This expert E-Guide offers beginner tips and real-life examples for automation planning and deployment, you'll also learn proven techniques to avoid or resolve common pitfalls, so you can reap all of the perks of IT automation. 

Read this whitepaper to learn about the security implications of modern threats, where emerging technologies can add real value, and five key strategies for ensuring solid malware protection. 

Explore four Customer Relationship Management (CRM) deployment scenarios and how to choose a CRM solution that will best meet your company's needs today and support your business as it grows and evolves. 

IDC believes that thin provisioning is a powerful enabling technology with significant benefits to offer storage administrators looking for higher levels of storage efficiency. 

Software as a service (SaaS) integration problems cannot be solved with traditional software and custom coding solutions. Learn how you can quickly integrate SaaS applications with your critical customer data. 

When multiple receivers are required to get the same data at approximately the same time, multicast is a more efficient way of delivering data than unicast. 

This whitepaper explains why automated reconciliation is quickly evolving into a competitive necessity. The costs associated with manual reconciliation, the benefits from automation, and the best reconciliation workflow model will all be discussed. 

Learn how faceted analytical displays can lead to insight that would be difficult to unearth otherwise. Faceted analytical displays are powerful and will help you discover new information that will translate into big benefits for your company. 

This white paper offers a guide for effectively diagnosing .Net application health problems, code failures and performance bottlenecks. 

Companies are using technology and other tools to help employees deliver an organization's best collective thinking during each customer interaction. Among them is Hewlett-Packard (HP), which we will feature in this paper. We will also explain why empowering your key customer-facing employees is the new path to achieving extraordinary results. 

Small and midsize companies that can successfully align IT with their business objectives will be the ones to stay ahead of the competition by having access to the right information at the right time, allowing for better, faster decisions. 

This paper provides guidance on how to develop a good, simple strategy to evaluate and choose the right ERP software package for your company. 

In this podcast, virtualization expert Anil Desai talks with WhatIs.com's Alex Howard about the many ways virtualization can be used to improve software testing and development.