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Leading BPO Targets Savings of $1400 Per Agent Per Year Through Application Virtualization 2007-08-30 Microsoft

Siemens Information Processing Services (SIPS) is a part of Munich, Germany based, Siemens, a global electronics and electrical engineering company. Siemens Information Processing Services wanted to manage its PC fleet, along with the two main problems that the company had been facing - underutilization of desktops and high maintenance costs. SIPS implemented Microsoft SoftGrid Application Virtualization, a solution that delivers applications to desktops without installing the application.

Virtualization - Virtual Machine Software Is Just the Beginning 2007-08-20 Kusnetzky Group

With the inherent capabilities of computers, virtualization has become a major catch phrase being bandied about in the media today. Usually, the media mistakenly equates virtual machine technology, technology that can encapsulate all of the software that runs on a physical system and allows that capsule to run along side of others on a single system, with virtualization itself. It is often presented as something new and different rather than a well-established group of technologies with a long track record of success in data centers around the world. Suppliers, such as Intel, have been involved with all levels of virtualization technology for a very long time.

An Approach to a Trustworthy System Architecture Using Virtualization 2007-08-11 Springer Science+Business Media

This paper presents a system architecture for trusted transactions in highly sensitive environments. This architecture takes advantage of techniques provided by the Trusted Computing Group (TCG) to attest the system state of the communication partners, to guarantee that the system is free of malware and that its software has not been tampered with. To achieve meaningful attestation, virtualization is used to establish several di?erent execution environments. The attestation process is limited to a fragment of the software running on the platform, more specifically, to the part requesting access to sensitive data. The Trusted Platform Module (TPM) is virtualized, in order to make it accessible for an execution environment with a higher trust level.

Helping a Service Provider Deliver Software as a Service More Effectively 2007-08-10 Microsoft

nGenX, a subsidiary of Q-Comm Corporation, delivers office productivity and line of business applications on a "Software as a Service" basis to small and midsize organizations around the world. nGenX wanted to grow its business and expand its capacity to meet customer needs, but its existing service delivery infrastructure would not scale efficiently. nGenX deployed Microsoft SoftGrid Application Virtualization for Terminal Services and augmented the service delivery environment of nGenX with load balancing technologies.

Tags: Application Development

WellSpan Health Ensures the Availability of Critical Services and Real-Time Patient Records to Improve the Quality of Care 2007-08-01 CA (Computer Associates)

WellSpan Health is a community-based non-profit, healthcare system that is dedicated to providing clinical excellence and comprehensive services with compassion and convenience. To efficiently support their business objectives WellSpan needed to ensure the availability of their critical applications while reducing the overall cost of managing, troubleshooting and repairing systems. WellSpan chose CA Dynamic & Virtual Systems Management solution because of its ability to manage across all of the heterogeneous systems.

Virtualization Is More Than Virtual Machine Software 2007-07-28 Kusnetzky Group

Decision-makers face the imperative to develop a clear understanding of the organization's needs as well as an understanding of all of the virtualization technology currently available in order to develop a sound architecture for adoption of this technology. Without these things, an organization is very likely to waste time and money on a patchwork quilt of incompatible point solutions. Organizations that deploy a single type of virtualization, such as virtual machine software, and use it to the exclusion of other forms of virtualization, it is likely to discover that their datacenter will be less efficient, less reliable and not perform up to their expectations.

The First American Corporation: Advantage Through Virtualization and Collaboration 2007-07-25 Cisco Systems

Cisco is working with companies like The First American Corporation to improve unified communications through virtualization and collaboration.

Virtualization for Windows: A Technology Overview 2007-07-01 Microsoft

Virtualization is unquestionably one of the hottest trends in information technology today. This is no accident. While a variety of technologies fall under the virtualization umbrella, all of them are changing the IT world in significant ways. This paper introduces Microsoft's virtualization technologies, focusing on three areas: hardware virtualization, presentation virtualization, and application virtualization. Since every technology, virtual or otherwise, must be effectively managed, this discussion also looks at Microsoft's management products for a virtual world. The goal is to make clear what these offerings do, describe a bit about how they do it, and show how they work together.

Virtualization Technologies 2007-06-09 Genesis Multimedia Solutions

The purpose of this whitepaper is to provide a general overview of virtualization technologies for someone who is new to virtualization, or for someone who is interested in the benefits and disadvantages of virtualization. Virtualization is the practice of creating an abstraction layer between a computing resource and another computing resource or user. An abstraction layer allows, for instance, a user to see multiple logical representations of a computing resource even though there is only a single physical resource. This paper concentrates on platform virtualization, where an entire physical machine is partitioned into multiple logical virtual machines.

Prism: Lightweight Filesystem Virtualization Via Selective Cloning 2007-05-25 University of Michigan

Suppose filesystems supported cloning of any subset of directories, even those containing gigabytes of data, almost instantaneously, while guaranteeing isolation between the original copy and the cloned copy. The paper shows that this simple abstraction can greatly simplify many routine tasks, both for a single operating system and for clusters of similar virtual machines in a virtual server farm. This paper describes the design of Prism, a file server that supports lightweight cloning and centralized file management of multiple filesystems. Unlike copying in standard file systems or cloning operations on virtual disks, the Prism filesystem supports high-level operations to create fast clones of any part of a filesystem.

