Virtualization is changing everything for IT professionals who must plan and manage data center infrastructure. In order to achieve greater agility and lower operating costs, companies are becoming more innovative in how they provision computing resources and juggle support for hardware, software and network infrastructure.  

This paper provides a snapshot of what is happening in the arena of cloud computing. What are the benefits? Why are businesses embracing it? What does it mean to a business owner or executive? How does it affect the workplace? What are the payoffs and the pitfalls? Is it really ready for "prime time"? 

In this IT Briefing, introduced by independent enterprise storage expert Stephen Foskett and Oracle’s Group Manager for NAS Storage Product Management Alex North, talk about the current state of NAS storage, and point out specific technologies that Oracle is leveraging in its new ZFS NAS platform. View now to learn more. 

This paper considers current data center storage challenges and outlines solutions and strategies that help meet the demands of increasingly virtualized IT environments while optimizing investments. 

These days, janitorial supply company Edward Don & Company takes most of its orders online, making 24x7 customer availability for its ordering system extremely important. Read this paper to learn how the company integrated cloud-based disaster recovery (DR) with its SAP systems in order to ensure high availability of its online ordering. 

This white paper focuses on DPA of order management processes governing incoming documents, and more specifically on customer orders (incoming documents also include supplier invoices). 

As enterprises turn to server virtualization to enhance IT flexibility while reducing costs, Server virtualization solutions such as VMware Infrastructure software are helping organizations achieve those goals by abstracting applications from physical resources. Read this paper for 7 Ways Dell Compellent Optimizes VMware Server Virtualization. 

This SearchVirtualStorage.com VDI FAQ guide can help you by outlining how to design your VDI solution, the impact VDI has on storage, how to solve capacity and performance problems in a VDI environment and more. 

Whether it is selling books, groceries, gadgets or tickets, the volume of orders being taken online continues to grow. Ensuring that customers receive a prompt and personal experience, whilst remaining assured about security, is essential to the ongoing success of online retail. 

If your company is looking to overcome the challenges of fax and e-mail customer orders while gaining the efficiencies of automated, electronic processing of transactions into your SAP system, then read this white paper as it outlines essential factors you must consider first. 

The average utilization of servers in data centers is less than 20%, and many organizations are not getting the full cost savings out of their virtualization initiatives. This webcast highlights how proper capacity management solutions can help you recognize top benefits. 

This white paper offers a rapid, flexible and simple approach to connect your enterprise and cloud applications in mere days. 

The Pillar Axiom 600 system delivers business-critical, deterministic Quality of Service consistent with the business value of the application and its data. It eliminates the requirement to overbuy and under-utilize storage to buffer against application interference in a multi-tenancy shared storage system. Read this white paper to learn more.