Featured Whitepapers
Scale up? Scale out? Optimize IT ROI when you scale right with IBM.
When it comes to choosing the right servers, storage systems and management software, one size does not necessarily fit all. Should your company scale up? Scale out?

The Flawed Vision of Customer Data Integration - How to Get it Right the First Time
The golden opportunity for Customer Data Integration lies within Master Data Management and the ability to uncover interactions and understand the relationships that companies have with their customers.

The Virtual Enterprise Requires a Network that is More Than Good Enough
This paper provides an overview of how virtualization is transforming organizations, describes the role the network plays and provides some practical advice on how IT decision-makers should evaluate network solution partners to support virtual computing.

Comprehensive Network Access Control
This paper outlines a solution that addresses the comprehensive requirements for identifying and controlling network users with features like host posture checking, authorization, monitoring and reporting.

Beyond the Hypervisor: Optimizing Virtualization Management
This report outlines the latest virtualization trends, the compelling business case for virtualization best practices, and ASG's innovative BSP Virtualization Management solution.

Enabling Enterprise Class Features for the Mid-Range
Download this ESG whitepaper to learn how a storage platform can scale in fixed increments, making it easy to install and deploy.

Data Deduplication Background
This white paper provides a technical overview of data deduplication, covering areas such as fixed versus variable length blocks, the effect of change in deduplicated storage pools, sharing a common deduplication block pool, data deduplication architectures and policies, and applying data deduplication to replication.

Managed Security for a Not-So-Secure World
Read about a strategy for providing data security and protection that addresses the rising data threat landscape, the need for compliance, and today's lean IT staffs.

Building Toward a Unified Communications Strategy
Unified Communications (UC) promises to change the way people work, increase productivity and foster greater collaboration. For organizations ready to build a roadmap to UC, this whitepaper explores an incremental approach.