Backup and Recovery: Accelerating Efficiency and Driving Down IT Costs Using Data Deduplication  by EMC

March 05, 2010 - Deduplicatoin is a technology that not only aids in accelerating storage efficiency by reducing cost but also alleviates physically constrained data centers. This white paper covers the basics of deduplication and lists considerations for evaluating deduplication technology.

Band-aids or Solutions- Solving Backup Problems with Cloud Archiving  by Iron Mountain Digital

January 22, 2010 - Read this paper to learn how cloud archiving, particularly with an experienced provider, can help even smaller companies easily and cost-effectively reduce backup headaches.

Benchmarking Enterprise SSDs  by STEC Inc

February 25, 2010 - This paper will demonstrate differ­ences in comparative SSD products. The analysis reconciles instanta­neous benchmark data to actual user performance, over time in a work­ing system under a true enterprise workload.

Benefits of Intel® Xeon® Processors and Windows Server® 2008 R2 for Business-Critical Applications  by Dell, Inc. and Intel

December 01, 2009 - The combination of an Intel Xeon processor and a Windows® operating system is an industry standard, proven platform for running business-critical applications, and many companies are making the switch. Read this paper to learn about the benefits of Intel® Xeon® Processors and Windows Server® 2008 R2 for Business-Critical Applications.

Best business features of Windows 7 Professional  by Dell, Inc. and Microsoft Windows 7

February 24, 2010 - Uncertain of how the new features of Windows 7 Professional can benefit your organization? This webcast and podcast explore several of the new capabilities of this operating system in-depth. Learn how to leverage these new features to improve efficiency, productivity and security.

Best Practice Insights: ITIL Service Operation  by BMC Software, Inc.

November 03, 2009 - Service Operation, the fourth book in the IT Infrastructure Library (ITIL) Version 3 publications, assists readers in developing management practices to ensure customers are satisfied and receive the value they expect. BMC experts have compiled an overview based on Service Operation, including valuable commentary, practical guidance and examples.

Best Practices for a Data Warehouse on Oracle Database 11g  by Oracle Corporation

January 19, 2009 - In order to ensuring the EDW will get the optimal performance and will scale as your data set grows you need to get three fundamental things correct, the hardware configuration, the data model and the data loading process.

Best Practices for Backup in a Virtualised Environment  by HP and VMware

February 19, 2010 - While server virtualisation brings consolidation gains, it increases the impact of a storage failure, compromising the information that makes up the life blood of your organisation’s business. This webcast highlights backup best practices for combating the complexity virtualisation brings to the data center.

Best Practices for Controlling Skype in your Enterprise  by Blue Coat

May 14, 2009 - Skype usage is continuing to gain ground in enterprises with over 250 million downloads worldwide. Management therefore needs to decide whether the benefits overcome the drawbacks and set appropriate policies within the organization. Read this paper for more details.

Best Practices for Data Center Virtualization and Hardware Utilization  by Data Center Decisions

December 17, 2009 - David Payne discusses the advantages and pitfalls to virtualizing and consolidating your data center hardware and walks through a practical approach to getting started.

Best Practices for Deploying an Exchange 2007 Environment Using VMware ESX 3.5  by Hewlett-Packard Company

February 16, 2010 - This white paper describes a set of best practices to deploy a 1,500-user virtualized Exchange 2007 environment using VMware® ESX™ 3.5. Specifically, this project demonstrates how to configure and deploy the Exchange 2007 Mailbox, Hub Transport, and Client Access server roles onto individual VMware virtual machines.

Best Practices for Enterprise Encryption  by SafeNet, Inc.

February 01, 2010 - The challenges of securing confidential data and corporate assets are driving many companies to deploy encryption technology to effectively mitigate the risks of data loss. In this video, Tom Bowers of Security Constructs discusses best practices for encryption, including technology choices, hidden costs, implementation stumbling blocks and more.

Best Practices for Implementing Automated Functional Testing  by Hewlett-Packard Company

April 01, 2007 - By automating functional testing, you can take major steps forward to improve automated business processes. Your development and QA teams can increase the speed and accuracy, and your IT department can achieve a higher ROI from software projects.

