Have you considered the suitability of spreadsheets for business planning and more importantly, the danger they pose to the security and competitiveness of your organization? If not, here are six questions you should ask yourself.

"HP customers need to be aware that changes in server market trends are affecting Itanium. Read this Clabby Analytics paper to understand how industry consolidation and new server architectures are driving a new class of applications, leaving Itanium behind.

This white paper examines IT management challenges from a fundamental and system standpoint.

Written by CIO and Cloud Pro contributor, Dave Cartwright, this special report looks at ways in which the IT manager can help his or her CIO to prepare the ground for moving to cloud. It examines a number of different areas: . What type of applications will fit best into a cloud environment . How to prepare an effective RFP . Ways in which the IT manager can work with the whole of the technical team in getting their organisation cloud-ready . Organising an SLA

Cloud computing has had a short history. It was unheard of as a term before 2007 and in just four years it has risen from a piece of marketing shorthand to become the symbol of a massive change in technology. In the special report, Cloud Pro's experts offer business leaders essential insight necessary to navigate this emerging technology.

Learn about the most important factors that go into buying the right phone system, such as: scalability, compatibilities, how to negotiate pricing, and more.

Oracle's Sun servers are highly reliable, easy- to-manage, vertically scalable systems with many of the benefits of traditional mainframes-without the associated cost, complexity, or vendor exclusivity. In fact, these servers deliver mainframe-class system architecture at open systems prices.

As IT organizations support dynamically changing business priorities and cope with economic pressures, maintaining datacenter agility is critical.

Oracle's Sun SPARC servers provide excellent RAS characteristics that are ideal for maximizing the uptime of business-critical IT services.

Advanced Compression with Database 11g Release 2 helps you manage more data in a cost-effective manner. With data volumes, on average, tripling every two years, Oracle Advanced Compression delivers compression rates of 2-4x across all types of data and applications. Read this white paper to learn more about how Oracle Advanced Compression can help you reduce the disk space and costs of managing large data volumes.

Download this white paper from Osterman Research and Proofpoint to learn how the protection of corporate data from sophisticated malware and phishing attacks is at top of mind of IT decision makers.

Cloud architectures. Remote access to big data. Application performance in an increasingly networked world. A renewed focus on DR/BC based on instant replication between multiple data centers. All are driving a need for more flexible WAN optimization that can be cost effectively deployed across both private and public networks.

Noted author Jim Metzler reports on the emergence of vWOCs, or virtual WAN Optimization Controllers. From the data center to the branch, virtualization is enabling a revolution in how WAN optimization is acquired and deployed. Whether combined with traditional physical appliances or fully virtualized, the new choices make universal network optimization a reality.

What is the secret sauce of WAN Optimization (WAN Op)? First time users are always amazed at the performance results. Download now to learn about the cool technologies behind today's leading WAN Op architecture.

In this white paper we look at the best ways to bridge the disconnects that exist in an organization and provide how to best align technology investment with corporate strategy.

y considering your workflow from a few different perspectives, we'll make it easy to see which scanner or scanners are a good fit for your business.

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As processor, memory, and disk technology have improved, HP ProLiant G7 servers have become ideal platforms for consolidating applications with virtual machines. Find out about HP 3G SATA hot plug solid state disks!

With impressive performance scalability, the HP ProLiant DL385 G7 and ProLiant BL465c G7 attained outstanding results for two-processor platforms on the two-tier SAP® Sales and Distribution (SD) standard application benchmark.

The AMD Opteron processor-based 2P server provides more cores, more memory channels, more memory capacity at a lower total processor price.

Trouncing all competitors, including IBM POWER servers, the ProLiant DL385 G7 took the OVERALL top spot for two-processor servers with a record-breaking performance result on the TPC-C benchmark. Find out more now!

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!

It is common knowledge that PCIe SSD is faster, right? Maybe not, says George Crump from Storage Switzerland. Read on to find out why.

Most companies have only put limited effort toward the system architecture that surrounds the flash memory modules. In this white paper, Storage Switzerland focuses on the importance of architecture design in solid state storage systems.

With flash based systems now commonly in the TBs of capacity and rapidly becoming more affordable, it may be time to look at using solid state storage with high bandwidth applications. Read this white paper to find out more.