Desktop virtualization is a key enabler in the effort to transform business computing as organizations seek to centralize data and consolidate infrastructure. Driving this transformation are two factors.

There are several new business opportunities that require vast amounts of inexpensive storage — and these opportunities cannot be realized with today's traditional, closed storage architectures. Sun believes that open storage products and services will emerge to meet these new opportunities and will represent just under 12 percent of the total storage market by 2011.

VMware VirtualCenter is virtual infrastructure management software, which provides a central point of control for your data center's virtual computing resources. VirtualCenter creates a more responsive data center, enabling faster reconfiguration and reallocation of applications and services. It also allows instant provisioning of servers. User-downtime decreases and the data center becomes optimized. VirtualCenter is a powerful way to connect IT to business needs.

Virtualization makes business sense in an era where it is predicted that 70 percent of a CIO’s budget is allocated to IT operations. This Datacraft paper highlights all aspects of the infrastructure impacted by virtualisation.

Few technologies really create something remotely close to a paradigm shift, but virtualization of system resources across servers iis one technology that has the distinct potential to really change the dynamics of the industry--but what is the real-world impact of this phenomenon.

"Virtualization" has become a buzzword in technology circles lately, but what exactly it is and what it is not have been variously and vaguely defined. This white paper addresses the specific topic of storage virtualization.

In an EMC Solutions Enabler environment, several types of groups are commonly used to monitor and control Symmetrix storage arrays such as EMC Symmetrix DMX and EMC Symmetrix V-Max. Read this paper to understand how these groups are configured and implemented and how they interact to effectively and efficiently manage your storage environment.

EMC Symmetrix, powered by the EMC Enginuity storage operating environment, delivers industry-leading performance, unmatched application availability, and incrementally scalable capacity. Read this white paper to get the essentials on the Symmetrix storage array environment, including its scalable architecture, availability features, business continuity, and I/O workflow prioritization, as well as updated information on EMC Symmetrix V-Max arrays.