Data Management

The latest white papers, case studies and webcasts to help technology professionals ensure data is safe from risk and disaster with quality back-up, infrastructure and information management.

  • White Papers // Oct 2013

    Exploring Business and IT Friction: Myths and Realities

    Is IT Friction Causing Decreasing Value for Your Organization? This white paper outlines key issues that cause friction between business users and IT, such as:

  • Gaps in customer satisfaction and the perceived value of services
  • Inadequate IT support, which decreases productivity and revenue
  • Lack of communication and...

    Sponsored By BMC Software

  • White Papers // Oct 2013

    Oracle ZFS Storage ZS3-2 - Resources

    The industry's first Application Engineered Storage, deeply integrated with your Oracle Database and applications to deliver maximum performance, ensure rapid creation of secondary databases, and maintain 24/7 availability.

    Find out more here at the Oracle ZS3 Storage hub with numerous videos and resources to choose from.

    Sponsored By Oracle

  • White Papers // Oct 2013

    Exposing the Unvarnished Truth about Database Storage

    The world of database storage has changed and continues to change at an ever-increasing pace. It’s become virtualized, networked, distributed, and ultimately far more complicated for the database administrator (DBA).

    This document scrutinizes how advances such as virtualization, has made the life of the DBA a living storage hell...

    Sponsored By Oracle

  • White Papers // Oct 2013

    Dell Integrated Data Protection: DR4100 with NetVault

    IT teams are faced with swelling data volumes and expanding virtualization, both of which complicate your backup and recovery strategies. The DR4100 appliance, combined with NetVault, protects both physical and virtual servers, increases backup speed and provides recovery assurance for data and applications. Learn more in this ESG Lab review.

    Sponsored By Dell

  • White Papers // Oct 2013

    The Best Network Attached Storage Choice for Oracle Database and Software Environments

    If you're not using Oracle Storage for your Oracle Database environment, you're missing out on features and functionality that can help you improve performance, efficiency and overall manageability. This paper takes a specific look at how the Sun ZFS Storage 7420 cluster compares to a NetApp FAS3250 cluster, and describes...

    Sponsored By Oracle

  • White Papers // Oct 2013

    Big Data and Business Analytics

    Download this TDWI E-Book to learn how to overcome obstacles, maximize business value, and get started with big data analytics.

    Sponsored By IBM

  • White Papers // Oct 2013

    Cutting Complexity – Simplifying Security

    With corporate IT becoming increasingly complex, how can IT management boost efficiency… while improving corporate security?

    Kaspersky Lab's latest whitepaper, "Cutting Complexity – Simplifying Security" looks at how the latest IT Systems Management solutions can simplify and automate a vast range of routine IT management tasks, in order to:...

    Sponsored By Kaspersky Lab

  • White Papers // Oct 2013

    Whitepaper: Cooling Strategies for IT Wiring Closets and Small Rooms

    Cooling for IT wiring closets is rarely planned and typically only implemented after failures or overheating occur. Historically, no clear standard exists for specifying sufficient cooling to achieve predictable behaviour within wiring closets.

    This paper describes the science and practical application of an improved method for the specification of...

    Sponsored By APC by Schneider Electric

  • Podcasts // Oct 2013

    Reps Sell More with Oracle Sales Cloud

    Animated Video: Oracle Sales Cloud is smarter selling that will help reps sell more. Oracle Sales Cloud enables sales reps to sell more anytime, anywhere and on any device and empowers them to grow their own pipeline without waiting for marketing.

    Sponsored By Oracle

  • Podcasts // Oct 2013

    Sales Cloud Overview

    Animated Video: Smarter Selling with Oracle Sales Cloud Oracle Sales Cloud is Smarter Selling that will help reps sell more, managers know more, and companies grow more.

    Sponsored By Oracle

  • Podcasts // Oct 2013

    Companies Grow More with Oracle Sales Cloud

    Animated Video: Oracle Sales Cloud is Smarter SFA that helps Companies Grow More. Maximize revenue and optimize sales performance. Know what to sell your customers. And get more help from your marketers and partners.

