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Supporting Social Organization Modernization With Commercial Software
January 1, 2010, 12:00am PST
Social organizations throughout the world are in the midst of transforming the way they deliver services to meet challenges that range from changing client expectations to decreased program...
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Reducing Greenhouse Gases Through Intense Use of Information and Communication Technology: Part 1
December 1, 2009, 12:00am PST
Schneider Electric is set on becoming the benchmark in sustainable development through the management of efficient energy use and by offering the cleanest and most efficient products, processes,...
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Infrastructure Convergence: The Integration of Technology to Lower Cost and Improve Business Response
November 1, 2009, 12:00am PDT
The immensely growing IT complexity has forced IT organizations to act as their own systems integrators. This, in turn, has lead to escalating costs, staff resource availability issues and...
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The Business Value of Green Document Management Solutions
March 2, 2010, 12:00am PST
The deteriorating condition of our environment has also made our businesses to keep a track of their environmental impact of their company operations. Unlike earlier, when organizations undertook...
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IPBrick Redefines Open Source Usability and Manageability
May 18, 2009, 12:00am PDT
In today's complex and competitive world there is a need for continuous business support, while at the same time reducing costs incurred. There is a continuous effort being made to integrate both...
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Realizing the Benefits of Deduplication in a Backup and Restore System
November 20, 2008, 12:00am PST
Protecting the data on tape data storage is a thing of the past. Today, most of the small and medium-sized companies are looking for better, more cost-effective ways to store, backup, and...
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Server Resource Protection: A Critical Element of IT Security
July 9, 2008, 12:00am PDT
In the past, IT professionals have thought and believed that an organization's overall security is threatened by external access abuse. Consequently, they have worked hard to provide a solution to...
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Online PC Backup : Key Criteria in Selecting an Enterprise Solution
December 17, 2008, 12:00am PST
According to an IDC research, it is important to centrally protect and secure laptops and desktops as corporate information assets. But this will require increased spending on online PC backup...
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Server Refresh to Meet the Changing Needs of IT
October 6, 2008, 12:00am PDT
With the growth in installed base of server systems, various servers have replaced the existing installed systems in the organizations with the help of x86-based system. Replacing systems that do...
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Privileged Identity Management: IDC Defines an Identity and Access Management Submarket for Managing Privileged User Accounts and Meeting Grc Requirements
January 4, 2008, 12:00am PST
Over the past few years IT institutions have accepted the bitter truth that risk associated with insider threats far exceeds than that of outsider threats. These inside threats are more harmful...
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Datacenter SSDs : Solid Footing for Growth
January 9, 2008, 12:00am PST
In the past, adopting Solid State Drives (SSD) into the storage state environment was considered to be high in price factor and low in capacity level. During that time, hard disk drives were...
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Application Outsourcing: Leveraging Its Intrinsic Benefits
October 14, 2008, 12:00am PDT
MainTrend is a software and solution provider that connects high-level information technology and organization architecture professionals. It is the sole provider of the discussed solution for...
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Microsoft, PHP, and Open Source: A Pragmatic Alliance
July 1, 2009, 12:00am PDT
How does one develop an application in PHP using the Zend Framework and Oracle database? This paper discusses the Zend Framework, which is an open source framework for PHP. This framework is...
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Cloud Computing in Government: The Case and Considerations
June 1, 2010, 12:00am PDT
The state of the government information technology (IT) infrastructure and capital investments are, if nothing else, immense. Government departments and agencies - civilian and defense - have a...
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The Opportunity for Linux in a New Economy
April 1, 2009, 12:00am PDT
This white paper presents IDC's perspectives on the changing opportunity for Linux server operating environment (SOE) deployments and the workloads that are supported by Linux. This papers...
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Outsourcing and Managed Services: Helping the It Function to Help the Business?
October 1, 2007, 12:00am PDT
The use of outsourcing and managed services is growing in Ireland. A large majority of organisations are using such services and many are planning to use more. The drivers of the market are...
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Migrating Infrastructure for SAP Environments Away From Unix/RISC
August 1, 2009, 12:00am PDT
In this white paper, the authors will look into three distinct customer situations faced with the business driver to move from an Unix/RISC system supporting an SAP ERP system each to another...
