Sales and Marketing: The New Power Couple  by Microsoft

December 01, 2008 - This white paper will review the obstacles to making business development a team sport and then will present best practices around people, process and technology for aligning the sales and marketing organization.

SAP Pitfalls: How Can You Avoid Them?  by AT&T Corp

October 19, 2009 - SAP ERP applications can help you increase productivity, reduce costs, and gain strategic advantage. However, they touch every business process across your company and the risk for problems with implementation, management, and upgrades can be high. This paper identifies the most common SAP pitfalls and explains the best ways to resolve them.

SAP® Business All-in-One Fast-Start Program: Creating Affordable, Flexible Solutions for Faster Value  by SAP AG

February 08, 2008 - The SAP® Business All-in-One fast-start program enables you to configure a solution online, obtain an estimate of costs, and implement the solution quickly and cost-effectively. It delivers rapid time to value and lets you tailor the solution to meet your changing needs, protecting your long-term investment.

Save Data Center Dollars via Application and Server Consolidation  by Sun Microsystems, Inc. and Intel Corporation

September 17, 2009 - Watch this webinar to learn best practices for enterprise-level server consolidation by leveraging next-generation server platforms developed jointly by Sun and Intel.

Save Money and Improve Agility: Virtualize with Sun SPARC Enterprise Series Servers  by Sun Microsystems, Inc.

June 01, 2009 - This paper focuses on business benefits achieved by consolidating and virtualizing environments with Sun SPARC Enterprise M-Series servers. The document describes some of the challenges organizations are facing, and conveys how Sun SPARC Enterprise M-Series servers can help organizations bring day-to-day operations and costs under control.

Sawmill 8 - Web Log Analysis Tool  by Flowerfire, Inc.

May 19, 2009 - Sawmill is a powerful hierarchical log analysis tool that runs on every major platform and operating system.

Scale Out Storage Architecture: Reaching for the Cloud  by Forsythe

November 20, 2009 - Organizations concerned about IT budgets, need to be prepared to discuss cloud storage in the near future. The reality is that there are already enterprises using cloud storage effectively. Is it the answer for your organization? It might be--and the intent of this paper is to provide definitions, considerations and insights.

Sea Star Line, LLC: Clear Sailing for Inbound Document Workflow  by Esker Inc.

July 13, 2009 - Read this case study to learn how Sea Star Line worked with Esker Professional Services to help implement Esker DeliveryWare as their solution and the benefits that resulted from Sea Stars decision to use Esker DeliveryWare, which includes better visibility, productivity, and time and cost savings.

Secure Internet Single Sign-On (SSO) 101  by Ping Identity Corporation

June 08, 2009 - Written for anyone interested in understanding how secure Internet SSO works, this white paper explores the limitations of current SSO implementations outside of a single security domain (including identity and access management systems and open source development) and introduces standalone secure Internet SSO as a solution.

Securing Laptops with Full Disk Encryption  by PGP Corporation

February 16, 2008 - Read this paper to learn about the driving factors behind the increasing use of laptops in business activities, the data and information security issues associated with laptop systems, the overall benefits and challenges of encryption, the overall benefits of full disk encryption, and PGP Corporation's highly effective approach.

Securing PostgreSQL from External Attack  by EnterpriseDB Corporation

November 09, 2009 - Databases are an important part of a company’s infrastructure, but they also tend to be rich with attack vectors to exploit. This webcast explores the many potential PostgreSQL external vulnerabilities and then shows how those vulnerabilities can be secured. Watch this webcast to learn how to protect one of your company’s most valued assets.

Securing the Organization: Creating a Partnership between HR and Information Security  by ISC2

September 09, 2008 - The goal of this white paper is to help Human Resource professionals understand the full scope of the growing information security profession and how it affects every aspect of an organization.

Securing your Web based infrastructure: Essential concepts for PKI deployment and best practices for life cycle key management  by Thales

August 13, 2008 - This paper discusses the benefits unique to deploying the integrated solution of the Windows Server 2008 PKI and the nCipher nShield and netHSM hardware security modules(HSM). This includes the essential concepts and technologies used to deploy a PKI and the best practice security and life cycle key management features provided by nCipher HSMs.

