Today, technology provides tremendous, previously untapped opportunities for a carrier to enhance the experience of channel members and ensures greater productivity. This paper describes the challenges carriers face in the area of loyalty and the ways technology enables carriers to address common agent frustrations in unprecedented ways. 

Although Microsoft will continue supporting Windows XP through 2014, enterprises should begin migrating to Windows 7 soon to avoid losing support for their environments from independent software vendors. 

Double-Take Move provides migration functionality that dramatically reduces the impact and risk of migrations in the data center and across any geographic distance. 

To capitalize on the benefits of Windows 7, you must make sure your computing environment is ready for the upgrade. Dell's Windows 7 Readiness Assessment is designed to identify application compatibility, hardware compatibility and migration readiness and to provide the recommendations needed to help make your transition to Windows 7 smooth. 

In this videocast, customer Baker Tilly talk about their enterprise-wide migration to Windows 7 and how they experienced greater performance and stability, increased remote access to information, and improved overall efficiency allowing them to better service their client's needs. 

In October 2003, DaimlerChrysler South Africa decided that significant cost savings could be achieved by migrating its mission critical systems onto a contemporary low cost platform and in the process remove the mainframe. This case study presents the challenges the company faced as well as the solution and benefits achieved. 

In this issue of Exchange Insider e-zine, get an in-depth look at some real-world Exchange 2007 migration projects, what can go wrong and how to make the most of Exchange 2007's capabilities. This issue also highlights some must-have tools for securing mobile environments in Exchange as well as tips on keeping your servers running in peak condition 

Alinean, a leader in IT value measurement, teamed up with HP and Novell to assess the financial merits of moving from a legacy Sun Solaris and SPARC environment to Novell SUSE Linux Enterprise Server (SLES) running on HP ProLiant DL 785 G6 x86 Servers versus upgrading to SUN Solaris 10 running on Sun SPARC T5440. Read this paper for the results. 

This paper is actually a combination of four smaller papers all rolled into one PDF. It features articles on revisiting old virtualization practices for new business purposes, desktop virtualization strategies for faster provisioning and migration, network security concerns in a virtual environment, and more. 

This paper describes an innovative, unified data protection model – developed by Syncsort – that not only supports each of these imperatives, but leverages them to provide actual return on your business investments. 

Do you know what data transport technology options are available in today's market? This paper will help you assess economic, operational, and security factors involved in selecting data transport technology and present Ethernet carrier services as an attractive data transport option. 

Dell's application migration services include application compatibility assessment, remediation, and expert packaging using Dell's unique, global, scalable, and cost effective factory approach.