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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

ANALYST BRIEF: This IDC research brief reveals why insight provides significant competitive differentiation for organizations. Continue reading to discover the pitfalls of inadequate insight, the effect insight has on decision management and methods for achieving greater insight.

Posted: 30 Jun 2011 | Published: 30 Jun 2011

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

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

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

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

WHITE PAPER: Real-time visibility provides a means to verify and justify results, as well as full confidence that your company is leveraging the right information at the right time. With the right IT personnel and infrastructure, small and medium companies can respond quickly and effectively to changes in the market.

Posted: 04 Jun 2009 | Published: 04 Jun 2009

WHITE PAPER: Cloud computing offers massive scalability -  in virtual computing power, storage, and applications resources - all at almost immediate availability and low cost, and business managers are demanding their IT operations assess the benefits this new computing model can represent.

Posted: 25 Oct 2011 | Published: 25 Oct 2011

RESOURCE: Gregor Hohpe and Bobby Woolf documented their combined experience in the integration space and created the book "Enterprise Integration Patterns" (EIP), which has since been adopted as the standard for describing messaging solutions. Check out this deck of flashcards to find definitions of integration design patterns based on EIP.

Posted: 08 Dec 2011 | Published: 08 Dec 2011

WHITE PAPER: Data abstraction overcomes data structure incompatibility by transforming data from its native structure and syntax into reusable views and data services. But some data abstraction approaches work better than others. Composite data virtualization is an optimal way to implement an abstraction layer at enterprise scale.

Posted: 31 Mar 2011 | Published: 31 Mar 2011

EZINE: In this expert e-zine, find out how to use ROI and VARs to make the case for virtualization so you can start taking advantage of today's newest technologies. Also, get tips on using the Open Virtualization Format tool and learn how to plan storage for virtual environments.

Posted: 30 Sep 2011 | Published: 30 Sep 2011

WHITE PAPER: Oracle’s Sun SPARC Enterprise servers are designed specifically as general-purpose application, database, data warehousing, and consolidation servers. They are especially suited to address the needs of enterprise datacenters, with a goal of increasing performance and flexibility while consolidating systems to reduce datacenter costs and complexity.

Posted: 15 Mar 2011 | Published: 15 Mar 2011

WHITE PAPER: In December 2008, PMI® (Project Management Institute) released the 4th edition version of 'A Guide to the Project Management Body of Knowledge® (PMBOK® Guide)',the Project Management Institute's (PMI's) collection of published “generally recognized good practices” (according to PMI's 4th edition FAQs).

Posted: 16 Mar 2009 | Published: 16 Mar 2009

WHITE PAPER: This document provides a summary of how IBM Tivoli Storage Productivity Center supports the IBM System Storage SAN Volume Controller, and provides an in-depth description of the management capabilities that Tivoli Storage Productivity Center provides in a virtualized storage configuration.

Posted: 10 Jan 2012 | Published: 10 Jan 2012

VIRTUAL SEMINAR: In this ERP Selection Checklist, provided to you through our ERP Decision Center, two experts with broad experience in ERP implementations give their advice on matching business requirements with product features in five key categories: functional fit, integration, business intelligence and reporting formats, deployment model and customizability.

Posted: 25 Oct 2011 | Premiered: 25 Oct 2011

WHITE PAPER: This white paper explores how to change some of the default user experiences by customizing elements of both the Look and Feel and the site Navigation. Many additional "out of the box" customization elements are available.

Posted: 10 Dec 2008 | Published: 10 Dec 2008

WHITE PAPER: This white paper provides an overview for deploying SQL Server in a virtualized environment for VMware ESX 3.5 Update 4 (U4) running on the latest PowerEdge M610 and M710 blade servers and EqualLogic PS6000XV iSCSI storage arrays.

Posted: 05 May 2009 | Published: 05 May 2009

WHITE PAPER: With the launch of vSphere 4, VMware introduces a new version of the hypervisor, ESX 4.0 and the management interface, vCenter. Some key benefits offered by this release are greater resource efficiency, management control and freedom of choice for virtual datacenter storage resources and connectivity options.

