November 21, 2011 - A company-wide journey to the cloud can be very complex and is accomplished in multiple stages, with many intermediate goals to meet. This white paper discusses how one provider offers the right hardware, software and services to smooth your transition and ensure an optimal cloud experience.
December 01, 2007 - Fortrex, in conjunction with Solidcore and Emagined Security have compiled a PCI compliance report that reveals the cost of a breach can easily be 20 times the cost of PCI compliance, more than justifying the up-front investment.
January 12, 2012 - PCI DSS is mandatory for any business that handles confidential cardholder data. Riverbed® Stingray™ Traffic Manager and Stingray Application Firewall Module help with many parts of the PCI DSS specification, notably the web application firewall (WAF) requirements of section 6.6.
October 11, 2011 - What’s the latest around the PCI Express extender approach to I/O virtualization? Check out this SearchVirtualStorage.com interview as George Crump, lead analyst for Storage Switzerland, discusses using PCIe bus extenders to implement I/O virtualization.
October 22, 2010 - IT administrators estimate that close to half of all corporate data is held on employee laptops. However, data on laptops are normally the least protected corporate asset. To solve this, PeerSync provides centralized IT control for laptop backup. Download this trial software to experience this data solution.
June 01, 2010 - By rolling out Microsoft® Windows Server® 2008 R2 with Hyper-V™ and Microsoft System Center Virtual Machine Manager on Dell™ PowerEdge™ servers, Perkins & Company consolidated servers and provided employees with virtual desktops. Learn how these solutions helped save time for IT staff, improve productivity for employees, and much more!
February 06, 2012 - Discover how a virtual backup appliance (VBA) can help you backup, recover and replicate your VMs to ensure a comprehensive backup and recovery strategy for your virtual environment. Find out how this technology can seamlessly scale with your environment and support multiple platforms.
January 04, 2008 - Using two of the Intel SS4000-E storage servers mirrored for additional redundancy, Philips has cut about USD 10 thousand off the storage cost for more than one terabyte of data by eliminating the need to buy expensive optical disks.
June 24, 2011 - Server virtualization has proved to be an advantageous in disaster recovery situations because if physical servers have been destroyed, it’s easy to restore backups to virtual hardware. Learn how healthcare facilities can benefit from adding server virtualization to disaster recovery plans, while maintaining compliance.
January 25, 2010 - Media resources are software- or hardware-based components that perform processing on two or more connected media streams. Media Resource design is an important component of overall IP Telephony implementations and care must be taken to ensure that resources are available at the right locations for maximum link efficiency.
June 28, 2011 - Join this Computer Weekly webinar and hear real-world tips on how datacentre transformation can be implemented with relatively low pain and suffering, and maximum return on investment.
November 29, 2011 - In this BeyeNETWORK podcast, industry expert and author Cindi Howson details the current state of business intelligence (BI) adoption, the business impact and offers BI best practices from both organizational and technical perspectives.
December 19, 2011 - As companies become more dependent on Web-based services, more and more of them are considering adding failover capabilities to their Windows Server 2008 R2 servers. This expert podcast explores key factors you will need to consider as you prepare to deploy Windows Server 2008 R2, including software add-ons, performance requirements, and more.
February 18, 2011 - Listen to this podcast featuring Senior Analyst from Forrester Research, Rachel Dines to learn why PC backup today is more important than ever and how to solve your PC backup challenges.
December 16, 2011 - Sizing servers for your virtualization initiative is critical. Not every workload requires the same amount of power. Smart virtualization admins will right-size their hardware to meet the need of their virtual workloads. Discover how to do so in this podcast.
September 23, 2011 - In this podcast, George Crump, lead analyst for Storage Switzerland, discusses using PCIe bus extenders to implement I/O virtualization. Find out about PCIe bus extenders' advantages and disadvantages for users, the necessary steps, requirements to implementing them, and more. Listen to this podcast to learn more.
November 25, 2009 - In this podcast, learn how virtualization can benefit your disaster recovery and high availability strategy. Discover the differences between physical and virtual environments and learn about architectural considerations to support virtualization.
December 03, 2009 - This podcast explores several virtualization applications, and details 10 common use cases for virtualization and it can help your company improve their IT infrastructure. Discover how to enhance your disaster recovery and high availability plans without draining the IT budget.
August 24, 2009 - What do SOX, GLBA, and HIPPA all have in common? These important regulations all require technical safeguards to protect or guarantee the veracity of critical information. In this Q&A podcast, gain an understanding of the above regulations and discover what capabilities and organization must have in place to address the requirements.
December 06, 2011 - To remain competitive, you must understand the changing demands of your customers. This podcast provides insight into the evolving mid market landscape and explains why servers are a better fit for these types of clients than traditional PCs. Plus, discover key criteria customers look for when selecting a server.
August 23, 2010 - Upgrading from VMware ESX and/or ESXi 3.x to vSphere 4 successfully involves careful planning. There are hardware, software and database requirements, as well as third-party software compatibility considerations. This podcast provides guidelines for planning a successful upgrade, and walks you through a proposed upgrade path step-by-step.