Security Event Monitoring for IBM System i/i-series/AS400 Systems  by SecureWorks

November 02, 2009 - The purpose of this whitepaper is to describe best practices for securing IBM System i/i-Series/AS400 systems and detail the AS400 monitoring service provided by SecureWorks.

Selecting an ERP Solution: A Guide  by Infor

November 14, 2008 - This paper provides guidance on how to develop a good, simple strategy to evaluate and choose the right ERP software package for your company.

SEPATON Addresses Backup of Virtualized Servers  by SEPATON

April 17, 2008 - SEPATON is among the growing list of vendors to join the VMware Technical Alliance Partner (TAP) Program. SEPATON has its sights set on solving the backup challenges of virtual server implementations - in particular, VMware environments - with VTL.

SEPATON S2100-ES2 and DeltaStor: Scale-Out VTL and Deduplication  by SEPATON

August 13, 2009 - SEPATON S2100-ES2 is architected to efficiently support backup and recovery for demanding enterprise-grade sites. Its DeltaScale scale-out architecture enables expansion in performance or capacity by simply adding a processing node or additional disk capacity.

Server Virtualization - Windows Server Virtualization in Windows Server 2008 Product & Technical Overviews  by SHI

October 16, 2009 - Server Virtualization means more than server consolidation. Microsoft Windows Server can help your organization improve network reliability, scalability and security.

Setting a Precedent for Success: Turner Padget effectively eliminates unplanned downtime and cuts server footprint by 50% with Dell solutions and VMware  by Dell and VMware

April 01, 2009 - Turner Padget Graham & Laney, P.A., a Columbia, South Carolina-based law firm with five locations throughout the state sought to consolidate legacy servers, improve availability for remote users, increase storage capacity and implement a new disaster recovery DR/BC strategy. In this case study you'll learn about their new Dell and VMware solutions.

Seven Best Practices for Managing Software Intellectual Property in an Open Source World  by Black Duck Software

October 07, 2009 - Over the past decade, a powerful new approach to development - open source software - has risen to prominence, dramatically increasing the opportunity to re-use existing software. This report describes a set of seven best practices whose objective is to encourage development based on component re-use and software assembly.

SharePoint E-Zine Vol.2: Practical IT Strategies for Enterprise Collaboration  by SearchWinIT

September 25, 2008 - This eZine explains planning global enterprise SharePoint deployments, creating custom global search scopes in SharePoint and top tips for harnessing Microsoft SharePoint governance.

SharePoint E-zine Vol.5: Document version control gets a face-lift in SharePoint 2007  by SearchWinIT

December 17, 2008 - In this edition of the SharePoint E-zine, you will explore how SharePoint 2007 reduces the complexity associated with document version control.

SharePoint High Availability - Protecting All Three Architecture Tiers  by Marathon Technologies

September 18, 2009 - SQL Server is the relational database used for storing all content, data, and configuration information used by Office SharePoint Server 2007. Protecting SharePoint requires protecting each of the three architectural tiers. This whitepaper will discuss the need to protect all three tiers of SharePoint's implementation architecture.

Shavlik Integrates Sunbelt Software Technology: Keeping Endpoints Secure, Compliant and Well-Managed  by Shavlik Technologies

May 20, 2009 - This Market Alert from Aberdeen group draws on current research findings to analyze endpoint security solutions and identify Best-in-Class companies as far as protecting and managing endpoints. Read this analyst written article to learn more.

Should Your Email Live In The Cloud? A Comparative Cost Analysis  by Google Apps

January 05, 2009 - This report presents a spreadsheet cost model to help you calculate your fully loaded on-premise email costs and compare it against cloud-based alternatives. Bottom line: Cloud-based email makes sense for companies or divisions as large as 15,000 users.

SiliconFS™: The BlueArc® Filesystem  by BlueArc Corp.

July 02, 2009 - The BlueArc Filesystem, SiliconFS, is the engine which drives the entire architectural platform forward. The filesystem is the foundation which enables greater performance and scalability for the entire platform. This document describes to the latest version of SiliconFS.

Simple, Open and Affordable BPEL  by JBoss, a Division of Red Hat

July 17, 2009 - As more and more organizations are leveraging BPEL to specify orchestration of Web services, there is a growing need for a simple, open and affordable implementation. In this session, you learn how Red Hat plans to deliver an enterprise-class, supported, open source BPEL engine as part of the JBoss Enterprise Middleware portfolio.

