May 05, 2011 - This white paper is a lab test report of a solution that integrates the function of primary storage, de-duplication, cloud backup, automated cloud archiving & tiering and cloud based disaster recovery into a single appliance that radically simplifies the storage infrastructure and reduces the total cost of ownership (TCO) of data storage 60-80%
May 23, 2011 - The robust resilience of virtual machines (VM) makes them ideal to CIOs as a business continuity platforms. But a highly flexible active-active host infrastructure for VMs does not solve any of the knotty issues surrounding the failure of a VM. Cost-effective solutions continue to be found in classic backup and restore strategies.
November 01, 2007 - LANsurveyor automatically discovers and diagrams network topology, generates network maps in Visio, detects new devices and changes to network topology, and performs inventory management for hardware and software assets. Download a free 30-day trial today to see why more than 45,000 network professionals trust SolarWinds solutions.
August 18, 2010 - This report highlights the challenges associated with endpoint data protection and management, how the problems are being addressed today, the advantages and disadvantages of these different data protection approaches, and the considerations for selecting the most effective solution for your organization.
August 27, 2010 - Tune into this video featuring Lauren Whitehouse, Senior Analyst, Enterprise Strategy Group as it outlines the challenges associated with endpoint data protection and management, how the problems are being addressed today, the advantages and disadvantages of these different data protection approaches and more.
January 11, 2012 - Minimising your physical infrastructure can significantly reduce operational costs, but it is often easier said than done. This white paper reveals how one retail business accomplished this goal by deploying Windows Server 2008 Datacenter and Hyper-V technology to manage over 300,000 store-based endpoints.
March 31, 2009 - Read this case study to learn how one growing Euopean retailer was able to migrate to an architecture that could support real-time delivery of shop data to the data center for processing and real-time communication of pricing events to its shops using open source integration software.
November 18, 2010 - Bonus payments have long been a feature of the reward package for most IT professionals, but when the UKeconomy went into freefall during late 2008, many employers either reduced such payments or did away withthem altogether.
March 23, 2011 - Layered Tech chose Dell servers to build a new infrastructure that would take its managed hosting and cloud services to a new level, and saw performance increase by 22 percent. Download this case study for more information.
June 06, 2011 - Now is the time to start evaluating your IT infrastructure and the role private or public cloud services might play for your company going forward. This white paper discusses the promise of cloud computing as well as the three types of cloud services and primary deployment models.
January 12, 2012 - As cloud computing continues to gain ground in the enterprise, businesses must decide how to handle this IT revolution: To take the plunge now or wait and risk falling behind. Access this white paper to review the various types of cloud computing deployment models and services.
June 15, 2004 - Recent research by SiriusDecisions has shown that the average B2B organization actually utilizes only 6 % of the leads generated per year. If you're like many sales and marketing professionals, the time and money you will spend on online lead generation and management in 2004 will not yield the results you're looking for.
January 06, 2011 - Nissen Chemitec America has utilized several different systems to manage enterprise operations but these systems weren’t designed to meet the specific needs of automotive injection molding suppliers. Nissen selected EnterpriseIQ because it meets manufacturing-specific functionality and automotive industry requirements in a single-database system.
January 20, 2012 - In this white paper, Rajesh K. Gupta, Electronic Arts' senior manager of applications for business intelligence (BI) and data services, explains how EA avoids many costly problems due to timely data access. Read this now to gain insight into how EA deployed job scheduling software and what benefits it reaped by doing so.
May 29, 2009 - Acme Truck Line, Inc. wanted to develop a cost-effective, comprehensive disaster recovery plan. Read this brief case study to see how they implemented VMware Infrastructure 3 and Dell EqualLogic iSCSI SANs to deliver an affordable and flexible virtual platform that supports disaster recovery needs for companies of all sizes.
January 11, 2012 - This paper illustrates how IFS Applications support lean principles, particularly in the many manufacturing environments that require both rate-based and order-based shop floor execution. This hybrid approach lets you go lean step by step, as you are able, not because an inflexible system forces you to do so.
March 17, 2011 - Tiered storage can help alleviate data management burdens as well as provide operational efficiencies and cost savings. Watch this webcast and find out how Oracle's extensive range of Flash, disk, and tape storage solutions can help you.
January 23, 2012 - Explore the partnership of SunGard Availability Services and the University of Texas at Austin through the Cloud Computing Research Center. Find out how they are jointly solving problems that are of particular relevance to cloud and distributed computing.
June 01, 2007 - KnowledgeStorm is the Internet's top-ranked search resource for technology solutions and information. With our premier network, search expertise and performance tools and services, KnowledgeStorm provides technology vendors the most opportunities to reach buyers on the Internet and convert them into Web leads.
November 09, 2011 - Today's consumer expects instant gratification. Our world has become mobile, connected, interactive, immediate and fluid. The enterprise and IT must work together to create value for customers and citizens. HP has a vision for this world: Instant-On. View this video to find out if you have what it takes to build an instant-on enterprise.
January 05, 2012 - Programming is a journey between the real world and a computer. This article explains why object orientation is currently the best way we have of making the journey.
