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Securing Virtualized Environments with McAfee IntruShield

By John Vecchi — Fri, 09 Jul 2010 22:23:53 +0000

Virtualization technology can offer significant advantages in enterprise data centers, but can also carry its own specific security risks. McAfee® IntruShield® network security and intrusion prevention system appliances are designed to provide comprehensive defenses against a wide array of external and internal threats in virtualized environments.

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Advancing Medical Treatment Efficiency

Dell Power Solutions — Fri, 09 Jul 2010 22:23:53 +0000

By deploying an IT environment built on Dell™ PowerEdge™ servers and VMware® virtualization software, Taiwan Adventist Hospital created a highly available IT environment that enables medical staff to focus on patients.

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Facilitating Microsoft Windows Vista Migration Through Application Virtualization

By Coby Gurr — Fri, 09 Jul 2010 22:23:52 +0000

Many enterprises are considering migrating to the Microsoft® Windows Vista® OS, but have postponed doing so because of concerns about application compatibility. By enabling the creation of self-contained virtualized applications, LANDesk® Application Virtualization can help minimize risk, save time, increase user satisfaction, and reduce costs for support and regression testing during this type of migration.

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Real-World Education

Dell Power Solutions — Fri, 09 Jul 2010 22:23:52 +0000

By consolidating 90 percent of its physical servers onto Dell™ PowerEdge™ blade servers using the VMware® virtualization platform, the Ryerson University IT group is poised to react quickly to university needs.

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Meeting Economic Challenges Through Accelerated Virtualization

By Steve Burrows and Ron Oglesby — Thu, 18 Jun 2009 11:00:00 +0000

The economic downturn has left CIOs under major pressure to limit IT spending. Many enterprises have already reduced expenditure and are focusing on cost optimization and increasing output from existing resources, and the challenge for CIOs is to cut IT operating expenses while maximizing productivity to support continued expansion.Identifying and addressing hidden IT costs—without cutting deeply into investment capacity—can help organizations adjust to lean times and position themselves for ongoing success. There are a number of hidden costs with servers, including those related to power and cooling for underutilized servers, building and infrastructure for data center facilities, and systems management. By helping to optimize utilization of existing physical resources and reduce the number of physical servers that must be powered, cooled, and managed, virtualization offers a key way to reduce server total cost of ownership (TCO) and increase IT agility. Many enterprises have proceeded cautiously with virtualization to help ensure that they understand the impact it could have on their operations as well as the advantages it can provide. Consequently, even those organizations that have implemented virtualization often are not realizing its full benefits.Evaluated and refined across thousands of real-world deployments, Dell™ virtualization solutions and services offer a comprehensive approach designed to reduce TCO and maximize return on investment (ROI). Although the natural reaction to difficult economic times is to slow down projects or stop all spending, waiting on a virtualization deployment means spending more in the long run simply to maintain and manage an inefficient existing infrastructure. Investing in a streamlined, aggressively accelerated virtualization initiative and overcoming roadblocks to deployment can help increase flexibility, simplify management, and quickly meet reduced budget goals for IT expenditure.

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