How much storage do you need to support a virtual desktop deployment? Discover how you can leverage capacity planning to balance performance and the high cost of storage and bandwidth in this expert e-guide. Plus, explore the pros and cons of storage virtualization and evaluate which storage strategies work best for your organization. 

This paper examines the impact of de-duplication in a disk-to-disk-to-tape (D2D2T) backup and recovery environment. 

While underutilized data centers waste valuable resources, overly used infrastructures can subject organizations to potential hardware failures. This expert tip provides best practices for properly managing your IT environment and the physical, virtual, and cloud resources that comprise it. 

<p>Email is already critical to business communications, and its importance is only expected to grow exponentially. This white paper compares two server architectures so you can identify the best platform to support your Exchange environment.</p> 

The proliferation of mobile broadband devices along with the unlimited data bundles from the operators has led to network congestion and deteriorating network quality. 

<p>Federal agencies are forced to do more with less, especially when it comes to the management and security of mission-critical data. In this paper explore how IBM Tivoli Storage Productivity Center for Data enables organizations to meet today’s data challenges while providing flexibility to meet changing requirements.</p> 

This paper explains how cloud computing is now also evolving in a private variant whereby enterprises set up cloud-like, centralized shared infrastructure with automated capacity adjustment that internal departmental “customers” utilize in a self-service manner. Realization of efficiency, performance, and agility benefits is reinforcing this trend. 

Access this exclusive resource to learn how to avoid mistakes when installing cooling systems and racks in data centers or network rooms. This paper examines these typical mistakes, explains their principles, quantifies their impacts, and describes simple remedies. 

This Quest Software webcast explains the symptoms of a failing or failed domain or forest. It also discusses how you can best prepare for this failure, and compares manual forest recovery procedures with a powerful automated solution.