The data center is one of the most critical operations in any business. Unfortunately, data center complexity has increased in recent years, straining resources and increasing the consequences of poor performance. Learn how to overcome data center challenges with 7 best practices for improving performance. 

Storage capacity efficiency through virtualization platforms can provide greater capacity in a more sustainable way than traditional storage methods. 

By helping your data center more accurately visualize and control energy use, you'll reclaim facility capacity and optimize energy use en route to reducing costs for your organization. Read this white paper for the details. 

Explore current trends and tools for capacity planning in this expert e-brief. Discover how you can maximize server space and overcome top challenges of capacity planning to increase server utilization and ROI these tips from virtualization pro David Davis. 

<p>This test report evaluates two leading servers and their ability to support increasing communications requirements. Find out how each of these platforms performed under a variety of conditions and explore the advantages of consolidation.</p> 

Access this paper now for a detailed look at the processes that operate at the solution, file system, and system hardware levels of the Quantum’s DXi®-Series disk backup solutions. 

This paper demonstrates that RAID 6 is less capable to prevent data loss with today's large capacity SATA and SAS HDDs. It will also share Oracle's designs to mitigate this risk. The integrity of customers' data is in jeopardy if these large capacity SATA/SAS HDDs are simply packaged into a RAID 6 group without additional mitigation. 

<p>As new messaging requirements emerge, companies are quickly realizing the limitations of their server and storage infrastructure. This white paper showcases a hardware configuration that improves energy efficiency while providing the capacity, density, data throughput, and availability needed to support Exchange 2010.</p> 

To meet today’s unpredictable challenges, changing requirements and technical growth areas, a modular data center design and strategy can yield significant benefits that provide flexibility to match short-term capacity requirements with long-term growth, and do so in a cost-effective manner. Read this white paper to learn more. 

Microsoft Windows Storage Server 2008 R2 running on Dell PowerVault NX3100 NAS devices are allowing IT departments to cost-effectively expand capacity and improve performance while simplifying and streamlining storage infrastructures. Read now to learn more. 

This analyst paper explores why packet loss and ordering has become such a bit problem in today's WANs and offers what can be done to overcome these packet delivery challenges.