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Title	Date Added	Company
Leading BPO Targets Savings of $1400 Per Agent Per Year Through Application Virtualization	2007-08-30	Microsoft
Siemens Information Processing Services (SIPS) is a part of Munich, Germany based, Siemens, a global electronics and electrical engineering company. Siemens Information Processing Services wanted to manage its PC fleet, along with the two main problems that the company had been facing - underutilization of desktops and high maintenance costs. SIPS implemented Microsoft SoftGrid Application Virtualization, a solution that delivers applications to desktops without installing the application.
Virtualization - Virtual Machine Software Is Just the Beginning	2007-08-20	Kusnetzky Group
With the inherent capabilities of computers, virtualization has become a major catch phrase being bandied about in the media today. Usually, the media mistakenly equates virtual machine technology, technology that can encapsulate all of the software that runs on a physical system and allows that capsule to run along side of others on a single system, with virtualization itself. It is often presented as something new and different rather than a well-established group of technologies with a long track record of success in data centers around the world. Suppliers, such as Intel, have been involved with all levels of virtualization technology for a very long time.
An Approach to a Trustworthy System Architecture Using Virtualization	2007-08-11	Springer Science+Business Media
This paper presents a system architecture for trusted transactions in highly sensitive environments. This architecture takes advantage of techniques provided by the Trusted Computing Group (TCG) to attest the system state of the communication partners, to guarantee that the system is free of malware and that its software has not been tampered with. To achieve meaningful attestation, virtualization is used to establish several di?erent execution environments. The attestation process is limited to a fragment of the software running on the platform, more specifically, to the part requesting access to sensitive data. The Trusted Platform Module (TPM) is virtualized, in order to make it accessible for an execution environment with a higher trust level.
Helping a Service Provider Deliver Software as a Service More Effectively	2007-08-10	Microsoft
nGenX, a subsidiary of Q-Comm Corporation, delivers office productivity and line of business applications on a "Software as a Service" basis to small and midsize organizations around the world. nGenX wanted to grow its business and expand its capacity to meet customer needs, but its existing service delivery infrastructure would not scale efficiently. nGenX deployed Microsoft SoftGrid Application Virtualization for Terminal Services and augmented the service delivery environment of nGenX with load balancing technologies. Tags: Application Development
WellSpan Health Ensures the Availability of Critical Services and Real-Time Patient Records to Improve the Quality of Care	2007-08-01	CA (Computer Associates)
WellSpan Health is a community-based non-profit, healthcare system that is dedicated to providing clinical excellence and comprehensive services with compassion and convenience. To efficiently support their business objectives WellSpan needed to ensure the availability of their critical applications while reducing the overall cost of managing, troubleshooting and repairing systems. WellSpan chose CA Dynamic & Virtual Systems Management solution because of its ability to manage across all of the heterogeneous systems.
Virtualization Is More Than Virtual Machine Software	2007-07-28	Kusnetzky Group
Decision-makers face the imperative to develop a clear understanding of the organization's needs as well as an understanding of all of the virtualization technology currently available in order to develop a sound architecture for adoption of this technology. Without these things, an organization is very likely to waste time and money on a patchwork quilt of incompatible point solutions. Organizations that deploy a single type of virtualization, such as virtual machine software, and use it to the exclusion of other forms of virtualization, it is likely to discover that their datacenter will be less efficient, less reliable and not perform up to their expectations.
The First American Corporation: Advantage Through Virtualization and Collaboration	2007-07-25	Cisco Systems
Cisco is working with companies like The First American Corporation to improve unified communications through virtualization and collaboration.
Virtualization for Windows: A Technology Overview	2007-07-01	Microsoft
Virtualization is unquestionably one of the hottest trends in information technology today. This is no accident. While a variety of technologies fall under the virtualization umbrella, all of them are changing the IT world in significant ways. This paper introduces Microsoft's virtualization technologies, focusing on three areas: hardware virtualization, presentation virtualization, and application virtualization. Since every technology, virtual or otherwise, must be effectively managed, this discussion also looks at Microsoft's management products for a virtual world. The goal is to make clear what these offerings do, describe a bit about how they do it, and show how they work together.
Virtualization Technologies	2007-06-09	Genesis Multimedia Solutions
The purpose of this whitepaper is to provide a general overview of virtualization technologies for someone who is new to virtualization, or for someone who is interested in the benefits and disadvantages of virtualization. Virtualization is the practice of creating an abstraction layer between a computing resource and another computing resource or user. An abstraction layer allows, for instance, a user to see multiple logical representations of a computing resource even though there is only a single physical resource. This paper concentrates on platform virtualization, where an entire physical machine is partitioned into multiple logical virtual machines.
Prism: Lightweight Filesystem Virtualization Via Selective Cloning	2007-05-25	University of Michigan
Suppose filesystems supported cloning of any subset of directories, even those containing gigabytes of data, almost instantaneously, while guaranteeing isolation between the original copy and the cloned copy. The paper shows that this simple abstraction can greatly simplify many routine tasks, both for a single operating system and for clusters of similar virtual machines in a virtual server farm. This paper describes the design of Prism, a file server that supports lightweight cloning and centralized file management of multiple filesystems. Unlike copying in standard file systems or cloning operations on virtual disks, the Prism filesystem supports high-level operations to create fast clones of any part of a filesystem.