Free eGuide: "7 Practical Tips for Getting Started in Data Visualization"

Learn how Midmarket companies can take advantage of Big Data.

More and more midsize businesses are taking a serious look at data visualization.

Visualizing your data is crucial in making sense out of the huge amounts of it that can now be tapped. But with limited budgets, limited IT resources and (for the most part) no highly trained data analysts on staff, many midsize companies aren't sure where to begin. This paper offers some practical tips on how to get started and what to do in order to succeed. It also covers some specific business functions where visualizing and analyzing data can deliver results.

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Free eBook: How to setup VMware vSphere Lab in VMware Workstation?

"How to setup VMware vSphere Lab in VMware Workstation?"

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This Free E-book describes the setup of Portable Lab to run nested ESXi 5.1 servers with nested VMs, shared storage, virtual networking etc... This is no mean to be a perfect, without errors, guide. But it’s a guide which is available for Free, as is. And it is a detailed, step-by-step guide. There aren’t many around. I’ll try to update this e-book as the products will evolve.

Almost everyone has one powerful machine, PC, at home to work with, but not everyone can afford to buy 2 whiteboxes or small servers PLUS a NAS box which does shared hosting. And then you still need 4th box to access all this.

You can see an XP virtual machine being protected by Fault Tolerance. This VM is running “inside” of a virtualized (nested) ESXi 5.1 host. You’ll be able to test vMotion and High Availability as well. Those are the enterprise class features of VMware vSphere.

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Free eGuide: VMware Horizon 6 Overview

"VMware Horizon 6 Overview"

With Horizon 6, VMware looks to be delivering on the promise that End-User Computing (EUC) is one of its three strategic areas of focus. Discover how Horizon 6 gives users a more complete and extensive way to modify and manage their virtual desktop infrastructures while still lowering the total cost of ownership.

VMware Horizon 6 was announced in April and began shipping in June 2014, bringing a more unified suite delivering more integration with infrastructure and cloud products and more simplicity for all devices. Along with the numerous updates across the Horizon suite, VMware has transitioned to a more traditional product licensing hierarchy. This paper explores the new licensing model and provides an overview of the new features associated with VMware Horizon 6.

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Free eGuide: Harness the Full Potential of Virtualization

"Harness the Full Potential of Virtualization"

You know virtualization drives big business value--but how can you simplify this complex process?
HP can set you on a fast path to virtualization, with breakthrough total cost of ownership, on a cloud-compatible platform. Read this brief to learn more.

Sponsored by: HP ConvergedSystem 300 and 700 for Virtualization powered by Intel® Xeon® processors

Intel, the Intel logo, Xeon, and Xeon Inside are trademarks or registered trademarks of Intel Corporation in the U.S. and/or other countries.

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Free eGuide: Taking the Leap to Virtualization

"Taking the Leap to Virtualization"

Find out the best way to implement a virtualization solution to allow you to do more with less and free up IT staff to focus on strategic projects that help your company grow.
Read this white paper to learn how virtualization offers dramatic benefits for midsize companies, including efficiency, cost savings, and increased reliability and performance.

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Free eGuide: Maximizing Your Infrastructure through Virtualization

"Maximizing Your Infrastructure through Virtualization"

Learn virtualization best practices for reducing costs.

Virtualization continues to be one of the most effective ways to consolidate, reduce costs, and make data centers more efficient. Learn how to get the most out of your virtualization efforts. HP BladeSystem fits the needs of today's demanding virtualized workloads to maximize benefits.

Sponsored by: HP and Intel®Xeon® processor.

Intel, the Intel logo, Xeon, and Xeon Inside are trademarks or registered trademarks of Intel Corporation in the U.S. and/or other countries.

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Free eGuide: Achieving Best Practices for Virtual Machine Backup and Recovery

"Achieving Best Practices for Virtual Machine Backup and Recovery"

Find out how Symantec Backup Exec 2014 measures up against best practices in virtual data protection.

