Third-Party Virtualization Resources

last updated on 2009-03-27

Here are some third-party virtualization resources*:

• NetworkWorld.com's virtualization center and virtualization articles:

  • New 7 tips for succeeding with virtualization, in which experts share best practices for optimizing strategic virtualization initiatives
  • New Seven things that will sink virtualization, in which experts reveal potential pitfalls
  • New How to create a business-boosting virtualization plan, which explains how to shift from the tactical to the strategic

• CIO.com articles:

  • New Virtualization Tops Gartner's 10 Strategic Technologies for 2009, which explains that Gartner Inc. has ranked virtualization as the No. 1 strategic technology for 2009, not for its "tremendously obvious" ability to virtualize servers, but for its increasing capability to virtualize just about everything else in a data center

  • Virtualization in the Enterprise Survey: Your Virtualized State in 2008, which reports on the results of a survey of nearly 300 CIOs who shared their experiences to date with virtualization

  • IT Drilldown: Virtualization section, which provides virtualization news, such as Sun's Virtualization Strategy Evolves, which describes Sun's broad virtualization strategy and the fact that Sun is offering server virtualization capabilities across all its hardware platforms

• virtualization.info, a news digest that provides information about virtualization technologies, products, and market trends

• New Virtual Strategy Magazine articles, such as Maximum Virtualization: Addressing the Confidence Obstacle

• VMblog.com, which provides virtualization technology news and information:

  • New Prediction 2009: The Future of Virtualization, which discusses predicted trends for virtualization
  • Using Virtualization to Reduce Your RTOs, which provides SunGard's top ten technical tips for using virtualization to meet your recovery time objectives
  • 5 Virtues of Virtualization, which describes five significant advantages of virtualization that can help enterprises enhance their overall performance