    Sponsored By Oracle

  • Downloads // Oct 2013

    FREE Alert Aggregation & Management with Integrated On Call Calendar

    SolarWinds Alert Central gives you a centralized place to receive and send alerts for ALL your IT monitoring systems. Alert Central gives you:

    • Easy, Accurate & Automated Alert Distribution
    • Quick & Efficient Alert Resolution
    • Greater Visibility into Alert Workflows
    Don’t let any important alerts be missed, consolidate...

    Sponsored By SolarWinds

  • White Papers // Sep 2013

    The Future of Data Center Management - Ptak Noel

    In this paper, Ptak/Noel describes the new IBM PureFlex system and the unique management capabilities of the IBM Flex System Manager.

    Sponsored By IBM

  • White Papers // Sep 2013

    Value Proposition for IBM PureFlex System: Case for IBM PureFlex System for Cloud- Enabled SAP Enterprise Environments

    This management brief discusses the value proposition for the Case for IBM PureFlex System for Cloud-Enabled SAP Enterprise Environments. Link(s)

    Sponsored By IBM

  • White Papers // Sep 2013

    Accelerating VDI Solutions for Modern Business with IBM PureFlex and IBM Flex System

    IBM’s SmartCloud VDI solution lev-erages the IBM PureFlex and Flex System portfolio, Cloud and Smarter Infrastructure prod-ucts and the company’s design/deploy services to deliver reliable, powerful and secure managed desktop infrastructures.

    Sponsored By IBM

  • White Papers // Sep 2013

    IBM WP: “Protect Your IT System w Next Generation Security”

    A data breach, probings, hackers… protect your your critical IT information. What these real-life examples have in common is that perpetrators can attack companies through their IT systems. Read how trusted computing from IBM PureFlex System can help secure your systems against emerging threats.

    Sponsored By IBM

  • White Papers // Sep 2013

    Journey to Your Cloud Taking Your Organization From Reactive to Innovative

    This Whitepaper talks about why make the journey to the Cloud. It talks about empowering your IT Organization with Cloud Computing, the Path to Innovate, Essential Cloud Capabilities to Advance a Cloud Operating Model. It also talks about three approaches: Reactive: Managing the Growing Demands of the Business and moving...

    Sponsored By VMware

  • White Papers // Sep 2013

    Organizing for the Cloud

    Cloud computing represents a major opportunity for IT. At the same time it presents challenges. Lines of Business are already by-passing IT and going directly to external cloud providers. Running workloads on external cloud provider infrastructure isn’t necessarily a bad thing but to regain control, IT must begin to think...

    Sponsored By VMware

  • White Papers // Sep 2013

    The Big Data Zoo—Taming the Beasts

    With so much talk about big data and the possibilities it can offer, the truth behind what big data is—and what it can do for businesses—can be hard to determine. However, according to Dr. Barry Devlin of 9sight Consulting, the truth behind all the talk is not hard to see,...

    Sponsored By IBM

  • Webcasts // Sep 2013

    Microsoft Active Directory Consolidation Challenges

    An Active Directory consolidation can be difficult if you don’t have a solid plan in place. In this archived webcast, learn about common Active Directory consolidation challenges, when to migrate and how the right combination of best practices and migration tools can smooth the process. Watch it today.

    Sponsored By Dell Software

  • White Papers // Sep 2013

    Five Ways To Prepare Your Infrastructure For Disaster

    In the world of online advertising, you’re used to dealing with the unexpected, but how prepared would you be for a complete disaster? A blizzard or hurricane could easily take down the data center hosting your ads. Follow these 5 tips to turn a complete disaster into another day at...

    Sponsored By Dyn

  • White Papers // Sep 2013

    User Experience Management and Business Impact – A Cornerstone for IT Transformation

    User Experience Management as a means of understanding and improving end-user interactions is growing exponentially. In a 2012 survey, 75% of respondents said UEM was becoming more important for their organization, compared to just 2% who said it was becoming less. Research has found a strong correlation between effective UEM...

    Sponsored By Dell Software

  • White Papers // Sep 2013

    5 things you should know about Big Data for APM

    In today’s unforgiving competitive environment, your ability to detect and respond quickly to application issues can be the difference between keeping your customers and losing them to a competitor. Making sure you have complete and timely visibility into the health of your business application is mandatory in order to protect...

