With Microsoft Unified Communications businesses can simplify management and maximize budget and resources. You can consolidate costly third-party solutions and avoid capital investments. 

Increasing competition motivated Coca-Cola company executives to launch a new strategic direction, mandating a platform to communicate and engage with all employees. It implemented a Microsoft-based hosted worldwide intranet with messaging and collaboration tools, which are accessible to all employees from any device. 

When Conseco IT management needed to consolidate their hundreds of different servers into a more streamlined hardware and software environment, they chose the IBM 3850 M2 server and the Intel Xeon processor 7300 series with four cores per processor. Read this paper and find out why. 

In most organizations, employee compensation and related expenses are the largest line items in the budget. Having control over these expenses is critical to meeting corporate performance objectives. Check out this data sheet to learn more. 

Businesses are turning to IT to drive down operating expenses as well as ratchet up productivity and efficiency to drive a more effective, leaner business in 2009 and beyond. IT needs to help save the business while remaining responsive, reliable, and agile, all using less investment than was previously available. Read on to learn more. 

Deduplication is one of the few IT solutions that cuts costs quickly and improves service levels. ESG believes CIOs and IT executives should look to deduplication for cost reduction projects in their environments. 

Every organization faces its own unique challenges in getting the job done. But at the end of the day, it all comes down to increasing revenue while decreasing expenses. See how Business Objects reporting solutions allow you to do just that. 

Enterprises, government agencies and service providers are increasingly employing virtualized environments to decrease costs, consolidate data center space and reduce environmental impacts. This paper describes a comprehensive set of CA tools for managing virtual environments. 

An old Chinese proverb advises us to "preserve the old, but know the new." Microsoft's old template concept has been preserved in the Windows Server 2008 operating system, in the form of what Microsoft calls the starter GPO (Group Policy Object). 

This paper will identify the challenges mobile operators face in the current environment; outline the steps they can take to evolve the backhaul network to support greater capacity at lower cost; and examine the role of a trusted partner in helping implement a mobile backhaul solution that meets their specific business imperatives. 

This paper takes an introductory look at the new categories of Group Policy, but anyone moving to Windows Server 2008 technologies would do well to consider the changes and additions to the existing policy categories, too. 

To help you make an informed decision when considering various storage solutions, the Storage Value Index takes into account not only purchase price, but capacity, efficiency, and operating expenses as well. This paper explains how the Storage Value Index was designed and offers suggestions for finding the best storage value for your needs.