<p>To enjoy the flexibility and resource savings of a private cloud, you need to know where to begin with building one. In this issue of <em>Cloud Development Digest, </em>find best practices and expert recommendations for implementing a private cloud.</p> 

Virtualization is growing in popularity, but IT managers must decide between maintaining a highly uniform hypervisor environment or utilizing different vendors’ virtual server platforms for different applications. Turn to a mixed hypervisor environment to maximize virtualization benefits and prepare yourselt for a future move to the cloud. 

This white paper examines the current market for cloud computing. Access survey results from your peers and learn how to differentiate between various vendor offerings. 

Many IT pros are considering the idea of moving to a public cloud environment. But organizations still do not like the idea of putting sensitive corporate data onto a shared, public infrastructure. Gain insight about Dell private cloud solutions that can help address the concerns surrounding a public cloud, including security. 

<p>Access this essential white paper to discover the six top problems in your data center and how to effectively address them. Learn how to manage a multivendor environment, virtualize without vulnerability, take advantage of the private cloud and more.</p> 

Check out this video to learn about the latest hardware and software cloud developments from NetApp. In this video you'll learn about several of NetApp's emerging virtualization and cloud solutions that allow for reduced deployment risk, increased data center efficiency and a more flexible IT environment. Watch now to learn more. 

Supported by results from specific case studies, this whitepaper shows how you can finally meet your recovery objectives, provide seamless failover between multiple sites, improve remote application performance, and lower your ongoing bandwidth costs. 

This podcast will focus on the content of a new KnowledgeStorm research report, the second in a series of studies looking at the impact emerging online applications have on B2B technology marketing. The research finds that blogs and Real Simple Syndication (RSS) are catching on more quickly than previously thought. 

This report, the second in a series of studies looking at the impact emerging online applications have on B2B technology marketing, finds that blogs and Real Simple Syndication (RSS) are catching on more quickly than previously thought. 

Question five featured in SearchUnifiedCommunications.com’s IT Decision Center on Business Collaboration asks top vendors in the space:  What capabilities are there to support mobile policies? Find out what this vendor has to say by accessing their answer to this question now. 

Read this expert e-guide to learn the benefits of testing the cloud for storage vendors. Unveil why this trend is catching on and what the future holds for this kind of testing. Also find information about the additional charges that cloud storage users pay for individual transactions. 

Is the C-suite really the best source of early leads that will convert to revenue for your company? New research from KnowledgeStorm unveils some surprising results that call this common conception into question, and should have technology marketers re-examining their lead targeting strategies.