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The days of virtualization being used only as a tactical tool to drive consolidation and higher system utilization are quickly ending. Many enterprises are poised to move to Virtualization 2.0 as their motivations for the employment of virtualization shift to lowering operational expenses, improving service levels and increasing responsiveness to changing business needs. The use of virtualization has matured from simple partitioning and encapsulation to leveraging the mobility of virtual machines to improve management and operations of IT environments.
Virtualization 2.0 includes a host of new use cases that range from high availability and disaster recovery to hosted clients and true utility computing.
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Tech Tips - VMware vSphere Data Protection
VMware vSphere 5.1 introduced vSphere Data Protection (VDP), a backup-and-recovery solution that leverages mature, proven technology from EMC Avamar to provide reliable, space-efficient, disk-based data protection for VMware virtual machines. vSphere Data Protection is fully integrated with VMware vCenter Server and the vSphere Web Client for easy deployment and management.
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Don't Get Stuck on Your Virtualization Journey: Where to Focus Next
IT as we know it is evolving: Businesses are on an IT transformation journey that typically starts with virtualization and ends with the shift to an IT-as-a-service (ITaaS) model based on a cloud infrastructure. Of course, the journey isn't always linear-some organizations continue to invest in virtualization and private cloud technologies, while others leap straight to the public cloud, depending on their business models and goals. Still, a global survey of businesses by VMware found that most go through three phases of maturity before they reach the final destination of cloud-based ITaaS.
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CSO - Cloud Security and Myths and Strategies Uncovered
This executive level paper highlights trends and findings from CIO's 2011 Global Cloud Computing Adoption survey as it relates to Security and Compliance in the virtualized datacenter. Featured content includes debunked myths of securing cloud environments, how the secure cloud is a key business enabler for the CSO, as well as strategies for how to get started building a secure cloud initiative.
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Aligning CFO and CIO Priorities
Forward-thinking organizations are viewing cloud computing as an investment in business transformation, not just a way to cut costs for IT. Thanks to the cloud, CFOs and CIOs are moving beyond the
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Hidden Truth About Virtualizing Business-Critical Applications: Benefits Realized, with Results to Prove It
This IDG whitepaper highlights key findings based on the Quickpoll Survey conducted with more than 300 Enterprise and Commercial IT decision makers worldwide about the state of their virtualization of business critical applications. This paper answers such questions as: What drivers are pushing companies to extend virtualization beyond servers? and What value are they realizing? Central to the paper are key results that expose risks of the past (fears of limited ISV support, performance impact) no longer are a factor for companies moving to 80+% virtualized.
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WAN Optimization: The Key to Effective Private Clouds
This CIO article discusses how WAN optimization solutions, like those Riverbed Technology offers, can accelerate private cloud implementations and enable users to be productive, while helping to deliver the cost and management efficiencies businesses require. Read the informational story now and learn why companies like MasterBrand Cabinets chose Steelhead WAN optimization appliances for superior performance.
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Successfully Consolidating Branch-Office Infrastructure In The Face Of More Users, Services, and Devices
The enormity of a consolidation effort in a global organization can be daunting, but the rewards are compelling. To get a step in the right direction, download this informative report from Forrester Consulting to find out how organizations are successfully consolidating their environments using advanced WAN optimization solutions along with an updated vocabulary and adjusted business approaches to drive greater business value from IT infrastructure.
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Forrester - Business Value of Virtualization
In January 2011, VMware commissioned Forrester Consulting to examine the total economic impact and potential return on investment (ROI) enterprises may realize by virtualizing mission-critical Oracle databases on the VMware vSphere platform. The purpose of this study is to provide readers with a framework to evaluate the potential financial impact of VMware vSphere on their organizations.
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ESG - Avoiding the Hazards of IT Consolidation
In an effort to reduce costs and streamline operations, today's large, distributed organizations are investing more in data center transformation, consolidation, and server virtualization. And yet many IT consolidation projects suffer from poor planning and implementation issues that ultimately impact application performance and user productivity. This technology brief investigates the processes and tools that are needed to provide complete enterprise visibility and WAN acceleration for high-priority traffic.
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Better Patient Care: Virtually There
This IDC Health Insights white paper identifies the key benefits from desktop virtualization in the clinical environment and presents case studies from three hospitals with detailed interviews, adopting desktop virtualization in the clinical environment.
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Interview with Founder of CloudChronicle.com
In this interview with Patrick Pushor, CTO and Founder of CloudChronicle.com, Patrick discusses the models of consumption that lend themselves well to cloud computing, covers the challenges regulated industries face when launching cloud projects, touches on the public versus private cloud debate, and names some of the non-technical barriers to cloud adoption.
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Successful IT Consolidation
Consolidating branch offices can be an efficient strategy, but you must know when it makes sense to consolidate all or part of the branch office. This podcast covers the rules of thumb for successful IT consolidation and explains the top three challenges for IT.
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A Closer Look at Desktop Virtualization
In this podcast, Harry Labana, VP & CTO at the XenApp Product Group at Citrix, makes the case for desktop virtualization by examining its benefits, risks and associated costs. Labana also explores the differences between desktop virtualization and VDI, and explains how Citrix's partnership with Microsoft has changed both companies' approach to desktop virtualization.
