Infrastructure and Virtualization and Architecture White Papers

7 white papers are tagged with: infrastructure, virtualization, architecture


NetApp Unified Connect: Taking Convergence to the Next Level

This white paper describes the advantages of extending unified architecture to the network infrastructure.

Architectural Strategies for IT Optimization: From Silos to Clouds

This white papers on enterprise architecture describe a series of practical strategies designed to provide a sustainable, value-driven IT infrastructure.

In business and IT, there is no steady state where one grand plan can optimize all aspects of an enterprise's architecture. Amidst ...

The Evolution of the Data Center and the Role of Virtualized Infrastructure and Unified 3D Management

This IDC White Paper examines the complementary technologies from Hitachi and explains how they speed the benefits of virtualization and dramatically improve the management of the infrastructure while modernizing the storage architecture.

The Technology Foundations of VMware vShield

VMware® vShield is a suite of security virtual appliances built for VMware vSphere™ 4.1 ("vSphere"). It is a critical security component for protecting virtualized datacenters from attacks and misuse. vShield App and vShield Edge are the two products in the suite that address network security. The ...

VMware ESXi 4.1 Operations Guide

This white paper describes the architecture of VMware ESXi and then explains how various management tasks are performed in it. This information can be used to help plan a migration to the VMware ESXi architecture from the legacy VMware ESX framework and to improve or enhance day-to-day operations.

HP Reference Architecture for VMware View 4

HP's Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI) with VMware ViewTM 4 is designed to reduce the cost and risk of a traditional distributed desktop PC environment by hosting applications and desktop operating systems on servers and storage in the data center. It delivers a familiar and reliable user ...

A Performance Comparison of Hypervisors

This white paper provides a quantitative and qualitative comparison of two virtualization hypervisors available for the x86 architecture - VMware ESX Server 3.0.1 and open-source Xen 3.0.3 - to validate their readiness for enterprise datacenters.