A recent IDC survey found that for every US$1 spent on IT hardware, the power and cooling costs is 54 cents. In 2011, the energy costs are expected to rise to 74 cents. Listen to this podcast and find out how you can deploy a Scalable Modular data center in 8-12 weeks at up to 20% less overall cost and save up to 30% on energy costs per year. 

This paper explains how ProStrategy Colman, an IBM Business Partner, helped BMR become the first company in Europe to implement IBM Cognos Express – an all-in-one business intelligence and planning solution designed for mid-sized companies. Continue reading to learn how BMR toned up its sales performance with advanced analytics. 

This white paper discusses why you should consider modernizing your company’s processes and strategies and provides 7 practical ways to make your business more sophisticated. 

As technology evolves, there is a never-ending question to designers and implementers: "What is coming next?" The answer is "Collaboration." The move to collaboration is strengthened by the actions of Cisco and Microsoft, as they have each unveiled several collaborative technologies and the means to integrate them utilizing Web 2.0 programming. 

Find out which company has rolled out a unified storage system that can provide excellent performance and scalability in an affordable package and simplify your mid-sized data center operations. 

View this brief video to learn how original equipment manufacturer (OEM) supplier Ralco Industries was able to reduce on-hand inventory by 15% and freight costs by over 20%, improve product quality and customer service, and create process consistency with an implementation of easy-to-use, online enterprise resource planning (ERP) software. 

The efficiency benefits introduced with deduplication technology are driving mid-market organizations to modernize their backup infrastructures. With the introduction of its DXi6500 family of secondary storage systems with deduplication, Quantum has a competitive offering for mid-market companies—in features and price. 

This IDC Buyer Case Study assesses the deployment and use of NetApp Syncsort Integrated Backup (NSB) at the West Jefferson Medical Center. 

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. 

<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> 

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. 

This paper focuses on business intelligence and corporate performance management in the cloud and how it is beneficial to small and mid-sized businesses. 

This white paper explores service-oriented architecture's (SOA’s) relationship with and relevance to IT and business. Recent survey-based research and IDC’s top-line forecast for SOA are presented in this paper and help communicate the value, opportunities and challenges associated with SOA.