Businesses demand IT solutions that are relevant, reliable, and brought to market faster than ever. IT must support global markets, mergers and acquisitions, and emerging technologies that can provide competitive advantages. Organizations with an eye on the future are taking a new look at their infrastructure, with a lens focused on delivering solutions quickly within a shrinking budget envelope.   

In this paper, Hurwitz & Associates details a best practices approach to today's infrastructure challenge, designed to meet tomorrow's business objectives. Virtualization technology is key to maximizing throughput, time to value, overall flexibility and manageability, as well as lowering costs. Register here to learn how to apply these best practices within your IT shop, and how the IBM PowerLinux Open Source Infrastructure Services solution delivers an optimized, cost-effective platform for a highly-efficient virtualized infrastructure -- based on Linux and open source software.