Windows Server 2008 R2 is designed to provide better energy efficiency and performance by reducing power consumption and lowering overhead costs. Read this white paper to learn about the new features that deliver real energy savings opportunities for the enterprise. 

This whitepaper takes a look at the importance of corporate governance in today's context, some best practices that companies can adopt in this area for effective corporate governance and, more specifically, lays out 5 important steps to effective corporate governance. 

With two data centers serving 24 offices in the U.S., Europe and India, Hitachi Consulting required a solution that could provide visibility into the applications running on the network while selectively accelerating business critical ones. Read on to learn about the solution they found. 

Mondial Assistant Group wanted to share best processes across their 28 global business units but they lacked a platform for sharing process knowledge. So they turned to Lombardi Blueprint, a hosted service that fosters easy collaboration among non-technical business users who want to document and analyze their processes. Read on to learn more. 

The purpose of this study is to provide a framework to evaluate the potential financial impact of Windows Server 2008 R2 on their organizations. Forrester's aim is to show all calculations and assumptions used in the analysis. Use this study to better understand and communicate a business case for investing in Windows Server 2008 R2. 

This paper provides an overview of the new features in Windows Server® 2008 R2 Hyper-V™ and detailed information on live migration. 

Windows Server® 2008 R2 File Classification Infrastructure (FCI), a built-in solution for file classification, enables manual processes to be automated with predefined policies based on the data's business value. Read this paper to learn more. 

In Windows Server® 2008, Microsoft is introducing new features and technologies that will help to reduce the power consumption of server and client operating systems, minimize environmental byproducts, and increase server efficiency. This document describes some of these features and technologies. 

Read this paper for an explanation of the top ten reasons upgrading to Windows Server 2008, the newest Windows Server operating system from Microsoft. 

The current state of the datacenter demands a transformation that helps in improving space utilization and lowering power consumption while still providing the scale and availability the business requires. Read this report to learn how your organization can optimize data center efficiency and lower costs. 

An old Chinese proverb advises us to "preserve the old, but know the new." Microsoft's old template concept has been preserved in the Windows Server 2008 operating system, in the form of what Microsoft calls the starter GPO (Group Policy Object). 

This free whitepaper details best practices for managing distribution and security groups in Active Directory. As the importance of AD in any size organization grows, learn to manage AD groups properly and unleash the power of Active Directory.