Posted: 10 Aug 2009 | Published: 10 Aug 2009

WHITE PAPER: Your next software implementation doesn’t have to be a nightmare. It can be done faster and with less training and without the need for upgrades or continued training. Read this paper to learn about the Plex Online implementation and training process, a process perfected over hundreds of successes.

Posted: 20 Jul 2010 | Published: 20 Jul 2010

WHITE PAPER: Small and medium size businesses often thrive by being high-value specialists. The dilemma is how to stay specialized in a particular niche yet grow aggressively. In this white paper, learn about multiplication as a growth strategy. Discover the risks and effective methods of mitigating them to ensure a successful implementation.

Posted: 05 Jan 2012 | Published: 05 Jan 2012

WHITE PAPER: This White Paper is intended to help organizations who are attempting to set up an enterprise architecture practice. It shows how organizations can use a modular, iterative, and incremental approach in order to develop an architectural capability that is otherwise a large and complex undertaking.

Posted: 20 Oct 2011 | Published: 20 Oct 2011

PODCAST: In this podcast, virtualization expert Anil Desai provides an easy-to-understand primer on virtualization that will quickly bring any listener up to speed on the topic.

Posted: 04 Dec 2008 | Premiered: 04 Dec 2008

SOFTWARE DOWNLOAD: Oracle's Unified Storage Simulator makes it possible to install and manage a virtual storage system on any laptop or desktop and experience the power of Open Storage.

Posted: 21 Mar 2011 | Premiered: 21 Mar 2011

WHITE PAPER: Read this paper for a description of the benefits and performance of the latest Dell™ PowerEdge™ R810 running Microsoft® SQL Server® in VMware® vSphere™ 4.0 Update 1 (U1) and EqualLogic™ PS6000XV iSCSI storage arrays.

Posted: 12 Jul 2010 | Published: 12 Jul 2010

WHITE PAPER: This white paper discusses enterprise resource planning (ERP) systems usability, with special attention to allowing you to consider usability as a criterion in your enterprise application selection process.

Posted: 11 Jan 2012 | Published: 11 Jan 2012

WHITE PAPER: To be a true strategic partner to management, human resources (HR) requires process and systems excellence. HR needs to know the business — the drivers, mission, and challenges. Read this IDC white paper to learn how to achieve excellence in HR by focusing consistency, integration, insight, responsiveness, and agility.

Posted: 02 Feb 2012 | Published: 02 Feb 2012

WHITE PAPER: This Bloomberg Businessweek paper presents recent study results indicating: how mobility is changing enterprise applications, data and processes, with a particular focus on human resources; the challenges of implementing mobile device access to enterprise applications; and the business value expected and realized from enterprise mobility.

Posted: 02 Feb 2012 | Published: 02 Feb 2012

EBOOK: Compiled by SearchManufacturingERP.com editors, this directory includes ERP software products for process and discrete manufacturers of all sizes, as well as all verticals. It includes software that is meant to be deployed on-premise as well as Software as a Service (SaaS) or on-demand software.

Posted: 14 Aug 2009 | Published: 14 Aug 2009

WHITE PAPER: This white paper explores the butterfly effect of poor data quality on CRM, ERP, billing, data warehouse, and other enterprise systems.

Posted: 01 Aug 2011 | Published: 01 Aug 2011

WHITE PAPER: This white paper details the challenges faced by multi-site and multinational organizations and describes what to look for in an enterprise resource planning (ERP) solution to address these issues.

Posted: 05 Jan 2012 | Published: 05 Jan 2012

EZINE: Object-based storage dispenses with the hierarchical file system, so there are no nested subfolders. Instead, it uses an indexed flatfile structure in which each object is given a unique ID. This issue of IT in Europe includes case studies of how object-based storage products are being implemented in Europe.

Posted: 05 Dec 2011 | Published: 05 Dec 2011

WHITE PAPER: Virtualization is creating a whole new sense of efficiency and resource utilization in today's data centers.  However, the area of user virtualization is one area where there is still considerable room for growth. Access this exclusive resource to learn how user virtualization can extend the value of your data center.

Posted: 13 Jul 2011 | Published: 13 Jul 2011