This paper examines how virtualization has become such a hot topic that the number of virtualization techniques, tools, and technologies is into the dozens, and that’s just from Microsoft. Some of the benefits of virtualization include hardware cost savings, configuration optimization, less disruption, and easier reallocation of resources. 

This paper describes how tiered storage, as a storage initiative, has been proven to significantly reduce acquisition and operating costs for medium and large scale storage enterprises. Read this paper to learn more about how tiered storage is taking center stage. 

If a server goes down in a hospital, it is a matter of life and death. In this paper, learn how healthcare IT managers are keeping their data centers up and running 24/7 with an infrastructure that is robust enough to support new healthcare IT initiatives, including Electronic Medical Records systems. 

Windows 7 migrations can be risky and expensive, threatening employee productivity by changing the working environment. Access this resource to learn how AppSense User Virtualisation technology can alleviate seven critical user-centric concerns in your Windows upgrade. 

Listen to this podcast featuring Senior Analyst from Forrester Research, Rachel Dines to learn why PC backup today is more important than ever and how to solve your PC backup challenges. 

This paper guides IT professionals through the steps necessary to implement a practical data loss prevention (DLP) strategy. It starts off by looking at what’s driving data loss prevention, the consequences of data loss, and a possible solution. It then moves on to practical implementation advice and examples. Read on to learn more. 

This Technical White Paper presents the main challenges of data quality and drills into specific uses of data profiling and data cleansing. It highlights, through 32 distinct use cases, how open source data quality technology can be used to alleviate issues related to poor-quality data. 

Many companies struggle with the execution of self-service IT. Join us for a 60-minute interactive Webcast that explores the potential inherent in self-service IT and offers solid advice and examples of how to get there. 

In this brief white paper, Jeff Martin, Station Casinos’ director of business intelligence (BI), provides specific examples of the types of problems that the company wanted to solve, and offers insight into the specific job scheduling solution it selected to overcome its challenges. 

When we talk about the world becoming increasingly interconnected, instrumented and intelligent, the most ubiquitous example is the smartphone. It collects and disseminates data while its users are at home and on the go, serving up just as much socially driven info as static, always-there web content. This white paper outlines smarter commerce. 

This brief video shoes how predictive analytics benefits Arvato Services, Yamaha Motor Europe, Banco Itau Argentina, Avis Europe and other organizations. For example, Avis Europe uses IBM predictive analytics to drive highly personalized e-mail campaigns based on detailed customer profiles. 

This informative paper describes enterprise 2.0, how you can make the leap from 1.0 to 2.0 as well as real-world examples of successfully engaging web content management. 

Electricity usage costs have become an increasing fraction of the total cost of running a data centers. This paper explains how achieve electricity savings and provides examples of methods that can greatly reduce electrical power consumption.