If you're a small or mid-sized business thinking about virtualization, particularly in the world of Microsoft, it makes sense to upgrade your database servers as well. This article explains why to upgrade and provides several examples of companies that have successfully made the move. 

Many organizations struggle to carry on the processes of multiple large data integration and SOA projects for reconstructing data flows, ontologies, transformations and more. This paper addresses the obstacles faced when attempting data projects and the strategic plans for overcoming these issues to attain a higher ROI and reduce overall cost. 

Tape remains the most cost effective, energy efficient and reliable program technology for storing large amounts of inactive, off-line or near-line data while complimenting disk-based data protection and retention solutions. Read this paper and find out why. 

This talk covers, through a series of examples, how data centre infrastructure management (DCIM) software tools can simplify operational processes, cut costs, and speed up information delivery. 

This guide from Sybase is full of examples of mCommerce at work. The benefits range from speeding up economies to life-changing improvements. For merchants, operators and banks, the new channel offers another way to grow business and revenues while meeting the financial needs of customers. 

This edition of the CEM e-zine examines the role social media can play in your company. Learn how Major League Baseball is capitalizing on this revolution to fill its stands even during the darkest of times of the season, why Pinterest is such a success and how Dell measures it's social media success by tracking 22,000 daily online comments. 

<p>Access this video to learn one professional services firm’s approach to converged infrastructure. Discover proven strategies to modernize your infrastructure and realize benefits like increased agility, improved application response time and more.</p> 

See this demo spotlight from IBM Business Partners. View demos on planning, profitability analysis, interactive dashboards and more. Look at real-world examples of how your midsize company can improve performance with IBM Cognos Express. 

Explore 4 key examples of how businesses in all industries are leveraging desktop and application virtualization solutions to embrace workshifting and capitalize on efficiency and productivity gains in this essential resource. 

This paper examines the benefits of Microsoft's BranchCache solution to allows branch office workers to cache content obtained from head office file and web servers locally. 

IT managers that fail to embrace on-demand services will hold back the organisation they are supposed to be supporting. Such services can save costs within IT, as well as provide new capabilities to the business that have previously been unavailable or unaffordable. 

Different Emerging Information Technologies (EIT) have different impacts upon a business. Some EIT should be used as technical tools for supporting business to make business more efficient or effective; othersshould be used as strategic tools for leading, not merely supporting, a business to make a difference.