February 18, 2011 - Douglas Miller, Director of Global Database Development and Operations at R.L. Polk, a leader in automotive intelligence and marketing solutions, discusses the benefits of Oracle Exadata’s efficient use of storage.
January 30, 2012 - Veeam Backup & Replication capabilities: Image Based Backup and Replication, Changed Block Tracking (CBT), Deduplication and Compression. Enterprises using Hyper-V can now leverage the power of Veeam Backup & Replication to enable server virtualization and improve the standard of data protection as well as lower costs.
November 04, 2009 - Download your free trial of IBM Rational Quality Manager V2, a collaborative, Web-based, quality management solution that offers comprehensive test planning and test asset management from requirements to defects.
July 01, 2007 - Chris Wolf talks about the tools that are used to increase virtual server performance. Later, virtualization platform decision points are covered with emphasis on OS and application compatibility and support, high availability, automation and management.
July 01, 2008 - In this final session, Wolf discusses application selection, focusing on using chargebacks to counter physical storage challenges. He gives network architecture examples, offers some CPU considerations, and tackles issues with heterogeneous VM management.
July 01, 2008 - In this first session, Wolf introduces principles of virtual infrastructure optimization and covers virtual machine placement optimization and bottleneck identification.
June 24, 2010 - Against a backdrop of increased use of software that is generally more sophisticated, flexible, scalable and easy to use than it was 5 years ago, this research set out to explore the impact of having to maintain a plethora of different software solutions in today’s cash-strapped corporate environment.
June 24, 2010 - Against a backdrop of an increased use of software that is generally more sophisticated, flexible, scalable and easy to integrate than in times gone by, this research set out to explore the impact of having to maintain a plethora of different software solutions from different vendors in today’s cash-strapped corporate environment.
October 11, 2011 - Watch this brief video about the Cedacri Group’s mainframe modernization experience to learn about the cost and performance advantages of a re-hosting strategy as well as how to ensure its success.
November 23, 2011 - No matter what cloud strategy you choose to employ it is crucial to carefully assess business and technology synergies. This white paper discusses how to optimize your cloud deployment with three key steps: investigate, experiment, adopt.
February 16, 2011 - Clouds do many things well, but fixing performance problems isn't one of them. For that you need a world-class application server. Learn how application delivery problems continue to frustrate IT managers and how to move to the cloud without losing your sanity.
April 06, 2011 - This eBook presented by Dell and VMware will provide you with information about the latest VMware vSphere strategies, how to make sense of virtualization, and it also provides the top eight VMware vSphere backup best practices.
April 26, 2011 - Finding a server/processor platform that fully supports virtual desktop environments is key to success. Dell and Intel provide such a platform with servers, processors, and storage that are designed to run virtual environments.
December 28, 2011 - Read this insightful e-book and learn how business and IT work together to build globally integrated enterprises, including how 1-800-FLOWERS.COM created an e-commerce platform for the future, or why CenterPoint Energy broke new ground in grid reliability through the power of automation, amongst more real-world stories.
September 29, 2011 - Featured as the concluding half of a two-part series which tackles the toughest pain-points for business decision-makers, this webcast features decision management expert James Taylor, who will join RedHat to discuss "Active Decision Management," the effective combination of business rules and event-based approaches.
January 11, 2012 - In this white paper, you'll find tips and strategies for maintaining an open and flexible IT system that will increase the efficiency of your enterprise. Learn how leveraging design, operate, maintain (DOM) can facilitate an easy transition to an open IT system.
April 01, 2010 - This white paper describes a new application management solution that makes running Java applications in a virtualized environment much easier and more practical, accelerating application grid and private cloud deployments without sacrificing performance.
February 15, 2010 - Accounts payable remains a manual and often inefficient business process. Read this white paper for a discussion of best practices options and a solid approach to implementing solutions for automating and optimizing Accounts Payable in the SAP environment.
November 28, 2011 - Businesses are experiencing a growing demand to move high volumes of data both internally and externally. File transfer protocol (FTP) servers are proliferating among individual departments and raising traffic levels with customers and suppliers. This white paper explains and explores the opportunity and benefits of FTP consolidation.
