Virtualization brings the potential to deliver dramatic savings in terms of server count, footprint, power consumption and cooling requirements for data centers. For all its advantages though, virtualization also brings some unique challenges. This guide discusses important challenges that may be associated with virtualized environments—such as variable power consumption, fewer servers, inadequate power and cooling [...]
Can Your Virtualization Software Handle a Power Outage?
Deploying modern power management software significantly eases the complexities of keeping critical applications continuously available during power outages. VMware, Microsoft, Citrix and other server virtualization software vendors all offer “live migration” products that can swiftly transfer virtual machines from one host server to another for load balancing purposes or when the original server experiences operational [...]
Many Faces of Storage Hypervisor, Virtual Storage or Storage Virtualization
Storage hypervisors were a 2012 popular buzzword bingo topic with plenty of industry adoption and some customer deployment. Separating the hype around storage hypervisors reveals conversations around storage virtualization and virtual storage. Cloud and virtualization components Storage virtualization along with virtual storage and storage hypervisors have a theme of abstracting underlying physical hardware resources like server virtualization. The [...]
How 1 Person’s iPad Sync Brought Down Our Exchange Server
At Coyote Creek, we’ve deployed iPads here to all employees. We all love our iPads, including the convenience of being able to use them for sending and receiving emails, calendar items, etc. However, we’ve recently experienced a pretty serious problem that we wanted to warn you about. Best as we can tell, this problem is [...]
How Running an IT Shop is Like Running a Baseball Team
While I know a lot more about running an IT shop than running a baseball team, when I stop to think about it I realize that the two really do have a lot in common. Here are some of the important things you need to do in either situation. Download Whitepaper
Selection Criteria for Choosing Mobile Device Management Software
Thanks to the “bring your own device” movement, many organizations now have the need for mobile device management solutions that can manage the employee-owned devices that are accessing their corporate networks. The good news is there are numerous providers in the mobile device management solution arena, many options to choose from, and a known set [...]
Open Source and Cloud
This week I attended the Open Cloud Conference at Silicon Valley Cloud Center in Sunnyvale. There were a lot of interesting sessions, and one was on the role of open source for cloud. As there was a debate during the conference on the relationship between open source cloud and open cloud, they are not exactly [...]
Virtualization Update for the week of 3/26/12
Virtualization can be a powerful tool to help you cut costs and improve availability and management efficiency, but its impact on surrounding IT resources can cause unexpected problems. Whether you’re just starting a storage or server virtualization project or you’re looking to realize the full benefits of a complete virtual data center, virtualization-ready infrastructure can [...]
Virtualization for Dummies ebook
Learn how virtualization works best in the enterprise in this useful, free resource. Technology experts from Red Hat in partnership with the “For Dummies” series publisher Wiley have produced this handy guide that covers many common virtualization concerns. You’ll learn about the basics of virtualization and its benefits and how it works, as well as [...]
Data Security update for the week of March 12
As we all know, data security is the practice of keeping data protected from corruption and unauthorized access. The focus behind data security is to ensure privacy while protecting personal or corporate data. This week, the web has been talking about everything from increased vigilance, to highlighting some easy steps you can take to better [...]
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