IT Management

Data deduplication is being deployed as a means to reduce storage costs and footprint, improve network bandwidth and much more. Read on this case study to learn about the benefits of EMC own back up and recovery solutions that use deduplication.

Failure Happens: It disruptions are a common and costly business experience. Ever wondered how many European companies lose data per year? Read on to learn about key statistics of European disaster recovery in 2011.

In the same way that our 2011 monitor explored the impact of 10gbps networking on large organizations, our 2012 Network Visbility Monitor explores the impact that the latest wave of network-centric technologies.

Having 100% accurate network visibility is a looming requirement for avoiding substantial financial losses. Why? And how can you get it? Read on this white paper to learn more about "seeing" and saving.

Distribution executives can no longer afford to view their IT department as merely a cost center. In today's competitive landscape, information technology represents a strategic, cost-saving, revenue-generating differentiator.

Recent trends in the distribution industry are forcing companies to continually re-evaluate their processes and value propositions and strategically chart new courses.

This white paper details how Web 2.0 technologies support business strategies by improving efficiency, productivity, and collaboration.

This paper outlines how the five lean principles are all supported and enhanced by comprehensive information control and the management tools that an end-to-end enterprise software suite delivers.

This white paper presents a low risk, high impact approach to gaining control of regulatory compliance. The procedures, tasks, and behaviors that bear upon compliance can be overwhelming.

Every change program has to have deliver something – a new service, a new process, increased market share, and so on. But how do you know what the benefits are? How do you identify them, develop them and measure them to ensure your program has achieved its 'end-state'?

Time is money, resources are scarce and only projects that add value and meet the organization's strategic aim and objectives should be flying. Why is it, therefore, that so many projects are running that have not been formally approved, burn limited and finite resource and, most importantly, do not improve or deliver new services or increase market share?

This GigaOM Pro paper explores what functions to consider when selecting and working with hosting providers as it relates to the entire value chain of function and performance. Get your complimentary 6-page report now.

ESET NOD32 Antivirus 4, ESET's Business Solution offers complete server-to-endpoint protection. Request a free trial today.

ESET NOD32 Antivirus 4 protects your business without creating system slowdowns that negatively impact productivity. It is effective against emerging malware and Internet threats as they are released, not hours or days later. Request your free trial today.

Ten conditions in Windows to monitor to make your organization more secure, and suffer less operational impact due to unplanned outages.

This white paper examines how small and medium sized business can grow their businesses by streamlining their processes, creating employee empowerment, reducing IT costs, increasing productivity and improving their customers experience by implementing an integrated, real-time software solution. 

After maxing out on Quickbooks, Gunther Gifts needed a software solution that could support their growth and enable complete integration across inventory, accounting, purchasing and sales. Download this paper to read about their results.

This comprehensive white paper applies automation and ITIL best practices to the data center and reviews current industry trends, server automation energy usage issues and a variety of optimization strategies for data center improvement.  The effects of virtualization are explored in-depth.  Includes detailed sections on increasing operational efficiency using workflow analysis, automating and optimizing server change management, reducing infrastructure complexity and developing security, disaster recovery and business continuity procedures.  Step by step instructions for developing metrics and a business case to justify data center and server automation are included.

Software analysis, documentation, migration, upgrades or replacements are daunting and risky endeavors because they are primarily manual and time-consuming. EvolveWare’s S2T Technology provides a solution to these problems with tools that automate the process up to 90%, thus reducing the time and cost of such initiatives by as much as 40-60%.

Elasticity is considered superior to traditional scalability because it attempts to exactly match resources to demand. Take a closer look at a ScaleN technology that offers a more efficient, elastic, and multi-tenant approach to meeting the challenges and demands of modern data center architectures. You’ll learn how elasticity can be achieved and how it offers multiple scalability models to better meet the sub-second failover and on-demand scalability required by modern business and IT organizations.

Are you doing enough to scale your DNS and protect your business? This paper discusses how a full-proxy architecture for DNS can address those growth and security challenges to provide a complete solution for global, local, and cloud load balancing.

Organizations are increasingly adopting a hybrid cloud computing strategy to realize the benefits without compromising on security and control. Learn of the 3 categories of solutions focused on integrating data centers with cloud.

Whether critical applications live in the cloud, in the data center, or both, organizations need a strategic point of control for application security. Learn how you can achieve the security, intelligence, and performance for today's standards.

Using strategic points of control to aggregate and dynamically provision IT resources can help organizations meet network-related challenges and move past the hype to successfully build, deploy, and secure private clouds.

Cloud computing is becoming a key IT resource, but securing applications and data in the cloud remains a concern. Secure remote access tech, web application firewalls, network-side scripting and other strategies can make cloud deployments secure.