This e-book by IBM, will introduce you to the five big IT budget killers and some of the best ways to knock them out. 

Read this expert E-Guide to discover strategies and best practices essential for effective SQL Server consolidation and optimization. Gain insight into the common challenges associated with consolidation initiatives and learn how to maintain a high level of availability and performance in SQL Server virtual machines. 

With its new unified management and auditing tools, SQL Server 2008 makes it easier to manage multiple instances on fewer servers. And by hosting these instances on Dell PowerEdge Servers powered by multi-core processors, you can guarantee the best levels of availability, as well as ensure the best possible performance. 

Application grid brings the same type of efficiency, scalability, and quality of service to the application layer that database clusters brings to the database layer. With an application grid you get greater efficiency, exceptional agility, and superior quality of service. Download this free white paper now. 

This paper shows how next-generation Sun servers, based on the Intel Xeon processor 5500 series, allow IT organizations to meet these challenges by delivering game-changing performance and virtualization improvements that help enable companies to leverage best practices for IT management, application deployment, work processes, and cost control. 

This webcast examines how upgrading your system with new Sun Fire servers can actually save you money. 

This Guide is a companion to How to Guide: Consolidating multiple SQL Server systems onto Dell PowerEdge Servers using Microsoft’s Hyper-V. In this Guide, we use the Dell PowerEdge R900 and PowerEdge R905 as target servers. 

This paper provides general information for using Data Domain deduplication storage systems to backup virtual machines deployed with VMware Infrastructure 3 (VI3). Topics include an overview of VI3 components and various methods of backing up data in VMDK images and Guest OS files for discrete recovery - either locally or remotely in a DR site. 

In this chapter of the "Introduction to Virtualization E-book" we will look at how to protect production workloads running in a virtual environment as well as off load this work to a stand-by host if needed. 

Implementing the newest blade servers will enable you to decrease power consumption and optimize performance in your virtualized data center. Listen to this expert podcast to learn more about how you can consume less power and cut cooling costs. 

It's been estimated that Open Storage architectures will make up just under 12 % of the market by 2011, fueled by the industry's need for more scalable and economic storage. The following podcast will present the ideas and strategies of Open Storage and the key benefits it delivers to storage architectures. 

IT professionals have been looking to flexibly scale, reconfigure, and or repurpose their storage infrastructures to reserve their allocated budget. The product presented in this Videocast combines open-storage software with industry-standard hardware, enabling you to reduce your reliance on high-priced systems and save up to 90% on storage costs. 

Priceline.com purchased and deployed six 3PAR InServ S400 tiered storage arrays across multiple locations to consolidate and protect all mission-critical and SAN-resident data, including core demand collection and offer processing Oracle® databases.