In this analyst report, we'll see Opalis' general take on cloud computing and what they feel it lacks as far as integration. We'll also learn about their newly launched, Opalis v6, and how it enables enterprises to benefit from having an integrated view of both in-house enterprise infrastructure performance and external cloud performance. 

The core concept behind the Shared Infrastructure for Databases involves simple building blocks, comprised of computing elements, connected together to create a powerful, yet elegant shared database environment. This white paper describes the shared infrastructure, its benefits and HP offerings to help you implement this solution. 

This data sheets examines how Microsoft Online Services can give your business the powerful productivity capabilities of Microsoft Exchange Server, Microsoft Office SharePoint Server, Microsoft Office Communications Server, and Microsoft Office Live Meeting —all hosted online. 

In this month's issue of Virtual Data Center, learn how to reduce the number of physical servers even more by focusing on the process of virtual machine placement on host servers. 

AppRiver needed a very fast, lightweight antivirus engine that would complement their SecureTide service. After a thorough evaluation process, they found ESET NOD32 Antivirus to be the most reliable and stable platform. It now protects more than 50,000 mailboxes for AppRiver. 

Dell's Hyper-V Technology Introduction for Windows Server® 2008 is a rapid approach to the deployment and configuration of a Hyper-V and SystemCenter Virtual Machine Manager 2008 (SCVMM) based Proof of Concept (POC) into your pre-production test lab. 

Following a Business Process Outsourcing agreement for the administration of Life and Pension products, HCL Insurance BPO Services, undertook a full analysis of the inherited infrastructure. A risk was identified with the third party mainframe used to host its CAPSIL insurance application. 

Enterprises that rely on enterprise resource planning and business intelligence applications have a solution that can manage exploding volumes of data while lowering cost and simplifying operations. HP Integrity server blades are designed to be always available, always scalable, and always virtualized to support applications such as SAP. 

This paper shows how next-generation Sun servers, based on the Intel Xeon processor 5500 series, allow IT organizations to meet these challenges by delivering game-changing performance and virtualization improvements that help enable companies to leverage best practices for IT management, application deployment, work processes, and cost control. 

Since the SaaS model may be new to some Trend Micro customers and Trend Micro channel partners, this paper describes how Trend Micro provisions trial requests and purchase accounts in a straightforward, step-by-step process. 

Virtualized servers are yielding dramatic cost savings through consolidation of physical resources, reductions in power and cooling requirements, and slashed operational expenses. It’s delivering a magnitude of benefits that many businesses find virtually amazing. Read this whitepaper to learn more about the benefits of server virtualization. 

The rapid adoption of server virtualization technology by organizations of all sizes has been driven by cost, flexibility and time to market. The cost savings in server consolidation are the primary motivators, but the ability to quickly deploy new applications to suit changes in the business has led many to use VMware products.