User Needs Assessments

WHITE PAPER: This white paper presents 13 somewhat common infrastructure decisions that can result in poor IT security. It is possible that your organization can improve its security in one or more of these areas. Take the time to assess your current security policy in each of these areas to see if there is room for refinement or improvement.

Posted: 17 Dec 2010 | Published: 17 Dec 2010

WHITE PAPER: When it comes to IT certifications, not all certifications are equally valued by companies. Find out the top 15 certifications most in demand for 2012 and what their corresponding salaries are on average. Discover which certifications will net you a 6-figure salary.

Posted: 02 Feb 2012 | Published: 02 Feb 2012

WHITE PAPER: This paper examines that while the global economic recession of recent years has largely been replaced by a lethargic recovery, many workers continue to be impacted by job loss, reduction insalary and benefits, or job change.

Posted: 20 Mar 2011 | Published: 20 Mar 2011

WHITE PAPER: Changing or consolidating job schedulers may seem daunting. However, the benefits of switching to enterprise workload automation outweigh the risks. Read how BMC can help realize goals like reduced cost, top-down visibility, improved SLAs, and a single enterprise view across all platforms.

Posted: 20 Oct 2011 | Published: 20 Oct 2011

WHITE PAPER: A patchwork of job schedulers can cause many inefficiencies, hindering IT’s ability to serve the business. An enterprise approach solves these issues and adds new value. Five steps can take you from a costly mishmash to benefits like increased productivity, lower costs, and better service.

Posted: 19 Oct 2011 | Published: 19 Oct 2011

WHITE PAPER: Servers are the workhorse of the modern business, and as IT demands increase, so your server technology needs to be able to grow and scale cost-effectively to meet future requirements.

Posted: 20 Oct 2011 | Published: 20 Oct 2011

WHITE PAPER: This white paper compares private cloud solutions from Microsoft and VMware by using private cloud industry standard concepts and defining the technology benefits of Microsoft private cloud solutions.

Posted: 10 Jan 2012 | Published: 10 Jan 2012

WHITE PAPER: Recent technology advances in five key areas put efficiency gains on the fast track. Here's how Dell can help CIOs capitalize on virtualization, mobility management, storage optimization, cloud services, and automated IT management.

Posted: 14 May 2010 | Published: 14 May 2010

WHITE PAPER: Recent technology advances in five key areas put efficiency gains on the fast track. Here's how Dell can help CIOs capitalize on virtualization, mobility management, storage optimization, cloud services, and automated IT management.

Posted: 05 Apr 2010 | Published: 05 Apr 2010

WHITE PAPER: New application technologies, such as composite application architectures, cloud computing, and mobile platforms, and new software development methodologies, such as agile, make functional testing more challenging for the quality assurance (QA) organization. Read this paper to learn how to address the challenges of these new IT initiatives.

Posted: 22 Nov 2011 | Published: 22 Nov 2011

WHITE PAPER: HP Converged Systems are designed to deliver the business value of applications faster, more predictably, and with less risk. While other companies can deliver pieces and parts of a solution, only HP can deliver this level of innovation across the full breadth of your business demands. Read this white paper to learn more.

Posted: 11 Nov 2011 | Published: 11 Nov 2011

WHITE PAPER: Typical IT departments feature islands of isolated infrastructure, leading to inefficient use of servers. The "application grid" concept allows data centres to run more efficiently, using less hardware and less software. This paper explains.

Posted: 09 Sep 2009 | Published: 09 Sep 2009

WHITE PAPER: This paper explores the challenges of trying to deliver quick time-to -value for IT projects and achieve the status of ‘agile enterprise’. It illustrates how IBM® WebSphere® ILOG BRMS can facilitate the alignment of IT with business and support the implementation of an ADS to provide business value within months of project adoption.

Posted: 12 Dec 2010 | Published: 12 Dec 2010

WHITE PAPER: For the 11th year in succession, the Airline IT Trends Survey tracks the key technology trends in the airline industry. It demonstrates the role that the survey’s global benchmarks play in underlining the importance of IT within the airline industry, while also stimulating debate in boardrooms worldwide about the way ahead.

Posted: 24 Oct 2011 | Published: 24 Oct 2011

WHITE PAPER: Read this e-book to learn how to approach application lifecycle management (ALM) in order to deliver the timely, effective, modern applications that real business outcomes rely on.

Posted: 22 Nov 2011 | Published: 22 Nov 2011

WHITE PAPER: This white paper explores how organizations can integrate an agile framework without exposing themselves to undue risk caused by the transition.

Posted: 14 Jul 2011 | Published: 14 Jul 2011

WHITE PAPER: As companies face the prospect of a recession, IT is even more challenged to justify and deliver value while avoiding risky projects.  This is not the time to slash budgets; instead, follow a few rules to simplify decision making and focus your investment in areas that deliver the greatest return.

Posted: 20 Oct 2011 | Published: 20 Oct 2011

WHITE PAPER: The cloud continues to drive both rapid ROI and new ISV business models.  Beyond the cloud, expect 2010 to bring greater use of analytics, automation, and CRM, and a permanent shift in structural unemployment.  Bid auf Wiedersehen to the vendors who still haven’t gotten it.

Posted: 24 Oct 2011 | Published: 24 Oct 2011

WHITE PAPER: A key component of operating a successful IT infrastructure is application performance management (APM), for which business transaction management (BTM) plays an important role in ensuring a positive end-user experience. APM helps organizations focus on end-to-end monitoring, measuring, and resolution of end-user problems.

Posted: 20 Jan 2012 | Published: 20 Jan 2012

WHITE PAPER: View this whitepaper and learn how Oracle WebLogic Server 10.3 adds support to the WLS Clustering infrastructure by eliminating the need for human intervention through the use of automatic migration. 

Posted: 11 Mar 2011 | Published: 11 Mar 2011

WHITE PAPER: Find out how to measure ROI for your business. Companies of all sizes constantly evaluate their operations, seeking to make changes that will increase effectiveness while controlling costs. This paper offers concrete practices, processes, and recommendations to drive the ROI of a company's IT investment (ROIT).

Posted: 29 Jan 2010 | Published: 29 Jan 2010

WHITE PAPER: This white paper details best practices for a smooth migration from Exchange 2003 to Exchange 2010. Review how to identify and minimize risks before migration, prepare the existing infrastructure, and perform the actual migration.

Posted: 19 Jul 2011 | Published: 19 Jul 2011

WHITE PAPER: This white paper describes how to build a better business case for BI, by understanding the level of ambition organizations can have and the layers in the business case that should contribute to that level of ambition.

Posted: 16 Dec 2010 | Published: 16 Dec 2010

WHITE PAPER: Dell is moving well beyond industry expectations to unlock data center efficiency and help organizations work toward the goal of returning as much as 50 percent of their IT budgets. Read this white paper to learn about the Dell Efficient Data Center model and how it can help lower costs and increae IT efficiency.

Posted: 02 Jun 2010 | Published: 02 Jun 2010

WHITE PAPER: Learn how IT can improve its overall contribution to business innovation with an action-oriented business intelligence (BI) and analytics strategy.

Posted: 24 Jan 2012 | Published: 24 Jan 2012