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The Accelerated SMB: Moving at the Speed of Virtualization
sponsored by AMD
WHITE PAPER: IT is a strategic partner in businesses of all types and sizes, but especially in the small to medium-sized business. Take a look at this exclusive resource to learn how virtualization is a relevant and practical method for the growing SMB to streamline processes and reduce operational costs.
Posted: 09 Aug 2011 | Published: 09 Aug 2011

AMD

Building Your Backup and Disaster Recovery Plan 101
sponsored by StorageCraft Technology Corporation
WHITE PAPER: Small and medium businesses cannot afford to lose access for their data. Research shows that even brief server failures lead most smaller businesses to shut their doors for good. In light of this, any business should develop a workable backup and disaster recovery plan.
Posted: 04 Jul 2011 | Published: 30 Jun 2011

StorageCraft Technology Corporation

Storage Usability a Critical Requirement for IT in Small and Medium-sized Businesses and Remote Offices
sponsored by EMC
WHITE PAPER: Today’s business environment requires a more optimized approach to IT sprawl. EMC’s new VNXe series storage system in conjunction with the company’s Unisphere storage management address IT staff’s demand for improved “usability” in storage solutions.
Posted: 23 Jun 2011 | Published: 23 Jun 2011

EMC

Virtual Gains: The Benefits of Dell Hardware with Hyper-V
sponsored by Dell EMC and Microsoft
WHITE PAPER: Read on to learn what SMBs should consider before implementing virtualisation as well as the specific benefits of using Dell hardware with Microsoft’s Hyper-V virtualisation solution.
Posted: 22 Jun 2011 | Published: 21 Jun 2011

Dell EMC and Microsoft

Designing and Implementing a Medium Server Farm with SharePoint 2010
sponsored by DellEMC and Intel®
WHITE PAPER: This paper discusses key criteria and decision points for determining what server and storage hardware are appropriate for a medium-sized SharePoint Server 2010 farm. It offers guidelines and rules of thumb for determining how much storage space should be allocated, and when separate storage volumes are desirable.
Posted: 15 Jun 2011 | Published: 15 Jun 2011

DellEMC and Intel®

Collaboration Guide for Medium Business
sponsored by DellEMC and Intel®
WHITE PAPER: Success increasingly relies on users being able to communicate from anywhere in a cost-effective and secure manner. Organizations seek integrated productivity tools that enable real-time collaboration. This guide shows the process for implementing Microsoft collaboration tools in a medium sized company, one with fewer than 1000 employees.
Posted: 15 Jun 2011 | Published: 15 Jun 2011

DellEMC and Intel®

Collaboration Guide for Small Business
sponsored by DellEMC and Intel®
WHITE PAPER: Success increasingly relies on users being able to communicate from anywhere in a cost-effective and secure manner. Organizations seek integrated productivity tools that enable real-time collaboration. This guide shows the process for implementing Microsoft collaboration tools in a small company, one with fewer than 250 employees.
Posted: 15 Jun 2011 | Published: 15 Jun 2011

DellEMC and Intel®

MPLS Networks for Small and Mid-Size Business: Performance-enhancing IT Services with Reduced Costs
sponsored by MegaPath Inc.
WHITE PAPER: In this paper, learn the opportunities MPLS networks can bring to SMBs and uncover how you can reduce costs while enhancing performance.
Posted: 20 May 2011 | Published: 20 May 2011

MegaPath Inc.

Selecting a Virtualization Solution for Your Small or Midsize Business
sponsored by VMware, Inc.
WHITE PAPER: It’s often difficult for businesses to evaluate competing virtualization platforms. Despite superficial similarities, different providers' platforms are far from identical. This paper compares the VMware vSphere virtualization platform to two alternatives, focusing on features and issues.
Posted: 19 Apr 2011 | Published: 19 Apr 2011

VMware, Inc.

Top Ten IT Systems Management Pain Points
sponsored by Kaseya
WHITE PAPER: Managing the IT infrastructure for small and mid-sizedcompanies is a thankless job. People just don’tunderstand the expertise, time and patience required.Kaseya presents the top ten IT management pain pointsand our solution for making your life easier.
Posted: 12 Apr 2011 | Published: 12 Apr 2011

Kaseya

The SMB IT Decision Maker’s Guide: How SaaS Can Benefit the IT Help Desk
sponsored by BMC Software, Inc.
WHITE PAPER: Small and midsize businesses that are using software as a service (SaaS) to automate their IT help desk(s) and IT infrastructure are reporting significant savings. Check out this white paper to learn more about the benefits of SaaS.
Posted: 05 Apr 2011 | Published: 05 Apr 2011

BMC Software, Inc.

SAP Outsourcing for Mid-Market Companies: A Comparison of Three Leading Providers
sponsored by itelligence, Inc.
WHITE PAPER: Running a business on SAP requires that the application be available 7x24, data be secure, and that the application can grow with an organization. The decision to select an outsourcer goes far beyond finding a data center. Read this paper and learn what questions to ask in order to select an outstanding SAP outsourcing provider.
Posted: 28 Mar 2011 | Published: 28 Mar 2011

itelligence, Inc.

