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Top desktop virtualization and DaaS strategies for the enterprise

August 2012, Vol. 40

Issue Highlights

- Desktop virtualization comparison: VDI vs. Remote Desktop Services
- Five Desktop as a Service challenges holding up enterprise adoption
- Migrating to desktop as a service
- Converging at VMworld

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- Managing virtualization patches
  June 2012, Vol. 39 Includes:
  - Patch management best practices for virtual hosts
  - Virtualization and hypervisor security vulnerabilities to look out for
  - How to patch a virtual environment
  - Putting off patching
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- The data center of the future
  April 2012, Vol. 38 Includes:
  - The strategic trends in IT and data center infrastructure
  - The data center’s hidden cost
  - IT pros rethink data center infrastructure to support 'big data'
  - Power consumption solutions for modern virtual data centers
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- Maximizing virtual data center consolidations
  February 2012, Vol. 37 Includes:
  - Prevent server over-consolidation with optimal VM resource allocation
  - Defining an ideal virtual server consolidation ratio
  - What not to do when you’re consolidating: Five common VM mistakes
  - Not all data centers are created equal
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- Selecting the right system management tools
  December 2011, Vol. 36 Includes:
  - Demystifying storage and virtualization snapshots
  - How to find the right systems management tool for the job
  - One Platform, Many Uses
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- Planning for desktop virtualization
  October 2011, Vol. 35 Includes:
  - Minimizing public cloud disruptions
  - How to plan for desktop virtualization
  - Tactics for more reliable IT
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- Keeping virtual machines secure
  August 2011, Vol. 34 Includes:
  - How the evolution of virtualization redefined efficient data centers
  - Ensuring virtual machine security
  - Reaching for the cloud at VMworld
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- Time to consider a second hypervisor?
  June 2011, Vol. 33 Includes:
  - Should your IT shop consider multiple server virtualization platforms?
  - Preventing virtual resource oversubscription with capacity management
  - Performance tweaks for virtualization technologies
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- Public vs. private: Comparing cloud architectures
  April 2011, Vol. 32 Includes:
  - Understanding the differences between public and private cloud computing
  - Virtualized applications: What's your priority?
  - Cloud performance monitoring: No one-size-fits-all solution
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- How to make the transition from physical to virtual and back
  February 2011, Vol. 31 Includes:
  - Considerations for V2V and V2P workload migrations
  - Virtual security: New attack vectors, new ballgame
  - Inside the capacity management process: Resource supply and demand
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- Remote server management options for virtual data centers
  January 2011, Vol. 30 Includes:
  - New wave of services looks to analyze cloud computing market
  - How virtualization performance monitoring increases ROI
  - Exploring remote server management options
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- How to reduce storage requirements in virtual data centers
  December 2010, Vol. 29 Includes:
  - Safer failover testing procedures for the data center
  - Five open source tools for building and managing clouds
  - Reducing virtualization storage requirements with thin provisioning
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- Achieving the right level of consolidation in a virtual data center
  November 2010, Vol. 28 Includes:
  - Server consolidation strategy pitfalls: Over-consolidation
  - Private cloud 101: Is your data center ready?
  - Virtualization management for VMs, networks optimization
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- Choosing the best storage network for virtualization
  October 2010, Vol. 27 Includes:
  - Five requirements for deploying an application in a public cloud
  - Tactics for Managing iSCSI and Fibre Channel over Ethernet
  - Shared storage considerations: Management, throughput, costs
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- Updating business applications for a virtual environment
  September 2010, Vol. 26 Includes:
  - Managing data center growth: Consolidate, colocate or move to cloud?
  - How virtualization drives business application updates
  - Application availability: Using the right tools
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- Software licensing in a virtual environment
  August 2010, Vol. 25 Includes:
  - Software licensing challenges: How virtualization obscures CPU usage
  - Five fallacies of cloud computing
  - How to make the most of hardware service contracts
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- Strategies to manage virtual data center growth
  July 2010, Vol. 24 Includes:
  - Understanding cloud compliance issues
  - Mixing and matching virtualization platforms
  - Managing virtual data center growth and virtualization challenges
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- Backup strategies for virtual servers
  June 2010, Vol. 23 Includes:
  - Endpoint virtualization vs. server virtualization: Server requirements
  - Want to build a private cloud?
  - Virtual machine backup strategies
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- Networking challenges of server virtualization
  May 2010, Vol. 22 Includes:
  - Virtualizing mission-critical applications
  - Top 10 data backup and recovery tips of 2009
  - Better networking strategies for virtual server environments
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- Pros and cons of moving to the cloud
  April 2010, Vol. 21 Includes:
  - Five virtualization sprawl warning signs
  - Virtualization security: How vulnerable is your hypervisor?