December 08, 2010 - How can IT organizations reduce complexity, address the problems caused by inconsistent data and enhance integration of IT resources across the enterprise? One solution that is being tried more and more frequently by innovative IT departments is to standardize on a single database platform.
June 14, 2011 - This paper documents the file storage challenges users face and how the HP StorageWorks X9000 systems help organizations address and overcome storage performance, density, management, cost, and deployment issues.
June 13, 2011 - A desktop virtualization infrastructure can heighten business agility, IT efficiency, and worker productivity. This white paper reviews Dell Desktop Virtualization Solutions that can help you achieve a successful transition to a virtual desktop environment that is designed to achieve convincing cost-benefits and avoid potential pitfalls.
June 02, 2009 - The need for timely and succinct business intelligence (BI) continues to grow as executives demand critical information to seize opportunities faster than competitors and to address potential problems in the making. But increasingly, it is not just C-level executives and upper management who need access to business intelligence.
January 01, 2010 - Security concerns continue to hobble consolidation efforts in the data center. The concerns are real, and most often stem from a scattershot, non-integrated approach to consolidation. There is a better, more secure way, grounded in servers and software platforms built from the ground up to work optimally with one another.
October 12, 2011 - This white paper explores the key drivers behind many consolidation efforts and points out the reasons why some organizations are putting off deploying virtualization. Gain insight into a holistic approach to ensuring security, high availability, and performance and discover the key technology components that comprise it.
November 04, 2010 - In this white paper, we’ll describe the two main techniques companies utilize to incorporate customer recovery into their overall Customer Experience Management strategy—namely, Immediate Issue Resolution & Follow‐up and Real‐time Customer Recovery.
July 01, 2011 - Would you be worried if your primary application data went down? Check out this brief videocast to learn how to get your application back up, your business running, and your employees back to work in just two minutes.
October 11, 2011 - DR plans must be flexible and scalable to address a wide range of things that can go wrong. This exclusive SearchDisasterRecovery.com E-Guide provides you with everything disaster recovery from A-Z - including over 40 tips and steps to help ensure your DR plan functions successfully.
August 01, 2009 - The ability to stay up and running in the face of a disaster can be crucial to the survival of any business. Without effective disaster recovery (DR) and business continuity plans, businesses risk lost income, lost productivity, or worse. Read this brief paper to learn about effective disaster recovery and business continuity solutions.
April 22, 2011 - This technical white paper discusses the concerns associated with DR, and explains in detail how RecoverTrac technology addresses a full range of DR challenges.
July 18, 2011 - This analyst brief from the Aberdeen Group explores the recent trend of recruitment automation. Continue reading for access to the value findings and to learn how automation can provide better quality candidates without increasing the time or cost of the hiring process.
December 01, 2011 - While tablet computers continue to grow in popularity, for enterprises, there is much to be concerned about. Fact is, most tablets are made for consumer entertainment and not for keeping enterprise secrets. However, the exception is the highly secure, enterprise ready BlackBerry Playbook tablet.
January 25, 2012 - Virtualisation can help today’s organisations respond to increasing business demands. This resource explores a service that can help you rapidly deploy virtualisation within your environment. Learn how to optimise virtualisation performance and obtain best practices to ensure maximum benefits from your investment.
January 26, 2012 - Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization 3.0 not only offers the performance and management features that virtualization customers require for their data center workloads, but also provides a strategic alternative to proprietary virtualization to enable organizations to accelerate their innovation, increase manageability, and reduce costs.
January 20, 2012 - This paper compares the pricing of Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization with VMware vSphere5 for server virtualization. Both the Red Hat subscription pricing and the VMware license and support pricing are explained along with detailed comparisons.
September 15, 2011 - Access this exclusive webcast to discover Red Hat’s plans for deploying virtualization environments to handle most the demanding and critical workloads. Learn about the features and functionality of Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization through customer deployments, common practices and use cases, and much more.
June 21, 2011 - Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization for Servers adds manageability and support for large, complex virtual environments and forms the basis for a cloud infrastructure. Access this webcast for an introduction to Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization.
