June 12, 2009 - Aimed at backup and storage-focused GMs, sales leaders and marketers who have the UK as part of their primary responsibilities, this podcast summarizes the results of a purchasing intentions survey we conducted of TechTarget's UK Storage audience and compares it with US results.
June 19, 2009 - With business units demanding more access to corporate data, IT is pressured to deliver. Yet current business intelligence (BI) and data warehouse systems only examine specific quantifiable data. This white paper from Business Objects, explores the growth trend of unstructured data and examines the many benefits of unstructured data analysis.
September 18, 2008 - This white paper discusses two Oracle OLAP solutions: Oracle's Hyperion Essbase and Oracle Database 11g OLAP Option which share similar characteristics but are individuals with their differences.
April 17, 2008 - Botnets are widely regarded as the top threat to network security. This paper explains how botnets have traditionally worked. It also explains why the latest innovations make bots a more serious threat than ever and includes defensive countermeasures.
January 01, 2006 - Download this white paper and explore new thinking on potential risk to global supply chains and how companies are adopting the statistical methods more commonly associated with finance and insurance. Learn how identifying and profiling risk variables, quantifying risk and using IT solutions can create higher resilience for supply chain management.
June 30, 2009 - David Strom addresses four different questions that IT managers have about understanding how bandwidth-consuming applications interact over their networks, and how individual applications can be controlled for particular use cases.
May 01, 2008 - This document highlights the details behind the recent Dynamic Frequency Selection government mandate and addresses the implementation requirements for the wi4 Fixed Point-to-Multipoint Canopy platform and the Point-to-Point 100 Series.
June 15, 2009 - IT executives and their teams need a comprehensive and accurate view of IT services. A service catalog includes all relevant details about your services, including which service level agreements (SLAs) are associated with it, who is able to request it, how much it costs, and how to fulfill it. This paper describes the IT Infrastructure...
February 02, 2009 - Watch this animated video to learn about server virtualization and how Intel virtualization technology solutions enhance efficiency while reducing costs.
February 10, 2009 - The Adaptive Security Appliance is the latest firewall appliance in the Cisco security arsenal and provides a number of services to protect your "trusted" network users from "untrusted" users.
June 02, 2009 - This paper is divided into two sections. The first half of the paper describes the business challenges of three JBoss Enterprise Middleware customers and how they gained business benefit from the use of JBoss Enterprise products and services. The second half of the paper provides insight into the JBoss Enterprise SOA platform.
February 11, 2009 - Disk-based backup can help improve the performance of backups and restores, reduce the cost of management and improve the reliability of backups.
March 24, 2009 - When moving to an endpoint security solution, should you stick with your current vendor or shop around? To shed some light on this issue, Sophos commissioned an independent research study to quantify all of the cost areas involved in migrating to an endpoint security product and managing that solution afterward to create a TCO comparison.
May 08, 2009 - This webcast explains how to leverage Microsoft Hyper-V to support complex networking arrangements and improve overall performance. Learn what the release of Hyper-V means to the future of server virtualization, as well as key installation considerations.
December 01, 2008 - Do your sales teams need to connect with the right customers and systems while on the road? As a CIO, would you like to deliver secure and compliant communications tools to support a highly distributed workfore? How about an increase in employee productivity? Unified Communications is creating a new world where all of this becomes reality.
December 01, 2008 - Unified Communications (UC) can enhance communications and collaboration throughout the enterprise using email, instant messaging (IM), voice, data, and video. UC Business Consulting Services from Aspect will help you identify and quantify such opportunities and redesign and optimize your business processes to leverage unified communications.
May 19, 2009 - This guide is intended for both IT staff, voice system managers, as well as CIOs. It describes the issues decision makers need to understand as they set out to build a winning unified communication strategy.
December 01, 2008 - Unified Communications (UC) is a powerful set of tools and capabilities which can be leveraged to unlock benefits for your enterprise. Download this paper to find out how Aspect Professional Services will work closely with your key business and IT stakeholders to learn about your environment and develop a strategy and business case.
June 16, 2009 - Spend the day in this interactive Virtual Seminar, "Unified Communications: A Good Investment in a Down Economy", and learn how UC can help your business survive the recession. And the best part? You will get to hear from several experts and network with your peers, all from your own desk.
