This guide highlights scenarios that show how virtualization can enable server consolidation, business continuity, and an optimized desktop environment, among others, while examining the Microsoft those solutions. It also explains some of Microsoft’s technology partnership investments that support heterogeneous virtualization environments. 

Design teams across the world collaborate to create and develop prod­ucts. Unfortunately, IT organizations face serious challenges when collaborative teams share large files. This white paper will assess the strengths and weaknesses of the four technologies most commonly used to enhance file sharing for distributed teams. 

The most helpful information and best content will have little impact without simple protocols that make your Web site easier to use and more visually appealling. This paper focuses on 10 tips you can employ to ensure your web site is effective from the day it goes live. 

Combining distributed data management software with your desktop virtualization project can help you overcome common storage challenges and gain benefits such as data consolidation, improved storage utilization and simplified management. Explore a unified data and storage platform in this exclusive resource. 

Discover how your organization can overcome many VDI storage-related challenges and maximize the return on your desktop virtualization project by leveraging shared storage. Explore the advantages this storage approach offers virtualized environments, and learn how you can easily enable shared storage. 

This white paper discusses the top three challenges of custom-coded SharePoint applications and how to avoid them. 

As today’s applications become more complex, QA organizations need an updated approach that preserves the benefits of manual testing while significantly improving its efficiency, accuracy and speed. Read this paper to learn how to modernize your manual testing approach and reduce test cycles, streamline dev/test communication, and lower costs. 

This case study describes how to leverage a software solution to gain highly available virtual desktops while eliminating the high storage costs and complexity involved in replicating redundant desktop images. 

Find out how you can meet the demands of IT consumerization, VDI and an enterprise-wide Windows 7 migration with the help of a centralized, policy-based platform. Leverage automation to ease your desktop transformations today. 

Discover the impact desktop virtualization and virtual desktop infrastructure have on your network. 

Every year people come from around the world to hear from leading industry experts, vendors and Brian Madden himself on the state of the industry and where things are going. Now, for the first time ever, select sessions of BriForum Chicago 2011 are going online in our BriForum Online Academy. 

Social service agencies are experiencing challenges with manual processes. Advanced case management strategies are being implemented to streamline these processes and foster greater insight, collaboration and decision-making capabilities. This white paper explains how one such solution allows you automate these processes to elevate processing.