August 10, 2009 - Taneja Group senior analyst Jeff Boles discusses WAN optimization and how it's accomplished, best practices for cutting bandwith costs of a WAN, and how to increase WAN performance.
October 01, 2009 - Storage networks provide the link between the servers that need data and the storage systems that store that data. Too often, however, storage networks are just considered the connective tissue in the storage environment and are often overlooked when greater performance, scalability or new services are needed.
June 29, 2009 - Most WANs see so much traffic these days that it's not just a matter of speeding things up. You also need comprehensive applications and user control before you can contain costs, enhance business productivity, and respond quickly to changing business requirements. Read this booklet to learn more about WAN optimization.
March 03, 2009 - Data replication has become part of the fabric of IT due to its multiple uses and benefits. But as IT are aware, data replication increases your bandwidth and storage costs. WAN optimization technologies can help reduce the amount of bandwidth and storage capacity used by data replication, enabling cost savings while maintaining application...
January 23, 2009 - This paper explains why a warehouse management system (WMS) is one of the key technologies required to create a successful adaptive supply chain network. This system enables the extended warehouse to sense and respond to a variety of business requirements and meet complex and changing customer needs.
December 15, 2008 - Organizations are being forced to move towards identity-based access lifecycle
management tools in order to support IT agility and flexibility, safely empower
staff, meet compliance requirements, and cope with the rapid evolution of data
centers and core systems.
August 25, 2009 - To more clearly understand how wealth management firms are using Microsoft Dynamics CRM, Microsoft turned to IT advisory firm Mainstay Partners for an independent assessment. Mainstay Partners interviewed a number of firms to identify the measurable benefits they have achieved through deploying Microsoft Dynamics CRM.
September 17, 2009 - Enterprises, particularly those that deal with personal or private data, are now squarely in the path of a perfect storm. The convergence of regulatory compliance, high-profile data breaches and increased sophistication of cyber-attackers has transformed data security from an interesting IT sideline to a bottom-line, corner-office priority.
July 09, 2009 - As threats to Web applications continue to grow, IBM offers Web application security for a smarter planet—integrated, end-to-end security to build secure Web applications, run secure Web applications and protect SOA environments.
October 20, 2009 - In one neat package, the Web Platform Installer gives you the frameworks, web server, database, tools and applications you need to quickly build and run Web applications and solutions on Windows.
September 25, 2009 - In this webcast featuring industry expert, Brian Madden, learn how to meet user needs when virtualizing desktops. Discover how to reduce costs and simplify desktop management by installing a master operating system that all users share. Learn how to get a personalized user workspace even when sharing a master virtual desktop image.
November 03, 2009 - Join this webcast to learn how Enterprise Architecture integrated with Portfolio Management is empowered to integrate your strategic goals into your organization's capital planning, business planning and technology architecture activities. In this way, your strategic planning outputs become actionable.
January 28, 2009 - Learn how the Lumension Security Vulnerability Management Solution helps organizations effectively minimize security risks through the proactive discovery of IT assets and automated remediation of software and configuration vulnerabilities.
January 28, 2009 - Learn how the Lumension Security Data Protection Solution proactively protects data from theft or loss through endpoint and device discovery, enforcing device usage and data encryption, and assessing data loss risk.
October 19, 2009 - Is data management costing you too much money? Join us for a webcast where two IBM DB2 customers will discuss proven strategies that they have incorporated into their IT operations that have resulted in lowering their overall database costs.
September 10, 2009 - In this economic downturn, organizations are looking to cut costs. Agile teams produce higher quality work, are quick to deliver and provide greater ROI. What can these teams do now to cut costs? Join us as Scott Ambler, Practice Leader Agile Development, provides his expertise and guidance on this pressing topic for today.
September 18, 2009 - Listen to IBM Internet Security Systems' take on network security convergence. You will learn how to get more out of your existing investments in network security, combat new Web 2.0, Web application and database threats without purchasing stand alone technologies, and how to protect your company from worms to botnets to preventing data leaks.
September 28, 2009 - Rich Mogull of Securosis answers the question, "What is Data Loss Prevention (DLP)?" In this presentation transcript he explains how DLP provides benefits for business and shows examples of DLP usage in the real world. Read on to learn more.
November 03, 2009 - WebUI Studio 2009 R1 Premier® edition is expertly designed to solve the most complex enterprise-level web development requirements. It offers the ultimate toolset for building dynamic and powerful next-generation Rich Internet Applications.
October 21, 2009 - This is a presentation transcript of the SearchStorage.com expert videocast on Remote Backup. Dave Raffo, Senior News Director at TechTarget’s storage sites, discusses remote backup with Curtis Preston, Executive Editor at TechTarget. The transcript will address the challenges of backing up remote sites.
