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July 09, 2009 - (Free Research) The July/August issue of CIO Decisions Ezine focuses on disaster recovery in remote and branch offices, especially in midmarket organizations. Read this issue to learn some great tips and techniques for increasing your remote workers' ability to bounce back after an unfortunate event.
August 26, 2009 - (Free Research) Reading this paper will help you understand the fundamentals of building a security architecture that helps you respond to business demands while safeguarding your organization.
September 04, 2009 - (Free Research) The senior technology executives at Sybase have written a new book that analyzes how risk management systems built on 20th Century architectures failed which caused the worst financial crisis in decades. This paper condenses the key analysis and strategies of the book and explains how to rebuild and fortify them to prevent future crises.
November 12, 2009 - (Free Research) SonicWALL's award-winning solutions for the enterprise, distributed enterprise and SMB include network security, secure remote access, content security, backup and recovery, and policy and management technology.
November 10, 2009 - (Free Research) This paper takes a new look at the SAP upgrade process in light of emerging best practices and new technologies. This report offers a discussion of the value of both technical and functional upgrades as well as a discussion of some of the best practices to enhance the value of your SAP upgrades while lowering overall cost.
January 2007 - (Free Research) This white paper provides an introduction to System i high availability for companies that want to understand this technology and evaluates whether such a solution can become a cost-justifiable component of their backup and recovery strategy.
March 2009 - (Free Research) One of the key findings discovered in this series of tests is that the Dell PowerEdge R710 server and Dell EqualLogic storage supported 22.2% more virtual machines than did the HP ProLiant DL385 G5 server and HP StorageWorks EVA 4400. Read this test report to learn more.
April 2009 - (Free Research) One key finding discovered from this test is that the Intel Xeon Processor E5520 2.26GHz-based Dell PowerEdge 710 server achieved 75.9% higher SQL Server 2008 performance than did the Intel Xeon Processor E5506 2.13GH-based Dell PowerEdge 710 server. Read this test report summary to learn more key findings.
October 2009 - (Free Research) The big news in this month's issue is the announcement of the winners of the fifth annual Security 7 Award. Other featured articles present tips for preventing future incidents and also explain how SOX compliance is hitting smaller public companies harder than the big guys. Read on for these great articles and more.
September 2009 - (Free Research) The following five secrets to affordable SQL availability will help you to implement a SQL environment with little or no downtime, zero data loss, and no added IT complexity.
February 2009 - (Free Research) This paper briefly defines text analytics, describes various approaches to text analytics, and then focuses on the natural language processing techniques used by SPSS Inc.'s text analytics solutions.
December 2008 - (Free Research) This webinar reviews several enabling technologies that greatly simplify Disaster Recovery and business continuity like Silver Peak's WAN optimization solution. You'll also hear how OfficeWare was able to implement an effective and fully verified DR solution on a limited budget.
September 2009 - (Free Research) Read this case study and see how CareerBuilder turned to CDW to redefine a technology solution that could sustain the company's growth, and give them a competitive advantage to propel their fast-growing job network and keep their clients happy.
June 2009 - (Free Research) Read this white paper to learn about new and innovative techniques and solutions can be used to combat fraud, and how you can realize a true return on investment by reducing losses from fraud exposure and increasing operational efficiency within your fraud prevention process.
May 2007 - (Free Research) O'Neill is a lifestyle brand focused on boardriding products. To address its challenges with tape-based backups and growing data volumes, O'Neill turned to Data Domain.
May 2008 - (Free Research) In February 2008, CFO Research Services, a unit of CFO Publishing and part of The Economist Group, began a research project with Business Objects, an SAP company, asking senior finance executives to give views on their priorities and challenges around integrating operational and financial planning processes.
September 2008 - (Free Research) Extending ERP is the focus of this document, which encompasses utilizing more functionality, extending the footprint beyond the core ERP functionality and making decisions between ERP vendors and pure play or "Best of Breed" solutions.
June 2006 - (Free Research) Given the increasing importance of service-oriented architecture (SOA), this white paper cuts through the marketing hype surrounding SOA and focuses on the three most important facts you need to know about this groundbreaking technology.
December 2009 - (Free Research) This webcast discusses how to implement a structured approach to requirements management based on IBM Rational software -- a primary driver for quality improvement. A panel of experts share real-world examples and proven best practices for delivering innovative, high quality products to market in shorter timeframes.
April 2009 - (Free Research) With the economy down it is important for IT organizations to be as efficient as possible. This means that IT operations, those responsible for the product and health of the enterprise, must have full visibility and control over their resources - and of course, the technology to do so.
March 2009 - (Free Research) To help you make an informed decision when considering various storage solutions, the Storage Value Index takes into account not only purchase price, but capacity, efficiency, and operating expenses as well. This paper explains how the Storage Value Index was designed and offers suggestions for finding the best storage value for your needs.
June 2009 - (Free Research) According to industry statistics, the majority of a typical company's data doesn't reside on data center storage -- it lives on the "edge." The edge may be desktop PCs, laptops or even smart phones and PDAs. In this transcript, W. Curtis Preston describes the most effective techniques, tools and best practices for protecting edge or mobile data.
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