Virtualization Whitepaper List

An Ivy League University searched for a highly reliable, available, and scalable storage solution to help manage data intensive research projects, such as DNA sequencing. The flexibility and reliability of Red Hat Storage Software Appliance has enabled the Institute to achieve the growth needed to continue its research programs.

Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization 3.0 offers a superior balance of enterprise virtualization management features, performance, and scalability for Linux and Windows workloads, at a fraction of the cost.

Oracle Exalogic is an engineered hardware and software solution that provides highly integrated and optimized middleware application components. By incorporating scalability, performance, partitioning and ease-of-management to enable consolidation, it is the world’s best foundation for cloud

The Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization:  Competitive Pricing Guide compares the pricing of Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization (RHEV) with the pricing of VMware vSphere5 for server virtualization.

With sVirt, security threats to the hypervisor and other VMs are protected.  sVirt is the industry’s most comprehensive security solution for virtualization, built from the ground up on the Linux kernel, leveraging the strength of SELinux.

Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization represents a true strategic virtualization alternative to organizations looking for better total cost of ownership, faster return on investment, accelerated breakeven, and avoidance of vendor lock-in when compared to proprietary virtualization vendors.

Acronis Backup & Recovery 11 Virtual Edition provides IT administrators with outstanding Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization (RHEV) certified migration, disaster recovery, and data protection tools.

A Leading Healthcare Institute relies on Acronis for smooth migration to Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization Environment

Cloud Computing for Govies™ explains the basics of cloud enabling technologies in relation to the specialized needs of public sector IT environments.  It will help you determine the best cloud fit for your agency or organization while touching on some of the pros, cons, and cautions that you should bear in mind as you seek to deploy cloud computing in your government agency or organization.

See how DreamWorks moved from proprietary software to open source to achieve greater cost savings, stability and performance.

Download this complimentary whitepaper and read how BMC Software delivers on the value of the cloud.

See how the Duke Cancer Institute moved from VMWare to Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization to achieve a more cost effective, dependable and secure virtualization solution.

Understand available functionality of current server virtualization software for consolidation, management and utility infrastructure, as well as differentiating factors among vendors.

By building a shared storage infrastructure, organizations can achieve a much higher level of utilization, for lower operational costs. Learn the best practices in this report from i360Gov.com.

Read how Salsa Labs chose a unified storage and virtualization solution that optimized their IT infrastructure, was scalable and flexible to meet their changing needs, and cost effective.

Understand the challenges that have prevented organizations from fully utilizing their virtualization technology and how combining the right human and technical resources can help organizations accelerate the value and penetration of virtualized IT.

Data center consolidation is complex and risky, and cost reductions are not guaranteed. Download this e-guide to learn more about the best practices for consolidation while keeping disaster recovery in mind.

Gunnar Hellekson, Chief Technology Strategist for Red Hat Public Sector, answers common questions on virtualization posed by Federal agencies, such as how to reduce costs and ensure the solution they implement is easy to manage and control.

The promise of substantial cost savings and greater efficiencies are driving ever-increasing numbers of public sector organizations to investigate cloud computing. There are a number of steps agencies should take to move toward cloud-based services. Learn the best practices for how to move to cloud-based solutions in this special report from i360Gov.com.

This paper will discuss how to use Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization and Red Hat Network Satellite to provide the best experience for Red Hat Enterprise Linux.

Register for your complimentary download of our special edition “‘Storage Efficiency’ for Dummies” eBook.

This whitepaper focuses on some key parts of the foundation that underpin cloud computing, how they affect the cloud environment and why they matter.

NetApp whitepaper on the two aspects of storage savings: storage utilization and storage efficiency.  

Customer demand for large Linux systems is driven by the migration from existing systems running on proprietary RISC architectures. This is driving the demand for high-performance and production-ready Linux infrastructures.

