IT Spending White Papers

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.

The service desk of the future will need to keep on top of metrics and be able to provide reports that demonstrate business value and drive service improvements. That’s why this report advocates starting a comprehensive metrics programme now to ensure that you’re ready for the future (it’s never too early to start collecting data). The service desk has always been the customer-facing portal into IT, it’s future role will be to measure the performance of technology services, act as the ‘dashboard’ for assessing the success of the services operation and provide pertinent, timely and useful information to the business to enable them to make informed decisions.

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.

Many organizations have understandably turned to consolidation and virtualization to reduce server complexity, footprint and cost-to-scale. The next step is to optimize performance using analytics, policy-based automation and new technologies like cloud computing. Companies that focus on server optimization are seeing greater flexibility and sustained cost and operational efficiencies, with administrators able to manage 2.5 times more servers and almost twice as many virtual machines per server.

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.

Canon has the most complete suite of applications for output management and accounting techniques that can track who is printing what, add it all up and make corporate printing more efficient.

3rd generation Intel® CoreT vProT overview covering threat management, identity and access, data protection, and monitoring and remediation.

Bar-coded shipping labels are essential to sophisticated tracking and material-handling systems, and thus so are label printers. This white paper identifies the features of shipping-label printers that will return the greatest value for long-term, low-cost reliable operations, from features that save time to those that simplify integration and management.

This document provides a high level overview of how to build a high performance, highly available IP SAN with deduplicated disk protection and long-term tape archive. This document will also put that solution into context with the rest of a typical IT environment.

This GigaOM Pro paper explores what functions to consider when selecting and working with hosting providers as it relates to the entire value chain of function and performance. Get your complimentary 6-page report now.

There is growing evidence that more pervasive BI and analytics have a direct impact on competitiveness. Better decision making is more important when resources become restricted during a recession, so BI and analytics projects will still appeal to management. However, justifying large capital outlays for software will be challenging unless short-term benefits can be directly correlated with the investment. As more incremental projects are undertaken, it will be important to execute these projects within the long-term strategic plan of organization wide decision management. Read an active Q&A session with Dan Vesset, IDC Program Vice President of Business Analytics on building a successful enterprise BI strategy.

Cloud computing has a lot of appeal, from auto-scaling to lower costs, and it's all just a few clicks away. Thus, the big question is not "why cloud?" but rather "how cloud?"

This informative report examines the Riverbed® Steelhead EX + Granite appliance, which helps organizations consolidate servers and storage and deliver IT services globally. Find out how edge-VSI can improve your IT infrastructure.

The What, Why & How of CRM Integration This report contains insights from C-level executives, business analysts and IT engineers, and systems integrators and consultants who design and implement data integration for their enterprise clients.

Download this free white paper to learn how platform-as-a-service private cloud offers enterprises one of the best ways to take advantage of cloud computing.

Thanks to the emergence of cloud computing, IT environments must now be a broker of IT services across the enterprise. But how do you achieve the right IT balance for delivering cloud services? Read this white paper to find out.

Improving collaboration and access to the growing collection of content are critical, fundamental components of companies' future growth. Download this white paper to learn more.

This paper explores the question: what could your organization do with faster, better answers, and provides possible use case scenarios that illustrate the value this technology brings to a variety of industries.

This paper defines predictive analytics, then details ways this type of analytics can be applied to marketing, risk, operations and more. It also includes information relevant to a wide variety of industries - from manufacturing to hospitals.

This paper shows the results of the survey, as well as trends and expert opinions focusing on why some top organizations are able to successfully extract insight from "big data."

How does an organization make the best use of data, and what is the proper role of IT? This paper describes how organizations can foster a culture of data analytics that promotes cooperation and collaboration between IT and business.

Learn what criteria distinguished certain companies as top performers within the SMB sector, the factors to consider when assessing your organization's BI competency and the required actions to achieve best-in-class performance.

This white paper reveals the results of a Bloomberg Businessweek Research Services survey of 930 respondents globally on the current state of business analytics within organizations. You'll discover how and why the use of analytics is growing!

This Aberdeen Research Brief draws on three discrete data sets in order to understand the tangible business impact of effective analytics in the SMB market.

In this final piece on server virtualization and SSD, Storage Switzerland discusses the power of performance, specifically, the dramatic impact that latent-free storage can make on the virtual environment. Read on to find out more!