WHITE PAPER - This white paper discusses key issues surrounding configuration management and compliance, such as IT department's need to lower costs, increase management flexibility and control, and increase responsiveness to business needs and requirements.
Posted: January 8, 2009 | Published: November 1, 2007


Topics:  Business Processes | Change Management | Configuration Management | Hardware | Infrastructure Management | IT Departments | ITIL | Risk Management | Software

WHITE PAPER - The purpose of this document is to provide an overview of the requirements for a basic NetBackup™ architecture to help customers understand which components are required in a data protection solution.
Posted: December 31, 2008 | Published: December 30, 2008


Topics:  Gigabit Ethernet | Hardware | LAN | RPO | RTO | SAN | SLA | Software | Tape Drives

WHITE PAPER - With Oracle Database 11g powerful privileged, organizations can deploy reliable data security solutions that do not require any changes to existing applications, minimizing the costs associated with regulatory compliance.
Posted: December 17, 2008 | Published: December 17, 2008


Topics:  Access Control | Configuration Management | Data Auditing | Data Encryption | Database Management | Hardware | Identity Theft | Oracle (Product) | Regulatory Compliance

WHITE PAPER - Businesses have a number of good choices for protecting their data; the challenge is now to decide what combo best meets their storage and business needs. Read this paper to learn how to choose the right hardware and software for data protection.
Posted: December 17, 2008 | Published: August 8, 2007


Topics:  Continuous Data Protection | Data Protection | Hardware | RAID | RPO | RTO | Software | Tape Backups

WHITE PAPER - This white paper provides complementary information on data deduplication technologies supported by the latest Storage Solutions from HP.
Posted: December 10, 2008 | Published: December 10, 2008


Topics:  Backup Software | Backups | Data Recovery | Enterprise | Hardware | NAS | RAID | SAN | Vendors

WHITE PAPER - This paper explains an approach to virtualization software that relies on the host operating system to provide the service to talk directly to the underlying hardware.
Posted: December 10, 2008 | Published: October 11, 2008


Topics:  Blade Servers | Hardware | IT Infrastructure | IT Managers | Networking Hardware | Operating Systems | Server Consolidation | Software | TCO | VMware

WHITE PAPER - This paper describes the technical limitations inherent in the architecture of traditional databases and other MPP (massive parallel processing) alternatives.
Posted: December 9, 2008 | Published: December 9, 2008


Topics:  Backups | Data Warehouses | Database Management | Database Performance Management | Hardware | Network Performance | Sales | SAN

WHITE PAPER - Thinking about deploying Windows Vista? This guide gives an overview of how to successfully manage a pilot program that provides the best experience for pilot users and helps to provide positive project justification to business decision makers.
Posted: November 26, 2008 | Published: November 26, 2008


Topics:  Best Practices | Hardware | Mobile Workers | Productivity | Testing | User Experience | Windows Vista

WHITE PAPER - In this paper Intel IT explores a proof of concept study that examined the viability of abstracting the client operating system from the hardware platform using virtualization.
Posted: November 21, 2008 | Published: November 21, 2008


Topics:  Enterprise Systems | Hardware | OEMs | Performance Testing | Productivity | Server Virtualization | TCO | User Experience | VM

WHITE PAPER - This Oracle white paper describes how businesses of all sizes worldwide are using Grid best practices to modernize their IT operations and increase efficiency, availability, performance, and operational agility.
Posted: November 21, 2008 | Published: November 21, 2008


Topics:  Databases | Enterprise | Grid Computing | Hardware | IT Departments | Oracle (Product) | Server Virtualization | SOA | Web Services

WHITE PAPER - LINX is an inter-process communications (IPC) service for distributed systems and is based on OSE's LINK Handler protocol, which has been a key message passing component in OSE.
Posted: November 20, 2008 | Published: November 20, 2008


Topics:  Business Intelligence | Communications Systems | Hardware | Network Management | Operating Systems | Systems Management | Telecommunications Infrastructure

WHITE PAPER - Primary Storage Optimization (PSO) technologies keep storage capacity requirements as low as possible and guarantee zero impact on application performance.
Posted: November 19, 2008 | Published: November 19, 2008


Topics:  Application Performance Management | Hardware | ROI | SSO | Storage Capacity | Storage Management Services | Storage Resource Management | Storage Systems

WHITE PAPER - The differences between backup and archive are quite simple and the stumbling block to understanding the difference is the tools we've chosen to use.
Posted: November 19, 2008 | Published: November 19, 2008


Topics:  Backup Software | Backups | Hardware | Software | UNIX

WHITE PAPER - This document describes how Opus Research evaluates seven ways that firms can build a customer-centric organization and enhance the customer experience.
Posted: November 18, 2008 | Published: November 18, 2008


Topics:  CRM | CRM Best Practices | CRM Services | Customer Data Management | Customer Data Management Software | Hardware | IVR | Marketing | SIP

WHITE PAPER - Technology purchases are often quantified simply by hardware and software costs. But there's more to it. This TCO study takes a holistic view.
Posted: November 13, 2008 | Published: November 13, 2008


Topics:  Backups | Channel Management | Data Centers | Hardware | IT Infrastructure | ROI | Sales Channels | SAN | TCO | VARs | VMware