This Lab Validation report from ESG provides you with best practices to create an environment that offers you simple unified data protection across physical and virtual landscapes, maximum protection and data availability, and reduced storage needs and operational costs.

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Free eGuide: Virtual Desktop Acquisition Cost Analysis

"Virtual Desktop Acquisition Cost Analysis"

This paper addresses many common business challenges facing IT organizations, such as enabling mobile workstyles without compromising security, streamlining desktop management efforts as the number of employees in remote offices and offshore locations increases and making the user experience personal through self-service access to applications and desktops.
App and desktop virtualization is much more than a technology solution. It is transforming the way organizations of all sizes are enabling their workforces while simplifying the desktop management process for IT administrators. With app and desktop virtualization, IT organizations can provide every user with a workspace environment completely unrestricted by physical location.

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Free eBook: Microsoft Virtualization Secrets- Excerpt

Microsoft Virtualization Secrets--Free Sample Chapter"

Unbeatable advice and expert tips for evaluating, designing, and deploying virtualization solutions

If you're an IT professional, you know that virtualization is essential in today's computer infrastructures. This valuable reference is your key to all things Microsoft virtualization. Written by a Microsoft Most Valuable Professional (MVP), it breaks down all the various technologies, what they mean to your organization in terms of saving money and solving problems, and how to design and deploy various solutions effectively.

You'll find invaluable tips and information on such topics as Hyper-V, the changes that Windows 8 brings, private cloud scenarios, and more.

•     Written by well-known 11-time Microsoft MVP, Windows expert, and Microsoft insider, John Savill
•     Provides practical advice and expert insights on understanding, evaluating, designing, and deploying virtualization solutions
•     Keeps you up to date with how Windows 8 and Windows Server “8” affect your virtualization processes
•     Covers virtualization in all its forms--machine, application, and user
•     Explores the private cloud and public cloud and what they mean to your organization
•     Focuses on Microsoft solutions such as Hyper-V, but also delves into Citrix, Quest software, AppSense, and other Microsoft partner solutions
•     Discusses bringing your own device requirements through VDI and session virtualization and which one is right
•     Features video demonstrations and walkthroughs of some processes

Microsoft Virtualization Secrets is like having a built-in Microsoft expert on hand to help you avoid mistakes and save time!

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Free eBook: Virtualization Essentials - Sample Chapter

"Virtualization Essentials--Free Sample Chapter"

A full-color beginner's guide to the core concepts and skills of virtualization.

Virtualization is the IT world's hottest trend in recent years, and many colleges do not yet have curricula in place to prepare students for this important area. This guide fills the need, with a learn-by-doing approach to mastering the core elements of virtualization. Each chapter clearly outlines what is covered, thoroughly discusses the concepts, and engages readers with hands-on tutorials. The book covers how virtualization software operates; hypervisor products; how to manage CPU, memory, storage, and networking; and much more.

Fills the gap left by the many colleges and universities that are unprepared to educate IT students on virtualization, a megatrend in the IT world

Covers the fundamental concepts and skills, including how virtualization software operates within a computing environment

Explains the difference between Type 1 and Type 2 hypervisors and tells how to create a virtual machine from scratch or by migrating from physical to virtual

Tells how to manage the basics and how to configure supporting devices for a virtual machine

Virtualization Essentials gets IT students and practitioners up to speed on one of the most important aspects of today's IT environment.

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Free eGuide: Seven Virtualization DR Myths

"Seven Virtualization DR Myths"

As IT departments across the world move more virtualization and virtual technologies into their datacenters, they face new challenges and often confusion about best practices, particularly around server and data protection for business continuity.

New disaster recovery and high availability technologies have emerged based on server virtualization, and many assert themselves as the best way to protect virtual machines and data. Myths about virtual server and data protection have risen from these virtual technologies, and it is time to debunk at least seven of them.

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