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An Overview of VMware vCloud® Networking and Security (vCNS)
VMware vCloud Networking and Security (vCNS) is the leading software-defined networking and security solution that enhances operational efficiency, unlocks agility and enables extensibility to rapidly respond to business needs. By abstracting networking and security from physical infrastructure and pooling resources, customers can create scalable logical networks. Integrated management of these services reduces the cost and complexity of datacenter operations. This webcast will take a closer look at this critical component of the all-new VMware vCloud Suite.
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An Overview of VMware vCloud Suite
VMware vCloud suite delivers a complete, integrated cloud infrastructure that simplifies IT operations while also delivering the best SLAs for all applications. The suite delivers virtualized infrastructure services (storage, network, security and availability) with built-in intelligence to automate on-demand provisioning, placement, configuration and control based on application requirements and defined policies.
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Optimizing your Virtual Environment with VMware vCenter Operations Management Suite
For virtual infrastructure administrators, understanding how physical resources are being consumed can seem like an impossible challenge. VMware vCenter Operations changes what's possible, enabling you to identify and isolate sources of contention and gain deep visibility into how physical resources are being consumed. See how vCenter Operations makes it fast and easy to identify over- and under-provisioned virtual machines, and how you can use these insights to free-up unused resources for systems starving for compute resources or new systems yet to be provisioned.
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VMware vCenter Site Recovery Manager 5.1 QuickStart Series Part 1: SRM Preparation and Setup
VMware vCenter Site Recovery Manager (SRM) is the market-leading disaster recovery product that complements VMware vSphere to ensure the simplest and most reliable disaster protection for all virtualized applications. In this first webcast in a two-part series, we will discuss SRM architecture, setting up and configuring sites, and creating protection groups for array-based replication as well as vSphere Replication.
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Tackling Workplace Mobility and Bring Your Own Device Initiatives with the VMware View Mobile Secure Desktop
Desktop virtualization provides IT with a way to address these concerns while supporting worker mobility and BYOD. Now VMware is advancing these goals with VMware View Mobile Secure Desktop, a fully validated architectural design that provides end users with quick and easy access to applications and data across devices, locations and networks. This solution streamlines and automates desktop management and provides IT with the ability to apply location-aware, policy-driven access to corporate resources to ensure higher levels of security and compliance. Validated with technology and solutions from VMware partners, View Mobile Secure Desktop provides your organization with an end-to-end solution designed to securely support device diversity, mobile workers and BYOD initiatives.
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What's New in VMware View 5.1: Technical Deep Dive
VMware View 5.1 helps deliver desktop as a service from your cloud, while enabling end-user freedom and IT control. Join us for this technical webcast where we will cover what's new in VMware View 5.1.
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Taneja Group Market Profile: An Overview of the Cloud Market Vendor Landscape
Choosing a cloud vendor can be a challenge given the number of vendors and solutions to choose from and the different types of cloud deployments available. Taneja Group recently completed a cloud market research report that provides an objective review of cloud infrastructure and management, cloud application platform, and service provider solutions currently offered by VMware and the leading cloud solution vendors. This webcast will offer insights into the state of the current cloud solution market, including recommendations on the factors you should consider when evaluating cloud solutions and vendors and an overview of Taneja Group's findings and opinions.
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Best Practices for Virtualizing Microsoft Exchange
Virtualization can improve IT efficiency, flexibility and availability, transforming service delivery while reducing costs. The inclusion of business-critical applications (BCA) such as Microsoft Exchange can deliver the most significant value to your business. However, many companies are cautious about including Microsoft Exchange in their virtualization roadmap because they lack specific in-house expertise to virtualize the infrastructure for Microsoft Exchange or because of the perception of risk associated with these projects.
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Best Practices for Virtualizing Oracle Databases and Applications
Virtualization can improve IT efficiency, flexibility and availability, transforming service delivery while reducing costs. The inclusion of business-critical applications (BCA) such as Oracle Database and applications can deliver the most significant value to your business. However, many companies are cautious about including Oracle software in their virtualization roadmap because they lack specific in-house expertise to virtualize the infrastructure for Oracle or because of the perception of risk associated with these projects.
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Address Key Desktop Virtualization Use Cases with VMware View
As desktop virtualization garners more momentum, IT organizations are looking for a solution that is cost-effective and easy to deploy, manage, and scale. VMware View meets these requirements with a proven desktop virtualization solution designed to optimize both end user freedom and IT management and control. View provides a comprehensive set of features that address the most challenging desktop use cases for customers across different market verticals. With View, organizations can provide their end-users with a modern desktop while allowing IT to manage desktops easily and securely from a centralized location at a reduced cost.
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Introduction to Virtual Desktop Infrastructure with VMware View
Although the capital expenditures for traditional computers have decreased over time, the operational costs of managing these desktops have increased significantly because of the escalating complexity of tasks, labor costs and security concerns. End users are also tied to a single piece of hardware to access all their data and applications, which limits mobility and causes frustration. Learn how virtual desktops using VMware View can meet these challenges by providing end-user freedom while maintaining IT control.
