In this case study, read about Microsoft’s Enterprise Application Services Group, and how they turned to LiteSpeed for backups that run four times faster while increasing performance. Then, see how LiteSpeed reduced the size of their SAP database backups, allowing them to leverage their current storage hardware. Read this case study today. 

Coles sought out HP's SAP payroll services to simplify and lower costs. Read on to learn more about HP's SAP payroll services. 

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 podcast explores the key changes made to Windows Server 2008 R2 in Active Directory, Group Policy and Terminal Services. Discover how your organization can leverage these improvements for reduced costs, increased control and improved efficiency. 

<p>View this webcast to learn how to leverage commodity processing hardware to reduce total cost of ownership (TCO) and optimize performance, scalability and availability when running SAP systems in Microsoft Windows Server and SQL Server environments.</p> 

The partnership with SAP gives VMware the opportunity to address an additional large segment of the enterprise market, and enables SAP to sell its products on the industry-leading virtualization platform. 

Pairing SAP Business Suite or SAP Business All-in-One with IBM BladeCenter servers enables organizations to achieve the performance and reliability they need for rapid and consistent access to information while also gaining the flexibility for change and the scalability for growth. 

<p>This case study outlines exactly how Callaway Golf created and managed three distinct platform landscapes for each of their deployed SAP enterprise resource planning (ERP) applications. Read more inside to see how this strategy led them to eventually have the capabilities to virtualize SAP productions.</p> 

Given that Sybase ASE can now be deployed as the foundation for SAP Business Suite and BW implementations (in addition to Oracle, Microsoft SQL Server and IBM DB2), the information is relevant to SAP customers installing a new instance of SAP or looking to migrate their existing SAP installation to a different database. 

Virtualization is helping SAP customers improve the efficiency and performance of their IT systems. Watch this brief video to hear SAP customer testimonials on the benefits of virtualization. 

This week’s Computer Weekly asks what chancellor George Osborne's Budget means for the UK IT community and if he can deliver his goal to make Britain "the technology centre of Europe". Also you'll find the final part of our private cloud Buyer's Guide and we examine the options for choosing the right WAN optimisation strategy. 

<div> <div> <p>Software as a Service (SaaS) offers a low-cost, non-physical server platform alternative to on-premise application deployments. In this expert e-guide discover why small and midsize enterprises are attracted to the SaaS ERP and CRM deployment model and how SAP offers a range of products to cater to this need.</p> </div> </div> 

In this article, Kaplan, of Harvard Business School, and Norton, founder and director of the Palladium Group, explain how to effectively manage both strategy and operations by linking them tightly in a closed-loop management system, which comprises five stages.