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Case Studies
MAXM Database Advisor From BMC Drives IMS Agility at Multimillion-Dollar European Financial Services Firm
May 1, 2010, 12:00am PDT
This global group of companies offers a complete range of financial and nonfinancial products and services in over 30 countries around the world. One of the company's most valuable assets...
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IT Management and Virtualization Software Reduce Cost and Energy Consumption at BMC Datacenter : An ROI Case Study
July 1, 2008, 12:00am PDT
Today's IT organizations act as service providers to the business. IT must align with business strategy, minimize operational costs, maximize the return from investments and operational...
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Distinctions Between SMB and Enterprise Requirements for Protection, Archiving, and Recovery
April 1, 2009, 12:00am PDT
This paper segments the differences in requirements and characteristics among firms of differing sizes when it comes to how they manage their data and the types of features and solutions they look...
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Seamless Communications: Simplicity, Efficiency, and Transparency Achieved Through Integrated Wireline and Wireless Services
March 1, 2009, 12:00am PST
This White Paper provides analysis of the convergence between wire line and wireless technologies and the opportunities this evolution offers to enterprises looking to reduce costs, minimize...
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Running and Optimizing the Business of IT : The SAP Best Practices Approach
June 1, 2008, 12:00am PDT
IT organizations are challenged to deliver effective services to constituents and end users who align with business priorities and who can change quickly to meet evolving requirements. At the same...
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Driving Productivity With Multiple Monitors
April 1, 2010, 12:00am PDT
This white paper discusses the increasing need for a cost-effective, easy-to-use multiple-monitor solution. It explores the impact adding multiple-monitor workstations had on three tech-driven...
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Why Architecture Matters: PowerDesigner Enhances Support for Enterprise Architecture
May 1, 2010, 12:00am PDT
This white paper examines the evolutionary changes that are occurring in the overall architectural tools market, including the increasing emphasis on enterprise architecture tools and the...
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Sybase PowerBuilder Meets Microsoft .NET: Setting the Pace for Application Development Productivity
August 1, 2010, 12:00am PDT
Sybase PowerBuilder has remained throughout the years a bastion of application development productivity for a wide class of enterprise applications that combine heavy database orientation with a...
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Driving the Real Value From a CRM Solution in a High-Volume Contact Center
June 1, 2009, 12:00am PDT
This white paper discusses the current state of high-volume contact centers. It considers the business and technical challenges involved in maintaining good customer support in the face of rising...
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SAP ERP Life -Cycle Management Overcoming the Downside of Upgrading
September 1, 2009, 12:00am PDT
Enterprises today are reliant on their ERP to streamline critical business activities. In accordance, ERP systems have become increasingly sophisticated and include a wide range of capabilities,...
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Understanding the Spectrum: Videoconferencing to Telepresence Solutions
May 1, 2010, 12:00am PDT
Videoconferencing and telepresence in particular give organizations the ability to effectively message and align an entire company. Videoconferencing and telepresence not only help executives...
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The Benefit of Using Windows 7 in Small and Medium-Sized Businesses
June 1, 2010, 12:00am PDT
All indications suggest that Windows 7 will be a major success with business customers of all sizes as well as with consumers. Windows 7 has the ability to drive productivity and user satisfaction...
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Case Studies
Case Study: College Converges Fixed and Mobile Phones
January 23, 2008, 12:00am PST
New College, Durham likes to keep ahead of the curve on technology. It's installing a system that will save money by letting staff use mobile phones to make calls over the college Wi-Fi network....
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SAP in the Mid - Sized Enterprise: Lessons Learned in Europe and Africa
January 1, 2009, 12:00am PST
Mid-sized enterprises are under pressure many sides. Despite growth, they often find it hard to reap global economies of scale because local systems and business procedures inhibit coordination,...
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SAP in the Small Enterprise: Lessons Learned in Europe and Africa
July 1, 2008, 12:00am PDT
Small European enterprises are under pressure to comply with regulations and industry standards, conduct business in several countries, often using several languages, and currencies, and manage...