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Getting Started with VMware vSphere Hypervisor and VMware Go
Now is the time for deployment! Join us for a look at how to deploy virtualization using VMware vSphere, the industry's best-of-breed hypervisor. In addition, discover how solutions such as VMware Go make deploying VMware server virtualization technology a snap. This webcast will begin with a discussion of the core concepts of virtualization and then move quickly into how to get started today.
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An Overview of VMware vSphere
Join us for an overview of VMware vSphere, the industry-leading virtualization platform. vSphere comes in many shapes and sizes and can be tailored to the needs of your environment. This webcast will help you select from the various vSphere editions, kits, and features available to meet your specific needs. Whether you're just getting started, expanding your footprint, or architecting for the cloud, vSphere provides the best foundation!
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Technical Deep Dive: Capacity Management with VMware vCenter Operations Management Suite 5.0
VMware has introduced new capabilities to allow VMware vSphere administrators to proactively manage virtual infrastructure resources. When you right-size and optimize your infrastructure capacity you can increase virtual machine density and consolidation ratios by up to 30 percent, defer hardware and software purchases, and plan for upcoming virtualization projects more easily.
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Virtualize Business-Critical Applications with Confidence
Virtualizing business-critical applications has become a key focus for organizations as they move along their virtualization journey. With the launch of VMware vSphere 5, VMware is helping customers accelerate the deployment of business-critical applications, including Exchange, SQL, SAP and Oracle.
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Customer Spotlight: How IPC The Hospitalist Company Implemented Oracle on Vmware
Have you been looking to hear about customer's experiences with the new VMware vCenter Site Recovery Manager product? View this webcast to learn about VMware customer, Navicure, and their experiences testing and evaluating the recovery manager, their progress in implementing it in their environment and their advice other customers considering using vCenter.
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Cost-Effective Application Management with VMware ThinApp at the State of Indiana Office of Technology
Looking for a more cost effective way manage their existing infrastructure and move forward with their IT goals, the State of Indiana Office of Technology (IOT)set out several years ago to consolidate and centralize their IT infrastructure and is now 35% virtualized with VMware vSphere technology. The IOT, however, also wanted to drive more cost efficiency and cost savings with its end users and turned to VMware ThinApp to install, manage and push out applications to its 114 agencies.
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Introduction to VMware vCenter Site Recovery Manager 5
Traditional disaster recovery solutions are often too expensive, complex, and unreliable to meet business requirements. As a result, IT departments are hesitant to expand disaster protection beyond their most critical applications, largely because they are uncertain whether the quality of the protection is really worth the cost. VMware vCenter Site Recovery Manager 5 is the market- leading disaster recovery product that addresses this situation for organizations of all kinds.
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Simplified Management in the Real World with VMware vCenter Operations
Since its release in March, VMware vCenter Operations has been gaining significant market traction in managing dynamic virtual and cloud infrastructure. This webcast highlights VMware customer Brian Mack from MAXIMUS, a leading provider of health and human services programs to government organizations, and his experience in deploying vCenter Operations.
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Automating Infrastructure and Operations Management with VMware vCenter Operations Management Suite
IT management must change. Traditional tools and processes designed for siloed, static physical infrastructures don't provide the automation and control needed for inherently dynamic virtualized and cloud infrastructures. By building management directly into the VMware vSphere platform, we've already transformed the way you manage your infrastructure. The next step is to automate operations using an integrated approach to performance, capacity and configuration management with patented analytics. This unique approach delivers the new levels of intelligence, visibility and policy-based control required to ensure service levels in dynamic virtual and cloud environments.
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Introducing the New VMware Management Solution Portfolio
At VMworld Europe 2011, VMware launched major new additions to its management portfolio. This webcast will introduce the new products and drill down into their capabilities, as well as provide a strategic roadmap for the VMware management offerings.
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Introduction to Virtualization
This video webcast is designed to help those with little to no virtualization experience understand why virtualization and VMware are so important to driving down both capital and operational costs. The session will start with the introduction of the key concepts and technologies of virtualization, introduce the vSphere Hypervisor, and build up to an overview of VMware vSphere 5, the world's most robust and complete virtualization platform. This session will also discuss new solutions such as the vSphere Storage Appliance and VMware GO that are making it easier than ever before to get started with virtualization.
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Introduction to VMware vSphere 5
The foundation of the new VMware Cloud Infrastructure Suite is VMware vSphere 5, the most trusted, widely deployed virtualization platform in the world. Architected to support the broadest range of virtual and cloud infrastructure needs, vSphere is broadly utilized by enterprises, small and midsize businesses (SMBs) and public cloud service providers.
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Quantifying the Business Value of VMware View - Webcast
Many enterprises have discovered that the use of virtualization to support desktop workloads creates a range of significant benefits. These benefits include price efficiencies, improved IT management and greater agility and choice for end users. This VMware sponsored webcast with IDC will provide both quanitative measurement of the business value- defined as the expected ROI- and qualitative analysis associated with the use of VMware view.
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Introduction to VMware vSphere Storage Appliance
Business continuity is a top concern for small and midsize businesses (SMBs), who rely on their applications to keep their businesses running. VMware vSphere 5, the industry's leading virtualization platform, enables SMB's to protect their businesses, simplify their IT and save money. Now with vSphere vMotion and the vSphere Storage Appliance, SMBs without shared storage hardware can benefit from protected shared storage, high application availability and the elimination of planned downtime.
