Best practices, people, processes, and procedures combine with technology tools, hardware, software, networks, services, and facilities to enable a virtual data center. The importance of this chapter is to understand how all these elements coupled with existing and emerging technologies can be applied to improve IT service delivery. 

Together, Sun and Pentaho provide integrated hardware, software, and services solutions for data warehousing and BI that provide full functionality, robust enterprise-class performance and scalability, and significantly reduced acquisition and ownership costs compared to proprietary hardware and software solutions. 

In 2008, Forrester answered 106 end user inquiries on archiving, including questions on eDiscovery, retention, message archiving, and using archiving to cope with the data growth explosion. This white paper summarizes these answers and explains why it's necessary to retain data for regulatory compliance or legal discovery purposes. 

VI Service Desk fulfills the need to provide consistent, centralized service and support. Tickets are prioritized, assigned to the proper resources and escalated to the next support tier when necessary. Robust Ad-hoc reporting helps IT track trends and justify change. 

Do you ever wonder how potential buyers view the strategic approaches and tactics you commonly use to entice them? In this Webcast, KnowledgeStorm and SiriusDecisions present the results of a new research study that examine the efficacy of demand creation. 

This paper explains how whitelisting (accepting only applications and behaviors that are on the approved list and denying everything else) provides a lighter, more agile alternative to blacklisting as a means to protect networks and end points. 

How can a company ensure that their marketing department's needs are represented when choosing an enterprise-level CRM system? This white paper provides core principles companies can use to help them select a CRM system that each marketing team member feels was built just for them. 

Panda Cloud Protection is an innovative service hosted by Panda Security and managed by security providers. It delivers uninterrupted, hands-free protection for endpoints and email. Read on to learn more about Panda’s hosted security services, their key benefits, and target concerns. 

In this webinar, you will learn about the challenges of implementing configuration management along with suggestions on how to get started, and best practices to ensure success. You will also learn how Numara FootPrints Configuration Management takes the pain and time out of creating and maintaining a functional CMDB. 

One of the biggest dangers in establishing best practices for your contact center is to do so in isolation from your self-service stakeholders. Instead, all customer "touch-points" must be viewed as part of a continuum. Customer touch points include Web Self-Service, Interactive Voice Response, Contact Center Agents, and Face-to-Face transactions. 

In this paper, Wipro Technologies focuses on the methodology EMC follows for building its Proven Solutions for organizations of all sizes and domains. This paper also demonstrates the methodology using an example of the solution development process for Microsoft Exchange in physical and VMware environments. 

Commando teams carefully plan and execute to reduce risk and achieve success. Read this sales survival guide to learn how to - and why you should - adopt this philosophy and the main factors to focus on that will ensure your sales organization not only survives 2009 but comes out of it successfully. 

This white paper discusses key channel business trends, highlights the complexities and challenges of different channel models.