Best Practices for Preventing Downtime in Automation Systems  by Marathon Technologies

March 16, 2010 - Watch this webcast to receive best practices for preventing downtime in your organization. Learn how to reduce the human error that often causes downtime. Discover how you can protect your hardware, storage and networks for completive availability coverage. 

Best Practices Guide to Application-to-Application (A2A) Password Management  by Cloakware Inc.

March 11, 2010 - In datacenters worldwide, it is common practice to hard-code passwords and user IDs in applications and scripts. This paper reviews the security risks associated with hard-coded passwords and will help organizations to gain insight into the security vulnerability that lies on every server, and more!

Best Practices in Creating a Strategic Finance Function  by SAP America, Inc.

January 23, 2009 - the following article will share the results of SAP research as well as APQC's Open Standards Benchmarking Collaborative (OSBC) research. The OSBC research is the first global set of common standards for business processes and data, giving organizations an independent, authoritative resource for evaluating and improving business practices.

Best Practices in Extending ERP: A Buyer's Guide to ERP Versus Best of Breed Decisions  by SAP America, Inc.

November 01, 2006 - This Aberdeen report explains the important functions of ERP and strategies for deriving more and better business value from their implementations.

Best Practices in Reconciliation: A Practical Guide for Asset Managers  by Advent Software, Inc

July 01, 2008 - This whitepaper explains why automated reconciliation is quickly evolving into a competitive necessity. The costs associated with manual reconciliation, the benefits from automation, and the best reconciliation workflow model will all be discussed.

Best Practices: VMware Monitoring with Operations Manager 2007 and MOM 2005  by Veeam Software

November 10, 2009 - This document describes an end-to-end solution for monitoring and managing VMware vSphere or Virtual Infrastructure 3 using a full integration with Microsoft Systems Center Operations Manager (Ops Mgr) to produce a comprehensive image of system health with minimal impact on your operations staff.

Better Security: What it Should Look Like, How it Should Function and How You Can Use Data to Achieve It  by CA

March 01, 2010 - Join this IDC webcast to learn about trends and best practices in managing existing disparate information security solutions, and how organizations can get them to work together via business processes to achieve a better future for information security.

BeyeNETWORK Research Report: Open Source Solutions: Managing, Analyzing and Delivering Business Information  by Pentaho Corporation

March 18, 2010 - This survey report examines the usage of open source solutions within the BI and data warehousing market, describes what software is being deployed and presents the benefits and challenges of adopting open source technologies. Learn the rationale, practices and benefits that are driving use of open source as an alternative to traditional vendors.

Beyond FTP: Securing and Managing File Transfers  by Linoma Software

March 15, 2010 - Every day, millions of files are exchanged all over the world by corporations, government entities and other organizations. Most file transfers use the popular protocol known as FTP. This paper will examine how FTP has become the standard for business-to-business file transfers and the key pitfalls that face management using this open protocol.

Beyond PostgreSQL: A Look Inside Postgres Plus Advanced Server  by EnterpriseDB Corporation

March 02, 2010 - EnterpriseDB's Postgres Plus Advanced Server builds on the rock-solid PostgreSQL foundation to deliver significant value-added features not available in the community edition.

Beyond the Hypervisor: Optimizing Virtualization Management  by ASG Software Solutions

January 27, 2010 - Enterprise Management Associates believes that sophisticated, integrated, heterogeneous, virtual systems management is a critical business differentiator for enterprises as they deploy and expand their virtualization infrastructure. Read this paper for more information.

Beyond VMware: Assuring Performance of Virtualized Applications  by Akorri

February 23, 2010 - In this webcast, learn about various management tools on the market and the differences between them. Discover how to enhance application performance and capacity management with virtualization management technologies. Find out which tools would work best in a VMware environment.

Bitpipe Industry Guide: Government  by Bitpipe

February 13, 2006 - Are you up to date on Government policies, regulations and agencies? You need to be informed about government-related subject areas, including National, State and Local Governments and Government Agencies, Government Information Security, and Compliance.

Bitpipe Research Guide: Business Intelligence  by Bitpipe

November 22, 2006 - Business Intelligence systems allow you to uncover, analyze, and forecast the trends that drive your business.

Bitpipe Research Guide: Network Design and Management  by Bitpipe

November 16, 2006 - This research guide will help you select the best Network Design and Management solution for your company. It provides Network Design and Management information on Network Design and Management products.

