The USDA Rural Utilities Service and NTIA jointly announced the availability of funding and application requirements for the broadband initiatives contained in the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA) of 2009. Read on to learn about the RUS grant program, its requirements, and how Motorola can work with you toward an RUS approved grant. 

Banks need to get smarter, attract the right customers, implement customer level risk management, and implement risk adjusted customer relationship pricing and all of this is dependent on trusted data. This paper examines the impact of unreliable data on retail banks. It then defines the requirements needed to guarantee data reliability in banking. 

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 

This Presentation Transcript, featuring Forrester Research, explains how Software as a Service business intelligence can deliver a more cost-effective way to get relevant information to those who need it faster than traditional business intelligence can. 

Today, businesses must work smarter, not just harder - and to do it, they must use information to compete. With ever-greater demands on data resources, organizations need to derive greater value from their existing information. 

This whitepaper discusses best practices for managing your BlackBerry Enterprise Server running on Lotus Domino. Take a tour of the administrative features and tools that can make your job easier. This session is a must for any BlackBerry administrator. 

Virtualization has become the standard in data centers today with its ability to allow IT pros to do more with less – but it still has its challenges. Watch this episode of Cisco TechWiseTV to learn how to overcome these challenges to take full advantage of virtualization. 

For a limited time, Microsoft is offering you an exclusive free trial of Microsoft Dynamics CRM for up to six months so your business can conduct limited pilot testing, prototyping and solution development, as well as gain a complete customer view and the ability to work within familiar Microsoft Office system applications. 

In this mediacast, featuring Exchange expert, Lee Benjamin, learn how to use a storage calculator for optimal performance of your Exchange environment. Discover the new storage features of Exchange 2010 and how to utilize them for increased flexibility and reduced costs. 

David Payne discusses the advantages and pitfalls to virtualizing and consolidating your data center hardware and walks through a practical approach to getting started. 

For many enterprises, the backup and recovery process has not kept pace with the sheer growth of data or the increased requirements for higher data protection. As a result, many storage organizations are redesigning their existing backup architecture. 

Join Redmond Channel Scott Bekker and Iron Mountain Digital’s Daniel Stevenson for a free, informative webcast to get insight on the emerging cloud storage opportunities and learn how you can quickly integrate cloud storage into your portfolio to take advantage of this profitable growing industry. 

2010 is just around the corner. Take 30 minutes out of your busy schedule to attend this live webinar and make sure you put the right DR and Business Continuity plan in place for next year.