every company, no matter how small, needs a server. Having a server in place while your business is in its early stages will ensure you are ready for growth. Using a server, instead of other means of sharing, will ensure you are operating your business and communicating as productively as possible. 

This expert mediacast offers advice to help you select the best server virtualization platform to meet your organization's business needs. Discover how to budget for your investment and determine the pros and cons of each option. Learn how to plan your search properly to ensure successful virtualization platform selection. 

This article will explains how servers consume power, how to estimate power usage and the mechanics of cooling. It also discusses the major components impacting power consumption and where the inefficiencies lie. 

Hear Intel IT Principal Engineers, Sudip Chahal and Shesha Krishnapura, talk about Intel IT's analysis that has led them to standardize on high-end processors for two-socket servers for design computing and enterprise server virtualization. 

Google Inc. today announced its next-generation Google Search Appliance* (GSA) 6.0, which delivers extraordinary search power for the enterprise, powered by the Intel® Xeon® processor 5500 series. Building on the capabilities of its predecessors, this appliance allows enterprises to search billions of documents. 

Wake Forest University Baptist Medical Center is extending its virtual environment with the latest Intel® architecture, saving USD 450,000 on hardware acquisition and increasing IT agility. 

The majority of today's businesses have flat or decreasing data center budgets. In this expert E-Guide, brought to you by SearchDataCenter.com and Dell, you will gain insight into the latest data center purchasing trends. 

The Microsoft SharePoint 2010 (Beta) Software Development Kit (SDK) contains conceptual overviews, programming tasks, samples, and references to guide you in developing solutions based on SharePoint 2010 products and technologies. 

The SharePoint 2010 developer evaluation guide describes the SharePoint 2010 developer platform, including walkthroughs of some of the new capabilities for developers. 

One of the leading questions IT organizations face when thinking about their installed base of servers is when and how to refresh those servers. This white paper discusses why you should refresh, provides common approaches meet new requirements, and explores the x86-based Sun server line using Intel Xeon processors. 

This white paper proposes a spectrum of reference configurations using Sun servers based on Intel processors, the broad range of Sun storage systems and appliances, and the VMware suite of virtualization products to configure cost-effective information systems for these businesses. 

Server virtualization is a tremendously valuable technology, but as it becomes widely adopted, organizations face new obstacles to managing storage that have significant impact upon Total Cost of Ownership. The Taneja Group examines these challenges and reviews Citrix StorageLink, a solution that maximizes the use of existing networked storage. 

This videocast sponsored by Dell and Intel featuring virtualization experts, Brian Madden and Gabe Knuth, discusses the top 15 reasons why virtual desktop projects fail. Discover the considerations to make when virtualizing desktops, like hidden costs, implementation planning and user needs.