Posts Tagged ‘Virtualization’
Effectively Manage Virtualization to Fully Realize the Benefits
Monday, August 30th, 2010www.ibm.com Jennifer Kuvlesky, of IBM, speaks about role of virtualization in a dynamic infrastructure. Customers can use virtualization to optimize workloads and automate processes and provisioning with service management. Recent analyst reports indicate that when businesses add service management to virtualization, the benefits achieved from the virtualization project are significantly improved. And the automation aspect of service management is key – through workload automation and self-service provisioning. Jennifer Kuvlesky. Im the Product Manager for Management Edition for AIX. The role of virtualization in a dynamic infrastructure is that it optimizes the infrastructure layer, so what that means is youre able to rapidly scale out, youre able to more–make more efficient use of your resources. So we see customers starting with virtualization as a starting point. As they move along their journey, however, they can use virtualization to optimize workloads, to rapidly scale out, to–service management is used to automate processes, provisioning. And then as customers move along the journey, theyre able to exploit virtualization capabilities, so theyre able to do workflow automation, self-service provisioning, able to automate the charge-back of the resource to the end user. Well, once theyve consolidated and virtualized, theyve got this new environment to manage, and a lot of times the tools that they have to manage that environment arent virtual-aware, and so the …

How Server Virtualization Works
Monday, August 30th, 2010Introduction to Desktop Virtualization Part 3 of 3
Monday, August 30th, 2010For the first time ever, virtual desktops are a mainstream reality for hundreds of millions of corporate employees. Today’s desktop and application virtualization solutions deliver a complete Windows desktop experience as an on-demand service to any user, anytime. Join CentriNet and Citrix expert, Drew Rasmussen, as we discuss the basics of desktop virtualization and how it can: * Leverage the extra capacity available on current generation computers * Allow resources to be utilized more effectively * Reduce IT administration headaches Don’t miss this third installment of our Building Blocks of Virtualization webinar series! Speaker: Andy Abernethy, Citrix

Optimizing IT Resources with Virtualization
Monday, August 30th, 2010Learn how to use virtualization to improve IT services by using a Microsoft Windows virtual server. With Windows Server 2008 Hyper-V you get server virtualization that can increase it efficiency and business agility. Microsoft server virtualization solutions include server virtualization, application virtualization, remote desktop services, and presentation virtualization.


