Virtual server backup is a known pain point among backup administrators. In our tutorial, learn all about VMware backup with this collection of articles on VMware backup and restore, VMware Consolidated Backup, Virtual Desktop Infrastructure and more. 

In this expert e-guide, find out how to optimize SQL Server with the right choices for hardware, storage devices, and virtualization. Inside, find articles on: what not to do when purchasing hardware; if solid-state storage devices are worth the cost; hardware and risk considerations for an inevitable virtualization initiative. 

Content provided by Google. This paper examines whether cloud computing makes good business sense for your company. Ultimately, you may find that moving your data to the cloud actually improves security, scalability, access, and disaster recovery. 

Writing a corporate security policy might seem complex, but ultimately it is a collection of many small policies. These ten security policies (or sub-policies) are essential to every organization, regardless of size, location, age, mission, or the product or service produced, and are presented here (in no particular order). 

The inaugural issue of BI Trends & Strategies offers sound advice to help you in ensuring your organization is on track to keep up with the rapidly changing landscape of BI and analytics. In this issue, readers will learn about a big data definition and the impact it will have on BI and data warehousing, agile development methodology and more. 

During Q2, 2010 The Birchman Group carried out a survey focused on SAP support and managed services. 

In summary, the reader isencouraged to consider the evidence from the survey resultsand to then draw their own conclusions. 

Benchmarking, or the analysis of operational costs, productivity, and service levels in a comparative context of market standards, is a firmly established management tool. 

This brief e-guide explores the notion that data quality issues are worse in real-time data integration applications versus batch-oriented techniques. In the form of two articles, this resource serves up options for real-time integration, touches on the concerns associated with it and outlines the proper steps required to address data quality. 

This article shows how an application grid built on Oracle Fusion Middleware can not only prevent unplanned outages, but it can improve the overall performance of mission critical business applications. 

This article provides a high-level overview of the manageability aspects of the VMware ESXi solution on Dell PowerEdge Servers. It discusses the various facets of manageability and the management tools that an IT Administrator can use to deploy, monitor, inventory, configure, and update an ESXi system. 

Read this brief article to discover how this growing retail chain of "island fashion" utilizes their loyal customers and their information to keep their business going through the recession and beyond.