This IDC white paper explores one such technology - a data center solution designed to help organizations achieve timely, repeatable and consistent virtual deployments - and explores how it stands up against some of today's most pressing virtualization challenges. Also included are today's best practices regarding virtual environments. 

This white paper introduces an integrated infrastructure solution designed to meet the growing demands of today's virtualized data center. With the ability to be optimized for a variety of mixed application workloads, this technology allows simplified management of your virtual infrastructure and can lower TCO. Read on for more. 

This white paper describes a virtualized infrastructure that applies storage and server virtualization technologies to cost-effectively achieve a flexible, high-performance, dynamic IT infrastructure that is simple to manage and scale. 

This white paper introduces a virtualized, dynamic data center solution integrating server, storage and networking hardware. This technology is designed to minimize the risk of making the transition to the cloud while delivering the advanced capabilities you need to keep up with the growing technical demands of today's data center. 

This white paper introduces a new type of virtual solution designed specifically to improve maintenance, management and mobility in today's virtual infrastructures. By minimizing latency across long distances, this technology allows for the quick and efficient delivery of data and applications from one server to another - all with minimal downtime. 

This white paper provides insight into the sources of IT complexity and reveals the limitations of many existing tools designed to break down data center silos. Discover an infrastructure management technology that overcomes these limitations by simplifying server provisioning, reclaiming overprovisioned resources, and more. 

This classroom, as part of an online learning destination, highlights effective measures you can take to evaluate your data center design and infrastructure to get the most ROI. 

This white paper describes a recommended reference configuration designed to simplify virtualization deployment and prevent hardware failures that could result in costly downtime. Learn more about this architecture, its key components, and how it performed under various conditions. 

This brief paper introduces three solutions capable of working together to bring your business a complete and shared virtualized infrastructure, designed to help you simplify management and enhance resource efficiency. In this paper, you'll learn about each of these three technologies and the benefits they can bring your organization. 

This essential white paper describes how you can strike the appropriate balance among IT domains – from traditional internal IT to private and public cloud environments – to  gain and take advantage of the 7 critical attributes of a successful cloud implementation. 

In this white paper, learn how Intelligent Resilient Framework (IRF) technology can help you improve the performance of network switches. 

This technical white paper discusses the concerns associated with DR, and explains in detail how RecoverTrac technology addresses a full range of DR challenges. 

Companies running SAP get the importance of middleware in connecting applications – but many don’t realize that the data in those applications is often insecure. Read this white paper to discover the 5 ways that Managed File Transfer ensures that data exchanges within your company and with trading partners are secure from transmission to delivery.