October 22, 2009 - In today’s marketplace, the half-life of BI is typically shorter than the life of the project needed for its implementation. This means that companies are getting a continual negative return on their BI investment.
August 20, 2009 - SmartIS is a system mining product designed for today's large enterprise data centers. JCL, SMF, Databases, Source Code and Job Schedulers can be cross-referenced and queried to quickly extract detailed system information, greatly reducing time spent searching.
August 01, 2009 - Spectra Logic, with 30 years experience in the field of high technology, is committed to protecting data - your data. Spectra has extensive expertise with all forms of backup, and therefore understands the continuing and increasingly important role of tape in protecting data. To that end, Spectra Logic has set itself a goal: Tape Without Pain.
May 01, 2009 - In the traditional IT approach, every new software application required a new server. This added costs to every project and deployment took days to weeks. This also drove server sprawl. Watch this demo for an animated explanation of how virtualization addresses common data center challenges.
August 25, 2009 - Kevin Beaver, information security consultant with Principle Logic LLC, outlines security issues to consider when deploying cloud or online backup.
June 01, 2009 - In this new release of SOA Suite, Oracle continues to emphasize the development, management and monitoring of service-oriented architectures, while delivering the extreme performance & scalability required for mission-critical environments.
October 13, 2009 - The new Windows Server® 2008 R2 operating system provides a productive and cost-effective server platform with low-cost virtualization, power-saving capabilities, and a superior experience for end users. Read this data sheet to learn more!
September 16, 2009 - Over the past several years, most Master Data Management implementations have used a "reactive" style of data governance. Learn how "reactive" data governance falls short and why leading organizations are using a "proactive" approach -- includes case study and migration questionnaire.
October 26, 2009 - Protecting confidential data is serious business. Failure may result in fat fines and even jail time -- not to mention damage to your brand. WatchGuard's easy-to-use, all-inclusive email and web secure content and threat prevention appliances offer a complete data protection solution.
November 04, 2009 - In this paper – first in a three part series - we will examine the difficulties of working with keywords during a matter, the many challenges associated with relying on keyword search, and the cost and risk associated with attempting to “guess” one’s way to a relevant document set.
September 21, 2009 - Today’s storage-intensive businesses bring extreme data volumes with them. This must be stored as economically as possible, while providing the critical uptime to satisfy thousands of diverse users.
June 16, 2009 - This white paper is designed to give warehouse operations managers and IT managers a useful framework for understanding SAP's newer Warehouse Management (WM) application functionality. It encompasses a look at both the core ERP Central Component (ECC) functionality in addition to the SCM Extended Warehouse Management product.
October 01, 2009 - This white paper describes how various UPS topologies work and looks at the impact of operating mode on five key factors of UPS performance
February 20, 2009 - Who are my best customers? If you manage sales, marketing, or customer service, you want an answer to that. That's because implementing successful strategies for every customer segment is critical to increasing business profits. This paper describes just a few of the ways that you can use analytics to better understand your customers.
September 03, 2009 - This paper discusses how you can leverage existing Abend-AID capabilities to simplify problem resolution even in these increasingly complex systems. Read this paper to learn more about diagnosing DB2 and WebSphere MQ problems with Compuware Abend-AID.
March 01, 2009 - If stimulus plans around the world are effective, we will see a boon in industrial manufacturing jobs and production. This paper stresses the importance of an Enterprise Project Portfolio Management (EPPM) system.
October 09, 2009 - Job Scheduling tools are often perceived to reduce operational costs and increase IT efficiencies. Attend this webinar to find out how companies reduce their costs by switching to BMC CONTROL-M.
May 01, 2009 - An investment in data deduplication products is easy to rationalize. These products cut data protection capital and operating expenses, facilitate consolidation of distributed backup operations, and slash server virtualization-related storage costs. Data deduplication offerings should be on every CIO‟s project short list in 2009.
July 09, 2009 - Read this paper today to learn how on-demand BI is different from traditional BI and how on-demand BI can be much more beneficial to your organization. This paper will also lay out the key points you need to consider when making your decision on which BI vendor is right for your organization.
March 06, 2009 - Records management forces you to think about how you create, process, capture, and manage information. This requires a review of your business activities from an information-centric point of view, which in itself can highlight process inefficiencies. This white paper explains why such a process is important.
March 25, 2009 - This white paper highlights two new additions to the Cisco Small Business Network Storage System (NSS) line of products. The Cisco NSS2000 Series is a 2-bay network attached storage (NAS) system, and the Cisco NSS3000 Series is a 4-bay system.
