This research presents a demonstrable connection between analytical adoption, and elevated business performance. This report is based on feedback from 222 executives in May and June 2011, across the globe. 

Why should an independent software vendor (ISV) care about cloud computing? The answer is simple: Using the cloud has the potential to increase an ISV’s revenues and/or decrease its costs. This white paper discusses why cloud computing is important for ISVs and provides insights on a solution that can help them benefit from this environment. 

Introducing virtual servers into your data center both simplifies and complicates your backup processes. This expert podcast explores the best practices for backing up and recovering critical VMs to avoid these potential obstacles. 

Increased adoption of VMware infrastructure and continued performance advances in hardware and software have driven the virtualization of Microsoft Exchange. This paper will detail experiments that demonstrate the efficient performance and scalability of Exchange when running inside a virtual machine on a VMware vSphere™ 4 environment. 

This exclusive resource discusses an open approach that offers unified and consolidated management capabilities for virtualized platforms deploying hypervisors from multiple vendors. Read on to learn more about this unique, multivendor approach and how it can benefit your organization. 

The number of channels which consumers use to research and purchase products or services is growing. This white paper takes a look at a recent survey of consumer buying habits in regards to the number of channels they use when shopping and how businesses can provide a better experience across these channels for their customers. 

Check out this white paper from expert George Crump to learn the differences between VMware and Hyper-V, and what the future might hold for both of these technologies as virtualiziation in the data center continues to flourish. 

This paper outlines the things you must consider when thinking about the feasibility of replacing a WAN provider’s provider (P) and provider edge (PE) devices with routers. This paper examines these considerations in greater detail, to see where any potential problems might arise. 

Read this ESG Lab report as they analyze Quantum’s DXi-Series appliances working with the Symantec NetBackup OpenStorage interface and their ability to optimize data protection and recovery strategies in the enterprise. 

In this video, Tobin Gilman, Oracle Vice President of Product Marketing, explains how a unified business intelligence foundation, which includes production reports, dashboards, score cards, ad hoc queries, and OLAP analysis, delivers a logical representation of all your enterprise sources. 

This technical white paper is the second in a series that is designed to help map I/O best practices from the physical world into the virtual world supported by logical domains.