Virtualization Quick Start - Resources for you to evaluate your virtualization options
Below is a range of free resources and tools that demonstrate how virtualizing with Sun solutions can transform your business bringing new levels of flexibility, manageability, and agility to your IT infrastructure.
Virtualization through Consolidation
Our library of learning resources is designed to help you understand Sun
Enterprise Consolidation - what it is, how it works, and exactly how it
can help optimize your business. In fact, Sun wrote the book on
Consolidation, and you can find it here in
addition to detailed solution brochures, technical white papers, product
datasheets, and other useful tools.
White Papers
IDC Virtualization (PDF)
Learn how virtualization can be used as a tool for consolidation as well as a means to reduce space and power requirements, and more recently, a way to bring business continuity to more of the organization's IT infrastructure.
Enterprise Consolidation On Sun Midrange Platforms (PDF)
Describes ways to consolidate messaging systems in customers' businesses, focusing on EOL of Microsoft Exchange 5.5 and alternatives including the Sun Java Enterprise System.
Workload Consolidation on Sun Fire UltraSPARC Servers Using Solaris Containers (PDF)
Demonstrates how Solaris Containers, deployed onto a midrange Sun Fire server platform, enable an organization to effectively consolidate applications onto a single system while maintaining predictable service levels and security isolation.
Analyst Reports
Virtualization Across the Enterprise (PDF)
Virtualization is shaping up to be one of the major trends that affect the Enterprise. The technology has already found a broad set of usages, ranging from improved hardware utilization, to Eco Innovation, to high availability and disaster recovery. IDC highlights Virtualization and consolidation's impacts on Eco Innovation.
System Virtualization: Sun Microsystems Enables Choice, Flexibility, and Management (PDF)
IDC White Paper discussing Sun's customer-centric approach to virtualization, with emphasis on how Sun is innovating, developing,
partnering, and making technology available, so that virtualization can evolve rapidly and deliver more value to organizations.
Forrester Research: Enterprise Consolidation TEI Study: Communications Group (PDF)
A Study focusing on the benefits experienced by an integrated communication provider offering broad band services. This study shows how, through Sun's Enterprise Consolidation methodology and products, communication companies can position themselves for significant growth to handle surges in demand for their services, regain control over the billing process, and gain significant performance improvements with the benefits of dynamic resource allocation.