May 09, 2011 - Enterprises increasingly are turning to server virtualization to enhance IT costs. Server virtualization solutions help achieve those goals by abstracting applications from physical resources, accelerating the provisioning of new applications, simplifying server management, and improve disaster recovery. Read on to learn more.
August 03, 2011 - View this demo to see how your company can resolve customer complaints and strengthen relationships by quickly uniting stakeholders through smartphones, desktops, PCs, video conferencing, and email across multiple platforms. Learn more about transforming your work and productivity with collaboration.
October 08, 2009 - For many enterprises, the backup and recovery process has not kept pace with the sheer growth of data or the increased requirements for higher data protection. As a result, many storage organizations are redesigning their existing backup architecture.
December 08, 2011 - This product overview takes a closer look at one integrated tool that can help you improve IT visibility, reduce costs, and maximize resource utilization. Learn more about this technology and get answers to frequently asked questions about how it is used.
September 16, 2011 - This video highlights the business benefits and competitive advantages of leveraging advanced application portfolio management. Learn how making sure that your business ha all the tools it needs and none of the ones it doesn't can speed responses to opportunities and threats alike.
November 22, 2010 - This white paper examines the risks involved in migrating to Exchange 2010 and takes a look at what actions businesses can take to mitigate them.
March 11, 2011 - For most IT organizations, the operational cost of deploying, updating and migrating PCs is the most significant expense associated with the PC life cycle. IDC's Michael Rose outlines some key business considerations that you can apply to reduce your desktop TCO while providing an excellent experience for end-users.
October 23, 2008 - This case study explains how Quantum DXi3500 Saves Virtual Iron Time & Money with 95% Reduction in Backup Volume and Saving $12,000 annually on tape media costs.
February 03, 2010 - This case study explains how Quantum DXi3500 Saves Virtual Iron Time & Money with 95% Reduction in Backup Volume and Saving $12,000 annually on tape media costs.
July 12, 2011 - This white paper discusses the specific challenges of disaster recovery in virtualized environments and how solutions from Dell and Microsoft are leading to safer, securer, and more highly available virtualized data centers.
May 25, 2010 - Most IT organizations are still looking for ways to cut costs in this economy. One way is to extend hardware life in the data center. In this videocast, learn why this strategy is especially valuable to SMBs.
May 27, 2010 - SMBs are always looking for ways to cut software spending in the data center. Where are the areas that SMBs can make smart software spending decisions in the data center? In this videocast, get advice on how to effectively reduce costs in the data center using Windows Server 2008 R2 and a smart software spending strategy.
April 17, 2010 - As IT organizations support dynamically changing business priorities and cope with economic pressures, maintaining datacenter agility is critical. By consolidating systems onto the latest server technology and taking advantage of virtualization techniques, enterprises can optimize datacenter efficiency, gain flexibility, and reduce operating costs
July 01, 2007 - Untamed costs can deplete the precious working capital that's critical to your ongoing operations and new expansions. By instituting efficient automated processes throughout your organization, you can reduce waste, unnecessary overtime, and a host of other cost factors.
January 12, 2012 - This white paper explores the many benefits of application whitelisting over the common practice of revoking end-user administrative privileges.
January 13, 2012 - In this white paper, learn how Intelligent Resilient Framework (IRF) technology can help you improve the performance of network switches.
May 14, 2010 - Managing power consumption in the data center is a huge concern for IT organizations today. In this videocast, learn about the cost benefits of using Windows Server 2008 R2 for power and energy savings in the data center. The speaker will discuss the trends in this area and offer steps to improve power consumption and costs.
January 27, 2012 - Windows 7 migrations can be risky and expensive, threatening employee productivity by changing the working environment. Access this resource to learn how AppSense User Virtualisation technology can alleviate seven critical user-centric concerns in your Windows upgrade.
February 01, 2011 - In this paper you will learn some of the critical ways in which tiered storage solutions enable organizations to cut their total cost of storage and improve their long-term total cost of ownership.
January 10, 2012 - This resource explores a secure-by-design IT strategy based on desktop virtualization to regain control over data and applications. Inside, dscover the benefits of desktop virtualization for security, and more.
