| Recent Vendor Reports on IT Managers |
ESG White Paper: Intelligent Tiered Storage: BlueArc's Implementation
| sponsored by BlueArc Corp.
WHITE PAPER:
This ESG White Paper discusses the importance of tiered storage, examines BlueArc's approach to intelligent tiering, and shows how it creates operational value for users' data storage infrastructures.
Posted: 02 Jul 2009 | Published: 01 Oct 2008
|
|
 |
|
Understanding Application Visibility with Blue Coat PacketShaper
| sponsored by Blue Coat
VIDEO:
David Strom addresses four different questions that IT managers have about understanding how bandwidth-consuming applications interact over their networks, and how individual applications can be controlled for particular use cases.
Posted: 30 Jun 2009 | Premiered: 30 Jun 2009
|
|
 |
|
The Evolving Role of Disk and Tape in the Data Center
| sponsored by Hewlett-Packard Company
WHITE PAPER:
This whitepaper describes five best practices for backup and long-term data protection and explores the aspects of disk and tape solutions that, when combined into a disk-to-disk-to-tape solution, provide the most robust answer to backup and archival for the data center.
Posted: 23 Jun 2009 | Published: 01 Jun 2009
|
|
 |
|
PostgreSQL vs. MySQL - A Comparison of Enterprise Stability
| sponsored by EnterpriseDB Corporation
WHITE PAPER:
Many IT professionals generally recognize that PostgreSQL is better suited for enterprise database responsibilities than MySQL. In this paper you'll find an in-depth feature & performance comparison between the two.
Posted: 23 Jun 2009 | Published: 01 Jun 2009
|
|
 |
|
Sage SalesLogix Flash Demo
| sponsored by Sage SalesLogix
WEBCAST:
This brief, interactive demo highlights the benefits of Sage SalesLogix award-winning CRM solution for various organizational departments.
Posted: 22 Jun 2009 | Premiered: Available On Demand
|
|
 |
|
The perfect storm - Why now is the time for open source
| sponsored by Red Hat
WHITE PAPER:
Open source is recognized for its ease of use, high performance, and affordability, especially amidst turbulent economic conditions. The high value of open source, coupled with economic and organizational pressure, represents a "perfect storm" for CIOs, giving them the opportunity to deploy high-performing, cost-effective open source solutions.
Posted: 19 Jun 2009 | Published: 01 Jun 2009
|
|
 |
|
11 Questions Every CIO Should Ask Their IT Manager
| sponsored by Red Hat
WHITE PAPER:
What is your IT really costing you? Could you be doing more with the technology you have? Could you reduce costs and provide better service to your organization? Read Red Hat's suggestions on 11 questions every CIO should ask their IT manager, and how Red Hat open source solutions can help.
Posted: 19 Jun 2009 | Published: 10 Jun 2009
|
|
 |
|
Podcast: Oracle Project Analytics: Understand Project Performance with the Powerful New Analytics Application from Oracle
| sponsored by Oracle Corporation
PODCAST:
In this podcast, Fred Richards, Senior Director of Oracle Business Intelligence Applications, discusses how new project analytics tools track your program performance and costs, improve project portfolio performance, and deliver insight into project revenue.
Posted: 18 Jun 2009 | Premiered: 18 Jun 2009, 09:00 EDT (13:00 GMT)
|
|
 |
|
Desktop Virtualization Overview: Can you get there from here?
| sponsored by SearchVirtualDesktop.com
VIDEO:
In this session, virtualization expert Brian Madden will define terms, describe real-world scenarios that desktop virtualization can and can't address and separate vendor hype from reality.
Posted: 17 Jun 2009 | Premiered: 18 Jun 2009
|
|
|
|
Nine Ways to Cut Costs While Keeping the Lights On
| sponsored by Wipro Technologies
WHITE PAPER:
Amidst a macroeconomic global recession, companies are looking for ways to reduce their costs by 25% or more. The following paper represents the top set of cost-reduction initiatives that Wipro clients have effectively implemented.
Posted: 12 Jun 2009 | Published: 01 Apr 2009
|
|
 |
|
Data Center Automation - Facing the Air of Change
| sponsored by Wipro Technologies
WHITE PAPER:
Many IT organizations still perform a majority of Data Center administration tasks manually. Today, manual techniques are obsolete as Information Technology is required to manage complex multivendor infrastructures cost-effectively. There is one way to meet this challenge and that is Automation.
Posted: 12 Jun 2009 | Published: 12 Jun 2009
|
|
 |
|
Embracing the Cloud: Top Seven Imperatives for an Organization
| sponsored by Wipro Technologies
WHITE PAPER:
This paper analyzes the impact of the cloud on the IT Ecosystem and provides answers to what an organization needs to do in embracing a right cloud strategy.
Posted: 12 Jun 2009 | Published: 01 Mar 2009
|
|
 |
|
Best Practices: Application Performance Management
| sponsored by Compuware Corporation
WHITE PAPER:
This white paper provides an overview of application performance management (APM) design, implementation and operation fundamentals, and discusses end-to-end APM as a process.
Posted: 09 Jun 2009 | Published: 09 Jun 2009
|
|
 |
|
Data privacy best practices: time to take action!
| sponsored by IBM
WHITE PAPER:
This white paper explains the steps you need to consider when developing your privacy strategy and implementing your first data privacy project.
