Hospital CTO identifies virtualization gotchas; VMware revenue lifted by maintenance fees

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	Hospital CTO identifies virtualization gotchas Toronto's Hospital for Sick Children has learned the hard way that virtualization efforts won't be successful if vendors aren't ready to support you, according to its director of technology. Read More WHITE PAPER: Avent Managing the Virtual Data Center An exclusive survey by IDG Research reveals that virtualization is significantly upping the data center management challenges, despite all the benefits. While network security tops the list of challenges, several others emerge prominently, goading IT management to seek new management solutions in order to maintain high service levels. Learn More In this Issue VMware revenue lifted by maintenance fees Cloud, virtualization gurus: What title is right? How many virtual machines fit on your server? GEO Foundation cuts desktop costs by $60K How does Microsoft Windows 7 impact desktop virtualization? Oracle brings Solaris, Sparc into virtualization portfolio Cisco, NetApp, VMware team up on virtualization security Ethernet aimed at data center virtual machines WHITE PAPER: Eaton - NWW A Compelling Power Alternative With power and cooling costs taking a big chunk out of IT budgets, power reductions anywhere in the data center are welcome. Read about two key ways to improve end-to-end energy efficiency by changing the voltage of power distribution and by taking advantage of new, high-efficiency, multi-node UPSs. Learn More VMware revenue lifted by maintenance fees Virtualization company VMware has reported a healthy increase in revenue for the fourth quarter, thanks largely to gains from software maintenance fees. Read More Cloud, virtualization gurus: What title is right? What do you call cloud computing and virtualization experts? Job titles for IT people with these hot skill sets remain in flux, making it harder for specialists and employers to hook up, recruiters say. Read More WHITE PAPER: NetApp Inefficiencies Behind Exchange, SQL Server, More Discover four current Microsoft application infrastructure challenges and why recent changes in Microsoft infrastructures create a compelling opportunity to improve underlying storage infrastructures right now. Learn more! How many virtual machines fit on your server? Virtualization capacity planning tools are available all over, but sometimes the intangibles make a big impact on performance. Here's expert advice on proper sizing of physical servers for multiple VMs. Read More GEO Foundation cuts desktop costs by $60K An Indianapolis, Ind.-based school management services provider estimates it will cost a mere $18,000 to upgrade its school desktops during a five-year period, compared to $75,000 if it hadn't rolled out desktop and server virtualization and data storage technologies. Read More WHITE PAPER: Data Domain VMware Data Backup and Recovery Best Practices VMware offers extraordinary benefits, but it can come at the cost of extra storage, backup resources and administrative challenges. Data Domain deduplication storage offers a way out by reducing redundant data across VMware data backups, operating at disk speeds, and providing cost-effective replication for fast DR using backup images. Click here to learn more. How does Microsoft Windows 7 impact desktop virtualization? For the past few years, organizations large and small eschewed Windows Vista and stuck with old reliable XP. Those days are coming to an end: ESG Research indicates massive migration plans to Windows 7 over the next two years. Read More Oracle brings Solaris, Sparc into virtualization portfolio Oracle plans to broaden its range of virtualization offerings, thanks to a number of applications obtained in the Sun acquisition, said Oracle chief architect Edward Screven. Read More Cisco, NetApp, VMware team up on virtualization security Cisco, NetApp and VMware announced a project to improve the security of virtualization deployments, with a focus on isolating applications that use the same physical network, server and storage resources in multi-tenant systems. Read More Ethernet aimed at data center virtual machines Extreme Networks and Voltaire rolled out Ethernet gear designed to support the growing number of data center virtual machines. Read More
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