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NAC: Bridging the Network Security Gap by Sophos, Inc. February 2008 - (Free Research) IT managers are aware of threats to their networks, and have spent heavily on solutions to protect the corporate environment. This paper examines technology and initiatives designed to capitalize on existing investments and prevent any gaps in security.  (WHITE PAPER) READ ABSTRACT |

Preparing for the 2.0 World: How Enterprises Need to Think About Emergent Social Technologies by Sun Microsystems, Inc. April 2009 - (Free Research) Social technologies, commonly called Web 2.0, were originally used to describe consumer technologies that enable groups to organize and share information and media. But enterprises quickly caught on to the value of these easy-to-use tools for capturing and sharing ad hoc information that may otherwise not be documented.  (WHITE PAPER) READ ABSTRACT |

Gartner: Reducing storage costs by ComputerWeekly.com March 2012 - (Free Research) Gartner research director, Valdis Filks, offers tips to help businesses get to grips with escalating storage costs.  (ANALYST BRIEF) READ ABSTRACT |

E-Guide: Cost effective hardware strategies that improve application performance by Cisco Systems, Inc. June 2011 - (Free Research) Read this E-Guide for a helpful checklist before upgrading your hardware and to better understand how the hardware will affect Oracle databases.  (EGUIDE) READ ABSTRACT |

Analyst Research IBM Synchronizes its Commerce 2.0 Strategy with ‘Smarter Commerce’ Initiative by IBM March 2011 - (Free Research) In this paper, IDC Insight highlights the important elements of the IBM Smarter Commerce announcement and looks at the implications of the announcement in the context of a powerful movement that is occurring in the commerce solutions marketplace, both business to business (B2B) and business to consumer (B2C).  (ANALYST BRIEF) READ ABSTRACT |

3 Best Practices for Reducing Exchange Downtime by AppAssure Software, Inc. March 2009 - (Free Research) Although there are many e-mail platforms available, Microsoft Exchange is by far the most dominate with a commanding 65-percent share of the overall market. This eGuide explains the three best practices for reducing Exchange downtime and teaches how to proactively approach disaster recovery for Microsoft Exchange.  (WHITE PAPER) READ ABSTRACT |

10 Simple Steps to ITIL Network Compliance by Netcordia December 2007 - (Free Research) Vendors of all kinds are marketing their products as ITIL-compliant, and many are, to some degree or another. But only a few clearly stand out because of their ability to make ITIL compliance much easier and more cost-effective on an ongoing basis. Read on to learn how Netcordia stays at the top of this short list of vendors.  (WHITE PAPER) READ ABSTRACT |

Leveraging a Persistent Hardware Architecture by Dell Compellent June 2010 - (Free Research) Many enterprises looking to increase the flexibility, improve the scalability, enhance the availability and reduce the costs of data storage have turned to SANs. The Compellent SAN enables businesses to continuously integrate new disk drive, switch and network interface technologies without having to replace existing hardware or software.  (WHITE PAPER) READ ABSTRACT |

A Superior Hardware Platform for Server Virtualization with the Intel Xeon 5500 by Intel Corporation April 2009 - (Free Research) To gain full value of virtualization, you need servers that are built to handle the heavy and ever-changing demands of a virtualized and consolidated computing environment. To help you get maximum benefits from virtualization, Intel has built a better physical server platform with unique hardware-assist features to enhance the virtual data center.  (IT BRIEFING)

Designing a Persistent Hardware Architecture by Dell Compellent May 2009 - (Free Research) The Compellent® Storage Center™ SAN is designed for persistence. Using an open, nonproprietary hardware architecture, the Compellent SAN enables businesses to continuously integrate new disk drive, switch and network interface technologies without having to replace existing hardware or software.  (WHITE PAPER) READ ABSTRACT |

IT Takes Virtualization to Make an Agile Infrastructure by AMD July 1967 - (Free Research) This paper discusses how AMD's ecosystem partners are adapting their software to take advantage of new virtualization extensions. It also explores the future of virtual technology, and assesses its impact on the industry in years to come.  (WHITE PAPER) READ ABSTRACT |

Security - Pix 500 Series Firewalls by Cisco Systems The world-leading Cisco PIX Security Appliance Series provides robust, enterprise-class, integrated network security services including stateful inspection firewalling, protocol and application inspection, virtual private networking, in-line intrusion protection, and rich multimedia and voice security-in cost-effective, easy-to-deploy solutions.  (HARDWARE PRODUCT)

