This white paper offers analysis of IDC surveys conducted in autumn 2011 of top IT leaders in Europe on the proliferation of social media and new access devices and their implications for business and government organizations. 

Minimising your physical infrastructure can significantly reduce operational costs, but it is often easier said than done.  This white paper reveals how one retail business accomplished this goal by deploying Windows Server 2008 Datacenter and Hyper-V technology to manage over 300,000 store-based endpoints. 

Many businesses are looking for effective ways to provision and manage server infrastructures and reduce power consumption without overstretching their budgets. This white paper discusses how one advertising company leveraged Windows Server 2008 R2 to virtualise and improve management of their IT environment, all while cutting costs. 

Many of today’s organisations are trying to meet customer demands for highly scalable, high-performance services solutions while reducing overall IT costs. This white paper discusses how one IT company achieved this by building solutions for the Windows Azure platform to leverage its versatile storage and easy integration with on-premise solutions. 

IT today can power multiple areas of the business, but security concerns often result in IT managers spending most of their time on administration and troubleshooting.  This white paper discusses how you can put IT on auto-pilot with the private cloud to transform your IT services. 

This white paper compares private cloud solutions from Microsoft and VMware by using private cloud industry standard concepts and defining the technology benefits of Microsoft private cloud solutions. 

This Ventana Research paper identifies the IT components that can be used to identify ways to improve cost management for success in today's recovering yet volatile market. 

This brief white paper explores the 7 essential storage capabilities your organization will need to adopt in the rapidly transforming business landscape. 

This white paper explores the unique challenges of data storage in an Oracle environment and offers suggestions on how iSCSI-based storage-area networks from Dell can help organizations more efficiently and effectively address those challenges. 

MediSync's outdated storage infrastructure couldn't handle a new and robust medical application they installed. So they turned to Dell's EqualLogic iSCSI storage array to get the job done. Read this case study for the details. 

This white paper takes a look at how Dell EqualLogic XVS can be implemented to help solve some of the storage problems associated with the adoption of SQL Server. 

In this second part of this series, we take a close look at a recent performance benchmark to evaluate in detail how Dell's innovations reduce complexity, improve performance and lower the cost of VDI. Read on to learn more.