The purpose of this paper is to provide guidance and best practices for deploying Microsoft® Exchange Server 2010 in a virtualized environment with Windows Server® 2008 R2 Hyper V™ technology. This paper has been carefully composed to be relevant to organizations of any size. Many organizations today rely on some degree of virtualization. Whether it… Continue reading Virtualizing Exchange Server 2010 with Windows Server 2008 R2 Hyper V Best Practices
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Veeam v5 vs. Symantec: Best VMware Backup Solution?
In a 2010 Symantec datacenter survey, IT sites without a virtual infrastructure project planned or in progress represented just 18% of the 1,780 sites surveyed. On the other hand, roughly half of the sites with a virtual operating environment were planning to expand the use of virtual machines (VMs) by running missioncritical database-driven applications. Nonetheless, Symantec’s… Continue reading Veeam v5 vs. Symantec: Best VMware Backup Solution?
Virtualizing Apple XServes: Choosing the Right Server Solution
As businesses and organizations grow in size and complexity, the demands placed on IT infrastructures and staff multiply exponentially. End users require access to all of the necessary software, applications and productivity tools that they need to get their jobs done. Developers and technical support staff need to develop, test and support applications in any… Continue reading Virtualizing Apple XServes: Choosing the Right Server Solution
Benchmarking a Scalable and Highly Available Architecture for Virtual Desktops
The benchmark results represent a greater than ten-fold (10x) decrease in the per-Desktop costs of SAN-based, high-availability virtual desktop infrastructures (VDIs) FORT LAUDERDALE: DataCore Software, the premier provider of software-based storage virtualization solutions, today announced benchmark results and a research paper which together represent the first practical architecture for SAN-based vDesktops (virtual desktops) in real-world… Continue reading Benchmarking a Scalable and Highly Available Architecture for Virtual Desktops
The Next Generation HP ProLiant Server Line: A Powerful Platform for Virtualization
Seeking to lower power and cooling costs, simplify administration and conserve data center floor space, businesses of every size are rapidly virtualizing their physical infrastructures. As a result, demand is greater than ever for server hardware capable of handling virtualization workloads with maximum efficiency. The next generation of HP ProLiant servers and blades offers the… Continue reading The Next Generation HP ProLiant Server Line: A Powerful Platform for Virtualization
Dell Virtual Remote Desktop Reference Architecture
Dell, Citrix, and Microsoft provide an end-to-end optimized solution for remote, server-hosted desktop virtualization called Dell Virtual Remote Desktop (VRD). This solution combines Dell’s client, server, storage, networking hardware, and services with Citrix XenDesktop desktop virtualization technology and Microsoft’s server virtualization and management infrastructure.
The Future of Virtualization, Cloud Computing and Green IT
The report examines, analyses, and predicts the evolution of Virtualization, Cloud Computing, and Green IT, their current and potential markets, and estimated industry outlays (expenditures) on selected key technologies over the next five years. Virtualization and Cloud Computing are complex Information Technologies, each one consisting of over 30 individual contributing technologies.
Microsoft Exchange, SQL, SharePoint Server Mixed Workload on Hyper-V and NetApp Fabric MetroCluster
IT organizations today face major challenges in achieving maximum utilization, efficiency, and availability with ever-growing demands. Microsoft Hyper-V and NetApp MetroCluster address this demand by delivering a simple, low-cost, highly available, and efficient solution, which can be scaled as required, and increase the availability of the business critical systems and applications.