May 01, 2004 - Applications like instant messaging, IP telephony and video conferencing are becoming a necessity. In fact, businesses not adopting unified communications are being forced by their customers, suppliers, etc to do so. This paper will relate the benefits and trends of unified communications.
May 08, 2009 - This paper explores Unified Information Access technology and solutions and benefits for businesses and users. It offers solution examples: case studies meant to illustrate how UIA can be successfully applied. And it provides a Getting Started roadmap for organizations that wish to identify and implement a UIA solution.
February 10, 2009 - This paper explains various ways unified communications solutions have proven their ability to help organizations solve various problems like, enabling them to transform their business, streamline business processes and reduce costs.
March 18, 2009 - There are many IP storage capabilities that are becoming increasingly critical requirements for all customers. And there are many vendors offering various IP-based storage solutions. So why choose EMC for IP storage? Read this white paper for the answer.
June 09, 2009 - As organizations have experienced the operational mechanics of virtualization, critical bottlenecks have broadly surfaced. Read this whitepaper to learn innovations & techniques to build, optimize, manage and deploy 'Logical' servers in your next generation data center.
March 19, 2009 - United Distribution counts on Replay AppImage to protect its entire Exchange environment and speed recovery from any level of outage. Read this case study to find out how Replay AppImage's ability to restore e-mail components is adding value for this corporation.
February 01, 2008 - Investigating the tangible business results using ITSM, this Aberdeen Research Brief highlights Oracle's Upgrade Management Service as a solution enabling organizations to unify business and IT with the shared goal of delivering value to the customer.
April 21, 2009 - The University of North Carolina at Charlotte transitioned their outdated campus computing facility into an agile services-oriented data center. Read this case study and find out how they did it.
March 19, 2009 - Administration teams at the University of Maryland are using Replay AppImage to continuously backup Exchange and are discovering real benefits over the processes that had been in place.
July 07, 2009 - Today's businesses struggle to scale, manage and reduce the time to deploy new applications and have flexibility to keep pace with rapidly changing business demands. This webcast details VMware's new advances in vSphere and cloud computing technology and how to integrate an efficient IT infrastructure for your organization.
June 15, 2009 - IT executives are under intense pressure to cut costs, and that pressure is significantly increased by the current grim economic outlook. So, how can your organization weather this economic storm? Surprisingly, a variety of opportunities for IT are hidden within today's financial challenges. Learn how with the right approach, processes, and...
December 30, 2008 - Read this brief paper to learn how using device identification to establish device reputations and expose repeat offenders and fraud rings changes everything.
February 20, 2009 - Using device identification technology to create reputations for tens of millions of Internet-enabled devices, the service determines within milliseconds whether an online transaction is coming from a computer that has a history of fraud or abuse.
June 19, 2009 - During this recession sales effectiveness is becoming more crucial to coming out on top. This webcast will discuss all the factors your organization needs to unlock your sales potential and to come out of this downturn as strong as, if not stronger, than before. Watch this webcast to learn the benefits sales analytics can provide your company.
June 15, 2009 - This paper outlines a critical business problem: insufficient management of unstructured data. It discusses the data management problem and how it manifests in the enterprise as risks, missed opportunities, and resource sinkholes such as: e-Discovery, compliance, and an inability to reuse valuable data assets.
January 28, 2009 - This white paper discusses how an ICC can optimize your IT organization's existing resources and build on past successes to lower maintenance costs, ensure more stable operations, and respond more quickly to changing business conditions.
April 13, 2009 - Data traffic has been increasing at unprecedented rates (triple digit percentage increase has been observed in many instances), and many operators are considering their options for near and long term growth. This paper studies aspects of choosing an evolution path, with the focus on HSPA+ and LTE as the most common choices facing 3GPP operators.
May 11, 2009 - Watch this video to learn how US Food Service, the second largest food service provider, implemented Afaria from Sybase to streamline order entry and information management between their mobile sales force, distribution centers and the corporate office.
January 01, 2008 - ERP software is often criticized for being complex and difficult to use. Read this paper to learn how to evaluate ERP software for usability.
January 13, 2009 - An embedded system is a special-purpose system in which the computer is completely encapsulated by or dedicated to the device or system it controls.
