There are lots enterprise resource planning (ERP) options and services that can help smaller businesses take advantage of the benefits of ERP while minimizing the risk of a system implementation. Read more inside to compare the performance results of SMBs with ERP to SMBs without ERP and discover exactly how beneficial the system can be. 

This chapter from this SearchDataBackup.com best practices backup guide walks you through the process of evaluating and purchasing backup products. This backup product buying guide lists the criteria involved in selecting backup products for each backup product category and offers product specifications that will help you compare products. 

This analysis compares various cloud offerings in the market. Discover resources available to help you assess your options and accelerate the launch of your initiative. 

This podcast summarizes, Define What's Valued Online, a new study which 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. Listen to this podcast to learn about basic changes you can make to improve your online content. 

In this demo, hear Mike Whalen, Senior Product Manager, introduce CSC CloudMail for VMware Zimbra. Discover how this email as a service can help your organization reduce costs up to 50% compared to an on-premise deployment. Explore key topics such as benefits of migrating your email to the cloud, exciting developments, and more. 

This report compares the performance and costs of two servers, the Dell PowerEdge R720 and Dell PowerEdge R710, and provides a comprehensive breakdown of your savings with each of these solutions. 

This report compares the performance and costs of two servers, the Dell PowerEdge R620 and HP Proliant DL360 G7, and provides a comprehensive breakdown of your savings with each of these solutions. 

Discover how you can drastically consolidate your Exchange servers and lower TCO by adopting powerful new servers. This report compares the performance and response times of running Exchange workloads on Dell PowerEdge R720xd server versus HP Proliant DL380 G6 servers.<br /><br /> 

Deduplication adoption is growing at a pace very similar to that of disk-based backup solutions: ESG research shows that more and more companies are evaluating deduplication, with 38% of 2010 respondents using a data deduplication solution compared to only 11% in 2008. Read this comprehensive white paper to learn more. 

<p>How mature are your security processes? Try out this brief assessment tool that explores six categories including threat and vulnerability management, data and information protection, security training and assure awareness and more. Then, view and compare your scores with other organizations and uncover best practices for improvement.</p> 

Explosive data growth is causing storage costs to skyrocket, which is forcing IT organizations to look for more cost-effective archival and backup solutions. Oracle's StorageTek tape product family has maintained a market leadership position for many years and now includes the world's fastest and highest capacity tape drive. 

This white paper provides guidelines for the use of EMC Data Domain deduplication for Oracle Recovery Manager backup over a Network File System mount. 

In this Videocast, renowned storage expert, Jon Toigo, outlines the Green Data Project, provides an overview of green storage and explores other relevant topics.