This expert tip offers exclusive advice for properly managing your cloud environment. Discover why it is critical that you properly size your physical infrastructure and explore load balancing tactics and common misconceptions surrounding them. 

In this expert E-Guide, brought to you by SearchServerVirtualization.com and Dell, you will discover how to balance the storage and networking demands of today's virtual environments. 

Microsoft Exchange Server 2010 offers improved support scalability, reliability, and availability, but its changes do impact existing installations. Learn how to make a smooth transition and optimize performance based on Microsoft recommendations for highly available deployments. 

<p>Read this white paper to learn what it takes to initiate a balanced and direct approach to testing and QA throughout the application lifecycle. Effective management will lead to better IT insight, happier clients, and reduced costs.</p> 

This week’s Computer Weekly, we talk exclusively to Tesco CIO Mike McNamara about why the UK's biggest retailer is spending £150m on its online business. And, with the London 2012 Olympics only weeks away; we look at how IT testing is progressing. 

Most organizations with application performance issues haven't developed the process and organization to take advantage of application delivery technologies many already own. Gartner outlines three phases to help IT organizations deliver better application performance. 

In this article, Kaplan, of Harvard Business School, and Norton, founder and director of the Palladium Group, explain how to effectively manage both strategy and operations by linking them tightly in a closed-loop management system, which comprises five stages. 

Governments today are focusing on the practice of continuous monitoring as a means to providing the much needed balance between data access and protection. In this paper, learn more about continuous monitoring, including what is it and why it’s needed, guidelines for implementing it, key capabilities of an effective solution, and more. 

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

Read this white paper to learn about the architecture, data model, resource provisioning, load balancing, and replication systems of Windows Azure Storage (WAS), a scalable cloud storage system that provides customers with seemingly limitless data storage, access from anywhere at any time, and the ability to only pay for what they use. 

<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> 

This white paper compares two virtualization architectures and deployment options and presents the key findings. Discover costs to consider before getting started with your virtualization initiative and learn how to leverage built-in failover, redundancy, load balancing and other capabilities to minimize downtime.