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VMware vSphere 5 QuickStart Series Part 1: Getting Started with VMware ESXi
This is Part 1 of a three-part course series using live product demonstrations to teach the basic installation, configuration and management of a VMware vSphere 5 environment. Included in this webcast will be vSphere deployment architecture, installing ESXi, installing vSphere Client and new Web client, vSphere Network Configuration and virtual machine creation.
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VMware vSphere 5 QuickStart Series Part 3: Management with VMware vCenter Server
In Part 3 of a three part course series, Andrew Ellwood, the Senior Technical Trainer and Lead Instructor of Americas Tech Lead Team- VMware, discusses VMware vSPhere vMotion implementation and operation, VMwhere vSphere Storage vMotion implementation and operation, VMware vSphere cluster creation, and VMware vSphere High Availability (HA) configuration and operation.
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VMware vSphere 5 QuickStart Series Part 2: Introduction to VMware vCenter Server
In Part 2 of a three part course series, Andrew Ellwood, the Senior Technical Trainer and Lead Instructor at Americas Tech Lead Team, demonstrates the basic installation, configuration and management of a VMware vSphere 5 environment. He will discuss installing vCenter, configuring database connection, and how to deploy and configure the new VMware vSphere 5 environment.
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VMware Enterprise Management Solutions in a Healthcare Environment
VMware enterprise management solutions help healthcare organizations control IT infrastructure and reduce change, configuration and compliance costs in physical, virtual and cloud environments while complying with HIPAA regulations. Take the one-time event out of audit and compliance and achieve IT automation.
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Apps QuickStart Series Part 1: Designing and Deploying Exchange 2010 on VMware vSphere
Downlaod this webcast to learn the virtual hardware design considerations for Exchange 2010, deployment using the building block approach, options for high-availability and disaster recovery and support considerations. Downlaod this webcast to learn the virtual hardware design considerations for Exchange 2010, deployment using the building block approach, options for high-availability and disaster recovery and support considerations.
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Virtualizing Microsoft and Oracle on VMware vSphere: Benefits and Best Practices
Virtualizing business-critical applications is an essential step in your journey to the cloud. Microsoft SQL Server, Exchange and SharePoint, and Oracle applications, are often the backbone of business IT. The benefits of virtualizing these applications extend far beyond mere consolidation. Understanding how VMware improves quality of service and agility while reducing costs will help you make the case for taking virtualization to the next level in your company.
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Choosing the Right Desktop Virtualization Platform
Join us for this webcast as we review the key drivers that are fueling the growth in desktop virtualization as well as what criteria customers should look for when considering a desktop virtualization offering.
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Key Considerations for Business & IT Continuity
Business interruptions such as site closures due to fire, natural disasters, severe weather, and pandemics can displace employees from their workplace, significantly impacting the productivity of the employees; in turn financially impacting organizations. Join Bob Laliberte, ESG and Dave Podwojski, Dir. of Gov't, Education & Health, Citrix, Americas and discover the key technology components in an effective workforce & business continuity strategy.
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Looking at Virtualization Performance through a Network Lens
Are you worried about how server administrators configure virtual switches? Do you ever wonder when virtualization and live VM migration will create chaos on the network? If so, watch this EMA, Cisco and NetQoS webinar that discusses both inhibitors and solutions for assuring performance for critical applications migrated to a virtualized environment.
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Accelerate IT. Innovate with Your Cloud.
Cloud computing represents a strategic generational shift in how IT operates. It can help IT address growing pressures to be more flexible and more responsive to business needs. It can increase IT efficiency and agility, and help reduce risk of operation in organizations of all sizes. Most important, cloud computing can make IT more reliable, without sacrificing security and governance.
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The Four Parameters of Success for Your Cloud
Moving to a cloud-computing environment is a priority for the vast majority of enterprises today. Most CIOs hope to harness the cloud to drive business transformation through IT transformation. They're no longer just concerned with budgets or delivering products and services efficiently, but seek to lead change throughout their organizations. Read this brief to see how cloud is the perfect vehicle for achieving this innovative success.
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Transforming Your Business with Your Cloud
Most chief information officers hope to harness the cloud to drive business transformation through IT transformation. Beyond delivering products and services efficiently, enterprises seek to drive substantial impact at greater speed through their organizations. Read this paper to see how cloud computing is the perfect vehicle for achieving this transformation.
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Forrester Total Economic Impact of VMware View
VMware View 5.1 helps deliver desktop as a service from your cloud, while enabling end-user freedom and IT control. Join us for this technical webcast where we will cover what’s new in VMware View 5.1.
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Journey to Your Cloud Taking Your Organization From Reactive to Innovative
This Whitepaper talks about why make the journey to the Cloud. It talks about empowering your IT Organization with Cloud Computing, the Path to Innovate, Essential Cloud Capabilities to Advance a Cloud Operating Model. It also talks about three approaches: Reactive: Managing the Growing Demands of the Business and moving beyond a reactive state of IT as well as being proactive: how IT can act as a Service Broker and Innovative: A Strategic Partner to the Business, and how VMware can help you become a strategic partner to the business.
