The lead article in the May 2012 issue of SQL Server Insider addresses how SharePoint Server infrastructures should be managed in geographically dispersed organizations.  

<p>Email is already critical to business communications, and its importance is only expected to grow exponentially. This white paper compares two server architectures so you can identify the best platform to support your Exchange environment.</p> 

Read this comprehensive case study to learn how Helix created SharePoint server farms to handle their massive amounts of data that is needed by its employees around the globe. 

In this two part course, Deputy Executive Director for ARMA International, Diane K. Carlisle, reveals how Generally Accepted Recordkeeping Principles (GARP®) is designed to assist organizations in implementing records systems and policies to keep you out of the headlines for the wrong reasons. 

Yesterday's virus is today's custom malware, while denial of service attacks has been replaced with botnets. This paper examines the history of attacks of malware and the defenses needed to counter these attacks. 

<p>This case study follows one organization's approach to addressing their space, power, and cooling constraints. Explore the virtualization architecture they decided on and the key hardware, software, and service components that comprise it.</p> 

VMware offers market leading solutions that help businesses address their virtualization needs. Dell and VMware have a long history of collaboration. Read this white paper to learn 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 week’s Computer Weekly, we look at the IT challenges facing retailers, as consumers turn increasingly to web and mobile shopping channels. Oracle president Mark Hurd talks about how the supplier intends to simplify IT infrastructures. And new government CIO Andy Nelson discusses how he plans to transform Whitehall IT. Read the issue now. 

IT managers everywhere feel overwhelmed with the rising tide of security threats they have to deal with in the face of an increasing regulatory burden. It is not surprising then that they tend to overlook one particular area of IT security, which is the privileged access that they grant themselves and/or their colleagues in order to do their jobs. 

This paper demonstrates that RAID 6 is less capable to prevent data loss with today's large capacity SATA and SAS HDDs. It will also share Oracle's designs to mitigate this risk. The integrity of customers' data is in jeopardy if these large capacity SATA/SAS HDDs are simply packaged into a RAID 6 group without additional mitigation. 

Siemens product lifecycle management (PLM) Software for life sciences can help medical device manufacturers manage compliance requirements while supporting greater collaboration, ultimately reducing costs while improving patient outcomes. 

While the technology that supports VoIP has been present since the mid-1990s, the ability to quickly alternate between VoIP and circuit-switched networks has come into prominence in the last few years. Access this white paper for a full history and overview of the current mobile communications landscape.