November 24, 2009 - To help simplify enterprise desktop management, Dell and VMware have created a flexible, highly scalable desktop virtualization reference architecture based on Dell PowerEdge servers, Dell EqualLogic PS Series iSCSI SAN arrays, and powerful new VMware View 4 technology.
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October 03, 2011 - Read this white paper to learn about a comprehensive, flexible and tightly integrated storage management solution for all corporate data.
June 17, 2009 - Read this white paper to learn how after deploying PingFederate or PingConnect your organization will yield a high return on investment and run more efficiently and will have distinct competitive advantage over companies that do not leverage Internet Identity Security Software.
October 11, 2011 - This paper details how the cloud can help organizations accelerate their adoption to Agile software development, and more quickly and cost-effectively realize Agile’s numerous business benefits.
April 26, 2011 - As e-commerce continues to grow, customer expectations for B2B e-commerce are changing rapidly. Business to business (B2B) companies that wish to grow and become more profitable are realizing that the old ways of doing business are insufficient and are investing in e-commerce platforms.
July 31, 2011 - As an alternative to big vendor messaging solutions, open source software presents an entirely different cost model and more flexibility in deployment options that suit the needs of retail perfectly. Read this paper to learn more about open source software and why it is the optimal approach to integrated messaging for large retail enterprises.
August 25, 2009 - W. Curtis Preston, executive editor of the Storage Media Group and independent backup expert, discusses the options currently available for performing replication as part of a backup strategy for virtual machines, benefits and drawbacks of using replication in a virtualized environment.
November 30, 2010 - Cloud computing uses 91 percent less energy than traditional on-premise applications. Nucleus evaluated Salesforce.com's customer base and found that cloud computing drives more than just significant financial savings: the effective sharing of resources also generates a substantial green benefit.
October 01, 2011 - Mobile applications, smartphones, tablets, public cloud services, and social networking represent a new wave of technology adoption — one that significantly blurs the lines between business and personal domains. By unifying APM, IM, and SOM technologies, a successful service assurance implementation can focus an IT staff on business services.
July 06, 2010 - In this paper you’ll learn how Snapshots use a copy-on-write operation that minimizes the drive space required for each snapshot. Unless there are changes in the original database, the snapshots will remain empty. Queries to the snapshot for unchanged records will automatically be redirected to the original database.
July 13, 2009 - James Brissenden, Sr. Strategy Consultant at GlassHouse Technologies, discusses the issues surrounding restoring deduplicated data in this podcast.
January 13, 2012 - This whitepaper explores new WLAN architectures and deployment models that have emerged which offer more options to help retailers get what they need while sticking to their budgets.
March 24, 2011 - Wondering how you can use social media channels to join the conversation with your customers? Find out how software solutions can help you capture and analyze massive amounts of social media data and prepare individualized responses while integrating with your business software through a unified IT architecture.
November 12, 2010 - Read this E-Guide and discover how lean software can boost your supply chain visibility. Uncover the importance of effective supply chain management visibility as well as 3 basic tasks that that aid in completing successful IT initiatives.
November 08, 2011 - This paper from Quocirca outlines the need for Managed Print Services (MPS) and why organisations that are operating a heterogeneous print environment should consider an independent MPS provider to proactively manage and transform their print infrastructure.
February 15, 2011 - This paper examines how personal computers are now an essential business tool in most organizations. But as the PC assumes an increasingly critical role in everyday business activity, the demands on IT staff are greatly intensified.
September 16, 2011 - Meaningful use is only the beginning: Efficiency and more –appropriate coding bring savings and increase revenues. This white paper discusses features and benefits of an EHR system, government incentives, sources for ROI as well as building the business case for EHR.
July 01, 2011 - IBM Tivoli Endpoint Manager helps organizations automatically manage patches for multiple operating systems and applications across hundreds of thousands of endpoints regardless of location, connection type or status.
April 01, 2008 - This paper examines how an integrated information technology solution can help you take advantage of economies of scale to boost manufacturing utilization, enhance service levels, and improve the efficiency of your sales and administrative activities.
June 10, 2008 - This paper presents an overview of strategies and practices for governing the transformation to, and the evolution of, SOA. In particular, it explores the role of governance throughout the SOA lifecycle as well as the technology enablers that help organizations develop and maintain an SOA that delivers measurable, sustainable business value.
