Access this expert podcast for best practices to optimize your virtualized infrastructure and network, and discover how you can address scenarios such as disaster recovery networking as well as networking for cloud computing. Find out how network performance improvements can alleviate traffic bottlenecks and other performance issues. 

<p>This solution overview offers detailed guidance to help you prepare your infrastructure for cloud computing. Find out how one company optimized its network design through the use of external line cards in dedicated network racks.</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. 

<p>Read this expert resource to learn how testing in the cloud is different from traditional quality assurance of applications. Find tips on how to adjust your testing techniques and tests themselves to ensure maximum cloud application performance.</p> 

<p>Object-based file systems offer performance improvements in HPC environments, but many companies are unsure which market options are worth evaluating. This expert e-guide examines several notable offerings and explains how they can eliminate I/O bottlenecks in HPC architectures.</p> 

<p>Purchasing new hardware may seem counterintuitive to reducing data center power costs. But server upgrades can enable significant energy savings. Learn about various hardware configurations and their key performance characteristics here.</p> 

In this case study, discover how you can prevent unexpected downtime and enable highly available and scalable virtual desktops. Find out how you can build a fault-tolerant infrastructure and reduce your storage requirements with a robust software suite. 

Although the majority of computing today falls within the traditional and virtualized models, private clouds will grow to be the largest component in the portfolio over the next three to five years. Read on to learn the benefits that the private cloud model offers, plus learn about Dell’s next generation architecture for the cloud. 

This issue of the high performance computing (HPC) e-zine takes a closer look at the latest advances in file systems and the impact they are having on the HPC community. Find out how HPC architectures have evolved over time and obtain best practices for properly implementing Multi Path File Systems (MPFS). 

Extremely high end-user expectations for enterprise mobile performance have IT teams scrambling to address its unique challenges. Read this e-guide for expert tips on choosing and implementing the best mobile performance management tools and strategies available today. Also, find in-depth industry analyst advice on functional testing. 

VMware vSphere enables IT management to support their virtualization and cloud computing initiatives with automated, intelligent processes such as automatic load balancing, auto deploy and more. Discover how vSphere can provide unprecedented scalability and uptime for mission-critical applications, along with comprehensive security. 

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. 

Learn how your organization can cut data center energy consumption by 40 to 50%. This podcast discusses the building blocks to addressing energy efficiency challenges in data centers. Listen to find out how the right building blocks can help your organization capitalize with energy efficiency.