In order to analyze the cost of deploying and managing an email system, Osterman Research undertook a primary and secondary research program. This data was then combined with secondary research in order to develop a cost model that compares MDaemon and Microsoft Exchange. Read on to see how the results may impact your own decision. 

The Avaya LAN Competitive Analysis Tool (LANCAT) provides a comparison of Avaya products vs. competitors in the industry. 

In this videocast, senior enterprise IT architect Nelson Ruest breaks down VMware ESX Server, Citrix XenServer and Hyper-V, providing details on what each product has to offer. 

Using two of the Intel SS4000-E storage servers mirrored for additional redundancy, Philips has cut about USD 10 thousand off the storage cost for more than one terabyte of data by eliminating the need to buy expensive optical disks. 

This white paper outlines a methodology for comparing the total cost of ownership (TCO) of endpoint management technologies including IBM Tivoli Endpoint Manager. Learn why the TCO of Tivoli Endpoint Manager is much lower than other solutions on the market, delivering superior functionality at a fraction of the cost of competitive offerings. 

The effective management of your warehouse and fulfillment/distribution operations is critical to the ongoing success of your business—but you’re unsure whether to select your ERP’s warehouse module or a best-of-breed warehouse management system (WMS). This paper will help determine which type of solution is the best fit for your business. 

When it comes to successfully recovering from a serious incident the Australians were the least confident. Just 22% of Australian businesses felt that they would be able to recover quickly in the event of downtime, compared to a global average of 50%. 

Content provided by Google. This report presents a spreadsheet cost model to help you calculate your fully loaded on-premise email costs and compare it against cloud-based alternatives. Bottom line: Cloud-based email makes sense for companies or divisions as large as 15,000 users. 

This paper examines the direct correlation between malware and Web evolution and points out the implications of this maturity on today's small and midsize businesses. Determine how SaaS security solutions compare to on-premise alternatives and review key factors to consider when evaluating cloud providers. 

Take a look at the real value of cloud computing in this resource. Compare the costs of running an on-premise private cloud with the costs of choosing an IaaS or managed services model. 

This analyst insight looks at the performance of companies that have more recent enterprise resource planning (ERP) implementations and compare them to companies that have systems over 15 years old. 

Increased adoption of VMware infrastructure and continued performance advances in hardware and software have driven the virtualization of Microsoft Exchange. This paper will detail experiments that demonstrate the efficient performance and scalability of Exchange when running inside a virtual machine on a VMware vSphere™ 4 environment. 

The purpose of this guide is to support a self-guided, hands-on evaluation of VMware vSphere™ 4 by press reviewers, technology analysts, and IT professionals who wish to compare vSphere to competing virtualization products such as Microsoft Hyper-V and Citrix XenServer.