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Organizing for the Cloud
Cloud computing represents a major opportunity for IT. At the same time it presents challenges. Lines of Business are already by-passing IT and going directly to external cloud providers. Running workloads on external cloud provider infrastructure isn't necessarily a bad thing but to regain control, IT must begin to think and act like a cloud provider. This Whitepaper talks about traditional versus cloud view of the IT Operations organization while addressing the business impact and key success factors and next steps, as why VMware for the IT Transformation.
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CIO/IDG IT Looks to Leverage Cloud Computing's Transformational Powers
Cloud computing is fast becoming a critical technology in the enterprise. In a CIO global survey of IT decision makers at enterprise companies, two-thirds of IT leaders are already adopting or planning to deploy cloud services, and more than nine in ten rated cloud computing as a priority over the next 18 months1. Spending on cloud computing is growing accordingly: Budgets for cloud projects are increasing 7 percent year over year globally and 14 percent in the United States. Read this white paper to learn about the 8 STEPS to consider when building a cloud strategy
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Video eBook - The Changing Nature of Enterprise Management
Management tools designed for physical environments are not suited for managing virtual and cloud environments. This ebook explores the need for a new management paradigm to help teams more effectively manage performance, capacity, configuration and compliance in today's IT environments.
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FAQ - Deploying VMware Mirage for Windows 7 Migration
This resource details a desktop virtualization solution that streamlines migrations and improves endpoint management and recovery. Learn more about the key advantages a desktop management tool can provide your virtual desktop environment and answers to the common concerns associated with this solution.
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BUILD THE BUSINESS CASE - Using VMware Mirage for Your Windows 7 Migration
The technical benefits of the right Windows 7 migration solution are clear, but explaining those benefits in business terms can be challenging. This white paper helps you build a business case for investing in the right tools to help with your migration. Get a breakdown of migration costs and what your organization can save with the right support.
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Virtualizing Business-Critical Applications on vSphere
This white paper provides solution and product information for educational purposes and assumes a basic knowledge and understanding of vSphereTM. - Architects can use this document to overcome perceived hurdles and challenges to virtualization. - Engineers and administrators can use this document as a catalog of benefits. - DBAs can use this document to gain an understanding of how database virtualization can benefit them. - App owners can use this document to gain an understanding of how app virtualization can benefit them. - Business staff and process owners can use this document to help consolidate Return on Investment (ROI) and time-per-activity operational efficiencies achieved with virtualization.
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Aberdeen Group Whitepaper - The Case for Virtualizing Your Oracle Database Deployment
This report will focus on the virtualization of Oracle databases. Oracle has been virtualized at a much lower rate than other applications, in fact the lowest rate of any application Aberdeen has studied. We will examine the reasons for this difference and provide metrics on the financial and operational benefits others have gained from virtualization. The advantages described in this report are specific to companies that deployed Oracle on a virtualized server.
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IT Process Institute - Cloud Strategy Brief: IT Value Transformation Roadmap
IT organizations are perceived by the business in two ways - as a cost center or a center of strategic value. This paper provides a virtualization and private cloud centric road map for IT value transformation, highlighting the objectives, challenges, required competencies, success factors and success measures at each stage.
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Business Agility and the True Economics of Cloud Computing
Beyond cost reduction, demonstrating the true value of cloud computing has its challenges. This paper reveals a direct link between cloud computing and business agility--how business outcomes are associated with agility, the role of IT for agile companies and the importance of cloud computing to business leaders.
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A Secure Cloud: Is There Such a Thing?
A secure cloud is attainable. In fact, industry luminaries David Hunter of VMware and Arthur Coviello of EMC say clouds can be more secure than physical infrastructure. These professionals explain how to keep your cloud secure and the security solutions offered by VMware and RSA.
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Virtualizing Tier 1 Applications: A Critical Step on the Journey Toward the Private Cloud
This IDC white paper explains how much of the Enterprise IT community is at a crossroads in extending their journey to the private cloud: Companies must virtualize their business critical applications in order to reap the benefits of cloud computing. The paper also includes two case studies and a sidebar highlighting the experiences of three enterprises with virtualizing their business-critical applications, which include Oracle and Microsoft SQL databases, SAP and enterprise Java, and a Microsoft Exchange email system.
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Aberdeen Group Whitepaper - The Case for Virtualizing Your Microsoft Exchange Deployment
This report will focus on the virtualization of Microsoft Exchange. Exchange has been virtualized at a much lower rate than other applications. We will examine the reasons for this difference and provide metrics on the financial and operational benefits others have gained from virtualization. The advantages described in this report are specific to companies that depolyed Microsift Exchange on a virtualized server.
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Aberdeen Group Whitepaper - The Case for Virtualizing Your Oracle Database Deployment
This report will focus on the virtualization of Oracle databases. Oracle has been virtualized at a much lower rate than other applications, in fact the lowest rate of any application Aberdeen has studied. We will examine the reasons for this difference and provide metrics on the financial and operational benefits others have gained from virtualization. The advantages described in this report are specific to companies that depolyed Oracle on a virtualized server.
