Virtualization White Papers

Dispelling the Vapor Around Cloud Computing

Cloud technology has enormous potential to enable highly efficient and dynamic IT infrastructures that are more elastic and responsive to potential disruptions and data loss. Virtualization technologies combined with new cloud management techniques enable IBM to provide a simplified "anywhere, anytime" self-service approach for the delivery and consumption of IT services. Read this paper to see how using a cloud-based approach for your IT can free you to reap immediate benefits of a specific technology instead of having to spend time, resources, and money focusing on how to implement it.

Sponsor: IBM

Warp Speed: The Nuts and Bolts of Web Acceleration Solutions

Enterprises are quickly realizing that they can't achieve the web performance they need by simply deploying their web server on a high-speed network. Improving page rendering speeds incrementally through content caching is no longer enough. It's time to look for dramatic performance gains by applying optimization techniques right at the browser.

Sponsor: Limelight

Dell 12 G Case Study with VMware

Dell 3-2-1 Configurations consist of Dells New 12G servers, two Dell Power Connect switches, and one Equallogic storage array running vSphere 5 VMware. Reference Configurations take the guesswork out of designing, ordering, and deploying your virtualized infrastructure in your data center. Dell has designed proven, tested architecture to help you deploy a solution that meets your virtualization needs. In this guide, we discuss the different pieces that comprise a Dell 3-2-1 Reference Configuration, the benefits they bring to your organization, and how to deploy your new solution using best practice recommendations and guidelines from Dell.

Sponsor: Dell VMware

Why AppSense for VDI: How User Virtualization performs and adds value

More and more enterprises are turning to desktop virtualization as a solution to rising IT costs and security concerns combined with user demands for a personalized desktop experience and the ability to work from anywhere, at any time, from any device. AppSense and Citrix are working together to integrate the market-leading user virtualization solution with the world's most widely deployed desktop virtualization platform. The focus of this paper is to demonstrate the joint value of AppSense with XenDesktop 5.6 on Microsoft Hyper-V 2008 R2 SP1.

Sponsor: AppSense

Networking for a dynamic infrastructure: getting it right - A guide for realizing the full potential of virtualization

Consolidating and virtualizing IT resources can provide the foundation for a dynamic infrastructure strategy that supports more cost-effective operations, faster services deployment, and tighter alignment between business and IT. The evolution to a dynamic infrastructure requires a fundamental rethinking of the relationship between the network and the IT infrastructure components.

Sponsor: IBM

Find the cost effective balance between IT Compliance and User Demand

Whether a user environment is delivered through server based computing, virtual or physical desktops, it is essential users receive only the applications they require. Learn how to increase visibility into application landscape, ensure compliance, reduce support calls, & increase user acceptance with AppSense Application Manager.

Sponsor: AppSense

Centralize and provide user's 'digital personality' on demand to any desktop or device

Accelerate desktop migration, enable virtual desktop pooling, improve logon times, reduce support costs and eliminate roaming profil corruption with AppSense Enviroment Manager(EM). From server based computing environments through virtual and physical desktops, AppSense EM product ensures users always receive a consistent, predictable and personalized working experience.

Sponsor: AppSense

Centrally manage, deploy and report on all user configurations across the enterprise

Unlock the ability to control all aspects of the user environment from a central location. Deploy tailored policy and user personalization settings to thousands of physicaland virtual devices across many sites. With AppSense Management Suite you can do all this and more!

Sponsor: AppSense

Deliver a personalized experience to any device with our sacraficing IT polocies & governance

AppSense and Citrix share a user-centric view of enterprise computing. As the leading user virtualization solution recommended by Citrix, the AppSense User Virtualization Platform enables rapid, seamless, low-cost migration to a Citrix environment and provides a personalized physical-to-virtual user experience while reducing IT operation and infrastructure costs.

Sponsor: AppSense

Remove user complexity with user virtualization

Wouldn't it be great to manage thousands of users with the effort it takes to manage just one? With the inevitable migration to windows 7 and adoption of cloud computing to consider, user virtualization is what IT managers have been dreaming of.

Sponsor: AppSense

Enable a world where people can choose how they want to work with a user managed applications solution

Provide the ability for users to install and manage their own critical applications into an isolated environment and then access these applications in a seamless manner while also paving the way for technology trends like bring your own device (BYOD). Learn more about how you can empower users to securely manager their own application portfolio.

Sponsor: AppSense

Control Microsoft application licensing in virtual environments

Today, many organizations are using virtualization technologies to deliver applications and desktops to users across the enterprise. Learn how you can enforce application access by computer or connecting device to enable compliance with Microsoft device based licensing models.

Sponsor: AppSense

"Real-World Virtualization for Your Business" eBook

Small and midsize firms virtualize IT infrastructure to meet real-world challenges: simplifying operations to focus on business issues, speeding up application rollouts to get more done, safeguarding data and operations to stay open and productive, and saving money for the bottom line. It's a new way to think about IT-and getting started is easy, fast, and inexpensive, using VMware solutions designed for your real-world small or midsize business. Read this eBook to learn more.

Sponsor: VMware

High Availability for Small IT Operations

Learn how small and midsized businesses are increasingly adopting virtualization to deliver consolidation, improve data back up and disaster recovery and increase security with an in-depth new paper from the Enterprise Strategy Group (ESG). Learn directly from your peer's experiences and see why VMware's solutions are perfect for the growing and ambitious business.

Sponsor: VMware

Cisco UCS B230 M2 Blade Server: Uncompromised Virtual Desktop Performance

When deploying our virtual desktop solution, choosing hardware powerful enough to support a large number of virtual desktops is crucial. The more virtual desktops your server can support, the fewer servers you need to buy to provide virtual desktops to your desired number of users

Sponsor: Cisco

Frost and Sullivan: VXI Raising the Bar on Desktop Virtualization

Understand the important considerations and use cases to make the
most of your desktop virtualization initiative

Sponsor: Cisco