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SOA Can Make Your Network Sing

Scalable systems at the heart of Service Oriented Architecture help keep apps and services across your network in tune.

SharePoint: Everything Plus the Kitchen Sink

Everything you've ever wanted to know about SharePoint including business value, workflow, quick wins, solutions and more. We've even thrown in a kitchen sink or two.

Learn Trends and Develop Strategy
 
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Storyboard: Benefits and Costs of Desktop Virtualization

Desktop virtualization redefines how desktop computer services are delivered in the enterprise by offering the best of both worlds: centralization plus full desktops for more types of users.

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The Real Business Value of Desktop Virtualization

The centralization and management of desktop application delivery is an important value of desktop virtualization. But the ultimate value of desktop virtualization is its transformative potential for how desktops are managed - moving from desktop asset management to providing desktops as a service.

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Benefits and Costs of Desktop Virtualization

Situation: Desktop virtualization will take off in 2010 with 40% of organizations already piloting planning,

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Communications Plan Template for Desktop Virtualization

End-user acceptance is one of the biggest challenges to desktop virtualization adoption. IT should have a plan in place to guide communications efforts during the transition. By maintaining a consistent message and a consistent front, IT can ensure a smoother VDI implementation.

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VMware View 4 Boosts User Experience with PCoIP

Desktop virtualization has transformative potential for how desktops are managed - moving from desktop asset management to providing desktops as a service. End user experience is a critical limitation of remote access virtual desktops. In View 4, VMware is addressing user experience with a new remote access protocol called PC over IP (PCoIP).

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Vendor Landscape: Competitors Catch Up to VMware

Aggressive competitors have caught up to VMware in x86/x64 server virtualization. Citrix has emerged as a legitimate alternative to VMware for data center to desktop virtualization and the year closed with Microsoft releasing an improved Hyper-V. Meanwhile, industry consolidation has shortened the list of vendors in the landscape.

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Select the Right Vendor for Desktop Virtualization

VMWare is the dominant player in server virtualization but Citrix has a long history in end user services.

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Storyboard: Select the Right Vendor for Desktop Virtualization

Citrix and VMware are the current market leaders in desktop virtualization. This is an emerging market, and the leaders have been aggressive to the benefit of both features and pricing.

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Provision the Facilities and Technologies to Provide DR Capabilities

This solution set will guide you through the build/buy/rent decisions that need to be made to ensure a cost effective and efficient DR capability.

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Select the Right Vendor for Server Virtualization

For serious server virtualization - beyond proof of concept testing - VMware is the obvious choice as it dominates the market. Many organizations do not explore alternatives.

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IT Leadership: Seize the First One Hundred Days

New IT leaders are often met with political and skills-based challenges for which they aren't prepared.

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Avoid Server Virtualization Implementation Pain

Situation. Implementers generally report success in their virtualization projects.

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Leverage Server Virtualization for DR Affordability and Agility

Situation. For many organizations, particularly midsized enterprises, improved infrastructure availability and recovery is as big a driver for server virtualization as consolidation.

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Steps to VDI Implementation

Implementers largely report success in desktop virtualization projects. There are potential pitfalls if the project is not managed right.

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Storyboard: Steps to VDI Implementation

Desktop virtualization can transform the way that desktop computing services are delivered to end users. Change can be challenging on both IT and the users. Early adopters have reported largely successful initial implementations.