Best Practices Reports

EZINE: This BPM Quarterly e-zine explores ways you can accurately gauge the progress of your BPM effort. Inside, find not only best practices and expert advice, but access to additional resources about reducing the complexity of BPM integrations and successfully combining BPM and customer relationship management (CRM).

Posted: 27 May 2011 | Published: 27 May 2011

EGUIDE: This guide will explore tape backup opportunities and how to prevent tape backup disasters. Download to learn why tape is still a big part of backup operations and how, as a tape user, you can go about preventing future tape issues.

Posted: 26 May 2011 | Published: 26 May 2011

EGUIDE: In this FAQ Guide, David Chapa, senior analyst at the Enterprise Strategy Group, discusses some best practices for tape vaulting. Find out the costs of tape vaulting services, how offsite tape storage costs are determined, how to negotiate your SLAs, and whether or not you should encrypt your tapes before you ship them offsite.

Posted: 24 May 2011 | Published: 24 May 2011

EGUIDE: In part two of this data deduplication technology tutorial, we look at all of those alternatives and take a look at some of the most significant deduplication backup products. Learn about global data deduplication, what to look for in a data deduplication product, inline vs. post-processing deduplication, and more.

Posted: 20 May 2011 | Published: 20 May 2011

WHITE PAPER: This paper, an overview of the findings of the IBM Global CIO Study, can help you get a clearer view of the challenges IT is facing and how some of the most successful CIOs and IT organizations are meeting those challenges.

Posted: 20 May 2011 | Published: 20 May 2011

WHITE PAPER: Read how IBM and NC State created a “cloud computing” model for provisioning technology that offered a quantum improvement in access, efficiency and convenience over traditional computer labs.

Posted: 20 May 2011 | Published: 20 May 2011

WHITE PAPER: This article provides an introduction to IBM® WebSphere® CloudBurst™ and WebSphere Application Server Hypervisor Edition.

Posted: 19 May 2011 | Published: 19 May 2011

EGUIDE: This e-guide from SearchEnterpriseDesktop.com provides expert insight into the basics of planning and executing a desktop migration to Windows 7. Learn how to create a detailed and achievable project plan and find ways to simplify your migration.

Posted: 18 May 2011 | Published: 18 May 2011

ANALYST REPORT: This analysis report highlights the benefits of deploying NetApp storage alongside desktop virtualization software. Explore best practices from organizations that have already implemented NetApp storage in conjunction with their desktop virtualization initiatives and gain insight on the cost savings they experienced. Learn more here.

Posted: 16 May 2011 | Published: 16 May 2011

EGUIDE: Before migrating to any email server, it is important to confirm that you meet the prerequisites, including having sufficient hardware—and this holds true when considering migrating to Exchange Server 2010. Ensure you are prepared for this migration and learn more here.

Posted: 09 May 2011 | Published: 09 May 2011

CASE STUDY: Read this case study and learn how Valeo realized its vision to continuously improve product innovation, operations and logistics performance by using Apriso’s FlexNet software to achieve inventory tracking, material flow visibility, and packaging and labeling compliance goals across its enterprise.

Posted: 04 Apr 2011 | Published: 04 Apr 2011

EBOOK: In this e-book, you'll learn how to manage data quality efforts during an economic downturn and find out what trends are emerging in the data quality market. You’ll also learn about common mistakes, the financial costs of poor data quality and how data quality tools and strategies can improve data quality.

Posted: 24 Mar 2011 | Published: 24 Mar 2011

WHITE PAPER: Organizations are starting to see the connection between making information available and leveraging it to be more agile and productive. This paper offers a practical guide to assess your information quality maturity level, and provides a framework to align information quality management practices to business objectives and results.

Posted: 17 Mar 2011 | Published: 17 Mar 2011

WHITE PAPER: In today’s economic climate, no manufacturer can afford to fund any supply chain management (SCM) project that fails to deliver results. This white paper describes seven success factors for today’s SCM projects, which have been identified by seasoned executives with decades of experience in the field.

Posted: 14 Feb 2011 | Published: 14 Feb 2011

PRESENTATION TRANSCRIPT: Are you considering updating from Exchange 2003 to Exchange 2010 but are not sure of the best way to do so? In this presentation transcript, review recommended processes for upgrading from Exchange 2003 to Exchange Server 2010. Discover common pitfalls you may experience during the upgrade process.

Posted: 01 Jan 2011 | Published: 28 Dec 2010

PRESENTATION TRANSCRIPT: With the release of Windows 7, many organizations are considering migrating to this new platform. This transcript explores best practices to aid IT pros in this transition. Discover a wide range of hardware and software technology that will help you prepare for this switch.

Posted: 13 Dec 2010 | Published: 13 Dec 2010

EGUIDE: This guide provides a simple yet reliable approach to securing data for the long term though the efficient optimization of IT resources and a set of straightforward best practices for data protection. Learn archiving best practices, how to choose a data archiving tool, and how to put together the best data archiving strategy for your business.

Posted: 06 Dec 2010 | Published: 06 Dec 2010

EGUIDE: Server virtualization is becoming increasingly relevant as businesses recognize the need to consolidate their storage infrastructures for cost reduction and environmental responsibility. Storage managers need to balance the benefits of virtualization against the complexity it brings, download this e-guide to learn more!

Posted: 22 Nov 2010 | Published: 22 Nov 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

EGUIDE: This expert e-guide from SearchServerVirtualization.com provides you with a data protection and recovery checklist to help your organization overcome these challenges. Also, learn about various backup methods for virtual machines and discover risk factors associated with each approach.

Posted: 12 Nov 2010 | Published: 12 Nov 2010

PRESENTATION TRANSCRIPT: If you are considering a migration from Sun Solaris to Linux-based systems, we would like to help you understand how a migration would impact your environment.  In six steps, Ryan Hagen, Solutions Architect for Mainline Information Systems™, will show you how a successful migration is achieved.

Posted: 19 Oct 2010 | Published: 19 Oct 2010

WHITE PAPER: You can virtualize SQL Server successfully using VMware Infrastructure. The vast majority of SQL Server deployments are good candidates for virtualization and can benefit from improvements offered by a virtualized infrastructure—such as improved management, availability, and scalability—thus reducing overall TCO.

Posted: 15 Oct 2010 | Published: 14 Oct 2010

WEBCAST: In this chat with VMware experts, learn about application performance considerations, best practices and use cases for deploying Tier 1 applications on VMware. Please join us during the live chat on October 26 from 11am-2pm ET

Posted: 14 Oct 2010 | Premiered: Oct 26, 2010, 11:00 EDT (15:00 GMT)

EGUIDE: This paper provides use cases and primary technical benefits that can be achieved by deploying Exchange 2010 on VMware vSphere.

Posted: 14 Oct 2010 | Published: 14 Oct 2010

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