As businesses strive to achieve ever more efficient data centers and leverage the cloud, many are turning to virtualization. This IDC report examines how organizations can streamline and mitigate the risks associated with virtualizing their data centers with preconfigured infrastructure. 

Today's organisations are struggling to manage not only the physical aspects of their infrastructure, but also the virtual ones. This video examines a virtual appliance that can simplify data centre management by integrating physical and virtual tools and processes. 

This Technology Spotlight from IDC discusses the drivers, benefits, and challenges of creating virtual desktop environments, and examines a key technology that can help organizations successfully deploy virtual desktops. 

This white paper outlines the features and advantages of the Dell PowerVault NX200 with Windows Storage Server 2008 Basic, optimized for small businesses that may not have the largest in-house IT team, but need robust and reliable storage. 

This brief fact sheet explains the "Do's and Don'ts" of data quality initiatives. 

This Technology Brief discusses different approaches to data deduplication in the market today along with the pros and cons of each, and then matches some of the most common backup problems to a recommended deduplication approach. The brief close with a spotlight on Quantum's DXi7500 enterprise disk backup and replication system 

PortalGuard is a password authentication and security solution that allows end-users to authenticate and manage a portal password directly from a Web browser, while providing administrators with functionality to meet or exceed their security objectives. 

This paper details the current state of business analytics, revealing why it's not as pervasive as one may think. Read this now and learn some best practices that will help CIOs spearhead their company's BI initiatives to make better use of data for a competitive advantage. 

There’s more to printer performance than what’s listed on the product spec sheet. This white paper will help identify how features and other variables impact mobile printer performance in real-world operations. 

If you're looking to build awareness and consideration of your brand among technology buyers that rely on KnowledgeStorm, our advertising solutions will help you reach your target audience. 

For many organizations a Windows 7 migration is at the top of the priority list, but before you embark on your migration, there are several important questions you must answer. Does Windows 7 fit your enterprise? And, do you have the right tools to complete a migration? Take a look at this e-guide to help answer these questions. 

When the world’s largest offshore drilling company wanted to lower the risks and costs associated with the increase of records management regulations, it sought out a qualified vendor to help create enterprise-wide compliant records management program.  Discover how this organization was able to significantly improve its records management. 

With a strong background of being an extremely secure platform for virtualized environments and workloads, mainframes can be a viable alternative to the massively scaled-out environments often deployed in the cloud. In this paper, explore a mainframe cloud approach that delivers a solid, secure foundation on which to build a cloud environment.