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Case Study: West Berkshire Council finds new strength with IBM System x
New Strength With IBM System X.pdf – December 2008
“We wanted a system that we could consolidate multiple workloads on with confidence, so the IBM x3950 8-way servers were a natural choice for us. We got the uptime, resilience and growth potential that we were looking for.” – Simon Lawrence, senior corporate analyst, West Berkshire Council
Case Study: Östgöta Brandstodsbolag consolidates its infrastructure with virtualization on IBM BladeCenter
Consolidate Infrastructure With Virtualization.pdf – February 2008
“Moving to virtualized Microsoft Windows servers on IBM BladeCenter significantly simplified and optimized our infrastructure.” – Sven-Olof Lundström, IT Manager, Östgöta Brandstodsbolag
IBM X-Architecture Blueprint: An Overview
ibm_x-architecture_blueprint.pdf – September 2008
This white paper describes how the X-Architecture blueprint takes a comprehensive approach – innovative hardware, software and services – to solve customer challenges, and it embraces an evolving design approach to address challenges in System x, BladeCenter, and iDataPlex servers.
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How has virtualization changed the experience for the users you support?
Deane Barker of Gadgetopia Says: On one hand, not at all. On the other hand, it's made it better. What I mean is that users that we move from a physical to a virtual machine often don't even know they've been moved. We notify them, of course, but when the new instance comes up, nothing has changed in their environments. So, net-net, as far as the user is concerned, no change. We've gotten to the point where we can swap new...READ MORE
Migrating the Data Center to a Virtual Machine Infrastructure
The motivations are strong and compelling when making the choice to move towards virtualization as the solution for your data center.
Some of the factors include:
Lower energy costs
Greatly reduced data center physical footprint.
More efficient use of hardware resources
High availability
Business continuity / easier disaster recovery
Lower admin to server ratio
Before the migration is to move forward [...]
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Evolving Virtualization
The first generation of virtualization has really focused on decreasing the hardware footprint required by IT staff.  However, the lasting value from virtualization will not be savings from hardware, but the savings from manageability and other higher level features.  Virtualization is already pretty good for a single user – both VMware and Hyper-V are very easy to use for an [...]
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Policy-Driven Workload Automation: Say Hello to Virtualization 3.0
I recently had the opportunity to participate in a live Webcast focusing on The ROI of Virtualization, along with representatives from Intel and IBM. We had a lively discussion on the subject. The webcast is still available as an archive, if you’d like to check it out.
As usual, my favorite part of the event was [...]
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Economic Value of Virtualization
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