The current recession and credit crunch deeply affected IT spending in the last quarter of 2008 and into 2009. This SWOT Analyst report for Q3 2009 regroups the market contenders by categories for an easier evaluation to enable vendor strategy professionals to substantiate decisions about their partnership and go-to-market strategies. 

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This white paper examines the TCO of this blade solution at acquisition and at 1, 3, and 5 years. TCO includes hardware, support, management software, IO virtualization, power, cooling, network ports, and data center space. 

Ensuring a consistent software build throughout an organization is one of the most expensive and time-consuming tasks facing any IT organization. Challenges include not only managing multiple client images for a range of hardware platforms and functional groups, but also meeting licensing and compliance requirements. ImageDirect can help. 

Check out this paper to learn how Oracle Enterprise Asset Management (eAM) successfully automates the printing of Oracle eAM documents such as work orders and accompanying attachments into company business processes. 

In this expert E-Guide, brought to you by SearchEnterpriseDesktop.com and Dell, you will gain insight into the top reasons to deploy virtual desktops in your organization. 

Read this Dell case study to learn how a restaurant franchisee gets its IT cooking with the right reporting from Dell Software Inventory & Usage Management. 

Proper software asset management (SAM) requires setting policies for corporate standards, software evaluation, purchasing, usage and compliance monitoring. This white paper explains how to do that. 

As an STR Software customer since 2004, Texas Petrochemicals was excited about the opportunity to leverage its existing AventX investment and automate another manual process - the printing of work order database attachments from Oracle E-Business Suite. This case study has the details. 

In an increasingly digital world, it's clear that business continuity is no longer an option. Keeping systems running 24x7 and ensuring that data reaches its intended destination — precisely when it's needed — is the heart and soul of a business. This paper discusses Business-Continuity (BC) initiatives on a tight budget and with limited resources. 

Disaster recovery planning is a critical part of any large data-intensive enterprise data center environment. This article describes five key factors to consider when choosing an enterprise disaster recovery solution. 

This paper addresses some of the critical issues of virtualization and some of the ways it can be effectively implemented to help organizations utilize resources more efficiently, reduce costs, manage data across the entire enterprise. 

Long term data center or network room capacity planning may seem impossible in the face of evolving IT technology and business requirements. This paper shows a simple and effective way to develop a capacity plan for a data center or network room.