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ESG White Paper: Enabling Enterprise Class Features for the Mid-Range: Focus on BlueArc Mercury
sponsored by BlueArc Corp.
 | White Paper: | Posted: 02 Jul 2009
| | Published: | 01 Jul 2009 | |
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Download this ESG whitepaper to learn how BlueArc's new storage platform, BlueArc Mercury(TM), scales in fixed increments that make it easy to install and deploy. It also scales up to an eight node cluster and 2 PB - making it a forceful consolidation solution.
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Innovations in Managing IT Service Quality: Managing Service Quality and Risk to Service Delivery in a Lean Economy
sponsored by CA
| White Paper: | Posted: 26 Jun 2009
| | Published: | 01 Apr 2009 | |
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With the economy down it is important for IT organizations to be as efficient as possible. This means that IT operations, those responsible for the product and health of the enterprise, must have full visibility and control over their resources - and of course, the technology to do so.
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5 Key Virtualization Management Challenges - and How to Overcome Them
sponsored by Hewlett-Packard Company
| White Paper: | Posted: 26 Jun 2009
| | Published: | 01 Mar 2009 | |
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Virtualization introduces fundamental changes to IT, and adds significant management challenges. Read this informative white paper written by Enterprise Management Associates to learn what these challenges are as well as some of the solutions and strategies used to deal with them.
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How Outsourcing Drives Business Process Improvements
sponsored by CompuCom Systems, Inc.
| White Paper: | Posted: 22 Jun 2009
| | Published: | 01 Jun 2009 | |
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More than ever, business and IT must collaborate to meet current business realities. Significantly, CIOs must map out long-term strategies that address business plans over the next three to five years, with the delivery of high-quality IT services as a key element of strategic planning. Read this white paper to learn more.
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The Perfect Storm - Why Now Is The Time For Open Source
sponsored by Red Hat and Intel
| White Paper: | Posted: 19 Jun 2009
| | Published: | 01 Jun 2009 | |
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Open source is recognized for its ease of use, high performance, and affordability, especially amidst turbulent economic conditions. The high value of open source, coupled with economic and organizational pressure, represents a "perfect storm" for CIOs, giving them the opportunity to deploy high-performing, cost-effective open source solutions.
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11 Questions Every CIO Should Ask Their IT Manager
sponsored by Red Hat
| White Paper: | Posted: 19 Jun 2009
| | Published: | 10 Jun 2009 | |
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What is your IT really costing you? Could you be doing more with the technology you have? Could you reduce costs and provide better service to your organization? Read Red Hat's suggestions on 11 questions every CIO should ask their IT manager, and how Red Hat open source solutions can help.
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Which SAP® Warehouse Management Application is Right For You?
sponsored by CDC Global Services - Catalyst
| White Paper: | Posted: 17 Jun 2009
| | Published: | 16 Jun 2009 | |
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This white paper is designed to give warehouse operations managers and IT managers a useful framework for understanding SAP's newer Warehouse Management (WM) application functionality. It encompasses a look at both the core ERP Central Component (ECC) functionality in addition to the SCM Extended Warehouse Management product.
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What Every IT Manager Needs To Know About Project Management
sponsored by Global Knowledge
| White Paper: | Posted: 27 May 2009
| | Published: | 01 May 2009 | |
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It is important for the IT Manager to know the basics of formalized project management. Why? Because every organization needs to be able to implement change and almost all important changes are defined or implemented through project teams.
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Tough Love: When IT Security Hurts Your Business
sponsored by Global Knowledge
| White Paper: | Posted: 27 May 2009
| | Published: | 01 May 2009 | |
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As IT commoditization continues to increase audit and control activities, IT gets better at identifying and documenting the causes of significant outages. In an increasing number of cases, these ITIL efforts show the source of the outage to be action from the security department, and the BSM processes show the impact to be devastating.
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10 Dying IT Skills
sponsored by Global Knowledge
| White Paper: | Posted: 13 May 2009
| | Published: | 13 May 2009 | |
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When an IT skill falls out of favor, it rarely ever comes back. Here's our list of 10 dying IT skills. If any of these skills are your main expertise, perhaps it's time to think about updating your skill set.
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Does Your Organization Need a Project Management Office?
sponsored by Oracle Corporation
| White Paper: | Posted: 05 May 2009
| | Published: | 01 Apr 2009 | |
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As the number of projects grow, so does the risk of failure as resources get stretched & oversight lags. It becomes increasingly important to define project management processes & develop metrics & best practices for keeping projects on time and within budget. Read this paper to find out if a Project Management Office (PMO) could be your solution.
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Integrated Infrastructure and Performance Management for Virtualized Environments
sponsored by CA
| White Paper: | Posted: 29 Apr 2009
| | Published: | 01 Apr 2009 | |
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Enterprises, government agencies and service providers are increasingly employing virtualized environments to decrease costs, consolidate data center space and reduce environmental impacts. This paper describes a comprehensive set of CA tools for managing virtual environments.
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SMART, Modular, Cost-Effective Steps to Workload Automation
sponsored by BMC Software, Inc
| White Paper: | Posted: 17 Apr 2009
| | Published: | 17 Apr 2009 | |
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This paper proposes a high-level methodology for implementation of Workload Automation (WLA) - a mature evolution of job scheduling that automates complex IT processing and includes support for event-driven workloads, multiple platforms, Web services, composite applications, SOAs, virtual systems, system and application integration, and more.
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BeyondTrust PowerBroker: Root Access Risk Control for the Enterprise
sponsored by BeyondTrust Corporation
| White Paper: | Posted: 06 Apr 2009
| | Published: | 01 Jan 2009 | |
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Businesses must invest in threat control to address security threats and compliance requirements. In this paper, analysts examine a more comprehensive solution designed to close gaps for the enterprise with provable control.
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The Top 3 Cost-Cutting Mistakes CIOs Make And How to Avoid Them
sponsored by Rally Software Development Corp.
| White Paper: | Posted: 03 Apr 2009
| | Published: | 03 Apr 2009 | |
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The current economic downturn has resulted in contraction of IT Department budgets and a mandate to allocate resources to only the most critical projects, then execute flawlessly. In these tough times, it is imperative for CIOs to deliver more value from as IT budgets fall..
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