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. 

Cloud computing builds on various trends including network-centric application access, the consumerization of IT, increasing scale and complexity, open source, and virtualization. Discover how IaaS can help automate an IT infrastructure, maintain governance and eliminate VM sprawl with the proper policies. 

Layered Tech chose Dell servers to build a new infrastructure that would take its managed hosting and cloud services to a new level, and saw performance increase by 22 percent. Download this case study for more information. 

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. 

Discover how leveraging pre-engineered and pre-built infrastructure can help your organization fast-track virtualization projects and eliminate many virtualization difficulties from the get-go. 

Lean software development and deployment should figure prominently in every organization’s IT strategy. The growing pervasiveness of virtual and cloud environments makes the need even more urgent.  Read this paper to learn why your peers are replacing JEE containers with lean, lightweight application servers - and what you can gain from the move. 

Oracle introduces the new Sun Fire X4170 M2, the most versatile IT infrastructure building block server and the Sun Fire X4270 M2 server, the ideal server for clustered database and virtualized workloads. 

This expert guide explores what the availability of cloud services means for channel professionals, how to capitalise on this growing trend, and what to look for. 

Backup redesign is a must if customers are to reach their virtualization goals—without it, scaling the virtual server environment is nearly impossible. Read this comprehensive white paper to learn more. 

Watch this videocast for a virtual whiteboarding session with Zeus Kerravala, VP of Research for the Yankee Group, as he discusses with the things an SMB needs to think about when building a data center, also commonly known as a server room. Learn the 3 primary considerations for SMBs as the build their data centers. 

IT shops are increasingly considering failover capabilities to support critical Web-based services. This webcast looks at what factors you need to consider and tasks you must perform to successfully deploy Windows Server 2008 R2. 

What is server virtualization? If you're just getting started virtualizing your data center or looking for a refresher on server virtualization basics, this expert e-guide is just the resource you need. This handy and concise guide covers the essentials of what virtualization is and how you can put the building blocks in place.