    Sponsored By Hewlett-Packard (HP)

  • White Papers // Sep 2013

    Intelligent IT operations: Making IT smarter with advanced event correlation and management

    It’s an old story for IT: Do more with less and faster. Businesses focus investments on business innovation, new markets, mergers, and acquisitions while IT budgets barely creep up. IT operations managers are asked to tighten their belts to support new services with the same resources, sometimes less, but many...

    Sponsored By Hewlett-Packard (HP)

  • White Papers // Sep 2013

    Quantifying the benefits of HP Server Automation

    Over the past few years, managing data center environments has become one of the most costly functions of IT, with over 70 percent of budgets going toward the management of existing systems. IT teams are under more pressure than ever to reduce costs and risks while delivering increasing value to...

    Sponsored By Hewlett-Packard (HP)

  • White Papers // Sep 2013

    Learning to Compete: IT's Next Transformation

    Today’s business leaders require high-value, easily consumable IT services. And if internal IT can’t offer attractive enough IT solutions, executives know they can find them elsewhere. Ever hear of Google, Amazon or Dropbox? Of course you have.

    So how can CIOs deliver rapid IT capabilities that offer a market advantage...

    Sponsored By EMC

  • White Papers // Sep 2013

    Capitalizing On Cloud: Preparing People and Processes for IT's Organizational Challenge

    Many businesses are turning to cloud-enabled services, driving the evolution in IT processes, roles, skills and structure. And while there will inevitably be a few bumps on the road toward any operational transition, CIOs with the right leadership skills will undoubtedly unlock new business value in the cloud.

    This...

    Sponsored By EMC

  • White Papers // Sep 2013

    Case Study: Gladiator Technology Reduces Its Backup Footprint By Nearly 90%

    Gladiator Technology, who provides more than 700 U.S. banks and credit unions with managed security services, processes on average 10.2 billion unique records across 4,000 monitoring nodes per month. In short, the company understands the importance of meeting recovery time objectives (RTOs) and efficiently managing backup windows.

    Check out...

    Sponsored By EMC

  • White Papers // Sep 2013

    The Proven Business Value of EMC Backup and Recovery

    This IDC white paper is your guide to the realm of backup and recovery in today's data-driven IT environments. Filled with research results and key information regarding the current state of backup, this paper has the information you need to get a better handle on today's massive data growth.

    ...

    Sponsored By EMC

  • White Papers // Sep 2013

    EMC Continues to Innovate to an Ever Broadening Data Domain Ecosystem

    Data deduplication is recognised as a requirement by many today (37%) and planned for by others (39%), compared with only 20% of ESG survey respondents who report that they do not have plans for deduplication.

    This ESG paper explores deduplication implentation and why EMC Data Domain is considered to be...

    Sponsored By EMC

  • Case Studies // Sep 2013

    Fashion retailer Monsoon makes the move from FTP to MOVEit™ Managed File Transfer

    MOVEit is the world’s most comprehensive and easy-to-use secure managed file transfer solution. Monsoon, one of the world’s leading retail outlets for fashion and accessories, uses Ipswitch File Transfer’s MOVEit to add security and auditability for file transfer between its international operations. Read more...

    Sponsored By Ipswitch

  • White Papers // Aug 2013

    ESG Lab Validation Report: Dell PowerVaultDL4000 Appliance

    Data protection continues to be one of IT’s most persistent challenges. In addition to the typical challenges of cost and backup/recovery times, IT organizations are faced with the ongoing growth of data volumes and expanding virtualization which complicate the protection landscape and challenge IT staffs in organizations of all sizes...

    Sponsored By Dell

  • White Papers // Aug 2013

    Demystifying Deduplication for Backup with the Dell DR4000

    Data deduplication, or dedupe for short, can yield enormous savings, making disk-to-disk backup more feasible. However, not all deduplication technologies are equal. Tape backup is no longer an effective solution for all data-protection scenarios. Many organizations are turning to disk-based backup solutions to augment or, in some cases, replace their...

    Sponsored By Dell

  • White Papers // Aug 2013

    Capitalizing On Cloud - Preparing People and Processes

    Cloud-enabled services are the next wave transforming how businesses capitalize on information technology, and that in turn drives the next evolution in the processes, roles, skills, and structure of IT organizations—the evolution to IT as a Service (ITaaS). Today’s CIOs must exercise extraordinary leadership to make the transition and unleash...

