This paper explains how data center efficiency can be measured, evaluated, and modeled, including a comparison of the benefits of periodic assessment vs. continuous monitoring. 

Electricity usage costs have become an increasing fraction of the total cost of running a data centers. This paper explains how achieve electricity savings and provides examples of methods that can greatly reduce electrical power consumption. 

This tutorial allows you to discover the world of business analytics and optimization (BAO) by watching videotaped answers to preconceived questions. Receive insightful responses to questions such as: What is business analytics and optimization? What is an analytics-driven organization? Why is BAP so important today? And many more! 

Whether the ultimate mission is to consolidate data, virtualize the infrastructure, or improve application performance, the key to efficient storage is virtualized storage. This interactive online tutorial defines storage virtualization and explains how its benefits extend well beyond the data center. 

Data storage backups are a necessary element of data protection plan, but they're often the biggest source of security woes. Learn everything you need to know about keeping your backups secure in this tutorial. 

Data Deduplication is a vital technology to consider as part of your overall data protection strategy. Data Deduplication significantly reduces the amount of space required for backup and the network bandwidth required for replication. This tutorial explores several facets of data deduplication technology and compares vendor offerings. 

This comprehensive, multi-media tutorial explores how desktop virtualization with Dell VMware can benefit SMBs in many different ways. 

One of the most important features in vSphere, snapshots, is often misused. This tutorial offers a complete overview of the ways to use snapshots responsibly, addresses the issues that could arise from misuse, and explains how to solve common problems. 

Storage administrators are increasingly revisiting tiered storage strategies to lower asset and operational costs, and to improve application performance. This expert e-guide from SearchStorage.com provides all of the information you need about trends and new emerging technologies in tiered storage. 

Today, IT has become a valuable asset of any organization. Because of this, data center availability has become essential. Yet businesses still remain vulnerable to a variety of threats, including electrical power systems. This resource explores 10 best practices for building and maintaining a highly available data center power infrastructure. 

This paper explores how you can optimize UPS availability by focusing on minimizing repair time and maximizing redundancy, both inside your UPSs and across your power protection initiatives. Also learn why modular UPS designs provide superior availability even though they typically contain more parts that could potentially fail. 

This report from Deloitte argues businesses are again investing in IT to provide the differentiation and innovation critical from their competitors despite the downturn. 

This white paper discusses a gradual approach to building a new server room. Find out key factors to consider as you proceed with your initiative, such as site selection and size, energy, backup, and more.