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Impact of Cloud on IT Consumption Models: Top 10 Insights sponsored by Cisco Systems, Inc. WHITE PAPER: This whitepaper reviews the conclusions from a survey of IT leaders around the world. Posted: 08 Nov 2013 \| Published: 08 Nov 2013 TOPICS: CIOs \| Cloud Computing \| Cloud Management \| Data Center Management \| Data Centers \| IT Best Practices \| IT Infrastructure \| IT Management \| IT Management Services \| IT Managers \| IT Services \| IT Spending \| IT Systems \| IT Workforce

Enhancing Business with Smarter, More Effective Communication sponsored by Cisco Systems, Inc. WHITE PAPER: To enable effective mobile communication, organizations are increasingly spending to ensure productivity and availability. Discover cost-effective applications that improve communications, connect workers, enable collaboration and streamline processes. Posted: 27 Mar 2007 \| Published: 01 Mar 2007 TOPICS: Converged Networks \| Cost Benefit Analysis \| IP Networks \| IP Telephony \| IT Spending \| Mobile Workers \| Network Convergence \| Productivity \| Telecommuting \| Unified Messaging \| Unified Messaging Systems \| Wireless Computing

Software and Services Financing sponsored by IBM WHITE PAPER: Financing information technology hardware is an accepted way of doing business. Clients are discovering the benefits of financing software and services and are making financing of software and services one of the fastest-growing segments of the IT financing industry. This paper explains the importance of aligning financing with IT transformation. Posted: 18 Feb 2009 \| Published: 18 Feb 2009 TOPICS: Financing \| Hardware Selection \| IT Best Practices \| IT Infrastructure \| IT Spending \| Software Licensing \| Software Selection \| Software Upgrades

Nexans simplifies data center operations to ensure scalability sponsored by Hewlett-Packard Enterprise WHITE PAPER: In this case study, read up on how one organization overcame the complex IT challenges that ensued after acquiring an overseas company by adopting a cloud solution. Click to read about the benefits of a more scalable infrastructure and standardized and automated management. Posted: 04 Mar 2014 \| Published: 31 Jul 2013 TOPICS: Cloud Backup \| Cloud Storage \| Data Center Consolidation \| Data Center Management \| Data Center Networking \| Data Centers \| IT Infrastructure \| IT Management \| IT Managers \| IT Spending

Rethinking People Costs in Enterprise IT sponsored by Rackspace Technology WHITE PAPER: This white paper explores how to assess your IT people spend and position IT as a central driver of business growth. Posted: 15 Oct 2014 \| Published: 12 Aug 2014 TOPICS: IT Asset Management \| IT Best Practices \| IT Governance \| IT Infrastructure \| IT Management \| IT Managers \| IT Outsourcing Services \| IT Services \| IT Spending \| Talent Management

Advances in Data Warehouse Performance sponsored by IBM WHITE PAPER: Learn how DB2 can help you meet the demands of business intelligence by reducing query response time from hours to seconds, supporting real time data warehousing, and optimizing your storage while lowering operating costs. Posted: 28 Nov 2007 \| Published: 01 May 2007 TOPICS: Business Intelligence \| Clustering \| Data Storage \| Data Warehouses \| Database Management \| Database Performance Management \| DB2 \| IT Spending \| Logical Partitions \| Query Tools \| Self-Service Applications Software \| Server Management

UC&C Technology Adoption Leads to Increased Business Value sponsored by Cisco WHITE PAPER: This Technology Adoption Profile synthesizes the latest research on the adoption of modern unified communications and collaboration technologies and the value that it provides to companies. Posted: 02 Apr 2014 \| Published: 31 Jul 2013 TOPICS: Business Intelligence \| Collaboration \| Collaborative Applications Software \| Communications Systems \| Customer Interaction Services \| Customer Satisfaction \| Enterprise \| IT Departments \| IT Spending \| Productivity \| Project Management \| Unified Messaging \| Unified Messaging Systems \| Video Chat Software \| Videoconferences \| Videoconferencing Services \| Videoconferencing Software \| Videoconferencing Systems \| VoIP

Running IT as a Business: Seven Steps to Aligning IT with the Business sponsored by SAS WHITE PAPER: This white paper outlines the 7 steps to aligning IT with the business. Find out what they are and how they can help your business provide customer-driven results. Posted: 27 Jun 2011 \| Published: 27 Jun 2011 TOPICS: Business Performance Management \| IT Best Practices \| IT Management \| IT Spending \| ROI \| Strategic Planning \| TCO

Architecting the Composable Enterprise sponsored by MuleSoft WHITE PAPER: This whitepaper dives into the world of composable IT, or the concept of modular, restructurable infrastructure. Access now to see how companies that leverage this mentality are keeping ahead of trends while remaining profitable, and what challenges they are facing. Posted: 05 Nov 2015 \| Published: 05 Nov 2015 TOPICS: IT Asset Management \| IT Best Practices \| IT Industry \| IT Infrastructure \| IT Management \| IT Spending \| IT Systems

Simplify the Data Center Network and Optimize Operations with LAN and SAN Convergence sponsored by DellEMC and Intel® WHITE PAPER: In this informative white paper, explore the challenges in maintaining costs of virtualized data center operations, and unveil the benefits of converging local area network (LAN) and storage area network (SAN) to keep up with today's evolving needs. Posted: 12 Nov 2013 \| Published: 30 Apr 2013 TOPICS: Cloud Computing \| Cloud Management \| DAS \| Data Center Management \| Data Center Networking \| Data Centers \| IT Spending \| LAN \| Network Architectures \| Network Convergence \| Network Infrastructure \| Network Management \| Network Managers \| Network Monitoring \| Network Performance \| Network Traffic Management \| Networking \| SAN