Keeping Exchange Server 2010 running at full torque requires diligent management and administration. This e-guide examines some of the most common performance issues and explains how to mitigate them. Exchange MVP Andy Grogan also details best practices you should follow to prevent any performance setbacks. 

Microsoft Exchange is one of the most popular email platforms available today, but there are other options available that can deliver reliable, secure messaging across devices for small businesses for which Microsoft Exchange is not a requirement. 

VMware vSphere 5.0 delivers enhanced performance and scalability to ensure that even the most resource-intensive applications can run on your cloud. Find out about the newest improvements that contribute to faster HA configuration times and failover rates, lower management operational latencies, and higher management operations throughput. 

With rapidly changing demands, customer experience management (CEM) can be a tricky craft within your organization's processes. Customer Experience Exchange is a brand new bi-monthly e-zine focused on CEM tips, best practices and techniques. Check out the first ever issue now, exclusively here. 

VMware View™ 5 simplifies IT management while increasing end user freedom by delivering desktop services from your cloud. Building upon VMware's leadership in desktop virtualization, VMware View 5 delivers a high-performance user experience while giving IT greater policy control. View this webcast to learn more about what this solution can offer. 

Read this FAQ featuring W. Curtis Preston, which outlines how Linear Tape-Open (LTO) tape differs from other tape media, the various generations of LTO and the pros and cons of this backup technology. Also learn about the newest model, LTO-5, being released this year. 

In vSphere 5.0, VMware provides several features that can help you increase the availability of your applications, the infrastructure, and the management platform to achieve a highly available virtualized environment. Discover how vSphere 5.0 tackles manageability, usability, and application support in this white paper. 

Exchange Server 2010. There are many new and improved features in the new version. This white paper outlines ten items to consider when planning and deploying an Exchange Server 2010 infrastructure, as well as some considerations to keep in mind when making the decision to move on to the "latest and greatest" iteration. 

As technology evolves, there is a never-ending question to designers and implementers: "What is coming next?" The answer is "Collaboration." The move to collaboration is strengthened by the actions of Cisco and Microsoft, as they have each unveiled several collaborative technologies and the means to integrate them utilizing Web 2.0 programming. 

To prepare the data center for the future, you must first align people, processes and technology and develop a strategy for transformation. This paper offers 5 key steps for transforming the data center to meet evolving business needs. 

Compare of VMware vSphere 5 to competing virtualization products such as Microsoft Hyper-V, Citrix XenServer, or Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization (KVM) in this guide. Discover the key competitive advantages VMware has over the competition in an in-depth review of features. 

In this comprehensive guide, review the new advanced storage features included in VMware vSphere 5.0 and discover how you can leverage them for your virtual environment to enable greater storage automation andconsolidation while maintaining service levels.