Bitpipe Research Guide: Storage  by Bitpipe

November 30, 2006 - Storage challenges for IT professionals are particularly complex in today's environment of rapid obsolescence of storage hardware and digital media.

BlackBerry Enterprise Server Express  by BlackBerry

March 17, 2010 - By mobilizing email, calendar, personal information management, and your business applications, your company can boost business performance, increase productivity and enable workers to make timely decisions based on the most accurate information available. 

Blackberry Enterprise Server for Microsoft Exchange - Service Pack: 6  by BlackBerry

February 25, 2009 - BlackBerry® Enterprise Server version 4.1 SP6 supports HTML and rich-content email messages for BlackBerry devices that are running BlackBerry® Device Software version 4.5 or later.

Blackberry Enterprise Server v4.1 Service Pack 6  by BlackBerry

August 25, 2008 - The BlackBerry Enterprise Solution provides push-based access to email; calendar, contacts, tasks and notes; instant messaging; web-based applications and services and enterprise applications.

BlackBerry HIPAA Compliance  by BlackBerry

November 15, 2006 - Non-compliance with HIPAA can affect the integrity and security of an organization's entire IT system. Read this paper to learn how combining technologies with security policies can help your organization reduce the risks associated with mobile devices.

BlackBerry Solution Helps Municipality Become Model of Facilities Management  by BlackBerry

December 01, 2009 - The City of Hamilton deployed NOMAD, an application from Horizant, for BlackBerry smartphones, which mobilizes the way facilities management is handled. The solution is designed to automatically push out work orders from the City of Hamilton's back-end database which are then received by tradespeople on their BlackBerry smartphones.

Blackberry Solution Used for Roadside Surveys on Child Seat Safety  by BlackBerry

February 25, 2009 - When researchers from the University of Windsor needed a mobile strategy for conducting a National Child Seat Safety Survey across Canada, they turned to a Blackberry to help gather the data and accurately download the it automatically to an analytical database.

Blue Coat and SAP: Network Infrastructure Enhancements for Successful Enterprise SOA Deployments  by Blue Coat

May 01, 2008 - This paper is based on the results of an SAP Enterprise Services Community program project, in which a number of leading network and test solution vendors and SAP teamed up to build a production-like enterprise SOA-based application landscape.

Blue Coat Application Delivery Network Infrastructure  by Blue Coat

May 14, 2009 - IT organizations like yours are under pressure to deliver fast and responsive applications to users wherever they are. But you also have to protect data, systems and applications from malicious threats to ensure all your users can confidently transact business across your distributed network.

Blue Coat Reporter  by Blue Coat

May 14, 2009 - Blue Coat Reporter gives managers powerful visibility into all web-related user activity. Beyond URL filtering, Reporter provides customizable, at-a-glance dashboards and reports along with intuitive drill-down capabilities making it an invaluable part of security, compliance, bandwidth management, and other business critical efforts.

Blue Coat: The Technology Leader in Application Delivery Networking  by Blue Coat

June 17, 2009 - Check out this comprehensive microsite to view white papers, videos, press releases, case studies, and webcasts highlighting Blue Coat's application delivery networking solutions.

BMC Enhances its Performance Assurance for Mainframes solution  by BMC Software, Inc.

April 17, 2009 - This research brief examines the new release of the BMC Performance Assurance for Mainframes product. We assess its overall significance and describe the reaction of two early users.

BMC MAINVIEW: Exploiting zIIPs for Cost-Effective Monitoring  by BMC Software, Inc.

July 10, 2009 - Monitoring mainframe performance is something every data center does. This quick video explains a set of software solutions that can help out with mainframe monitoring by observing and managing performance, providing visibility, and improving availability while reducing costs. Watch the video now to learn more.

BMC Service Automation: The next step in the evolution of Business Service Management  by BMC Software, Inc.

November 03, 2009 - As you know, automation is a critical component in achieving long-term IT savings. We've compiled a few resources to give you an overview of the benefits of service automation and the technology behind our comprehensive solution.

BMC SQL Performance for DB2: A Review of the Potential Return on Investment  by BMC Software, Inc.

