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The Virtual Spectrum

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Aug 18, 20083 mins

Featured Articles

The life and death of a virtual machine

Why ignoring a virtual machine’s life cycle could erase virtualization’s benefits

Fluid desktops

Desktop virtualization promises easier management for IT and an optimal experience for users
 

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

How to create a business-boosting virtualization plan

Adaptivity’s Tony Bishop shares best-practices advice

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

IT pros name the tools making a strategic difference for them. Start slideshow

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:

How to solve the I/O performance problem, with Neterion’s Ravi Chalaka.

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Separating hypervisor fact from fiction, with Surgient’s Dave Malcolm.

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The Virtual Data Center Maturity Model, with F5 Networks’ Alan Murphy.

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When mainframe virtualization makes sense, with Cirba’s Andrew Hillier.

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Is virtualization in your mobile phone’s future?, with VirtualLogix’s Peter Richards.

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Moving beyond server virtualization, with Citrix’s Peter Crosby.

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Coming in September!

Results from our hypervisor performance and virtual machine management test. See last year’s test results.
  
 
Blazin’ apps: How to optimize for great end-to-end performance Power: What you don’t know will cost you.
The next stop for storage: a travel guide to the latest developments Where the service-oriented architecture meets the adaptive data center
Secure this! How to prepare for irksome new security problems Virtualization: exploring one of this decade’s hottest technologies

• 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

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