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Embracing Next-Generation Mobility Platforms to Solve Business Problems
October 1, 2008, 12:00am PDT
This White Paper, IDC analyzes the role of next-generation mobile enterprise platforms as organizations seek a more strategic deployment of mobile solutions. The White Paper analyzes why mobility...
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Force.com Cloud Platform Drives Huge Time to Market and Cost Savings
September 1, 2009, 12:00am PDT
IDC believes that the rise of Cloud computing has the potential to be among the most transformative developments in the world of information technology in the last 20 years. To date, Cloud...
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Driving Mobile Messaging ARPU With Advanced Haptics
March 1, 2008, 12:00am PST
MNOs are increasingly turning to messaging services as a means of offsetting voice ARPU declines. Premium mobile messaging services such as MMS Funny, pings!, My Veepers Messaging, Animated...
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Extending Mobile Infrastructure Investment Benefits: A Backhaul Solution
August 1, 2009, 12:00am PDT
Mobile networks have been deployed in all corners of the world. It now serves over 4 billion subscribers and has become the most ubiquitous and important means by which human beings connect with...
Provided by IDG (International Data Group)
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Embracing Next-Generation Mobile Platforms to Solve Business Problems
October 1, 2008, 12:00am PDT
As mobile technology and customer adoption of such technology continue to move forward, it is critical today for businesses to recognize the importance of mobility as a strategic investment and a...
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Solving the Wireless Puzzle: A Framework for Evaluating Wireless Enterprise Platforms
June 1, 2008, 12:00am PDT
Wireless business enablement for enterprises in 2008 is building on a wave of momentum and is demonstrating an important value proposition among businesses related to cost savings, increased...
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Wires Versus Wireless: The Case for Wireless Broadband Technology in Emerging Markets
March 1, 2009, 12:00am PST
The mobile communications revolution has been a well-documented phenomenon in emerging or lower-income markets. Since the turn of the millennium, one emerging country after the other has seen...
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The OMH Initiative: Enhancing CDMA Device Availability
September 1, 2009, 12:00am PDT
In a very short period of time, mobile technology has managed to move from a luxurious convenience to an indispensable tool. Despite saturation in mature markets, increasingly sophisticated...
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Snap-In, Grid-Based Data Integration: IBM Information Server Blade
February 1, 2008, 12:00am PST
This white paper explores the problems confronting IT organizations today as they seek to bring data together from disparate sources in order to achieve better information coherence, operational...
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Understanding the Business Value of x86 Virtualization and the Benefits of Virtualization-Optimized Hardware
September 1, 2009, 12:00am PDT
The benefits of moving to a virtualized server infrastructure are substantial, immediate, and enduring. There is an achievable short-term payback of from three to four months for the initial move...
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SVP.26 : Mimecast Unifies Email Security, Archiving, and Continuity Services in the Cloud
March 1, 2009, 12:00am PST
The market for cloud-based IT infrastructure services delivered in a software-as-a-service model continues to grow. IDC research indicates this model of IT delivery is disrupting traditional...
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Enterprise VTLs: Strategic for Large-Scale Datacenters
December 1, 2008, 12:00am PST
Enterprise datacenters have built up extensive investments in large-scale tape infrastructures. Valuable corporate information resides there, and policies and processes have been developed to...
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Novell Holds Down Data Center Costs With PlateSpin Workload Management Solutions
June 1, 2009, 12:00am PDT
Virtual server technology is becoming mainstream in many enterprise data centers. In addition to using the technology to improve server utilization by consolidating workloads, IT leaders are also...
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Delivering Improved Energy Efficiency for the Datacenter
September 1, 2008, 12:00am PDT
In today's business climate, with growing global awareness of environmental issues and rising costs of energy, enterprises and vendors alike are responding by looking for new ways to build and use...
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Oracle Database Security: Cost - Effective Data Leak Prevention Starts at the Source
August 1, 2009, 12:00am PDT
Data, data everywhere. Organizations are awash in information. Data has been growing at an incredible rate. The growth in storage capability is a bellwether for the growth in information. Over the...
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Approaches to Storage Cost Management in the New Economy
June 1, 2009, 12:00am PDT
Data growth is not a new issue. Over the past years, a number of solutions have been introduced to the market to help address the explosive growth in data. However, for many IT departments, the...