February 09, 2012 - End-users will often overlook security and compliance in favor of getting the job done by taking advantage of free and readily available alternatives. But instead of telling end-users that they're doing something wrong, give them the enterprise-class tools that will help them to achieve their goals, and support them in doing it right.
January 24, 2012 - Explore the challenges of a remote and mobile workforce and find out information to choosing new helpdesk support tools to meet the needs of all your employees.
December 01, 2007 - Checkout this Webcast and learn how to best prepare to meet government regulations and safeguard your organization from conducting business with unethical parties.
February 09, 2011 - Fiscally conservative IT organizations should try to minimize their expenses and leverage their IT budgets. Understanding the data tax and where potential savings reside is a good place to start. This white paper explains how this data tax is being levied and provides valuable advice from our data tax advisors on how to legally circumvent this tax.
April 01, 2008 - This white paper discusses approaches for enabling greater product agility and efficiency in credit decisions, improving customer retention and attracting a higher number of new consumers.
March 05, 2010 - This webcast discusses the steps essential for creating a virtual infrastructure for cloud computing to improve the delivery of data center applications.
March 05, 2010 - Advanced virtualization efforts are helping companies cut costs in their disaster recovery (DR) planning. This webcast features a tutorial to help you leverage your virtualization efforts and get the most out of your DR strategy.
March 04, 2010 - SMBs using virtualization often face additional challenges in managing and protecting their data. This instructor-led mediacast addresses the importance of data protection and the best ways to integrate this type of software into your virtualization initiatives.
September 13, 2011 - This webcast will explore several of the challenges and lessons learned, as well as discuss how several carriers are tackling these issues.
March 03, 2011 - This paper explains that while traditional storage management solutions lag behind the requirements being placed on the storage environment, IBM Tivoli® storage management solutions have evolved to meet these needs. Read on to learn how IBM solutions help organizations manage the influx of data, while optimizing performance and reduce expenditures.
December 16, 2011 - Read this white paper to discover strategies for leveraging workforce management (WFM) to improve customer service, and thus increase customer satisfaction and retention.
June 01, 2010 - Many enterprises looking to increase the flexibility, improve the scalability, enhance the availability and reduce the costs of data storage have turned to SANs. The Compellent SAN enables businesses to continuously integrate new disk drive, switch and network interface technologies without having to replace existing hardware or software.
July 23, 2009 - This DCIG report takes an in-depth look at Quantum’s DXi-Series and its ability solve today’s backup problems while putting in place a foundation for stable and sustainable growth. Access this report now to learn more.
July 29, 2009 - Enterprise organizations, now more than ever, need a holistic solution that delivers multi-tier backup within an integrated infrastructure. Read on to learn more about Quantum’s specific solutions, and decide if they may be a good fit for your organization.
September 30, 2010 - From improvements to project planning and requirements management to testing, QA and reporting, read this white paper to find out what's new in version 11.0 of HP's Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) and Quality Center Enterprise applications.
December 01, 2011 - Supporting alternative endpoint devices and new applications is creating new challenges for IT. Learn about new application delivery models that help address these changing business needs.
May 07, 2009 - There are multiple ways to leverage cloud-based infrastructure for software applications. In this analyst report, Gartner provides a decision framework, including research and recommendations, to help you examine the alternatives.
March 16, 2010 - 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.
September 01, 2008 - Recent advances in Internet infrastructure technology and maturity of technologies supporting collaboration over the Internet have resulted in new methods for sales organizations to interact with their customers, collaborate with sales team members.
July 01, 2011 - Cloud computing is a flexible, cost-effective and proven delivery platform for providing business or consumer IT services over the Internet. This whitepaper discusses the who, what, when, why and how of cloud-based security services.
December 19, 2011 - Health care facilities are revamping storage management plans in an effort to improve data protection and security. In addition, new storage technologies allow hospitals to take full advantage of cloud computing benefits such as increased scalability and efficiency. In this video, gain insight on a variety of cloud storage capabilities.
June 21, 2011 - Now that many organizations have virtual servers and storage across part of their data center, it is time to turn to implementing effective disaster recovery initiatives. This exclusive white paper highlights Dell and VMware virtualization architectures that can help implement an effective disaster recovery plan.
March 04, 2011 - This white paper takes a look at some Windows 7 technologies that you may be able to put to use in order to make the transition from XP (or perhaps from Vista) more successful.
January 25, 2011 - This paper provides an overview of Windows 7 benefits and offers a wide range of tips and best practices for making the transition. It will also discuss the advantages of combining Dell hardware with Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008, the benefits of desktop virtualization, and much more!
August 17, 2011 - Because of the lifesaving nature of the networked devices, healthcare facilities need networks that are different than ordinary businesses. The network has to be designed to never go down, to accommodate fluctuating workloads and a variety of other requirements. Access this e-guide to learn more about the importance of healthcare networks.
May 26, 2011 - By simplifying its networking infrastructure through such techniques as virtualization to create centralized pools of PCs and workstations, Lifetime Brands was able to improve the performance of its networking infrastructure and reduce data center costs.
