<p>Customers interested in purchasing blade servers must carefully assess the costs of implementing and maintaining these platforms. This expert e-guide presents a cost/benefit analysis of blade servers and explains why virtualization should be factored into investment decisions.</p> 

The security of SQL Server database servers has become a top priority for database administrators. This article examines best practices that can be employed to secure Microsoft SQL Server 2000 databases. It provides an overview of the security model in SQL Server 2000 and discusses best practices you can employ to secure yours. 

If your organization is among the many looking to implement desktop virtualization solutions, be sure to have a plan. This e-guide discusses the best practices on how to align technology with company goals, while staying focused on obtaining a sufficient ROI. 

Your service desk should be the one stop shop for internal and external customers. But, in order for IT to be the orchestrator of knowledge and the service catalog, you need to provide excellent service and quick response times. Watch this webcast and discover the most current recommendations for service delivery and management best practices. 

This report and the accompanying data reduction survey dispel common myths and confusion about data deduplication and compression and lay out the best practices and implementation recommendations. Read now to learn more. 

In this paper you will uncover the steps to building a high performance culture within your business. 

The best practitioners of online marketing are those who meld Internet marketing and technology tools with timely follow-up and tried-and-true, old fashioned human contact. This podcast walks you through key strategies for implementing an effective lead follow-up and qualification process 

Quocirca looks at the case for mobile printing in the enterprise and suggests best practices for a mobile print strategy. 

Storage capacity utilization metrics provide a framework you can use to analyze and manage SAN storage use across a diverse IT environment. Check out this white paper to explore how capacity metrics can help your organization with efficiency, capacity management, and risk management. 

<p>Many companies struggle to choose the right hardware to support their critical business functions. This IT handbook provides an expert checklist to help you navigate the server selection process, increase resource utilization, and design a disaster recovery strategy for your virtual environment.</p> 

Discover what IT can do to embrace consumerization - the latest IT trend. Learn how to get the best of both worlds: letting your employees pick their device of choice and the security your network needs. 

Read this white paper to find out why 38% of businesses surveyed in 2011 had replaced their ERP solutions and find criteria for determining if and when you should upgrade or migrate to new software. Also, find tips on making a business case for an investment as well as selection criteria for choosing ERP that will meet your business needs.