This resource examines the consolidation and standardization necessary for high-efficiency data centers. Discover the top ten tips to ensure data center consolidation success. 

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

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. 

2012 holds a lot of promise for today's data centers, with several new trends taking off at the same time. This presentation transcript follows the evolution of virtualization, cloud computing, and other recent technologies and projects the impact they will have on business infrastructures. 

This white paper describes the link between data center efficiency and business sustainability. Obtain detailed guidelines to help you make the link between these essential elements. 

By simplifying and automating deployment, retargeting and provisioning workloads, and managing processes for virtualized systems, the Dell Virtual Integrated System (VIS) architecture empowers end users to access resources when they need them. Continue reading to learn more. 

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. 

In 2005, Intel IT began planning, engineering, and implementing a virtualized business computing production environment as part of its overall data center strategy. Read this white paper to learn more about how Intel's virtualization strategy has helped lower costs, increase agility, and reduce energy consumption. 

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. 

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. 

This paper offers a guide for presenting the relatively high costs of expanding physical environments and the savings components of virtualization. 

In this case study Emerson virtualizes on Dell servers, eliminating 3,600 servers, reducing approximately 135 data centers down to 4, and decreasing the operating cost of its Windows server environment by 15 percent per year. 

This resource provides insight into the virtual era and its essential elements. Learn how improving IT efficiency can help you address your top resource constraints without consuming your limited budget.