IT White Papers, Tutorials, Demos and Other Technical Vendor Research Written specifically for IT professionals, this collection of IT white papers, demos and other technical documents deliver the best practices, winning strategies, and in-depth insights of leading vendors and analysts directly to your desktop. You'll find everything from business intelligence and security to mobile computing and CRM covered in these technology whitepapers. Download the articles of interest now, so you can put this vendor research to work in your enterprise.
This VMware case study describes how a professional corporation utilizes production servers more effectively while keeping them in sync with their disaster recovery site. By using VMware® Infrastructure 3, their data center size is significantly reduced, thousands or dollars in hardware costs are saved, and availability of key services is increased.
Dell & VMware: Case Study: Simplified DR Planning and ImplementationLifeLink Foundation needed to provide business continuity and DR of critical transplant related information to multiple locations and needed to manage DR planning and implementation in a hurricane zone. Learn how VMware & Dell's EqualLogic iSCSI SANs worked together to implement two remote sites providing consolidated virtual storage, snapshot-based backup and recovery.
Dell & VMware : Making Your Business Disaster Ready with Virtual InfrastructureBusiness continuity and disaster recovery are critical to managing risks in a successful business. Between 60-90% of companies that don't have a proactive disaster recovery plan find themselves out of business within 24 months of experiencing a major disaster. This VMware white paper discusses how to make disaster recovery cost effective with virtual infrastructure.
Dell & VMware: Virtualized iSCSI SANs: Flexible, Scalable, Enterprise Storage for Virtual InfrastructuresEnterprises of all sizes are building flexible storage infrastructures using iSCSI and advanced virtualization technologies. This joint VMware and Dell EqualLogic virtualized iSCSI SAN white paper describes a virtualized infrastructure that applies storage and server virtualization technologies to cost-effectively achieve a flexible, high-performance, dynamic IT infrastructure that is simple to manage and scale.
You Can Hear Me Now: How Microloans and Cell Phones are Connecting the World's Poor To the Global Economy By Nicholas P. Sullivan In this tale of a new approach to building business opportunities in the developing world, Sullivan offers a compelling account of a combination of forces that is sparking economic growth and lifting people out of poverty in countries long dominated by aid-dependent governments.
Published by Jossey-Bass
ISBN 978-0-7879-8609-4
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Acronis: The Hidden Costs of Data Migration This white paper will outline the factors that are driving data migration and examine the hidden costs that may be encountered when data is moved. When replacing or consolidating systems and meeting constantly increasing capacity needs, data must be migrated from one place to another; it's become a routine task in most IT departments. However, with business and operational needs dictating that critical systems be available 24/7/365 and the complexity that results from non-commoditized and heterogeneous environments, data migration has become a task that is both increasingly important and increasingly difficult.
Bit9: Anti-Virus Is Dead: The Advent of the Graylist Approach to Computer Protection This whitepaper, written by Hurwitz & Associates Partner Robin Bloor, discusses how viruses, trojans, and other forms of malware persist only because anti-virus, the main defense against them, is terribly flawed. But now a far more effective technique is proliferating. Instead of trying to recognize malicious software, application whitelists focus on authenticating valid software. This approach enables whitelists to block a far wider variety of malicious software than AV products could ever hope to stop.
Microsoft: Osterman Report: The Advantages of a Hosted Messaging Security Solution Messaging management is becoming more difficult thanks to the growing malware threat. At the same time, messaging system administrators are under enormous pressure to push their messaging infrastructures to do more than ever, including archiving messaging content for regulatory compliance, archiving to support legal discovery and for overall litigation support, providing services to a growing body of mobile users, and ensuring continuity by making the messaging system more reliable, and managing policies for message encryption. Hosted solutions, such as those offered by Microsoft® Exchange Hosted Services, can elegantly address the growing array of messaging requirements and threats, and can do so without unnecessarily adding to the cost of current messaging management activities and the complexity of the IT environment. Learn more in this new report.
Blue Coat: Top 10 Reasons Hackers use the Web for Attacks Blue Coat Systems outlines the top 10 reasons why hackers use the web to attack including desktop and server vulnerabilities, the widespread adoption of "always-on" broadband Internet access and more.
Microsoft: Get your Free Live Meeting Success Kit today! What can Web-conferencing do for your business? Everything you need to answer that question is in your free kit, including: a Frost & Sullivan report Meetings Around the World: The Impact of Collaboration on Business Performance; a free Live Meeting service 60-day trial; and a Live Meeting Feature Guide.
Blue Coat: The Case and Criteria for Combining Application Acceleration and Security Learn more about IT investment trends and how to rise to the challenges of efficiently and effectively enhancing both application performance and network security. Points that will be covered include the business case and selection criteria for obtaining a combined solution that simultaneously addresses both sets of needs.
Blue Coat: Top 10 Ways to Protect Against Web Threats Many web attacks can be prevented by following a handful of guidelines. This white paper outlines the top 10 ways to protect your system against web threats and includes tips such as blocking access to URL with IP addresses instead of hostnames.
Microsoft: Does collaboration drive business success? Read the latest findings today! Collaboration occurs at the intersection of an enterprise's technology and culture. Discover how these two critical factors affect the quality of collaboration in Meetings Around the World: The Impact of Collaboration on Business Performance. You'll learn why enterprises need to work collaboratively - and examine how collaboration impacts business success.
iRise: The Problem with Business Software & How Visualization Can Fix It Much of the $500 billion spent every year on software development is at risk with delays, cost overruns, missing features, cancellations and poor customer experience - all because text-based requirement specifications are difficult to read and easy to misunderstand. iRise® offers a simple and effective solution - a collaborative software platform that enables businesses to quickly visualize and "test market" applications before a single line of code is written. For the first time, business people can understand for themselves what they need, and then communicate that knowledge to others using visual models that replicate the exact look, feel and behavior of the final product, taking the guesswork out of application definition. Using customer scenarios, iRise's white paper presents a compelling business case for investing in visualization.
Bit9: Achieving PCI Compliance at the Point of Sale With such a high risk for exposure, the point-of-sale has become an obvious pain point for IT departments across a variety of industries. Although these machines have a single, well-defined purpose, patching and antivirus updates still require significant effort to keep them secure. This whitepaper examines the PCI data security standard and describes a low-maintenance approach to locking down kiosks, in-store PCs, and corporate Windows systems.
Blue Coat: Open, Manage and Accelerate SSL Encrypted Applications The amount of SSL traffic is growing in the enterprise. Because it is encrypted, it cannot be properly controlled and accelerated. Learn about a technology that provides complete visibility into SSL application sessions, making it easy to apply appropriate acceleration and security controls to all SSL traffic.
Bit9: Comparing Approaches for Desktop Software Lockdown Removing administrative privileges from Windows users has powerful security and compliance benefits. But it often creates new problems. This whitepaper, written by Microsoft MVP Brien Posey, explains how to significantly ease IT's workload by building an environment that allows users to install authorized applications, and provides additional controls for the 25% of a typical company's users that still require admin rights.
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