Today, IT has become a valuable asset of any organization. Because of this, data center availability has become essential. Yet businesses still remain vulnerable to a variety of threats, including electrical power systems. This resource explores 10 best practices for building and maintaining a highly available data center power infrastructure. 

The most helpful information and best content will have little impact without simple protocols that make your Web site easier to use and more visually appealling. This paper focuses on 10 tips you can employ to ensure your web site is effective from the day it goes live. 

While desktop virtualization and VDI are certainly becoming trendy, the reality today is that properly designing a system is still complex and a source of worry and confusion for many architects. 

In this white paper, Rajesh K. Gupta, Electronic Arts' senior manager of applications for business intelligence (BI) and data services, explains how EA avoids many costly problems due to timely data access. Read this now to gain insight into how EA deployed job scheduling software and what benefits it reaped by doing so. 

As technology evolves, there is a never-ending question to designers and implementers: "What is coming next?" The answer is "Collaboration." The move to collaboration is strengthened by the actions of Cisco and Microsoft, as they have each unveiled several collaborative technologies and the means to integrate them utilizing Web 2.0 programming. 

Legacy networks aren’t fulfilling the needs of modern organizations. Discover how software-defined networking (SDN) powered by the OpenFlow protocol can be a game changer for you by helping you achieve a next-generation network that satisfies all of today’s needs. 

This book serves as an exhaustive guide to the SOA implementation journey, providing answers to 100 questions on topics ranging from the basics to highly specific areas like governance and information management. 

Download the Service-Oriented Cloud Computing Infrastructure (SOCCI) Framework from the Open Group. 

This paper offers insight into an option that capitalizes on predictive analytics, enabling your business to target, optimize and automate your customer-centric interactions. Read this now and learn from other successful companies 10 pivotal tips - including careful planning and setting goals - that will help you craft the perfect data mining plan. 

This is an informative preview of the book, the first ever on data virtualization, that fills this information void with 10 in-depth case studies from data virtualization adopters across a range of industries. 

Gain insight into how Routing Information Protocol version 2 (RIPv2) works and how you can best implement it. Though over the years IP-based networks have evolved and the need for RIP has declined, it's still used in small networks and in specific areas of larger networks. Review 10 simple rules that can help you deal with RIPv2 issues. 

This white paper highlights how project managers can utilize effective integration of multiple disciplines to achieve maximum performance. A disciplined collaboration between the BA and BPM has become a prerequisite for success. 

In this videocast, senior enterprise IT architect Nelson Ruest breaks down the seven different layers of the server virtualization architecture, and explains the role the hypervisor plays in the success of that infrastructure.