With a bit of planning, a specific tiering-out of your system priorities and a dash of virtualization, you can breathe new life into your old servers -- even as you bring in replacements with all of their powerful new capabilities. Read this e-book to learn more. 

In this expert e-guide, find out how to optimize SQL Server with the right choices for hardware, storage devices, and virtualization. Inside, find articles on: what not to do when purchasing hardware; if solid-state storage devices are worth the cost; hardware and risk considerations for an inevitable virtualization initiative. 

This white paper highlights how Snohomish School District 201 extended its refresh cycle for client hardware by 160%-200% using top vendor technologies. Learn more on the benefits this school district encountered. 

Many enterprises looking to increase the flexibility, improve the scalability, enhance the availability and reduce the costs of data storage have turned to SANs. The Compellent SAN enables businesses to continuously integrate new disk drive, switch and network interface technologies without having to replace existing hardware or software. 

Most IT organizations are still looking for ways to cut costs in this economy. One way is to extend hardware life in the data center.  In this videocast, learn why this strategy is especially valuable to SMBs. 

View this webcast to discover the advantages of a software-based authentication solution and how it can help your organization extend strong authentication to all of your employees, partners and customers in a secure, convenient, cost effective manner. 

In this week’s Computer Weekly, we mark the 10th anniversary of Microsoft’s Bill Gates announcing the Trustworthy Computing initiative, and ask if it has made IT more secure. We look at what Oracle’s latest developments mean for its software users running rivals’ servers, and conclude our Buyer’s Guide to IT consumerisation. Download the issue now. 

Understanding the costs and trends associated with server virtualization is very important, as well as understanding the role of virtual platforms for your business. 

Introducing virtual servers into your data center both simplifies and complicates your backup processes. This expert podcast explores the best practices for backing up and recovering critical VMs to avoid these potential obstacles. 

Introducing virtual servers into your data center both simplifies and complicates your backup processes. This expert webcast explores the best practices for backing up and recovering critical VMs to avoid these potential obstacles. 

This expert E-Guide, brought to you by SearchServerVirtualization.com and Dell, provides an overview of the expenses associated with virtualization and highlights the virtual server trends expected for 2010. Gain insight into the tangible virtualization costs, and learn how to keep pace with the changing server virtualization market. 

Virtualization offers multiple ways to save money including hardware purchase, power and cooling costs over time and staff time needed when providing a test and analysis environment to name a few.