Results from Aberdeen Group report, The Lean Supply Chain, indicates that Aerospace and Defense (A&D) manufacturers are 40% more likely to be Best in Class performers - companies that are characterized by having an integrated Lean approach and solution with technology enablers - than their peers from other industries. 

Protecting data that is not in the primary datacenter amplifies all the traditional challenges of backup - either there is not enough bandwidth to accomplish a remote backup in the window available, or the process of handling and shipping tapes is in the hands of non-IT employees. 

Howard Rice spent nearly an entire year reviewing DR offerings from vendors including Santa Clara-based InMage Systems and three of its competitors. Howard Rice purchased InMage’s software, a combined disaster recovery and business continuity solution. 

This paper examines the challenges faced by organizations today regarding their BI, data integration, and data warehousing environments, why traditional solutions fall short, and the rise of upstart open source companies. Read on to learn more about open source BI, data integration, and data warehousing solutions. 

This article discusses running Oracle Real Application Clusters (RAC) on servers configured with Sun™ Logical Domains (LDoms). Sun LDoms virtualization technology allows the creation of multiple virtual systems on a single physical system, and enables fine-grained assignment of CPU and memory resources to an Oracle RAC workload. 

This white paper examines the evolution of private clouds and discusses how many organizations that have implemented grid or virtual machines are moving towards private clouds. It also describes how organizations can successfully implement this new IT delivery model using a phased approach that starts with cloud management software. 

This white paper will explore the impact agile development methodologies are having on the Project Management community, what new skills are required, and what the Project Manager can do to ease the transition. 

This report offers data on a wide variety of ERP solutions. Included in the research sample are Tier I solutions (such as SAP, Oracle eBusiness Suite, and Microsoft Dynamics), Tier II, Tier III and industry-focused niche solutions. 

In this white paper, you’ll discover how to grapple virtualization's complexities by automating time drains like on/off control, making backups and snapshots, and provisioning resources (virtual machines). 

Stretching IT dollars is essential. And one of the main ways that a growing number of companies are making their IT budget dollars go farther is through server virtualization. The technology lets IT administrators create and run multiple server instances on shared host hardware. 

This document provides information about planning your backup and restore strategies using Microsoft Hyper-V technology and the Dell PowerVault MD3000 storage array or the MD3000i storage array. Hyper-V provides the software infrastructure and management tools in Windows Server 2008 to create and manage a virtualized server computing environment. 

Communications as a service (CaaS) is a hot new market that promises to grow quickly. In CaaS, communications technology is located in a data center of a communications service provider, and is owned and managed by the service provider as a multi-tenant infrastructure. Read the white paper for more information on Communications as a service.