  - The pros and cons of cloud computing migration
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- Critical decisions for virtualization storage
  March 2010, Vol. 20 Includes:
  - Virtualization storage provisioning: Improving storage performance
  - What is the free VMware OVFTOOL and how can it help you?
  - Waiting to virtualize: What's stalling data center virtualization
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- Meeting the challenges of virtual system management
  February 2010, Vol. 19 Includes:
  - Monitoring and optimizing host server performance
  - Overcoming virtualization challenges: Capacity planning, provisioning
  - Avoid the big mistakes when backing up virtual servers
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- The virtual data center of tomorrow
  January 2010, Vol. 18 Includes:
  - State of virtualization and cloud computing: 2011
  - Virtualization cost savings: Labor and maintenance
  - Four mistakes that can kill virtual machine performance
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- The next generation of virtual servers
  December 2009, Vol. 17 Includes:
  - Automating IT processes for virtual machines
  - High-availability architecture: Redundancy vs. abstraction
  - Selecting the best virtual server for your enterprise
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- Software licensing and support, virtualization and the cloud
  November 2009, Vol. 16 Includes:
  - Virtual host maintenance and enhancement strategies
  - Virtualization problems: When good deployments go bad
  - Software license management for virtual environments and the cloud
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- Staying compliant in a virtual world
  October 2009, Vol. 15 Includes:
  - Hardware purchasing strategies for virtual deployments
  - Storage arrays for virtualization: Proprietary vs. nonproprietary
  - Keeping up with virtual data center compliance
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- Rethinking virtual infrastructure network architecture
  September 2009, Vol. 14 Includes:
  - Lifecycle management: Physical vs. virtual machines
  - Using virtualization in a disaster recovery strategy
  - Deep dive into virtual networking technologies
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- Wanted: Well-rounded IT professionals
  August 2009, Vol. 13 Includes:
  - Hypervisors: Which is right for you?
  - OS virtualization: Virtualizing without the hypervisor
  - How to approach IT staffing in today's data center
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- Configuration management keeps control
  July 2009, Vol. 12 Includes:
  - Securing virtual environments: Three considerations
  - Virtualizing desktops: Getting the most out of your server, storage and network
  - Better configuration management strategies for IT pros
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- Digging into virtual management tools
  June 2009, Vol. 11 Includes:
  - Virtual infrastructure management challenges: VM sprawl and security
  - Eight critical tasks to complete after server virtualization
  - Practical steps for building an internal cloud
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- Using virtualization to save data centers money
  May 2009, Vol. 10 Includes:
  - Virtual data backup best practices: Shared storage and snapshots
  - Using virtual systems management to define server ownership
  - Using virtualization for cost-effective servers
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- Developing a virtual machine placement plan
  April 2009, Vol. 9 Includes:
  - Hyper-V vs. VMware: Which is cheaper?
  - How to optimize VM placement in data centers
  - Calculate return on investment before moving to server virtualization
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- High availability and virtualization
  March 2009, Vol. 8 Includes:
  - Testing high-availability software options from vendors
  - High-availability solutions in nonvirtualized environments
  - Terminal services take on VDI
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- What is cloud computing, and what can it really do?
  February 2009, Vol. 7 Includes:
  - Finding the best capacity planning tool for your data center
  - Cloud computing defined: Strategies for your enterprise
  - Gartner Q&A on cloud computing and security
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- Behind the magic of virtualization
  December 2008, Vol. 6 Includes:
  - Virtual lab management planning best practices
  - To P2V or Not to P2V? The rules of the road for virtual migration
  - Setting up a virtual lab: Top tips and tricks
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- Virtualization ups ante on server hardware choices
  October 2008, Vol. 5 Includes:
  - Server virtualization hardware shopping guide
  - OS often dictates hardware choice in virtual environments
  - Virtualizing disaster recovery infrastructure
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- Why SAP virtualization is now a reality
  August 2008, Vol. 4 Includes:
  - Virtualizing SAP becomes a reality
  - Virtualizing SAP: For many shops, still the next frontier
  - Managing change in dynamic virtual environments
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- A comprehensive guide to today's desktop virtualization options
  June 2008, Vol. 3 Includes:
  - Decoding the VMware universe
  - Virtual desktop delivery and management options: Reducing complexity, increasing flexibility
  - Introduction: Editor’s Letter
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- Understanding I/O bottlenecks throughout your physical architecture
  May 2008, Vol 2 Includes:
  - Eliminate I
  - O bottlenecks, improve VM performance
  - Should you host email on virtual machines?
  - What to virtualize with Microsoft Exchange
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- The promise and perils of server virtualization
  March 2008, Vol. 1 Includes:
  - Running databases on VMs: The time is now
  - Storage architectures for virtual environments
  - Introduction: Editor’s Letter
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