WAN optimization controllers seek to improve applications performance and reduce bandwidth requirements by intelligently managing traffic across the WAN. This analyst report presents a snapshot of the current market situation as well the results and explanation of Gartner's study of nine separate WOC vendors. Read the full report to learn more. 

Gartner's Magic Quadrant for Endpoint Protection Platforms assesses a company's ability to execute and its completeness of vision. According to Gartner, Sophos continues to have a strong reputation for support and service from customers and the management interface achieves a good balance of simplicity without sacrificing depth of control. 

Several issues intersect in a broad set of choices and outcomes involving an IT organization's storage requirements. This research highlights some of the most important questions driving Gartner's 2009 research agenda in the storage space. 

Effective management is critical to addressing IT challenges. In this program, leading experts David Williams of Gartner and Roger Pills of CA break down IT's three key challenges to managing IT complexity: aligning IT to the business, managing costs, and IT maturity. 

Join BMC's John McKinney with featured speaker Milind Govekar, Gartner analyst, for an informative webcast reinforcing the cost-cutting benefits of workload automation. 

In this webcast, learn about an IT service catalog that will help you achieve virtualization benefits like cost savings and IT agility. Discover a new operating model that enables effective virtualization and cloud computing management. Learn how IT can become more cloud-like and explore how to pave the way for an internal cloud. 

This paper analyzes the impact of the cloud on the IT Ecosystem and provides answers to what an organization needs to do in embracing a right cloud strategy. 

This podcast explores what makes Software as a Service (SaaS) a solid strategy to automate processing of vendor, customer and sales documents and discusses why this is fast becoming a popular option for cost-conscious businesses. 

The constant growth of data presents businesses with information management headaches and storage concerns. Check out this informative webcast for expert advice on how to choose the right data deduplication solution for your organization's needs. 

This paper reviews multiple compelling issues of establishing and maintaining connectivity to manufacturing operations to achieve the Perfect Plant through an existing ERP system. 

This webcast explores the emerging paradigm for fixed asset management -- including new approaches and technologies for tracking the logical and physical deployment of fixed assets within the enterprise to extend asset life, improve utilization, and squeeze every dollar out of a company’s investment in equipment and facilities. 

The email security market is maturing, but speed and breadth of spam detection, and management and reporting capabilities, continue to differentiate vendors. This paper will discuss what you need to know about spam filtering, outbound content filtering, and available email security solutions in various delivery models. 

In this podcast, Gartner analyst Avivah Litan talks about the Heartland data breach in relation to current data security trends in the retail industry. Also, a discussion with Ernst & Young's Sagi Leizerov on data privacy in the retail industry reveals common trouble spots for retailers, including managing vendors and tracking customer purchases.