This test report is the second part of the August 2010 test. The report is delivered the beginning of December due to high-required work, deeper analysis and preparation of the retrospective test-set. 

Learn about unifying PC lifecycle management and IT service management, and how your service catalog, configuration management database (CMDB), and service level management (SLM) comprise the 3-legged stool that establishes IT as a strategic business partner. 

This paper provides best practice guidelines for deploying SAP software solutions on VMware Infrastructure 3. 

Server virtualization has affected all facets of the data center – from servers to storage to the network. While the promise is a reduced capital investment, higher agility and lower operational expenses, the success of server virtualization depends on the integration of both the physical and the virtual network. This has its own set of challenges. 

This SearchVirtualStorage.com VDI FAQ guide can help you by outlining how to design your VDI solution, the impact VDI has on storage, how to solve capacity and performance problems in a VDI environment and more. 

In this e-guide from SearchServerVirtualization.com, gain expert advice on how to handle data center growth with capacity planning and resource provisioning. Learn how performance management and capacity planning go hand-in-hand and find out how to interpret capacity management metrics to reduce costs and simplify management. 

The average utilization of servers in data centers is less than 20%, and many organizations are not getting the full cost savings out of their virtualization initiatives. This webcast highlights how proper capacity management solutions can help you recognize top benefits. 

The Pillar Axiom 600 system delivers business-critical, deterministic Quality of Service consistent with the business value of the application and its data. It eliminates the requirement to overbuy and under-utilize storage to buffer against application interference in a multi-tenancy shared storage system. Read this white paper to learn more. 

Server buyers should consider the implications of vendor roadmaps and consolidation and look to capacity planning and objective tools when updating data center hardware. In this IT handbook you will learn the importance of a server roadmap, factors to consider in server selection, tips on server consolidation and capacity planning, and much more. 

As NPG's digital library and business applications continued to grow, so did data storage inefficiencies and costs. The aging equipment had limited storage capacity and there was no disaster recovery strategy other than time-consuming backups. Read on to learn how NPG managed their growing problem. 

The economic drivers for VoIP are catching the attention of CFOs, CIOs, and others involved in costs. Learn how to justify the costs of implementing VoIP and how to plan for its bandwidth. 

Explosive data growth is causing storage costs to skyrocket, which is forcing IT organizations to look for more cost-effective archival and backup solutions. Oracle's StorageTek tape product family has maintained a market leadership position for many years and now includes the world's fastest and highest capacity tape drive. 

This presentation transcript offers recommendations for moving your virtualization project from the testing phase to production. Learn how to plan virtualization design to ensure a smooth transition to production rollout. Discover ways to align your implementation with best practices and determine which next steps to take to prepare for production.