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Getting up to Speed on VLANs
IT managers are always looking for ways to do their jobs more efficiently, while still providing the quality of service that their clients expect. Virtual LAN technology (VLAN) can help them on both fronts, by easing administrative chores and improving enterprise network performance.
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Virtual Machines: You Have to See Them to Manage Them
Virtualization has tremendous advantages over physical environments, but in the move to virtual, the organization often lost some things it took for granted. One of those things is clarity of what is going on, where, and with whom.
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NAS Virtualization
Selecting The Product That Fits Your Needs
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IBM Storage Virtualization-Value to you
The IBM TotalStorage® SAN Volume Controller (SVC) is designed to deliver significant value to organizations facing the challenges of today's explosive growth in information. This paper summarizes how SVC can help you address challenges in your storage environment. This paper also illustrates how SVC can deliver value, and provides examples of real client experiences.
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Storage Virtualization What is it and where it belongs?
In the context of storage, virtualization is an abstraction that enables the management of physical disk resources to be separated from the management of the logical storage that is used by applications. While Virtualization can bring many cost and productivity advantages to heterogeneous environments; the key benefit is the ability to centralize the administration of a highly flexible, easy to manage, and highly available storage system for server networks.
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Using Virtualization and Digital Control Technologies to Increase Data Center Operating Efficiency
Data center professionals continue to be squeezed on several fronts as they seek to optimize operational readiness, availability, and risk management for operations on a local, regional or global basis. These include battling legacy hardware/infrastructure transitions, increasing power and heat densities, escalating service-level availability agreements, risk management and expense control.
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Performance Management in the Virtualization Age
Even though the bubble and its collapse are now history, there is still no question that the information technology and networking markets love slogans or buzzwords, and "virtualization" is clearly one of the hottest. It's also clear that the focus on the slogan and expected value of virtualization may be distracting users from the implications, particularly the implications of virtualization on network and application monitoring, management, and assurance.
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