This chapter discusses the process of evaluating and purchasing backup products. Also discussed are the issues to be aware of during this process, such as recovery deadlines, scalability, security, and more. 

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. 

In this issue of the Exchange Insider e-zine, discover why now is the best time to migrate to Exchange 2010 if you haven't already made the move. Plus, find out about hardware requirements and storage considerations to keep in mind as you make the transition. 

Since faxing is at the core of most businesses, you need to ensure yours can rely on it at all times. Delayed or lost transmissions can send ripples through the supply chain. This paper will help you answer the pressing questions involved in evaluating your faxing system. Learn the impact it has on business processes, product selection and more. 

The CRM buying process can be reduced to a set of 10 steps that will help you pare down the field of potential solutions to a few vendors who are the best fit. This guide will allow you to move through 10 sets of steps. 

<p>This white paper offers an overview of key considerations for implementing a strategy to automate fax and email orders (plus EDI, web and other order sources) into your enterprise resource planning (ERP) system.</p> 

Such a wealth of deduplication options in the storage market place provides ample choices, but it can also lead to some confusion. Download this e-guide to educate yourself and co-workers about deduplication technology in general, and specifically how to choose the best solutions to meet your business demands. 

Scale-out NAS systems can accommodate data growth simply by adding more capacity resources; and processing power can be increased as needed. 

This week’s Computer Weekly examines research that suggests CEOs want to invest in IT more than ever, but still see CIOs as technical experts and not business people. We review SQL Server 2012 and ask if Microsoft's database software is catching its competitors as well as concluding our Buyer's Guide to data security. 

The majority of user authentication schemes today still use userid and password. The burden to users of managing large numbers of userids and passwords has led to proposals for Federated Identity systems, where a single set of credentials can be used to authenticate with several organisations, which have agreed to work together as a federation. 

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. 

This edition of BI Trends and Strategies opens with a piece by Lou Agosta on the need for data warehouses to adapt to new data types, innovation and big data. Alan R. Earls also offers advice for incorporating spreadsheets into your BI programs without problems and Richard Herschel calls for universities to step up their BI and analytics programs. 

This expert e-guide looks at two real world case studies of how businesses used mobile technology to improve CRM.