This interactive data center, brought to you by our editors, explores 5 aspects of data center efficiency and provides tips and best practices to help companies make effective investment and configuration decisions. 

Transitioning to the virtual data center involves taking into account many trends that are just beginning to take off, such as cloud computing, IT consumerization and Big Data. In this expert e-zine, explore how you can take steps to embrace these new technologies and improve the efficiency of your data center. 

Since data centers are usually built over a long period of time, businesses end up with several small data centers scattered over a diverse area. To make more efficient use of these facilities, it’s generally best to consolidate. This resource presents best practices to data center consolidation. 

This resource describes the transformation from the traditional data center to the services data center, with special emphasis on the business impact of the transformation. Also, learn how communications service providers (CSPs) are positioning themselves for the data center of the future. 

Data center consolidation can result in many benefits for your business, but it is not a simple undertaking. This short video explores key tips that can help you ensure data center consolidation success. 

Access this essential resource to discover how consolidating, modernizing and virtualizing major IT initiatives can help your organization in the long term by drastically improving cost savings, efficiencies, agility, and enterprise business benefits. 

To embrace the new instant-on, mobile, interconnected business world, IT organizations need to transform their infrastructure and data centers to support agility. This video series features 10 expert tips for planning your IT transformation. Check out this brief video for tips 4-1. 

Colin Rees, IT Director at Domino’s Pizza explains how a project to move the company data centre into the cloud has transformed its online business. 

Josko Grljevic, IS Director of thetrainline.com, explains how he cut its IT costs dramatically by virtualising its data centre and moving IT services into the cloud. 

This resource presents a data center infrastructure transformation and modernization solution using a patent-pending, detailed approach to help you draw up an effective plan to create a standardized, highly automated hosting environment, able to support your organization’s business goals. 

This resource explores how consolidating your data center assets can help lower overall IT costs while successfully managing risks. Discover the top benefits of consolidation. 

Virtualized iSCSI SANs are increasingly being chosen for virtual data center deployments because they help simplify storage management and help overcome performance, scalability and cost barriers of traditional SAN architectures.