Developing a Software as a Service (SaaS) enterprise resource planning (ERP) request for proposal (RFP) is different from on-premise, requiring more attention to the vendor’s financial viability. In this expert guide, readers will get advice on the right questions to ask when purchasing SaaS ERP. 

The majority of user authentication schemes today still use userid and password. The burden to users of managing large numbers of userids and passwords has led to proposals for Federated Identity systems, where a single set of credentials can be used to authenticate with several organisations, which have agreed to work together as a federation. 

Although it has been proven that creating a proactive data management strategy improves the effectiveness and value of almost any data intensive project, convincing those in charge can be a challenge. This white paper discusses the benefits of data governance as well as providing objection-busting strategies useful to any data champion. 

After carefully weighing competing options, Anchorage Water and Wastewater Utility chose Quantum's DXi-Series solution with deduplication technology for its data protection system upgrade. This case study explains why they made that choice. 

Learn how your company can change from a lead generation business model to a dynamic lead development process in this joint Webcast from SiriusDecisions and KnowledgeStorm. 

As data center infrastructures become increasingly complex, so do the IT processes--such as incident management and server provisioning--that keep infrastructure up and running. 

By turning to a virtual-ready infrastructure, IT has the opportunity to create a next-generation architecture that fundamentally changes the way data centers work for the future. In doing so, IT has the opportunity to transform its own value to the organization by making the infrastructure more flexible and ready to move at the speed of business. 

This interactive webcast explores ways to simplify infrastructure management to achieve the next level in IT efficiency. The hour-long event focuses on how Dell's Advanced Infrastructure Manager eliminates the silos that encumber IT management, enabling IT groups to manage servers, networks and storage as a single pool. 

By simplifying and automating deployment, retargeting and provisioning workloads, and managing processes for virtualized systems, the Dell Virtual Integrated System (VIS) architecture empowers end users to access resources when they need them. Continue reading to learn more. 

Unified networking over the 10 Gigabit Ethernet in the data center offers numerous benefits for the virtualized data center. 

Dell's adaptive infrastructure management (AIM) framework has something competitors don't: support for heterogeneous hardware. In a nutshell, it's possible to have a completely automated infrastructure using all Dell gear, or a nearly completely automated infrastructure using an array of hardware from other vendors. 

More than 90% of Fortune 1000 companies are not confident that they can completely failover to their remote data center within one hour. Given that the costs of downtime can be measured in millions of dollars per minute, companies with unreliable disaster recovery processes are taking a potentially fatal risk.