The accelerated pace of doing business in today's world puts organizations under tremendous pressure. They need to be fleet and flexible, able to rapidly respond to opportunities, make decisions, and deploy resources. Critical to this is the way information is managed and stored. 

The chapters in this Techfocus eBook will discuss the importance of site selection and planning, data center conceptualization and cost analysis, and negotiating with contractors. 

In this white paper, you’ll discover how to grapple virtualization's complexities by automating time drains like on/off control, making backups and snapshots, and provisioning resources (virtual machines). 

Stretching IT dollars is essential. And one of the main ways that a growing number of companies are making their IT budget dollars go farther is through server virtualization. The technology lets IT administrators create and run multiple server instances on shared host hardware. 

This document provides information about planning your backup and restore strategies using Microsoft Hyper-V technology and the Dell PowerVault MD3000 storage array or the MD3000i storage array. Hyper-V provides the software infrastructure and management tools in Windows Server 2008 to create and manage a virtualized server computing environment. 

Communications as a service (CaaS) is a hot new market that promises to grow quickly. In CaaS, communications technology is located in a data center of a communications service provider, and is owned and managed by the service provider as a multi-tenant infrastructure. Read the white paper for more information on Communications as a service. 

This paper proposes an approach for IT to manage virtualized environments and shows how HP Business Service Management software enables IT operations to link specialists and specialized tools into day-to-day operations while keeping promises to business users. 

Read this e-book to learn about compliance differences in the U.S.A. and the EU, and differences between global business continuity standards. 

The Enterprise Integration Triangle – How the World's Favorite Airline Has Mastered the Code! 

Business services with virtualized components are more complex to discover, monitor, manage, automate and troubleshoot. This webcast explores a new management technology that can help your organization overcome the monitoring challenges of virtualized business services. 

This webcast will recap what the seven points of SOA mediation are and how they help SOA integrators connect data sources and enhance enterprise application flexibility. After the recap, this session will focus on how to apply these seven points in your organization and how they enable companies to achieve better business results. 

Altor is the leading provider of security for virtual data centers and clouds. This link provides you with full access to Altor security software running within a VMware environment hosted on our site.