    Sponsored By EMC

  • White Papers // Aug 2013

    EMC IT - Leading The Transformation

    After enduring several years of global economic uncertainty, organizations large and small are beginning to increase IT spending. The pressures, although by no means gone, have begun to recede. ESG research indicates that for both enterprise and midmarket organizations, just reducing costs—while still important—is no longer the top priority. This...

    Sponsored By EMC

  • White Papers // Aug 2013

    Clearswift's Adaptive Redaction Technology: a step towards better Information Governance - Whitepaper

    Information Governance is about understanding the information that flows through an organisation and how best to protect it. However in today's openly collaborative environment, organisations are faced with new information security concerns. Clearswift's Adaptive Redaction technology helps mitigate information risk, whilst enabling organisations to focus on the customer experience.

    Sponsored By Clearswift

  • White Papers // Aug 2013

    Mastering Active Directory Migrations

    Your IT infrastructure depends on Active Directory. But each new release of Windows Server means you either update the network operating system or migrate data into a new directory structure. In this new white paper, see why most companies choose migration, and how the right combination of best practices and...

    Sponsored By Dell Software

  • Videos // Aug 2013

    Dell AppAssure End to End Video

    Dell AppAssure is the backup, replication and recovery solution that works across your virtual, physical and cloud environments. In this informative white board video, learn more about AppAssure’s power and ease of use, and how end-to-end data protection ensures all your critical data is safe. Watch it now.

    Sponsored By Dell

  • White Papers // Aug 2013

    The 12 Essential Tasks of Active Directory Domain Services

    Did you know there are 12 major tasks in Active Directory (AD) Domain Services management? Delegation of these tasks is key to keeping your AD environment performing a peak levels. But which ones require more time and effort? Which increase workload to the breaking point? And is there a better...

    Sponsored By Dell

  • White Papers // Aug 2013

    The Active Directory Management and Security You’ve Always Dreamed Of

    Windows native security did the job when Windows NT was released in 1993. However, the growing complexity of IT infrastructures, an ever-changing and diverse workforce, IT administrators forced to do every menial Active Directory task – and much more! – means you need a strong, centralized and automated Active Directory...

    Sponsored By Dell

  • Webcasts // Jul 2013

    On-demand Webcast - Three key considerations for the best tiered storage strategies

    It's a guideline we all learned as kids: Use the right tool for the right job. This guiding principle is as appropriate for the data center today as it was for shop class back in the day - especially when it comes to storage. KPCB and IDC estimate that global...

    Sponsored By Quantum

  • White Papers // Jul 2013

    IBM: An Early Leader across the Big Data Security Analytics

    This analyst paper, written by Jon Oltsik, Senior Principal Analyst at ESG, show how IBM is an early leader across Big Data Security Analytics. ESG believes that tactical security analytics solutions and compliance centric SIEM tools are no match for todays big data security analytics needs & IBM is one...

    Sponsored By IBM

  • White Papers // Mar 2012

    What a Project Manager Needs to Know About Business Process Analysis

    Business Process Analysis (BPA) is an important discipline for project managers. They should employ it to improve their own project management processes whether they are general project management processes, repeatable life cycle processes, or processes developed for a specific project. PMs also must understand BPA because BPA is used to...

    Sponsored By Global Knowledge

  • White Papers // Jan 2012

    Alter Ego Turns to NetVault Backup for a Practical Solution

    Alter Ego leads the way in video production and visual effects in the high-end Canadian marketplace, combining decades of collective experience with the latest in nonlinear digital technology. By switching to Dell’s NetVault Backup, Alter Ego found a solution that did more than meet its technical backup requirements. NetVault gave...

    Sponsored By Dell

  • White Papers // Jun 2013

    Big Data: Examples and Guidelines for the Enterprise Decision Maker

    Despite the hype, Big Data is more than just a buzzword. Big Data is enabling organizations to create new products, to outpace their competitors and to save tens of millions of dollars. In this paper, we begin with a description of Big Data and the data management landscape. Next, we...

