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Vendors

-- 15 Vendor Reports | 1 Product

ALSO CALLED: IT Vendors
DEFINITION: A vendor (pronounced VEHN-duhr, from French vendre, meaning to sell) is any person or company that sells goods or services to somone else in the economic production chain. Parts manufacturers are vendors of parts to other manufacturers that assemble the parts into something sold to wholesalers or retailers. Retailers are vendors of products to consumers. (When you have  … 
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Recent Vendor Reports on Vendors
The Forrester Wave: Service Desk Management Tools, Q2 2008
sponsored by Hewlett-Packard Company
ANALYST REPORT:   Posted: 25 Apr 2008 | Published: 07 Apr 2008
SUMMARY: This Forrester research brief reviews the strengths and weaknesses of top service desk management tool vendors like HP, CA, IBM, and BMC.

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Disaster Recovery: Leveraging Maestro File Manager and Low-cost Storage to Build a DR Solution within Your Budget
sponsored by Attune Systems, Inc.
PRODUCT LITERATURE:   Posted: 25 Apr 2008 | Published: 01 Jan 2007
SUMMARY: Maestro's storage consolidation provides the perfect platform upon which to build a cost-effective Disaster Recovery (DR) Solution.

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Fiserv Helps Automobile Insurance Company Combine Two Legacy Systems to Centralize Claims Processing
sponsored by Fiserv Insurance Solutions
CASE STUDY:   Posted: 25 Apr 2008 | Published: 01 Jun 2006
SUMMARY: One of the biggest issues facing Unitrin Specialty a few years ago was the prospect of merging the operations of two existing business units. The two legacy systems were incompatible and supported significantly different processes. Unitrin was very han...

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Devine, Millimet & Branch Achieves Fast Backup/Restores for Offices, with Evault
sponsored by EVault, Inc.
CASE STUDY:   Posted: 24 Apr 2008 | Published: 01 Jan 2007
SUMMARY: EVault InfoStage offers centralized, disk-based backup and rapid restores for all four offices in Devine, MillimMet & Branch.

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Getting Your Products Approved for the Federal Technology Market
sponsored by Command Information
WHITE PAPER:   Posted: 23 Apr 2008 | Published: 23 Apr 2008
SUMMARY: This paper focuses on IPv6 integration for the United State federal government, the principles and tools developed for Command Ready apply equally to enterprise, government, and consumer product development initiatives.

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Improving Security through Virtualization and Risk Management
sponsored by Tripwire, Inc.
WHITE PAPER:   Posted: 22 Apr 2008 | Published: 22 Apr 2008
SUMMARY: This E-Guide covers best practices for managing security for virtualization, how the virtualization evolution may bring even greater security benefits down the road, and the growing trend of security configuration management.

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Akamai Electronic Software Delivery: Business Benefits and Best Practices
sponsored by Akamai Technologies
WHITE PAPER:   Posted: 17 Apr 2008 | Published: 01 Jan 2007
SUMMARY: Akamai's Electronic Software Delivery solution is the industry-leading delivery platform for electronic software downloads and it helps companies enjoy superior business returns on their ESD investments.

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Data De-duplication Methodologies: Comparing ExaGrid's Byte-level Data De-duplication to Block Level Data De-duplication
sponsored by ExaGrid Systems, Inc.
WHITE PAPER:   Posted: 16 Apr 2008 | Published: 01 Feb 2008
SUMMARY: ExaGrid's byte-level data de-duplication provides several advantages, including shorter backup windows, faster restore times, content awareness and backup application integration, and better scalability.

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Enterprise-Scale Console & Terminal Window Server Session Recording
sponsored by Observe IT
WHITE PAPER:   Posted: 26 Mar 2008 | Published: 01 Mar 2008
SUMMARY: Read this white paper to learn how Windows session recording technology can help verify that 3rd party and internal privileged users are compliant with corporate policy.

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Rittal - High Density Cooling: Costs & Benefits Review Whitepaper
sponsored by 42U
WHITE PAPER:   Posted: 17 Mar 2008 | Published: 17 Mar 2008
SUMMARY: Deployment of a high-density cooling system can have a significant impact on an end user's ability to grow and meet greater demands for IT applications.

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VENDORS DEFINITION (continued): … A vendor (pronounced VEHN-duhr, from French vendre, meaning to sell) is any person or company that sells goods or services to somone else in the economic production chain. Parts manufacturers are vendors of parts to other manufacturers that assemble the parts into something sold to wholesalers or retailers. Retailers are vendors of products to consumers. (When you have a street fair, the people who set up booths and tables are often referred to as vendors.) In information technology as well as in other industries, the term is commonly applied to suppliers of goods and services to other companies.

A machine that takes your money and gives you a product is known as a vending machine.
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