This paper discusses the case for system consolidation and legacy decommissioning and the best practices approach to ensure data protection and access to legacy data while lowering costs. Learn how the Dolphin platform for data and document management provides flexible applications, tools and best practices for optimizing the SAP environment. 

Read this informative white paper to learn how a data archiving strategy can, reduce storage costs, improve performance, streamline your system operations, and ensure transparent data access, retrieval, and maintenance. 

This brief white paper outlines information lifecycle management (ILM), a set of strategies for managing the growth, storage and retrieval of information over its useful life. Its goal is to ensure that frequently accessed data is returned as fast as possible, while controlling storage costs. 

Unauthorized access to information assets is a critical, complex and constant security threat for any federal agency. Read this IBM white paper and discover powerful, cost-effective, easy-to-use solutions to your authentication and authorization concerns—from single sign-on to complex security infrastructure deployments. 

The Internet has changed the dynamics of technology sales and marketing. While most marketing efforts emphasize generating leads, and most sales efforts are focused on closing sales, not enough consideration is given to the little-understood but vital middle ground of lead qualification. Learn more about industry best practices. 

<p>Combining software from Dell partners with the Dell DX Object Storage Platform provides a holistic data repository for simultaneous storage of different data types—shared documents, e-mail, file archives, databases, and machine-generated records. Read this brief white paper to learn more.</p> 

Access this white paper to learn how segmenting the network infrastructure of your data center into smaller pieces provides clarity on networking requirements and discover the ability to make better vendor decisions at each network layer. 

<p>Without up-to-date servers in place, it is difficult for organisations to progress beyond a certain point in their virtualisation initiatives. This white paper explains how you can take your virtualisation project to the next level by deploying high-performance hardware created with this technology in mind.</p> 

There is a clear financial case that favors SMB adoption of virtual environments or cloud computing. The decision of which strategy to choose is less clear simply because the stakes are so high. This paper compares both strategies and point out the best option for SMBs. 

Access this white paper to learn how investing in storage virtualization and automated tiered storage can optimize your data center, lowering your total cost of ownership and offering a significant return on investment. 

This white paper explains how by partitioning databases based on the lifecycles of the information and compressing historical data, IT departments can reduce their dependency on high-end storage, reduce their incremental storage costs, keep more data online for longer periods, and improve the performance of applications. 

The cost and time associated with managing desktops is rising at a time when budgets are being tightened and IT staffing is strained. This is driving interest in the use of desktop virtualization, where virtual desktop machines run on servers within the data center. Access this white paper to learn more about the benefits of desktop virtualization.