This guide highlights scenarios that show how virtualization can enable server consolidation, business continuity, and an optimized desktop environment, among others, while examining the Microsoft those solutions. It also explains some of Microsoft’s technology partnership investments that support heterogeneous virtualization environments. 

Although Windows Vista is seen as a failure in the marketplace, it’s a success in the security world. This month, Information Security Magazine goes behind the curtains of Vista as Paget unveils a firsthand account of her experience, exploring why it’s a success that deserves recognition. 

Most information technology managers have heard of the term IT Infrastructure Library, or ITIL®. The purpose of this paper is to introduce managers with an interest in information technology to the ITIL. You will become familiar with ITIL processes and understand where ITIL fits within your organization. 

ITIL is becoming the next big thing in Information Technology. This paper outlines the origin of ITIL, who controls its contents, who are the biggest users, and why you should care. 

Connecting Through Content, Issue Two examines how technology buyers search for content and how marketers deliver content to them. Content distribution channels, user search techniques, content registration behavior and other aspects of content distribution and syndication are evaluated. 

In this week's Computer Weekly, we talk to the British Library about the enormous storage challenges of digitising its printed archive; we examine the state of the UK IT jobs market and the skills that are most in demand by employers; and we look at case studies of the best virtualisation projects. Download the new issue now. 

There has been great interest in the subject of Windows 7 in recent months, perhaps most strongly from organizations that passed over Windows Vista and are looking at a migration from Windows XP. 

Windows Vista is here. This white paper will help you help you determine if your hardware is compatible and which version you should implement. 

This white paper describes an improved method for measuring TCO for data center and network room physical infrastructure, and provides examples on how to relate these costs to the overall IT infrastructure and evaluate cost control strategies. 

IT managers need a performance system that reflects modern changes in information technology, touches on all pillars of the organization, and conveys IT's value to the business. Watch this webcast to learn about a comprehensive, out-of-the-box solution that simplifies IT management. 

This case study highlights how a government agency used ITIL best practices in the face of ever-tightening budgets and staff resources in order to implement a Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) for greater agility and end-user satisfaction. 

This white paper highlights how project managers can utilize effective integration of multiple disciplines to achieve maximum performance. A disciplined collaboration between the BA and BPM has become a prerequisite for success. 

This report, the third in a series of studies examining the impact that emerging online media have on B2B technology marketing, shows how three mainstays of the Web 2.0 culture are evolving into B2B information delivery tools: Online video, Social networks and Wikis.