Enterprise White Papers

WHITE PAPER: This survey addresses the maturity of an organization’s IT security and data protection program, how encryption is used in organizations, encryption features organizations consider most important, and much more.

Posted: 03 Dec 2010 | Published: 03 Dec 2010

WHITE PAPER: To solve the dilemma of meeting both data growth and budgetary ultimatums, IT must be agile. This paper examines the four rubrics of data center transformation: virtualization, automation, cloud-readiness and sustainability.

Posted: 02 Dec 2010 | Published: 02 Dec 2010

WHITE PAPER: What does sustainability mean for business and particularly for IT? Sustainable IT refers to efforts that increase the useful life and reduce environmental impacts of IT systems, and concurrently offer cost benefits to the business. Read on to learn how your business could benefit from going green.

Posted: 01 Dec 2010 | Published: 01 Dec 2010

WHITE PAPER: While the promise of cloud is heady, there is confusion about the different types of cloud, what they actually offer, and which will meet stringent business requirements. Knowing when and how best to deploy cloud is critical. This paper focuses on separating the hype of cloud from the “how to”.

Posted: 01 Dec 2010 | Published: 01 Dec 2010

WHITE PAPER: This article provides an introduction to Hyper-V virtualization, discusses the overall architecture and underlying technologies, and offers guidance on best practices for deployment on Dell PowerEdge servers.

Posted: 19 Nov 2010 | Published: 19 Nov 2010

WHITE PAPER: Because of the obvious total cost of ownership benefits of virtualization, virtual machines are assuming more business-critical roles in the data center. In a recent survey, more than 75% of all enterprise companies listed server virtualization as one of the top technologies they are adopting. Read this white paper to learn more.

Posted: 15 Nov 2010 | Published: 15 Nov 2010

WHITE PAPER: With the recent profusion of tiered storage solutions into the enterprise storage market, organizations are increasingly adopting tiering strategies to accommodate rapid data growth while controlling costs. Yet most solutions fail to maximize the potential benefits of tiered storage. Read this white paper to learn more.

Posted: 11 Nov 2010 | Published: 11 Nov 2010

WHITE PAPER: Desktop virtualization is bringing a new approach to enterprise-wide desktop deployments aimed at providing a better end user and administrator experience than physical desktop deployments, by lowering acquisition and management cost, and offering a highly scalable, easy to deploy and fully protected desktop environment.

Posted: 25 Oct 2010 | Published: 25 Oct 2010

WHITE PAPER: This white paper explains how a risk management program can help identify opportunities for value creation while also protecting against potential threats.

Posted: 07 Oct 2010 | Published: 02 Feb 2009

WHITE PAPER: As much an art as a science, the balanced scorecard is a living process that must be adaptive to constantly changing external forces and internal course corrections. You learn as you go. This paper contains a few guiding principles that will help you along the way.

Posted: 01 Oct 2010 | Published: 01 Oct 2010

WHITE PAPER: This white paper explains how a risk management program can help identify opportunities for value creation while also protecting against potential threats.

Posted: 01 Oct 2010 | Published: 02 Feb 2009

WHITE PAPER: This collection of journal articles focuses on the many facets of enterprise performance management that can help organizations thrive through the recovery, including; integrating the financial close and reporting process, managing the transition to IFRS, centralized enterprise dimension management.

Posted: 01 Oct 2010 | Published: 01 Apr 2010

WHITE PAPER: In this white paper, you'll find both the pitfalls of virtual monitoring and management, and how to navigate the maze of competing virtual monitoring and management vendors. In the end, you'll have a clear idea of what solutions will work for you.

Posted: 29 Sep 2010 | Published: 29 Sep 2010

WHITE PAPER: This white paper describes the virtualization of a given user workload, and provides a useful sizing guide for enterprise deployments of VMware View™ 4, the VMware software platform for building a virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI) environment.

Posted: 22 Sep 2010 | Published: 22 Sep 2010

WHITE PAPER: Dell’s enterprise solutions, including EqualLogic iSCSI SANs, PowerEdge Virtualization Servers and Global Infrastructure Consulting Services (GICS) can help organizations confidently deploy, manage and protect their Tier-1 Microsoft® applications within a VMware vSphere environment.

Posted: 15 Sep 2010 | Published: 23 Sep 2009

WHITE PAPER: Your business depends on one thing: getting the right information to the right people at the right time. To gain a competitive advantage, improve customer service and access more business intelligence, you have to ensure fast and responsive application delivery to users wherever they are.

Posted: 14 Sep 2010 | Published: 14 Sep 2010

WHITE PAPER: Medium-sized businesses have the dual challenges of enforcing acceptable use policies for email and the web, and ensuring compliance with government data privacy regulations. Read this white paper to learn about security solutions for your medium-sized business.

Posted: 31 Aug 2010 | Published: 31 Aug 2010

WHITE PAPER: This At-A-Glance document, created by Cisco, Intel and Panduit, the market leaders in enterprise switching,network adapters, and structured cabling, discusses how to deliver high-performance, cost-effective, and efficient next-generation RJ-45-based server connectivity.

Posted: 20 Aug 2010 | Published: 20 Aug 2010

WHITE PAPER: This paper discusses the network configuration management challenges, the need for the NCM plug-in and its benefits. Read on to learn more.

Posted: 30 Jul 2010 | Published: 30 Jul 2010

WHITE PAPER: We're all suffering from information overload. We can’t consume the volume of information that we receive every day, so if we think it might be valuable, we try to file it in a safe place for use at some time in the future. Read this white paper to learn more about the latest mashup for business analysts, Text Analytics.

Posted: 29 Jul 2010 | Published: 29 Jul 2010

WHITE PAPER: The latest edition of the Application Usage and Risk Report (Spring 2010) covers a sample size that has grown more than 15 fold to 347 and is truly global. Since the Spring 2008 Report, the number of applications Palo Alto Networks identifies has grown to nearly 1,000 with nearly 750 of them found during the six month period.

Posted: 30 Jun 2010 | Published: 30 Jun 2010

WHITE PAPER: Hear from Ross Wainwright, Executive Vice President, SAP Field Services, and Greg Pike, Senior Vice President, SAP Active Global Support and gain insight into the cost-saving and problem-solving services that have the biggest impact, where and how SAP customers should begin using these services.

Posted: 23 Jun 2010 | Published: 23 Jun 2010

WHITE PAPER: This paper discusses the top 10 reasons enterprises are turning to this technology for data recovery.

Posted: 04 Jun 2010 | Published: 04 Jun 2010

WHITE PAPER: Your network must deliver non-stop services to support business operations and be highly scalable to support future growth. It must also address multiple communications needs cost-effectively and flexibly. The communications network must meet the demands of a dynamic business-critical environment. Read this white paper to learn more.

Posted: 20 May 2010 | Published: 20 May 2010

WHITE PAPER: Mobile technology will affect workers, customers and processes, as well as business operations, computer applications and technical infrastructure. For maximum impact, mobility must be woven into the fabric of the enterprise. Collaboration tools need to break out of functional silos, decision-making should move away from traditional top-down models

Posted: 05 Apr 2010 | Published: 05 Apr 2010