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Dell Aims To Become One-Stop Virtualization Shop
Dell is moving forward into the growing virtualization market, with the announcement Wednesday of a major new initiative. The company said it is seeking to help businesses "become more efficient" through its flexible and modular virtualization and data-center consulting services, "business-ready" virtualization configurations, new PowerEdge servers, and EqualLogic PS4000 storage arrays.'Differentiated Solutions'Dell said "the expanded lineup attacks cost and complexity for two key areas of enterprise computing -- virtualization and high-performance computing (HPC)," with "differentiated solutions" for small to midsize businesses.Its virtualization consulting services, the company said, are intended to "help holistically optimize data centers." The services are aimed at reducing the cost to plan and operate data centers, and include platform optimization and virtualization, data-center planning and management, disaster recovery, data management, and facilities efficiency.Consulting services also include ready-to-go virtualization hardware and software configurations.The data-center virtualization configuration includes Dell PowerEdge M-series blade servers, EqualLogic PS6000 iSCSI storage, Cisco Catalyst networking switches, and VMware vSphere 4. The other configuration is designed for small and midsize businesses. It uses the PowerEdge R710, Dell PowerVault MD3000i, and Microsoft's virtualization suite. The company is also introducing the EqualLogic PS4000 storage array and PowerVault NX3000 network attached storage device to help small- and midsize businesses and remote offices. The PS4000 is intended to address such customer requirements as server virtualization, consolidation, data protection, and data recovery.Other Dell virtualization solutions include support for VMware vSphere 4, Citrix Essentials for XenServer 5.0, and Windows Server 2008 R2 Hyper-V. The company said it is supporting VMware vSphere 4 across 37 Dell PowerEdge platforms, which will help "customers of all sizes transform their data centers into private clouds."Looking for 'Something Distinctive'The Round Rock, Texas-based company is also offering services to help decision-making for virtualizing applications, using Microsoft Exchange and Microsoft SQL Server. For management needs, Dell is offering...
White Paper: “Infrastructure Optimization via Desktop Virtualization”
To address this issue of improving capacity utilization, more and more companies and information technology departments are implementing infrastructure solutions, such as server and storage consolidation through virtualization. With the promise of a new day rising upon the desktop environment, companies are taking a 'return-to-the-mainframe' mentality, leveraging these same solutions, and in many cases, the same IT skills, to re-deploy desktops. Via mainframe-inspired System x x86 server hardware located within the datacenter, the entire desktop operating system and application stack can be virtualized, delivering the complete multimedia experience that users have become accustomed to, but without the security concerns and spiraling management costs of the traditional 'fat client' PC approach.read more
Virtualization from Desktop to Datacenter
Virtualization comes in many forms, and by combining multiple technologies, enterprises can transform the way they deploy and manage their software. This session will examine how an enterprise can combine the use of layer-2 'desktop' hypervisor technology, layer-1 dedicated server virtualization software and next-generation management software to rapidly speed the rate at which they can develop and deploy new software within their enterprise. With software developers able to easily create and encapsulate software within virtual machine containers, and then speed this through staging and deployment, enterprises benefit from radical cost reduction and increased time to market. It will also radically simplify complex IT tasks, such as: patching and compliance reporting. This session will include case studies and live technology demonstrations.read more
Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization Beta Draws Industry Interest
Red Hat, Inc. (NYSE: RHT) announced that the Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization portfolio of products has transitioned to Beta and is on track for final delivery later this year. These products are part of the company's outlined strategy to offer solutions that expand the scope and market reach of its virtualization and cloud technologies. By sharing Red Hat's broad hardware and ISV ecosystem, the products will offer customers flexibility, operational choice and efficiency, while expanding the market adoption of virtualization. read more
RSAT - Remote Server Administration Tool
Microsoft gives Windows Vista administrators a tool to administer Vista PCs remotely. This tool is called Microsoft Remote Server Administration Tool (KB941314).It is described as follows:<blockquote>Microsoft Remote Server Administration Tools (RSAT) enables IT administrators to remotely manage roles and features in Windows Server 2008 from a computer running Windows Vista with SP1. It includes support [...]
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