In this comprehensive IT handbook, build a solid understanding of server virtualization. Get tips for how you can optimize hardware management and performance, ensure high availability and manage your virtual environment. 

Overlay transport virtualization (OTV) can help solve many of the challenges in today's increasingly virtualized and geographically dispersed data centers. Access this paper for a high-level overview of this technology and how it differs from the alternatives. 

Now is the time to realize all of the benefits of virtualizing your test and development lab. This chapter highlights some of the benefits of consolidating your test and development environments through virtualization, including costs savings, accelerated time to deployment and system consistency throughout your environment. 

Access this resource for an overview of the configuration requirements that enforce calling privileges and call route selection, and discover how a voice policy is implemented. 

Oracle Exalogic Elastic Cloud is the world's first engineered system specifically designed to provide enterprises with a foundation for secure, mission-critical private cloud capable of virtually unlimited scale, unbeatable performance, and previously unimagined management simplicity. 

Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization for Servers adds manageability and support for large, complex virtual environments and forms the basis for a cloud infrastructure. Access this webcast for an introduction to Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization. 

This article provides an introduction to Hyper-V virtualization, discusses the overall architecture and underlying technologies, and offers guidance on best practices for deployment on Dell PowerEdge servers. 

In this webcast, hear Mike Whalen, Senior Product Manager, introduce CSC CloudMail for VMware Zimbra. Discover how this email as a service can help your organization reduce costs up to 50% compared to an on-premise deployment. Explore key topics such as benefits of migrating your email to the cloud, exciting developments, and more. 

Check out this video for a hands-on introduction to a complete disaster recovery solution that can automate the backup and protection of your servers and ensure full recovery within minutes from an intuitive, one-click interface. This video will walk you through the basic functions of this appliance, and outline the benefits it can bring you today. 

The FalconStor® Continuous Data Protector (CDP) solution can be deployed in conjunction with VMware vCenter Site Recovery Manager. This unique implementation dramatically speeds both processes and reduces costs while ensuring achievement of recovery time objectives (RTO). 

The key to backing up SharePoint successfully is to understand how SharePoint works, and where its various components are located. This SearchDataBackup.com e-guide will walk you through the different ways to backup and recover your data on SharePoint. Download to learn more! 

More IT pros are considering implementing a cloud environment, but they soon realize that building a private cloud means overhauling their entire existing data center infrastructure. Learn how moving to the cloud takes more than putting a layer of cloud management software on top of your existing servers, storage and networks.