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WHITE PAPER: This white paper discusses operational risk management (ORM) in the context of "Sound Practices for the Management and Supervision of Operational Risk," a paper from the Basel Committee.

Posted: 08 Feb 2012 | Published: 08 Feb 2012

EBOOK: The SEC XBRL Mandate for Dummies is a guide to assist external reporting professionals tasked with quickly and accurately assembling, tagging and filing their companies’ external reports.

Posted: 09 Feb 2012 | Published: 09 Feb 2012

IT BRIEFING: This paper from the Open Group, documents an approach to enhance the TOGAF enterprise architecture methodology with the SABSA security architecture approach to create one holistic architecture methodology.

Posted: 05 Jan 2012 | Published: 05 Jan 2012

ESSENTIAL GUIDE: Download the Open Group Service-Oriented Architecture reference architecture.

Posted: 17 Jan 2012 | Published: 17 Jan 2012

WEBCAST: This interactive data center, brought to you by our editors, explores 5 aspects of data center efficiency and provides tips and best practices to help companies make effective investment and configuration decisions.

Posted: 21 Dec 2011 | Premiered: 21 Dec 2011

PRESENTATION TRANSCRIPT: This expert presentation transcript explores key management factors you should consider as you navigate your virtualization initiative, including licensing, memory capabilities, and more. Hear about one company's virtualization roadmap and determine whether it aligns with your own virtualization plans.

Posted: 10 Oct 2011 | Published: 10 Oct 2011

WHITE PAPER: Access this report from research and advisory firm Work Design Collaborative, LLC (WDC) to learn about the business benefits of a remote workforce and the best practices and technologies IT can implement to leverage them.

Posted: 16 Jan 2012 | Published: 16 Jan 2012

CASE STUDY: Dell claims that its management solutions, based on Altiris, do more than HP's to simplify management. Are these claims valid? Ptak, Noel & Associates LLC (PNA) explored the logic behind these claims. Read this paper to see what the research reveals.

Posted: 23 Sep 2009 | Published: 23 Sep 2009

WHITE PAPER: Veeam Backup & Replication capabilities: Image Based Backup and Replication, Changed Block Tracking (CBT), Deduplication and Compression. Enterprises using Hyper-V can now leverage the power of Veeam Backup & Replication to enable server virtualization and improve the standard of data protection as well as lower costs.

Posted: 30 Jan 2012 | Published: 30 Jan 2012

CASE STUDY: Xtium upgraded to Dell EqualLogic Firmware 5.0 to leverage the direct integration with their VMware vSphere 4.1 environment with vStorage APIs. Xtium is now able to make copies of golden images for SAP customers as well as for virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI) projects with unprecedented speed and efficiency, using optimized disk space.

Posted: 27 Apr 2011 | Published: 27 Apr 2011

WHITE PAPER: One of the most eagerly awaited features of Microsoft SQL Server 2008 R2 is the “Self Service Business Intelligence” technology known as PowerPivot. This white paper highlights the new PowerPivot features.

Posted: 06 Aug 2010 | Published: 06 Aug 2010

ANALYST REPORT: Read this white paper to learn why Actuate BIRT outperformed Pentaho and Jaspersoft to secure the leading open source overall ranking and surpassed other open source business intelligence (BI) vendors by a wide margin in this independent market study.

Posted: 17 Jan 2012 | Published: 17 Jan 2012

WHITE PAPER: Want to know how NetVault Backup compared against other Oracle backup software solutions – and why it’s DCIG’s #1 choice? In this 37-page report you’ll get unbiased, third-party evaluations of Oracle backup software – and why NetVault Backup sits on the top of the list. Download your copy today.

Posted: 18 Jan 2012 | Published: 18 Jan 2012

WHITE PAPER: Many people are confused by Cisco’s NAT/PAT naming conventions, such as “inside local”, etc. so I have put together a few diagrams that might help.

Posted: 12 Nov 2010 | Published: 12 Nov 2010

WHITE PAPER: This white paper highlights the new Master Data Services feature. This enhancement allows an organization to create a Master Data Hub that provides a “single source of truth” for the enterprise’s numerous data entities and hierarchies.

Posted: 24 Feb 2011 | Published: 24 Feb 2011

WHITE PAPER: Many IT administrators are continuing to rely on outdated server applications. Access this exclusive resource to learn the value a third-party application can bring to your data center with enhanced server operating systems and RDP.

