Social content is now as much a part of businesses today as their employees. Managing it is essential to your success. How organizations go about this varies. This paper offers a clearer understanding of the benefits of social business systems. Discover how best to govern your social content to exploit it for the maximum long-term benefit. 

Check out this evaluation of a data protection solution for VMware. Access test results regarding ease-of-implementation, functionality and interoperability in VMware vSphere 5 environments. 

Do you have a large, complex set of interconnected, multi-tier applications that need ongoing development and testing? Spending too much time and resources setting up physical machines and resetting them than actually doing development and testing? Do you lack sufficient machines to test your multi-tier applications the right way? You're not alone. 

In this videocast, senior enterprise IT architect Nelson Ruest breaks down some of these scenarios, with details on how Hyper-V can provide benefits in test and development situations and business continuity. 

This technology validation report from Taneja Group explains why VM backups are critical and shares their test results of Acronis vmProtect 7. 

Learn what recovery challenges are still plaguing IT pros today, and learn how you can achieve 100% recovery confidence through continuous and ongoing testing. Also learn about the challenges associated with traditional backup and recovery technologies in today's data-intensive environments and discover how to overcome these pitfalls. 

Explore advanced networking features in VMware vSphere 5.0 in this in-depth, step-by-step guide to configuring and testing these essential features for your virtual environment. Discover how NetFlow, port mirroring, and user-defined resource pools help network admins gain visibility in virtual machine traffic and troubleshoot network issues. 

Check out the test results of a data dedupe solution Enterprise Group reports as having "delivered industry-leading performance" under real-world scenarios. 

This white paper examines the performance figures obtained by the Riverbed® Stingray™ Traffic Manager Virtual Appliance (VA) running on VMware vSphere 4.0, which was installed on the Cisco Unified Computing System (UCS). It compares those figures with tests run on a previous generation of Intel Xeon processors. 

This interactive white paper will examine why test and development is an ideal first step for businesses looking to transition more functions to the cloud without sacrificing control over IT resources. 

Storage is the backbone of your virtual environment. Learn how virtualization has made shared storage a necessity in your data center, and find out which technologies and strategies to employ to get the most of out of your storage. 

This seven-page Buyer’s Guide to Cloud Computing by Computer Weekly journalists details the kinds of cloud offering that CIOs and senior IT professionals will need to take into account as they plan future outsourcing, hosting and application strategies.