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Virtualization Changes Everything: Enter the vWOC by Silver Peak

February 17, 2012 - (Free Research)

Noted author Jim Metzler reports on the emergence of vWOCs. From the data center to the branch, virtualization is enabling a revolution in how WAN optimization is acquired and deployed. Whether combined with traditional physical appliances or fully virtualized, the new choices make universal network optimization a reality.

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Business Analytics: Nucleus Research Note - How Analytics Makes Midsize Companies More Profitable by IBM

October 25, 2011 - (Free Research)

Learn how you can improve operating results by enabling managers to make fact-based, data-driven decisions.

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Upgrading to Windows Vista: Is Your Hardware Ready? Are You? by Global Knowledge Network, Inc.

January 2008 - (Free Research)

Windows Vista is here. This white paper will help you help you determine if your hardware is compatible and which version you should implement.

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Decision Services: The Next SOA Challenge by ILOG, an IBM Company

April 2008 - (Free Research)

This white paper discusses the issues associated with decision services in an SOA strategy, highlighting how business rule management systems can be used to overcome these challenges.

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Overcoming the insight deficit by ComputerWeekly.com

September 2011 - (Free Research)

Learn how you can empower your employees to make the most of big data and data analytics in this executive guide from the Corporate Executive Board.

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Make Healthcare Smarter with IBM Content and Predictive Analytics by IBM

March 2012 - (Free Research)

This webcast introduces IBM Content and Predictive Analytics for Healthcare, the first Ready for Watson solution.

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Euro crisis: Key questions CEOs and CIOs should ask each other by ComputerWeekly.com

April 2012 - (Free Research)

With a potential economic crisis looming in the Eurozone, Gartner offers a checklist of questions that CIOs and CEOs should ask each other.

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CW+ Open Group: Governance in IT and Architecture - TOGAF by ComputerWeekly.com

October 2010 - (Free Research)

This White Paper recommends additional definition of IT governance within TOGAF to strengthen an organization’s ability to effectively govern the architecture and make appropriate investment decisions.

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Health Care Business Intelligence and Analytics Report by SearchHealthIT.com

September 2011 - (Free Research)

Explore the impact of business intelligence in provider settings, and the results of the SearchHealthIT.com reader survey, in this exclusive report.

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CW+ Open Group: World-class enterprise architecture by ComputerWeekly.com

October 2010 - (Free Research)

This White Paper is intended to help organizations who are attempting to set up an enterprise architecture practice. It shows how organizations can use a modular, iterative, and incremental approach in order to develop an architectural capability that is otherwise a large and complex undertaking.

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VM Backup Checklist: 9 Features and Functions by Veeam Software

February 2012 - (Free Research)

Check out this SearchDataBackup.com E-Guide for 9 key features you should be looking for when evaluating virtual backup solutions. Also included is a brief case study exploring one company's journey to VM backup success. Read on to learn more.

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Connecting Through Content: Issue One by KnowledgeStorm, Inc (E-mail this company)

March 2007 - (Free Research)

This report, Issue One: How Technology Marketers Meet Buyers' Appetite for Content is the first in the Connecting Through Content series, which explores content creation, distribution and lead nurturing through the dual marketers' and technology buyers' perspectives.

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EMA white paper – Business Intelligence for the Business of IT by Hewlett-Packard Company

November 2011 - (Free Research)

Many companies' IT operations could function at a higher level but they lack proper management. Read this paper now to learn how you can use business intelligence (BI) and applied analytics to improve your IT operations processes.

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Business Skill Courseware by SkillSoft Corporation

SkillSoft’s Business Skills Library focuses on behavioral skills that are designed for business professionals and key to performance regardless of job responsibility, as well as the skills and knowledge that are relevant to the various areas of functional responsibility in today’s business organizations.

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Consolidated Storage for Virtualized Server Environments by Oracle and Intel

January 2011 - (Free Research)

This research brief is based on a recent Tech Target survey with more than 200 storage administrators and IT professionals in mid-sized and enterprise-class companies, and focuses on how these decision-makers view the storage-related challenges that result from server virtualization.

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How a Spanning Tree Works by Global Knowledge

June 2009 - (Free Research)

The way a switch learns Ethernet (MAC) addresses is by inspecting the Ethernet frame and recording the source MAC address in a dynamic table. The switch will also associate a learned MAC address with a port. It can then make intelligent forwarding decisions based on the destination MAC address. This white paper illustrates the process.

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Nucleus Research Note: IBM Cognos Express by IBM

February 2011 - (Free Research)

Learn how midsize companies can rapidly adopt Business Intelligence (BI) and Performance Management (PM) technologies while minimizing training, support and ongoing costs in this research note from Nucleus Research.

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Wayne Eckerson Discusses Utilizing Geospatial BI to Reach Business Goals by Esri

October 2011 - (Free Research)

Watch this video session with BI expert Wayne Eckerson to learn the best practices aligning BI with your organization's business activities.

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JRules 6.0 - Putting Rules That Define The Business Back Into The Hands of The Business by ILOG, an IBM Company

May 2008 - (Free Research)

ILOG's Business Rules Management System, or JRules, provides a full function business rule management system that enables all business rules to be externalized. This allows the business to develop the rules directly, ensuring the rules accurately reflect the business policies.

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Magic Quadrant Identifies Leaders in WAN Optimization by Silver Peak

February 2012 - (Free Research)

Your IT organization needs WAN optimization that can be deployed anywhere, on any platform, and for the lowest cost. See how the new Gartner Magic Quadrant for WAN Optimization Controllers can help.

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The Fine Art of Lead Management and Follow-Up: What Research Shows About Lead Qualification and Nurturing by KnowledgeStorm, Inc (E-mail this company)

May 2006 - (Free Research)

The Internet has changed the dynamics of technology sales and marketing. While most marketing efforts emphasize generating leads, and most sales efforts are focused on closing sales, not enough consideration is given to the little-understood but vital middle ground of lead qualification. Learn more about industry best practices.

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WebFOCUS Operational Enterprise Business Intelligence by Information Builders Inc. (E-mail this company)

WebFOCUS is a comprehensive and fully integrated enterprise business intelligence platform. It sets the standard for enterprise business intelligence by scaling to support every level of the global organization – executive, analytical, & operational – and make data available, accessible, and meaningful to every person or application that needs it.

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Securing Fixed Function Devices by McAfee, Inc.

May 2012 - (Free Research)

While fixed-function devices such as point-of-sale (POS) systems, ATMs, mobile devices and more are subjected to the same threats and compliance requirements as regular endpoints, they also have their own innate security challenges. This paper uncovers a 3-pronged approach to securing fixed-function devices and how to effectively implement them.

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Gartner Next Generation Network IPS Research Note by McAfee, Inc.

December 2010 - (Free Research)

Deep inspection network-based intrusion prevention continues to be a due-diligence security control. The near-term future of the intrusion prevention system market will be determined by the pace of innovation of another market: next-generation firewalls. Explore Gartner's evaluation of network IPS that places McAfee in the leaders' quadrant.

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Brian Madden’s Notes on Storage for Desktop Virtualization Video by NetApp

July 2010 - (Free Research)

While desktop virtualization and VDI are certainly becoming trendy, the reality today is that properly designing a system is still complex and a source of worry and confusion for many architects.

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