Driving Growth and Delivering Value through the Channel
sponsored by EMC
WHITE PAPER: In support of the launch of the new SMB focused VNXe unified storage systems, EMC recently announced sweeping enhancements and additions to its award winning Velocity Solutions Provider Program. Access the IDC report now to further details.
Posted: 15 Mar 2011 | Published: 15 Mar 2011

EMC

Top Five Reasons to Sell EMC’s New VNXe Series Unified Storage
sponsored by EMC Backup and Recovery Solutions
WHITE PAPER: Learn how to Increase your opportunities and shorten your sales cycle by selling the EMC® VNXe™ series, a new unified storage offering for small and medium-size businesses. Continue reading this paper to learn the top five reasons to sell EMC’s new VNXe series unified storage.
Posted: 14 Mar 2011 | Published: 14 Mar 2011

EMC Backup and Recovery Solutions

Maximizing Business Continuity and Minimizing Recovery Time Objectives in Windows Server Environments
sponsored by StorageCraft Technology Corporation
WHITE PAPER: This white paper outlines each of these issues, why they are important for SMBs to address and how to resolve them while maximizing business continuity and minimizing IT resources necessary to accomplish the demands of maintaining Windows servers.
Posted: 18 Feb 2011 | Published: 18 Feb 2011

StorageCraft Technology Corporation

Avoiding System and Data Loss with Windows Desktops and Laptops
sponsored by StorageCraft Technology Corporation
WHITE PAPER: This white paper outlines each of these issues, why they are important for SMBs to address and how to resolve them while maximizing business continuity and minimizing IT resources necessary to accomplish the demands of backing up and recovering Windows desktops and laptops in your environment.
Posted: 18 Feb 2011 | Published: 18 Feb 2011

StorageCraft Technology Corporation

EMC VNXe Series
sponsored by EMC Computer Systems (UK) Ltd.
WHITE PAPER: The EMC VNXe series redefines networked storage for the small business to small enterprise user, delivering an unequaled combination of features, simplicity, and efficiency. This paper takes an in-depth look at the EMC VNXe series hardware and base software solutions.
Posted: 12 Feb 2011 | Published: 12 Feb 2011

EMC Computer Systems (UK) Ltd.

Creating a Business Case for Virtualization in the SMB Data Center
sponsored by Dell, Inc. and Intel®
WHITE PAPER: This paper offers a guide for presenting the relatively high costs of expanding physical environments and the savings components of virtualization.
Posted: 28 Jan 2011 | Published: 27 Jan 2011

Dell, Inc. and Intel®

Six Reasons to Get Smarter About Storage
sponsored by Cisco Systems, Inc.
WHITE PAPER: A growing trend in small businesses is to solve storage problems with a simpler, more elegant technology: network-attached storage (NAS). Continue reading to learn about NAS appliances such as Cisco® Small Business NSS 300 Series Smart Storage solution, as well as learn the reasons why it differs from other NAS storage method.
Posted: 21 Jan 2011 | Published: 21 Jan 2011

Cisco Systems, Inc.

How to Get More for Your Storage Dollar: Cool Applications
sponsored by Cisco Systems, Inc.
WHITE PAPER: If you've heard of network-attached storage (NAS), you know that this technology can centralize data storage for high availability and security. But now NAS does much more, for about the same price. Continue reading to learn more.
Posted: 21 Jan 2011 | Published: 21 Jan 2011

Cisco Systems, Inc.

Investing in IP Phones: How to Control Costs, Now and Later
sponsored by Cisco Systems, Inc.
WHITE PAPER: Businesses that use voice over IP (VoIP) service and IP phones gain many advantages. No wonder desktop IP phones are used by more than a third of small and medium-sized businesses surveyed in Europe and North America. Continue reading to learn more and discover how to make the best investment through seven key questions.
Posted: 20 Jan 2011 | Published: 20 Jan 2011

Cisco Systems, Inc.

Stepping Up to the Cloud: Managing Changes and Migration for Mid-sized Business
sponsored by SAP AG
WHITE PAPER: This paper looks at both the strategic benefits and the strategic challenges of moving to Cloud and SaaS for mid-sized businesses, using insights developed from more than eight years of SaaS and Cloud research among user executives by Saugatuck Technology.
Posted: 17 Jan 2011 | Published: 14 Jan 2011

SAP AG

Automating Fax and Email Orders into SAP to Complete Your E-Vision
sponsored by Esker Inc.
WHITE PAPER: This paper gives an overview of key considerations for implementing a solution to automate fax and email orders into your SAP system. Highlighting the advantages of an all-in-one platform approach vs. maintaining a mix of different applications, this paper outlines how to eliminate the time, cost and errors of manual order processing.
Posted: 20 Dec 2010 | Published: 20 Dec 2010

Esker Inc.

SMB Communications Study: Uncovering the hidden cost of communications barriers and latency
sponsored by Siemens Enterprise Communications
WHITE PAPER: The follwing white paper outlines the findings of a study sponsored by Siemens Enterprise Communications and prepared by SIS International Research. It discusses and quantifies the hidden cost of communications barriers and latency that small and medium sized business.
Posted: 02 Dec 2010 | Published: 02 Dec 2010

Siemens Enterprise Communications

Symantec 2010 SMB Information Protection Survey
sponsored by Symantec Corporation
WHITE PAPER: Small and midsized businesses (SMBs) have a reputation of being somewhat lax when it comes to information protection. Symantec’s last SMB survey, for example, showed a high percentage of SMBs had failed to enact even the most basic protections- Which is why this year’s SMB Information Protection Survey is so surprising. Read on to learn more.
Posted: 29 Nov 2010 | Published: 29 Nov 2010

Symantec Corporation