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WEBCAST: This webcast discusses some of the information security challenges utility companies face, and provides an overview of how total security intelligence solutions from Accuvant and Q1 Labs can be essential components of a comprehensive, cyber-security program as mandated by the NERC-CIP, and other utility-focused, regulatory requirements.

Posted: 24 Feb 2012 | Premiered: 24 Feb 2012

WHITE PAPER: This white paper discusses how one organization leveraged an advanced virtual solution to build a private cloud so that they could rapidly access data in a cost-effective manner. Learn how this platform helped them to meet the needs of their business and review the significant benefits they are now enjoying.

Posted: 18 May 2012 | Published: 18 May 2012

WHITE PAPER: Read this paper to discover the solution that Fairfax Water implemented to eliminate manual tracking and handling of IT service requests and gain deeper insight into service quality, costs, and other metrics within its SAP environment.

Posted: 14 May 2012 | Published: 14 May 2012

WHITE PAPER: In this IDG Tech Dossier, learn how utility storage makes for massive consolidation, flexibility and scalability, so IT departments can reduce storage infrastructure and lower costs while improving their ability to respond to fast-changing needs of business units.

Posted: 18 May 2012 | Published: 18 May 2012

PRESENTATION TRANSCRIPT: In this presentation transcript, learn how virtualization can benefit your disaster recovery and high availability strategy. Discover the differences between physical and virtual environments and learn about architectural considerations to support virtualization.

Posted: 25 Jan 2010 | Published: 25 Jan 2010

WEBCAST: This webcast will show you how to quantify BPM ROI and build the business case. It will also look at ways to leverage your existing systems to produce BPM benefits.

Posted: 20 Nov 2005 | Premiered: 20 Nov 2005

WHITE PAPER: There is a well-spring of features and capabilities of Microsoft's Exchange Server 2007 messaging platform. The longer you use it, the more treasures you can pull up from the deep. In this paper, we'll look at and discuss five things you probably don't know about Exchange Server 2007.

Posted: 27 Jul 2009 | Published: 27 Jul 2009

CASE STUDY: Turner Padget Graham & Laney, P.A., a Columbia, South Carolina-based law firm with five locations throughout the state sought to consolidate legacy servers, improve availability for remote users, boost storage capacity and implement a new disaster recovery DR/BC strategy. Read this case study to learn about their new Dell and VMware solutions.

Posted: 17 Aug 2009 | Published: 17 Aug 2009

ESSENTIAL GUIDE: Cleantech is emerging as a suitable alternative source of energy or a means of reducing  consumption of expensive resources, this report from Grant Thornton reveals.

Posted: 01 May 2012 | Published: 01 May 2012

EGUIDE: Since power and cooling is needed to run the data center, it is essential that data center managers find ways to lower costs. This expert e-guide explores how you can implement the right power and cooling strategies for your environment to reduce overall energy costs.

Posted: 31 Oct 2011 | Published: 31 Oct 2011

WHITE PAPER: This white paper outlines the rise of mobile applications and why code signing certificates are a key factor in protecting them from cybercriminals.

Posted: 19 Apr 2012 | Published: 19 Apr 2012

WHITE PAPER: Discover why data center power consumption has become a driving force behind operational and investment decisions. Gain insight into cloud and IT service providers need for a data center power management solution – one that enables IT to attain a holistic view of demand and consumption at a device, circuit, and phase level.

Posted: 15 May 2012 | Published: 15 May 2012

WHITE PAPER: While many organizations rely on peak-load testing to ensure optimal application performance, balancing infrastructure costs and testing needs can be very challenging. This white paper introduces a new approach to application testing -- the cloud. Learn more about cloud-based application testing and review the key benefits it offers.

Posted: 20 Apr 2012 | Published: 20 Apr 2012

WHITE PAPER: This paper outlines how one specific business intelligence (BI) platform can benefit your financial organization. Read this now and learn how CFO dashboards can be used to measure, monitor and optimize banking performance, why creating a risk intelligent enterprise is critical, how to efficiently manage customers and investments and so much more.

Posted: 24 May 2012 | Published: 24 May 2012

EBOOK: Read this expert e-book by BI visionary Wayne Eckerson and gain insight into the growing adoption rates of big data technology and learn why companies are finally recognizing its many benefits. Eckerson offers a comparison of open-source options and analytical platforms, and also dives into an analysis on the varying types of processing systems.

Posted: 09 May 2012 | Published: 09 May 2012

CASE STUDY: Read this white paper to learn the benefits that a multinational manufacturer achieved after they replaced four different enterprise resource planning (ERP) applications with one single system.

Posted: 12 Mar 2012 | Published: 12 Mar 2012

WHITE PAPER: The efficiency ratings of a data centre can vary substantially depending on what methodologies are used. This paper  discusses the importance of measuring data centre efficiency and explores the issues companies face when establishing the PUE of an infrastructure.

Posted: 09 Nov 2011 | Published: 09 Nov 2011

EBOOK: This expert e-book provides strategies to reliably measure the energy efficiency of your data center. Learn how your organization can apply metrics in a consistent way allowing for improved power consumption.

Posted: 22 May 2012 | Published: 22 May 2012

ANALYST BRIEF: A look at alternative approaches to managing energy for cost and/or sustainability reasons in data centres.

Posted: 16 Jan 2012 | Published: 16 Jan 2012

WHITE PAPER: This paper covers many of the complications and complexities of managing a call center. It explores the various solutions available and offers pros and cons to each of the options. It shows the positive financial impact picking the right choice can have.

Posted: 01 Mar 2012 | Published: 01 Mar 2012

WHITE PAPER: This resource explores how SCADA systems have inherent vulnerabilities that can be best resolved by adhering to security best practices, and how network security solutions can be used to mitigate the risk to SCADA systems

Posted: 15 May 2012 | Published: 15 May 2012

EBOOK: Being able to automatically deploy virtual machines to users is one key advantage of the private cloud. Creating and enforcing strict policies and objectives will keep VM provisioning—and over provisioning—under control. Access this white paper to learn best practices for automated VM deployment.

Posted: 23 Nov 2010 | Published: 23 Nov 2010

EBOOK: This expert handbook explains how to set up a data center cooling monitoring system, looks at how increasing server inlet temperatures can optimize cooling efficiency and outlines methods for building hot-aisle/cold-aisle containment systems.

Posted: 11 Aug 2011 | Published: 11 Aug 2011

WHITE PAPER: This resource examines the causes of today’s data center power and cooling crisis and outlines 5 steps businesses can take to remove inefficiencies from their power and cooling infrastructure.

Posted: 07 Feb 2012 | Published: 07 Feb 2012

WHITE PAPER: Today, IT has become a valuable asset of any organization. Because of this, data center availability has become essential. Yet businesses still remain vulnerable to a variety of threats, including electrical power systems. This resource explores 10 best practices for building and maintaining a highly available data center power infrastructure.

Posted: 02 Feb 2012 | Published: 02 Feb 2012