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Managing Midsize Storage: Enter the Super-Appliance
February 1, 2008, 12:00am PST
IT managers of midsize companies are under increasing pressure to manage their storage more effectively. Email and file data continue to grow at a relentless rate, while compliance regulations...
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Reducing Downtime and Business Loss: Addressing Business Risk With Effective Technology
August 1, 2009, 12:00am PDT
Business risk can appear at the company's doorstep at any time - and in many forms. Systems go offline when aging components fail, natural disasters strike, key networking connections don't work,...
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Virtualizing UC: Reaping the Benefits and Understanding the Issues for Real-Time Communications
October 1, 2009, 12:00am PDT
Unified Communications (UC) as an industry term is an apt description of the convergence in communications applications that will be deployed in the enterprise as new investments are made. UC is...
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Better Virtualization: Microsoft Hyper-V With AMD Opteron Processors
April 9, 2009, 12:00am PDT
Virtualization using x64 servers can help enterprises consolidate server workloads and reduce costs, while creating a dynamic IT infrastructure that makes provisioning and managing servers,...
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Measuring the Business Value of Green Datacenters
September 1, 2009, 12:00am PDT
Today, policy and business leaders are reaching a consensus that industry must address rising GreenHouse Gas (GHG) emissions. Leading enterprises are now turning to the practical challenge of...
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Business Value of Storage Virtualization: Scaling the Storage Solution - Leveraging the Storage Investment
February 1, 2009, 12:00am PST
Today's challenging business environment demands that IT managers extend the business value of past and future IT investments while boosting the efficiency of their IT operations. Despite...
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Improving File System Storage Efficiency With Unified Storage
March 1, 2009, 12:00am PST
IT organizations of all sizes are struggling to deal with the tremendous growth in data of all types, especially file-based, unstructured data. Even in difficult economic times, the number of...
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Extreme Computing: HP's New Blades Target HPC, Cloud Computing, and the Next-Generation Datacenter
June 1, 2008, 12:00am PDT
HP understands that blade-based systems will not meet the requirements of all users; therefore, the company includes the BladeSystem c-Class as an option in its overall Unified Cluster Portfolio....
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Optimizing I/O Virtualization: Preparing the Datacenter for Next-Generation Applications
September 1, 2009, 12:00am PDT
Rapid adoption of virtualization technology in the x86 server market is bringing a wider array of applications into the virtualized IT infrastructure. Driving this adoption is the need to fully...
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Scalable Windows Servers in the Datacenter
January 1, 2009, 12:00am PST
This paper focuses on HP Integrity servers running the Microsoft Windows server operating environment and mission-critical workloads (e.g., ERP, CRM, and databases). Often the result of...
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Automating Datacenter Management: Consolidating Physical and Virtualized Infrastructures
April 1, 2008, 12:00am PDT
The deployment of virtualization technology for datacenter consolidation, cost reduction, and improved agility continues to accelerate datacenter adoption, spanning server, and storage,...
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The Benefits of Datacenter Transformation With HP
March 1, 2009, 12:00am PST
HP's transformation solutions cut across every aspect of the datacenter. Customers can choose from a comprehensive set of hardware, software, and services that can be tailored to support a wide...
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The Next Phase of Datacenter Development
December 1, 2009, 12:00am PST
The datacenter is in the midst of unprecedented change and transformation. Changes in the compute infrastructure such as new dense computing platforms and expanding use cases of server...
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Agentless Application Virtualization: Enabling the Evolution of the Desktop
May 1, 2008, 12:00am PDT
An increasing number of IT managers are finding themselves challenged with scaling out and supporting desktop environments that are becoming increasingly complex, and at the same time, business...
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The Economic Impact of File Virtualization: Reducing Storage Costs and Improving Management Efficiency
October 16, 2008, 12:00am PDT
Enterprises are adopting new strategies for building and managing file-based storage solutions in response to the high growth in file-based information and the critical need to more...
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The Promise of Desktop Virtualization
June 23, 2008, 12:00am PDT
Much like server virtualization, virtualizing desktops involves separating the physical location of a client device from its logical interface. In practical terms, desktop virtualization allows...
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Achieving Maximum ROI From Server Virtualization
February 20, 2009, 12:00am PST
Virtualization is widely regarded as a powerful tool for solving resource utilization challenges. From consolidating servers to pooling storage to easing desktop image management, virtualization...
