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Magic Quadrant for Endpoint Protection Platforms  by Sophos Inc.


May 12, 2009 - Gartner's Magic Quadrant for Endpoint Protection Platforms assesses a company's ability to execute and its completeness of vision. According to Gartner, Sophos continues to have a strong reputation for support and service from customers and the management interface achieves a good balance of simplicity without sacrificing depth of control.

 

Magic Quadrant for Secure Web Gateway, 2008  by Blue Coat


September 11, 2008 - Secure Web gateway solutions protect Web-surfing PCs from infection and enforce company policies. Incumbant providers have been slow to respond to changing demands, while new vendors are struggling to get the right product mix and prove their mettle in the demanding enterprise market.

 

Mainstreaming the vSwitch: HP Network Automation Extends Control to Virtual  by Hewlett-Packard Company


September 01, 2009 - HP recently announced availability of a driver for their long-fielded HP Network Automation product which delivers integrated support of virtual switches (vSwitches) – virtual network elements that exist within VMWare’s ESX virtual server platform.

 

Major Considerations for Deploying a Thinly Provisioned Storage Solution  by 3PAR


November 01, 2007 - IDC believes that thin provisioning is a powerful enabling technology with significant benefits to offer storage administrators looking for higher levels of storage efficiency.

 

Make CRM Work the Way Salespeople Do  by Oracle Corporation


October 08, 2009 - This white paper examines how traditional CRM technologies, while valuable in helping organizations manage customers and revenues, have not really assisted the salesforce do their jobs.

 

Making Quality a Deliverable in Eclipse-Based Java Development  by Instantiations


February 04, 2009 - CodePro AnalytiX as part of a continuous or nightly-build process, seamlessly integrate it into any Eclipse-based Java development environment, or use a combination of the two implementation approaches.

 

Making the Case for SAP Virtualization  by Arrow ECS HP Group and Intel


September 09, 2009 - In this videocast, learn how SAP customers are getting started with virtualization technology, and find out why some companies are virtualizing mission-critical SAP applications.

 

Making the Most of Fax Virtualization with Boardless Technology  by Esker Inc.


July 17, 2009 - As a resource to help organizations achieve strategic objectives for efficiency, cost-effectiveness and continuity of faxing operations, this white paper explores the reasons why organizations are embracing fax virtualization as part of their IP strategies and how they benefit from the technology.

 

Making the News: Dell helps a media company maintain its competitiveness in the evolving news business, reducing the time needed to publish breaking stories by 50 percent  by Dell, Inc. and Intel


February 01, 2008 - This case study looks at Media General a large regional communications company with over four dozen TV stations and newspapers plus an extensive online service. With the rapidly growing demand for online services and the changing online environment Media General turned to Dell for solutions.

 

Making Virtual Infrastructures Highly Available  by Dell and Microsoft


May 28, 2009 - In this chapter of the "Introduction to Virtualization E-book" we will look at how to protect production workloads running in a virtual environment as well as off load this work to a stand-by host if needed.

 

Managed Services Delivery: From Packets to Applications  by Blue Coat


April 29, 2009 - Check out this brief analyst report to learn how a comprehensive up-the-stack approach supports today's mission-critical enterprise networks and provides reliable, rapid response times for network-centric business practices and applications on a 24/7 basis.

 

Management Excellence: Leveraging Technology and Techniques  by Oracle Corporation


November 01, 2008 - One in a series of white papers about management excellence, this white paper describes the techniques and technologies that organizations should master on their way to management excellence.

 

Management Mandate to Reduce Costs Leads to Increased Productivity  by SEGUS Inc


August 20, 2009 - Learn how an Alabama company seeking a replacement tool for their mainframe administration and automation discovered SEGUS’ Smart products that not only delivered better functionality with a good GUI, but would save the company $80,000 over a five year period, while also avoiding future costly upgrade fees.

 

Managing Assets with Numara® Track-It! (including Bar Code)  by Numara Software


March 01, 2008 - Listen to this Webcast to learn how to manage your company's assets. Also discussed is a solution that can help your organization address its IT asset management process issues through audit, auto-discovery and process tracking.

 

Managing Enterprise Information: Architecting for Survival and Positioning for Success in Tough Times  by SAP BusinessObjects


June 19, 2009 - Today, businesses must work smarter, not just harder - and to do it, they must use information to compete. With ever-greater demands on data resources, organizations need to derive greater value from their existing information.

 

Managing Global Web Sites: Localization, a Never Ending Story  by SDL Tridion


May 04, 2009 - This white paper provides examples about how organizations can use BluePrinting technology to achieve a smooth global Web operation and explains how organizations combine Content Management technology with translation technologies for even greater efficiency.

