Read this paper to find out how Instantis managed to accommodate rapid customer growth, deliver outstanding performance, ensure “five-nines” availability for customers around the globe, cut ongoing IT costs, and reduce the environmental footprint of data center operations through reduced energy consumption. 

Virtualization is one of the hottest technologies in IT infrastructure today. Intel is helping enable the next generation of virtualization usage efficiently. Virtualization 2.0 focuses on increasing service efficiency through flexible resource management. In the near future, this usage model will become absolutely critical to data centers. 

Check out this presentation to learn how to execute a Vmotion implementation using System Center Virtual Machine Monitor (SCVMM). 

Best practices, people, processes, and procedures combine with technology tools, hardware, software, networks, services, and facilities to enable a virtual data center. The importance of this chapter is to understand how all these elements coupled with existing and emerging technologies can be applied to improve IT service delivery. 

annatommie, an orthopedic diagnosis and treatment and rehabilitation center in the Netherlands, was growing rapidly and wanted to take advantage of electronic, automated efficiencies to save money and improve productivity, while minimizing IT costs. Read this case study to learn how Microsoft® Online Services helped them reach their goals. 

Read this white paper to learn how adding Surgient VQMS to HP Quality Center helps you centrally manage and allocate test lab resources from HP Quality Center across multiple and distributed teams according to business policies and quotas, and more. 

Read this paper to see how HP's Business Availability Center software can help you monitor customer experience and proactively identify issues before they become problems. 

Webroot Security Software-as-a-Service provides on-demand web, email, and archiving solutions that offer cost-effective alternatives to on-premise security. Webroot Web Security Service delivers URL and web content filtering, plus protection against today's complex web-based malware threats. Check out this resource center to find out more. 

In the traditional IT approach, every new software application required a new server. This added costs to every project and deployment took days to weeks. This also drove server sprawl. Watch this demo for an animated explanation of how virtualization addresses common data center challenges. 

After evaluating several customer relationship management solutions, including Salesforce.com, the company replaced NetSuite CRM with Microsoft Dynamics® CRM. Using Microsoft Dynamics CRM, the company cut call times in its customer support call center by 30%, reduced agent training time by 25 percent, and strengthened its growth capacity. 

Long term data center or network room capacity planning may seem impossible in the face of evolving IT technology and business requirements. This paper shows a simple and effective way to develop a capacity plan for a data center or network room. 

This white paper describes the types of PM services that can help safeguard the uptime of data centers and IT equipment rooms.