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Computer Weekly - 10 January 2012: What’s in store for IT this year? by ComputerWeekly.com January 10, 2012 - (Free Research) In this week’s issue of Computer Weekly, we look at the key trends and technologies that will be on IT leaders’ agenda in 2012. Our first Buyer’s Guide of the year examines how IT consumerisation will affect business technology; and Home Office IT director Denise McDonagh tells us why government IT isn’t working. Download the new issue now.  (EZINE) READ ABSTRACT |

Determining Total Cost of Ownership for Data Center and Network Room Infrastructure by APC by Schneider Electric February 2005 - (Free Research) This white paper describes an improved method for measuring TCO for data center and network room physical infrastructure, and provides examples on how to relate these costs to the overall IT infrastructure and evaluate cost control strategies.  (WHITE PAPER) READ ABSTRACT |

Implementing Energy Efficient Data Centers by APC by Schneider Electric December 2006 - (Free Research) Electricity usage costs have become an increasing fraction of the total cost of running a data centers. This paper explains how achieve electricity savings and provides examples of methods that can greatly reduce electrical power consumption.  (WHITE PAPER) READ ABSTRACT |

10 Ways Malicious Code Reaches Your Private Network by Global Knowledge July 2010 - (Free Research) As of 2010, there are nearly three million unique forms of known malicious code, and thousands of new ones are discovered daily. The risk of being infected is greater than ever. The following are 10 common ways malicious code reach your private network that you need to be aware of.  (WHITE PAPER) READ ABSTRACT |

Re-architecting Your Virtual Environment: Solutions to virtual infrastructure challenges by LEGACY - DO NOT USE - Insight and Sun Microsystems, Inc July 2008 - (Free Research) In this final session, Wolf discusses application selection, focusing on using chargebacks to counter physical storage challenges. He gives network architecture examples, offers some CPU considerations, and tackles issues with heterogeneous VM management.  (VIDEOCAST) READ ABSTRACT |

HP Advanced Data Center Network Architectures Reference Guide by HP and Intel May 2011 - (Free Research) Read this white paper and trace the steps to a successful converged network infrastructure. By identifying today's most important IT trend - virtualization - you'll be on your way to implementing HP supported technologies to enhance your virtualized computer networks.  (WHITE PAPER) READ ABSTRACT |

Hyper-V Server 2008 R2: Free Virtualization without a Server Operating System by Global Knowledge February 2011 - (Free Research) This paper examines how virtualization has become such a hot topic that the number of virtualization techniques, tools, and technologies is into the dozens, and that’s just from Microsoft. Some of the benefits of virtualization include hardware cost savings, configuration optimization, less disruption, and easier reallocation of resources.  (WHITE PAPER) READ ABSTRACT |

Ensuring Security on i by Bsafe Information Systems August 2008 - (Free Research) This security runbook guides you through all stages of securing your system. Discover the importance of a company-wide commitment to security.  (WHITE PAPER) READ ABSTRACT |

Best Practice Guidelines for SAP Solutions on VMware® Infrastructure by VMware, Inc. October 2008 - (Free Research) This paper provides best practice guidelines for deploying SAP software solutions on VMware Infrastructure 3.  (WHITE PAPER) READ ABSTRACT |

iTest Team - Rapid Test Automation for Equipment and Devices by Fanfare iTest Team is an integrated test environment for developers, testers, and automation teams. It offers a unified approach for rapidly developing, automating, and maintaining test cases. iTest Team tests complex equipment and systems that are accessed through various protocols, such as command line interfaces, Web interfaces, SNMP, or command shells.  (SOFTWARE PRODUCT)

Is a Data Warehouse the Only Option for Business Intelligence? by Information Builders Inc. (E-mail this company) October 2007 - (Free Research) While data warehouses are important for many types of analytical systems, they aren’t always necessary. Building a data warehouse can dramatically increase the cost of a BI project. This paper describes data warehouses, along with many other options for placing relevant, timely information in the hands of business users.  (WHITE PAPER) READ ABSTRACT |

SQL Server 2000 Security Best Practices by Global Knowledge Network, Inc. November 2004 - (Free Research) The security of SQL Server database servers has become a top priority for database administrators. This article examines best practices that can be employed to secure Microsoft SQL Server 2000 databases. It provides an overview of the security model in SQL Server 2000 and discusses best practices you can employ to secure yours.  (WHITE PAPER) READ ABSTRACT |

