SmartBiz IT Research Library

ANALYST REPORT - This report outlines the important findings of a survey of 627 respondents involved with virtualization, compares the results with previous EMA research, examines the trends in virtualization and forecasts the future for virtualization management.
Posted: September 24, 2008 | Published: September 24, 2008


Topics:  Clustering | Grid Computing | Server Virtualization | Software as a Service | Storage Virtualization | Systems Management

WHITE PAPER - Adopting a virtualized infrastructure can result in a reduction of up to 35% of total annual server costs per user. This paper describes “basic virtualization,” which refers to basic x86 server consolidation using virtualization software.
Posted: September 24, 2008 | Published: September 24, 2008


Topics:  Architectures | Business Intelligence | ERP | Operating Systems | Server Hardware | Server Virtualization | Software Virtualization | Storage Virtualization | Systems Management

WEBCAST - Navigating the Virtualization Maze: Increasing flexibility, reducing costs and boosting resource utilization with the right services. You have many virtualization options to choose from, but which one is right for you?
Posted: September 17, 2008 | Premiered: September 17, 2008


Topics:  Business Intelligence | Server Virtualization | Storage Standards | Storage Virtualization | Virtual Machine Monitor | Virtual User Interface Software

WEBCAST - After attending this event you should be a better understanding of the optimization market and a greater ability to sort through available options and select the approach or approaches that best fit an organization's use cases.
Posted: September 15, 2008 | Premiered: September 17, 2008


Topics:  Backup Software | Backups | Storage Capacity | Storage Infrastructure | Storage Provisioning | Storage Virtualization

WEBCAST - Manage, grow and protect your expanding data storage environment with HP's radically simple, affordable, and reliable network storage solutions for smaller IT environments.
Posted: September 8, 2008 | Premiered: September 8, 2008


Topics:  Backup Software | Backups | Data Storage | Disaster Planning | Disaster Recovery | NAS | RAID | Storage Appliances | Storage Media | Storage Virtualization

SOFTWARE DEMO - HP All-in-One storage system from HP combines a window file server with an ICSI storage array while including integrated data protection software and a radically simple management interface.
Posted: September 8, 2008 | Published: September 8, 2008


Topics:  Backup Software | Backups | NAS | RAID | Storage Best Practices | Storage Infrastructure | Storage Security | Storage Virtualization

WHITE PAPER - When evaluating storage solutions for DR in a virtual environment, there are several aspects you should consider. In this E-Guide discover several concerns to be aware of when planning for disaster recovery in a virtual server environment.
Posted: September 4, 2008 | Published: September 4, 2008


Topics:  Disaster Recovery | Downtime | Fibre Channel | RPO | RTO | Server Virtualization | Storage Virtualization | WAN

WHITE PAPER - This white paper describes about the virtualization, data center transformation and IT challenges that are driving virtualization and data center transformation.
Posted: July 21, 2008 | Published: July 1, 2008


Topics:  Best Practices | Data Centers | ERP | Security | Server Virtualization | Storage Virtualization | VMware

WHITE PAPER - The HP Virtualized Infrastructure Solutions for mySAP Business Suite provide the infrastructure components, management tools, and best practice methodologies to implement and operate SAP's Adaptive Computing infrastructure.
Posted: July 2, 2008 | Published: April 1, 2005


Topics:  Business Processes | NetWeaver | SAP (Product) | Storage Virtualization

PODCAST - This podcast from VMware and HP showcases the simple steps to looking at disaster recovery and how to implement against the needs and wants within a current storage infrastructure.
Posted: June 30, 2008 | Premiered: June 30, 2008


Topics:  Business Continuity Planning | Continuous Data Protection | Data Recovery | Disaster Planning | Disaster Recovery | Loss Prevention | Storage Virtualization | Storage Virtualization Software

WHITE PAPER - This paper is designed to help users who would like to understand virtualization better in order to evaluate the operational benefits it could provide.
Posted: June 30, 2008 | Published: February 1, 2008


Topics:  Data Center Management | Server Virtualization | Storage Management | Storage Virtualization

PODCAST - Check out this podcast led by server virtualization expert Andrew Kutz to learn about implementing iSCSI with virtualization. Find out when and where the combination is appropriate and what problems to look out for.
Posted: March 31, 2008 | Premiered: March 31, 2008


Topics:  Backups | Business Intelligence | Disaster Recovery | NAS | SAN | Storage Virtualization | Storage Virtualization Software

WEBCAST - Check out this webcast led by server virtualization expert Andrew Kutz to learn about implementing iSCSI with virtualization. Find out when and where the combination is appropriate and what problems to look out for.
Posted: March 31, 2008 | Premiered: March 31, 2008


Topics:  Business Intelligence | Data Centers | ERP | Server Virtualization | Storage Virtualization | Systems Management

PODCAST - In this podcast, Anil Desai describes the right NAS scenarios, right choices and the right deployment options for your infrastructure.
Posted: March 17, 2008 | Premiered: March 17, 2008


Topics:  NAS | NAS Software | Server Virtualization | Storage Best Practices | Storage Capacity | Storage Virtualization | Storage Virtualization Software

SOFTWARE DEMO - Simplifying storage management can streamline administrative costs and lower the TCO of storage. Learn about the benefits and solutions associated with storage virtualization to determine if leveraging this technology is a good fit for your organization.
Posted: March 14, 2008 | Published: March 13, 2008


Topics:  Integration | SQL | Storage Best Practices | Storage Consolidation | Storage Systems | Storage Virtualization | Storage Virtualization Software | TCO