In this expert E-Guide, brought to you by SearchDataCenter.com and BMC, you will discover best practices for comprehensive and cost-effective mainframe management, maintenance and upgrading. Explore cost-effective mainframe upgrades and gain insight into approaches essential for adding flexibility to today's mainframe applications. 

This handbook will cover best practices for moving to Microsoft Windows 7, including assessing Windows 7 to determine if it’s a good move for your organization, which applications in your organization should move over, what help is out there for your migration project and licensing. 

Many IT administrators believe the cloud is staged to offer adaptable, flexible and scalable resources at a fraction of the cost. But with varying definitions, strategies and expectations, the cloud is still clearly in the developmental stages. Take a look at this white paper for an expert analysis of cloud computing. 

<p>Featuring a virtualized, enterprise storage architecture and tight integration with VMware software, the Dell Compellent Storage Center SAN helps boost IT agility by efficiently scaling to meet the needs of growing private cloud deployments. Read this white paper to learn more.</p> 

This expert tip analyzes the impact of the cloud and offers exclusive advice to help organizations embrace this technology. Find out how the cloud can eliminate IT silos and discover what you need to know about licensing, support, and chargeback. 

Application performance monitoring (APM) is skyrocketing in popularity. This Gartner Magic Quadrant can help you gain a better understanding of APM, how it can benefit your application environment and how you should go about implementing it today. Read this now and also learn about specific vendor's strengths and weaknesses and what to be aware of. 

This whitepaper serves as a guideline for Vista migration projects, highlights the key challenges and cautions and outlines an ideal approach to successfully migrate to Windows Vista. 

<p>This exclusive video discusses the power and efficiency challenges facing many organization's data centers today and introduces new solutions that can help mitigate excessive energy consumption. Learn how policy-based power management can help you cut data center costs and improve your green initiatives.</p> 

Universities and other higher education establishments increasingly have to address the need for savings across the board. One area of focus has to be expenses from faculty members and others associated with the faculty. 

An effective response to litigation requests is pivotal in today's corporate world. Many organizations are struggling to balance litigation-related expenses and organizational risk. This white paper can help. Read this now and gain eight best practice tips for containing the cost of litigation preparation and response while reducing your risk. 

This white paper highlights recent virtualisation advances that can minimise PC management expenses while heightening the security of client infrastructures. Explore the requirements for the next generation desktop and discover tools and processes that can help you meet effectively meet them. 

Smart information technology (IT) practices reduce the environmental impact of conducting business, and help small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs) reduce expenses.