    Sponsored By The MongoDB Company

  • White Papers // May 2012

    Retail in the Smarter City

    Smarter City Documentary

    Sponsored By IBM

  • White Papers // Sep 2013

    Five Ways To Prepare Your Infrastructure For Disaster

    In the world of online advertising, you’re used to dealing with the unexpected, but how prepared would you be for a complete disaster? A blizzard or hurricane could easily take down the data center hosting your ads. Follow these 5 tips to turn a complete disaster into another day at...

    Sponsored By Dyn

  • White Papers // Aug 2012

    The Importance of Managing Privileged Accounts

    Privileged accounts are necessary, but carry implicit security risks, so securing them – while preserving access and ease of use – is vital. Especially with today’s security and compliance concerns, effectively managing privileged accounts is more important than ever.

    In this Windows IT Pro white paper sponsored by Dell,...

    Sponsored By Dell Software

  • Podcasts // Feb 2013

    The role big data plays in solving complex security challenges

    To aid in the detection of stealthy threats that can hide in the increasing mounds of data, IBM announced IBM Security Intelligence with Big Data, combining leading security intelligence with big data analytics capabilities for both external Cyber Security threats and internal risk detection and prevention. IBM Security Intelligence with...

    Sponsored By IBM

  • Webcasts // Jun 2013

    On-demand Webcast - HP Application Performance Monitoring (APM) for Mobile Applications and Services

    For many companies mobile applications are today a viable mean to generate customer revenue, loyalty and satisfaction. As the new business channel delivers business value, it means that companies should be able to proactively monitor, manage and improve the end user experience of these mobile application services. Join us to...

    Sponsored By HP

  • White Papers // Jun 2013

    openBench Labs: Boosting SQL Server Performance in a Virtual Environment

    How can I/O optimization technology boost SQL Server response time by 130% and throughput by 50% in a virtual environment? openBench Labs tested V-locity VM in its independent lab—examining how the software dramatically increases SQL Server performance on VMs—with no additional hardware. Read the report…

    Sponsored By Condusiv Technologies

  • White Papers // Feb 2013

    Simplifying VMware vCloud

    This white paper has three main goals. The first is to generate a better understanding of the cloud in both the business and IT communities. The second is to describe the major components of vCloud and the virtual datacenters they provide. The third is help businesses visualize and understand how...

    Sponsored By Global Knowledge

  • White Papers // Jul 2013

    Unlock the Power of Microsoft SQL Server 2012

    Microsoft SQL Server 2012 has many great new features that will allow you to develop higher performing, more scalable next-generation applications using more than just relational data. The fact that the features are largely incremental in nature should reassure users that Microsoft is building on the established foundation of SQL...

    Sponsored By Global Knowledge

  • White Papers // Jan 2011

    Deploying BranchCache: A How-To Guide

    As a business grows over time, it increases its number of employees and branch offices. Essential records for the business are usually located at the head office for safekeeping. So in order for a branch office employee to access this information, network connectivity must be established between the head and...

    Sponsored By Global Knowledge

  • White Papers // Feb 2010

    Integrating Cisco Unified Communications Manager (CUCM) 6.X and Active Directory (AD)

    Directories are specialized databases that are optimized for a high number of reads and searches, and occasional writes and updates. Although Active Directory (AD) and Cisco Unified Communications Manager (CUCM) are very diverse systems owned by two separate companies, the use of AD for management of users in a CUCM...

    Sponsored By Global Knowledge

  • White Papers // Mar 2010

    Top Ten Things Every DBA Should Know About SQL Server

    Microsoft SQL Server has evolved over the years as a scalable, robust database management system and is now competing in the VLDB (Very Large Database) space with Oracle and IBM. The market share for the product continues to grow, based on total cost of ownership and ease of use. This...

    Sponsored By Global Knowledge

  • White Papers // May 2011

    Understanding and Managing the Risk of Change

    Every organization faces change. These changes include everything from regular, almost mundane modification to large-scale deployments of new IT services. Regardless of the scale of the change, all changes have one thing in common: risk. This white paper discusses how ITIL® Change Management mitigates risk to ensure architectural integrity and...

    Sponsored By Global Knowledge

  • White Papers // Feb 2012

    Microsoft SQL Server 2012: What to Expect

    Microsoft SQL Server 2012 has many great new features that will allow you to develop higher performing, more scalable next-generation applications using more than just relational data. Although this release will be a little early for many customers, the fact that the features are largely incremental in nature should reassure...

