Virtualization is growing in popularity, but IT managers must decide between maintaining a highly uniform hypervisor environment or utilizing different vendors’ virtual server platforms for different applications. Turn to a mixed hypervisor environment to maximize virtualization benefits and prepare yourselt for a future move to the cloud. 

The unified messaging capabilities included in Microsoft Exchange 2010 are making it an obvious upgrade choice for many SMBs.Working with a single vendor like Dell that provides a range of server, storage and service options allows IT departments to roll-out Microsoft Exchange 2010 environments that are tuned to corporate requirements and budgets. 

This white paper discusses important questions for IT managers to ask as they consider deploying deduplication in a midrange data center. 

This e-guide gives a comprehensive review of vSphere as it looks at some of the features in vSphere that are most important to data storage managers as well as best practices for vSphere. It also offers a list of the most common and affordable shared storage options for small- to medium-sized businesses (SMBs) from different vendors. 

This brief white paper introduces a simplified and flexible infrastructure solution designed to meet both today's  and tomorrow's virtual requirements. Utilizing end-to-end virtualization and centralized management from a single console, this technology can start transforming your data center and IT efficiency right out of the box. 

Check out this white paper for 7 critical questions to ask before buying a VM protection product. Designed to help you through the evaluation process, this paper will help you understand your needs and make it easier to find a product that will fit them most effectively. Read on to learn more. 

In this SearchStorage.com podcast transcript, Marc Staimer discusses the ins and outs of storage virtualization technology. Find out the pros and cons of storage virtualization, when to rule out storage virtualization in your environment, and how to decide between file-based or block-based storage virtualization in your data center. 

This expert E-Guide highlights key benefits of BYOD and how vendors are responding. Discover the importance of a stable wireless LAN, what’s crucial for BYOD policies, and how to tackle common challenges. 

The cloud has the potential to radically change e-discovery. Cloud applications can help data integration and reporting, and eliminate redundancy and disparate data management apps in the enterprise. However, the cloud also increases security risks and introduces some loss of data control. 

As VoIP usage becomes widespread, enterprise users will become subject to many of the same security risks that have affected data networks. This report highlights some of the potential security problems associated with VoIP and address what measures can be taken to secure enterprise VoIP deployments. 

If all storage array vendors buy disk drives from the same small set of disk manufacturers then why is there such a big reliability gap between storage vendors? This white paper seeks to gain insight into this question. 

Explore the results of a recent IDG survey gauging IT leaders’ perspectives on technology escrow agreements with software vendors, as well as the importance of including verification services within them.