Computing infrastructure today is highly versatile and this has many benefits for businesses. Unfortunately, it also has downsides; use that infrastructure unintelligently and costs can get out of control. 

Tower Servers are ideal first servers for small businesses with the right combination of value, reliability, collaboration and data protection features to improve your business continuity and productivity. Learn more in this video which takes a look at a growing restaurant's adoption of a Dell PowerEdge Tower Server. 

By planning for problems now, you can avoid them all together. Check out this white paper, Quick Start Guide for Oracle SOA Suite 11gR1, for an extensive look at how you can properly implement an Oracle service-oriented architecture (SOA) at your organization. 

Organisations need to start getting to grips with imminent changes to the supplier landscape; that way, they will be ready to move if and when the time is right. 

Natural disasters, attacks by hackers, a new application gone bad - any or all of these could result in costly disruptions and missed opportunities. Yet many businesses overlook business continuity planning. Learn how savvy enterprises are employing virtualization to strengthen disaster recovery plans. 

This white paper breaks down the spectrum of business intelligence (BI) tools into specific functionalities and explains how they can be practically applied by midsized organizations to improve decision-making. Read it to learn what you need to know to get started with a BI implementation. 

Offline testing models are becoming obsolete and meaningful metrics can only come from real-world, production environments. Organizations once solely dependent on synthetic tests are challenged to respond to this change. In this video segment, learn how to plan and deploy applications and services on time and on budget. 

This IDC white paper makes the case that BI and data warehousing technologies are vital components of a decision support solution and complement each other well. Also revealed here are the benefits and requirements of BI and data warehousing solutions and how HP and Microsoft technology have joined forces to tackle these requirements. 

This research from Freeform Dynamics assess the impact of the cloud on the IT department and the way the department functions. 

This white paper provides a general overview of SAM benefits, and then addresses the specific issues involved in getting SAM up and running in your organization. 

Fiscally conservative IT organizations should try to minimize their expenses and leverage their IT budgets. Understanding the data tax and where potential savings reside is a good place to start. This white paper explains how this data tax is being levied and provides valuable advice from our data tax advisors on how to legally circumvent this tax. 

In this E-Guide learn how Microsoft Hyper-V fits into the server virtualization landscape, with insight on exactly what Hyper-V has to offer, and analysis of how the Microsoft technology stacks up against the competition.