Magic Quadrant for Communications Outsourcing and Professional Services, Worldwide  by Dimension Data

March 16, 2010 - This Magic Quadrant, published on March 3rd, 2010 and authored by Eric Goodness, examines 17 vendors of IT services for business communications systems worldwide. Use it to find the right providers for your needs related to communications-centric managed service and outsourcing relationships or project-based professional services engagements.

Magic Quadrant for WAN Optimization Controllers, 2009  by Blue Coat

June 30, 2009 - WAN optimization controllers seek to improve applications performance and reduce bandwidth requirements by intelligently managing traffic across the WAN. This analyst report presents a snapshot of the current market situation as well the results and explanation of Gartner's study of nine separate WOC vendors. Read the full report to learn more.

Mainframe Tape Technology: Eight Myths, Realities and Best Practices  by CA

July 25, 2008 - Read this paper to learn how organizations can mitigate risk, reduce TCO, address compliance requirements and optimize security and support by better managing and automating key tape-related processes, creating broad strategies for retention and encryption and implementing best practices.

Maintaining Trust: Protecting Your Web Site Users from Malware  by IBM

November 02, 2009 - This paper explores the problem of malware and how it is increasingly being delivered through legitimate Web sites. It also introduces new techniques from IBM that are designed to go beyond standard security measures to help organizations proactively defend against threats.

Making Enterprise Architecture (EA) Strategic with Business & Information Architecture  by Infosys Technologies Limited

September 01, 2008 - EA, a key IT governance tool, plays an active role in strategic business planning. Effective EA requires managing standards and promoting best practices in architecture.

Making High Availability Pay For Itself  by Marathon Technologies

January 11, 2010 - High availability solutions are no longer an all or nothing discussion about expensive, proprietary systems. This report will explain how to align your business needs to today's spectrum of HA technology options, mix & match HA solutions for the fastest ROI and present your HA recommendations and ROI analysis to management in business terms.

Making Mobility Your Business Advantage  by BlackBerry

February 17, 2010 - Learn more about how mobile technology from Research In Motion (RIM), and members of the BlackBerry Alliance Program can make your enterprise more agile and give you a business advantage.

Making Strategy Real Through the Effective Deployment of Business Performance Optimization Systems  by SAP America, Inc.

January 29, 2010 - How do you know what to do to protect your current business and identify areas of future growth? How do you balance opportunity with risk? This paper helps answer those essential questions.

Making the Case for Oracle Database on Windows  by Oracle Corporation

July 01, 2007 - A number of industry trends are working both to increase the demand for cross-vendor interoperability and to help companies realize it. Read this white paper and learn why more people are running Oracle on Microsoft Windows platforms.

Making the Most of Mobile CRM: How to Effectively Leverage the Technology  by Citrix

February 23, 2010 - In this expert podcast, Sheryl Kingstone, director of enterprise research for the Yankee Group, shares best practices for mobile CRM deployments, touching upon BlackBerry and iPhone, and focuses on customer-centric strategies involving mobile CRM.

Malware. It's Everywhere!  by IBM

March 10, 2010 - Malicious software seems to be everywhere these days. Viruses, Worms, Trojan Horses and other types of malware are becoming a regular part of the daily news, and become more and more sophisticated, outsmarting defenses. Check out this webcast to learn how web application owners can protect themselves from malicious entities.

Manage the Downturn - Prepare for the Upturn: How to Equip Manufacturers to Succeed in an Economic Recovery  by Atos Origin

January 15, 2010 - The objective of this paper is to help your business focus on the areas that will enable you to succeed in the downturn and prosper in the years ahead by helping you to reduce costs across your entire business and deliver real improvements in efficiency, growth, and sustainability.

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 and maintaining mobile devices on Lotus Notes Domino  by BlackBerry

June 25, 2008 - Going mobile is an essential part of doing business in Notes Domino shops; so is having the ability to securely support multiple devices. Listen to this podcast to learn more about issues facing Lotus Notes administrators deploying mobile devices.

Managing Application Performance in a Virtualized Environment  by Compuware Corporation

February 26, 2010 - Ron Wilson, product strategy director for Compuware’s cloud computing solutions, discusses some of the application performance challenges that virtualization presents to IT organizations, how successful organizations are addressing those challenges, and how virtualization can be used as a stepping stone to cloud computing.

