Capacity management challenges persist in virtual environments

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	Capacity management challenges persist in virtual environments A study by Forrester Consulting shows capacity management continues to limit companies hoping to expand their virtual system deployments. Read More WHITE PAPER: Splunk Make IT Data a Strategic Asset This paper outlines the struggles organizations face managing silos of IT data and how, using Splunk, users are changing the way they do their jobs and elevating the role of IT in their organizations. Learn More! In this Issue Four trends shape the New Data Center 10 hot data center tools DEMO start-ups go for the cloud Gender discrimination linked to poor project management How end users can help IT Education networks fill as students receive laptops Firms fail to assess effect virtualization has on networks UC and virtualization: Friend or foe? VMware eases migration to Windows 7 WHITE PAPER: HP ProCurve Break Free from Proprietary Networking See why Gartner and the network industry have positioned HP as a leader and the fastest-growing enterprise Ethernet LAN networking vendor. HP's commitment to industry-standards can help organizations optimize their network. Read now. Four trends shape the New Data Center Thanks to x86 server virtualization and its follow-on technologies, the state-of-the-art enterprise data center looks vastly different than it did even a year ago. Read More 10 hot data center tools The latest and greatest products for the New Data Center Read More DEMO start-ups go for the cloud Sixty-five companies will debut products at DEMO this week, with a heavy focus on cloud computing. Read More WHITE PAPER: Avocent Four tools for successful power reduction. Discover how you can reduce energy consumption in the data center and on the desktop for significant cost savings. This independent report outlines the best approaches to developing, deploying and managing an effective power management solution, as well as tools for successful power reduction. Read now! Gender discrimination linked to poor project management New research suggests that technically oriented women could face gender discrimination in their jobs in part because of mismanaged IT projects. Read More How end users can help IT End user monitoring and experience tools can benefit IT in more ways than they think. Lori Wizdo from Knoa software talks with Keith Shaw about how the tools can speed up the help desk process, improve virtualization efforts and even save money in IT asset allocation. (12:20) Read More Education networks fill as students receive laptops The NSW Department of Education and Training (DET) networks are almost at capacity. Read More WHITE PAPER: Aruba Networks Network Rightsizing Best Practices Guide Network Rightsizing is an evolutionary approach to network design that significantly reduces costs while simultaneously increasing mobility for campus and enterprise users. This guide provides a methodology to enable IT to break away from the status quo of port-based network architectures, allowing an unprecedented reduction in cost and complexity. Read More! Firms fail to assess effect virtualization has on networks Companies are failing to assess the impact virtualization has on their networks, says Computacenter. Read More UC and virtualization: Friend or foe? Here at Nemertes we're about midway into our 2010 benchmark process, interviewing about 200 companies on their plans for UC, among other technologies. One interesting issue that we continue to see is a disconnect between those planning for UC adoption, and those planning to deploy virtualized thin-client desktops to replace thick applications. Read More VMware eases migration to Windows 7 VMware has upgraded its ThinApp application virtualization software to enable migration of applications from older versions of Windows to Windows 7. Read More
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