A Superior Hardware Platform for Server Virtualization - Improving Data Center Flexibility, Performance and TCO with the Intel® Xeon® Processor 5500 Series by Insight & Intel October 2009 - (Free Research) To gain full value of virtualization, you need servers that are built to handle the heavy and ever-changing demands of a virtualized and consolidated computing environment. To help you get maximum benefits from virtualization, Intel has built a better physical server platform with unique hardware-assist features to enhance the virtual data center.  (PRODUCT OVERVIEW) READ ABSTRACT |

Aspera's Transfer Solutions Address Big Data Challenges by Intel June 2013 - (Free Research) Download this white paper discover a joint strategy for deploying high-speed data transfer technology built upon an innovative hardware platform to enable beyond 10bps, ultra-high speed data transfer.  (WHITE PAPER) READ ABSTRACT |

Top Ten Reasons for Choosing Microsoft Windows Server 2012 with Dell by Dell and Microsoft October 2012 - (Free Research) This technical blog discusses the top ten reasons for combining server refresh and migration to Windows Server 2012. Learn more about the key benefits a combined software and hardware upgrade can provide to your storage, networking, systems management and virtualization.  (TECHNICAL ARTICLE) READ ABSTRACT |

Introduction to Intel® Core™ Duo Processor Architecture by Intel Corporation May 2006 - (Free Research) The Intel® Core™ Duo processor is the first Intel® mobile microarchitecture that uses CMP technology, it was built to achieve high performance, while consuming low power and fitting into different thermal envelopes.  (PRODUCT OVERVIEW)

Should You Reconsider Your Approach to Storage? by DataCore Software Corporation February 2008 - (Free Research) DataCore storage virtualization software is a portable software that runs on a standard server that can even be a virtual machine, and is a virtualization layer for our storage infrastructure.  (WHITE PAPER) READ ABSTRACT |

Computer Weekly - 14 February 2012: Does government IT deliver value for money? by ComputerWeekly.com February 2012 - (Free Research) This week’s Computer Weekly, investigates the costs of government IT, asking whether taxpayers are getting value for money from the 8,000 IT staff employed by Whitehall. We also examine how IT leaders are preparing for the growth of bring-your-own-device policies and the mobile security implications.  (EZINE) READ ABSTRACT |

Data Protection Strategies for the Health IT Pro by SearchHealthIT.com March 2012 - (Free Research) This E-Book from SearchHealthIT.com provides invaluable tips for health IT leaders who are considering data, hardware, network and backup tape encryption technologies for their organizations.  (EBOOK) READ ABSTRACT |

Tap Aggregation and Filtering to Enable Deep Packet Inspection (DPI) by Gigamon July 2009 - (Free Research) Read this brief paper to learn how network monitoring using DPI analyzers is a mission critical application that is tailor-made for the Data Access Network (DAN) architecture and saves substantial amounts of money for the telecom carrier.  (WHITE PAPER) READ ABSTRACT |

Virtualization Defined - Eight Different Ways by F5 Networks September 2008 - (Free Research) Virtualization is not a new concept. Today it appears that virtualization is everywhere, which because of its ambiguity can be applied to any and all parts of an IT infrastructure. This whitepaper focuses on virtualization in the data center.  (WHITE PAPER) READ ABSTRACT |

Mercury Network Storage System by BlueArc Corp. August 2008 - (Free Research) The BlueArc Mercury™ Server is a next generation network storage platform that consolidates capacity across multiple applications and simplifies storage management for businesses with mid-range storage requirements - without compromising performance and scalability.  (DATA SHEET) READ ABSTRACT |

Protecting Patient Data: Tips for The Health IT Pro by Intel June 2012 - (Free Research) This E-Book from SearchHealthIT.com provides invaluable tips for health IT leaders who are considering data, hardware, network and backup tape encryption technologies for their organizations.  (EBOOK) READ ABSTRACT |

Intel® Core™2 Processor with vPro™ Technology and Windows® 7: Better for Business by Intel Technology Provider October 2009 - (Free Research) Technical decision makers are faced with many challenges in today's economy: help users get more work done faster and with fewer difficulties, protect the network and individual systems from attacks or malicious code, and much more. Find out how the Intel Core 2 processor with vPro technology complements the new Windows 7 operating system.  (WHITE PAPER) READ ABSTRACT |

Market Share Analysis: Data Center Hardware Integrated Systems by VCE (E-mail this company) November 2012 - (Free Research) This report offers insight into the growing integrated systems market, revealing opportunities for IT pros seeking to take advantage of this growing trend.  (WHITE PAPER) READ ABSTRACT |

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