Blade Servers and Virtualization: Transforming Enterprise Computing While Cutting Costs
- 5h 23m
- Anne Skamarock, Barb Goldworm
- John Wiley & Sons (US)
- 2007
The combination of blade servers and virtualization provides you with the flexibility, high availability, and manageability to deliver services on demand to users anywhere, anytime. Guiding you through these two technologies, this book clearly shows you why they are rapidly becoming key foundation building blocks for the next generation of data centers.
Experts Goldworm and Skamarock explore the benefits of blade servers and virtualization, presenting you with an architectural view of each. They also include an analysis of the major offerings along with case studies and tips for selecting products. This information will help you successfully implement these technologies on your own.
Here's the information to power up your data center
- Assess the needs of your company and determine whether blade servers and virtualization are the right choices.
- Utilize the specific features of blade server systems and their components.
- Analyze the approaches and architectures of various alternatives.
- Compare and contrast different vendor solutions in order to make the best selection.
- Decide on hardware, system software, and data center facilities.
- Gain a better understanding of the trade-offs, pitfalls, and other considerations that must be taken into account.
- Learn how to successfully integrate blade servers and virtualization into your production environment.
About the Authors
Barb Goldworm has spent 30 years in the computer industry, in various technical, marketing, sales, senior management, and industry analyst positions with IBM, Novell, StorageTek, Enterprise Management Associates (EMA), and multiple successful start-ups. She is the founder and president of Focus Consulting, a research, analysis, and consulting firm focused on systems and storage. A frequent speaker at industry events worldwide, Barb created and chaired the Networked Storage Segment of Net-World+Interop, has been one of the top-three-ranked analyst/knowledge expert speakers at Storage Networking World, and is a regular featured speaker for webcast providers including TechTarget and Ziff-Davis. Barb has published extensively, including regular columns for NetworkWorld, Computer-World, and TechTarget, as well as numerous business and technical white papers and articles on systems, storage and storage networking, and enterprise management.
Anne Skamarock has spent nearly 30 years in high-tech fields in various positions, including end user, systems administrator, scientific programmer, NFS software engineer, backup and recovery software engineer, technical sales, marketing, and product management, and industry analyst with SRI International, Sun Microsystems, Solbourne Computer, StorageTek, and Enterprise Management Associates (EMA). In addition to working with Focus Consulting, Anne is also founder and president of Skamarock Consulting, a technology, marketing, and research firm focused on systems and storage. While at EMA, she co-wrote Storage Solutions: A Buyer’s Guide and wrote the weekly “Storage in the Enterprise” NetworkWorld online newsletter.
In this Book
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Blade Servers and Virtualization—Transforming Enterprise Computing While Cutting Costs
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Introduction
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Blades and Virtualization—Building Blocks for Next-Generation Data Centers
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Evolution of Computing Technology — Setting the Stage
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Evolution of Blade and Virtualization Technologies
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Blade Architecture
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PC Blades
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Networking and Related Technologies
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Blades and Storage
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Virtualization
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Clustering and Blades
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Managing Blade Systems
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Industry Organizations and Related Standards
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Assessing Your Needs—Blade System Hardware Considerations
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Power and Cooling
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System Software Considerations
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Differentiating and Selecting Products
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Key Vendor and Product Analysis
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Case Studies
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A Look into the Future
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Bibliography
