Moving to a consolidated data center reduces the number of servers, which can minimize required investments in hardware, hardware maintenance charges, data center space costs and energy use. This e-book outlines a systematic approach you can use to server consolidation to ensure that your data center reaps all the benefits of virtualization. 

While IT leaders understand the benefits of moving to current, standards-based infrastructure, the "how" can seem daunting. Read this white paper to learn how the expertise and guidance provided by migration services can ensure a smooth, low-risk, cost-effective migration. 

In this quickcast, Joel Blaiberg, author of “Four Steps to Planning a Successful Migration” will provide a brief overview of the best practices that can save your organization time and money before and after your next migration project. 

<p>Watch this quick video to learn about an emerging storage reporting and analysis software that can help you get a better understanding of how efficient your infrastructure actually is.</p> 

Adding a re-hosting project to outsourcing allows for a further reduction in cost. Watch this 2-minute video about the Cedacri Group’s mainframe modernization experience  to learn about the cost and performance advantages of a re-hosting strategy as well as how to ensure its success. 

This whitepaper serves as a guideline for Vista migration projects, highlights the key challenges and cautions and outlines an ideal approach to successfully migrate to Windows Vista. 

If you are going to do a data migration for any part of your business, failure is not an option. So how do you avoid data migration failure? Read this white paper for 10 critical steps to follow. 

<p>As technology evolves, so too must your IT strategies. SAP users are finding that upgrades, migrations, and re-platforming efforts are playing a key role in reducing their costs. Read this exclusive paper to learn how you can ensure that your IT managers remain flexible and prepared to make changes to SAP software at the drop of a hat.</p> 

Discover how you can develop a roadmap for successful cloud migration to ensure that your organization reaps the maximum cloud benefits. This essential resource breaks down a roadmap to cloud in 5 steps, along with strategies for how you can build scalable, open infrastructure for virtualization and cloud-optimized networks. 

Implementing more than one virtualization platform can be a smart move for organizations seeking to maximize virtualization returns and lower TCO. This essential resource reveals the top reasons why businesses should consider migrating from VMware to an open source virtualization platform, and offers tips for how to accomplish the V2V migration. 

Through this expert e-brief uncover the answers to your top mainframe questions, including: the benefits of staying with a mainframe, what approaches are easiest when moving data or applications, how to move off the mainframe in a way that is least disruptive to the business, and more. 

Check out this brief video for an introduction to a storage analysis software solution designed to bring simplicity and efficiency back into your data center. 

To embrace the new instant-on, mobile, interconnected business world, IT organizations need to transform their infrastructure and data centers to support agility. This video series features 10 expert tips for planning your IT transformation. Check out this brief video for tips 4-1.