This expert tip analyzes the impact of the cloud and offers exclusive advice to help organizations embrace this technology. Find out how the cloud can eliminate IT silos and discover what you need to know about licensing, support, and chargeback. 

<p>Fixed assets are extremely important components of your organization, so how well you manage them could have a strong impact on your business performance. In this expert resource, find seven questions and answers concerning best practices and proper management of your fixed assets.</p> 

Watch this webcast to learn the benefits of integrating fixed asset management with your enterprise resource planning (ERP) software. Discover how this strategy can provide a positive impact on your books, reporting, tracking, access, and business functionality. 

This resource describes the transformation from the traditional data center to the services data center, with special emphasis on the business impact of the transformation. Also, learn how communications service providers (CSPs) are positioning themselves for the data center of the future. 

This white paper provides detailed insight into the tasks required to upgrade servers without impacting availability in production environments. Find out how you can simplify this procedure and get advice on how to obtain new driver and firmware versions, determine updatable servers and their respective packages, and more. 

Transitioning to the virtual data center involves taking into account many trends that are just beginning to take off, such as cloud computing, IT consumerization and Big Data. In this expert e-zine, explore how you can take steps to embrace these new technologies and improve the efficiency of your data center. 

Hypothetically, SQL Server virtualization will save you money and manpower. However, there are some risky components involved, and a few major scenarios in which SQL Server virtualization won't benefit you. Read this expert e-guide to learn if virtualizing SQL Server is a good idea for your organization and find tips on avoiding potential pitfalls. 

Today's organisations are struggling to manage not only the physical aspects of their infrastructure, but also the virtual ones. This video examines a virtual appliance that can simplify data centre management by integrating physical and virtual tools and processes. 

This case study illustrates how Sun World International, a mid-sized grower in California, shifted its competitive strategy to capitalize on analytics and gain real-time insight into the competitive market. Learn how it gained a 5% reduction in harvesting costs, a 20% reduction in fuel usage and an eight-fold increase in profit per acre. 

The servers you select drastically impact the footprint of your data center. This video describes a rack server you can implement immediately to consolidate space, reduce power consumption, and lower costs in your infrastructure. 

Today's servers are evolving rapidly, and many companies do not know how the latest advances will impact the operation of their data centres. This video spotlights the notable improvements to one server architecture and examines the features that organisations will find most beneficial. 

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