Discover how to get a free Hitachi Base Operating System by taking advantage of this offer. 

Managing backup and recovery in today's environment is a multi-dimensional challenge with both near and long term business requirements. This paper explains 5 topics to think about as you design your long-term data retention plans. 

This week’s Computer Weekly asks what chancellor George Osborne's Budget means for the UK IT community and if he can deliver his goal to make Britain "the technology centre of Europe". Also you'll find the final part of our private cloud Buyer's Guide and we examine the options for choosing the right WAN optimisation strategy. 

Measuring, monitoring and maintaining a data centre has often been viewed as a purely technical project. Business value can be significant - and explaining this can unlock budget for DCIM investments. 

Enterprises have successfully controlled their IT budgets and server sprawl issues with the help of virtualization technologies, but what’s next? Increasingly, organizations are turning to storage consolidation for virtualized server environments in order to reduce data center costs and inefficiencies. 

In the traditional IT approach, every new software application required a new server. This added costs to every project and deployment took days to weeks. This also drove server sprawl. Watch this demo for an animated explanation of how virtualization addresses common data center challenges. 

Oracle Database 11g Release 2, the second release of the award winning Oracle Database 11g, provides the foundation for IT professionals to successfully deliver more information with higher quality of service, make more efficient use of their budgets, and reduce the risk of change in data centers. 

Businesses today expect more agility from their IT departments. Even as budgets shrink or hardware fails, new workloads must be brought online sooner with fewer disruptions. Access this expert e-guide to learn how you can improve your business’s IT efficiency with server virtualization. 

When it comes to virtualization, budget planning is the key to success for any organization. This e-guide reviews why no matter what kind of cost saving benefits virtualization promises, having an established budget is essential to help with new purchases, ongoing support and software licensing costs. 

Getting ready for the cloud isn’t always easy, especially when faced with budget constraints. Learn how Ethernet fabrics are a viable option to optimize your network and enable the cloud, even under a tight budget. 

Technologies such as virtualization and deduplication are getting special attention for their long-term cost saving potential, according to several storage pros on the front lines. Read this e-guide to learn about two organizations’ IT dilemmas and how they are handling them in this tough economic climate.   

This resource demonstrates how a buy-and-hold strategy can add data center costs that many of today’s enterprises simply can’t afford. Read on to learn more about server replacement cycles and the ongoing operational costs of holding on to legacy hardware platforms long past their recommended life-cycle. 

This resource provides insight into the virtual era and its essential elements. Learn how improving IT efficiency can help you address your top resource constraints without consuming your limited budget.