 

Managing IT in a Downturn: Beyond Cost Cutting  by SAP America Inc


November 01, 2008 - Downturns give companies a chance to buck conventional wisdom and increase their IT investments. Targeted investments in many areas can generate efficiencies and revenue growth that surpass the savings from straight cost reductions.

 

Managing Linux Server Sprawl with Red Hat Satellite  by Red Hat


September 03, 2009 - This webcast addresses the challenges of server sprawl and introduces a new tool to help overcome them. Discover how this technology enables simplified management of your Linux environment and reduces administrative costs.

 

Managing Risk and Uncertainty - An Executive's Guide to Integrated Business Planning  by Oracle Corporation


September 14, 2009 - Read this white paper to learn how Integrated business planning can help your company align strategic, operational, and financial plans.

 

Managing Risk through Financial Processes: Embedding Governance, Risk and Compliance  by SAP America Inc


November 01, 2008 - To find out how senior executives view their financial processes, the Economist Intelligence Unit surveyed a global sample of mostly financial executives in September 2008. Some respondents focused on the importance of developing processes that reduced costs and improved efficiency. Others acknowledged the importance of cost and efficiency..

 

Managing SharePoint in an Enterprise Environment  by Global Knowledge


October 11, 2008 - Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 and other SharePoint technologies are excellent tools for a modern, web-based office environment. This white paper gives pointers on managing them.

 

Managing the Cost and Complexity of Compliance through Governance  by McAfee, Inc.


October 08, 2009 - Read this presentation transcript for a discussion on risk management, corporate governance, regulatory compliance, and information quality presented by speaker Laurence Anker.

 

Managing the WAN to Optimize Business  by Blue Coat


July 01, 2007 - Bandwidth management is a common technique employed by IT organizations to improve quality of service over the WAN by assigning guaranteed levels of bandwidth and prioritizing traffic to improve application performance. To be effective, bandwidth management must be perfectly aligned with business policies and priorities. Read on to learn more.

 

Marin County Upgrades Tax System While Reducing the Costs of the Mainframe  by Micro Focus, Ltd


October 27, 2009 - The property tax system for Marin County, California, was increasingly expensive to maintain; furthermore, it was not possible to integrate it with newer modern technologies. Read this case study to learn how they updated and modernized this critical application without losing valuable IT assets embedded in the current system.

 

Market Report: Best Practices and Cost Reduction Strategies for Today’s Virtualized Data Centers  by VKernel


August 18, 2009 - This paper addresses the fact that server virtualization is still a relatively new technology undergoing rapid development and innovation. While creating a virtual machine is relatively simple, the underlying complexity of the infrastructure and IT processes cannot be ignored.

 

MarketScope for Records Management  by IBM


September 10, 2009 - Organizations have long known that implementing their records management initiatives is challenging. People and processes are both important elements, but choosing the right records management solution can be the difference between success and failure. Read on to learn about selecting the right records management solution for your organization.

 

Massachusetts Privacy Law: The Language, the Impact, and Recommendations for Proving Compliance  by Tripwire, Inc.


October 05, 2009 - Register for this webcast, and then tune in to learn how to get started preparing for this Massachusetts law that may well be indicative of a legislative trend in other states.

 

Master Guide – Migrating SQL Server 2000 to SQL Server 2008  by Dell, Inc.


April 23, 2008 - This Deployment Guide reviews the approach that Principled Technologies and Dell recommend for migrating databases from SQL Server 2000 to SQL Server 2008.

 

Mastering New Challenges in Text Analytics: Making Unstructured Data Ready for Predictive Analytics  by SPSS Inc. Worldwide Headquarters


February 20, 2009 - 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.

 

Maximize Business Results Online: How Web Content Management Technology is Transforming Digital Marketing  by SDL Tridion


March 02, 2009 - This report is a guide for identifying best practices in online content Research Benchmark management and maximizing business benefits of the web. The findings highlight the strategic value of web content management and link the technology and practices of Best-in-Class organizations to top line revenue, customer loyalty, and customer experience.

 

Maximizing Customer Value with Oracle Business Intelligence Applications  by Oracle Corporation


December 01, 2007 - This technology brief highlights how BI applications can integrate information across data sources and departments, provide a single, integrated view of customer and enterprise information, and enable greater alignment of decisions and execution to drive higher customer profitability and share of wallet.

 

Maximizing Financial Benefits: Evolving WAN Optimization To Application Delivery  by Blue Coat


July 09, 2009 - This webcast discusses how WAN optimization technology is still relevant and produces cost savings for organizations despite an evolving IT environment.

