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	How far has virtual systems management come? Network Instruments survey of Interop 2010 attendees over three years shows how IT managers continue to embrace virtualization, yet management challenges persist. Read More WHITE PAPER: PC Mall Server Virtualization: Breaking Performance Barriers Server virtualization reduces cost, increases availability and enhances business agility. But for many companies, a focus only on cost reduction can become a problem. Download this HP white paper to learn how to reap virtualization's additional benefits, including built-in, cost-effective high availability & disaster recovery. Learn More In this Issue Virtual systems management for the masses Virtualization and cloud change everything Interop attendees embrace cloud benefits, expect management challenges Conquering the challenges of managing cloud-based apps Veeam launches management tool The management imperative: Change Tech Update 2.0: Virtualization WHITE PAPER: Oracle Business Agility Strategies For Midsize Organizations Midsize businesses have enormous IT pressures: building an infrastructure that is flexible, designed to accommodate rapid growth and meets compliance challenges with resources nowhere near larger enterprises. This video whitepaper explains how Oracle is delivering applications specifically for midsize businesses. Learn More Virtual systems management for the masses Virtual systems management capabilities come to product suites aimed at giving IT departments enterprise-level features at SMB costs. Read More Virtualization and cloud change everything This week Jim is at the Interop conference in Vegas where he is moderating ten sessions. In his opening session, entitled Application Delivery 2.0, Jim will discuss why he thinks that the movement to adopt virtualization and cloud computing fundamentally change IT. We will use this newsletter to focus on one small piece of how virtualization changes IT. Read More WHITE PAPER: Double-Take Software Virtualization and Disaster Recovery The need to protect virtualized systems is paramount but organizations may not understand how vulnerable they are to disaster. This whitepaper discusses the challenges of protecting virtualized workloads and how Double-Take Software's solutions can help. Read Now. Interop attendees embrace cloud benefits, expect management challenges Network Instruments' on-site survey of more than 100 Interop attendees shows that interest and adoption of cloud computing is on the rise, but IT managers recognizes the technology brings challenges. Read More Conquering the challenges of managing cloud-based apps Network Instruments extends it Observer to monitor the health and performance of applications across multiple tiers, including internal and external cloud computing environments. Read More WHITE PAPER: HP Quadruple VMs without Increasing NICs IDC: As companies roll out blade-based virtualization deployments, many find that they have limited choices for network I/O. Virtual machines not only help bring more applications onto each server but also place additional demand on network I/O. Learn to adress these challenge.s Click to continue Veeam launches management tool Veeam has launched new software that will enable enterprises using Microsoft System Center Virtual Machine Manager (SCVMM) with automated problem resolution for their VMware environments. Read More The management imperative: Change One of the many benefits of server virtualization is that it is now possible to move virtual machines between servers either in the same or in disparate data centers. Read More Tech Update 2.0: Virtualization The ins and out of file virtualization technology. Read More
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