This paper will present you with all the information needed to make an educated decision on whether to commodity coding is right for your organization and it will help with choosing the commodity coding that fits your company. 

Outsourcing is the quest to offload either commodity or very specialized activities, so that staff can focus on work that truly adds value to the business. 

Hear TIBCO Spotfire's John Callan discuss how you can perform total spend analysis, drive supplier consolidation, identify maverick spend in a user-friendly, visual analysis environment and address a range of KPI's. 

This paper provides an overview of Platform HPC Workgroup Manager (HPC-WM). HPC-WM dramatically simplifies both the installation and ongoing management of Linux clusters, making them accessible to even the smallest organizations. 

Cloud storage is a rapidly growing technology. Read this paper for the latest definitions of cloud storage and cloud service and to more closely examine cloud storage benefits and offerings. 

This paper encourages all businesses to consider a more formal "green" strategy in regards to client computing and the technology refresh cycle. The timing could not be better. There is also a business case to be made that the 'business as usual' environment could view the "green" initiative as a compelling event unto itself. 

This white paper describes the types of PM services that can help safeguard the uptime of data centers and IT equipment rooms. 

Specifying data center density has yet to conform to an established standard within the industry. This paper describes the science and practical application of an improved method for the specification of power and cooling infrastructure for data centers. 

The power/density paradox hinders end users from utilizing the very floor space that high density systems were intended to conserve. This brief explores what the power/density paradox is and how IT professionals can mitigate the risk. 

This white paper details how self-contained high-density zones enable a reliable operation of high-density equipment without impacting a low-density data center. 

Currently over 600 Orange Business Services customers use their VPNs to transport voice and data. Some use a do-it-yourself model; others use a fully managed model. If you're looking for value, the fully managed approach is the less costly and higher quality alternative. Read this paper to find more details about pros and cons of each choice. 

Robert McFarlane, Principal Data Center and Financial Trading Floor Consultant, runs through what it means to really have a green data center and offers suggestions on what you can do to get there.