 

Maximizing Operational Efficiency with Oracle Business Intelligence Applications  by Oracle Corporation


December 01, 2007 - This technology brief highlights how BI applications can integrate information across data sources and departments, provide a single, integrated view of customer and enterprise information, and enable greater alignment of decisions and execution to drive higher customer profitability and share of wallet.

 

Maximizing the Value of Economic Stimulus Funds  by SAP America Inc


June 05, 2009 - The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA) was a dramatic action designed to quickly stimulate an economic recovery in the United States. This SAP Executive Insight examines some of the major challenges agencies face with respect to this stimulus plan. It describes how governments can transform their organization to devote more resources..

 

McAfee Buyer's Guide to Data Protection  by McAfee, Inc.


July 01, 2009 - Data--Protect critical information anywhere it goes. Implementing data protection products and processes can be daunting. Make the right decisions by exploring what is available and what makes sense for your organization. Use this simple guide to evaluate different vendor offerings.

 

MEDRAD: Automating the Flow of Inbound Sales Orders into SAP Applications, while Simultaneously Reducing Costs and Improving Accuracy  by Esker Inc.


July 10, 2009 - This case study explains how MEDRAD implemented Esker DeliveryWare for their SAP solution and documents the benefits they reaped from it. Read this case study to learn how your company can experience the same benefits as MEDRAD with Esker DeliveryWare.

 

Meeting Storage Management Goals with HP Proactive Select  by Arrow/HP


October 20, 2009 - This webcast gives an overview of several options for HP Proactive Select IT services that address common and recurring events in typical, ever changing storage environments. Tune in to learn more about this exciting, cost- and time-effective IT support solution.

 

Meeting the Growing Need for Real-Time Data Movement in the Enterprise  by Sybase, Inc.


September 03, 2009 - Watch this webcast to learn the latest demands for data movement and replication within the enterprise. Sybase will also feature the new release of Replication Server, designed to address the growing needs of guaranteed data movement, with unprecedented performance for real-time data delivery even within heterogeneous data environments.

 

Merging Backup and Disaster Recovery (DR) Processes  by FalconStor Software


June 16, 2009 - This paper describes how continuous data protection (CDP) technology can bridge various DR methodologies to help organizations overcome the challenges of tape and achieve maximum benefits from their IT investments.

 

Microsoft Dynamics CRM - Sports Organizations  by Microsoft


July 30, 2009 - For many sports organizations, a CRM system acts much like the lifeblood of the company, feeding insightful information about both customers and players to management and coaches in order to enhance business decisions. Watch this video case study to hear about the benefits of Microsoft Dynamics CRM from real customers.

 

Microsoft Dynamics CRM Online Case Study: High Five Sportswear  by Microsoft


September 09, 2009 - Learn how a sports apparel company was able to drastically improve customer service by adopting Microsoft Dynamics as their CRM system.

 

Microsoft Dynamics RoleTailored Business Productivity: "Software Designed for Your People"  by Microsoft


March 01, 2007 - By automating and streamlining financial, customer relationship and supply chain processes, Microsoft Dynamics brings together people, processes and technologies, increasing the productivity and effectiveness of the business, and helping drive business success. Explore the Microsoft Dynamics Customer Model and how it's reflected in this software.

 

Microsoft Hyper-V vs. Market Leaders  by Dell and Microsoft


March 20, 2009 - In this videocast, senior enterprise IT architect Nelson Ruest breaks down VMware ESX Server, Citrix XenServer and Hyper-V, providing details on what each product has to offer.

 

Microsoft Online Services Business Value  by Microsoft


June 01, 2009 - Microsoft® Online Services provide businesses with subscription-based Microsoft-hosted online services that offer access to rich communication, collaboration, and productivity applications from anywhere. Read this white paper to learn more.

 

Microsoft Podcast: Pivotal CRM Innovates with Microsoft Technologies  by Pivotal CRM, a CDC Software solution


November 18, 2009 - This podcast explains how Pivotal 6 increases user adoption and productivity by mirroring the familiar Microsoft interface and embedding Microsoft Outlook and SharePoint within the CRM system.

 

Microsoft® Hyper-V™ Server 2008 for Dell™ PowerEdge™ Systems  by Dell and Microsoft


April 01, 2009 - This document details the four available networking configurations for running Hyper-V on Dell™ PowerEdge™ systems. It also discusses the advantages and disadvantages of each networking configuration with an emphasis on typical Dell system configurations.

 

Mid-market Meetings Management  by StarCite


August 01, 2008 - Aberdeen research has found that although both the mid-market and large sectors have similar performance results and organizational structures for meetings management, large organizations are better positioned for long-term success.

