This Storage magazine Buyer’s Checklist featuring content from vendor-independent IT/business consultant Stephen Foskett is designed to help you better understand virtual server backup apps and how to determine which  backup method/features are best for your server virtualization environment. 

Discover the ten simple steps SOHO users can take to secure their wireless networks. 

In this ERP Selection Checklist, provided to you through our ERP Decision Center, two experts with broad experience in ERP implementations give their advice on matching business requirements with product features in five key categories: functional fit, integration, business intelligence and reporting formats, deployment model and customizability. 

This TDWI Checklist Report makes a case for private database clouds, especially as a platform for consolidated BI and DW applications. 

Upgrading from VMware ESX and/or ESXi 3.x to vSphere 4 successfully involves careful planning. There are hardware, software and database requirements, as well as third-party software compatibility considerations. This webcast provides guidelines for planning a successful upgrade, and walks you through a proposed upgrade path step-by-step. 

Upgrading from VMware ESX and/or ESXi 3.x to vSphere 4 successfully involves careful planning. There are hardware, software and database requirements, as well as third-party software compatibility considerations. This podcast provides guidelines for planning a successful upgrade, and walks you through a proposed upgrade path step-by-step. 

Bonus payments have long been a feature of the reward package for most IT professionals, but when the UKeconomy went into freefall during late 2008, many employers either reduced such payments or did away withthem altogether. 

This whitepaper explains why automated reconciliation is quickly evolving into a competitive necessity. The costs associated with manual reconciliation, the benefits from automation, and the best reconciliation workflow model will all be discussed. 

Midrange storage systems account for approximately half of all storage array purchases. It’s a very crowded field, with systems boasting features that were previously only available on high-end arrays. There’s more choice than ever, so effectively matching your needs with a system’s capabilities is critical. 

This white paper makes the business case for utilizing the cloud for backup and recovery operations, and explains how doing so can help your organization reliably meet RTOs and RPOs. Also included is the potential for profit from lower operational costs after investing in the cloud, and tips and a checklist to help you calculate cloud ROI. 

This exclusive white paper offers a quick checklist that you can use to take the next step to managing and controlling IT across the IT ecosystem to the private cloud. Discover how the private cloud offers many of the same benefits as the public cloud, including self-service, scalability, and elasticity, along with additional security features. 

This paper identifies today’s most critical web threats and provides checklists for you to identify and evaluate the security capabilities you need for the best web protection.