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The Evolution of SAP Support Services: SAP Enterprise Support
April 1, 2008, 12:00am PDT
Enterprise software has become an essential component of everyday operations in most large enterprises and small and medium-sized businesses. To minimize downtime and maintain peak performance,...
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Improving IT Economics and Gaining Business Value With CA's Enterprise IT Management Software: An ROI Study
November 1, 2008, 12:00am PDT
Recent dislocations in the world economy have driven IT economics especially the cost and value of IT operations to the forefront of IT concerns. With this situation in mind, the authors present...
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The Evolution of the Multi-Protocol SAN
July 1, 2010, 12:00am PDT
The recession and global economic crisis in 2009 had a profound effect on organizations investment and operations priorities. Some of these (e.g. delayed capital expenditures and staff reductions)...
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Improving Desktop Management With Microsoft Desktop Optimization Pack
July 1, 2007, 12:00am PDT
Some of the most basic tasks that IT departments face deal with desktop management, yet managing internal IT users present great challenges. These challenges include testing for application...
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Optimizing Infrastructure : The Relationship Between IT Labor Costs and Best Practices for Managing Windows Servers
January 1, 2008, 12:00am PST
Windows Server 2003 and earlier Windows Server products are the most widely deployed operating systems ever sold. Most organizations using server operating systems have one or more Windows Server...
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Enabling SharePoint Operational Efficiency and Information Governance With EMC SourceOne
May 1, 2010, 12:00am PDT
This paper is dedicated to providing firms with guidance on addressing the operational and information governance challenges associated with managing SharePoint sites, libraries and content...
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Implicit Advantages Accrue to Integrated Storage Management Suites
June 1, 2008, 12:00am PDT
Hitachi Storage Command Suite is an integrated product that is based on extensive research into current and future market directions as well as pain-point feedback from users. While the suite...
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The Supercomputer on Your Desktop
February 16, 2010, 12:00am PST
High-Performance Computing (HPC) has almost always required a supercomputer - one of those room-size monoliths that find at government research labs and universities. And while those systems...
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Raising the Bar on Business Analytics: Innovation Powered by Grid
July 1, 2009, 12:00am PDT
This white paper focuses on the benefits of deploying business analytics solutions on grid computing platforms. The paper discusses these technologies, the reasons for selecting business analytics...
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Lean IT: The Time for Transformation Is Now
August 1, 2009, 12:00am PDT
In today's economic environment, reducing costs and increasing efficiency should be priority one for financial institutions. To assist in this process, many institutions are investigating...
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Amalga Unified Intelligence: One New Solution to Many Old Problems
March 1, 2009, 12:00am PST
In the past, it was sufficient for hospitals to care for patients and bill payers for their services. But in today's highly regulated, rapidly changing, and increasingly competitive and...
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Building Scale for the Utility Company's Future
August 1, 2009, 12:00am PDT
Utilities are entering a new era. Concerns about the aging delivery infrastructure, climate change, and energy security are driving investments in new and cleaner sources of energy - renewables,...
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The Case for Investing in Business Analytics Technology
February 1, 2009, 12:00am PST
The business analytics technology functionality must provide support for a range of decision-maker needs, including standalone ad hoc, exploratory, and predictive analysis. But business analytics...
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Opportunities in Scalable Windows for Business Intelligence
October 1, 2008, 12:00am PDT
The trend toward evidence-based decision making is taking root in commercial, nonprofit, and public sector organizations. Driven by increased competition due to changing business models,...
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Oracle X Factor: HP Oracle Exadata Storage Server and the HP Oracle Database Machine
October 21, 2008, 12:00am PDT
This IDC Insight examines the initial implications of Oracle's recent announcements regarding the HP Oracle Exadata Storage Server and the HP Oracle Database Machine. This paper includes some...
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Oracle Database and Windows and .NET Interoperability: Packing Much More Than Meets the Eye
April 1, 2009, 12:00am PDT
Though often coming without much fanfare, the interoperability initiatives between Oracle and Microsoft technologies around Oracle database support on Windows and with .NET application development...
