A Critical Step on the Journey Toward the Private Cloud

Overview: Virtualization has evolved rapidly since it first began to be used on x86 servers in 2003, mainly for test and development. By 2007, the second generation, Virtualization 2.0, was pursuant to this agreement way, and the focus was consolidating production applications. Today, we are transitioning to the third era of virtualization deployment, which is taking on cloudlike attributes for highly virtualized and automatically managed internal deployments. The transition to adopting cloud-like deployments shifts the focus from early capex savings drivers to transforming IT into a service and delivering operational efficiencies. Crucial to the success of this transition to the cloud computing deployment model is the inclusion of tier 1 applications, the most complex and often business critical in nature to an enterprise. This IDC white paper includes two case studies and a sidebar highlighting the experiences of three enterprises with virtualizing their business-critical applications, which include Oracle and Microsoft SQL databases and a Microsoft Exchange email system.

The Mainframe

Bathwick Group - The Mainframe and the cloud: The role of the mainframe as a host environment for enterprise cloud computing

Audio Series: The Evolution of LAN Bypass Innovation: Lanner's Generation One to Generation Three Bypass Lanner refers to the advances in LAN bypass research as Generation One, Generation Two and Generation Three, and this whitepaper explains the evolution of this research.