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Total Economic Impact Of VMware vSphere: Virtualizing Mission-Critical Oracle Databases
In this paper, Forrester Consulting examines the total economic impact and potential return on investment (ROI) realized by three Enterprise organizations as they virtualized mission-critical Oracle databases on the VMware vSphere platform. The purpose of this study is to provide readers with a framework to evaluate the potential financial impact of VMware vSphere on their organizations.
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Tech Target - Desktop Virtualization Takeaway Guide
It is critical for IT to understand the differences between the various desktop virtualization platforms and to focus on the features most relevant to their organization. This guide will discuss which issues are most relevant when considering desktop virtualization platforms and evaluate how the industry's leading platform is delivering innovative solutions.
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Business Case for Desktop Virtualization: Information Guide
The single operating system and single device per user is a model of the past. In the Post-PC era, IT must protect data security and control user access to data, while managing the range of applications and devices for all users. This guide will help you identify the business and technical benefits of virtualizing your desktop environment.
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Forrester Research - Disaster Recovery Exercises Fall Short Of The Finish Line
Though many enterprises have advanced disaster recovery technologies put in place, they still fall short when it comes to actual preparedness due to a lack of formal processes and a strict regimen for exercising DR plans. This report details 10 tips for updating and improving your current DR exercise program to help you meet expected recovery objectives when faced with an unexpected event.
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CIO's Guide to Advanced Consolidation
Consolidating IT infrastructures is a continuing trend, particularly in an uncertain economy with organizations looking to reduce costs. Broader consolidation requires overcoming complexity, distance, latency, and silos; but a well-planned and executed consolidation approach can extend beyond cost savings to include improved risk mitigation and efficiently. Download and learn to maximize the data center of the future and consolidate without compromise.
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Four Missing Components that Put Your Data Center Consolidation/Migration Project at Risk
Data center consolidation and migration projects are fraught with risk. By using Network Behavior Analysis (NBA) systems to get a handle on dependency information, usage information, change impact information, and post-change problem identification, IT organizations can significantly reduce risk by automating and improving the planning process and minimizing disruption during implementation. Download this informative Riverbed white paper to learn more.
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Forrester Application Visibility: The Root Of Good Service Management
As your business needs become more dynamic, monitoring systems will be key to understanding how applications fulfill business needs and your ability to provide governance will determine the success level of your entire enterprise. With complexity growing at such a hyperbolic rate, in the future, automated application discovery and dependency mapping will not just be useful -it will be mandatory.
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Virtualization Expands As An Option For Mission-Critical Applications
Virtualization has matured from its beginnings. Increasing complexity and pressure from improved resource utilization has pressured IT organizations to improve the operations cost of mission-critical applications. Virtualization is one of the important options available to infrastructure and operating (I&O) groups to improve both the capital and operating costs of these applications, including database, ERP, BI and analytics, and others. This Technology Adoption Profile (TAP)outlines users' adoption of virtualization and their current and intended use of virtualization for increasingly critical applications.
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Top 10 Myths About Virtualizing Business-Critical Applications
Even though virtualization has brought positive change to enterprise IT over the last decade, some skepticism remains about how valuable virtualization can be in the way companies deliver and run business applications. Uncover the truth about how you can run your business critical applications with confidence without sacrificing availability or service quality-and at lower costs.
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Indiana University Virtualizes Mission-Critical Oracle Databases
The Kelley School of Business at Indiana University is a premier business school ranked in the top 25 nationally according to U.S. News and World Report. The Kelley School of Business at Indiana University wanted to decrease server deployment time for faculty special projects; reduce amount of physical hardware; reduce the power consumption across all infrastructure. The Kelley School of Business at Indiana University deployed VMware Infrastructure which decreases costs, streamlines server deployment, and reduces energy consumption.
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Case Study- Riverbed Enables Cloud Computing for Constangy, Brooks & Smith, LLP
Download this case study or watch the video to learn how Constangy, Brooks & Smith, a labor and employment law firm, improved the efficiency of their IT infrastructure. With the help of solutions from Riverbed Technology, the firm consolidated and virtualized many different servers, and eliminated the expense and difficulty of remotely managing hardware and software. Learn how you can too.
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Case Study- Riverbed Steelhead Enables Private Cloud Services for Global Natural Resources Firm
Rayonier chose Riverbed Technology for a global WAN optimization solution in order to make its private cloud a reality. With Riverbed, Rayonier consolidated and virtualized eight data centers down to two, without diminishing end-user performance or adding bandwidth. Payback on the Riverbed investment was less than a year. Download the case study to learn how your organization can similarly benefit.
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Lab Validation Report: Riverbed Steelhead EX + Granite
This informative ESG Lab report examines the Riverbed Steelhead EX + Granite appliance, which delivers a powerful combination of wide area network (WAN) optimization, a virtual services platform, and innovative block-storage optimization to help organizations consolidate servers and storage and deliver IT services globally, while ensuring the performance required in remote and branch offices. Download this informative report now to find out how edge-VSI can improve your IT infrastructure.
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eBook: A Guide to Modern IT Disaster Recovery
You know VMware as the virtualization company that has been the market leader for the past 11 years. In fact, according to Gartner, more than 80% of all virtualized applications in the world run on VMware today. This ebook highlights the VMware perspective on disaster recovery in the data center.
