Design and Facilities

While virtualization is delivering clear benefits to multiple areas of IT, organizations need to start thinking about it holistically to serve business needs. Learn more about maximizing the value of your virtualization IT environment with this CIO.com eBook.

SilverSky operates a major hosted infrastructure dedicated to providing world-class enterprise messaging solutions. This whitepaper is an in-depth overview of our Hosted Microsoft Exchange architecture and how we implement best practices across systems management, testing, application deployment, infrastructure and security to provide increased productivity and reduced costs.

This document aligns the server hypervisor with the storage hypervisor by prescribing the best practices for deploying VMware® vSphere® 5 on clustered Data ONTAP.

If you find yourself in need of a WAN optimization solution you’ll want to download this report to understand what’s new in the WAN optimization market, what vendors are the key players, and which products are most appropriate for your needs.

Customers Achieve Extreme Performance at Lowest Cost with Oracle Exadata Database Machine

Learn how organizations can use Oracle Exadata to reduce IT costs through consolidation, manage more data on multiple compression tiers, improve the performance of all applications, and make better business decisions in real time.

By using the Oracle Exadata Database Machine as your data warehouse platform you have a balanced, high performance hardware configuration. This paper focuses on the other two corner stones, data modeling and data loading.

Gains economic, operational and environmental Benefits

Download this paper to learn best practices for Blade environments from Jed Scaramella, research manager of IDC's Services program on behalf of HP's customers.

Featuring Virtualization Best Practices for Reducing Costs

Read this whitepaper to learn how you can build a BladeSystem that fits your organization.

Savvy IT professionals are finding that blade servers are less expensive than traditional rack servers for most new deployments, while also delivering improvements in agility, scalability and manageability.

Modern blade solutions are the heart of flexible, cost-effective infrastructures.

Increase ROI and improve productivity. See how the Cisco Unified Data Center can help you achieve these two goals by simplifying, standardizing, and automating IT processes, so you can turn your data center into an innovation center.

According to a 2012 CSO survey, 68% of enterprises are wary of data security in the cloud. Learn how moving to a Cisco private cloud can make you more agile, help mitigate data security risks, and reduce enterprise costs up to 40%.

Private clouds create IT challenges that can limit increases in production, even hinder agility. Find out why enabling self-service and automated end-to-end provisioning with Cisco Intelligent Automation for Cloud may be the solution.

The rise of cloud models brings with it new infrastructure, applications, access policies, and traffic patterns. Learn how networks must adapt to keep up with the demands of the cloud, and find out how Cisco is leading the charge.

Break free of data center constraints. Provide IT service and cloud computing that’s more agile and efficient. Learn why Cisco’s unified architecture and cost-efficient design uniquely positions you to deliver the advantages of a private cloud.

This paper outlines potential savings on capital and operational expenditures, stemming from various product characteristics.

Ready to move to a private cloud? Starting with a look at infrastructure and virtualization through process and governance, learn the Cisco Domain TenSM —the ten essential domains you need to know to get started with this journey.

In this whitepaper, you will learn about three essential things to consider when evaluating and selecting an outsourcing partner for database administration.

This paper provides a primer of the grid, identifies an energy management paradigm shift with distributed energy sources and energy trading that impacts the data center.

Read this white paper to get an overview of the Oracle Database family of products and learn how you can transform your business, budgets, and service levels with Oracle Database 11g Release 2.

Don't try to fit a square peg into a round hole by using infrastructure performance tools that are not equipped to monitor and measure true end user experience in VDI environments. Join EMA Research Director Julie Craig and Aternity President & CEO Trevor Matz to learn how to close the VDI end user experience visibility gap.

Download this eBook to discover the best practices of a "green data center" to make sure the colation provider you choose truly is green.