February 10, 2012 - This paper highlights companies’ confidence level in deploying custom Java applications in the cloud. Learn how to accelerate application deployment and transition to cloud computing by virtualizing applications and implementing a lightweight development framework for quickly building and deploying applications for a virtual environment.
January 18, 2012 - Read this brief case study of LinkedIn's implementation of DocuSign and Salesforce to speed up sales deals and receive completed contracts quicker.
May 09, 2011 - Live Volume allows you to virtualize storage across various systems and rapidly relocates resources, providing continuous access and high availability for your enterprise, allowing for zero downtime. Check out this webcast to learn more!
May 06, 2011 - With Dell Compellent Live Volume, organizations can continuously optimize storage for high availability and Administrators can move enterprise data when and where it’s needed on demand, based on ever-changing business conditions and application requirements.
September 01, 2008 - Virtual collaboration and online meeting technologies are advancing SMBs’ reach without huge investments, thus allowing them to not only save costs and land more sales but to better educate consumers and business partners.
February 14, 2012 - There are many advantages to deploying firewalls behind Application Delivery Controllers. This white paper will show how you can implement ADCs in a "firewall sandwich" to improve availability, scalability, and manageability across the IT infrastructure.
August 23, 2010 - Organizations need a business-based approach to creating a log management strategy that will help them detect attacks, deal with mounds of data collected by network and security devices, and meet compliance requirements. This white paper will outline a five step process which will help reduce the complexity of this process.
February 01, 2012 - This white paper examines both sides of the buy vs. build, Microsoft vs. LogiXML debate for SQLServer business intelligence (BI) applications.
October 08, 2009 - Recent technological developments in disk backup have had a positive impact on short term data retention requirements. But these improvements do not replace the need to execute and deliver on a long term data retention strategy. This tool provides 5 topics to think about as you design your long-term data retention plans.
January 30, 2009 - Managing backup and recovery is a challenge with both short- and long-term business requirements. Read this white paper and learn why developing a long-term data retention strategy is important, and discover 5 key considerations to take into account.
March 18, 2009 - 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.
March 18, 2009 - This expert white paper, written by storage guru Greg Shulz, is designed to give IT pros a better overall understanding of the strategic differences between short- and long-term data retention plans, what specific factors to consider when creating your backup plan, and the roles that disk and tape should play. Access this paper now to learn more.
February 06, 2012 - This expert guide explains some of the prominent differences between Software as a Service (SaaS) enterprise resource planning (ERP) software and hosted ERP systems including cost, benefits, and risks of both.
August 31, 2011 - Today, organizations are rightly deploying mobile device management solutions as a means to secure their mobile devices. But there is much more to be done. This paper examines the needs for organizations to deploy a holistic enterprise mobility management (EMM) solution that goes well beyond mobile device management.
February 02, 2011 - Though unprecedented changes have occurred in the last couple of years that have revolutionised the handset market, particularly at the top end of the market inhabited by smartphones, the low end market represents a continuing opportunity as emerging market individuals become connected in coming years.
August 01, 2011 - Learn how you can transform your business, budgets, and service levels with Oracle Database 11g Release 2. You’ll discover how its new options and features can help you reduce server and storage costs, improve query performance, and ensure availability during database application upgrades.
April 01, 2009 - As companies seek to lower their total cost of ownership, adopt more standards oriented platforms, and leverage existing IT assets while not compromising on the mission critical nature of their business applications, Oracle Tuxedo emerges as the platform of choice.
October 12, 2011 - This white paper contains a sampling of real business results that organizations around the world, in a variety of industries, have achieved by upgrading and standardizing on Oracle Database 11g.
March 10, 2011 - Explosive data growth is causing storage costs to skyrocket, which is forcing IT organizations to look for more cost-effective archival and backup solutions. Oracle's StorageTek tape product family has maintained a market leadership position for many years and now includes the world's fastest and highest capacity tape drive.
April 15, 2010 - Oracle Database 11g Release 2, the second release of the award winning Oracle Database 11g, provides the foundation for IT professionals to successfully deliver more information with higher quality of service, make more efficient use of their budgets, and reduce the risk of change in data centers.
May 14, 2010 - Read this FAQ featuring W. Curtis Preston, which outlines how Linear Tape-Open (LTO) tape differs from other tape media, the various generations of LTO and the pros and cons of this backup technology. Also learn about the newest model, LTO-5, being released this year.
June 01, 2011 - This case study highlights how one company used cutting-edge software tools and training to help streamline service management and turn it from a bottleneck into a smoothly running operation that was more responsive to users' needs but without bloating costs or stretching precious IT staff resources.
January 12, 2012 - This white paper explores a centralized, comprehensive approach to application patching, allowing security pros to automatically detect risks, deploy patches and protect business information across a complex, highly distributed physical and virtual environment.
January 01, 2008 - Protecting networks from malware can seem like an insurmountable challenge. In this 30-day free trial download, see how Lumension's Sanctuary Device and Application Control enable only authorized applications to run and only authorized devices to connect to a laptop or desktop, removing the risk of data leakage and malware.
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