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Taneja Group Analyst Whitepaper - An Overview of the Virtual Infrastructure Operations Management Market
In this report, Taneja Group presents our evaluation of the current state of the virtual infrastructure operations management (VIOM) market. Our objective was to examine VIOM solutions available from a representative set of established and emerging vendors, in order to enable senior business and technology managers to gain a deeper understanding of which vendors offer the most complete solutions and how they differ from one another.
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Quantifying the Business Value of VMware View
For this white paper, IDC performed an in-depth analysis of the business value of VMware View, defined as the expected ROI associated with the use of the solution as a platform for the targeted deployment of a virtual desktop infrastructure.
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ESG Analyst Whitepaper - Virtualization Management Critical to Achieving Scale and Efficiency
Server virtualization has become a mainstream technology driving significant cost savings via server consolidation, rapid provisioning, and virtual desktop deployments across all market segments, from SMBs to global enterprises. Driven by the promise of efficiency gains, enterprises and service providers are deploying virtual server environments with plans to scale them rapidly.
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10 Reasons to Modernize the Desktop: CIO
IT departments need a solution that meets the evolving needs of both the employees and IT- something not possible with a traditional PC model. This paper illustrates the benefits of moving beyond the physical PC to a modern desktop that is highly flexible, easy to manage, customizable to suit users' needs, and ready for new and future technology.
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What's Needed for Cloud Computing
Just what is cloud computing anyway? Skeptics might say it is nothing but industry hyperbole, visionaries might say it is the future of IT. In reality, both statements are true-cloud computing has been embellished by the tech industry, but it does hold real potential for new types of on-demand dynamic IT services. This paper seeks to clarify the definition of cloud computing, identify how far along users are in terms of cloud deployment, and examine the role of the network in the cloud computing model.
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Forrester Consulting - Optimizing Users and Applications in a Mobile World
Are your workers going increasingly mobile? Don't wait for their calls to slam Support when they experience poor application performance on the road. Discover in the Forrester report how companies are successfully deploying WAN optimization solutions that are specifically tuned for a mobile environment, delivering the acceleration needed to ensure consistent performance, room for new applications, and the ability to ensure end user productivity at all times.
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The Hidden Truth About Virtualizing Business-Critical Applications
This IDG whitepaper highlights key findings based on the Quickpoll Survey conducted with more than 300 Enterprise and Commercial IT decision makers worldwide about the state of their virtualization of business critical applications. This paper answers such questions as: What drivers are pushing companies to extend virtualization beyond servers? and What value are they realizing? Central to the paper are key results that expose risks of the past (fears of limited ISV support, performance impact) no longer are a factor for companies moving to 80+% virtualized.
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Top 10 Myths About Virtualizing Business-Critical Applications
Even though virtualization has brought positive change to enterprise IT over the last decade, some skepticism remains about how valuable virtualization can be in the way companies deliver and run business applications. Uncover the truth about how you can run your business critical applications with confi dence without sacrifi cing
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3 Steps to Faster EMR Adoption with Desktop Virtualization & SSO
This white paper outlines three key steps that your organization can take to accelerate EHR and CPOE adoption using VMware View™ and Imprivata OneSign. Read on to discover out how the combination of desktop virtualization, No Click Access™ to virtual desktops, and OneSign Secure Walk-Away make it faster and easier to deploy new clinical applications while optimizing the clinician experience, protecting patient data, and reducing cost and complexity.
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AlwaysOn Point of Care: Ensuring Availability for Clinical Applications
Read this solution brief outlines the benefits of protecting your clinical IT infrastructure with AlwaysOn Point of Care. This validated solution architecture combines products and services from VMware, VCE and other providers to meet stringent requirements for availability, security, elastic scaling, rapid and automated provisioning, high capacity, and low latency with no single point of failure.
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Prairie North Health Region
By using VMware virtualization, the information technology department of the Prairie North Health Region has consolidated its server environment, reducing its hardware and power costs. Now, Prairie North is leveraging VMware View as a desktop virtualization solution to lower costs while improving the performance and availability of its desktop computing services-as well as those of neighboring regions.
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MidMichigan Health
MidMichigan relies on Cerner Instant Access with VMware View to allow clinicians to badge in and out of the EMR system on a network of thin-client devices placed at the points of care delivery. This solution reduces costs and makes it fast and easy to for clinicians at MidMichigan to access medical records and healthcare applications when so they to spend more time with patients.
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The State of EHR Adoption: On The Road to Improving Patient Safety
Healthcare Informatics Research recently interviewed nearly 500 healthcare organizations to shed light on the current state of EMR/EHR adoption. Download this report, sponsored by VMware, to discover how organizations are overcoming obstacles to adoption, how they benefitting from EMR/EHR solutions, and where the industry is going next.
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McCullough-Hyde Memorial Hospital
Using VMware View, the IT team at Ross Medical Center has virtualized 90 percent of their x86 servers and replaced more than half of their aging desktop PCs with low-cost thin clients, achieving dramatic cost savings while improving the productivity of clinicians and IT administrators alike.
