November 03, 2009 - BMC Software's internal IT organization launched a virtualization and automation initiative that achieved financial payback in less than six months. The effort improved productivity, increased responsiveness, and saved the company $5 million per year.
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.
March 16, 2009 - Threats today burrow deep in computers and hide. Check out this paper to learn the latest research findings related to data breaches and what you can do to protect your organization's data and reputation.
June 05, 2009 - This EIU global research report, based on survey of 320 executives, discusses current challenges and the importance of managing environmental risks.
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.
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.
November 18, 2009 - Authentication to a SharePoint environment is the process in which a firm's architecture approves a user's credentials; most commonly a Windows-based authentication. This whitepaper will discuss the finer points and give a greater understanding of securable objects, permissions, permission levels, and access scenarios.
July 24, 2009 - This paper discusses the role of data governance programs in supporting compliance efforts, and presents an ROI formula you can use in those circumstances where it's important to quantify the value of data governance efforts.
November 02, 2009 - In this expert podcast, industry analyst Simon Jacobson discusses the best starting point for a quality improvement initiative within a manufacturing plant, explores what types of software and technology can be used for support, explains why the IT team plays a key role in its success, offers tips on how to reduce error rates, and more.
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 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.
July 08, 2009 - With over 60% of CEOs saying they need to do a better job of capturing and understanding information to make more effective and timely business decisions, it's clear that there's a gap between capability and need. It's similarly fair to say that this shortfall is a leading reason why businesses aren’t as competitive as they’d like to be.
May 01, 2009 - This whitepaper explains how HP deduplication technologies work in practice, the pros and cons of each approach, when to choose a particular type, and the type of low-bandwidth replication models HP plans to support.
August 19, 2009 - In this videocast featuring IT expert, Greg Shields, learn about hypervisor architecture as it relates to your OS. Discover how to improve IT management with virtual machine managers for storage migration and check host compatibility prior to migration. Learn about a technology that allows for rapid provisioning and supports multi-processors.
October 05, 2009 - Find out how your employees, customers and business parters can share ideas and information better with a unified approach to business communications.
August 29, 2008 - This report was written to help organizations decide which Unified Communications solutions to implement while in the planning phase. Hewlett-Packard delivers full integration services and additional equipment such as smartphones and notebook computers on the Microsoft / Cisco platform.
August 29, 2008 - This white paper shows how current economic and technological trends increase the importance of efficient communication and collaboration processes for enterprises. Further, it demonstrates how unified communications (UC) can help companies to address these challenges.
September 03, 2009 - The head of IT for Sunco Cabinets, a small business, felt the new Web Security service might be the answer to simplify enforcement of Sunco's Internet use policy and protect against emerging web-based threats. Read this case study to learn how this Webroot solution gave Sunco the protection they needed.
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 01, 2009 - This paper is intended for executives and managers and tells how Sun servers equipped with Flash-enabled solid-state drives (SSDs) offers dramatic improvements to HPC, Web 2.0, and data center application performance.
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...
May 01, 2009 - The purpose of this paper is to outline how IBM Cognos 8 Performance Management software and solutions are best suited to drive maximum value from investments in the SAP Business Warehouse. This topic is of interest to Business and IT Executives as well as SAP Solution Managers and Project Managers.
July 24, 2008 - Successful execution of an SOA strategy, combined with the release of the business value contained in legacy systems, can bring five proven benefits to the enterprise. Functioning as both a software development environment and a delivery framework, SOA provides a mechanism for defining business services and operating models.
September 15, 2009 - Join us for this webcast to learn key strategies for reducing the cost of data management and collaboration projects by deploying software that you already own. Also find out about secrets for saving time while empowering your information workers.
January 27, 2009 - Read this white paper to learn more about laptop security and how asset and data protection solutions from Dell can help save your company millions of dollars.
September 29, 2008 - There has been a rapid rise in the use of web blended threats. Defending corporate networks from these threats requires modern protection that functions on many levels. Find out how cyber criminals infiltrate your network and how FireEye's blended defense against Web malware prevents data loss and intellectual property theft.
October 19, 2009 - Use this guide to explain the importance of choosing an Intel® processor, describe the differences between Intel processors, find the right Intel processor for every customer, and up-sell customers to a higher level Intel processor.
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.
February 12, 2009 - The accelerated pace of doing business in today's world puts organizations under tremendous pressure. They need to be fleet and flexible, able to rapidly respond to opportunities, make decisions, and deploy resources. Critical to this is the way information is managed and stored.
September 18, 2009 - The User Workspace Management market is generating increasing attention from IT professionals and analysts. This White Paper provides a brief description of User Workspace Management and its critical importance to desktop virtualization deployments.
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.