November 20, 2009 - The ever present demand to maximise the value delivered by business-critical applications requires that we optimise the use of all the resources that execute and manage them. BMC Software is one of the major vendors offering such support and has a highly regarded set of solutions collectively called BMC SQL Performance for DB2.

Boosting Agility by Reusing Existing Assets: Discover, Manage, and Reuse Business Rules Embedded Within Existing Applications  by Micro Focus, Ltd

October 12, 2009 - Read this paper to learn how businesses can quickly respond to new challenges by harnessing existing business logic and reusing business rules.

BPM SOA and Web 2.0: Business Transformation or Train Wreck?  by Oracle Corporation

August 14, 2008 - The challenges faced by today’s government agencies and commercial operations are many and varied—and to stay afloat, these organizations must not only promote change from within, but they must also be agile enough to quickly adapt to evolving markets, policies, regulations, and business models.

BPM: The Intelligent Assembly Line  by ASG Software Solutions

February 22, 2010 - This paper describes BPM's basic principles and core challenges while detailing the ways in which BPM and workflow can optimize operations, reduce errors, and support compliance.

Breaking Down the Barriers to Business  by Sage (UK) Limited

March 12, 2010 - Organizations that seek the elusive goal of a single view of the customer need first to instill an information-sharing culture throughout the company, not simply attempt to apply a quick technology fix. Read this white paper to learn more about how to creat a knowledge-sharing culture in your business.

Bridging the Lean Manufacturing Gap  by Infor

December 03, 2009 - No matter how lean your organization is, you've got a bridge to cross to improve productivity, profitability and market advantage. This eBook will help you to cross that bridge by providing your company with the keys to get going and to turning your organization into a real Lean company that can compete with any organization.

Bringing Visibility and Control to Financial Asset Management  by Tidal Software

December 10, 2009 - BlueCrest Capital Management Tidal Enterprise Scheduler when they needed to make critical business processes visible to upper management and centralize scheduling and management of nightly data downloads; as well as integrate disaster recovery processes into job scheduling efforts and migrate away from heavily scripted point solutions.

Brumlow Mills (Textiles) Business Transformation Study - SAP Enterprise Resource Planning  by SAP America, Inc.

January 29, 2010 - Brumlow Mills Inc. is a small, privately held textiles and carpet manufacturer based in Calhoun, Georgia. It replaced its legacy business software, which was incapable of sustaining the company’s future growth, with the SAP® ERP application. As a result, Brumlow Mills has increased its efficiency and the speed of many vital business processes.

Budget Adjustments for CIOs In Lean Economic Times  by ASG Software Solutions

March 22, 2008 - This Forrester report examines a variety of cost-reduction techniques by budget category and impact.

Build Trust by Connecting Security Operations and Compliance  by Tripwire, Inc.

September 19, 2008 - Check out this case study to learn how Vesta implemented Tripwire® Enterprise to continuously monitor IT infrastructure for all unauthorized change, which helps maintain known, trusted, and compliant system environments and ensure audit requirements are met.

Building a Best-Run Finance Organization  by SAP America, Inc.

June 01, 2008 - This SAP Executive Insight examines the changing role of the finance organization in today's business environment. Further, it describes how companies can develop best-run finance organizations.

Building a Data Quality Scorecard for Operational Data Governance  by DataFlux Corporation

June 06, 2008 - Operational data governance is the process of evaluating data to see if data effectively satisfies the organization's business needs. This is measured with a "data quality scorecard", a management tool for monitoring organizational performance.

Building a Successful Strategy To Manage Data Growth  by BlueArc Corp.

March 18, 2010 - There are few sure things in business these days, but here’s one: If you are in business and expect to stay in business you can also expect that your need to store and manage data will be growing. The “go to” technology for a successful data storage growth plan is automated tiered storage.

Building Blocks for Enterprise Business Architecture  by Infosys Technologies Limited

September 01, 2008 - We evaluate the established meta-models and frameworks of enterprise business architecture, and extract the key ingredients to build an innovative meta-model.

Building the Case for Business Intelligence ROI in a Turbulent Economy: 6 Tactics You Can Use  by IBM

November 06, 2009 - Read this paper to learn how to strengthen your organization's business intelligence investment in the current economic environment, which has seen budget cuts in virtually every area. This paper offers tips for making a tangible business case for BI investments.

