Performance Under Pressure: The State of Enterprise Web Application Quality and Availability
| sponsored by Oracle Corporation
WHITE PAPER:
Take a look at this important survey, which sought managers and professionals perspectives, both as external customers of e-business sites, as well as caretakers of their own online operations.
Posted: 18 Sep 2009 | Published: 01 Jul 2009
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Warehouse Management Today: Balancing Financial Pressures and Growing Demands
| sponsored by SAP America Inc
WHITE PAPER:
This paper explains why a warehouse management system (WMS) is one of the key technologies required to create a successful adaptive supply chain network. This system enables the extended warehouse to sense and respond to a variety of business requirements and meet complex and changing customer needs.
Posted: 26 Jan 2009 | Published: 23 Jan 2009
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Server Virtualization Solution for Wipfli CPA and Consultants
| sponsored by CDW Corporation
CASE STUDY:
Read this case study to learn how CDW helped Wipfli CPA and Consultants optimize their IT environment to overcome power, cooling, and space challenges, while simultaneously improving IT response times.
Posted: 09 Sep 2009 | Published: 09 Sep 2009
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Green IT: Beyond the Data Center -- How IT Can Contribute to the Environmental Agenda Across and Beyond the Business
| sponsored by Accenture
WHITE PAPER:
This whitepaper looks at the ecological impact of a business's entire IT infrastructure and provides the CIO with a holistic prospective to a business's carbon footprint.
Posted: 18 Feb 2009 | Published: 18 Feb 2009
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The Perfect Storm - Why Now Is The Time For Open Source
| sponsored by Red Hat and Intel
WHITE PAPER:
Open source is recognized for its ease of use, high performance, and affordability, especially amidst turbulent economic conditions. The high value of open source, coupled with economic and organizational pressure, represents a "perfect storm" for CIOs, giving them the opportunity to deploy high-performing, cost-effective open source solutions.
Posted: 19 Jun 2009 | Published: 01 Jun 2009
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Unlock the Hidden IT Opportunities in Troubled Economic Times
| sponsored by BMC Software, Inc
WHITE PAPER:
IT executives are under intense pressure to cut costs, and that pressure is significantly increased by the current grim economic outlook. So, how can your organization weather this economic storm? Surprisingly, a variety of opportunities for IT are hidden within today's financial challenges. Learn how with the right approach, processes, and...
Posted: 18 Jun 2009 | Published: 15 Jun 2009
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Virtualization For Better, Faster, More Cost-Effective Quality Assurance
| sponsored by Hewlett-Packard Company
WHITE PAPER:
Read this white paper to learn how adding Surgient VQMS to HP Quality Center
helps you centrally manage and allocate test lab resources from HP Quality Center across multiple and distributed teams according to business policies and quotas, and more.
Posted: 12 Nov 2009 | Published: 01 Apr 2008
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Leveraging Virtualisation for a Competitive Edge Improve Application Availability and Resource Provisioning
| sponsored by Virtustream
WHITE PAPER:
This paper will discuss the 5 areas of Virtualisation technology and introduce you to a virtualized framework solution from Virtustream that will not only provide the maximum ROI, but will address issues from a business perspective as well as an IT perspective, with a constant eye on the calculator for any business investment - your TCO.
Posted: 11 Nov 2009 | Published: 11 Nov 2009
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Presentation Transcript: Achieving Breakthrough Performance in Analytics and Reporting
| sponsored by Sybase, Inc.
PRESENTATION TRANSCRIPT:
This transcript of the Sybase webcast, "Achieving Breakthrough Performance in Analytics and Reporting" explains why Sybase IQ is the #1 column-based analytics server for business analytics and reporting. Read on to learn how Sybase IQ can relieve the pressure on your transaction systems without creating extra workloads or breaking the bank.
Posted: 26 Oct 2009 | Published: 26 Oct 2009
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10 Key Actions to Reduce IT Infrastructure and Operations Cost Structure
| sponsored by Nimsoft, Inc.
ANALYST REPORT:
Infrastructure and operations (I&O) comprise 60% or more of total IT spending worldwide. I&O leaders are under intensifying pressure to reduce costs. This Gartner research note outlines the key actions that should be taken to change the I&O cost structure in the short term (through 2010) and in the longer term (during the next three years).
Posted: 04 Nov 2009 | Published: 04 Nov 2009
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Dynamic Infrastructure - Helping Build a Smarter Planet: Delivering Superior Business and IT Services with Agility and Speed
| sponsored by IBM
WHITE PAPER:
IBM has developed a strategy for a dynamic infrastructure that will help organizations address higher service expectations, rising cost pressures and new risks and threats.
Posted: 02 Oct 2009 | Published: 13 Feb 2009
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REDUCING COSTS THROUGH BETTER SERVER UTILIZATION: An IT Director's Guide
| sponsored by Sun Microsystems, Inc.
WHITE PAPER:
Keeping datacenters agile is key as IT organizations support dynamically changing business priorities and cope with economic pressures. By consolidating systems onto the latest server technology and taking advantage of virtualization techniques, enterprises can optimize datacenter efficiency, gain flexibility, and reduce operating costs.
