In this four-part classroom, learn from Monica Crocker, Corporate Records Manager at Land O'Lakes, as she explains the information governance benefits and opportunities of SharePoint 2010. 

Ready to work in the cloud? Get a detailed overview of cloud computing technology—common types of architectures and services and perceived risks impacting widespread adoption. Learn best practices for optimizing critical systems for cloud deployment in existing facilities, including optimizing power architectures for high availability. 

This white paper explains the differences between the de-duplication approaches, discusses the strengths and limitations of each, shows how different backup tasks are likely to benefit from them, and talks about the business benefits. 

Traditional or manual testing methods are expensive, complicated, hard to repeat, and inadequate for the types of loads today's complex system architectures create. Read this paper to learn how an application performance testing solution that leverages virtual users and automation can provide you with robust, efficient performance validation. 

This white paper explores the risks associated with virtualizing applications and explains how you can mitigate them by implementing virtualization hosting architecture with a broad set of security capabilities. 

Many servers do not provide the performance and density today's critical applications require. This video highlights a platform that addresses these limitations and streamlines management so you can reclaim lost time and resources. 

Vyatta provides softwarebased networking and security software that uniquely satisfies emerging IT architectures that are leveraging virtualization, multi-core server platforms and cloud computing models. The Vyatta Network OS includes:Dynamic Routing (BGP, OSPF, RIP) Stateful Firewall IPSec VPN Intrusion Prevention SSL OpenVPN Secure Web Filtering 

While data warehouses are important for many types of analytical systems, they aren’t always necessary. Building a data warehouse can dramatically increase the cost of a BI project. This paper describes data warehouses, along with many other options for placing relevant, timely information in the hands of business users. 

In the September 2011 cover story of Storage magazine, Eric Siebert clears up some of the confusion as he looks at the characteristics of Fibre Channel, iSCSI and NAS and reviews the pros and cons of each for virtual environments. 

Modern applications are data-intensive; delivering data the old way using monolithic databases isn’t working. What’s needed is a modern approach to data that scales-out as needed and delivers predictable high performance without sacrificing data consistency or integrity. View this webcast to learn best practices for modern data management.