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Understanding Desktop Virtualization sponsored by Intel WHITE PAPER: This white paper describes the variety of desktop virtualization models available, how each works, and the advantages and limitations of each model for key vectors such as security, manageability, and power consumption. Also identified are the major providers of software solutions and the end-point devices to deploy each model. Posted: 14 Sep 2011 \| Published: 13 Sep 2011 TOPICS: Blade Servers \| Operating System Virtualization \| Remote Access Software \| Remote Computing \| Terminal Server Hardware \| Terminal Server Software \| VDI \| Virtual Desktop Infrastructure \| Virtual Machine

P2V Benefits: Moving Servers From the Physical to the Virtual World Cuts Costs, Saves Space and Parallels Green Initiatives sponsored by CDW Corporation WHITE PAPER: Virtualization basically means inserting a software layer between your hardware and your operating system. This decouples the operating system from the hardware and allows you to run many operating systems at the same time on top of that same physical piece of hardware. Read this short paper to learn about the benefits of using virtual servers. Posted: 08 Sep 2009 \| Published: 08 Sep 2009 TOPICS: Data Center Consolidation \| Data Center Management \| Operating System Virtualization \| Server Management \| Server Virtualization \| VMware \| VMware Infrastructure 3 \| VMware Server

IDC: Linux in the Mainstream: Growing Deployment of Business-Critical Workloads sponsored by Red Hat & IBM WHITE PAPER: Access this resource to explore the growth of Linux as a server operating system and discover how deployment form factors have changed over time to support both workload data and the ecosystem. Posted: 28 Sep 2011 \| Published: 28 Sep 2011 TOPICS: Business Intelligence \| Data Center Management \| Linux \| Linux Server Hardware \| Operating System Virtualization \| Operating Systems \| Systems Management

Oracle Solaris Optimized for Sun x86 Systems in the Enterprise sponsored by Oracle Corporation WHITE PAPER: This document is intended as a technical guide for developers and system administrators that want to understand the precise details of how Oracle Solaris and Oracle’s Sun x86 systems using Intel Xeon processor 5600 and 7500 series can improve your enterprise application solution environment. Posted: 19 Mar 2012 \| Published: 31 Jul 2010 TOPICS: Multi-core Processors \| Operating System Virtualization \| Operating Systems \| Oracle (Product) \| RAS (Reliability, Availability, Serviceability) \| Solaris

Linux in the Mainstream: Highlighting Customers Running Their Business on Red Hat Enterprise Linux sponsored by Red Hat WHITE PAPER: This IDC White Paper presents three case studies of customers that are using Linux for large deployment, business-critical applications. Posted: 11 Dec 2013 \| Published: 31 Jan 2013 TOPICS: Application Deployment \| Business Process Management \| Linux \| Linux Server Hardware \| Operating System Virtualization \| Operating Systems

Mapping Security for your Virtual Environment sponsored by Hewlett Packard Enterprise WHITE PAPER: Access this brief white paper that addresses the concern over managing virtual environment security with an enterprise-ready system that provides full visibility of physical and virtual data center and simplified security policy management. Posted: 25 Sep 2013 \| Published: 31 May 2012 TOPICS: Application Security \| Compliance (Systems Operations) \| Data Center Physical Security \| Data Centers \| Data Security \| Information Security \| Network Infrastructure \| Operating System Virtualization \| Operating Systems \| Security \| Security Management \| Security Managers \| Security Policies \| Security Systems \| Security Threats \| Virtual Desktop Infrastructure \| Virtual Machine \| Virtual Machine Monitor \| Virtualization Security \| Web Application Security

KVM - Kernel Based Virtual Machine sponsored by Red Hat & IBM WHITE PAPER: The x86 architecture has proven to be the dominate platform in enterprise computing, moving from its humble beginnings in desktop systems to now, powering the large enterprise applications that run businesses across the globe. Posted: 22 Nov 2010 \| Published: 22 Nov 2010 TOPICS: Linux \| Mainframe Operating Systems \| Mainframe Server Hardware \| Operating System Virtualization \| UNIX \| Virtualization Security

Consolidating Applications with Oracle Solaris Containers sponsored by Oracle Corporation WHITE PAPER: Oracle Solaris Containers implement OS virtualization using containers that are designed to provide a complete, isolated, secure runtime environment for applications—and in situations where resources can be managed with sub-CPU granularity. Posted: 14 Mar 2011 \| Published: 03 May 2010 TOPICS: Application Infrastructure \| Applications Management \| Applications Management Software \| Operating System Virtualization \| Operating Systems \| Solaris

Red Hat Enterprise Linux: The Original Cloud Operating System sponsored by Red Hat WHITE PAPER: This whitepaper will help you understand how Linux, unlike competing OSes, is the natural fit for cloud computing. Posted: 04 Sep 2013 \| Published: 04 Sep 2013 TOPICS: Cloud Computing \| Cloud Management \| Linux \| Linux Desktop Environment \| Operating System Virtualization \| Operating Systems

Migration to Windows 7 with Immidio Flex Profiles sponsored by Immidio WHITE PAPER: This white paper discusses how to use Immidio Flex Profiles for making user profiles cross-platform compatible to Windows XP and Windows 7, both for migration projects and side-by-side scenarios using multiple versions of Windows simultaneously. Posted: 15 Jan 2011 \| Published: 15 Jan 2011 TOPICS: Applications Management \| Operating System Virtualization \| Operating Systems \| Software Configuration Management \| Software Migration \| Software Upgrades \| Software Virtualization \| Systems Management