 

Migrate From Unix To Linux In Six Steps  by Red Hat and Intel


August 10, 2009 - CIOs are increasingly aware that the Linux® platform offers a low-risk, robust, and value-for-money alternative to traditional UNIX® platforms. This whitepaper will list and describe a simple, six-step process for migrating from UNIX to Linux.

 

Migrate to Online Services  by SHI


October 16, 2009 - Business Productivity Online Standard Suite delivers hosted communication and collaboration tools that feature simplified IT Management, high availability and comprehensive security. This whitepaper will help you understand what is needed to prepare to migrate your current systems to a hosted model.

 

Migrating to the Cloud: An Alternative for SAP Customers  by NetSuite


October 14, 2009 - This paper examines a hybrid model of ERP deployment that not only lowers the overall cost and resources required to migrate to a new version of SAP, but also reduces the ongoing annual costs of keeping the systems working, thereby freeing up the IT budget for more strategic investments

 

Millennial Meltdown: Balancing Innovation with Productivity and Security  by Lumension


March 28, 2009 - Web 2.0 applications, IM, P2P and portable USB media can be great for business innovation and productivity, but they're a nightmare for IT security. Read this whitepaper to find a way to strike a happy balance that allows for the safe use of new technologies.

 

Minimizing Security-Related Total Cost of Ownership  by Lumension


February 02, 2009 - This guide explains how security implementations in four major areas can reduce IT TCO dramatically, effectively paying for direct costs of these technologies by reducing the overall bottom line.

 

Mission Critical Computing In The NextGen Data Center Infrastructure  by PC Connection in partnership with HP ThinClient


October 26, 2009 - In this webcast, learn about changing trends in the data center infrastructure. Discover tools to ensure high availability at a low cost to improve IT performance. Find out more about innovations to data center operations to help you remain competitive.

 

Mission-Critical Java  by Oracle Corporation


October 23, 2008 - Technology barriers have prevented enterprises from adopting Java-based approaches for mission critical applications with extreme and predictable computing needs. However, recent advances throughout the entire Java stack have overcome these barriers to position Java to power the next generation of enterprise computing.

 

Monitor Cloud Platforms, SaaS Applications, and Internal Business Applications from the Same Platform  by Nimsoft, Inc.


November 01, 2009 - This webcast will explain how you can gain visibility into the performance and availability of your critical business applications, no matter where they are running. By monitoring all computing resources, you will be able to make better decisions as your enterprise transitions to a combination of internal and external environments.

 

Monitoring Trading Partner Agreements - Using Business Intelligence to Enhance BAM Activities  by Information Builders


June 01, 2008 - This white paper will explain what to look for in a complete integration platform and how to use BI technology in conjunction with BAM tools to achieve zero information latency and self-correcting processes.

 

More Functionality, Less Infrastructure: Managed IT with Double-Take Flex  by Double-Take Software


August 19, 2009 - Double-Take Flex provides increased functionality by using your existing technology infrastructure, saving you time and money when deploying new computers, protecting workloads and migrating existing workloads to new platforms.

 

Mortgage Company Uses DataFlux Technology to Improve Reporting, Manage Compliance  by DataFlux Corporation


January 14, 2009 - Read how using DataFlux technology, this financial company implemented a data governance program, creating more complete and accurate data and drastically reducing the time needed to comply with Federal reporting regulations.

 

Mosaic Technology trims sales cycle by up to 50% and converts 20% of leads into sales with Dell PartnerDirect program  by Dell, Inc. and Intel


May 01, 2009 - Mosaic Technology sought to partner with a larger company to obtain sales, marketing and technical support, thereby extending its reach into the server and storage virtualization market.

 

Moving Beyond Windows 7: It's time to Upgrade more than your Operating System  by Symantec


November 11, 2009 - Considering migrating to Windows 7 but don't how to best approach the project? These podcasts explore the essential tools and management techniques for a successful transition to this operating system. Discover an integrated tool that can improve your data protection.

 

MPLS: What Is It? What Can It Do for Me?  by Global Knowledge


January 23, 2009 - MPLS is a foundational technology that allows service providers and enterprise architects to offer state-of-the art networking to their customers.

 

MySpace Uses Fusion Powered I/O to Drive Greener and Better Data Centers  by Fusion-IO


November 18, 2009 - MySpace knows better than anyone the high demands that consumers can make on application and web servers. It maintains two sets of servers depending on application transaction load. Even so, continued transaction growth on these servers was resulting in poor performance. MySpace decided to give Fusion-io a try.

 
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