Do you have a large, complex set of interconnected, multi-tier applications that need ongoing development and testing? Spending too much time and resources setting up physical machines and resetting them than actually doing development and testing? Do you lack sufficient machines to test your multi-tier applications the right way? You're not alone. 

As businesses embrace the digital revolution, they're rethinking what customers value most and creating operating models that take advantage of what’s newly possible for competitive differentiation. This report is designed to provide senior executives with analysis and insight on how fast and how far to go on the path to digital transformation. 

By turning to a virtual-ready infrastructure, IT has the opportunity to create a next-generation architecture that fundamentally changes the way data centers work for the future. In doing so, IT has the opportunity to transform its own value to the organization by making the infrastructure more flexible and ready to move at the speed of business. 

This Strategic Outline Business Case sets out the opportunity to reduce costs and enhance flexibility of centralised ICT services, covering both information services delivered to citizens and staff, and the underpinning technical and physical Data Centre infrastructure. 

Read this guide to learn best practices to become strategic partners with your suppliers and understand how a sourcing strategy can make or break a company. 

Different Emerging Information Technologies (EIT) have different impacts upon a business. Some EIT should be used as technical tools for supporting business to make business more efficient or effective; othersshould be used as strategic tools for leading, not merely supporting, a business to make a difference. 

In this paper, various configurations of Exchange Server 2007 are tested in physical and virtual environments to evaluate the performance scalability and to understand the sizing requirements for Exchange Server 2007 in a virtualized environment. 

In this white paper, discover how you can leverage the benefits of image‐based backup solutions for your virtual infrastructure. Explore the various backup technologies for both physical and virtual servers to determine the best option for your backup solution, and find out what the strengths and weaknesses are of adopting image‐based backups. 

This paper outlines a set of core analytics customized for wholesaler-distributors. 

Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization 3.0 not only offers the performance and management features that virtualization customers require for their data center workloads, but also provides a strategic alternative to proprietary virtualization to enable organizations to accelerate their innovation, increase manageability, and reduce costs. 

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. 

Virtualization can have major consequences on the data center physical infrastructure (DCPI). Higher power densities can challenge the cooling capabilities of an existing system. Reduced energy consumption may actually worsen the data center's power usage effectiveness (PUE). Learn more about the particular effects of virtualization inside. 

This report from Knowledge Peers and Pierre Audoin Consultants (PAC), reveals what leaders of Small and Medium-Sized Businesses (SMBs) think of IT – its strategic value, its potential, and the changing way in which it is being used in their organisations.