A look at alternative approaches to managing energy for cost and/or sustainability reasons in data centres. 

Mastering private cloud economics means refining the business value proposition of your portfolio view of computing environments, and in turn developing a simple model that describes the cost and benefit of each environment. This expert e-guide provides insight on how to calculate private cloud cost advantages and more. 

This Case Study assesses the deployment of Mimecast SaaS-based Unified Email Management (UEM) solution at Basic Energy Services, a renowned publicly traded oilfield services Company. IDC examines the effectiveness of the Mimecast solution and its services in meeting Basic Energy Services' needs and the reasons why the Mimecast solution was chosen. 

In today’s tough economy, organizations are pressured to maintain a low total cost of ownership (TCO). This resource can help you compare the total cost of ownership (TCO) for maintaining and extending mainframe based applications versus the costs for migrating the applications to open systems servers. 

It's possible to make VDI affordable for SMBs. Find out how in this expert e-guide - explore VDI costs and VDI best practices, and how you can maximize the benefits of VDI. Learn how storage directly affects the implementation challenges you may face. 

IT managers typically spend a substantial part of their budget on storage, usually more than they'd like to. Therefore, rethinking the approach to storage is one of the areas where there are huge savings and efficiencies to be had — particularly in data protection and disaster recovery. Read this analyst report to learn more. 

Research shows that 80%-90% of IT professionals are either implementing or considering desktop virtualization. As this interest continues, IT pros need to be able to ensure the success of deploying this environment. This white paper reviews desktop virtualization initiatives and how proper storage selection can help ensure VDI success. 

Content provided by Google. This report presents a spreadsheet cost model to help you calculate your fully loaded on-premise email costs and compare it against cloud-based alternatives. Bottom line: Cloud-based email makes sense for companies or divisions as large as 15,000 users. 

The cost and efficiency benefits of virtualization are well-established, but you can accelerate these benefits by going beyond virtualization into private cloud computing. Join Microsoft executives Satya Nadella, President of Server and Tools Business, and Brad Anderson, Corporate VP of Management and Security, as they explore this important topic. 

Untamed costs can deplete the precious working capital that's critical to your ongoing operations and new expansions. By instituting efficient automated processes throughout your organization, you can reduce waste, unnecessary overtime, and a host of other cost factors. 

This paper highlights common mistakes companies make in a down economy and discusses how organizations can use business intelligence to avoid them. Use the self-assessment questionnaire at the end of this paper to determine the level of business intelligence opportunity across your organization. 

While insurers have invested in automating high volume decisions, most are not leveraging advanced analytics and other data-driven strategies to improve pricing decisions and cross-channel opportunities.  In this white paper, FICO describes how to use business rules management systems as a core technology to improve revenue while controlling costs. 

This white paper provides tips on how to migrate from legacy server infrastructure to low-cost, high-performance blade servers across such diverse industries as education and healthcare to media and retail.