Simplify and Automate Desktop Management with Virtualization  by HP, Vmware and AMD

September 10, 2009 - There are two sides to desktop business continuity: users' needs and IT management. Users need on-demand accessibility of their desktops, applications and data. IT managers must limit complexity caused by supporting diverse users and hardware. This webcast discusses how to automate and simplify virtual desktop management to improve efficiency.

Simplify Oracle CRM On Demand Integration  by Cast Iron Systems

February 23, 2009 - Oracle CRM on Demand solutions offer tremendous benefits like rapid implementations, ease-of-use and subscription pricing. SaaS adoption is increasing so the need to integrate between such products and backend applications is critical to rapidly realizing the full benefits of the solution. Read this paper for more.

Simplify Software as a Service (SaaS) Integration  by Cast Iron Systems

January 18, 2008 - Software as a service (SaaS) integration problems cannot be solved with traditional software and custom coding solutions. Learn how you can quickly integrate SaaS applications with your critical customer data.

Simplifying Log Collection, Storage and Analysis  by ArcSight, Inc.

September 29, 2009 - ArcSight Logger is a turnkey appliance for collection, efficient storage, and high-performance search and reporting of all enterprise log data. Read this paper to learn more details.

Simplifying UNIX Migration - Dell and Red Hat Pave the Way  by Dell, Inc. and Intel

July 01, 2009 - Dell has teamed-up with Intel and Red Hat and developed a migration strategy to simplify the consolidation of the enterprise data center from an outdated, proprietary architecture to an easily managed open systems platforms. To learn about how easy it is to migrate from UNIX to Red Hat Enterprise Linux on Dell PowerEdge servers, please read on.

Six Data Protection Tips for SMBs  by Double-Take Software

August 19, 2009 - This whitepaper provides six tips for an SMB approach to protecting critical data. These tips used in conjunction with Double-Take Availability from Double-Take Software can help SMBs defend against crippling downtime and data loss.

Six Secrets to 24x7 Exchange Availability  by Marathon Technologies

September 28, 2009 - The following six secrets to 24x7, disaster-tolerant Exchange will show you how to implement an Exchange environment with zero lost data and continuous application availability—with no IT intervention—in the event of a disaster.

Smart Archive for SAP and the Enterprise  by IBM

November 10, 2009 - Brian Hill of Forrester and Laurence Leong of IBM discuss how to take a smarter approach to archiving beyond point solutions in this webinar. Learn about the latest industry trends and strategies for archiving and enterprise content management.

Smart Security Center  by ESET

October 20, 2009 - The ESET Smart Security Center features two webcast sessions - including a live Q&A with the experts following the presentation - plus resources centered around antivirus solutions tailored to your business needs.

SMART, Modular, Cost-Effective Steps to Workload Automation  by BMC Software, Inc

April 17, 2009 - 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.

Smarter Development Environments: A Conversation with Grady Booch  by IBM

September 11, 2009 - Join Grady Booch in a freewheeling, interactive conversation on the future of software delivery in the current internet culture and new social media vehicles.

Smarter Products for a Smarter Planet  by IBM

October 06, 2009 - Join us to learn how to leverage IBM’s software, hardware and services to achieve competitive advantage.

SMB Case Study: Prioritize and Work Smarter with an Automated Security Solution  by ArcSight, Inc.

June 08, 2009 - Read this case study to learn how Long Term Care Partners selected ArcSight Express to achieve automated reporting, risk intelligence, cost savings, and operational efficiency.

SOA Governance: An IBM White Paper  by IBM

October 06, 2009 - As SOA becomes a new way of implementing applications, organizations need a way to manage the assets (especially reusable services) developed as part of their SOA activities, to permit the use of these assets to be maximized and insure the results the enterprise envisions. Read on to learn more.

Software as a Service Dramatically Improves CRM Success  by Oracle Corporation

February 01, 2008 - Explore the results of this Yankee Group study aimed at determining how on-demand technology can be used to improve sales effectiveness. Gain a deeper understanding of the difference between sales administration and sales effectiveness and the role technology plays in driving revenue.

Software Manufacturers and Embedded BI: the Build Vs. Buy Question  by LogiXML

October 08, 2009 - This paper helps software manufacturers wanting to embed BI functionality into their solution whether it is best to "build" or "buy".