    Sponsored By Global Knowledge

  • White Papers // Apr 2012

    Microsoft System Center Configuration Manager 2012: What's New and What's Different

    The new upgrade to Microsoft System Center Configuration Manager 2012 provides substantial opportunities for organizations to gain better control over their hardware and software resources. It is a huge step forward that will require time and patience to fully learn and understand, but in the long run should prove to...

    Sponsored By Global Knowledge

  • White Papers // Apr 2012

    Navigating Microsoft SQL 2012 Certifications

    The SQL world is an interesting place, part Database Admin, part Developer, and part system administrator all rolled into one neat package. However, the SQL world is a difficult place because of the different areas you must master - back up the database, write cleaner, more efficient, and secure code;...

    Sponsored By Global Knowledge

  • White Papers // Aug 2013

    Vendor Landscape: Virtual Backup Software

    Your data center is constantly becoming more complicated. Today, the proliferation of virtualization — both for virtual servers as well as virtual desktop projects — has added an all-new layer of complexity to the picture. Server virtualization is now handling production workloads, and traditional backup vendors are adding features to...

    Sponsored By Dell

  • White Papers // Jul 2012

    How to Avoid the Coming Backup Crunch

    Tolerances for data loss are approaching zero, and traditional backup has become a resource drain that threatens to cripple IT with “business as usual.” Dell’s critically acclaimed AppAssure enables IT to capture continuous backup snapshots, automate recoverability testing and offload data deduplication/compression. As a result, businesses can successfully fulfill rapidly...

    Sponsored By Dell

  • White Papers // Jan 2012

    Unified Backup: Virtual & Physical

    In independent testing, researchers found that Dell AppAssure offered advantages in ease-of-use and backup/recovery time. AppAssure’s image-level backup technology essentially eliminates the potential for data loss by creating closely spaced recovery points for critical applications, such as Exchange, SQL and SharePoint. For IT operations, the new OO architecture of AppAssure...

    Sponsored By Dell

  • White Papers // May 2013

    Dell Data Protection Point of View

    By applying business intelligence and analytics to your business’s data, you can improve the customer experience, increase efficiency and reduce risks. On the other hand, when a system fails, IT is on the hook to restore data and applications immediately, even though it takes an average of 18.5 hours to...

    Sponsored By Dell

  • White Papers // Sep 2012

    RUAG Reduces Backup Admin Time by 93 Percent with NetVault Backup

    The RUAG Group is an international aerospace and defense technology company with production sites in Switzerland, Germany, Sweden, Austria, Hungary and the United States. Following a merging of IT departments, RUAG wanted to consolidate its local backup processes with minimal impact to users. After testing, the company successfully migrated its...

    Sponsored By Dell

  • White Papers // Aug 2013

    Discover Five Amazing Things You Can Do with NetVault Backup

    NetVault Backup is cross-platform backup and recovery software that safeguards your data and applications in both physical and virtual environments – from one intuitive console. This scalable enterprise solution supports dozens of server and application platforms. NetVault Backup plug-ins give you consistent, reliable, point-and-click restore for your messaging and database...

    Sponsored By Dell

  • White Papers // Aug 2013

    ESG Lab Validation Report: Dell PowerVaultDL4000 Appliance

    Data protection continues to be one of IT’s most persistent challenges. In addition to the typical challenges of cost and backup/recovery times, IT organizations are faced with the ongoing growth of data volumes and expanding virtualization which complicate the protection landscape and challenge IT staffs in organizations of all sizes...

    Sponsored By Dell

  • White Papers // May 2013

    Evaluating Deduplication Solutions

    Do you know what deduplication is, and how it can benefit your company? Deduplication is one of the hottest technologies on the market today because it reduces your data storage costs across the board while increasing IT productivity.

    Learn more about deduplication – and how it makes your life...

    Sponsored By Dell

  • Videos // Aug 2013

    Dell AppAssure End to End Video

    Dell AppAssure is the backup, replication and recovery solution that works across your virtual, physical and cloud environments. In this informative white board video, learn more about AppAssure’s power and ease of use, and how end-to-end data protection ensures all your critical data is safe. Watch it now.