Managing Business Service Performance in Complex Distributed Environments  by ASG Software Solutions

May 22, 2008 - Read this paper to learn how to build performance management solutions around BSM, which helps IT maintain agility and deliver high levels of business service performance.

Managing Enterprise Content: Why Architecture Matters  by ASG Software Solutions

February 22, 2010 - When organizations spend significant time and money to manage content stored among a host of disconnected systems, their efforts are less than fully effective. The data explosion will continue. Read this paper to learn more.

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 Operator Networks as an Outsourcing Service  by Alcatel-Lucent

November 13, 2009 - Communications service providers are increasingly looking at vendors as partners to help them provide a new generation of managed services. This new trend has advantages for customers, service providers, and vendors that have the expertise on staff to handle increasingly complex network services. Read this eGuide to learn more.

Managing Project and Portfolio Risk in the Oil and Gas Industry During an Economic Downturn  by Oracle Corporation

March 01, 2009 - Project portfolio management solutions, such as those from Oracle, enable project leaders to successfully manage risk, even in this volatile climate. They also enable companies to identify the best strategies for pursuing existing projects and to identify the most-promising future projects for investment.

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 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.

Manufacturing Execution Systems Strategy Update: Trends and Tips for 2010  by Apriso Corporation

March 15, 2010 - Read this e-book to learn about MES trends today, find advice and analysis from leading manufacturing experts, learn what top performers are doing with their MES systems, and get insight into creating or updating a successful strategy for MES at your organization.

Market Research Brief: PCI Compliance  by Tripwire, Inc.

January 05, 2010 - Read this research briefing to gain insight into specific aspects of PCI compliance, particularly how to ensure and validate your ability to protect confidential customer data. Plus, learn how IT and security professionals view the various threats and challenges to their efforts to protect their organizations’ critical data.

Master Data Management and Data Quality  by Datactics

January 28, 2010 - MDM is not just a technology problem. It consists of both creating and maintaining Master Data based on its relevance to business processes. This paper introduces MDM solutions and the benefits of the MDM solution with an integrated data quality component.

Master Data Management: Extracting Value from Your Most Important Intangible Asset  by SAP America, Inc.

January 01, 2007 - Effective master data management can save time and money - even enable the capture of incremental revenues, it can also reduce costs while improving customer service.

Maximize Your Investment in Java Applications  by Sun Microsystems, Inc.

October 01, 2009 - In this paper, we explore Sun's Java for Business offering: what it provides; the flexible options available for developers and businesses; how enterprises are using Java for Business today; and guidance on how to get started.

Maximizing ERP Return on Investment with On-Demand Support Services  by itelligence, Inc.

May 08, 2009 - The current economic environment challenges manufacturers seeking to capitalize on their enterprise resource planning (ERP) software: How can a company increase ERP functionality while reducing operating costs and even head counts? To achieve this difficult balance, many manufacturers have turned to on-demand ERP-support services.

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 Website Return on Investment: The Crucial Role of High-Quality Search  by Google Search Appliance

March 16, 2010 - At a time when customers are conscious of new expenditures, organizations are looking to deploy solutions that provide substantive and fast ROI. Read this white paper to learn how Google search solutions provide organizations with a simple way to increase revenues.

McAfee Security Spotlight: IT Heroes in Mid-Size Organizations  by McAfee, Inc.

March 10, 2010 - Real heroes running IT in midsize organizations around the world deal with tremendous pressure every day. While they face the same security risks as larger enterprise organizations, they have to do a hundred other things that are equally important to the business. For these IT generalists, it’s not all about security.

Measuring The Business Value of IT  by SAP America, Inc.

September 25, 2006 - Discover how to efficiently measure projected business value, increase the ROI of your SAP investments, and improve the overall worth of your IT initiative with a consistent methodology for both business and IT users.

Meeting Client Infrastructure Needs with Managed Hosting  by Verio

January 29, 2010 - Read this case study to learn how Accrisoft used Verio’s virtual and managed server solutions to achieve competitive pricing and tech support, seamless reliability for their customers, gained optimum performance from a reliable platform and acquired a 15-20 percent increase in customers.

