In this white paper, Dan Moore, the senior vice president of professional services at IBM, Cast Iron reviews the current application environment in light of emerging trends, describes an ideal complete integration solution and discusses common sense best practices as well as pitfalls. 

Here five things about Windows Server 2008 that are the less obvious, more esoteric, yet useful features or quirks. The following is a brief list of some things that I tend to assume that many people know, and I am constantly amazed by clients and students who really don't know them. How many do you already know? 

Storage capacity efficiency through virtualization platforms can provide greater capacity in a more sustainable way than traditional storage methods. 

In this e-guide from SearchServerVirtualization.com, gain expert advice on how to handle data center growth with capacity planning and resource provisioning. Learn how performance management and capacity planning go hand-in-hand and find out how to interpret capacity management metrics to reduce costs and simplify management. 

This Oracle white paper describes the application of Oracle VM Server for SPARC to implement high-capacity enterprise systems. 

Together, Dell and Microsoft have delivered a storage platform comprised of Windows Storage Server 2008 R2 and Dell’s PowerVault NX3100 for easy, reliable access to data stores, greatly simplified storage management, support for ROBO operations, and the capacity and scalability SMBs need to meet ongoing requirements. Read now to learn more. 

The Oracle Exalogic Elastic Cloud is designed for maximum performance and reliability. Read this white paper to learn how most applications will experience a significant performance improvement if you choose to leverage this system. 

Storage performance and capacity demands are increasing rapidly, creating storage input/output challenges for many enterprises running applications that need fast response times. This Webcast will address those challenges and explore a proven solution: Oracle's Sun Flash storage portfolio. 

This white paper explores different data reduction techniques and their characteristics, caveats, and benefits to address your various data growth challenges. Read now to learn more. 

The data center is one of the most critical operations in any business. Unfortunately, data center complexity has increased in recent years, straining resources and increasing the consequences of poor performance. Learn how to overcome data center challenges with 7 best practices for improving performance. 

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. 

This IDC Forecast Update provides share positions for revenue and raw capacity for 9 named Purpose-Built Backup Appliance vendors for the first half of 2011. In addition, this study provides the market  size  and  a  5-year  forecast  for  the  worldwide PBBA market  as  part  of IDC's  Storage  Solutions  coverage. Read now to learn more.