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Server Virtualization/HP: Getting the Most 2007-01-01 Hewlett-Packard (HP)

To optimize IT at the speed of business, organizations need enhancements to easily plan, configure, and automate physical and virtual resources. The presenter of the webcast explains how to do it.

Intrado + HP: Faster, Better Public Safety 2007-01-01 Hewlett-Packard (HP)

Based on the HP Integrity system architecture along with virtualization, Intrado is offering a new generation of faster more flexible services with less cost and complexity.

Tags: Application Servers,

Virtual Connect: Eliminating Barriers to Change 2007-01-01 Hewlett-Packard (HP)

The presenter of this webcast shows how the HP Virtual Connect architecture revolutionizes deployment.

Develop a Virtualization Strategy/HP: Taking a Holistic Approach 2007-01-01 Hewlett-Packard (HP)

The presenter of this webcast explains the advantages using virtualization to address people, processes and technology, and to align IT resources to the needs of business in powerful new ways.

Virtual Server 2005 R2 SP1 and Next-Generation AMD Opteron Processors Increase the Business Value of Virtualization 2007-01-01 Microsoft

Virtualization is rapidly becoming a standard technology for use across the IT spectrum. A key enabling technology, virtualization allows customers to run multiple operating systems concurrently on the same physical computer by abstracting the physical hardware away from the operating systems. Each of these operating systems runs as a self-contained computer, or virtual machine, and is easily portable from one hardware platform to another. Virtualization scenarios include software development and test, server consolidation, re-hosting legacy environments, business continuity, and disaster planning and recovery.

Concurrent Direct Network Access for Virtual Machine Monitors 2006-12-14 Rice University

This paper presents hardware and software mechanisms to enable Concurrent Direct Network Access (CDNA) by operating systems running within a virtual machine monitor. In a conventional virtual machine monitor, each operating system running within a virtual machine must access the network through a software-virtualized network interface. These virtual network interfaces are multiplexed in software onto a physical network interface, incurring significant performance overheads. The CDNA architecture improves networking efficiency and performance by dividing the tasks of traffic multiplexing, interrupt delivery, and memory protection between hardware and software in a novel way. The virtual machine monitor delivers interrupts and provides protection between virtual machines, while the network interface performs multiplexing of the network data.

Next-Generation, High-Visibility Tools For Virtualization Management 2006-09-01 Network General

Virtualization is hitting critical mass in enterprises nowadays. If the IT department hasn't deployed virtualization technologies already, chances are they are planning to do so in the near term. However, there are issues regarding virtualization that, in many cases, have yet to be resolved. IT needs a solution that enables proper planning for implementation of virtualization technologies. Then, after deployment, IT managers must be able to identify these resources and monitor, manage and maintain their performance. Network General solutions use integrated network intelligence applications to enable real-time access to information about any virtualized resources, anywhere on the network. This paper introduces Network General's comprehensive virtualization management solutions.

Virtualization in the Enterprise 2006-08-10 Intel

Virtualization, while a viable technology today, is not without issues. Allocating Virtual Machine (VMs) for enterprise services is not as simple as finding the first available host. Services have dependencies on network topology and other services. Also, VMs, while offering many types of isolation, do not offer complete performance isolation. VMs can interfere with each other. This paper examines the virtualization of physical host machines, enterprise services, and multi-site instantiation of virtual environments. The authors introduce the difficulty of virtualizing enterprise service host machines and discuss use cases that can give IT organizations many new options in supporting their company's business units.

Virtualization Technology Enables a Common Automation Platform 2006-08-01 ARC Advisory Group

Virtualization has proven to be an effective method for enabling information systems to support new business needs in an increasingly complex IT environment. Server consolidation, increased security and increased reliability are just a few of the strong benefits already demonstrated by corporate IT. A virtualized operating model within manufacturing IT can utilize most of the same techniques and achieve similar results when addressing the unique needs of operations. Virtualization should also be considered for other manufacturing applications such as a strategy for building a common technology platform for a Programmable Automation Controllers (PAC) which can support all automation applications, including various types of real-time control systems and operator interfaces in a variety of architectures.

Server Virtualization: The Path to High-Performance IT 2006-05-02 Accenture

Virtualization technologies offer immediate cost advantages and enhanced returns through rationalization, streamlined operations, increased responsiveness and flexibility. These benefits mean that server virtualization is a key to IT mastery - one of the building blocks that Accenture research has shown to be essential for the high-performance businesses and governments of the future.

