IT Spending

WHITE PAPER: In this case study, explore how Spirit Incentives chose a cloud service to help it meet evolving business needs. Discover how this move to the cloud was accomplished in 10 days and how it enabled the company to consolidate services, reduce costs and better utilize its staff and applications.

Posted: 26 Jan 2012 | Published: 26 Jan 2012

VIDEOCAST: Take a look at this series of brief videos to gain insights into how cloud computing can help you overcome key business challenges to accelerate growth, enhance customer experiences and improve IT spending.

Posted: 09 Jan 2012 | Premiered: 09 Jan 2012

WHITE PAPER: Access this white paper to learn how you can monitor and manage public cloud investments including Infrastructure as a service (IaaS), Platform as a service (PaaS), and Software as a service (SaaS), to validate and optimize service quality.

Posted: 05 Jan 2012 | Published: 05 Jan 2012

WHITE PAPER: Learn how SaaS-based service management can help you eliminate the cost and distraction of platform maintenance, minimize upgrade costs and disruptions, tailor to the business without complex coding, and more.

Posted: 04 Jan 2012 | Published: 04 Jan 2012

WHITE PAPER: Access this report to read about an IDC study that found the Microsoft Desktop Optimization Pack (MDOP) to have a 438% ROI over three years, improving both IT and end-user productivity.

Posted: 14 Dec 2011 | Published: 14 Dec 2011

ESSENTIAL GUIDE: This paper from Kurt Salmon identifies the common inhibitors to innovation and how to overcome them, and sets out some important principles that can help organizations establish innovation more firmly within their normal operations.

Posted: 16 Nov 2011 | Published: 16 Nov 2011

WHITE PAPER: Converged Infrastructure seems like the answer to IT sprawl. Find out how you can evolve your infrastructure from a product-centric approach to a service-centric management approach to simplify IT and enhance business value.

Posted: 14 Nov 2011 | Published: 14 Nov 2011

WHITE PAPER: Although pay levels are unlikely ever again torise as fast as they did at the end of the 1990s when fears about the “millennium bug” stoked thefires of an already over-heated job market – or to fall as fast as they did when the bug failed to bite– employers are acutely aware of the need to keep a close eye on short- and long-term pay trends.

Posted: 24 Oct 2011 | Published: 24 Oct 2011

WHITE PAPER: The UK public sector is in the midst of a period of transformation and improving citizen engagement will be key to the success of this change.

Posted: 21 Oct 2011 | Published: 21 Oct 2011

EGUIDE: What is cloud computing? It depends on who you ask. In this e-guide from SearchCloudComputing.com, our experts lay out the various types of cloud models, including Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS). They reveal how virtualization and cloud computing are linked, as well as how to best use these technologies in your infrastructure.

Posted: 27 May 2011 | Published: 27 May 2011

WHITE PAPER: This expert white paper establishes the ultimate IT security goal: the most reliable preventative and detective security system possible with the least amount of capital expenditure. From common sense solutions to revolutionary concepts, instructor James Michael Stewart challenges IT pros to explore his methods of saving money on company security.

Posted: 19 May 2011 | Published: 19 May 2011

WHITE PAPER: This paper considers six ways SMBs can trim IT costs: private clouds, storage virtualization, disaster recovery, business intelligence, backup and data protection, and Windows 7 migration via virtualization.

Posted: 21 Apr 2011 | Published: 21 Apr 2011

WHITE PAPER: Download this white paper for insight into how IT's value to business is being redefined and the benefits of IT's enhanced role.

Posted: 02 Feb 2011 | Published: 02 Feb 2011

JOURNAL ARTICLE: If you'e a small or medium business owner with more than one computer, it's time to consider investing in a server. A server will keep your data secure and organized and will help you run your business more efficiently and professionally. If you've reached one of the 10 thresholds in this article, a server could do your business a world of good.

Posted: 12 May 2010 | Published: 12 May 2010

JOURNAL ARTICLE: Purchasing a server is a big ordeal for any business. It's costly, time-consuming and can sometimes be disruptive, but that initial investment in time and money usually pays off - and fast. Read this article to find out when it’s time to purchase a server and why you need to purchase one.

Posted: 12 May 2010 | Published: 12 May 2010

WHITE PAPER: Virtualization is one of the hottest topics in enterprise computing today, with advocates promoting benefits including improved business efficiency, cost savings, and mission-critical data and application protection. This series examines some of the implications of virtualization on small and medium-sized businesses.

Posted: 05 Apr 2010 | Published: 05 Apr 2010

PRESENTATION TRANSCRIPT: This SearchDisasterRecovery.com presentation transcript will give you a crash course on how to implement a cost-efficient disaster recovery plan. You'll hear an overview of disaster recovery and recieve some general advice to get you started on the business and technology considerations that are going to be crucial to you.

Posted: 17 Mar 2010 | Published: 17 Mar 2010

WHITE PAPER: Cloud computing is one of the latest computer and business industry buzz words. This paper will discuss the definition of cloud computing, the public or external cloud, the private or internal cloud, the evolution of cloud computing and more.

Posted: 17 Mar 2010 | Published: 17 Mar 2010

EGUIDE: In this expert E-Guide, brought to you by SearchServerVirtualization.com and Dell, you will discover how to balance the storage and networking demands of today's virtual environments.

Posted: 05 Mar 2010 | Published: 05 Mar 2010

WHITE PAPER: While some larger organizations continue to manage internal data center, many business managers are able to increase service levels, cover more users, and lower response times by outsourcing their out-dated server farms to third-party data centers and cloud computing providers. This white paper will define data centers and explore cloud networking.

Posted: 01 Mar 2010 | Published: 01 Mar 2010

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 paper will detail how to control and manage MIPS usage by employing a systematic, repeatable approach that uses powerful technology and a proven process and expertise.

Posted: 04 Sep 2009 | Published: 04 Sep 2009

PODCAST: Kevin Beaver, information security consultant with Principle Logic LLC, outlines security issues to consider when deploying cloud or online backup.

Posted: 25 Aug 2009 | Premiered: 25 Aug 2009