Keeping your IT infrastructure up and running is always challenging, but is particularly tricky for remote locations where you likely have little or no IT staff. In this webinar, learn more about supporting critical applications at remote or branch locations and learn the top 5 best practices for optimizing availability at remote locations. 

This IDC Buyer Case Study looks at the use of cloud-based backup solutions by Strategic Hotels & Resorts Inc., a real estate investment trust (REIT) that owns and manages high-end hotels and resorts. The company's main goal in searching for an alternative to its existing cloud-based services solution. 

Matt Grant talks with Randy Abrams about a data breach at Radison Hotels. Unfortunately, an unknown number of their guests' credit card numbers were exposed to malicious hackers. In this podcast, Randy dishes out some advice on how to prevent this sort of data breach and what to do in the event that it’s already happened. 

This paper reviews aspects of cost reduction and examines some typical financial accounting expense categories. This paper also looks at how data quality services can be applied in those examples to reduce expenses, and examines the potential for applying data quality management as a way to manage and reduce organizational expenses. 

Solaris™ Cluster provides Solaris Zone Clusters (also called Solaris Containers Clusters), which provide virtual clusters and support the consolidation of multiple cluster applications onto a single cluster. Specifically, this article describes how Oracle Real Application Clusters (RAC) can be deployed on a zone cluster. 

Dynamic management views and functions were extraordinary additions to SQL 2005, and they have only improved in function and increased in number in SQL 2008. This white paper will explore a few of their capabilities and give examples as to how they can ease the workload of a database administrator. 

This document presents a few selected case studies, illustrating real-life implementations of open source data integration and its associated benefits. 

Hear TIBCO Spotfire's John Callan discuss how you can perform total spend analysis, drive supplier consolidation, identify maverick spend in a user-friendly, visual analysis environment and address a range of KPI's. 

This document presents a few selected case studies, illustrating real-life implementations of open source data integration and its associated benefits. 

The ability to access and update Lotus Domino applications can be a simple and effective way to improve efficiency. Read this paper and learn how easy it can be to create BlackBerry applications that integrate with your Lotus Domino applications. 

This paper takes a look at some of the advantages of video conferencing in terms of both cost savings and time savings, explains some of the problems and challenges in making video conferencing work, and gives advice for making the network ready to accommodate video conferences. 

This videocast highlights the importance of metrics and measurements for enabling efficient and optimized physical, virtual or cloud data centers and storage. It discusses some different metrics, for example performance, availability/data protection, and capacity/space. It also gives tips for what metrics to use when, where to use them, and why