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ALSO CALLED: IT Vendors DEFINITION: A vendor (pronounced VEHN-duhr, from French vendre, meaning to sell) is any person or company that sells goods or services to somone else in the economic production chain. Parts manufacturers are vendors of parts to other manufacturers that assemble the parts into something sold to wholesalers or retailers. Retailers are vendors of products to consumers. (When you have a street fair, the people who … Definition continues below.
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The IT Management Software Megavendors sponsored by BMC Software, Inc WHITE PAPER: The current recession and credit crunch deeply affected IT spending in the last quarter of 2008 and into 2009. This SWOT Analyst report for Q3 2009 regroups the market contenders by categories for an easier evaluation to enable vendor strategy professionals to substantiate decisions about their partnership and go-to-market strategies. Posted: 27 Oct 2009 \| Published: 27 Oct 2009 TOPICS: IT Management \| IT Spending \| Middleware \| Software Implementation \| Software Licensing \| Storage Management \| Vendors

Extracting Value from Enterprise Log Data sponsored by ArcSight, Inc. WHITE PAPER: This whitepaper outlines the drivers for log management as well as their underlying challenges and drive towards a common set of requirements for evaluation of log management tools. Posted: 29 Sep 2009 \| Published: 29 Sep 2009 TOPICS: Best Practices \| Data Centers \| Databases \| HIPAA \| Log Management \| Regulatory Compliance \| Troubleshooting \| Vendors

Nine Questions Encryption Vendors Really Don’t Want to Answer: A Buyer’s Guide to Enterprise Data Encryption sponsored by PGP Corporation WHITE PAPER: Are you looking for an enterprise data encryption solution? Read this guide to learn what questions to ask vendors and why. Posted: 17 Sep 2009 \| Published: 17 Sep 2009 TOPICS: Application Integration \| Application Security \| Data Encryption \| Data Encryption Software \| Data Security \| Encryption Standards \| Vendor Selection \| Vendors

IBM CloudBurst™: Making Rain in an Economic Dry Spell sponsored by IBM WHITE PAPER: A complement to your existing IT infrastructure, IBM CloudBurst™ includes hardware, software and services, and provides secure, reliable, private cloud computing. Fit-for-purpose and self-contained, IBM CloudBurst dramatically reduces capital and operational costs, accelerating investment payback. Read on to learn more . . . Posted: 08 Sep 2009 \| Published: 08 Sep 2009 TOPICS: Cloud Computing \| Data Center Management \| Data Centers \| Data Management \| Data Storage \| Economic Environment \| Infrastructure Management \| Investments \| Platform as a service \| Private cloud computing \| ROI \| Server Management \| TCO \| Vendors

Leveraging Virtualization to Consolidate, Optimize and Protect Your IT Infrastructure sponsored by Datalink. WHITE PAPER: This paper addresses some of the critical issues of virtualization and some of the ways it can be effectively implemented to help organizations utilize resources more efficiently, reduce costs, manage data across the entire enterprise. Posted: 22 Apr 2009 \| Published: 22 Apr 2009 TOPICS: IT Infrastructure \| IT Managers \| Regulatory Compliance \| Server Virtualization \| Storage Virtualization \| Vendors \| VMware

How to Profit in a Downturn: 4 Customer-centric Strategies for Growth in a Challenging Market sponsored by Pivotal CRM, a CDC Software solution WHITE PAPER: In this white paper, learn how your organization can use customer-centric strategies and CRM tools to maximize the value and loyalty of your customer base. Gain insight into new areas of opportunity and do more with less in a time of economic uncertainty. Posted: 20 Feb 2009 \| Published: 20 Feb 2009 TOPICS: Budgeting \| Business Intelligence \| Business Process Management \| Cost Benefit Analysis \| CRM \| Customer Service \| Economic Environment \| Vendors

Vista SP1: What You Need to Know before You Deploy sponsored by Global Knowledge WHITE PAPER: The release of Windows Vista SP1 enables customers to take advantage of improvements that Microsoft and its partners have developed. It's a continuation of Microsoft and its partners' drive to provide the best experience possible. Posted: 10 Dec 2008 \| Published: 10 Dec 2008 TOPICS: BIOS \| Enterprise \| Internet \| Operating Systems \| Vendors \| Windows

