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Service Lapse Recovery Requires Local Accountability by Mindshare Technologies March 05, 2008 - (Free Research) Customers who regularly purchase goods or services from you will eventually run into a proble, while you may be tempted to assume that they'll overlook one faulty product, you shouldn't take it lightly.  (WHITE PAPER) READ ABSTRACT |

NetApp’s Crafty Acquisition of Akorri Will Be Boon to Users — and Not Just NetApp Users by NetApp March 15, 2011 - (Free Research) Read this white paper to learn more about the acquisition of Akorri Networks, Inc. by NetApp. and the ways in which this merger is helping to provide customers with new virtualization technologies.  (WHITE PAPER) READ ABSTRACT |

IBM and Oracle TCO: The Lumpy Mattress by IBM September 21, 2011 - (Free Research) This paper outlines Oracle's approach to overpricing one part of a database solution to compensate for another part, leading to a much higher total cost of ownership (TCO). Read this now to learn more about the evolution of TCO, Oracle's pricing strategy, IBM's pricing strategy and so much more.  (WHITE PAPER) READ ABSTRACT |

SearchBusinessAnalytics.com Tip Guide: The Wrong way: Worst practices in ‘big data’ analytics programs by Sybase, an SAP company March 27, 2012 - (Free Research) This expert tip guide takes the less-traveled approach of letting you inside some of the worst practices associated with big data analytics today. Read this resource now and learn what not to do when it comes to analyzing big data, including assuming the software offers all the answers, forgetting lessons of the past and so much more.  (EGUIDE) READ ABSTRACT |

Warehouse Management Better Business Practices: Cycle and Annual Counting by VAI, Vormittag Associates, Inc. February 13, 2009 - (Free Research) This first chapter of Better Business Practices Series, explores the many benefits of cycle counting. Chief among them is the elimination of an annual physical count of your inventory. While cycle counting is the preferred inventory counting process, many companies still conduct annual counts.  (BOOK) READ ABSTRACT |

Understanding the Total Cost of Ownership for Endpoint Security Solutions by Sophos, Inc. March 24, 2009 - (Free Research) When moving to an endpoint security solution, should you stick with your current vendor or shop around? To shed some light on this issue, Sophos commissioned an independent research study to quantify all of the cost areas involved in migrating to an endpoint security product and managing that solution afterward to create a TCO comparison.  (ANALYST REPORT)

Understanding the Total Cost of Ownership for Endpoint Security Solutions by Sophos, Inc. March 24, 2009 - (Free Research) When moving to an endpoint security solution, should you stick with your current vendor or shop around? To shed some light on this issue, Sophos commissioned an independent research study to quantify all of the cost areas involved in migrating to an endpoint security product and managing that solution afterward to create a TCO comparison.  (ANALYST REPORT) READ ABSTRACT |

The Best Way to Deliver IT Support to Businesses as an MSP by GFI Software December 22, 2010 - (Free Research) This paper examines the best ways to deliver IT support to businesses as a managed services provider.  (WHITE PAPER) READ ABSTRACT |

Ensuring The Availability of Blackberry Enterprise Server by Double-Take Software October 16, 2009 - (Free Research) In order to implement a plan for protecting and backing up BlackBerry handhelds, it's important to understand how the Blackberry Enterprise Server solution works within an existing email environment. This paper gives a quick lessong to that end, then concentrates on ensuring the availability of the Blackberry Enterprise Server  (WHITE PAPER) READ ABSTRACT |

iSCSI for TL-Series Tape Libraries by Dell, Inc. September 30, 2008 - (Free Research) To supplement the growth in iSCSI SANs, Dell has introduced an iSCSI-to-SAS bridge card for the TL-series of tape libraries. This allows a customer to directly attach a tape backup target to their iSCSI 1Gb Ethernet SAN with little to no degradation in transfer speed. This white paper explores this setup and configuration.  (WHITE PAPER) READ ABSTRACT |

Is a Data Warehouse the Only Option for Business Intelligence? by Information Builders Inc. (E-mail this company) October 2007 - (Free Research) While data warehouses are important for many types of analytical systems, they aren’t always necessary. Building a data warehouse can dramatically increase the cost of a BI project. This paper describes data warehouses, along with many other options for placing relevant, timely information in the hands of business users.  (WHITE PAPER) READ ABSTRACT |

Leading Bank Chooses DataFlux to Create More Accurate, Complete Risk Reports by DataFlux Corporation January 2009 - (Free Research) Read how one of the largest banks in the southeast chose DataFlux dfPower® Studio to review and compare multiple data sources simultaneously through data quality and data integration workflows.  (CASE STUDY) READ ABSTRACT |

