Featured Whitepapers
Electronic Discovery: Requirements from the Corporate Stakeholder Perspective When it comes to litigation discovery, compliance, records management and internal investigations, the operative concepts that best embody the driving force behind the technology decisions made by CIOs, GCs and CFOs are cost containment and risk management. This paper provides a highly relevant perspective on the potential impact of today’s infrastructure investments.
Are NSM Mega-suites Right for You? Network and systems management (NSM) solutions are enables IT Operations staff to keep business critical applications and infrastructure up and running. Learn about the drawbacks of NSM mega-suite ownership arising from legacy and proprietary architectures and acquisition led growth resulting in overlapping functionality, disparate user interfaces and high costs of deployment and manageability.
Data Center Asset Planning – Regaining Control of the Data Center
This white paper examines the areas of data center operation that are creating the greatest concern for today's organizations and how data center management solutions can provide serious relief for these issues.
Skills Gaps in the World’s IT Workforce: A CompTIA International Research Study
This ground-breaking research identifies trends and gaps in IT skills, explores issues surrounding recruiting and hiring, investigates the current
and potential IT market growth and demand for IT professionals, and discovers which factors most influence, and are expected to influence, the IT industry.
ITIL V3 and the PMBOK - Distinct but Complimentary
Project management, in a general sense, is the discipline of defining and achieving targets while managing and optimizing the use of resources. ITIL is roughly the same for IT Operations. This white paper examines both of these important disciplines primarily in the context of their similarities, especially as it relates to an important topic to both - that of portfolio management.
The True ROI behind WDS and WAN Optimization
Analysts interviewed customers who have deployed WDS, and the results show that WDS technology has significant strategic business value to companies. Download this paper and learn how WDS technology can be a strategic asset for your organization and its bottom line.
Web 2.0: Opportunity or Vulnerability?
Taking a proactive approach to security can help enterprises ensure safer online collaboration. Read more today.
Featured Reports
Key Criteria for Developing a Successful IT Deployment Strategy How IT addresses infrastructure changes has a direct impact on the overall value it brings to the business. Read this Enterprise Management Associates (EMA) whitepaper to learn what criteria is key to developing effective deployment strategies and implementing automated deployment solutions to ensure IT successfully meets business goals. Read the whitepaper.
Enhancing Your IT Environment Using Snapshots Fast, flexible, and affordable, Snapshots enable your SAN to work harder for you. Snapshots help improve productivity and reliability, and by using copies for various tasks, you can get double duty from your data. Production operations continue at peak performance, while backups, upgrades, new installations, testing, maintenance and parallel processing can take place. Learn how Snapshots enhance backups by improving data integrity, reducing application disruption, offloading application servers
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backup processing, and enabling quick restore. Read the technical bulletin.
Featured Webcast
Shrinking the Distance: Strategies for Improving Performance of Distributed Applications Over Long-Haul Networks In this webcast, you'll learn how leading organizations are coming to grips with overburdened WAN infrastructure, and turning to new methods, tools and devices that can streamline and accelerate applications over wide area networks to achieve optimum performance and ROI.
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Join Kevin Mitnick and other White Hats on October 23rd at "Risk, Protection, and Access: Mastering Today's Security Threats," an exclusive Security Virtual Event brought to you by InformationWeek and Dark Reading. You'll learn from security experts and top hackers how current exploits work, what you should be looking out for, and ways to keep your company safe. Register for FREE today!
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