Building the Measurement Foundation for Successful IT Management  by IBM

October 12, 2009 - This paper explores how an inability to access data within the development lifecycle limits the effectiveness of project teams and explains how organizations can create transparency that supports effective software delivery.

Business Beyond Boundaries: Gaining Competitive Advantage in a Global Economy - A Joint SAP and Crossgate Paper  by Crossgate

February 18, 2010 - In today’s global economy, businesses are finding that traditional strategies for growth are no longer sufficient. This paper discusses challenges and opportunities related to business network transformation, best practices for leveraging a business process platform, the benefits of partnering with a Business-Ready Network and more.

Business Continuance in the Enterprise Reconsidered: Driving Costs Down While Driving Data Availability Up  by Hewlett-Packard Company

January 21, 2010 - The biggest catastrophe your business can face is the failure of business-critical applications. This white paper provides expert knowledge on business continuity, including how to drive down costs while making your data more available.

Business Driven Access Management and Governance: Simplifying the Delivery and Governance of Access throughout the Enterprise  by Aveksa

November 09, 2009 - Progressive organizations are adopting a new process for how access is requested, approved, fulfilled, validated and remediated. This new approach to access management can abstract the complexity that IT deals with and simplify the process, enabling the business to be more autonomous and more successful. Read on to learn more.

Business Drivers and Enabling Technologies for Clickstream Data Warehouse Initiatives  by Syncsort

February 12, 2010 - Clickstream data is a rich source of information for companies. While many web analytics products are available, limitations associated with these products often drive companies to undertake their own internal CDW initiatives. Read this white paper to learn more!

Business Impact and Risk Assessments in IT Disaster Recovery Planning  by i365, A Seagate Company

February 17, 2010 - A DR plan consists of the safety precautions taken so that the consequence of a disaster will be minimized. This podcast will show you how to review and conduct your own risk assessment of your current DR plans to ensure dependent levels of security. Download this podcast for a better understanding of risk assessment in your DR planning!

Business Intelligence for Process Industries: Actionable Insights for Business Decision Makers  by SAP America, Inc.

January 23, 2009 - Firms in Process Industries have made significant investments in information technology to increase the efficiency of their operations and supply chains. By integrating real-time decision making with mission-critical business processes, smart businesses can set a path for industry leadership.

Business Intelligence for the Small to Medium Sized Business  by SAP America, Inc.

June 02, 2009 - Based on feedback from almost 650 end-user organizations, this report serves as a roadmap for SMBs looking to improve their analytical capability and achieve Best-in-Class performace through the deployment of BI.

Business Intelligence Trends: The Next Generation of Performance Management  by Attivio, Inc.

February 24, 2010 - BI applications, business process improvements, and improving the use of information and analytics has become a big trend lately. In light of this, this paper focuses on why you need to look for solutions that unify access to all types of information in analytical applications such as BI and BPM.

Business Intelligence: The Definitive Guide for Midsize Organizations  by SAP America, Inc.

June 01, 2008 - Business intelligence (BI) allows organizations to better understand, analyze, and even predict what's occurring in their company.

Business Ready Configuration for Virtualization: A Solution Guide for Dell PowerEdge R710 Servers, Dell MD3000i Storage, and Microsoft Hyper-V  by Dell, Inc. and Intel

July 24, 2009 - This white paper provides reference architectures and best practices for deploying and configuring Dell’s eleventh generation R710 server, using Dell MD3000i Storage Array and Microsoft Virtualization. The solution is based upon iSCSI storage technology as the storage environment.

Business Ready Solutions for Virtual Infrastructure Availability Using Dell™ PowerEdge™ Servers, Dell Powervault™ Storage, and VMware vSphere™  by Dell, Inc. and Intel

July 24, 2009 - This white paper presents an example configuration and best practices for deploying and configuring a highly available architecture using an example solution configuration and then discussing how the configuration helps in maximizing uptime.

Business Rules and Gap Analysis: Discovery and Management of Business Rules Avoids Business Disruptions  by Micro Focus, Ltd

November 23, 2009 - This paper will assess how to locate and account for functionality gaps. It will also illustrate a methodology for realigning applications with business goals.