This IDC White Paper examines the roles of virtualization and automation in improving operational efficiencies. Delivering end-to-end service visibility across both physical and virtual infrastructures is a key requirement for preventing service outages or failures. 

Join our guest speaker Krystal Sautter, of Moving Beyond the Bricks, as she outlines what it takes to get moving. Watch this webcast to learn how to use virtual infrastructure, staff for at-home positions and manage, train and coach home agents and evaluate your results. 

This presentation transcript details an approach to optimize your virtualized infrastructure performance. Learn how to leverage key performance indicators and cross-domain analytics to plan for future capacity demands and improve service levels. Discover the secret to managing your VMware infrastructure performance for optimal resource utilization. 

This podcast details a strategy to optimize your virtualized infrastructure performance. Get answers on how to leverage key performance indicators and cross-domain analytics to plan for future capacity demands and improve service levels. Discover the secret to managing your VMware infrastructure performance for optimal resource utilization. 

This paper explains the need to select Cisco IP Phones, switches, routers for your home lab and explores how to configure the options of VMware so that you can load Cisco Call Manager and Cisco Unity virtual machines in a lab environment. 

To help you make an informed decision when considering various storage solutions, the Storage Value Index takes into account not only purchase price, but capacity, efficiency, and operating expenses as well. This paper explains how the Storage Value Index was designed and offers suggestions for finding the best storage value for your needs. 

Many organizations are looking into virtualization as a means of decreasing capital expenses and launching energy conservation initiatives. This paper explains why one must consider how business processes, administrative rights, capacity planning, performance monitoring, and security strategies will need to change before jumping into a deployment. 

This paper provides a snapshot of what is happening in the arena of cloud computing. What are the benefits? Why are businesses embracing it? What does it mean to a business owner or executive? How does it affect the workplace? What are the payoffs and the pitfalls? Is it really ready for "prime time"? 

Read this brief case study to learn how 1-800-FLOWERS.COM faced the challenge to implement the next stage of a strategy for faxed order communications to accommodate key seasonal spikes in demand while avoiding unnecessary capacity expenditures. 

This whitepaper looks at the ecological impact of a business's entire IT infrastructure and provides the CIO with a holistic prospective to a business's carbon footprint. 

This whitepaper considers how Web-based security threats are evolving, within the context of IT trends including mobile, home computing, and other forms of remote access that could all potentially increase the attack surface of the organization. Read on to learn more about protecting your organization from emerging Web-based security threats. 

With nearly 90% of companies operating a virtual workplace and large percentages of employees working away from home office or the primary data center, IT must support ever-increasing numbers of remote and virtualized workers. This E-Guide details the security and optimization best practices for various types of branch offices. 

Ingram Entertainment Inc. is the leading national distributor of home entertainment products in the US. Having implemented the Data Domain and Luminex solution they have been able to successfully meet DR goals and achieve significant yearly cost savings.