Retail, like virtually all other industries, is awash with stories about the emergence of cloud computing. Much hasbeen written about the ability to remove cost or to greatly speed up implementations. 

Companies today can leverage backup and recovery directly from the cloud with an online backup and recovery service. This allows you to replace expensive upfront investments in backup hardware, software, and personnel with an affordable monthly or yearly subscription-based service. Check out this brief white paper to learn more. 

Virtualization technology presents a number of opportunities for driving capital and operational efficiency for SMBs. Read this brief paper to learn ten cost-saving strategies. 

A VDI deployment must be carefully designed to ensure it delivers the scalability needed to support large-scale enterprise client computing requirements. Failing to plan properly for a VDI deployment could nullify all of your expected cost and effciciency benefits. Check out this brief white paper to make sure your VDI project is a success. 

Entrusted with managing massive volumes of data, Santa Fe Partner's small IT staff knows the importance of security and data availability. Recently, they were looking for a file synchronization tool that would help the company manage market and transactional data as well as allow data transfer for DR. Read on to learn about the solution they chose. 

This guide discusses three advances that can improve database server performance and when administrators in small to midsize businesses (SMBs) should consider them. 

Check out this solution brief to discover how VMware equips SMBs with technology solutions that allow them to cost effectively optimize the use of their existing IT assets and resources as well as protect the systems, data, and applications that run the business, ensuring Always On IT. 

<p>In this eBook you will learn about the efficient, economical ways to address the small business storage issues outlined above without busting the small business budget or hiring an IT department.</p> 

Based on feedback from almost 650 end-user organizations, this report serves as a roadmap for SMBs looking to improve their analytical capability and achieve Best-in-Class performace through the deployment of BI. 

This report from Knowledge Peers and Pierre Audoin Consultants (PAC), reveals what leaders of Small and Medium-Sized Businesses (SMBs) think of IT – its strategic value, its potential, and the changing way in which it is being used in their organisations. 

About 50% of companies have an application performance monitoring (APM) system in place, and those that don't are likely losing customers and revenue. Quest Software has made vast improvements to its Foglight APM line, including supreme simplicity and virtualization capabilities. Read this and learn about the research behind these advancements. 

This ESG White Paper explains how VMware’s vSphere Storage Appliance (VSA) gives users an alternative software-based approach to business continuity and system availability that provides the necessary capabilities of shared storage without the physical requirement, and associated costs and complexity.