The New Microsoft IT Pro Certifications and Exams sponsored by Global Knowledge WHITE PAPER: The MCITP assures that anyone possessing Microsoft certification has a breadth of knowledge on various products and is concerned with the network architecture and design. Posted: 10 Dec 2008 \| Published: 10 Dec 2008 TOPICS: Application Development \| Business Intelligence \| Certification Programs \| IT Managers \| LMS \| Network Infrastructure \| SQL Server \| Training and Educational Services \| Vendors

Integrating HP Data Protector Software with HP Data Deduplication Solutions sponsored by Hewlett-Packard Company WHITE PAPER: This white paper will discuss HP Data Protector Software which fully supports HP data deduplication technologies allowing you to recover files more quickly while reducing your data management and storage costs. Posted: 10 Dec 2008 \| Published: 10 Dec 2008 TOPICS: Continuous Data Protection \| Continuous Data Protection Software \| Data Deduplication \| Data Management \| Data Recovery \| Data Security \| Disaster Recovery \| Hardware \| High Availability \| NAS \| RAID \| SAN \| Vendors

Business Service Management: What It Is and Why You Should Care sponsored by Global Knowledge WHITE PAPER: The purpose of this business training white paper is to explain what BSM is and what it isn't and it will also describe BSM benefits. Posted: 10 Dec 2008 \| Published: 10 Dec 2008 TOPICS: Business Processes \| Business Service Management \| Databases \| Enterprise \| IT Infrastructure \| ITIL \| Training \| Training and Educational Services \| Vendors

eBook: Capacity Planning Eases Path to Virtualization sponsored by SearchCIO.com WHITE PAPER: Virtualizing any aspect of your data center changes the game for compliance and e-discovery. Posted: 10 Dec 2008 \| Published: 10 Dec 2008 TOPICS: Capacity Planning \| CIOs \| Data Centers \| Disaster Recovery \| Electronic Discovery \| ROI \| Server Virtualization \| Vendors

Sun Fire X4540 Server as Backup Server for Zmanda's Amanda Enterprise 2.6 Software sponsored by Sun Microsystems, Inc. WHITE PAPER: This guide discusses how to quickly configure the Sun Fire X4540 server as a backup server for Amanda Enterprise Edition software. Posted: 02 Dec 2008 \| Published: 02 Dec 2008 TOPICS: Backups \| Databases \| Enterprise \| Software \| SQL Server \| Vendors

Data Center Projects: Growth Model sponsored by APC WHITE PAPER: Long term data center or network room capacity planning may seem impossible in the face of evolving IT technology and business requirements. This paper shows a simple and effective way to develop a capacity plan for a data center or network room. Posted: 21 Nov 2008 \| Published: 21 Nov 2008 TOPICS: Capacity Planning \| Data Center Management \| Data Centers \| Data Management \| Storage Capacity \| Storage Systems \| TCO \| Vendors

Best Practices in Extending Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP): A Buyer's Guide to ERP versus Best of Breed Decisions sponsored by SAP America Inc WHITE PAPER: Extending ERP is the focus of this document, which encompasses utilizing more functionality, extending the footprint beyond the core ERP functionality and making decisions between ERP vendors and pure play or "Best of Breed" solutions. Posted: 19 Sep 2008 \| Published: 19 Sep 2008 TOPICS: Best Practices \| Business Intelligence \| Business Intelligence Software \| CIOs \| ERP \| Middleware \| Product Life Cycles \| SOA \| Supply Chain Management \| Vendors

Road Map for Delivering BI Publisher Documents from Oracle EBS: A Guide to the Automated Delivery of Oracle E-Business Suite Documents via Email and Fax sponsored by STR Software WHITE PAPER: This document is designed to be a guide to the Oracle E-Business Suite. It is intended to educate users, developers, managers, and executives of companies using Oracle E-Business Suite to automate and maintain the distribution of business documents Posted: 10 Sep 2008 \| Published: 10 Sep 2008 TOPICS: Communications Systems \| Cost Benefit Analysis \| Oracle (Product) \| ROI \| Vendors \| Workflow Software \| XML

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VENDORS DEFINITION (continued): … A vendor (pronounced VEHN-duhr, from French vendre, meaning to sell) is any person or company that sells goods or services to somone else in the economic production chain. Parts manufacturers are vendors of parts to other manufacturers that assemble the parts into something sold to wholesalers or retailers. Retailers are vendors of products to consumers. (When you have a street fair, the people who set up booths and tables are often referred to as vendors.) In information technology as well as in other industries, the term is commonly applied to suppliers of goods and services to other companies. A machine that takes your money and gives you a product is known as a vending machine.
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