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Virtualization for Small Businesses
March 17, 2008, 12:00am PDT
The benefits of VPS for small businesses extend beyond merely getting more computing resources than are available from shared hosting and the opportunity to obtain these at a price point well...
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Windows 7: A Compelling Opportunity for Developers
January 1, 2010, 12:00am PST
The positive reception that Microsoft's Windows 7 launch enjoyed suggests that this product may break out of the confines that Windows Vista experienced. Of significant importance to the long-term...
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Virtualization and the Midsize Organization: How Much Does It Help?
February 1, 2009, 12:00am PST
Executives of medium-sized businesses (250-999 employees, 10-100 servers) may wonder how virtualization can help with their problems ? a set of problems different from those of larger global...
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The Business Value of Consolidating on Energy-Efficient Servers: Customer Findings
May 1, 2009, 12:00am PDT
Today's competitive business environment is putting IT managers under pressure to accomplish more each year with flat or even reduced budgets. Business managers are looking for more flexible...
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A Platform for Enterprise Data Services: The Proven Power and Flexibility of IMS From IBM
October 1, 2009, 12:00am PDT
Enterprises are engaged in a wide range of efforts to integrate their data and make it available to a new class of applications, resulting in a heightened demand for constantly available data and...
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ROI of Switched Ethernet Networking Solutions for the Midmarket
August 1, 2009, 12:00am PDT
New generations of network equipment continue to be more reliable than previous generations. Meanwhile, the applications running across the network have become more ubiquitous and more demanding....
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Maximizing Your Microsoft Software Investment
July 1, 2009, 12:00am PDT
Microsoft Software Assurance (SA) for Volume Licensing is a vehicle through which Microsoft provides unique offerings and special enhancements to its customers. SA includes services as well as...
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Reducing Downtime and Business Loss: Addressing Business Risk With Effective Technology
August 1, 2009, 12:00am PDT
Business risk can appear at the company's doorstep at any time - and in many forms. Systems go offline when aging components fail, natural disasters strike, key networking connections don't work,...
Provided by IDG (International Data Group)
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Managing Midsize Storage: Enter the Super-Appliance
February 1, 2008, 12:00am PST
IT managers of midsize companies are under increasing pressure to manage their storage more effectively. Email and file data continue to grow at a relentless rate, while compliance regulations...
Provided by IDG (International Data Group)
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White Papers
Approaches to Storage Cost Management in the New Economy
June 1, 2009, 12:00am PDT
Data growth is not a new issue. Over the past years, a number of solutions have been introduced to the market to help address the explosive growth in data. However, for many IT departments, the...
Provided by IDG (International Data Group)
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Oracle Database Security: Cost - Effective Data Leak Prevention Starts at the Source
August 1, 2009, 12:00am PDT
Data, data everywhere. Organizations are awash in information. Data has been growing at an incredible rate. The growth in storage capability is a bellwether for the growth in information. Over the...
Provided by IDG (International Data Group)
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Delivering Improved Energy Efficiency for the Datacenter
September 1, 2008, 12:00am PDT
In today's business climate, with growing global awareness of environmental issues and rising costs of energy, enterprises and vendors alike are responding by looking for new ways to build and use...
Provided by IDG (International Data Group)
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Novell Holds Down Data Center Costs With PlateSpin Workload Management Solutions
June 1, 2009, 12:00am PDT
Virtual server technology is becoming mainstream in many enterprise data centers. In addition to using the technology to improve server utilization by consolidating workloads, IT leaders are also...
Provided by IDG (International Data Group)
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White Papers
Enterprise VTLs: Strategic for Large-Scale Datacenters
December 1, 2008, 12:00am PST
Enterprise datacenters have built up extensive investments in large-scale tape infrastructures. Valuable corporate information resides there, and policies and processes have been developed to...
Provided by IDG (International Data Group)
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White Papers
SVP.26 : Mimecast Unifies Email Security, Archiving, and Continuity Services in the Cloud
March 1, 2009, 12:00am PST
The market for cloud-based IT infrastructure services delivered in a software-as-a-service model continues to grow. IDC research indicates this model of IT delivery is disrupting traditional...