Meeting the Challenges of Virtualization Security: Server Defense for Virtual Machines  by Trend Micro

August 01, 2009 - The advantages of virtualization are balanced by increased risk exposure as virtual systems in your datacenter face many of the same security challenges as your physical servers. This paper discusses the Trend Micro coordinated approach to server defense for virtual machines.

MES Automotive: Leveraging the Right Solutions to Reshape the Future of the Automotive Sector  by Atos Origin

January 15, 2010 - Read this paper to learn how Atos Origin has an automotive Manufacturing Execution systems (MES) team who understands manufacturing, your industry, your business, your legacy systems, and the myriad of new technologies and products available and is technology and product agnostic.

Metrics-Based Sales Productivity – Delivering Dividends for Forward Thinking Sales Organizations  by IBM

March 05, 2010 - New Sales Performance Management solutions enable sales leaders to align technology to business need and strategy. Read this paper for a series of discussions related to the metrics-based sales productivity solutions that forward thinking sales organizations are employing to harness the power of the pipeline and take advantage of sales analytics.

Michael Dell on Dell and VMware: Driving a New Era of IT Efficiency  by Dell, Inc.

November 24, 2009 - VMware is enabling the next generation in IT by delivering the industry’s first cloud operating system. Dell and VMware are working together to bring customers the latest in enterprise computing innovations.

Microsoft Business Productivity Online Suite: Communicate Success  by Microsoft

November 11, 2009 - So you want to supercharge your team's productivity? The key is to get them together. The tools you need are ready right now in the Microsoft Business Productivity Online Suite. Watch this informative video to learn about the myriad of features and benefits that this Microsoft solution has to offer.

Microsoft Exchange Server 2007: Migration Made Easy  by mindSHIFT Technologies

February 16, 2010 - Microsoft Exchange Server is the most widely used corporate communications system worldwide. This white paper will explain the complex technical issues and costs involved in an in-house migration to Exchange Server 2007 and the benefits associated with a hosted Exchange solution.

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 Unified Communications: Innovations in Collaboration  by CDW Corporation

February 09, 2010 - This webcast is an overview of Microsoft Unified Communications. Unified Communications can help you to collaborate with your coworkers, partners, and customers more effectively, setting up the environment for a "people-ready business."

Microsoft Virtualization - What's on the CIO's Mind  by Microsoft Corporation India Pvt Ltd

December 22, 2009 - Watch this video for a discussion of what challenges CIOs face today and what emerging technologies they are considering. Speakers include three CIOs from three different types of organizations.

Microsoft® Hyper-V™ R2 Reference Architecture for Dell® PowerEdge™ Rack Servers and Dell PowerVault™ Storage.  by Dell, Inc.

February 05, 2010 - This white paper includes information useful both before and after purchase of a business ready configuration that includes Dell PowerEdge R710 servers, Dell MD3000i iSCSI storage, and Microsoft Hyper-V technologies.

Microsoft's Cloud Computing Solutions: Enhance Productivity & Efficiency While Maximizing Resources  by Microsoft

December 29, 2009 - This screencast details a software-plus-services or cloud computing approach that creates innovative, robust software combined with the power of the Internet.

Miercom Lab Testing Summary Report: Citrix XenDesktop 4 vs. VMware View 4  by Citrix

February 19, 2010 - In this report, Miercom validates the overall effectiveness of similarly configured Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI) solutions using Citrix XenDesktop 4 and VMware View 4.

Migrating to Windows 7? What You Need to Know About User Settings  by RES Software

January 27, 2010 - This white paper discusses migration to Windows 7. Migrating to Windows 7 might seem straightforward; however, when it comes to end-user settings, there are a few items you need to carefully consider to allow for a successful migration without disrupting end-user productivity.

Minimize LAN Switch Tiers to Reduce Cost and Increase Efficiency  by Juniper Networks, Inc.

November 17, 2009 - Established LAN design practices were created for an environment of limited switch performance. Today's high-capacity switches allow new design approaches, thus reducing cost and complexity in campus and data center LANs. Read this Gartner report to learn about maximizing LAN performance by minimizing LAN switch Tiers.

Misguided, Opportunistic, or Strategic - Where Do You Stand on the Sustainability Ranking?  by SAP America, Inc.