Posted: 08 Jun 2009 | Published: 30 Sep 2008
|
|
 |
|
Learning from BPM Leaders: Benefits, Prerequisites and the Impact of Successful BPM Initiatives
| sponsored by SAP America Inc
WHITE PAPER:
The experiences of BPM leaders have created, for CIOs just beginning the implementation process, a road map to success: improved business and IT communication, an overall refresh of roles and responsibilities and greater process flexibility - those that do BPM right reap the ultimate reward of business innovation: competitive advantage.
Posted: 05 Jun 2009 | Published: 05 Jun 2009
|
|
 |
|
IDC Research: Hitachi IT Operations Analyzer Delivers Performance and Availability Reporting for IT Generalists
| sponsored by Hitachi Data Systems
WEBCAST:
This white paper describes the challenges facing IT administrators as datacenter
environments become more complex, heterogeneous, and interconnected. It describes how integrated infrastructure performance and availability monitoring tools can help IT managers improve service levels and staff productivity.
Posted: 04 Jun 2009 | Premiered: Available On Demand
|
|
 |
|
How to Ensure Your Disaster Recovery: Eliminating Common Causes of Disaster Recovery Failures
| sponsored by SteelEye Technology, Inc.
WEBCAST:
All organizations deal with issues relating to disaster recovery preparedness at some point in time. Watch this webcast for expert insight into key considerations when designing your disaster recovery plan.
Posted: 04 Jun 2009 | Premiered: Available On Demand
|
|
 |
|
Understanding the Business Benefits of an Open Source SOA Platform
| sponsored by JBoss, a Division of Red Hat
ANALYST REPORT:
This paper is divided into two sections. The first half of the paper describes the business challenges of three JBoss Enterprise Middleware customers and how they gained business benefit from the use of JBoss Enterprise products and services. The second half of the paper provides insight into the JBoss Enterprise SOA platform.
Posted: 02 Jun 2009 | Published: 02 Jun 2009
|
|
 |
|
Putting Open Source to the Test: The Making of JBoss Enterprise Middleware
| sponsored by JBoss, a Division of Red Hat
WHITE PAPER:
This paper is intended primarily for senior IT managers responsible for enterprise architecture, application development, and application operations. Managers evaluating middleware solutions will gain a deeper understanding
of how JBoss Enterprise Middleware products are developed and why they offer an ideal platform for the development...
Posted: 02 Jun 2009 | Published: 01 Apr 2008
|
|
 |
|
Legal Aid: How IT Can Be the Difference Between Litigating or Settling
| sponsored by StoredIQ
WHITE PAPER:
A new partnership is being forged between the legal and IT departments at many organizations. The focus is on electronically-stored information (ESI), with records management joining the discussion. When it comes to production of records for legal cases, IT is being transformed from a technical roadblock to a risk and cost-mitigation powerhouse!
Posted: 01 Jun 2009 | Published: 01 Jun 2009
|
|
|
|
What Every IT Manager Needs To Know About Project Management
| sponsored by Global Knowledge
WHITE PAPER:
It is important for the IT Manager to know the basics of formalized project management. Why? Because every organization needs to be able to implement change and almost all important changes are defined or implemented through project teams.
Posted: 27 May 2009 | Published: 01 May 2009
|
|
 |
|
Tough Love: When IT Security Hurts Your Business
| sponsored by Global Knowledge
WHITE PAPER:
As IT commoditization continues to increase audit and control activities, IT gets better at identifying and documenting the causes of significant outages. In an increasing number of cases, these ITIL efforts show the source of the outage to be action from the security department, and the BSM processes show the impact to be devastating.
Posted: 27 May 2009 | Published: 01 May 2009
|
|
 |
|
ESG Report: Extremely Efficient Storage
| sponsored by Compellent
WHITE PAPER:
This Enterprise Strategy Group (ESG) storage systems brief discusses the importance of storage efficiency, examines major considerations driving IT investments over the next two years, and makes the business case for Compellent's storage offerings.
Posted: 21 May 2009 | Published: 01 Apr 2009
|
|
 |
|
Simplifying Disaster Recovery (DR): One-Button Replication for Combined Physical/Virtual Data Centers
| sponsored by FalconStor Software
WHITE PAPER:
The FalconStor® Network Storage Server (NSS) solution can be deployed in conjunction with VMware vCenter SRM to empower VMware vCenter SRM to automate and manage the DR process for the entire physical and virtual infrastructure. Read this white paper to learn more.
Posted: 19 May 2009 | Published: 19 May 2009
|
|
 |
|
Network-Optimized, Secure Replication for Enterprise-Class Disaster Recovery
| sponsored by SEPATON
WHITE PAPER:
DeltaRemote software for the SEPATON S2100-ES2 virtual tape library (VTL) delivers network-optimized, secure replication for data-intensive enterprises that have complex data protection environments. Read this paper for details.
Posted: 19 May 2009 | Published: 19 May 2009
|
|
 |
|
Oracle Project Analytics: Understand Project Performance with the Powerful New Analytics Application from Oracle
| sponsored by Oracle Corporation
WEBCAST:
In this webcast, learn how project analytics tools can help your organization better manage their projects, improve project performance and drive project profitability.
Posted: 15 May 2009 | Premiered: Available On Demand
|
|
 |
|