Posted: 04 Jun 2009 | Published: 01 Mar 2009
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Redefining the Economics of Running the Modern Data Center
| sponsored by Eaton Corporation
WHITE PAPER:
The cost of operating the data center is outpacing the cost of IT resources themselves. High-density equipment pressures power and cooling systems to the max. Learn of the new approaches and technologies that are redefining the economics of running the modern data center.
Posted: 16 Sep 2009 | Published: 16 Sep 2009
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Open, Manage, and Accelerate SSL Encrypted Applications
| sponsored by Blue Coat
WHITE PAPER:
Enterprise users and their data have never been further apart. Business pressures that keep employees out of headquarters and close to customers and partners have met head-on with other drivers that are bringing far flung servers back to the datacenter.
Posted: 20 Sep 2007 | Published: 01 Sep 2007
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Secure and Cost-Effective Data Transport: Encryption Over Layer 2 Ethernet for Safe and Affordable End-to-End Connectivity
| sponsored by Thales
WHITE PAPER:
This white paper addresses the concerns of chief information officers and network architects worried about how to best utilize new data transport infrastructures from an economic, operational, and security perspective. The purpose of this paper is to assist decision makers selecting new data transport methods and infrastructures.
Posted: 12 May 2009 | Published: 01 May 2009
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BMC Mainview: Controlling Mainframe Operating Costs While Maintaining Service Levels
| sponsored by BMC Software, Inc
WHITE PAPER:
Directors of IT operations are under pressure to control or reduce mainframe operating costs while maintaining service levels to the business. This paper describes how BMC® MAINVIEW® from BMC Software uniquely delivers aggressive and strategic performance management and optimization.
Posted: 17 Apr 2009 | Published: 17 Apr 2009
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The Need for Profitability and Cost Management
| sponsored by Oracle Corporation
WHITE PAPER:
As indirect costs rise and economic pressures increase, the need for profitability and cost management (PCM) also grows. Read this white paper to find out more about how PCM drives business performance by finding drivers of cost and profitability, empowering users with visibility and flexibility, and improving resource alignment.
Posted: 14 Sep 2009 | Published: 01 Sep 2008
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Innovations in Managing IT Service Quality: Managing Service Quality and Risk to Service Delivery in a Lean Economy
| sponsored by CA
WHITE PAPER:
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.
Posted: 26 Jun 2009 | Published: 01 Apr 2009
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Is Security Driving How You Run Your Business? Empower Your Organization with Strategic Security
| sponsored by McAfee, Inc.
WHITE PAPER:
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.
Posted: 27 Aug 2009 | Published: 26 Aug 2009
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Business Intelligence for the Health Care Industry: Actionable Insights for Business Decision Makers
| sponsored by SAP America Inc
WHITE PAPER:
Hospitals from across the world are facing increased pressure to improve operations from multiple directions. What is needed is a new generation of business intelligence (BI) tools and applications designed with the health care sector in mind, capable of integrating cross and inter-departmental processes and information.
Posted: 26 Jan 2009 | Published: 23 Jan 2009
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Cloud computing 101
| sponsored by Platform Computing Corporation
PODCAST:
Tune into this podcast for expert insight into the impact of cloud computing on your IT infrastructure. Hear from cloud computing expert, Jeff Kaplan, as he explains the basic pressures driving cloud computing. Learn about Amazon's influence on the cloud market and discover the 3 elements that attract enterprises to the cloud.
Posted: 29 Oct 2009 | Premiered: 29 Oct 2009
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Implementing a PLC Calibration Routine to Ensure Accurate Instrument Readings
| sponsored by AutomationDirect
TECHNICAL ARTICLE:
The calibration method described in this article can be applied to any analog measurement such as pressure, amperage, weight, length or force.
Posted: 02 May 2008 | Published: 30 Apr 2008
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Blue Coat and VMware
| sponsored by Blue Coat
PRODUCT LITERATURE:
Check out this solution brief to see how the joint Blue Coat and VMware solution enables IT organizations to consolidate servers and perform disaster recovery operations in real-time, without the risk of performance degradation due to latency or limited bandwidth.
Posted: 29 Jun 2009 | Published: 26 Dec 2008
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Uncovering Insight Hidden In Text: How Unstructured Data Analysis Is Helping IT Deliver Knowledge
| sponsored by SAP BusinessObjects
WHITE PAPER:
With business units demanding more access to corporate data, IT is pressured to deliver. Yet current business intelligence (BI) and data warehouse systems only examine specific quantifiable data. This white paper from Business Objects, explores the growth trend of unstructured data and examines the many benefits of unstructured data analysis.
Posted: 19 Jun 2009 | Published: 19 Jun 2009
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Growth And Complexity: The Challenges Ahead For Midsize Manufacturers
| sponsored by SAP America Inc
WHITE PAPER:
This is the first in a series of six reports addressing the opportunities and challenges faced by midsize manufacturers.
Posted: 08 Jun 2009 | Published: 02 Jun 2009
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