This executive brief reviews the benefits of integrated asset management between development and operations and provides a concrete example of the impact analysis benefits of having a unified catalog of services and assets. 

System Center Configuration Manager and Microsoft Deployment now provide an integrated toolset. This article will describe how you can use Configuration Manager along with Microsoft Deployment to start rolling out Windows Server 2008. 

Microsoft SharePoint Server 2010 offers all of the enterprise search features and functionality that are in Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 and provides many new enterprise search capabilities. This article summarizes the new enterprise search features and functionality in SharePoint Server 2010. 

In this article we first explore the motivation for protocol security solutions, ones that are capable of protecting data in transit. We describe several solutions, at various layers of the open systems interconnection (OSI) stack, addressing several key network and platform threats. 

Not just for Road Warriors any more, mobility takes hold as a strategic corporate asset across the enterprise. This article summarizes key mobility data from a recent Forrester Research report and Intel IT's experience with a highly mobile workforce Lost Laptops: More Expensive Than You Think 

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. 

This article contains a number of technical diagrams describing Microsoft SharePoint Server 2010 features, upgrade considerations, and benefits. Many of these resources are visual representations of recommended solutions. They include poster-sized documents available in formats including Microsoft Office Visio 2007 files, PDF files, and XPS files. 

Information technology is ubiquitous in organizations, but what distinguishes top-notch IT from merely adequate IT? Read this article written by the Economist, to learn how leading companies enable IT to perform optimally. 

This series of articles and accompanying poster is an end-to-end scenario that outlines how to plan, design, build, and maintain an enterprise's Internet presence Web site based on Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007. This scenario focuses on the design, creation, and deployment of an Internet presence site in a large enterprise. 

With Microsoft SQL Server 2008, small and mid-sized businesses have a variety of options for creating state-ofthe art strategies for ensuring high availability and disaster recovery for their databases. This article explains why upgrading to SQL Server 2008 may help IT sleep better at night. 

In a series of three articles, this E-Guide introduces technology from Peer Software – designed to optimize file availability and collaboration across the WAN. 

Deduplication has become an essential tool to control exponential data growth. This article will describe the techniques being used today to deduplicate data and will highlight considerations for choosing the best technology for your environment. 

Solaris™ Cluster provides Solaris Zone Clusters (also called Solaris Containers Clusters), which provide virtual clusters and support the consolidation of multiple cluster applications onto a single cluster. Specifically, this article describes how Oracle Real Application Clusters (RAC) can be deployed on a zone cluster.