October 28, 2009 - There are compelling reasons to virtualize computing infrastructure. Hardware resources can be more efficiently utilized to consolidate devices, boost business continuity, and serve high-priority applications and users. This paper explains the potential benefits and key decisions associated with virtualization projects and how to get started.
May 01, 2009 - Join Tim Webb, Director, Dell Data Center & Virtualization Practice, as he describes how Dell Virtualization Solutions can help reduce costs while improving IT agility, quality of service, and reliability.
October 15, 2009 - In this webcast, viewers will discover a new combination of tools that can help them transform their IT systems into agile, virtual infrastructures. Discover how to leverage this approach for a quicker return on investment and reduced operations, management and networking costs.
October 15, 2008 - Sometimes a bad egg will exploit a security vulnerability on purpose for personal gain. Much more often, though, expensive data loss incidents are caused by good people who just made an honest mistake. A good DLP solution will protect from the few bad ones who are trying to hurt the business, and also from the many good - but fallible - employees.
September 28, 2009 - Wayne Kernochan discusses new and unique technologies on the mainframe that may be attractive to college graduates and job seekers.
September 08, 2009 - Interested in boosting your business by combining the power of the Windows 7 operating system with Hyper-V virtualization? If so, please join Michael Pathi, Partner Technology Specialist, Microsoft Corporation, for this webcast and find out how the Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2 operating systems work together.
May 13, 2009 - Join Glenn Weadock, Global Knowledge Instructor, MCITP, MCSE, MCT, A+, for this Windows 7 Review Guide. This white paper introduces the key areas in which Windows 7 differs from Vista - areas you'll need to focus on if you're thinking of moving to Windows 7, either from Vista or from XP.
September 17, 2009 - Downtime can create significant financial and regulatory non-compliance consequences. This webcast provides viewers with tips for planning a high availability strategy for Windows Server 2008 to reduce downtime.
October 09, 2009 - Businesses rely heavily on their servers, so if they fail productivity is lost. This expert webcast explores the dangers of unplanned server downtime. Discover some of the most important planning, configurations and management issues for server high availability.
October 19, 2009 - This white paper introduces Windows Server virtualization as a key component of the Microsoft datacenter-to-desktop virtualization strategy.
March 12, 2009 - WindowTester Pro offers ultimate testing flexibility with cutting-edge technology for testing Swing and SWT Java graphical user interfaces. With it, you can tame the most demanding user interface testing requirements and deliver a more reliable and consistent user experience. Read this data sheet and then download a free trial copy.
August 27, 2009 - Transformation has become an overused buzzword, but its real meaning remains important. Under the microscope, operations transformation is about integrating operations silos and processes, merging disparate units in the wake of acquisitions, and reducing operational expenses.
October 01, 2007 - Companies face numerous challenges when managing and integrating information across enterprise business processes. Companies frequently choose an Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) solution to fulfill business requirements. The leading ERP applications with the greatest market share are the mySAP ERP and SAP R/3 industry solutions from SAP AG.
October 01, 2008 - This paper explores the problems IT operations can encounter in coordinating the activities of application and infrastructure specialist teams, and it proposes an approach-- consolidated operations-- designed to get incidents to the right person with the right information fast so problems can be resolved quickly, with no duplication of effort.
September 19, 2008 - This paper explores how the right mobile CRM application, one designed with the sales staff in mind, can lead to greater sales productivity, reduced costs, shortened sales cycles and increased revenue.
July 29, 2009 - Running multiple, disparate job scheduling solutions can cost your company a lot of unneeded expense. See how BMC CONTROL-M gives you a single point of control for all your jobs, across all platforms and applications. Watch a 2-minute overview of BMC CONTROL-M and make the switch to enterprise workload automation.
February 23, 2009 - This white paper informs readers about the time and cost savings, from a storage administrator's perspective, that can be realized from using StorageWorks EVA as compared to competing solutions from EMC and NetApp.
June 01, 2007 - Discover the 4 worst practices for business intelligence (BI) deployment and gain insight on how to overcome these pitfalls in order to tap into the power of BI. Learn how to achieve success with your departmental or enterprise-wide BI initiatives.
October 11, 2008 - This paper will explore the authentication methods available with WPA2 (Wi-Fi Protected Access 2) and identify several important best practices to consider when deploying a wireless network at home or in the enterprise.
October 22, 2009 - The growth of the internet has brought about massively scalable distributed systems which have proved advantageous not only for governments, businesses and end-users, but also for criminals. In this webcast, review past, present, and future considerations regarding cybercrime, and discover next-generation methods of combating weaponized software.
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