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Managing Real Capacity in Virtual Environments

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Overview Virtualization is the hottest topic in IT today! The attendee of this webcast will learn about the virtualization solutions from IBM, Sun, HP, Microsoft, VMware, and Xen, their different architectural characteristics, and the performance concerns for each. The attendee will gain the knowledge required to properly and easily manage the capacity of the virtual environments. The presenters of this webcast will show how BMC and VMware solutions can provide the management tools to recognize dramatic hardware utilization and cost savings in the virtual data center.

Further White Paper Details
Publisher	BMC Software
Live Date	5th June 2008 00:00 UTC
Format	Webcast
Topics	Virtualization

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