Posted: 13 Jul 2011 | Published: 13 Jul 2011

WHITE PAPER: The protocol utilized to transport data between servers and storage for High Performance Computing (HPC) and to define a Storage Area Network (SAN) is Fibre Channel(FC). Fibre Channel is an "invisible" protocol, because it is only known to the technicians that implement it and keep it working. This paper will provide an overview of this technology.

Posted: 25 Jan 2010 | Published: 25 Jan 2010

WHITE PAPER: This white paper is the first in a three-part series, each of which examines the challenge of implementing network security on equipment from Cisco Systems while maintaining the connectivity requirements of the business or enterprise.

Posted: 01 May 2009 | Published: 01 May 2009

WHITE PAPER: Dynamic management views and functions were extraordinary additions to SQL 2005, and they have only improved in function and increased in number in SQL 2008. This white paper will explore a few of their capabilities and give examples as to how they can ease the workload of a database administrator.

Posted: 22 Sep 2009 | Published: 22 Sep 2009

WHITE PAPER: Are you ready for Microsoft SQL Server 2008 R2? This white paper highlights some of the major features included in SQL Server 2008 R2 due to be released in the first half of 2010.

Posted: 01 Mar 2010 | Published: 01 Mar 2010

WHITE PAPER: In this white paper, learn best practices for automating workflow and AP to increase accuracy, overall business efficiency, and decrease costs to improve your AP operations.

Posted: 10 Jan 2012 | Published: 10 Jan 2012

WHITE PAPER: Explore the fundamentals of SCSI and internet SCSI (iSCSI) in this expert resource. Learn about the architecture, protocol, operations, and numerous interfaces and commands the SCSI model uses. In addition, gain understanding of the use of Fibre Channel and iSCSI to build out SCSI over a network.

Posted: 18 Aug 2011 | Published: 18 Aug 2011

WHITE PAPER: Enhancing usability is the key to getting beyond tacit user acceptance of an e-Procurement system to the full adoption and compliance that yields cost reduction and full ROI. Read this paper to learn the full compliance strategies that best-in-class organizations are using for their e-Procurement implementations.

Posted: 09 Jan 2012 | Published: 09 Jan 2012

WHITE PAPER: This new 1080 Group white paper explores best practices for video conferencing and provides a handy checklist for preparing and conducting a successful video conferencing session.

Posted: 13 Jan 2012 | Published: 13 Jan 2012

WHITE PAPER: Border Gateway Protocol (BGP) is a very complex routing protocol where the administrator can influence the route choice in more ways than with an interior gateway protocol. This white paper will provide you with a high level overview of interdomain routing with BGP.

Posted: 12 Feb 2010 | Published: 12 Feb 2010

WHITE PAPER: MPLS stands for Multiprotocol Label Switching and is defined as “a mechanism in high-performance telecommunications networks that direct and carried data from one network node to the next, making it easy to create ‘virtual links’ between distant nodes.” Read on for a thorough overview of MPLS and learn how MPLS can benefit your organization.

Posted: 22 Nov 2010 | Published: 22 Nov 2010

WHITE PAPER: This white paper takes a look at some Windows 7 technologies that you may be able to put to use in order to make the transition from XP (or perhaps from Vista) more successful.

Posted: 04 Mar 2011 | Published: 04 Mar 2011

WHITE PAPER: This white paper discusses the tips and tricks that might make file copying quicker for your network.

Posted: 11 Jan 2011 | Published: 11 Jan 2011

WHITE PAPER: This paper examines the various benefits of using document sets. Document setsare an excellent solution that enables teams of users to handle multiple related documents as a group. All-in-all, document sets are designed to make your life easier from the perspective of maintaining and finding similar content.

Posted: 22 Nov 2010 | Published: 22 Nov 2010

WHITE PAPER: When the SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS) was first introduced in SQL Server 2005, it received mixed reviews. With the launch of SQL Server 2008, Microsoft has succeeded in transforming the SSMS into a much more useful tool set. This whitepaper will list and discuss each of these improvements of SSMS 2008.

Posted: 27 Jul 2009 | Published: 27 Jul 2009

WHITE PAPER: Organizations want to run the apps they want, and not run the apps they don't want. One of the tools Microsoft has given Active Directory administrators to help in this regard, Software Restriction Policies (SRPs), has been re-engineered in Windows 7 as AppLocker.

Posted: 25 Jan 2010 | Published: 25 Jan 2010