Technology upgrades are a constant in any IT environment, often driven by the need for more capacity or a platform’s end of life. Over the past few years, IT shops have been upgrading to improve their return on investment (ROI) as well. Read this white paper to learn about new ways to maximize technology ROI through better operations management. 

This E-Guide is here to keep you up to date on the latest dedupe developments. Learn about the advantages deduplication software has over hardware, understand how and where data should be deduped, and discover how snapshot technologies are changing the way IT managers are thinking about backup and recovery operations. Read on to learn more. 

Do you have a large, complex set of interconnected, multi-tier applications that need ongoing development and testing? Spending too much time and resources setting up physical machines and resetting them than actually doing development and testing? Do you lack sufficient machines to test your multi-tier applications the right way? You're not alone. 

As enterprises turn to server virtualization to enhance IT flexibility while reducing costs, Server virtualization solutions such as VMware Infrastructure software are helping organizations achieve those goals by abstracting applications from physical resources. Read this paper for 7 Ways Dell Compellent Optimizes VMware Server Virtualization. 

It is necessary to Integrate IT silos for a holistic approach to service operations management. Read this paper to learn how fostering predictive and proactive business service analytics can transform IT culture can assure business service quality and improve IT operational efficiency. 

In this paper, discover how performance metrics for P2P’s newly enhanced capabilities can evolve to formally codify the value of the function to enterprise goals such as customer satisfaction or working capital performance. 

As the IT industry standardizes its operations to solve business problems in the most efficient, effective, economical, and equitable way, ITIL v3 becomes a useful and critical tool. 

In this E-Guide you'll learn the pros and cons of utilizing removable disk storage for your backup and recovery operations. Discover what types of organizations can benefit most from this technology, explore a side-by-side comparison of disk vs. tape solutions, and explore key considerations before implementing a removable disk solution. 

This white paper discusses hybrid computing, an approach that aims to support the heterogeneous nature of modern computing environments in a simplified way. Learn how this technology supports existing and new applications with less complexity, better performance and at a lower cost. 

This report from Knowledge Peers and Pierre Audoin Consultants (PAC), reveals what leaders of Small and Medium-Sized Businesses (SMBs) think of IT – its strategic value, its potential, and the changing way in which it is being used in their organisations. 

Data center managers face increasing complexity and explosive growth in the mission-critical operations they manage. Read this white paper to discover how Data Center Infrastructure Management (DCIM) can create more efficient and highly available data centers. 

In this e-guide, readers will learn more about the basics of ERP and how to reduce maintenance and support costs for these systems.