    Sponsored By Dell

  • White Papers // Aug 2013

    The 12 Essential Tasks of Active Directory Domain Services

    Did you know there are 12 major tasks in Active Directory (AD) Domain Services management? Delegation of these tasks is key to keeping your AD environment performing a peak levels. But which ones require more time and effort? Which increase workload to the breaking point? And is there a better...

    Sponsored By Dell

  • White Papers // Aug 2013

    The Active Directory Management and Security You’ve Always Dreamed Of

    Windows native security did the job when Windows NT was released in 1993. However, the growing complexity of IT infrastructures, an ever-changing and diverse workforce, IT administrators forced to do every menial Active Directory task – and much more! – means you need a strong, centralized and automated Active Directory...

    Sponsored By Dell

  • White Papers // Aug 2013

    The Keys to the Kingdom: Limiting Active Directory Administrators

    Securing your Active Directory (AD) forest is a critical step for your enterprise. However, allowing a data center server operator to act as a domain administrator is the most potentially damaging security risk in your AD infrastructure.

    In this Windows IT Pro white paper, discover the differences between the...

    Sponsored By Dell

  • White Papers // Aug 2013

    Demystifying Deduplication for Backup with the Dell DR4000

    Data deduplication, or dedupe for short, can yield enormous savings, making disk-to-disk backup more feasible. However, not all deduplication technologies are equal. Tape backup is no longer an effective solution for all data-protection scenarios. Many organizations are turning to disk-based backup solutions to augment or, in some cases, replace their...

    Sponsored By Dell

  • White Papers // Mar 2012

    Mobile Is The New Face Of Engagement

    Mobile is not simply another device for IT to support with a shrunken Website or a screen-scraped SAP application. Rather, mobile manifests a broader shift to new engagement systems. CIOs must plan now for them and empower customers, partners, and employees with context-aware apps and smart products.

    Sponsored By SAP

  • White Papers // Mar 2013

    Best Practices for Business Class File Sharing Solutions

    What happens when employees go around IT and use their own Dropbox-like services, webmail or USB drives to send company information? This behavior presents significant security and compliance risks including:
    - Loss of control over who has access to files and data
    - Lack of visibility and audit trails
    ...

    Sponsored By Ipswitch

  • White Papers // Mar 2013

    Aberdeen Research: B2B Collaboration: The Impact and Advantages of Managed File Transfer

    Aberdeen has reported the number of B2B integration (B2Bi) and collaboration initiatives has doubled over the last two years. What's driving this explosion?
    - More complex business environments
    - Increasing customer demands
    - Globalization

    In this case report, Aberdeen examines the connection between collaboration initiatives and data management challenges,...

    Sponsored By Ipswitch

  • Case Studies // Sep 2013

    Fashion retailer Monsoon makes the move from FTP to MOVEit™ Managed File Transfer

    MOVEit is the world’s most comprehensive and easy-to-use secure managed file transfer solution. Monsoon, one of the world’s leading retail outlets for fashion and accessories, uses Ipswitch File Transfer’s MOVEit to add security and auditability for file transfer between its international operations. Read more...

    Sponsored By Ipswitch

  • White Papers // Jan 2011

    12 Advantages of Agile Software Development

    Organizations can find significant value in adopting Agile methodologies and techniques. Agile practices can help ensure you meet customers and deliver to their expectations, deliver products on time, and create a motivated environment that is able to quickly adapt to change. This white paper explores 12 benefits of Agile development...

    Sponsored By Global Knowledge

  • White Papers // Feb 2011

    Getting Started with Master Data Services

    Master Data Services in SQL Server 2008 R2 allows an organization to define a "single source of truth" about its enterprise data using a purpose-built centralized database and a predefined Web application - Master Data Manager. Multiple application databases can be referenced through models forming a "hub-and-spoke" type architecture enabling...

    Sponsored By Global Knowledge

  • White Papers // Sep 2013

    5 things you should know about Big Data for APM

    In today’s unforgiving competitive environment, your ability to detect and respond quickly to application issues can be the difference between keeping your customers and losing them to a competitor. Making sure you have complete and timely visibility into the health of your business application is mandatory in order to protect...

    Sponsored By Hewlett-Packard (HP)