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From virtualization to private cloud: Making the move

Moving from virtualization to private cloud can be rewarding, but also challenging. The authors of a new book on private cloud discuss the obstacles and share their advice. Podcast
Virtualization hardware: The complete guide

Virtualization hardware can make or break an infrastructure. The right hardware decreases costs, and improves resource allocation and server consolidation ratios. Tutorial
Virtual appliance FAQ

With virtualization deployments, time is money. A virtual appliance decreases software deployment times and eases resource allocation, virtual machine migration and backup. FAQ

Server virtualization infrastructure and architecture

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How you build your virtualization infrastructure and architecture is one of the most major decisions you make, and your choices will dictate whether your virtualized environment helps you consolidate physical servers, space, reduce costs and improve resource utilization or whether it suffers from performance problems, virtual machine security risks, virtual sprawl, virtualization licensing and compliance problems, and other management issues. From the server hardware, operating systems and networking choices to your choice of virtual systems management tools, your virtualized environment has certain requirements to ensure virtual machine performance, system uptime, VM security and compliance and more. Whether you're building a private cloud or developing an environment for a public cloud, you need to know how to design and architect your virtualization environment for these requirements. This section provides news, advice and how-to's on building a virtualized infrastructure, so you make can informed decisions about your virtualization environment make sense for your virtualized architecture and offers best practices on how to build a server virtualization architecture that grows with your business needs and technical requirements.

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