Best Practices White Papers

HP’s $8 billion write-down. A disappointing IPO from Facebook, Groupon’s famous flameout. These watershed moments have crystallized what we’ve known for a while: Fluff can no longer trump sound operations in terms of a company’s valuation. Organizations must be built on an empirically firm foundation to flourish. And everyone – from investors on Wall Street to customers on Main Street to the SEC– is looking at companies with more scrupulous eyes.

Whether you have been with your company for 30 years or just completed your first week, chances are pretty high that you are endlessly busy and things never seem to slow down. With so much to wrap your head around and the mindset of not skipping a beat, you likely never had a moment to pause, reevaluate the way things were being done and think to yourself, “What is the real method to this madness here and is there a better, more productive and cost-effective way we could be doing it?

Forrester Consulting examined the potential return on investment (ROI) enterprises may realize by utilizing Turn Audience Suite and Turn Campaign Suite. Learn how this brand achieved a 50% ROI and attributes 80% of it’s digital media services revenue growth to Turn.

This whitepaper will demonstrate how implementing the McAfee solution to assess vulnerability, provides comprehensive, risk-based vulnerability assessment for your organizatin to help you manage the 400 new vulnerabilites per month with the fewest possible resources.

Not long ago, if you asked an IT executive about transformation, there was a good chance you’d get a technology-centric response. You’d hear about consolidation and virtualization, power and cooling, security and availability. Today, the responses are different. This edition of Unleashing IT is all about transformation. Not technology change, but business change through the use of technology.

Extreme Leadership, Inc. provides training, certification, consulting and coaching services based on Steve Farber’s approaches and methodologies.

Get 3 big ideas from Steven M.R. Covey on how to demonstrate and profoundly impact the level of trust in your relationships, your team and your organisation.

Do your field reps use iPads or iPhones? If so, enable them to present with PowerPoint the way it was meant to be seen -- with fonts, colors and animations intact. Plus, empower you content team to instantly edit and update all versions of a particular presentation, all with the click of a mouse. Ideal for reducing risk and maintaining compliance! Users in more than 140 countries use SlideShark to deliver consistent, secure PowerPoint presentations on iPads and iPhones. Find out how SlideShark can empower you to distribute, control and track field PowerPoints. Click here to watch a quick 2-minute video and see SlideShark in action.

This IDC white paper describes the challenges associated with managing the growing complexity of IT infrastructures, with a focus on support services for the enterprise. It highlights the important role of support services in maximizing system performance and minimizing downtime. The paper also examines the HP Insight Online, HP Insight Remote Support, and HP Proactive Care service offerings, specifically for HP ProLiant Gen8 servers featuring Intel Xeon technologies — including an analysis of the return on investment (ROI) from these programs for existing HP customers.

This paper summarizes and evaluates the prevalence and efficacy of data center virtualization deployments, as well as the hardware that supports them. The conclusions drawn from this report are based on analysis of both quantitative market research and two qualitative interviews with a CIO and CTO in healthcare and finance, respectively. Each customer, referred to ESG by Hewlett-Packard (HP), had extensive experience deploying both server and desktop virtualization. The goal of the study was to determine the IT and business drivers to adoption of virtual technologies, the expected and realized benefits, ensuing infrastructure decisions,future outlook of the data center, and best practices for deployment.

Read this case study to learn how GMO Media achieved a significant reduction in the implementation period of a service development environment using a private cloud. HP Converged Infrastructure and private cloud built on HP ProLiant BL465c G7 Server Blades and open-source software (OSS) with Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization (RHEV) enables speed and supports business growth.

While virtualization is delivering clear benefits to multiple areas of IT, organizations need to start thinking about it holistically to serve business needs. Learn more about maximizing the value of your virtualization IT environment with this CIO.com eBook.

In this white paper, Stratecast explores the relationship between hardware and software components in delivering a high-performing cloud environment. We present a list of questions to guide the reader in evaluating the offers of different cloud providers. Finally, we consider HP integrated solutions (hardware tuned to service automation platforms) as an effective choice for building a high-performance cloud environment.

It is very clear that datacenter managers need, in addition to server virtualization, the virtualization, pooling, and management of all the other resources that interoperate with their VMs. They require virtualized network interconnects and storage. They also need the tools to manage and automate these converged IT assets as an integrated datacenter system. This more agile system is the key to enabling the shift to a cloud-based infrastructure IT delivery model. Solution providers like HP are now addressing the need for more optimized and agile IT solutions. They are delivering virtualized storage, virtual application network (VAN) infrastructure, and the orchestration software to manage and automate all these ingredients as a single system. Read this whitepaper to learn more.

TechValidate invited over 6,300 IT Professionals to participate in a survey and provide insight about the current Backup and Disaster Recovery landscape.

By knowing exactly what is on your systems, how they are being used and by whom, organizations can better maintain network health, compliance and security.

Marketing Automation is technology that allows you to nurture leads through automated campaigns. Because marketing automation uses email as one of its methods for engaging customers, we are often asked, “What is the difference between Marketing Automation and Email Marketing?” For small businesses, marketing automation is a tool to take your marketing to the next level while saving your organization’s resources in the long run. Marketing automation builds upon your email marketing strategies to produce superior results. In this paper, we’d like to show you what marketing automation can do for you and help you decide if your organization is ready to graduate to a marketing automation solution.

Radicati Group's 2012 Market Quadrant for Hosted Business Email and Collaboration is now available for your use. SilverSky formerly USA.NET, a Perimeter E-Security brand, was named as a Top Player. Radicati's 2012 market report confirms that SilverSky delivers secure infrastructure from the cloud that businesses of all sizes rely on. Our advanced technology, expert intelligence, and superior scale makes our clients' information more secure, more highly available, compliant with regulations and less costly to manage.

SilverSky operates a major hosted infrastructure dedicated to providing world-class enterprise messaging solutions. This whitepaper is an in-depth overview of our Hosted Microsoft Exchange architecture and how we implement best practices across systems management, testing, application deployment, infrastructure and security to provide increased productivity and reduced costs.

As the volume of available data increases, and we have new ways of extracting insights from data, it is valuable to take a step back and examine the impact of these insights on integration and company actions. Join us for this webinar and learn how you can use big data in your organization.

Radicati Group's 2012 Market Quadrant for Microsoft Hosted Exchange is now available for your use. SilverSky (formerly USA.NET, a Perimeter E-Security brand), was named as a Top Player again – for the sixth consecutive year. The Radicati Group evaluated 13 cloud-based Hosted Exchange services in a wide range of configurations from multi-tenant to single tenant environments. SilverSky was one of only four vendors placed in the "Top Players" quadrant, earning the highest score awarded for functionality.

What are some of the pitfalls you can avoid when augmenting an existing infrastructure to maximize performance, results, and success? Read on.

The need for real-time vulnerability management and risk assessment

In a January 2012 market research study, 71 percent of the businesses surveyed said that mobile devices have caused an increase in security incidents.

Reaching a pinnacle of strategic importance, expense management has found high prominence within today’s organizations. Discover Aberdeen’s latest best practices for effectively managing T&E expenses.