Leading-edge manufacturers are discovering that they can improve production efficiencies and manage MRO expenditures by integrating their Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) with Enterprise Asset Management (EAM) systems. 

Read this report to learn the research findings of this study, which examined the challenges of managing Test/Dev environments and the opportunity for server virtualization and cloud computing to address them. This paper includes several graphs and an in-depth discussion of the advantages of private cloud computing. 

In this chapter of the "Introduction to Virtualization E-book" we will look at how to protect production workloads running in a virtual environment as well as off load this work to a stand-by host if needed. 

Check out this webcast to learn the business and technical issues that drive privacy protection requirements and how to safeguard confidential data by leveraging data masking techniques as part of an overall integrated data management strategy. 

Virtual desktops provide many consolidation opportunities, as well as some unique security and business continuity advantages. This podcast gives an overview of desktop virtualization, highlights several virtual desktop solutions, and analyzes the operational efficiency gains possible with desktop virtualization. 

Critical to any successful implementation of desktop virtualization is to understand how desktop virtualization can help and which implementations will be most successful. View this podcast for an overview of desktop virtualization, several virtual desktop solutions, and the operational efficiency gains possible with desktop virtualization. 

Standard remote desktop technologies offer numerous benefits based on server consolidation, but may also restrict operating systems and deliver reduced functionality. Read this brief paper to learn more. 

This videocast sponsored by Dell and Intel featuring experts, Brian Madden and Gabe Knuth, explains the real possibilities of desktop virtualization versus its potential capabilities. 

Recently lean manufacturing has gone from an obscure and isolated practice to a mainstream, extensively publicized methodology that is well known throughout the manufacturing and supply chain industry. However, this does not mean it is entirely understood as a business practice, nor does it mean that it has been implemented to any large extent. 

One barrier to the mass adoption of desktop virtualization is that users are often reluctant to surrender their highly personalized profiles. This issue of New Enterprise Desktop eZine takes a look at how user virtualization is breaking through this barrier-without taking away users' individuality. 

In this podcast, manufacturing industry analyst, Roddy Martin, explains strategies and best practices for demand-driven manufacturing. 

Pano Logic® is the first company to offer a complete, purpose-built solution for virtual desktops combining a unique zero-client endpoint device with centralized tools designed specifically for the tasks of deployment and managing virtual desktops.