As budgets stay tight and finance professionals become more involved in technology buying decisions, be better prepared to defend your business case through the use of financial metrics and Return on Investment (ROI) calculators. 

This Article, intended to provide guidance on those issues, is divided into two parts: The "trigger" and the "legal hold." 

Greg begins with an introduction to storage and networking terminology, which helps to demystify complicating acronyms and other jargon used by storage and networking specialists. 

IBM Cognos software helps K-12 organizations increase visibility and improve decision making, driving improved student performance, lowered cost of interventions, greater productivity, and lower operating costs. 

A new study, Define What's Valued Online, confirms what many technology marketers have instinctively suspected all along: Buyers of technology products consider Internet research essential to their ability to do their jobs. Learn about basic changes you can make to improve your online content. 

For every area of your datacenter, Sun Professional Services has created a tailored assessment service. 

This document explores the ways real SAP customers have used VMware virtualization to: Optimize datacenter resources; Ease SAP upgrades, new implementations, and platform migrations; Better meet SLAs and Support service delivery to the business. 

Cloud computing is making its way into the public sector, enabling significant cost-savings and providing the tools to enhance communication, monitoring and security. Take a look at this videocast for an in-depth look at the use of the cloud in the public sector and learn about four basic models you can leverage for successful cloud adoption. 

With new technologies—such as planning and analysis solutions powered by IBM Cognos® software—companies are automating the process, getting faster reports and data that fuel “what is” and “what if” scenarios. Read this paper to learn more. 

Companies that use IBM Cognos software are able to improve productivity, reduce or avoid headcount, reduce financing costs, and increase profitability.  These benefits are achieved because when employees can rapidly access and analyze data in consistent ways, they are better able to make business changes that both lower costs and increase revenues. 

This resource presents an overview of the principles of personnel identification and describes the basic elements that should be used in any security system. 

Planning, budgeting and forecasting always will be crucial components to your organization. But choosing the right performance management software can be a tough task. This paper from IBM outlines the business challenges and drivers, as well as organizational and technological best practices to follow, and includes a software selection matrix.