December 10, 2008 - It seems we're always dragged kicking and screaming into the newest operating system, programs, or hardware systems. Office 2007 is quite an initial adjustment yet it is one the most functional products from Microsoft in a while.
March 01, 2009 - This paper provides a brief overview of the benefits of open source and the business
drivers behind its market momentum. The paper also describes Sun's modular, opensource
approach to an SOA.
May 30, 2006 - This white paper will help organizations develop and execute a comprehensive business continuity strategy that includes a better understanding of the role of technology in the strategy.
June 02, 2009 - In this webcast, Zeus Kerravala, SVP of Enterprise Research from Yankee Group, will define unified communications, provide an overview of cloud computing based UC services, describe the corporate benefits of cloud computing and provide practical advice for companies that want to explore this as a viable deployment option.
January 01, 2008 - This paper provides general information for using Data Domain deduplication storage systems to backup virtual machines deployed with VMware Infrastructure 3 (VI3). Topics include an overview of VI3 components and various methods of backing up data in VMDK images and Guest OS files for discrete recovery - either locally or remotely in a DR site.
June 08, 2009 - This whitepaper describes how mainframe users can effectively switch from physical tape (or hybrid disk/tape) to a modern mainframe Virtual Tape solution with Data Domain deduplication storage.
April 01, 2008 - This white paper presents a case study on Concord Camera and how they overcame their backup woes through an efficient disk-based backup solution.
December 31, 2008 - This whitepaper is about enterprise architecture as it pertains to finding and maximizing the business value in greener operations. Higher energy efficiency and a smaller carbon footprint are obvious areas of interest for any business, but how do you balance these goals with productivity, customer service, and all your other business concerns?
March 01, 2007 - This paper reviews the current status of master data management (MDM) and offers suggestions for planning, building, and deploying an MDM environment. It examines how the MDM environment can be used in conjunction with BI applications and an underlying data warehousing environment to improve the decision-making process.
February 01, 2009 - This whitepaper discusses the dramatic cost savings that companies can realize by adopting a SaaS (Software-as-a-Service) model for email security versus an on-premises approach.
December 28, 2008 - This whitepaper will discuss these managed service trends and challenges, and will identify the steps to success to meet customers. Escalating application and security requirements.
June 10, 2009 - A large fuel logistics and delivery company with over 77 fixed based terminals, 2500 trucks, and 3500 truck drivers in 36 states was using a paper and phone based system to deliver over 2 million loads of petroleum per year. PSC was engaged to design the end-to-end solution to automate the company's complex business process.
April 08, 2009 - This session focuses on the key benefits of adopting static analysis and looks at specific defect examples. Stefan demonstrates how static analysis can be combined with other capabilities such as Architectural Analysis to create a powerful solution for helping developers build software that is reliable and secure.
November 04, 2008 - This paper provides a quick review of Sun Microsystems' tape virtualization solutions, identifying how their offerings can best be leveraged to produce an optimized backup infrastructure.
January 08, 2008 - The Actuate® Enterprise Reporting platform is designed to create, maintain and deliver the structured account information required by today's most demanding Customer Self-Service and Online Channel applications.
February 01, 2008 - This document uses concrete examples to describe the architecture of a system landscape based on Solaris™ Containers and Solaris ZFS technologies. This architecture allows enterprises running Solaris to operate an SAP environment at lower cost in a more flexible way, while retaining high availability.
June 01, 2009 - This presentation outlines the various approaches and technologies behind thin provisioning. Learn about the major business needs that thin provisioning meets and find out about the major vendors in the space.
May 01, 2009 - Written for IT decision makers and practitioners across industry verticals
who are responsible for managing fleets of laptop and desktop PCs, this paper provides a TCO assessment framework for optimal PC refresh rates based on Equivalent Annual Cost analysis..
December 03, 2008 - 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.
January 01, 2007 - Tableau is Business Intelligence software that helps people visually query and interpret information in databases. It enables users to transform raw data into smart decisions using a drag and drop process that creates vivid, interactive visualizations.
January 07, 2009 - This session discusses the process of designing the user experience of a complex Web application using Ajax and learn the best ways of approaching and implementing design, and how to effectively work with designers, developers and management.
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