Employees are flooding IT departments with requests to connect their personal smartphones to the company IT infrastructure. Disregarding the real productivity benefits from connected employees, until now many IT departments have been too concerned with security and control risks. 

Although it has been proven that creating a proactive data management strategy improves the effectiveness and value of almost any data intensive project, convincing those in charge can be a challenge. This white paper discusses the benefits of data governance as well as providing objection-busting strategies useful to any data champion. 

This paper identifies the data protection optimizations available in the VMware vSphere environment, and shows how the recent VMware Data Recovery introduction makes it very easy for SMBs to leverage them to resolve backup window, RPO, RTO, and recovery reliability concerns 

Products like QuorumLabs onQ Site Recovery Appliance allow the small to mid-sized company to bring an application back online in a matter of minutes by leveraging on-site appliances and virtualization. Read this brief white paper to learn more. 

This paper will uncover the performance results of companies that have implemented an enterprise resource planning (ERP) system versus those that have not. It will also examine the capabilities that companies with ERP have over non-ERP companies. 

This has been a landmark year for Oracle, the technology company headed by the charismatic and staggeringly wealthy Larry Ellison. Ellison, who is 65, has been chief executive officer since he founded Oracle in June 1977. He was listed the sixth richest person in the world in 2010. 

This case study explains how Quantum DXi3500 Saves Virtual Iron Time & Money with 95% Reduction in Backup Volume and Saving $12,000 annually on tape media costs. 

This perspective paper covers the forces that are driving the m-commerce market, the benefits available, and the kinds of business models and partnerships that are seeking to achieve that credible scale over time. 

This Case Study assesses the deployment of Mimecast SaaS-based Unified Email Management (UEM) solution at Basic Energy Services, a renowned publicly traded oilfield services Company. IDC examines the effectiveness of the Mimecast solution and its services in meeting Basic Energy Services' needs and the reasons why the Mimecast solution was chosen. 

In this brief white paper, Jeff Martin, Station Casinos’ director of business intelligence (BI), provides specific examples of the types of problems that the company wanted to solve, and offers insight into the specific job scheduling solution it selected to overcome its challenges. 

Read this paper to gain insight on the best practices for data integration projects and the importance of aligning data architectures with your business goals. 

This paper discusses how to defend against Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks and strengthen your security controls. A DDoS attack involves flooding a server with traffic until it becomes overloaded and can no longer function.