WHITE PAPER - Sun's customer-driven approach for how companies implement a virtual environment will enable customers to choose the right virtualization tool for the job yet still maintain cohesive management of a heterogeneous environment.
Posted: June 19, 2008 | Published: August 1, 2007


Topics:  Application Life-Cycle Management | Application Performance Management | Business Continuity Planning | Data Center Management | Data Centers | Disaster Planning | Disaster Recovery | High Availability

PODCAST - In this podcast, analyst Joe Clabby is interviewed about server platform decisions points in production-level virtualization.
Posted: June 17, 2008 | Premiered: June 17, 2008


Topics:  BASIC | Chassis | Rack Enclosures | Server Appliances | Server Hardware | Server Virtualization | Server Virtualization Software

PRODUCT LITERATURE - Sun Fire™ x64 servers and Sun Blade™ modular systems powered by AMD Opteron™ and Intel® Xeon® processors let businesses run the Solaris™ Operating System (OS), Linux or Windows today, and change direction tomorrow.
Posted: June 19, 2008 | Published: April 1, 2008


Topics:  Disaster Recovery | Hardware | Hosting Services | Legacy Applications Software | Operating Systems | VMware

WHITE PAPER - By taking advantage of Sun virtualization technologies, organizations can architect, implement, and manage a consolidated datacenter that strikes the proper balance between absolute isolation and soft, flexible separation of applications.
Posted: June 20, 2008 | Published: April 1, 2007


Topics:  Data Centers | Disk Drives | Enterprise | Error Handling | IT Infrastructure | Microprocessors | Operating Systems

VIDEOCAST - Chris Wolf talks about the tools that are used to increase virtual server performance. Later, virtualization platform decision points are covered with emphasis on OS and application compatibility and support, high availability, automation and management.
Posted: June 20, 2008 | Premiered: June 20, 2008


Topics:  Capacity Planning | Data Center Management | Network Performance | Server Consolidation | Server Virtualization | Server Virtualization Software | Storage Virtualization | Storage Virtualization Software

VIDEOCAST - In this final session, Wolf discusses application selection, focusing on using chargebacks to counter physical storage challenges. He gives network architecture examples, offers some CPU considerations, and tackles issues with heterogeneous VM management.
Posted: June 20, 2008 | Premiered: June 20, 2008


Topics:  Capacity Planning | Data Center Management | Network Performance | Server Consolidation | Server Virtualization | Server Virtualization Software | Storage Virtualization | Storage Virtualization Software

VIDEOCAST - In this first session, Wolf introduces principles of virtual infrastructure optimization and covers virtual machine placement optimization and bottleneck identification.
Posted: June 19, 2008 | Premiered: June 20, 2008


Topics:  Capacity Planning | Data Center Management | Network Performance | Server Consolidation | Server Virtualization | Server Virtualization Software | Storage Virtualization | Storage Virtualization Software

WEBCAST - In this webcast, analyst Joe Clabby covers the many server platform decisions points in production-level virtualization.
Posted: June 17, 2008 | Premiered: June 17, 2008


Topics:  Applications Management | BASIC | Blade Servers | File Server Hardware | File Server Software | Rack Servers | Server Virtualization | VM | Webcasts

WHITE PAPER - For every area of your datacenter, Sun Professional Services has created a tailored assessment service.
Posted: June 19, 2008 | Published: January 1, 2007


Topics:  Backups | Business Intelligence | Customer Service | Data Center Management | Data Centers | ERP | Storage Virtualization

WHITE PAPER - This analysis leads to a prioritized, business-justified roadmap that can address requirements for an eco-friendly virtualized storage solution.
Posted: June 19, 2008 | Published: January 1, 2007


Topics:  Data Center Management | Data Centers | Security Policies | Server Virtualization | Storage Capacity | Storage Virtualization | VMware

WHITE PAPER - This whitepaper reviews actions that IT managers can take to improve overall server performance and discusses how to select servers for large-scale virtualized environments.
Posted: July 7, 2008 | Published: July 1, 2008


Topics:  Business Processes | IT Managers | Linux | Memory Management | RAS (Reliability, Availability, Serviceability) | Server Management | Server Software | Software Virtualization