Wells' Dairy needed to provide cost-effective services and promote business continuity and agility. It deployed the Windows Server 2008 Datacenter operating system and Hyper-V™ virtualization technology. Today, it has a scalable server consolidation solution and a data center that is saving more than US.$12,000 in annual electrical costs. 

This white paper will discuss the forces behind the rise of flexible, cloud-like data center architectures; describe the hardware needs created by those new architectures; and show why custom servers from ZT Systems powered by AMD Opteron™ processors are an exceptional fit for these demanding new data center environments. 

Do you know what data transport technology options are available in today's market? This paper will help you assess economic, operational, and security factors involved in selecting data transport technology and present Ethernet carrier services as an attractive data transport option. 

In this Pocket Guide, brought to you by SearchServerVirtualization.com, Dell and VMware, discover the central tasks in the assessment and planning stages of a virtualization project. 

With Microsoft recently announcing plans to terminate support for the VB6 IDE and the VB6 runtime, many organizations are looking to migrate their VB6 application. This paper reviews the current migration and modernization solutions for converting valuable software assets from the VB6 platform, as well as 12 tips for handling the migration. 

Many new storage systems enable broader, more-flexible uses for solid-state drives (SSDs). This Gartner research piece identifies the advantages and disadvantages of various SSD architectural alternatives, and discuss how to use them to facilitate the design of high-performance, cost-efficient storage infrastructures. 

Check out this solution brief to discover how VMware equips SMBs with technology solutions that allow them to cost effectively optimize the use of their existing IT assets and resources as well as protect the systems, data, and applications that run the business, ensuring Always On IT. 

This paper proposes a high-level methodology for implementation of Workload Automation (WLA) - a mature evolution of job scheduling that automates complex IT processing and includes support for event-driven workloads, multiple platforms, Web services, composite applications, SOAs, virtual systems, system and application integration, and more. 

This IDC white paper presents the benefits to enterprises adopting a preemptive approach to IPC, the internal threats to business information, the impact of government regulations on the protection of data, and highlights how Oracle provides database security products that enterprises can leverage to protect themselves from costly data breaches. 

About a billion people worldwide do not have access to telecommunications services, mostly from lack of a power grid that can support network infrastructure. Traditional wireless networks for remote locations rely on costly generators that are hard on the environment. Read this whitepaper to learn about cost effective and eco-friendly alternatives. 

This solution brief discusses how the Dell EqualLogic™ PS Series can provide a fully virtualized storage infrastructure that delivers high availability, resiliency, flexibility, and scalability that is simple and cost-effective to deploy, manage and grow. 

System Center desktop solutions help IT to reconcile competing demands of security with resource availability by streamlining the connection of any authorized user to any application, regardless of their location or connectivity, through a unified system that provides both secure access and the consistent, optimized performance your users expect. 

In this series, Craig Mathias explores the various ways mobility solutions can be used successfully and cost-effectively in your enterprise.