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New Data Center 5 - The Virtual Spectrum
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Noah Broadwater The life and death of a virtual machine
Why ignoring a virtual machine’s life cycle could erase virtualization’s benefits		 Jim Mahoney Fluid desktops
Desktop virtualization promises easier management for IT and an optimal experience for users
Jeremy Gill   Not your father’s VLAN
What the network becomes in a virtualized enterprise		 Three caveats for desktop virtualization
Issues to sort out before moving to any type of desktop virtualization
Tony Bishop How to create a business-boosting virtualization plan
Adaptivity’s Tony Bishop shares best-practices advice		 — Jay Terrell, Fulton County (at right), with Keith Dickie Wanted: virtualization skills
IT pros with virtualization smarts are tough to find — and hard to keep
Featured tools and multimedia
10 must-have virtualization tools 10 must-have virtualization tools
IT pros name the tools making a strategic difference for them. Start slideshow		 13 desktop-virtualization tools 13 desktop-virtualization tools
A baker’s dozen from stalwarts and start-ups alike. Start slideshow
The voices of virtualization
Expert insight on how to deal with thorny problems and deliver on your strategic vision:
Neterion’s Ravi Chalaka How to solve the I/O performance problem, with Neterion’s Ravi Chalaka.
Listen now 		Surgient’s Dave Malcolm Separating hypervisor fact from fiction, with Surgient’s Dave Malcolm.
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Alan Murphy The Virtual Data Center Maturity Model, with F5 Networks’ Alan Murphy.
Listen now 		When mainframe virtualization makes sense, with Cirba’s Andrew Hillier.
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Peter Richards Is virtualization in your mobile phone’s future?, with VirtualLogix’s Peter Richards.
Listen now 		IT Buyer’s Guides Compare Application Acceleration and WAN Traffic Optimization products. Moving beyond server virtualization, with Citrix’s Peter Crosby.
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IT Buyer’s Guides Compare Application Acceleration and WAN Traffic Optimization products. Coming in September!
Results from our hypervisor performance and virtual machine management test. See last year's test results.		    
 
THE NEW DATA CENTER INDEX
Blazin’ apps: How to optimize for great end-to-end performance Blazin’ apps: How to optimize for great end-to-end performance Power: What you don’t know will cost you. Power: What you don’t know will cost you.
The next stop for storage: a travel guide to the latest developments The next stop for storage: a travel guide to the latest developments Where the service-oriented architecture meets the adaptive data center Where the service-oriented architecture meets the adaptive data center
Secure this! Secure this! How to prepare for irksome new security problems The latest storage must-haves, from e-discovery to virtualization Virtualization: exploring one of this decade's hottest technologies
READERS’ NDC FAVES
• Data-center power: the cost reality • Four virtualization security companies to watch
• Can you trust your data to Amazon, other cloud storage providers? • 8 technologies for better data storage • 10 ways to get blazin' apps
Virtualization/On-demand/Grid
• Virtual goo: how to manage virtualization
• Cisco's view of the virtual data center
• 10 virtualization companies to watch
 SOA apps & infrastructure
• SOA, meet SOI
• SOA made fast and easy
• 10 tools to management SOA
Advanced wireless & mobility
• 4 tips for building better wireless nets
• 5 ways to lock down mobile devices		 WAN optimization
• Pimp your apps
• 10 ways to get blazin' apps
• 4 cool network optimization start-ups
Power and cooling
• Store green, save money
• Danger in the new data center		 Case studies
• Cash-strapped but app happy
• Inside three enterprise SOAs
• Avis  tries harder with SOA
Next-generation security
• Virtualization security needed – now!
• New ways to prevent data leakage
• Open-source security tools for the enterprise		 Multimedia & tools
• Slideshow: 10 ways to get blazin' apps
• Chat: Apps need WAN speed
• Podcast: Application acceleration, virtually
Next-generation storage
• Store green, save money • How to get e-discovery ready
• How to tweak storage for great performance		 Click on a header for
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