Design teams across the world collaborate to create and develop prod­ucts. Unfortunately, IT organizations face serious challenges when collaborative teams share large files. This white paper will assess the strengths and weaknesses of the four technologies most commonly used to enhance file sharing for distributed teams. 

Virtualization can indeed complicate backups as it improves their usability. Once virtualized, you can absolutely enjoy the ability to restore whole servers just as easy as files, folders, or application objects. But you can only get there if you implement solutions that really work. Check out this white paper to learn more. 

Purchasing a server is a big ordeal for any business. It's costly, time-consuming and can sometimes be disruptive, but that initial investment in time and money usually pays off - and fast. Read this article to find out when it’s time to purchase a server and why you need to purchase one. 

Your business has reached a crossroads. With employees collaborating on files shared across a number of computers, you realize consolidating access to the information would greatly improve your organization's operational efficiency and its productivity. You are ready for your First Server solution. Read on to find the right system configuration. 

Supported by results from specific case studies, this whitepaper shows how you can finally meet your recovery objectives, provide seamless failover between multiple sites, improve remote application performance, and lower your ongoing bandwidth costs. 

This white paper highlights a customer service and operations system that streamlines your business' processes into one single view for ease of customer assistance, operations and security. 

This edition of the SharePoint e-zine, sponsored by AvePoint, examines ways that a sound SharePoint governance plan can help avoid deployment problems, ensuring the success of an implementation. Don Jones discusses how to avoid some of the costs and long-term problems associated with SharePoint growth. 

End-users will often overlook security and compliance in favor of getting the job done by taking advantage of free and readily available alternatives. But instead of telling end-users that they're doing something wrong, give them the enterprise-class tools that will help them to achieve their goals, and support them in doing it right. 

This white paper explores the considerations for deploying secure file sharing and collaboration in the cloud. It also discusses the security implications and requirements for ensuring protection of confidential information and compliance with industry and government regulations. 

File exchange is an integral part of daily business life but the problems with current methods make it into a proverbial marathon. File transfer methods include FTP, physical transfers, and personal emails which lack security, compliance, and efficiency. Managed File Transfer (MFT) solutions are the answer to the question, "How do I send this?" 

This white paper describes the requirements - such as server-based security, data encryption, and audit trails - that secure file sharing solutions must meet in order to deliver mobile access while protecting data confidentiality and regulatory compliance. 

This paper examines the benefits of Microsoft's BranchCache solution to allows branch office workers to cache content obtained from head office file and web servers locally.