This transcript explores the virtualization benefits of implementing Windows Server 2008 R2 in your organization. Receive best practices on how to effectively integrate R2 into your current infrastructure. Discover how this integration can enable your organization to increase the performance and reliability of its virtualized environment. 

In this chapter sample, from the guide Mastering Microsoft Windows Server 2008 R2, co-written by Mark Minasi, Willem Kasdorp as the contributing author and published by Wiley Publishing, learn how your existing environment and upgrade/migration plans impact your installation decisions and read about requirements for this new operating system. 

This presentation transcript explores how to effectively mitigate architecture, security, and management risks to ensure a successful Windows Server integration into your cloud computing environment. Protect your organization from risks to customer data and liability issues and learn how to better manage virtualized and cloud environments. 

Managing power consumption in the data center is a huge concern for IT organizations today. In this videocast, learn about the cost benefits of using Windows Server 2008 R2 for power and energy savings in the data center. The speaker will discuss the trends in this area and offer steps to improve power consumption and costs. 

Advances in server technology promise tantalizing benefits, such as higher consolidation ratios and reduced costs. Read this special report to discover the new capabilities updated software provides. You'll also learn the advantages of modern hardware and garner best practices on upgrading to newer software and hardware. 

This paper examines the benefits of Microsoft's BranchCache solution to allows branch office workers to cache content obtained from head office file and web servers locally. 

View this webcast to discover how to combine the portability and agility of the Spring framework for Java EE with a lightweight application server that gives you the flexibility to virtualize Java applications and workloads for the cloud while improving developer productivity, control and manageability and staying within budget constraints. 

According to Enterprise Integration Patterns author Gregor Hohpe, a new set of architectural techniques could help designers to better understand the elaborate conversation, workflow and event patterns that are seen more often these days. Read this e-guide to discover software that visually connects components in Apache Camel-based integrations. 

In February, 2009, Microsoft released their next major release, designated as R2, to their IP PBX product Office Communications Server (OCS) 2007. Several great features and enhancements to Microsoft's existing product make OCS 2007 R2 a significant contender in the Unified Communications (UC) marketplace. 

If you're considering an enterprise application integration project and want to use Apache open source integration and messaging software, read this paper to discover a leading subscription partner that can give you the combination of tools, influence, and support to ensure that your project is a success. 

Watch this informative webcast from FuseSource to get an introduction to ApacheServiceMix, an open source container useful for integration and SOA-- ESB. 

Read this case study to understand how VMware vFabric tc Server delivered more efficient application deployment, improved server deployment and management, and rapid response time to the department at John Muir Health responsible for managing and ensuring integration of its enterprise applications.