<p>Gary Chen, IDC Research Manager for Enterprise Virtualization Software, outlines virtualization interoperability challenges and key market trends shaping its future. Learn about Red Hat's role in the development of enterprise virtualization technology, new features found in RHEV 3.0, and the next wave in enterprise virtualization―the cloud.</p> 

Over the course of several months in 2011, IDC conducted a research study to identify the opportunities and challenges to adoption of a new technology that changes the way in which traditional business solutions are implemented and used. The results of the study are presented in this white paper. 

In this white paper IDC highlights the latest research about the evidence of the competitive differentiation to be gained from investment in BI and data warehousing. The paper highlights the need to view BI and data warehousing technologies as complementary components of a decision support solution. 

Customers need to better understand how the use of virtualization and cloud computing changes datacenter infrastructure management requirements. In this paper, May Johnston Turner, IDC's research director of System Management Software, answers questions posed to her by Dell’s customers. 

This IDC white paper is your key to improving backup and recovery operations today. Read on to learn how. 

Data center infrastructure management (DCIM) offers data center managers countless benefits as it brings facilities and IT together to achieve increased availability, efficiency, and cost savings. Access this white paper to discover what components make up an enterprise-grade DCIM strategy and what to look for in a DCIM vendor. 

Access this resource to uncover how datacenter infrastructure management brings IT and facilities together to create a datacenter-wide view that opens the door for creating business value, innovating the datacenter, and increasing flexibility to respond to changing business needs. 

Mobile, social and cloud application complexities are requiring organizations to modernize their application platforms. This IDC paper presents the structural changes and functionality––including lightweight frameworks, in-memory data management, application management, and more––required in order to evolve to a cloud-ready application platform. 

Business continuity and disaster recovery can mean a rapid return to operations or financial downfall. This IDC white paper highlights the challenges and best practices for implementing continuity and recovery solutions, and details how Riverbed WAN optimization solutions enable firms to meet their recovery requirements. 

This IDC Forecast Update provides a 5-year forecast for the worldwide PBBA market as part of IDC's Storage Solutions coverage. The 5-year forecast includes total factory revenue and raw capacity in terabytes through 2015. The worldwide PBBA market covers both open system– and mainframe-attached products. Read now to learn more. 

Explore the results of this IDC business value study of 11 customers using Quantum deduplication solutions and see if an investment in dedupe might benefit your company today. 

Many enterprises have discovered that the use of virtualization to support desktop workloads creates a range of significant benefits. This VMware sponsored webcast with IDC will provide both quantitative measurement of the business value -- defined as the expected ROI -- and qualitative analysis associated with the use of VMware View™.