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Norman Regional Health Systems
Norman Regional Health System wanted to make sure everything about it was cutting-edge, including the desktop environment. With VMware View, Norman now has a scalable, flexible desktop environment that simplifies administration while providing health practitioners with better access to applications and patient data.
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The Total Economic Impact of VMware ThinApp report (Forrester Research whitepaper)
In July 2010, VMware commissioned Forrester Consulting to examine the total economic impact and potential return on investment (ROI) enterprises may realize by deploying ThinApp. The purpose of this study is to provide readers with a framework to evaluate the potential financial impact of the ThinApp on their organizations. Forrester interviews with an existing customer and subsequent financial analysis found that the organization will experience the following benefits: - Decreased application packaging time
- Decreased testing time
- Faster application deployment time savings
- Elimination of level-one help desk calls
- Elimination of level-two help desk calls
- Increased user productivity
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Network Management and the Responsible, Virtualized Cloud
One of the greatest "innovations" within the current IT climate is that of Cloud services. Cloud services can offer great advantages over traditional, siloed, infrastructure-centric approaches to IT, but we are now progressing beyond the unrealistic optimism phase and confronting the hard part of making it all work to it's potential.
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NetApp, VMware, Cisco, Wyse, Fujitsu 50,000 Seat VMware View Deployment
NetApp, VMware, Cisco, Fujitsu, and Wyse joined forces to create an architectural design for a 50,000-seat VMware View architecture built on VMware vSphere and NetApp shared storage. This white paper provides an initial overview of the ongoing virtualization project, with special focus on the architectural design and the partner involvement.
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Managing Risk on the Journey to Virtualization and the Cloud
Virtualization has set IT free from many of its legacy constraints on resource optimization. But as virtualization enables IT to evolve into highly flexible service architectures such as cloud computing, these new approaches to technology also introduce new risks. How can enterprises best manage the wide range of risk and compliance challenges that accompany the many opportunities introduced by these innovations?
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Simplifying Virtualization: Management Through Automation
Virtualization - a technology that abstracts physical hardware from IT services - is a disruptive innovation that is taking IT by storm. A well-managed virtualization deployment improves server utilization, reduces hardware costs, increases uptime, makes IT faster to react, and drives significant ROI. It can also provide advantages in terms of service performance, application resiliency and responsiveness in delivering critical new IT services.
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Making the Case for Application Performance Monitoring
Monitoring the performance of your business-critical applications can be a significant undertaking in today's complex IT environment. This challenge is amplified as virtualization, cloud computing and composite applications continue to drive dynamic change in the data center.
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Increase IT Performance from the Enterprise to the Cloud with WAN Optimization - Taneja Group
WAN optimization plays an important role in today's highly distributed datacenters and cloud computing architectures. Massive consolidation and data mobility, enabled by virtualization, have radically altered how we build servers, design applications, and deploy storage for the emerging 'cloud' decade. This paper discusses how Riverbed solutions effectively eliminate IT performance constraints in such environments.
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ESG Whitepaper - The Cloud-Based Threat Defense Model
While the economic forecast remains uncertain in 2010, ESG's research indicates an increase in IT spending with a focus on security and risk management initiatives. Why are CIOs still so concerned about security? Which security technologies will they purchase?
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VMware - Why Choose VMware View over Citrix XenDesktop
The report examines a side-by-side comparison of VMware View 4 and Citrix XenDesktop. While the desktop virtualization landscape may appear to be crowded with options, customers can have confidence in their choice with VMware View, because it's the only end-to-end integrated solution built for delivering desktops as a managed service.
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The CIO's New Guide to Design of Global IT Infrastructure
Is it possible to eliminate the impact of distance? This paper explores the 5 key principles successful CIOs are using to redesign IT infrastructure of any size. Learn how to be prepared to adapt your environment in a way that supports distributed employees, anytime anywhere collaboration and the need for business continuity during a disaster.
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Making the Case for Desktop Virtualization
Anyone familiar with IT knows that Citrix is a power player in the market, focusing on virtualization, centralization and optimization. Citrix serves 99 percent of Fortune Global 500 enterprises, and partners with more 10,000 companies worldwide. Glenn Willis, Editor-in-Chief of ITO America had the opportunity to speak with Harry Labana the VP and CTO of the XenApp Product Group at Citrix, Labana offers his executive insight on the ins and outs of desktop virtualization.
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Adaptec Max SSD Caching - SSG Now Analyst Report
Want to squeeze the highest performance out of your IT architecture? Hybrid arrays of hard disk drives and solid state drives - such as those created by Adaptec MaxIQ - are recognized as the best solution for improving I/O performance while lowering costs.
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Yankee Group Mobile WAN Optimization Report
Mobile work continues to evolve. Your organization must keep up with the demands of its mobile workforce. This report introduces the concept of mobile WAN optimization and provides three case studies including RCM, PRTM and Einstein that highlight how this emerging technology can help IT departments achieve what previously appeared to be conflicting goals.
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Dell IT Utilizes Altris Deployment to Reduce Cost and Time: A Case Study
Dell launched an initiative to maximize efficiencies across all IT operational processes. The company wanted to develop global standards that could be consistently utilized by all Dell business units to reduce the time required to create and provision servers. With 24,000 servers worldwide, the project had the potential to save significant time and money for the company.
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