Rein in the Chaos & Stop the Sprawl
Virtualisation has quickly become an important technology across all aspects of the IT environment, rapidly being deployed to reduce server sprawl, and reduce infrastructure costs.
With over 20 years of virtualisation experience, Sun Microsystems can help you increase datacentre efficiency by reducing footprint and power requirements, while increasing server utilisation rates.
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- the role & types of virtualisation technologies
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Focus on... Virtualisation
Our special report brings together the news, reviews and features you need to help make that all-important decision about whether virtualisation is right for you and your organisation.What?
The first and most obvious question is what is virtualisation? Although companies all have their own definitions to fit with the products they are selling, Chris Hammans, regional director of UK and Ireland for VMware, summed it up very well.
He said: "Virtualisation is a software technology that has quickly become one of the hottest topics in IT. Industry-standard x86 servers were designed to run a single operating system and a single application. As servers have increased in power this one-to-one mapping of application to OS to server has meant most machines are significantly underutilised."
"At the most basic level, virtualisation lets you run multiple virtual machines on a single physical machine, sharing the resources of that single computer across multiple environments."
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Virtualization for Dummies
Virtualisation is designed to enable IT users to harness ever-increasing levels of computer performance & enable a generation of more energy-efficient computing. But how do you take advantage of this innovation? Virtualization For Dummies, Sun and AMD Special Edition explains how virtualisation works and how it can benefit your organization, including the kinds of issues virtualisation can address and how it addresses them.Click to download
Business Benefits of Deploying Next Generation IT in the Midmarket
Virtualising hardware with hypervisor technology such as VMware Infrastructure can empower organisations to make more flexible, dynamic choices in their application deployment and allocation of resources - business benefits that affect the bottom line. Combined with Sun's x64servers, organisatiions can increase overall availability and reduce space, power, and cooling costs. Download to further understand the multiple business benefits of virtualisation and consolidation with Sun & VMware.Click to download
The Business Benefits of Virtualisation and Consolidation with Sun & VMware
IT managers often inherit built-up IT infrastructure that can be complex, difficult to manage, and expensive to operate. By pairing virtualisation with workload consolidation, you can maximise server utilisation by changing the way workloads run on x86 server architecture. Download this Sun IDC white paper to discover what Sun Microsystems and AMD can offer to address IT operational costs.Click to download
Reducing Storage Complexity with Unified Storage
Struggling to deal with the tremendous data growth and the complexity of storage? Unified storage has emerged as a way for IT managers to reduce the complexity of storage implementations while improving the business flexibility and lowering the total cost of storage. Download this Sun IDC white paper to understand how Sun's unified, open storage solutions can help organisations reduce the complexity of their storage and dramatically reduce associated costs.Click to download
Strategies for Solving the Datacentre Space, Power, and Cooling Crunch
Limited space, power, and cooling capacity have become an increasing part of IT budgets - and the lack of flexibility caused by outdated, inefficient datacentres often affect an organizations' business agility. Restructuring its own datacentres, Sun reduced its datacentre real estate by up to 66% and decreased operating expenses by up to 30%. Download to understand Sun's innovative approach to datacentre design and the advice that Sun can offer.Click to download