The growing demand for IT resources is at virtually all agencies, and scalability is an important focal point if you want to invest in good quality. Further, the large numbers of these systems create challenges for networking, storage, and management.

Learn about best practices for your virtualization strategy with this Symantec whitepaper.

Many IT infrastructures already have the need for a solid virtualization platform that plugs in to an existing environment. With KVM and Enterprise Linux, a simple environment with specified agency criteria can be set up and tested within a short time frame.

Download this comprehensive “Best Practices” technical guide today to understand how a solid virtual infrastructure based on KVM and NetApp serves as a secure and manageable foundation for your infrastructure.

This whitepaper will show you how to plan for the long term and lower your IT costs now with vWorkspace and desktop virtualization

More and more agencies are beginning to discover that, though virtualization is not an easy task, when complete are able to accomplish more while using less computing hardware and financial resources. Given that today most CTO’s and IT managers are asked to complete tasks with less people and money, virtualization is the most efficient approach.

Choosing to virtualize is a big step in the right direction to maximizing your server utilization, but, we know that it won’t be any easy task. It will require time, dedication, and an understanding of your company’s needs as well as the resources available to accomplish your goals through server virtualization.

To better understand the most effective practices for a smooth transition, register below to receive a copy of the ‘Server Virtualization Best Practices’ whitepaper.

Open source Platform-As-A-Service (PaaS) offers ease of deploying new and existing applications to the cloud while minimizing risk and maximizing productivity through:

• Portable tools and languages
• Platform-independent architectures
• Loosely-coupled applications, standard interfaces, and service-oriented architectures

Read this informative whitepaper to understand how to simplify the process of developing, deploying and managing applications in both public and private clouds.

Illustrating how RHEV delivers cost-effective and highly manageable solution without compromising performance, scalability, or security.

With an aggressive timeline, the office needed to overhaul its outdated IT structure to support critical applications, growth, and DR goals. Find out how they achieved fast backup and recovery and while supporting the agency’s server virtualization and consolidation project with a NetApp FAS series solution.

The unique NetApp solution offers customers new levels of performance and scalability and a robust portfolio of proven data management software for sharing, consolidating, protecting, and recovering mission-critical data. V-Series systems seamlessly integrate into mission-critical SAN environments and provide a simple, elegant data management solution for decreasing management complexity, improving asset utilization, and streamlining operations to increase business agility and reduce total cost of ownership.

“Green IT” is a popular concept today, as data centers worldwide face rising costs for power, cooling, and space and agencies strive to meet demand for improved environmental stewardship. Many IT organizations, however, are just starting to understand the influence that their IT purchase decisions have on data center power, cooling, and space consumption. This paper explores that link, with a particular emphasis on the impact of storage solutions.

Learn how your agency can significantly increase server and storage utilization on Oracle Grids for improved efficiency and reduced operating costs

A Smart Grid delivers electricity from suppliers to consumers using two-way digital technology

Development and support of storage virtualization technologies for the open source community are now part of the standard RHEL distributions.

RHEV for Servers offers comprehensive management functionality, lowest cost of ownership, Windows® guest support and full compatibility with RHEL.

RHEV for Desktops:  Increased manageability, business agility and continuity, and improved data security with security and scalability

Explores how virtualization technology has broken through the production barrier to resolve past enterprise deployment obstacles.

Information about RHEV for Servers, comparing features and benefits across multiple virtualization platforms.

Overview of Enterprise Virtualization challenges and how RHEV for Desktop solutions creates a more holistic platform for managers and end users.

vWorkspace, a virtual desktop management suite, can help reduce costs and security concerns, and increase control of your desktop environment.

With vWorkspace, administrators can manage and provision desktop infrastructure from a central data center, which reduces travel and support costs.

This whitepaper quantifies the hardware, power consumption, desktop downtime and other savings within a VDI project.

As a company that consistently uses technology as one of its core competencies, DreamWorks Animation demonstrates the successful adoption of Red Hat products.