Virtualize Business-Critical Applications with Confidence

Virtualize Business-Critical Applications with Confidence
Virtualizing business-critical applications has become a key focus for organizations as they move along their virtualization journey. With the launch of VMware vSphere 5, VMware is helping customers accelerate the deployment of business-critical applications, including Exchange, SQL, SAP and Oracle.

Customer Spotlight: How IPC The Hospitalist Company Implemented Oracle on Vmware
Have you been looking to hear about customer's experiences with the new VMware vCenter Site Recovery Manager product? View this webcast to learn about VMware customer, Navicure, and their experiences testing and evaluating the recovery manager, their progress in implementing it in their environment and their advice other customers considering using vCenter.

Best Practices for Virtualizing Oracle Databases and Applications
Virtualization can improve IT efficiency, flexibility and availability, transforming service delivery while reducing costs. The inclusion of business-critical applications (BCA) such as Oracle Database and applications can deliver the most significant value to your business. However, many companies are cautious about including Oracle software in their virtualization roadmap because they lack specific in-house expertise to virtualize the infrastructure for Oracle or because of the perception of risk associated with these projects.

Best Practices for Virtualizing Microsoft Exchange
Virtualization can improve IT efficiency, flexibility and availability, transforming service delivery while reducing costs. The inclusion of business-critical applications (BCA) such as Microsoft Exchange can deliver the most significant value to your business. However, many companies are cautious about including Microsoft Exchange in their virtualization roadmap because they lack specific in-house expertise to virtualize the infrastructure for Microsoft Exchange or because of the perception of risk associated with these projects.

Forrester - Virtualization Expands As An Option For Mission Critical Applications
Virtualization has matured from its beginnings.

IDC Analyst Whitepaper - Transforming Tier 1 Applications Through Virtualization
This Technology Spotlight explores the benefits of virtualizing tier 1 applications and discusses the

Top 10 Myths About Virtualizing Business-Critical Applications
Even though virtualization has brought positive change to enterprise IT over the last decade, some skepticism remains about how valuable virtualization can be in the way companies deliver and run business applications. Uncover the truth about how you can run your business critical applications with confi dence without sacrifi cing

Aberdeen Group Whitepaper - The Case for Virtualizing Your Oracle Database Deployment
This report will focus on the virtualization of Oracle databases. Oracle has been virtualized at a much lower rate than other applications, in fact the lowest rate of any application Aberdeen has studied. We will examine the reasons for this difference and provide metrics on the financial and operational benefits others have gained from virtualization. The advantages described in this report are specific to companies that depolyed Oracle on a virtualized server.

Virtualization Expands As An Option For Mission-Critical Applications
Virtualization has matured from its beginnings. Increasing complexity and pressure from improved resource utilization has pressured IT organizations to improve the operations cost of mission-critical applications. Virtualization is one of the important options available to infrastructure and operating (I&O) groups to improve both the capital and operating costs of these applications, including database, ERP, BI and analytics, and others. This Technology Adoption Profile (TAP)outlines users' adoption of virtualization and their current and intended use of virtualization for increasingly critical applications.

Top 10 Myths About Virtualizing Business-Critical Applications
Even though virtualization has brought positive change to enterprise IT over the last decade, some skepticism remains about how valuable virtualization can be in the way companies deliver and run business applications. Uncover the truth about how you can run your business critical applications with confidence without sacrificing availability or service quality-and at lower costs.

Hidden Truth About Virtualizing Business-Critical Applications: Benefits Realized, with Results to Prove It
This IDG whitepaper highlights key findings based on the Quickpoll Survey conducted with more than 300 Enterprise and Commercial IT decision makers worldwide about the state of their virtualization of business critical applications. This paper answers such questions as: What drivers are pushing companies to extend virtualization beyond servers? and What value are they realizing? Central to the paper are key results that expose risks of the past (fears of limited ISV support, performance impact) no longer are a factor for companies moving to 80+% virtualized.

Total Economic Impact Of VMware vSphere: Virtualizing Mission-Critical Oracle Databases
In this paper, Forrester Consulting examines the total economic impact and potential return on investment (ROI) realized by three Enterprise organizations as they virtualized mission-critical Oracle databases on the VMware vSphere platform. The purpose of this study is to provide readers with a framework to evaluate the potential financial impact of VMware vSphere on their organizations.

Indiana University Virtualizes Mission-Critical Oracle Databases
The Kelley School of Business at Indiana University is a premier business school ranked in the top 25 nationally according to U.S. News and World Report. The Kelley School of Business at Indiana University wanted to decrease server deployment time for faculty special projects; reduce amount of physical hardware; reduce the power consumption across all infrastructure. The Kelley School of Business at Indiana University deployed VMware Infrastructure which decreases costs, streamlines server deployment, and reduces energy consumption.

The Hidden Truth About Virtualizing Business-Critical Applications
This IDG whitepaper highlights key findings based on the Quickpoll Survey conducted with more than 300 Enterprise and Commercial IT decision makers worldwide about the state of their virtualization of business critical applications. This paper answers such questions as: What drivers are pushing companies to extend virtualization beyond servers? and What value are they realizing? Central to the paper are key results that expose risks of the past (fears of limited ISV support, performance impact) no longer are a factor for companies moving to 80+% virtualized.

Virtualizing Tier 1 Applications: A Critical Step on the Journey Toward the Private Cloud
This IDC white paper explains how much of the Enterprise IT community is at a crossroads in extending their journey to the private cloud: Companies must virtualize their business critical applications in order to reap the benefits of cloud computing. The paper also includes two case studies and a sidebar highlighting the experiences of three enterprises with virtualizing their business-critical applications, which include Oracle and Microsoft SQL databases, SAP and enterprise Java, and a Microsoft Exchange email system.