June 01, 2008 - This paper presents an overview of strategies and practices for governing the transformation to, and the evolution of, SOA. In particular, it explores the role of governance throughout the SOA lifecycle as well as the technology enablers that help organizations develop and maintain an SOA that delivers measurable, sustainable business value.
July 20, 2011 - View this video to explore how a flexible, layered approach to security can help mitigate risks. Discover how risk-based authentication can secure the authentication process across multiple devices and how it can intelligently request step-up authentication when appropriate.
September 01, 2008 - Amid the ongoing impact of the sub-prime meltdown and the ensuing credit crunch, lenders are facing a much tougher market than has been seen for some time. Business Rules Management Systems (BRMS) can enhance risk management, lending process streamlining and flexibility.
November 09, 2011 - Online airline and travel group Meridiana fly needed a faster, more cost-effective way for its growing customer base to book reservations online. They turned to the Riverbed Stingray Traffic Manager, which ensured a fast, responsive website that could cope with increasing high-demand.
November 09, 2011 - This case study demonstrates how, with Riverbed® Stingray™ Traffic Manager supporting its new virtual environment, one company is now well on its way to meeting its goal of 99.9 percent uptime.
November 09, 2011 - This case study examines how one organization turned to Riverbed® Stingray™ Traffic Manager, enabling high website availability and scalability, and its customers enjoy an outstanding online experience.
November 09, 2011 - With over 5,000 requests per second during peak periods, online retailer Gilt Groupe could lose a large percentage of its daily profits in just 10 minutes of downtime. After choosing the Riverbed Stingray Traffic Manager as its load balancing solution, visits to the site have increased thanks to improved customer satisfaction.
November 09, 2011 - When AlertBoot switched to the cloud it needed a load balancing solution that would support its migration and prevent as much downtime as possible. The company chose Riverbed® Stingray™ Traffic Manager to use while transitioning its infrastructure to an entirely virtualized environment.
November 08, 2011 - Cloud infrastructure platforms like VMware vSphere 4.0 can benefit from load balancers that connect users to the most suitable datacenter. This white paper outlines how the Riverbed Stingray Traffic Manager Virtual Appliance (VA) improves traffic performance compared to a Linux install.
November 07, 2011 - This white paper examines the performance figures obtained by the Riverbed® Stingray™ Traffic Manager Virtual Appliance (VA) running on VMware vSphere 4.0, which was installed on the Cisco Unified Computing System (UCS). It compares those figures with tests run on a previous generation of Intel Xeon processors.
December 28, 2011 - In this paper, discover best practices for implementing an access governance framework and the specific access controls requirements for HIPAA/HITECH.
November 12, 2010 - In this white paper, we’ll discuss routing and routing protocols. Before we begin, let’s define what we mean by aroute. In common usage, a route is an entry in the IP routing table.
August 18, 2011 - Gain a deeper understanding of current networking issues and how they are related to the evolution of computer networks. In particular, examine how administrators have dealt with switching bandwidth from WAN to LAN with FabricPath.
February 09, 2012 - This case study explains how one organization within the education industry improved network performance and IT reliability while reducing physical server count and power and cooling demands all with converged infrastructure solutions.
September 16, 2011 - Access this case study to learn how a BlackBerry solution helped the RFDS Western Operations team overcome challenges, and enabled them to provide the state population with the necessary medical support.
September 15, 2011 - This webcast, the exclusive first part in a two-part series which tackles the toughest pain points faced by decision-makers, features esteemed decision management expert James Taylor as he discusses the state of the business rules market and the potential for broader adoption of this powerful technology.
March 04, 2011 - Access this webcast to learn how mission critical applications, such as Microsoft Exchange and SQL databases, run and perform in a virtualized environment and the benefits made available by making this transition.
September 29, 2010 - Struggling with a hodge-podge of backup devices, Rush Health’s IT team needed a simplified, automated way to meet its backup and disaster recovery objectives. This case study examines Rush Health's adoption of Quantum’s DXi6500 appliances and the key benefits achieved.
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