This paper outlines the need for an application portfolio management (APM) solution and why a successful venture depends on an accurate picture of the portfolio. Learn why it's vital to understand which business processes your employees rely on and why the proper level of visibility leads to well-informed decisions about retiring or replacing apps. 

By adopting commercial best practices, the federal government can achieve sustainable cost savings and reach high levels of operational efficiency. Read this paper to learn about the IBM 7-point strategy and unmatched portfolio of offerings that can help federal agencies stabilize a fiscal imbalance. 

The CMO Council and KnowledgeStorm have partnered to explore the relationship between online technology researchers and IT vendors. Join KnowledgeStorm in this Webcast replay to learn what over 1,400 survey respondents said about online technology content usage and its influence on IT buying. 

As businesses build the optimized data center, VMware vSphere can deliver consolidation as well as cost effective business continuity, disaster recovery, and high availability for mass application adoption with packaging and pricing that matches individual market segments. Read this paper to learn more. 

Veeam Backup & Replication capabilities: Image Based Backup and Replication, Changed Block Tracking (CBT), Deduplication and Compression. Enterprises using Hyper-V can now leverage the power of Veeam Backup & Replication to enable server virtualization and improve the standard of data protection as well as lower costs. 

A recent IDC survey found that for every US$1 spent on IT hardware, the power and cooling costs is 54 cents. In 2011, the energy costs are expected to rise to 74 cents. Listen to this podcast and find out how you can deploy a Scalable Modular data center in 8-12 weeks at up to 20% less overall cost and save up to 30% on energy costs per year. 

This white paper recommends a specific virtualization architecture and explores its key characteristics and capabilities. Discover the risks of virtualizing older servers and learn how to avoid them here. 

<p>This paper uncovers tips for choosing a cloud hosting provider and explores where and when to use cloud solutions, specific issues enterprises should raise with hosting providers before selecting a vendor, and ways in which SSL from a trusted certificate authority can help enterprises conduct business in the cloud with confidence.</p> 

This resource explores how two IT giants teamed up to fund IT in higher education facilities. Inside, learn how education leaders are discovering new ways to facilitate the effective use of Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) in order to increase student learning and maximize the mission of their institutions. 

Adopting a cautionary approach to data center cooling is a good theory in practice. But you may be keeping your infrastructure cooler than necessary. This video releases key findings concerning the latest environmental standards and explains how you can raise data center temperatures without sacrificing availability. 

Read this customer case study to see how Canadian mutual fund company AIC Ltd. leveraged Quantum's DXi™5500 disk backup solution featuring data deduplication and replication technology in order to drastically reduce backup time as well as cut storage costs and management. 

Conducted by the research firm ORC International, this study found that performing common database management tasks for Oracle Database 11g R2 took less time and fewer resources than performing the same tasks for DB2 Enterprise 9.7. Although funded by Oracle, the study was independently conducted by ORC.