This paper is the second in a two-part series exploring the innovation barrier – the point at which testing can no longer keep pace with development in the equipment manufacturing industry. It examines the innovation barrier’s symptoms – from slowdowns in development to mounting quality issues – and the potential impact on equipment manufacturers. 

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

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. 

Moving to a consolidated data center reduces the number of servers, which can minimize required investments in hardware, hardware maintenance charges, data center space costs and energy use. This e-book outlines a systematic approach you can use to server consolidation to ensure that your data center reaps all the benefits of virtualization. 

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 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. 

Bluewater Power implemented a set SAP and IBM solutions to help deal with new regulations and mandates in the energy sector. Read this case study to learn all the benefits Bluewater experienced by choosing this set of SAP and IBM solutions and learn how your organization can experience these same benefits as well. 

This resource examines hot-air and cold-air containment methodologies and highlights the reasons why hot-aisle containment is the preferred best practice for new data centres. 

In August 2011, Forrester Consulting surveyed over 200 leading IT firms in North America and Europe to answer the question, “What are the implications of expanding testing in development, and what does it mean to development quality?”. 

This white paper demonstrates how, with the right organizational concepts and technology in place, shared services can deliver on promises for both lower costs and better service quality. 

Improving data quality is a timeless strategy that can provide value on its own, or can be done as a first step towards something else, such as master data management (MDM). It can also be done in conjuction with MDM. This white paper explores three use cases of improving data quality. 

This Technical White Paper presents the main challenges of data quality and drills into specific uses of data profiling and data cleansing. It highlights, through 32 distinct use cases, how open source data quality technology can be used to alleviate issues related to poor-quality data.