The current economic climate is forcing more systematic thinking about costs in general, including those associated with overall complexity and the security and resiliency of large distributed infrastructures. These trends intersect in powerful ways; a new wave of computing is gathering momentum as a result. And open source is playing a major role. 

Virtualization has become one of the latest trends in helping to drive efficiencies in the data center -- from management to energy costs, server virtualization may be able to help you optimize your IT environment. Listen to Tom Ready, IBM vice president as he describes the latest trends and benefits of server virtualization. 

In this paper Gomez poses several questions to Tim Grieser, vice president of IDC's Enterprise System Management Software program, on behalf of Gomez's customers. Read on to learn the answers to some of the most important questions regarding web-based applications. 

This white paper discusses the nature of the retail marketplace moving forward and identifies the drivers behind retailers’ interest in data, network, and transaction security. Learn who the key decision makers in retail really are and find out how they play different roles depending on their size. 

Read this transcript of the "Mission Critical Computing" webcast to learn about changing trends in the data center infrastructure. Discover tools to ensure high availability at a low cost to improve IT performance and find out more about innovations to data center operations to help you remain competitive. 

Read this E-Guide and explore how careful negotiation of data integration licenses can help your company save $100,000 or more on data integration costs. Learn about vital data integration trends and business drivers as well as how you can ensure a successful business intelligence (BI) initiative with key data integration considerations. 

Find out what 1,900 B2B marketers in software, hardware and technology services industries revealed about what works for lead generation. Supplement this report with the webinar titled "KnowledgeStorm Webinars: Business Technology Marketing Benchmarks: 2006-2007 Data and Trends" and learn about B2B e-mail and search engine marketing strategies. 

By continuously monitoring shared capacity utilization trends in your VMware ESX environment, Capacity Analyzer significantly reduces the time and costs of identifying current capacity bottlenecks causing performance problems. 

Check out this document to learn how to best achieve server security while supporting collaborative platforms. 

In this video, Ron Clarkson--Director of Endpoint Security with Trend Micro--introduces Web Reputation, an add-on version of Trend Micro's Web Protection Platform. With Trend Micro's technology, whenever users are connected to the internet, their protection is up-to-date. Watch the video to learn more. 

Read this paper to learn the results of a study that analyzes survey results from 414 France-based businesses and IT managers about their current and future needs, motivations, uses, budgets, and strategies for enterprise data protection. 

Watch this webcast to gain insight into industry trends in mobile security and available options for securing data on laptops and mobile devices. Learn about a remote management and data protection tool that enables organizations to get the most from their existing IT resources using cloud-based services. 

This APC eBook will discuss power consumption trends in the data center, why energy efficiency matters, how to reduce your power footprint, and benchmark metrics that will help you measure your progress.