Worst Practices in Business Intelligence: Why BI Applications Succeed Where BI Tools Fail by Information Builders August 2012 - (Free Research) This paper addresses the top 4 worst practices in business intelligence (BI) and provides you with essential strategies for how to overcome these common mishaps.  (WHITE PAPER) READ ABSTRACT |

Best Practices for Migrating SAP Environments by Sun Microsystems, Inc. June 2009 - (Free Research) This Sun BluePrints™ article explains the process of moving an SAP environment from one system to another, and describes the resources and services available from Sun to assist users planning a migration.  (WHITE PAPER) READ ABSTRACT |

Worst Practices in BI: Why Business Intelligence (BI) Applications Succeed Where BI Tools Fail by Information Builders Inc. (E-mail this company) June 2007 - (Free Research) Tthis paper provides insight into the top-four worst practices for BI. It also provides guidance on how to avoid and/or overcome worst practices in order to tap into the true power of BI. By reading this paper, you will have a solid understanding of how to avoid BI failure and achieve success with your BI initiatives.  (WHITE PAPER) READ ABSTRACT |

Best Practice Guidelines for SAP Solutions on VMware® Infrastructure by VMware and Intel October 2008 - (Free Research) This paper provides best practice guidelines for deploying SAP software solutions on VMware Infrastructure 3.  (WHITE PAPER) READ ABSTRACT |

Project Management for the Modern Age by Citrix Online UK September 2010 - (Free Research) This e-book will show you how to implement virtual collaboration tools throughout the life cycle of a project to leverage the benefits of collaboration and partnership.  (EBOOK) READ ABSTRACT |

The State of Data Quality Today: An Information Difference Research Study by Pitney Bowes Business Insight August 2009 - (Free Research) This paper brings an in-depth look at the results of this survey and tries to clearly define and measure the state of data quality. Read this paper to learn what 193 respondents who completed the survey from all around the world had to say about the state of data quality.  (ANALYST REPORT) READ ABSTRACT |

Security-In-Depth Using Integrated Risk-Conscious Controls by Tripwire, Inc. November 2011 - (Free Research) Most organizations seem stuck in the traditional castle-and-moat approach to security. This approach assumes there's a clear boundary between what's inside and outside the organization and that attacks come from external sources. Clearly today's threat environment requires a new approach.  (WHITE PAPER) READ ABSTRACT |

Fast Delivery of Complex Financial Reports - How Leading CFOs Do It by IBM November 2011 - (Free Research) Reporting speed and accuracy are vital today. But it would be wrong to assume that you have to spend more to go faster and do a competent job. This white paper illustrates how some organizations achieved top-tier results in financial reporting and why some did not.  (WHITE PAPER) READ ABSTRACT |

Magic Quadrant for Business Intelligence Platforms by Board International March 2011 - (Free Research) This document presents a global view of Gartner’s opinion of the main software vendors that should be considered by organizations seeking to use BI platforms to develop BI applications. Buyers should evaluate vendors in all four quadrants and not assume only those in the Leaders quadrant can deliver successful BI implementations.  (ANALYST REPORT) READ ABSTRACT |

ESG: Market Landscape Report: Storage Tiering by DataCore Software Corporation September 2011 - (Free Research) It's almost impossible to conduct a conversation with a storage vendor without raising the topic of "storage tiering." Along with "virtualisation" and "cloud," it's one of those de rigueur phrases. And, like those other two, storage tiering suffers from an over-exposure that can assume familiarity and understanding where it does not exist.  (WHITE PAPER) READ ABSTRACT |

Virtual Machine Protection with Symantec NetBackup 7 by Symantec Corporation November 2010 - (Free Research) Because of the obvious total cost of ownership benefits of virtualization, virtual machines are assuming more business-critical roles in the data center. In a recent survey, more than 75% of all enterprise companies listed server virtualization as one of the top technologies they are adopting. Read this white paper to learn more.  (WHITE PAPER) READ ABSTRACT |

Overview of Windows Search Technologies by Global Knowledge February 2009 - (Free Research) This paper helps us to understand the importance of desktop search tools fit in the universe of Microsoft search tools.  (WHITE PAPER) READ ABSTRACT |

Endpoint Security: Defining the Total Cost of Ownership by Sophos, Inc. March 2009 - (Free Research) When moving to an endpoint security solution, should you stick with your current vendor or shop around? To shed some light on this issue, Sophos commissioned an independent research study to quantify all of the cost areas involved in migrating to an endpoint security product and managing that solution afterward to create a TCO comparison.  (ANALYST REPORT) READ ABSTRACT |

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