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Improving Organizational Decision-Making Through: Pervasive Business Intelligence - The Five Key Factors That Lead to Business Intelligence Diffusion
November 13, 2008, 12:00am PST
Evidence of the competitive value of Business Intelligence (BI) and analytics solutions is growing. BI and Data Warehouse (DW) tools and analytic applications - a set of technologies and processes...
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Case Studies
The Path Toward Pervasive Business Intelligence at the School District of Palm Beach County, Florida
August 1, 2008, 12:00am PDT
The School District of Palm Beach County, Florida (PBCSD) is the 5th largest school district in Florida and the 11th largest school district in the U.S. The school district's 2008/2009 fiscal year...
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Business Intelligence Solutions From the Microsoft and Teradata Partnership
October 1, 2008, 12:00am PDT
The trend toward evidence-based decision making is taking root in commercial, nonprofit, and public sector organizations. Driven by increased competition due to changing business models,...
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Automating Datacenter Management: Consolidating Physical and Virtualized Infrastructure
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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Get Personal: Capitalize on Your Subscriber Data With a Unified User Profile
September 1, 2008, 12:00am PDT
This paper discusses the role of user profile management. SPs' efforts to manage, enrich, capitalize on, and provision user information across multiple databases are critical to fuel...
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Bringing Clarity to Hard Disk Drive Choices for Enterprise Storage Systems
February 1, 2009, 12:00am PST
Technology migrations for IT organizations are often challenging. But choosing the right storage hardware technology wisely, and implementing it appropriately for a given storage application and...
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Grupo Antolin Achieves Cost Efficiency and Supports Business Expansion Through SAP ERP 6.0 Upgrade
April 1, 2008, 12:00am PDT
A year ago, the competitive cost of its IT environment was far from favorable. Application maintenance costs were rising as a percentage of the IT budget and the ability to invest in more...
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Case Studies
The Path Toward Pervasive Business Intelligence at Steak N Shake
August 1, 2008, 12:00am PDT
Founded in 1934 in Normal, Illinois, The Steak n Shake Company (Steak n Shake) is one of the oldest restaurant chains in the United States. Steak n Shake was influenced by both external and...
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The Path Toward Pervasive Business Intelligence at an Asian Telecommunication Services Provider
September 1, 2008, 12:00am PDT
The trend toward evidence-based decision-making is taking root in commercial, non-profit and public sector organizations. Driven by increased competition due to changing business models,...
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Choosing the Right Hardware for Server Virtualization
April 1, 2008, 12:00am PDT
Currently, virtualization is one of the most talked about new technologies in IT infrastructure. The ability to virtualize servers and reclaim, up until now, excess capacity has caught the...
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Optimizing the Datacenter 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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Demonstrating Return on Investment With Enterprise-Class Identity and Access Management Technology
November 1, 2007, 12:00am PDT
End-to-end, secure Identity and Access Management (IAM) within a distributed systems infrastructure is a key goal of most organizations today. This Paper demonstrates how enterprise customers can...
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The Market for Software Appliances: An Opportunity Poised for Growth
July 1, 2009, 12:00am PDT
In the midst of an uncertain economy, end users are increasingly looking for simplicity in their IT solutions. The goal of streamlining operations will lead customers to more cost-effective...
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Linux Adoption in a Global Recession
March 1, 2009, 12:00am PST
Linux has been a commercially viable solution for much of the past decade and has battled its way into the number 2 position in the industry on the basis of units deployed on an annual basis. In...
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Realizing TCO Savings With HP BladeSystem Virtual Connect Flex-10 Technology
May 1, 2009, 12:00am PDT
HP Virtual Connect technology is an interconnect option for HP BladeSystem designed to simplify the connection of blade servers to datacenter networks. Virtual Connect creates pools of LAN and SAN...
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Blade Servers for the Masses: Cost Advantages in Midsize and Enterprise Markets
December 1, 2007, 12:00am PST
Early in their adoption cycle, blade servers were designed to provide economies of scale for larger systems. However, only the largest IT organizations gained the capital and operating cost...
