Special Report: A Virtual Infrastructure: Whitepaper

Agencies have to invest in order to achieve the kinds of efficiencies in their operations that both administration and congressional authorities are constantly demanding from them. Virtualization, with its inherent promise of being able to do more with the technology that’s available, is an option whose attraction is increasingly obvious. Although virtualization has been around as a concept for a long time, it’s only begun to proliferate in government as a result of mandates such as the Office of Management and Budget’s Federal Data Center Consolidation Initiative (FDCCI), launched early in the Obama administration’s first term. Budget pressures and other requirements, such as the need for agencies to boost teleworking, are now putting a focus on other technologies such as desktop and application virtualization. Download this in depth special report for more insight into Virtual Infrastructure.

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Special Report: The Efficient Data Center: Optimization: Whitepaper

The old notion of a data center—a building full of servers that can be expanded at will as the demand to host applications increased—is gone for good. The new environment, defined by perpetual budget constraints but still increasing user needs, requires data centers that deliver more computing power but also cost less to run and take up less space.

Business and Technology Viewpoints: ViON: Viewpoint

ViON CTO Carl Fulp discusses virtualization solutions. Also a special interview with ViON CEO Tom Frana discussing the business of getting the most out of the cloud.

Six Common Challenges of Cloud Implementations: Whitepaper

Private cloud—as an approach to IT operations—calls for organizations to transform their data centers, including the network. Using strategic points of control to aggregate and dynamically provision IT resources can help organizations meet network-related challenges and move past the hype to successfully build, deploy, and secure private clouds.