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NOT BIG ENOUGH FOR VIRTUALIZATION? THINK AGAIN! Survey shows SMBs reap the same benefits as the enterprise, including reduced costs, improved reliability and disaster recovery, and a measurable ROI.

After more than a year of playing budgetary defense in a down economy, small and midsize businesses (SMBs) are finally beginning to find opportunities to move forward with strategic IT initiatives. As they examine their needs and pain points, one top priority is emerging: the need to refresh both client and back office software, particularly

With a growing business and exponentially increasing amounts of electronic data, the ageing IT infrastructure at Adam Architecture was groaning, affecting productivity within the practice. Solution IBM Business Partner ABS Digital worked closely with Adam Architecture to design and implement a flexible, integrated IT platform based on IBM System x® servers and IBM System Storage™.

As one of the fastest growing mail order clothes retailers in the UK, Boden’s rapid expansion was putting pressure on its IT infrastructure. Achieving the required levels of resiliency was becoming expensive and there was little scope for expansion to meet new business opportunities and maintain high levels of customer service. IBM Business Partner Qcubed

HIT decided to adopt a global outsourced solution for data centre managed services, migrating elements of its server infrastructure from Dallas, Texas, to the UK. That meant relocating and upgrading hardware while maintaining 100% performance levels throughout, and calling for the dependable expertise that only IBM could provide. Drawing on IBM’s unique experience and skill

Ageing servers and an IT environment that had grown organically over time, meant Specialised Travel’s systems were becoming unstable. Regular server reboots and downtime were impacting staff productivity and, ultimately the bottom line. IBM Business Partner, Unilink Systems worked closely with Specialised Travel to design and implement a resilient, consolidated server environment based around IBM

Specsavers wanted to capture customer feedback at the point of experience in its retail stores. The survey needed to be automatic, engage with a representative sample of both customers and shop browsers, and deliver incisive analyses and rapid reports. Specsavers contracted IBM Business Partner, Customer Research Technology (CRT) to provide IBM AnyPlace™ Kiosks equipped with

Virtualization is one of the hottest technologies in IT infrastructure today. According to Gartner, “Virtualization is the highest impact trend changing infrastructure and operations through 2012. It will change how you manage, how and what you buy, how you deploy, how you plan, and how you charge.” Several studies by the research firm IDC support

This White Paper provides basic guidance for selecting the right cooling methodology for multiple types of data center projects, as well as varying densities of new servers. In this White Paper we describe liquid and air cooling solutions and discuss where each is best applied. We focus on proven cooling technologies which can be used

Confronted with information management challenges, organisations often operate on a reactive basis, developing ad hoc solutions to specific problems as they arise. Because of this, many document management programmes are rife with duplicated procedures, non-standard methods and process inefficiencies. As a result, companies become exposed to unnecessary risks and costs, and miss out on opportunities