The Actional architecture enables end-to-end transaction monitoring and alerting as well as fast root cause analysis-with cost-effective scalability and high performance. This paper presents a detailed description of the unique technology that makes these and other key characteristics possible.

Recruiting and retaining skilled workers has always been a challenge for companies, but the impending demographic crunch is going to make it a bigger priority than ever before. Skilled workers represent the backbone of a company's productivity, and their loss can send ripples through the entire company. There are many ways to remediate skilled turnover - from internship programs to internal cross-pollination and outsourcing. HR leaders must start to lay proactive foundations for dealing with this accelerating crisis. They can begin by understanding the root causes of turnover, the coming HR needs of the company, and how to position the company for continuing success.

This white paper is structured so that each page is its own "mini-white-paper" but each is also part of a total look at better structuring requirements documents, processes and content completeness. At the end of this paper is a one page "tear-out" summary which is both a shortened distillation of the content, and a diagnostic tool to start a peer discussion on your organization's performance.

The Business Ready Configurations for Dell PowerEdge blade servers, Dell EqualLogic SAN, and VMware Infrastructure provides a detailed reference architecture for deploying and using VMware virtualization on Dell blades and iSCSI storage environments. The Dell PowerEdge M1000e supports the recently announced 11th generation Dell PowerEdge M610 and M710 blade servers based on the new Intel Nehalem processors. The intended audience for this white paper is IT administrators, IT managers, and channel partners who are planning to deploy VMware virtualization using Dell blade servers and Dell EqualLogic SAN.

Today's technological innovation demands high performance coupled with low environmental impact. These dual requirements are driving components of the semiconductor industry which informs many global businesses and consumer lives.