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Enterprises, small businesses, and governments are looking to cloud-based solutions to solve some of their biggest business and technology challenges: reducing costs, reaching new levels of efficiency, and creating innovative business models. Cloud services and applications offer compelling economics by reducing capital expenditures (CapEx) and operating expenses (OpEx) through sharing of cloud assets and dynamic, on-demand delivery of services. Cloud...

Cloud computing has been on the horizon of most CIOs for the better part of half a decade. Cloud computing represents the next evolutionary step for computing. Decades ago, the mainframe era kicked off computing. This phase lasted about 20 years, eventually giving way to the client/server era. Organizations began to locate more employees in branch offices, giving rise to Internet computing. Now the industry finds itself in the midst of another transfo...

The private cloud can increase IT agility and efficiency, but in order to ensure a successful transition, you must have a well-planned strategy in place. This white paper offers tips on how to implement the private cloud in your enterprise on a virtualized infrastructure.  (more…)...

How can you deliver the improved performance that the business—and your boss—demand? The smart answer is to virtualize and do more with servers you already own! VMware® proven virtualization solutions are making a real difference in the way growing companies are solving their real-world IT challenges, including budget constraints, demanding users and tight deadlines. Attend this webcast to learn how VMware virtualization solutions...

When planning for cloud computing, you must take a look at your virtualized data center and examine whether or not it is ready for this environment. Your data center must be prepared for the increased demands the cloud introduces in order to maintain efficiency. This white paper discusses how to successfully transition your data center to the cloud by leveraging the following tactics: power management, unified networking, scale out storage, and mor...

Since its release in March, VMware vCenterâ„¢ Operations has been gaining significant market traction in managing dynamic virtual and cloud infrastructure. This webcast highlights VMware customer Brian Mack from MAXIMUS, a leading provider of health and human services programs to government organizations, and his experience in deploying vCenter Operations. Brian will discuss how he implemented vCenter Operations in his environment, the results he�...

This webcast is designed for those with little to no virtualization experience to understand why virtualization and VMware are so important to driving down both capital and operational costs. Hear about key concepts and technologies of virtualization, including the VMware vSphere® Hypervisor and VMware vSphere 5, the world’s most robust and complete virtualization platform. This session will also introduce the new vSphere Storage Appliance a...

Cloud security has become one of the biggest reasons many IT managers aren't willing to fully embrace the cloud, even with the large potential savings in infrastructure costs and improved flexibility. So with predictions pointing to an acceleration of enterprise cloud computing, how are IT professionals addressing the challenges, especially those around security. Download Cloud Security Insights for IT Strategic Planning, for benchmark data your orga...

Everyone wants to move their IT toward a more flexible, efficient future state. This has driven recent years’ data center modernization projects. Organizations are modularizing with blade servers, consolidating workloads onto virtualized environments, moving to scale-out storage, and adopting service-oriented management and delivery strategies—all part of forward-looking IT convergence and evolution.  Many now look to the idea of â�...

It’s a fact of life: cloud computing is shot. And when it comes to the use of cloud services, business today is actually outpacing IT. Business users have been quick to recognize the cloud’s advantages in speeding innovation, accelerating business process and reducing time to revenue. They’re clamoring for greater cloud access and in some cases even bypassing IT and singing up for public cloud services like those from Amazon and M...