Because business processes are increasingly dependent upon an ever-expanding applications and technology network, many IT managers are seeking a more reasonable IT infrastructure strategy. This paper details several approaches to that end. 

Are the products you see advertised real, or is it mostly hype? Robert McFarlane, Principal Data Center and Financial Trading Floor Consultant, goes over the products and methods that aren’t as green as they'd like you to think and summarizes ways to extend the life of your data center. 

Everywhere we look, there's another "green" product for the data center. How do you know what really makes a data center "green"? Beth Nicholson, Senior Editorial Events Manager at TechTarget sits down with Bob McFarlane, Principal Data Center and Financial Trading Floor Consultant to take a closer look at energy efficiency in the data center. 

Today's data centers are in the midst of a revolution originating from the move to virtual server architectures powered by solutions such as VMware. Based on Datalink's experience protecting enterprise data centers, this white paper provides practical advice and considerations surrounding backup and recovery of virtual server infrastructures. 

This expert E-Guide from the writers at SearchServerVirtualization.com brings you up-to- date on the latest virtualization developments and explains how they can benefit your IT shop. 

Mono Tools for Visual Studio helps development shops, ISVs, and enterprise development teams reduce development costs, increase productivity, and utilize existing .NET developers for Linux, Solaris, and Mac development projects. 

Read this paper to learn the ways in which new technologies are impacting power demand patterns, explores the consequences of having too much power capacity or too little and then provides concrete advice on strategies for right-sizing your power systems. 

Nowadays, more and more IT shops are considering hosted Exchange services rather than running their mail server locally.They need to decide whether or not it is right for their company. Take a deeper look at hosted Exchange and hybrid models in this webcast. 

As more and more IT shops deploy multitier middleware platforms and frameworks for the delivery of business-critical application services, they are expecting to garner the benefits of the service-oriented architecture (SOA) or composite application development approach: agility, flexibility, productivity, and extensibility. 

When the State of Kansas Division of Information Services and Communications mandated that all of its departments find ways to consolidate operations and boost staff productivity, its networking services group was ready for the challenge. Read this case study to see what they did. 

This EMA white paper addresses the challenges of a complex multi-tier environment. It highlights specific examples of how virtualization provides measurable ROI, looks at the challenges for data center management that virtualization introduces, and most importantly, it provides specific and actionable recommendations for managing virtual systems. 

So you’re an XP shop and your organization skipped Vista, but is considering taking the plunge to the latest revision of the Longhorn platform: Windows 7. Here are ten things that you should probably know as you get familiar with this new Windows client.