March 15, 2010 - Across SAP's global customer base, there is a continuum of sustainability approaches – spanning from misguided to opportunistic and strategic. Find out where you rank in this special report from SAP. (Full article)

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.

Mixing Gigabit Ethernet and 10 Gigabit Ethernet in a Dedicated SAN Infrastructure  by Dell, Inc.

September 01, 2009 - The reference architecture illustrated in this article shows how enterprises may make the transition to 10GbE for storage using Dell™ EqualLogic™ PS Series arrays and Dell PowerConnect™ switches.

MKS Toolkit for Enterprise Developers v9.2p2 - Porting UNIX applications to Windows  by MKS, Inc. - Interoperability Division

June 08, 2009 - MKS Toolkit for Enterprise Developers is the ultimate in UNIX to Windows migration. Maintain a single course base across UNIX and Windows saving time and money for years to come, while cutting development time - 70%, 80%, even 90%.

Mobile Applications That Fit  by BlackBerry

February 18, 2010 - The more employees rely on their BlackBerry® smartphones, the greater the need for enterprise applications that fit their, and the company's, specific needs. But IT organizations can't always do it on their own. This white paper covers some best practices and resources for creating mobile enterprise applications.

Mobile Security Report 2009  by McAfee, Inc.

December 07, 2009 - Device manufacturers are balancing control with innovation, a dynamic that often controls the mobile ecosystem. This is why the McAfee Mobile Security Report 2009 is taking a closer look at manufacturers’ security experiences, their concerns and priorities, and their approach to major security challenges that lie ahead of them in the near future.

Mobility Management for Dummies  by Sybase, Inc.

March 16, 2010 - In this informative Guide, you'll learn why mobility management and security is vital to your business. Plus, we’ll introduce some of the best solutions available today. Get your guide now, compliments of Sybase.

Mobilizing Field Forces on Smartphones  by BlackBerry

August 06, 2009 - This ABI Research white paper examines the use of smartphones as tools for mobile field workers as a replacement for rugged devices. Through interviews with multiple companies with we found that the TCO of owning smartphones was 14% - 85% less than rugged devices.

Mobilizing the Service Call Offers Ricoh Numerous Business Advantages  by BlackBerry

December 01, 2009 - Ricoh Americas Corporation (Ricoh), a provider of document solutions, wanted a solution to automate service calls handled by field service technicians. They decided to create an application for the BlackBerry® solution that would improve call efficiency and give technicians more control over the tasks performed during their day.

Mondial Assistance Group Shares Best Processes to Improve Quality, Efficiency  by Lombardi Software

December 18, 2009 - Mondial Assistant Group wanted to share best processes across their 28 global business units but they lacked a platform for sharing process knowledge. So they turned to Lombardi Blueprint, a hosted service that fosters easy collaboration among non-technical business users who want to document and analyze their processes. Read on to learn more.

Monitoring Enterprise-Wide Business Risk  by ArcSight, Inc.

December 02, 2008 - This paper presents ArcSight EnterpriseView, a solution designed to help customers understand who is on the network, what data they are seeing, and which actions they are taking with that data. While doing so, EnterpriseView provides the context to understand whether the business faces additional risk of data loss, compliance breach, or fraud.

Monsanto enhances the performance of Microsoft SharePoint using Cisco WAN optimization  by Cisco Systems, Inc.

December 17, 2009 - Monsanto accelerates centralized Microsoft Sharepoint and reduces bandwidth expenses using Cisco WAN Optimization solution.

Moving SAP Off Mainframe to SQL Server Nets Australia’s QR Limited U.S.$100,000 a Month  by Dell Inc., Microsoft and AMD

December 28, 2009 - Australia's QR Limited decided to move its SAP applications and databases from a mainframe and DB2 environment to the Microsoft® Application Platform, including Microsoft SQL Server® 2005 database software running on a geocluster supported by the Windows Server® 2003 Enterprise Edition operating system.

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.

MV Capacity Trending Advisor  by BMC Software, Inc.

April 23, 2009 - BMC Capacity Trending Advisor saves time and money, reduces the skills required for capacity planning, and delivers precision results that give you the data you need to procure the right resources to support business services. Learn more today.