To help IT decision makers evaluate their options for addressing datacenter complexity - Dell posed the following questions to Mary Johnston Turner, research director for IDC's System Management Software service. Learn answers to today's most pressing datacenter questions regarding cloud computing, virtualization, provisioning and more. 

Access this essential resource to discover how consolidating, modernizing and virtualizing major IT initiatives can help your organization in the long term by drastically improving cost savings, efficiencies, agility, and enterprise business benefits. 

<p>Many companies are realizing that fixed asset management can be time-consuming and complex, causing them to look for alternative strategies for tracking and reporting. Luckily, new management solutions can help simplify the process, improve efficiency, and cut costs. Check out what these platforms can offer by utilizing this ROI calculator.</p> 

This resource explains how you can lower costs and improve flexibility by migrating your mainframe to open system servers. Discover the three major factors driving organizations to consider migrating application workloads off mainframe environments to open systems solutions. 

This resource explores how UPS became an instant-on enterprise with an easy to manage converged infrastructure. This technology enabled them to respond quickly to business and IT developments, improve customer relationships, increase scalability and reliability, and reduce costs. Discover how your company can become an instant-on enterprise today. 

Data center virtualization is continuing to grow as a mission-critical strategy for scaling performance and capacity, but doing so necessitates a powerful virtualization platform. Read this exclusive white paper for a comprehensive overview of one of the premier virtualization platforms available on the market. 

MGM Resorts International sought to consolidate the data centers from its latest acquisitions, in order to contain IT costs, increase availability, improve agility and focus on innovation. The company chose Dell™ Services to perform a Virtualization Assessment with partners Intel® and VMware®. 

Cloud computing is more than just a buzz word. Utilizing this technology streamlines organizations by reducing operating costs, improving application performance and allocating resources more efficiently. Download this resource to discover more about this technology and how it can impact your organization. 

Take a look at this series of brief videos to gain insights into how cloud computing can help you overcome key business challenges to accelerate growth, enhance customer experiences and improve IT spending. 

This video discusses how one company leveraged advanced cloud solutions to significantly accelerate its time to market, increasing its ROI. Learn how these new platforms can enable you to focus on your core business offering, allowing you to improve performance and efficiency. 

This Forrester report reveals the latest virtualization trends so you can see how far your peers are in their journey to the private cloud. Read on and discover best practices for improving virtualization in order to prepare for the cloud. 

This white paper explains how you can simplify data center management and improve operational visibility by viewing multiple blades, switches, and other systems from a single console. Learn more about this approach, its prerequisites, and key benefits here. 

This case study explains how one retail giant improved business support services by rehosting its mainframe applications to HP integrity servers. Learn how they were able to overcome the integration difficulties connected to mainframe-based management, maximize use of open technologies, and much more.