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Virtual Machine Protection with Symantec NetBackup 7 by Symantec Corporation November 15, 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 |

Tiered Storage Economics: Defining and Calculating the Economic Benefit of Tiered Storage Solutions by Hitachi Data Systems September 01, 2005 - (Free Research) This paper examines trends which indicate that purchasing only cheaper disk solutions to reduce short-term capital expense can produce a negative long-term impact on operating expense.  (WHITE PAPER) READ ABSTRACT |

The True Costs of E-mail Encryption by Trend Micro August 11, 2010 - (Free Research) Currently, e-mail encryption is a bit of a paradox. Large organizations understand and want privacy, but e-mail encryption technology is too in-depth for mass usage. Fortunately things are changing. Read this paper to learn so much more.  (WHITE PAPER) READ ABSTRACT |

Worst Practices in Business Intelligence: Why BI Applications Succeed Where BI Tools Fail by Information Builders August 01, 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 22, 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 |

Service Lapse Recovery Requires Local Accountability by Mindshare Technologies March 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 |

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 |

SearchBusinessAnalytics.com Tip Guide: The Wrong way: Worst practices in ‘big data’ analytics programs by Sybase, an SAP company March 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 |

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 |

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 |

Understanding the Total Cost of Ownership for Endpoint Security Solutions 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)

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 |

Understanding the Total Cost of Ownership for Endpoint Security Solutions 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 |

Big Data: Managing Explosive Growth and the Importance of Tiered Storage in Media and Entertainment by Quantum Corporation February 2012 - (Free Research) This short white paper explores how you can make sure your organization has a worry-free archiving strategy, and includes a case study of how a major television production company successfully modernized its storage to make content available immediately and simultaneously to the company’s editing suites as filming proceeds.  (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 |

IBM and Oracle TCO: The Lumpy Mattress by IBM September 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 |

Is Time to Market King? by IBM November 2011 - (Free Research) The common thread of successful software development is enabling collaboration in context - making the process transparent so stakeholders remain informed and empowered to contribute. Once this thread is established, technology can be implemented that provides the glue for stakeholders to collaborate and meet their time to market or goals.  (WHITE PAPER) READ ABSTRACT |

IBM Global CIO Study - Implications for IT Managers by IBM December 2009 - (Free Research) Recognizing that successful IT innovation requires deep involvement with the business overall, CIOs increasingly help set business strategy, use IT to enable business flexibility, and help corporations meet enterprise-wide goals. Learn what this means to IT managers, operations managers, development managers, strategy and architecture leaders.  (WHITE PAPER) READ ABSTRACT |

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

The Truth About MPLS Security by Certes Networks June 2011 - (Free Research) If you are sending data over a “private” Wide Area Network (WAN) there is a dirty little secret your service provider doesn’t want you to know about. The truth is that these so-called private WANs offer no inherent security and they aren't really even private.  (WHITE PAPER) READ ABSTRACT |

Solving the SAN Storage / VMware Performance Puzzle by Virtual Instruments January 2011 - (Free Research) Join Scott Lowe, VMware-Cisco Solutions Principal for EMC and Archie Hendryx, Senior Solutions Consultant for Virtual Instruments, as they provide insights as to how a comprehensive view, from the VM to the LUN, is imperative for further consolidation and safe Physical to Virtual migrations of your Tier 1 applications.  (WEBCAST) READ ABSTRACT |

With Dashboards - Formatting and Layout Definitely Matter by Corda Technologies September 2008 - (Free Research) Read this whitepaper to learn the best practices for dashboard formatting and layout. It also discusses nine dashboard design problems and solutions.  (WHITE PAPER) READ ABSTRACT |

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