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Title	Date Added	Company
Server Virtualization/HP: Getting the Most	2007-01-01	Hewlett-Packard (HP)
To optimize IT at the speed of business, organizations need enhancements to easily plan, configure, and automate physical and virtual resources. The presenter of the webcast explains how to do it.
Intrado + HP: Faster, Better Public Safety	2007-01-01	Hewlett-Packard (HP)
Based on the HP Integrity system architecture along with virtualization, Intrado is offering a new generation of faster more flexible services with less cost and complexity. Tags: Application Servers,
Virtual Connect: Eliminating Barriers to Change	2007-01-01	Hewlett-Packard (HP)
The presenter of this webcast shows how the HP Virtual Connect architecture revolutionizes deployment.
Develop a Virtualization Strategy/HP: Taking a Holistic Approach	2007-01-01	Hewlett-Packard (HP)
The presenter of this webcast explains the advantages using virtualization to address people, processes and technology, and to align IT resources to the needs of business in powerful new ways.
Virtual Server 2005 R2 SP1 and Next-Generation AMD Opteron Processors Increase the Business Value of Virtualization	2007-01-01	Microsoft
Virtualization is rapidly becoming a standard technology for use across the IT spectrum. A key enabling technology, virtualization allows customers to run multiple operating systems concurrently on the same physical computer by abstracting the physical hardware away from the operating systems. Each of these operating systems runs as a self-contained computer, or virtual machine, and is easily portable from one hardware platform to another. Virtualization scenarios include software development and test, server consolidation, re-hosting legacy environments, business continuity, and disaster planning and recovery.
Concurrent Direct Network Access for Virtual Machine Monitors	2006-12-14	Rice University
This paper presents hardware and software mechanisms to enable Concurrent Direct Network Access (CDNA) by operating systems running within a virtual machine monitor. In a conventional virtual machine monitor, each operating system running within a virtual machine must access the network through a software-virtualized network interface. These virtual network interfaces are multiplexed in software onto a physical network interface, incurring significant performance overheads. The CDNA architecture improves networking efficiency and performance by dividing the tasks of traffic multiplexing, interrupt delivery, and memory protection between hardware and software in a novel way. The virtual machine monitor delivers interrupts and provides protection between virtual machines, while the network interface performs multiplexing of the network data.
Next-Generation, High-Visibility Tools For Virtualization Management	2006-09-01	Network General
Virtualization is hitting critical mass in enterprises nowadays. If the IT department hasn't deployed virtualization technologies already, chances are they are planning to do so in the near term. However, there are issues regarding virtualization that, in many cases, have yet to be resolved. IT needs a solution that enables proper planning for implementation of virtualization technologies. Then, after deployment, IT managers must be able to identify these resources and monitor, manage and maintain their performance. Network General solutions use integrated network intelligence applications to enable real-time access to information about any virtualized resources, anywhere on the network. This paper introduces Network General's comprehensive virtualization management solutions.
Virtualization in the Enterprise	2006-08-10	Intel
Virtualization, while a viable technology today, is not without issues. Allocating Virtual Machine (VMs) for enterprise services is not as simple as finding the first available host. Services have dependencies on network topology and other services. Also, VMs, while offering many types of isolation, do not offer complete performance isolation. VMs can interfere with each other. This paper examines the virtualization of physical host machines, enterprise services, and multi-site instantiation of virtual environments. The authors introduce the difficulty of virtualizing enterprise service host machines and discuss use cases that can give IT organizations many new options in supporting their company's business units.
Virtualization Technology Enables a Common Automation Platform	2006-08-01	ARC Advisory Group
Virtualization has proven to be an effective method for enabling information systems to support new business needs in an increasingly complex IT environment. Server consolidation, increased security and increased reliability are just a few of the strong benefits already demonstrated by corporate IT. A virtualized operating model within manufacturing IT can utilize most of the same techniques and achieve similar results when addressing the unique needs of operations. Virtualization should also be considered for other manufacturing applications such as a strategy for building a common technology platform for a Programmable Automation Controllers (PAC) which can support all automation applications, including various types of real-time control systems and operator interfaces in a variety of architectures.
Server Virtualization: The Path to High-Performance IT	2006-05-02	Accenture
Virtualization technologies offer immediate cost advantages and enhanced returns through rationalization, streamlined operations, increased responsiveness and flexibility. These benefits mean that server virtualization is a key to IT mastery - one of the building blocks that Accenture research has shown to be essential for the high-performance businesses and governments of the future.