This expert e-guide explores the difference in the benefits of enterprise resource planning (ERP) for small and midsized businesses (SMBs) versus larger organizations and sheds light on what to avoid when midmarket organizations lack the IT resources needed when buying ERP software. 

As more and more human activity moves online, it is easy to think that geography no longer matters—surely the internet is without borders? Whilst in some cases this is true, more often than not online activity spills over into the real world. 

In this expert e-guide, find out about the many benefits of virtualizing your mission critical applications such as improved hardware utilization and efficiency. Also, discover where to virtualize your applications to maximize these benefits. 

This paper analyzes the benefits and drawbacks of outsourcing cloud services, examines the business benefits and risks, and provides the steps you should take for a successful implementation. 

While the consensus around the benefits of ITIL is virtually universal, ITIL initiatives run the gamut – both in terms of costs and benefits. Learn how your service management platform can play a huge role in the degree to which you realize the potential benefits of ITIL in your organization. 

This resource explores a secure-by-design IT strategy based on desktop virtualization to regain control over data and applications. Inside, dscover the benefits of desktop virtualization for security, and more. 

When it comes to virtualization, budget planning is the key to success for any organization. This e-guide reviews why no matter what kind of cost saving benefits virtualization promises, having an established budget is essential to help with new purchases, ongoing support and software licensing costs. 

Xtium upgraded to Dell EqualLogic Firmware 5.0 to leverage the direct integration with their VMware vSphere 4.1 environment with vStorage APIs. Xtium is now able to make copies of golden images for SAP customers as well as for virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI) projects with unprecedented speed and efficiency, using optimized disk space. 

This white paper explores how virtualization has sparked a new wave of innovation in storage. It summarizes how the new generation of solutions can deliver higher IT efficiency, better resource and application management, stronger and more flexible data protection, and lower costs. 

The CRM buying process can be reduced to a set of 10 steps that will help you pare down the field of potential solutions to a few vendors who are the best fit. This guide will allow you to move through 10 sets of steps. 

Thiswhite paper discusses the top-five results of this research project. Read on to find out the key results and the top-three recommendations of the ITIL Experts who participated in the project. 

Named as one of Storage magazine’s “Hot Technologies for 2011”, automated storage tiering is an effective way to make efficient use of installed data storage resources, and to take advantage of the high performance of solid-state storage. 

Blade based storage arrays deliver enterprise class storage performance and capacity, as well as simplify storage management loads. These solutions are built to scale quickly and impressively, and offer a cost-effective, long-term approach to delivering robust and reliable storage solutions. Reas on to learn more about blade based storage arrays.