This paper discusses why failure happens and how to prevent it by following the overriding best practice in successful acquisitions, mergers, and divestitures: preparedness. 

IT infrastructures have become exceedingly complex, resulting in a highly interconnected network of old and new technologies. Find out how service automation can help you navigate technologies such as server virtualization, as well as legacy distributed and mainframe computing environments. 

The MMT initiative can help your company achieve this by enabling the integration of ERP, MES and other plant systems into a single source of company data. Read on to learn how Atos Origin has aligned with SAP's industry Business Units to jointly offer the MMT approach that will enable manufacturers to realize the vision of the Perfect Plant. 

This paper will assess how to locate and account for functionality gaps. It will also illustrate a methodology for realigning applications with business goals. 

TRW, a German automotive company, was facing power and software limitations in the prototyping stages of design development that proved to be costly and slowed performance. This case study shows how they turned to Dell to upgrade their server and storage systems in line with its cutting-edge development processes. 

This paper will detail how to control and manage MIPS usage by employing a systematic, repeatable approach that uses powerful technology and a proven process and expertise. 

Inefficient DB2 applications can waste MIPS and cost an organization thousands while mainframe application demand continually grows. Learn how BMC's SQL Performance solution for DB2 can reduce CPU MIPS, improve DB2 application performance, correct problems before they occur, and enable staff to work on more productive tasks. 

vSphere, VMware's latest release, adds approximately 150 new features to its previous VI3 product! The purpose of this white paper is to highlight the most notable of these features and to discuss the benefits they offer your organization's IT infrastructure. 

Watch this video to learn how Franklin Covey, a training and consulting services organization that separated into two different companies, was able to implement Microsoft virtualization solutions in both companies to effectively recreate the IT environment across both for half the anticipated cost. 

The costs for power, cooling, server management and administration are now consuming more of IT budgets than even the cost for new hardware. In this TechTarget IT Briefing, you'll learn about Citrix Essentials, Intel Xeon 5500, and HP ProLiant G6 for XenServer. 

Read this presentation transcript and learn how to optimize your storage infrastructure using the latest NAND technologies, HDD and DRAM. 

Dell commissioned Principled Technologies to estimate how many months it would take to recapture initial investment costs when consolidating multiple 4-year-old Dell™ PowerEdge™ 2850 server and storage solutions onto a Dell PowerEdge R710 server and storage solution using Microsoft® Windows Server® 2008 with Hyper-V™