Software Reliability: Building Security In  by Ounce Labs, an IBM Company

November 19, 2009 - Fixing software security vulnerabilities during development is expensive, difficult and time-consuming. But fixing them after deployment is far more expensive and counterproductive. In this video featuring security expert Diana Kelley, learn state-of-the-art techniques for building a secure software development process.

Software Testing Vol.3: This Issue of Software Testing Delves Into Mobile Application and Regression Testing  by SearchSoftwareQuality.com

July 27, 2009 - This ezine covers the topic of testing and retesting defects and cites the Blackberry blackouts of 2007 and 2008 as examples of issues that could have been detected by regressing testing.

Software-As-A-Service: An Ideal E-mail Archive Solution for Medium-Size Businesses  by Google

July 31, 2009 - Despite the many benefits of using email archiving, many organizations still have not adopted an archiving solution and continue to manage their messaging storage levels with quotas. In this analyst report, we'll discuss why medium sized businesses need email archiving, how to make an informed purchase, and make the case for SaaS based archiving.

Sole-sourcing BI from your ERP vendor: IT convenience or strategic business decision?  by IBM

July 01, 2009 - Datamonitor surveyed 100 SAP customers to understand the implications of sole-sourcing. Read the survey findings and learn the trends and behaviors associated with sole-sourcing BI from ERP vendors.

Solid State Storage - A New Standard for Enterprise-Class Reliability  by Fusion-IO

February 16, 2009 - With throughput and seek times faster than disk arrays, data centers are including NAND flash as part of their server infrastructure. Fusion-io offers solid state storage solutions with NAND flash that provides integrity for data exceeding today's solid state storage solutions and surpasses enterprise-class rotating magnetic storage devices.

Solution Brief: Server Virtualization - Choosing the Best Solution for Your Business  by Sun Microsystems, Inc.

December 01, 2008 - Server virtualization delivers many business benefits to datacenters today. Choosing the right server virtualization product is an important business decision, and Sun has the virtualization and server technology portfolio - along with the experience - to help you make the right one.

Solutions for Small to Medium Data Centers  by APC

October 23, 2009 - APC® by Schneider Electric enables you to adapt your data center to the changing needs of a business. With the same InfraStruXure® HD-Ready architecture, you can start out with a low-density data center, and later scale up to high density as needed without picking up the phone to call for more capacity, engineering or quotes.

Solve Five Key IT Security Challenges with Cloud-Based Authentication  by VeriSign, Inc

October 06, 2009 - This paper shows how to implement greater security for data and applications using two-factor authentication. It demonstrates how a cloud-based solution for two-factor authentication delivers a high level of security with minimal user impact and protects against unauthorized access. Read on to learn more.

Speeding ETL Processing in Data Warehouses  by Syncsort

October 12, 2009 - For processing data for BI analytics and other applications, the usual go-to software products include various extract, transform, load (ETL) and data warehousing solutions. However, these products do not always provide the speed required to deliver data on time. An additional product can speed the processing of high volumes of data.

SpotLight on Active Directory: Diagnostic Tool for Troubleshooting in AD Environments - Free Trial!  by ScriptLogic Corporation

SPSS Text Analysis for Surveys™ 3.0 - Specifications  by SPSS Inc. Worldwide Headquarters

May 05, 2009 - Use SPSS Text Analysis for Surveys to categorize text responses whether you conduct surveys to support business, education, or government decisions, or for your academic research. No matter your field, you now have a way to combine your qualitative and quantitative analyses using a single advanced but easy-to-use desktop software program.

SQL Server 2008 Upgrade Series: Virtualization  by Dell, Inc. and Intel

November 20, 2009 - If you're a small or mid-sized business thinking about virtualization, particularly in the world of Microsoft, it makes sense to upgrade your database servers as well. This article explains why to upgrade and provides several examples of companies that have successfully made the move.

Staffing Service Coordinates Sales Activities, Utilizes Business Intelligence with CRM Solution  by Microsoft

April 18, 2008 - Volt Information Sciences, Inc. provides staffing services, telecommunications, and information solutions to Fortune 100 customers. Executives completed an in-depth request for proposal process to narrow CRM solution options to four enterprise alternatives. They selected Microsoft Dynamics™ CRM because it best met the firm's usability, user..