IPV6 Transition – Why the rush ? by ComputerWeekly.com December 2011 - (Free Research) This report from Ovum warns that enterprises need to recognise that they will need to move to IPv6, even if they have IPv4 addresses available. They should treat IPv6 like any other disaster recovery plan.  (ANALYST BRIEF) READ ABSTRACT |

Cisco IOS Command Shortcuts by Global Knowledge November 2010 - (Free Research) This white paper contains some tips and shortcuts showing you how the addition of parameters to these Cisco IOS commands will make your life easier.  (WHITE PAPER) READ ABSTRACT |

How to Implement a Data Loss Prevention Strategy by Sophos, Inc. April 2010 - (Free Research) This paper guides IT professionals through the steps necessary to implement a practical data loss prevention (DLP) strategy. It starts off by looking at what’s driving data loss prevention, the consequences of data loss, and a possible solution. It then moves on to practical implementation advice and examples. Read on to learn more.  (WHITE PAPER) READ ABSTRACT |

Long-Term Data Protection and Retention: Finding the Correct Balance by Quantum Corporation March 2009 - (Free Research) Tape remains the most cost effective, energy efficient and reliable program technology for storing large amounts of inactive, off-line or near-line data while complimenting disk-based data protection and retention solutions. Read this paper and find out why.  (WHITE PAPER) READ ABSTRACT |

Tiered Storage Takes Center Stage (Horison) by Oracle Corporation December 2010 - (Free Research) This paper describes how tiered storage, as a storage initiative, has been proven to significantly reduce acquisition and operating costs for medium and large scale storage enterprises. Read this paper to learn more about how tiered storage is taking center stage.  (WHITE PAPER) READ ABSTRACT |

CW+ Open Group: World-class enterprise architecture by ComputerWeekly.com October 2010 - (Free Research) This White Paper is intended to help organizations who are attempting to set up an enterprise architecture practice. It shows how organizations can use a modular, iterative, and incremental approach in order to develop an architectural capability that is otherwise a large and complex undertaking.  (WHITE PAPER) READ ABSTRACT |

Leveraging Open Source Data Quality - Practical Examples Illustrated with Talend Data Quality by Talend March 2010 - (Free Research) This Technical White Paper presents the main challenges of data quality and drills into specific uses of data profiling and data cleansing. It highlights, through 32 distinct use cases, how open source data quality technology can be used to alleviate issues related to poor-quality data.  (WHITE PAPER) READ ABSTRACT |

Station Casinos uses workload automation solution to deliver smoother audits and increase customer loyalty by Cisco Systems, Inc. January 2012 - (Free Research) In this brief white paper, Jeff Martin, Station Casinos’ director of business intelligence (BI), provides specific examples of the types of problems that the company wanted to solve, and offers insight into the specific job scheduling solution it selected to overcome its challenges.  (WHITE PAPER) READ ABSTRACT |

Smarter Commerce for Consumer Electronics White Paper by IBM January 2012 - (Free Research) When we talk about the world becoming increasingly interconnected, instrumented and intelligent, the most ubiquitous example is the smartphone. It collects and disseminates data while its users are at home and on the go, serving up just as much socially driven info as static, always-there web content. This white paper outlines smarter commerce.  (WHITE PAPER) READ ABSTRACT |

Mass Customization for Communications Service Providers Podcast by IBM January 2012 - (Free Research) Join author David J. Gardner for a podcast that explains the key to making mass customization more efficient. Using examples of cable service providers and McDonald’s, clients will see how they can tune their infrastructure to make exceptions less exceptional and keep profitability on track.  (PODCAST) READ ABSTRACT |

Business Analytics Clients Build a Smarter Planet by IBM November 2011 - (Free Research) This brief video shoes how predictive analytics benefits Arvato Services, Yamaha Motor Europe, Banco Itau Argentina, Avis Europe and other organizations. For example, Avis Europe uses IBM predictive analytics to drive highly personalized e-mail campaigns based on detailed customer profiles.  (VIDEO)

Transform insights into action IBM’s: Watson and the future of data by IBM June 2011 - (Free Research) Traditional computing systems are built to analyze only structured data, or to run analytics in batch reporting jobs. Explore how Watson is an example of the new kind of workloads that businesses will apply to achieve their business goals.  (WHITE PAPER) READ ABSTRACT |

MFT Benefit Calculator by IBM January 2012 - (Free Research) The Managed File Transfer benefit calculator shows you how much FTP is really costing you. Answer the questions to generate a customized benefit report that provides insight into areas of potential cost savings, metrics that help make an ROI business case, and examples of how other companies have saved with Managed File Transfer.  (ASSESSMENT TOOL) READ ABSTRACT |

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