Provided by IDG (International Data Group)
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White Papers
Understanding the Business Value of x86 Virtualization and the Benefits of Virtualization-Optimized Hardware
September 1, 2009, 12:00am PDT
The benefits of moving to a virtualized server infrastructure are substantial, immediate, and enduring. There is an achievable short-term payback of from three to four months for the initial move...
Provided by IDG (International Data Group)
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White Papers
Snap-In, Grid-Based Data Integration: IBM Information Server Blade
February 1, 2008, 12:00am PST
This white paper explores the problems confronting IT organizations today as they seek to bring data together from disparate sources in order to achieve better information coherence, operational...
Provided by IDG (International Data Group)
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The OMH Initiative: Enhancing CDMA Device Availability
September 1, 2009, 12:00am PDT
In a very short period of time, mobile technology has managed to move from a luxurious convenience to an indispensable tool. Despite saturation in mature markets, increasingly sophisticated...
Provided by IDG (International Data Group)
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White Papers
Wires Versus Wireless: The Case for Wireless Broadband Technology in Emerging Markets
March 1, 2009, 12:00am PST
The mobile communications revolution has been a well-documented phenomenon in emerging or lower-income markets. Since the turn of the millennium, one emerging country after the other has seen...
Provided by IDG (International Data Group)
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White Papers
Solving the Wireless Puzzle: A Framework for Evaluating Wireless Enterprise Platforms
June 1, 2008, 12:00am PDT
Wireless business enablement for enterprises in 2008 is building on a wave of momentum and is demonstrating an important value proposition among businesses related to cost savings, increased...
Provided by IDG (International Data Group)
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Embracing Next-Generation Mobile Platforms to Solve Business Problems
October 1, 2008, 12:00am PDT
As mobile technology and customer adoption of such technology continue to move forward, it is critical today for businesses to recognize the importance of mobility as a strategic investment and a...
Provided by IDG (International Data Group)
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White Papers
Extending Mobile Infrastructure Investment Benefits: A Backhaul Solution
August 1, 2009, 12:00am PDT
Mobile networks have been deployed in all corners of the world. It now serves over 4 billion subscribers and has become the most ubiquitous and important means by which human beings connect with...
Provided by IDG (International Data Group)
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Driving Mobile Messaging ARPU With Advanced Haptics
March 1, 2008, 12:00am PST
MNOs are increasingly turning to messaging services as a means of offsetting voice ARPU declines. Premium mobile messaging services such as MMS Funny, pings!, My Veepers Messaging, Animated...
Provided by IDG (International Data Group)
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White Papers
Force.com Cloud Platform Drives Huge Time to Market and Cost Savings
September 1, 2009, 12:00am PDT
IDC believes that the rise of Cloud computing has the potential to be among the most transformative developments in the world of information technology in the last 20 years. To date, Cloud...
Provided by IDG (International Data Group)
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Embracing Next-Generation Mobility Platforms to Solve Business Problems
October 1, 2008, 12:00am PDT
This White Paper, IDC analyzes the role of next-generation mobile enterprise platforms as organizations seek a more strategic deployment of mobile solutions. The White Paper analyzes why mobility...
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Using a Hosted Service for Holistic Email Management
October 1, 2008, 12:00am PDT
Organizations are increasingly beset by policy, regulatory, continuity and security requirements for their data. This is particularly applicable for email, which has become the primary...
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Validating the Business Benefits of Integrated Systems Management: The LANDesk Software Customer Experience
September 1, 2008, 12:00am PDT
IT organizations want to provide high-quality, low-cost technology services to business units as part of their basic mission; however, software complexity, manpower changes, mergers and...
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Application Security: No Room for False Positives
January 1, 2009, 12:00am PST
The Internet continues to be an agent for business operation. More and more people and organizations are using the Internet for critical business transactions; however, this success becomes its...
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Enterprise Security: The Smart Way, Not the Hard Way
February 1, 2009, 12:00am PST
IDC conducted interviews with executives at companies in several industry sectors to identify customer and market trends in security solutions. In addition, IDC met with Trend Micro's management...
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Web-Based Security for Business Enablement
August 1, 2008, 12:00am PDT
Internet adoption is still going strong, especially in emerging economies. By 2011, it is estimated that 500 million new users will come online and commerce on the Web will double. The hype around...