Starting a Search Application  by Lucid Imagination

April 01, 2009 - There are many ways that people come to the conclusion that they need a search application, and a variety of ways in which they can then proceed. Here are some of the steps that users often consider (or maybe should consider) before they're ready to start building an application.

State of Green in the Data Center  by IBM

November 12, 2009 - This session describes the emerging and continually maturing state of green energy management world wide from not only a data center view but a view across the enterprise.

Stay on Guard: Security Breach Recovery Costs Are Higher Than You Think  by CDW Corporation

March 16, 2009 - The cost of recovering from a security breach can be quadruple the cost of preventing one. Read this paper to learn how to proactively address security concerns in your enterprise.

Staying in Control When Requirements Change: Learn Ways to Keep Schedules and Costs in Line  by IBM

October 30, 2009 - An effective change management process can help you better identify how alterations will affect cost and schedule so you can keep them in control. This paper will explore change management approaches and how you can use IBM Rational® solutions to manage changes to development, system and IT artifacts.

Storage Efficiency: The Key to Green Storage Operation  by Xiotech Corporation

August 01, 2008 - While energy consumption of overall data center operations and server-related equipment is generally understood, the story is quite different when it comes to storage systems. This paper offers practical advice on how to measure storage system efficiency and compares the efficiency numbers of several common storage solutions.

Storage Explained: Cloud Storage Defined  by 3PAR

October 06, 2009 - Cloud storage is a rapidly growing technology. Read this paper for the latest definitions of cloud storage and cloud service and to more closely examine cloud storage benefits and offerings.

Storage Virtualization with the HP StorageWorks  by Hewlett-Packard Company

September 01, 2009 - The most powerful application of virtualization today is at the storage system level. With the HP StorageWorks Enterprise Virtual Array and HP StorageWorks SAN Virtualization Services platform, organizations can take advantage of the many benefits of virtualization with a solution designed specifically for open systems.

Strategic QA: Steps to Effective Software Quality Assurance  by IBM

July 01, 2007 - This whitepaper details the challenges and solutions available for organizations wishing to improve their software development process, reduce costs, improve quality and increase reliability of planning.

Strategies for Controlling Email Risks with Declining Budgets  by Proofpoint, Inc.

September 16, 2009 - Proofpoint CEO Gary Steele discusses today's email security landscape, including trends related to inbound spam and virus, data loss prevention, email encryption, email archiving and how SaaS email security solutions can greatly reduce costs while improving security.

Streamlining the Collection of Shipping, Manufacturing and Warehouse Data with Gemini for SAP®  by TAKE Supply Chain

October 14, 2009 - Read this paper to learn how Gemini for SAP®, from TAKE Supply Chain, allows manufacturing and distribution personnel to perform complex transactions and data entry. Read on to learn how streamlining the collection of shipping, manufacturing, and warehouse data can greatly reduce errors and increase visibility and profitability.

Structuring the Haystack - Business Intelligence and Enterprise Search Solutions  by Information Builders

June 01, 2008 - A researcher at The Data Warehousing Institute recently estimated that 80 percent of information available in an average enterprise is unstructured and unavailable from any standard database management system. What can you do about it? Enterprise search software incorporates unstructured documents into the same architecture as classic reports.

Sun and Infobright - Delivering high-performance data warehouse solutions that cost less to run  by Sun Microsystems, Inc.

May 01, 2009 - Bringing together innovative software, server, and storage platforms, the Sun and Infobright solution provides an easy to manage, enterprise-class, highly scalable data warehouse with low total cost of ownership.

Sun Business Intelligence Solution for Web Infrastructure  by Sun Microsystems, Inc.

October 09, 2009 - The combination of Sun Open Storage and the commercial open-source Infobright data warehousing and Pentaho business intelligence and ETL software packages dramatically lowers the cost of entry and simplifies deployment of a powerful, sophisticated BI infrastructure.

Sun HPC Virtual Tradeshow  by Sun Microsystems, Inc.

September 23, 2009 - Performance Computing (HPC) is business ready. HPC can give your organization a competitive advantage through shorter development cycles, better decision making and lower costs. Download this webcast to discuss new technologies, accomplishments, and collaborations in HPC, networking, storage, software, and data management.