual Servers White Paper
White Papers Protecting virtual servers, and their virtual disks, provides some unique challenges that are only surmountable by Storage Mirroring, due to its patented architecture and feature set. Examples of the virtualization software include Microsoft...
[March 3, 2006, 0:01]
Parking Solution Company Reduces Hardware Costs by $160,000 With Virtual Servers
White Papers T2 implemented Windows Server 2008 Hyper-V virtualization technology and virtual servers, eliminating 32 physical servers. As demand for its solution grew, the company had to add physical servers to its environment - a costly, time-consuming process.
[August 28, 2009, 1:22]
Hosting Service Provider Simplifies Site Migration, Saves Money With Virtual Servers
White Papers To address both issues, RackForce began offering a hosting service on multicore Intel Xeon servers using Intel Virtualization Technology and running Microsoft Virtual Server 2005 R2 SP1. Now, each physical server can be divided into multiple...
[March 1, 2008, 0:02]
The Infrastructure Management Challenges Associated With Virtual Servers
White Papers Most of the current interest in virtualization revolves around virtual servers. Although many benefits are associated with virtual servers, there are also some significant management challenges. Although virtualization is important to IT...
[July 13, 2009, 0:00]
UK company launches virtual private servers
News A small UK company based in the West Midlands has launched a way for single users and small companies to use inexpensive virtual private servers (VPSs) for conducting business or to run private websites.
[April 3, 2008, 16:59]
HP OpenView Storage Mirroring and Virtual Servers
White Papers Protecting virtual servers, and their virtual disks, provides some unique challenges that are only surmountable by Storage Mirroring, due to its patented architecture and feature set.direct. Examples of the virtualization software include Microsoft...
[April 1, 2007, 1:00]
Addressing the Top Data Protection Challenges in Mixed Physical and Virtual Server Environments: Symantec Backup and Recovery Solutions for Physical and Virtual Servers
White Papers Just as introducing multiple operating systems created complexity and challenges, as these organizations incorporate virtual servers in their environment, new challenges are developing for protecting the mix as a whole.
[June 4, 2009, 15:13]
High Availability for Physical & Virtual Servers
White Papers Read IDC's evaluation of ExpressCluster and learn about new features that span not only physical servers, but hypervisor-based virtual servers. NEC's ExpressCluster integrates application monitoring and data mirroring capabilities into a single...
[June 16, 2009, 9:31]
Food Manufacturer Consolidates Servers, Reduces IT Costs With Virtual Machines
White Papers The solution has helped the company replace physical servers with virtual machines, resulting in considerable savings from reductions in both hardware purchases and maintenance costs. Delta deployed Microsoft Virtual Server 2005, the virtual...
[March 15, 2007, 0:00]
Fairleigh Dickinson University Centralizes Storage and Backup, Improves Disaster Recovery and Email With HP Hewlett-Packard StorageWorks Enterprise Virtual Arrays and ProLiant Blade Servers
White Papers It turned to HP to solve its problems, and chose Hewlett-Packard StorageWorks Enterprise Virtual Arrays; award-winning Hewlett-Packard ProLiant blade servers; and Hewlett Packard MSL6060 tape libraries.
[December 13, 2006, 0:00]
Configuration Best Practices for Microsoft SQL Server 2005 With HP StorageWorks Enterprise Virtual Array 4000 and HP Blade Servers White Paper
White Papers Read this best practices paper that leverages HP servers, storage, and management software by providing the recommended best practices for configuration of an HP StorageWorks Enterprise Virtual Array (EVA) storage subsystem deployed into a...
[May 31, 2009, 21:43]
Introducing Microsoft Virtual Server 2005 on IBM eServer xSeries Servers
White Papers Microsoft Virtual Server 2005 hosted on Windows Server 2003 and IBM eServer xSeries servers uses virtualization technology to deliver the performance necessary for completing time-saving and cost-saving tasks.
[October 4, 2005, 3:00]
Comprehensive Backup and Recovery of VMware Virtual Infrastructure: Symantec Backup Exec 12.5 for Windows Servers
White Papers This paper describes several approaches that can be used to back up VMware ESX Server 3.x and its underlying components using Symantec Backup Exec 12.5 for Windows Servers and the Backup Exec Agent for VMware Virtual Infrastructure (AVVI).
[June 4, 2009, 15:13]
Sun lights the way for virtual servers
News Sun Microsystems plans to detail a timeline Thursday for N1, a sweeping software strategy that will let administrators create virtual mainframes out of their existing computer resources. In 2003 to 2004, Sun plans to define how computing services...
[September 18, 2002, 8:07]
Virtual Iron 3.1 Enterprise Edition Data Center Virtualization Software - For HP ProLiant Blade Servers
White Papers Virtual Iron 3.1 Enterprise Edition, when installed on the HP BladeSystem with an HP StorageWorks 8000 Enterprise Virtual Array (EVA8000), creates a virtualized data center model supporting both Linux and Microsoft Windows guest operating systems...
[May 8, 2007, 1:00]
Benchmarking Servers Using Virtual Machines
White Papers Virtualization software is often used in enterprise on server machines to run Virtual Machines (VMs), each running a distinct server.is has many benefits including flexibility and lower hardware cost.is paper presents the results from conducting a...
[March 20, 2008, 0:02]
Implementing High Availability for Virtual Servers
White Papers The need to protect virtual machine environments against both planned and unplanned outages is increasing as the number of business critical applications deployed within VMs grows. This paper shows how the use of high availability clustering...
[May 18, 2007, 1:00]
Cellcom Uses VMware Technology With Blade Servers to Create Virtual IT Infrastructure
White Papers Using ESX Server in conjunction with Virtual Center and VMotion, Cellcom has a robust data center management solution. Cellcom Seeks Best of Breed Server Consolidation Solution to Keep Up With Growing Business Demands.
[October 26, 2006, 11:04]