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Optimizing the Data Center for Cost and Efficiency
April 1, 2009, 12:00am PDT
The days of buying servers based on speeds and feeds alone are fast fading away. The changing dynamics of the datacenter are driving customers towards new criteria in selecting the products and,...
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IT Economics: CA Infrastructure Management Reduces Operational Costs and Increases IT Efficiency
July 1, 2009, 12:00am PDT
CA customers have provided a number of proof points that illustrate how automated, integrated infrastructure and performance management can significantly lower the cost and improve the...
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Addressing Endpoint Security Visibility and Management
November 1, 2008, 12:00am PDT
The growing complexity of security environments in general, and endpoint security environments in particular, is creating significant management challenges for organizations. At the same time,...
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Virtualisation and Business Continuity
May 1, 2009, 12:00am PDT
The benefits of server virtualisation are transforming the way IT departments provision IT to their customers. If the first wave of x86 virtualisation was mostly focused on improvements in...
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Virtualizing the Infrastructure With Sun x86 Blades
April 1, 2009, 12:00am PDT
Sun Microsystems has a long history of engineering systems that are optimized for network-enabled workloads. In the age of blade servers, this is translating into new designs for network...
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Identity Assurance Comes of Age for Government, Business, and Consumer Security
April 1, 2009, 12:00am PDT
Identity assurance within the context of information technology has been generally defined as the ability to determine with an acceptable degree of certainty that the individual (identity)...
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The Latest in "Hybrids": Deployment Models for Email Security
July 1, 2008, 12:00am PDT
As network and application vulnerabilities continue to grow in the presence of an increasingly aggressive and sophisticated mix of attack vectors, organizations continue to struggle with balancing...
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Optimizing Infrastructure Control
June 1, 2008, 12:00am PDT
This paper outlines the nature of infrastructure integrity, change auditing, and compliance solutions. It describes how an investment in configuration assessment and change auditing solutions can...
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Configuration and Change Management for IT Compliance and Risk Management: The Tripwire Approach
November 1, 2007, 12:00am PDT
This white paper discusses key issues surrounding configuration management and compliance. These issues center on the IT department's need to lower costs, increase management flexibility and...
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Innovation and Security: Collaborative or Combative
September 1, 2008, 12:00am PDT
Business cannot grow without the incubation and support of new innovations. Similarly, because today's companies must use sophisticated computing equipment to stay competitive, the challenges of...
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Insider Risk Management: A Framework Approach to Internal Security
August 1, 2009, 12:00am PDT
Internal security risks are a complex challenge facing organizations of all industries and in all regions. Unfortunately, no single technology will solve the wide range of risks posed by...
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The Convergence of "3S" - Security, Storage, and System Management: Opportunities and Challenges for Outsourcing Services
January 1, 2008, 12:00am PST
The outsourcing services market is transforming rapidly and service suppliers move inside an increasingly interdependent technological framework, with differentiated strategies. Organizations need...
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Mobile Line of Business Applications for the Midsize Business: An ROI Analysis
June 1, 2008, 12:00am PDT
This White Paper sponsored by Microsoft, IDC analyzes the Return On Investment (ROI) and value proposition around mobility solutions available to the midsize business. The White Paper examines key...
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Partnering With Microsoft Dynamics: Eight Steps to Profitability
November 1, 2007, 12:00am PDT
This White Paper conveys findings from the second such Partner Economics Survey, executed by MSI International between February 28 and May 14, 2007. A total of 218 partners from around the world...
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Channel Opportunities for Windows Mobile in North America and Western Europe
January 1, 2008, 12:00am PST
IDC looks at the opportunities for the channel to develop sales of Microsoft server, business applications, tools, infrastructure deployment services, and managed services to customers building...
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Building a Microsoft-Based Information Worker Business Practice
April 1, 2008, 12:00am PDT
This white paper is a guideline created based on in-depth interviews with several Information Worker-experienced partners in the United States. It is designed to help Microsoft partners realize...
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The Hyperconnected: Here They Come! - A Global Look at the Exploding 'Culture of Connectivity' and Its Impact on the Enterprise
May 1, 2008, 12:00am PDT
The Internet, broadband access, camera phones, voice-over-IP, instant messaging, social networking, video uploading - all make obvious the increasing importance of communications and connectivity...
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