Discover key tips for protecting, maintaining and recovering your Group Policy infrastructure in this essential resource. Find out how you can secure every desktop and server in your Windows environment with these best practices. 

This paper demonstrates that RAID 6 is less capable to prevent data loss with today's large capacity SATA and SAS HDDs. It will also share Oracle's designs to mitigate this risk. The integrity of customers' data is in jeopardy if these large capacity SATA/SAS HDDs are simply packaged into a RAID 6 group without additional mitigation. 

This special eight-page report from Computer Weekly analyses the challenges facing Microsoft, its financial performance, the services it offers, its place in the IT market and its future strategy. 

Yesterday's virus is today's custom malware, while denial of service attacks has been replaced with botnets. This paper examines the history of attacks of malware and the defenses needed to counter these attacks. 

<p>This case study follows one organization's approach to addressing their space, power, and cooling constraints. Explore the virtualization architecture they decided on and the key hardware, software, and service components that comprise it.</p> 

Despite being so important, the process to create the annual report, the 10-K and the 10-Q is still stuck in the Middle Ages. This paper explores the history of annual reporting, the process of manually creating the annual report, and how to bring this process into the 21st century. 

VMware offers market leading solutions that help businesses address their virtualization needs. Dell and VMware have a long history of collaboration. Read this white paper to learn more. 

This case study provides insight into a business products company that needed to find a way to integrate their e-commerce strategy with their existing enterprise resource planning (ERP) system. Learn how they were able to seamlessly manage their order statuses, histories, customer items, and more alongside their ERP software. 

The problem with becoming too comfortable with built-in SQL Server monitoring tools is that they're often used after problems have already arisen. Read this paper to discover how event notifications and extended events can help you drill down into SQL Server and proactively monitor your databases. 

<p>Gary Chen, IDC Research Manager for Enterprise Virtualization Software, outlines virtualization interoperability challenges and key market trends shaping its future. Learn about Red Hat's role in the development of enterprise virtualization technology, new features found in RHEV 3.0, and the next wave in enterprise virtualization―the cloud.</p> 

In this week’s Computer Weekly, we look at the IT challenges facing retailers, as consumers turn increasingly to web and mobile shopping channels. Oracle president Mark Hurd talks about how the supplier intends to simplify IT infrastructures. And new government CIO Andy Nelson discusses how he plans to transform Whitehall IT. Read the issue now. 

This free Sybase presentation provides a high-level overview of Complex Event Processing (CEP). It begins by defining CEP and its capital markets applications, and culminates with the powerful Sybase Aleri CEP platform and its features and benefits. 

This white paper presents transformational approaches and strategies for moving clinical documentation processes to EHRs, as well as an overview of types and stages in the journey to electronic records as well as considerations for provider organizations.