The Enterprise Data Center Recipe

80% of the IT budget is consumed by mundane keeping the lights on activities. This tech dossier examines the components of a truly efficient data center with expert guidance on how to standardize, simplify and automate. Learn how you can free more budget for innovation and strategic projects.

Sponsored by Dell  Read More »

Improve Service Levels while Cutting Costs

Identification of underperforming processes for databases, operations, systems, storage and capacity management is the first step to service optimization. But where do you start? This paper will help you identify the areas for improvement and explains how IT workload automation can significantly reduce complexity and IT staff inefficiencies.

Sponsored by BMC  Read this White Paper »

Reduce Windows 7 Costs by 60%

Getting ready for a Windows 7 upgrade requires careful planning. To start, youll need to ensure application and hardware compatibility, give careful consideration to VDI and learn the advantages of new tools to automate the migration process. This tech dossier provides expert advice on deployment best practices and highlights experiences of early adopters.

Sponsored by Dell  Read this White Paper »

Emerging Technologies 3

The future of archiving.  Read More »

Think Globally and Locally

Jeff Joerres, CEO of worldwide, multibillion-dollar staffing company Manpower, talks with CIO Executive Editor Christopher Koch on creating the delicate balance between global IT efficiencies and the power of local ownership. (15:38)  Read More »

Surviving IT Worst Case Scenarios

Could you support yourself for 48 hours in the event of a disaster? How would you deal with a hurricane that broadsided your corporate offices--in Pittsburgh? Top IT leaders discuss their answers to tough continuity questions  Read More »

Virtualization Success is a Team Effort

As greater numbers of datacenter servers transition from the physical to the virtual world, the components of virtualization success come to the fore. What scores of organizations have discovered is that success is derived from an optimal pairing of the right software platform with the right hardware platform.  View Now »

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Customer Spotlight: How IPC The Hospitalist Company Implemented Oracle on VMware

Have you been looking to hear about customer's experiences with the new VMware vCenter Site Recovery Manager product? View this webcast to learn about VMware customer, Navicure, and their experiences testing and evaluating the recovery manager, their progress in implementing it in their environment and their advice other customers considering using vCenter.  View Now »

Sponsored by  VMware

Quantifying the Business Value of VMware View - Webcast

Many enterprises have discovered that the use of virtualization to support desktop workloads creates a range of significant benefits. These benefits include price efficiencies, improved IT management and greater agility and choice for end users.

This VMware sponsored webcast with IDC will provide both quantitative measurement of the business value -- defined as the expected ROI -- and qualitative analysis associated with the use of VMware View™. IDC will also provide an analysis of the View Composer and ThinApp™ features of VMware View, including the business value of these solutions and an overview of how they work.

Attend this webcast to learn about:
- Challenges and barriers that might impede the adoption of desktop virtualization
- Navigating roadblocks to facilitate a strategic implementation
- Optimizing qualitative and quantitative benefits to IT and your business  View Now »

Sponsored by  VMware