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The pace of innovation in the virtual world continues to accelerate, opening new virtual dimensions and strategies for multi-tier hypervisors.

Investments in green building strategies consistently result in significant benefits for organizations today.  Green buildings not only reduce the environmental impacts of natural resource consumption and green house gas emissions, but they also provide economical benefits such as reduced costs, improved bottom-line performance and higher shareholder value.

Transitioning to a green data center and optimizing operating efficiency can be a complex undertaking. There are multiple components to factor into the equation—and best results can often be achieved by integrating improvements from multiple fronts. The good news is that IBM can provide many solutions and techniques to support such a transition.

Using a custom-built NAS server and hardware-accelerated file system, BlueArc is able to deliver both high performance and industry leading energy efficiency.

This paper exposes the growing threat of application-layer attacks and their impact on revenue, profit, productivity and brand reputation, and discusses the solutions available to help detect and mitigate these evolving threats.

Understand how much of your company's time and efforts will be focused on managing servers or on driving innovators for your business and decide which hosting solution best supports what you want to do.

Read this report to see how and why savvy enterprises are turning to tape-based storage for all their archiving needs.

Storage infrastructure simplification is an important step a business can take toward meeting the needs of an on-demand business environment. The IBM System Storage DS Family can support business continuity and improve information lifecycle management with competitively priced storage options. Learn more about all the features and products in the IBM System Storage DS Family lineup.

While there is little dispute among IT professionals regarding the impact of disk fragmentation on system performance, no independent guidelines exist to recommend the frequency of defragmentation across an infrastructure. This white paper will outline the results of testing, draw conclusions, and make recommendations regarding managing fragmentation across your infrastructure.

Today's use of virtualization technology allows IT professionals to automatically manage the resources of the physical server to efficiently support multiple operating systems, each supporting different applications. This IDC Technology Assessment presents IDC's view of how virtualization technologies are impacting and will continue to impact operating environments and the operating environment market near- and long-term.

Organizations have achieved significant benefit from virtualizing servers and storage environments, and now face the daunting task of deploying new network architectures to keep pace. Riverbed Technology and VMware have joined forces to help address these problems and make it easy to deploy and manage VXLAN overlay networks in highly virtualized data centers. Register to read the full report from The Enterprise Strategy Group (ESG).

Most companies have only put limited effort toward the system architecture that surrounds the flash memory modules. In this white paper, Storage Switzerland focuses on the importance of architecture design in solid state storage systems.

This paper explains how standardization helps meet the demand for deploying services quicker and at a lower cost. Read on and learn how standardization to the cloud can help increase the agility and speed of your business processes.

The single most important trend in security in the next ten years will be the integration of various security elements such as information security, physical security and integrated systems security into a single security function.

This Forrester infographic illustrates intriguing meeting and business communication behaviors around the globe.

As corporate security policies and compliance regulations are created to address the increasingly dangerous post 9/11 environment, security risk management is becoming an increasingly important tool in corporate governance. Learn more in this white paper by RiskWatch.

There are more people on earth than total IPv4 addresses, and they're expected to run out by the end of 2011. Preparing for the transition now can help you maintain business continuity during the changeover while taking advantage of immediate business benefits.

Email has become THE mission critical application for businesses large and small. As a growing business continually striving to increase productivity, collaboration and corporate success, you understand the important role that Microsoft Exchange Server plays in any profitable business. Small and mid-size businesses alike see the productivity benefits of utilizing an enterprise-class solution but since many do not have the financial or human resources to bring it in house, more and more of them are turning to a hosted solution.

Read this whitepaper to better understand a migration to the cloud, how to get started, and what the next steps are for your organization.

This white paper will identify the key additional advantages offered by PoE Plus and explore the enormous potential of this new technology in scenarios that previously could not take advantage of PoE.

The first is a step-by-step guide to M2M deployment. Provided by Connected World Magazine, it helps define the current state of best practices on the part of the M2M industry to help potential adopters to get their applications off the ground and take some of the complexity out of M2M.

This informative webinar focuses on the impact that mobile brings to your enterprise- to your enterprise architecture, changes in development, and how you can use mobile as a driver for change moving forward. Continue for an analysis of the challenges surrounding enterprise mobility.

Learn how with storage virtualization you must now change the way you plan for implementation, management, backup, and recovery. Download this white paper now!

Why Ease of Use and Quality of User Experience Are The Most Critical Criteria for Successful Videoconferencing Deployments.

In this report, we will take a look at the IT-related activities from the ITPro and AnalystPerspectives collections, as well as the most popular IT and business search terms.