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whitepaper Allocation Problems in LargeScale Server Consolidation2007-10-22 Technischen Universitat Munchen
  Today's data centers offer many different IT services mostly hosted on dedicated physical servers. Virtualization provides a new technical means for server consolidation allowing for higher utilization of server capacities. The term refers to the abstraction of computing resources across many aspects of computing and has been used to describe different techniques. Virtualization engines provide a comfortable way of hosting multiple virtual servers (including operating system plus applications) on a single physical server, and sometimes to migrate and dynamically allocate these virtual servers to other physical servers on demand. This allows for much flexibility in capacity management. Server consolidation describes the process of combining the workloads of several different servers on a set of target servers.

Tags: Server Consolidation		   
whitepaper Hosting Provider Saves Up to 85% of Power Consumption and Improves Server Management by Using Virtuozzo2007-10-16 Parallels
  ServInt specializes in full-service, high-bandwidth web hosting for business customers. ServInt also provides clients with high-speed Internet access through its Access Services group. ServInt built a successful dedicated hosting business, but wanted to reduce power consumption and better manage their servers. Virtuozzo provided a highly efficient solution for reducing power output through the consolidation of poorly utilized servers. The OS virtualization technology in Virtuozzo provides the lowest possible overhead and lowest possible power consumption of virtualization solutions in the market today. In addition, the management tools that accompany Virtuozzo reduce waste associated with management tasks such as server migration and backup.

Tags: Virtualization		   
whitepaper Double-Take Software Case Study: MWABank2007-10-16 Double-Take Software
  MWABank is primarily a direct bank, one of only approximately 50 direct banks in the United States. Prior to working with Double-Take Software, MWABank had a cumbersome Disaster Recovery (DR) solution. At the time, the only thing to support recovery if an outage should occur was to rebuild from storage tapes stored at an off site location. If the server went down, the company had to rebuild the server from tape. The process was time consuming and complex, taking at least 24 hours from beginning to end. MWABank chose to use the combination of Double-Take Software and VMware for disaster recovery due to Dell's recommendation, their ease of use and a great reputation.

Tags: Server Consolidation, Virtualization		   
whitepaper Momentum Webcast: Introduction to Microsoft Core Infrastructure Optimization Model and Virtualization (Level 100)2007-10-15 Microsoft
  Infrastructure Optimization (IO) is the systematic process of reducing the complexity and costs associated with managing an IT infrastructure and improving its security and stability, with the goal of enhanced productivity for an organization and its people. The Microsoft Infrastructure Optimization Model (IOM) provides a framework for identifying the people, processes, and technology of an IT infrastructure and describes four levels of maturity through which those IT capabilities can evolve for ever greater strategic value to the organization. A major component of IO is virtualization. The attendee of this webcast will learn how virtualization can help to consolidate servers, maximize uptime, recover from disruptive events, and reduce the application-to-application conflicts that can cause compatibility problems in IT environment.

Tags: Virtualization		   
whitepaper Virtual Lab Automation: A Quantum Leap in IT Cost Reduction and Application Development Process Improvement2007-10-11 EMC
  Responding to an explosion in the number of underutilized servers that have accumulated across software development teams and to the unsustainably increasing percentage of time spent on repetitive system setup and configuration tasks in support of AD activities, enterprise application development teams, and the software development teams in leading software companies and system manufacturers, have turned to Virtual Lab Automation for relief. By slashing equipment-related capital and operating costs, dramatically reducing the time wasted repetitively provisioning systems, and by providing for cost-effective quality assurance even when teams are distributed around the globe, the Virtual Lab Automation system represents a new and critical "Best practice" component in any software development and test environment.

Tags: Virtualization		   
whitepaper Virtualization - The Most Impactful Solution to Data Center Power Crisis2007-10-08 EMC
  VMware virtualization technology can eliminate server sprawl and reduce power and cooling consumption in the data center by converting the physical machines into fully functional virtual machines. Each instance of VMware ESX Server can support more than 100 virtual machines, and the vast majority of the customers are able to run as many as 10 or more applications on a single piece of hardware. According to a recent research study, aggregate electricity use for servers doubled over the period 2000 to 2005 both in the U.S. and worldwide. Almost all of this growth was the result of growth in the number of the least expensive volume servers. Reducing the number of volume servers in data centers through virtualization leads to dramatic savings on power and cooling costs.

Tags: Server Consolidation, Virtualization		   
whitepaper Application Performance Testing in VMware Environments: Identify and Control Performance and Capacity Risks2007-10-01 Hewlett-Packard (HP)
  VMware Infrastructure allows IT organizations to consolidate underutilized servers, reduce power consumption, improve agility in introducing new business services, and improve disaster recovery and business continuity planning. It does so by introducing a level of abstraction between the underlying hardware and the operating system that run the business applications. This abstraction breaks the tight coupling between the software that provides the business service and the hardware that it resides on, making it possible to host multiple operating system images on a single hardware box as well as migrate live operating systems from one box to another. However, this abstraction alters the direct and straightforward relationship between application performance characteristics such as response time and throughput and the hardware resource and capacity utilization.

Tags: Server Consolidation, Virtualization		   
whitepaper VMware Infrastructure 3 and Stratus Continuous Availability: Going Beyond High Availability for Business-Critical Virtualization2007-10-01 Stratus Technologies
  The combination of VMware Infrastructure 3 (VI3) and Stratus Continuous Availability servers provides the most comprehensive solution for IT infrastructure availability in the industry. VMware VI3, encompassing VMware ESX Server and other components, is the most widely deployed software suite for optimizing and managing industry-standard IT environments through virtualization. Stratus Technologies is the company whose fault-tolerant servers set the standard for uptime. This paper details how VMware and Stratus together address the full spectrum of planned and unplanned downtime challenges: server hardware failures, operating system failures, server maintenance, operating system maintenance, disaster recovery, support and services.

Tags: Server Consolidation, Virtualization		   
whitepaper Fast-Growing Hosting Service Provider Centralizes and Simplifies Server Management2007-10-01 Microsoft
  RackForce was the first hosting service provider to bring Microsoft Virtual Server 2005 R2 technology to market. However, with hundreds of customers and an array of server nodes, managing the company's growing virtual environment was a challenge. Enterprise-ready and easy to administer, Microsoft System Center Virtual Machine Manager lets RackForce centralize and vastly improve virtual machine management. The company can streamline server management and maintain an average of four customers to each physical server, rather than the one-to-one ratio previously supported. System Center Virtual Machine Manager enables RackForce to easily identify which servers have capacity for additional workload, and it significantly simplifies physical to virtual machine migrations. RackForce expects to be able to cut maintenance and provisioning time in half with System Center Virtual Machine Manager.

Tags: Virtualization		   
whitepaper Manufacturer Consolidates Servers 33%, Saves U.S.$781,000, Speeds Backups 50%0000-00-00 Microsoft
  StorageTek, a U.S.$2 billion-a-year technology provider with 7,000 employees in 32 locations worldwide, was ready for a new e-mail infrastructure to keep pace with its fast growth. The company wanted to keep backup and recovery fast and convenient; add clustering for high availability; and give remote users the features of Microsoft Office Outlook 2003 that they had on their office desktops. By upgrading to Microsoft Exchange Server 2003, StorageTek has consolidated its U.S. e-mail servers by 33 percent, saving $781,000 annually. StorageTek technology combined with Exchange Server has slashed backup time in half, and availability has increased.

Tags: Server Consolidation, E-Mail Client		   


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