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Next-Generation Management Software for Blade Environments
January 1, 2009, 12:00am PST
This paper examines HP Insight Software and the importance of manageability in the selection of a blade platform with ProLiant servers. It joins the IDC white paper Gaining Business Value and ROI...
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Remote Client Solutions: The Multiplication of Virtualisation Technologies
June 1, 2008, 12:00am PDT
This White Paper analyses the various models of IT infrastructure available today - how they compare with the traditional distributed infrastructure, and what ROI can be expected from the...
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Business Value of Virtualization: Realizing the Benefits of Integrated Solutions
July 1, 2008, 12:00am PDT
The use of static x86 server configurations is quickly becoming an outdated concept with the introduction of modern solutions based on blade architectures, which can offer both intelligent...
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The Business Value of Software Deployment Services
July 1, 2009, 12:00am PDT
This white paper describes the challenges enterprises can encounter when deploying software packages into their IT environment. It also highlights what enterprises should consider when evaluating...
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Secure Collaboration and Secure Information Access: Enablers for Citizen-Centric Services
September 1, 2008, 12:00am PDT
This White Paper presents a pair of case studies that describe how two government agencies are proactively addressing the challenges associated with providing citizen-centric services. In an...
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IT Economics: Streamlining Application Performance Management With Extended Visibility and Visualization
May 1, 2009, 12:00am PDT
This IDC White Paper discusses how APM solutions can help IT managers cope with todays economic and operational IT challenges. The paper identifies the types of application performance management...
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The Economic Impact of Microsoft's Windows 7, Worldwide
July 1, 2009, 12:00am PDT
This profile quantifies the forecasted economic impact that Microsoft's Windows 7 operating system will have worldwide from launch in October 2009 to the end of 2010. The impact is seen in IT...
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Why the Software Industry Is Building Appliance Solutions on Commercially Available Hardware
January 1, 2008, 12:00am PST
Enterprise IT managers are under pressure to accomplish more each year with budgets that are being held to little or no growth. Thus, they must find new solutions that are more efficient and more...
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Dell Takes Holistic Approach to the Secondary Storage Market With Its Intelligent Data Management Solutions
March 1, 2009, 12:00am PST
This white paper analyzes the market opportunity for Dell's new data protection appliance, the PowerVault DL2000 product. In addition, IDC explores Dell's offering in the context of the secondary...
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Beyond Power Consumption: What It Really Means to Go Green
May 1, 2009, 12:00am PDT
"Going Green" has become one of the most pervasive slogans in today's commercial marketplace. Growing awareness among policymakers, who are introducing more stringent environmental regulation and...
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Advanced CPUs: The Impact on TCO Evaluations of Retail Store IT Investments
September 1, 2008, 12:00am PDT
Many retail IT and store operations executives struggle to justify the up-front acquisition/purchase costs of Point-Of-Sale (POS) replacement terminals, allowing legacy store equipment to...
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Virtualization on Itanium: Intel Enables Choice and Flexibility for Customers
November 1, 2007, 12:00am PDT
Intel is partnering with a host of virtualization providers to deliver customers as much choice and flexibility as possible on which to run their mission-critical applications. Key virtualization...
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Using Availability and Clustering Software to Maintain Business Continuity in the Era of Virtualization
November 1, 2008, 12:00am PDT
The market for highly available servers and high availability is growing, reflecting enterprise demand for solutions that strive to maintain business continuity. These solutions are becoming more...
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Identifying Storage Management Challenges When Deploying Server Virtualization
April 1, 2008, 12:00am PDT
Server virtualization market has been growing at a double-digit rate for the past two years, and is expected to continue growing in 2008 and beyond. The need for consolidation to reduce datacenter...
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Pulling the Thin Provisioning Lever to Improve Storage Management Efficiency
November 1, 2008, 12:00am PDT
IT departments and systems administrators are beset by storage management challenges. The tremendous growth in the amount of digital data, combined with IT staffs that are stretched thin, is...
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Using Clustered File System Software for Superior Application Availability
July 1, 2009, 12:00am PDT
Managers across organizations of all types and sizes would prefer not to experience downtime, but that might not be realistic expectation. Organizations for which downtime - say, even 20 minutes -...
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