October 26, 2009 - Read this paper to learn how analytics can help you leverage the right combination of people, processes, and information. With analytics, you can analyze your sales and marketing processes to gain insights more quickly and improve business performance. Read on to learn how by using analytics you can increase top-line revenue.
August 01, 2009 - Unstructured data is the largest growing data segment today. Some IT groups are turning to archiving solutions to lower cost, reduce risk, and make better use of resources. This podcast will explain how archiving strategies can help drive efficiency in the data center.
August 25, 2009 - This paper addresses the challenges and drawbacks of in-the-cloud storage, addressing such issues as control, security, compliance, data availability, and overall management. It also shows how storage can work within a private or internal cloud framework.
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.
September 19, 2008 - CAPITAL Card Services wanted a solution that could help automate compliance, improve best practices and reduce unplanned work to meet this requirement it turned on to Tripwire as a result Capital was able to reduced unplanned work by 75%.
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 28, 2007 - This white paper explains how to use Encrypting File System (EFS), a feature that is provided by default in the Windows® operating system, to protect data in Microsoft Dynamics CRM clients for Outlook Compatibility Update running on Windows XP Professional Service Pack 2 (SP2). There are many different solutions available to encrypt data on disk.
June 28, 2007 - This white paper explains how to use Encrypting File System (EFS), a feature that is provided by default in the Windows® operating system, to protect data in Microsoft Dynamics CRM clients for Outlook Compatibility Update running on Windows XP Professional Service Pack 2 (SP2).
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?
August 01, 2009 - This document describes the basic concepts and integration guidelines for FalconStor FDS in an EMC NetWorker environment. The document is intended to provide an architectural overview of FalconStor FDS being used with EMC NetWorker and the benefits of a combined solution.
September 10, 2009 - This document describes the basic concepts and integration guidelines for FalconStor® File-interface Deduplication System (FDS) in a Veritas NetBackup™ environment. It is intended to provide best practices for configuring all components.
October 09, 2009 - This paper examines many of the challenges companies have managing their inventory, and shows how an integrated Inventory Optimization solution can substantially improve their overall supply chain operation.
April 01, 2008 - This paper looks at ways in which an integrated information technology solution can help you keep on top of your chosen markets and sustain growth.
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.
September 09, 2009 - View this webcast to learn how the federated model can help business units operate customized CRM systems while synchronizing to a central application. We explore how the server stores enterprise-pertinent information from all CRM systems, thus supporting executives responsible for achieving overall sales goals.
September 01, 2009 - Dell is planning to upgrade its 100,000 desktop and portable computers to the Microsoft Windows 7 operating system to help reduce desktop management costs and enhance data security. Read this case study to learn how upgrading to Microsoft Windows 7 helps Dell reduce desktop management costs and enhance data security.
April 29, 2009 - This project demonstrates the feasibility of using the Sun™ Storage 7000 Unified Storage System as a repository for the MySQL™ database with the Pentaho Business Intelligence (BI) application. This proof-of-concept study provides steps to configure this setup, using Pentaho BI tools and MySQL database servers.
November 04, 2009 - This paper examines performance metrics and focuses on the nature, identification and use of Key Performance Drivers to enhance business success. It illustrates how these KPD metrics can be visualized and logically related to the Key Performance Indicators that measure those outcomes.
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.
August 01, 2009 - This podcast will cover snapshots and how they make backup operations more efficient. It will also reveal what factors you should consider before implementing snapshots. Listen to this podcast for an overview of how snapshot technologies can drive efficiencies in your data center.
November 05, 2009 - Paralleling the explosion in materiel sourcing over the past decade, corporate supply chains have grown strikingly more complex because of a greater amount of outsourcing, increased globalization and a more complex regulatory environment.
May 04, 2009 - Wipro analysts gathered information from 106 IT organizations in North America, Great Britain, and Germany in March 2009. This whitepaper explores contributing factors that determine the optimal refresh rate for laptop and desktop PCs, using examples from the firms that participated in the survey.
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.
October 01, 2006 - This paper discusses the complementary benefits of combining features of VMware and 3PAR technologies to gain increased performance and avoid the cost of over-provisioning servers and storage in an IT infrastructure.
August 19, 2009 - View this on-demand Webinar to hear Ken Molay, president of Webinar Success, share tips to help you prepare and deliver Webinars that build enthusiasm among prospects, leading to easier sales communications and higher conversion percentages.
November 10, 2009 - SharePoint's limited out-of-the-box administration utilities make management complex and burdensome, creating problems with permissions management, eliminating dead accounts and identifying orphaned sites along with increased SharePoint staff time. See how administrators use web-based Metalogix Universal SharePoint Manager to manage SharePoint.
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