This white paper provides a simple guide and checklist for IT professionals focusing on the four key virtual workforce requirements to create an efficient and secure architecture for success. 

What do you do to prepeare for the inevitable invasion of server virtualization? How are you going to get from 20% virtualization to 60% virtualization in three years or less. The first and by far most critical step is to make sure that you have in place an infrastructure that is optimized for virtualization. 

This white paper provides detailed insight into the tasks required to upgrade servers without impacting availability in production environments. Find out how you can simplify this procedure and get advice on how to obtain new driver and firmware versions, determine updatable servers and their respective packages, and more. 

Watch this webcast to learn about the top ten most useful advantages of Windows Server 2008 R2. Gain insight into improvements made to Terminal Services and Hyper-V that can provide your organization with increased flexibility. 

Intel conducted tests on Web servers serving encypted data to quantify the benefits of AES-NI and found that AES-NI reduced computational overhead of encyrption by 50 percent. Continue reading this paper to learn more about the tests and results. 

The most helpful information and best content will have little impact without simple protocols that make your Web site easier to use and more visually appealling. This paper focuses on 10 tips you can employ to ensure your web site is effective from the day it goes live. 

This paper discusses how you can leverage existing Abend-AID capabilities to simplify problem resolution even in these increasingly complex systems. Read this paper to learn more about diagnosing DB2 and WebSphere MQ problems with Compuware Abend-AID. 

With over 5,000 requests per second during peak periods, online retailer Gilt Groupe could lose a large percentage of its daily profits in just 10 minutes of downtime. After choosing the Riverbed Stingray Traffic Manager as its load balancing solution, visits to the site have increased thanks to improved customer satisfaction. 

By turning to a virtual-ready infrastructure, IT has the opportunity to create a next-generation architecture that fundamentally changes the way data centers work for the future. In doing so, IT has the opportunity to transform its own value to the organization by making the infrastructure more flexible and ready to move at the speed of business. 

Discover how Intel Xeon E5 processors significantly improves I/O performance, reduces latency, and reduces system power usage in this brief video. 

This test report compares the performance of two new Dell PowerEdge R720 servers powered by the Intel Xeon processor E5-2640 and the Intel Xeon processor E5-2650. 

This report compares the performance and costs of two servers, the Dell PowerEdge R620 and HP Proliant DL360 G7, and provides a comprehensive breakdown of your savings with each of these solutions. 

Small businesses need a mechanism to centralize the management of their most precious asset - their data - through server technology that consolidates administrative functions and streamlines management. For a growing number of SMBs, this solution is a Dell First Server. Read this paper to learn more!