August 27, 2010 - Tune into this podcast featuring Lauren Whitehouse, Senior Analyst, Enterprise Strategy Group as it outlines the challenges associated with endpoint data protection and management, how the problems are being addressed today, the advantages and disadvantages of these different data protection approaches and more.
April 27, 2011 - By shifting the focus from physical systems to end-user digital identities, the Dell Flexible Computing framework helps simplify image management, hardware transitions, and security through central IT control of virtualized client devices.
May 02, 2011 - Desktop virtualization is emerging as an important strategy for organizations seeking to reduce the cost and complexity of managing an expanding variety of client desktops, laptops, netbooks, and mobile handheld devices.
June 23, 2011 - Organizations considering Windows Server 2008 R2 Remote Desktop Services (RDS) should know that WS08 R2 (RDS) alone does not sufficiently provide many critical capabilities. Ericom PowerTerm WebConnect - the alternative to Citrix, extends the functionality of WS08 R2 Remote Desktop Services (RDS) with advanced centralized management.
January 09, 2012 - Access this case study to learn how the Prairie North Health Region consolidated its server environment, reducing its hardware and power costs, and is leveraging a desktop virtualization solution to lower costs while improving the performance and availability of its desktop computing services — as well as those of neighboring regions.
August 08, 2011 - This white paper presents the results of a total cost of ownership (TCO) analysis comparing premise-based and hosted contact center platforms.
May 13, 2011 - A Windows 7 migration is necessary in the next few years, as Windows XP will become obsolete. This research paper highlights how to best prepare for a Windows 7 migration crunch.
October 18, 2010 - If you manage a WAN and support multiple locations, you are probably familiar with Cisco Wide Area Acceleration Services (WAAS) as a solution to costly bandwidth upgrades and latency issues. Since WAAS accelerates and caches content over the WAN and achieves branch consolidation, your management has probably decided that you should use this tool.
August 31, 2010 - This presentation transcript explores the key features of Windows Server 2008 R2 and Hyper-V. Find out how this technology compares to its predecessor and gain insight into the benefits you can expect to achieve from using Windows Server 2008 R2 with Windows 7.
December 21, 2009 - In this presentation transcript, Exchange expert Lee Benjamin discusses how to make the transition from your current Exchange version or how to migrate from a different messaging platform to Exchange 2010. Learn about the new features of Exchange 2010 and which requirements you should keep in mind to ensure a successful transition.
December 15, 2009 - Although virtualization boasts many benefits, you may be wondering if it can help your organization. In this transcript, expert Lee Benjamin discusses the concerns IT pros have about virtualization and how to determine its worth for your company. Learn how Exchange 2010 supports virtualization and can be used to improve your backup strategy.
February 07, 2012 - Correctly sizing your server hardware is essential to maximize the performance of your virtual environment. Get tips for how you can monitor and analyze your virtual environment to determine your server needs.
March 20, 2009 - In this transcript, senior enterprise IT architect Nelson Ruest breaks down VMware ESX Server, Citrix XenServer and Hyper-V, providing details on what each product has to offer.
January 25, 2012 - This presentation transcript reveals key findings from a recent consumerisation poll and provides recommendations and best practices to help organisations address these key topics. Obtain predictions for the future of the media tablet market and gain insight into five trends that are shaping the consumerisation landscape.
May 20, 2010 - Everyone is talking about virtualization as a critical component to the success of a data center. What are some of the benefits of virtualization? What are the cost benefits of using Windows Server 2008 R2 for virtualization? Learn more in this presentation transcript.
March 12, 2010 - This transcript explores the virtualization benefits of implementing Windows Server 2008 R2 in your organization. Receive best practices on how to effectively integrate R2 into your current infrastructure. Discover how this integration can enable your organization to increase the performance and reliability of its virtualized environment.
March 16, 2010 - This presentation transcript explores the security implications of integrating a Windows Server into an existing infrastructure. Gain insight into steps that organizations can take to minimize risks and facilitate a successful integration.
October 12, 2011 - In this SearchStorage.com podcast transcript, Marc Staimer discusses the ins and outs of storage virtualization technology. Find out the pros and cons of storage virtualization, when to rule out storage virtualization in your environment, and how to decide between file-based or block-based storage virtualization in your data center.
December 14, 2011 - This presentation transcript provides detailed insight into the midmarket customer landscape and explains why servers are recommended over traditional PCs. Access results from recent client surveys and discover affordable platforms for small and medium-sized businesses.
August 23, 2010 - Upgrading from VMware ESX and/or ESXi 3.x to vSphere 4 successfully involves careful planning. There are hardware, software and database requirements, as well as third-party software compatibility considerations. This transcript provides guidelines for planning a successful upgrade, and walks you through a proposed upgrade path step-by-step.
May 20, 2010 - Everyone is talking about virtualization as a critical component to the success of a data center. What are some of the benefits of virtualization? What are the cost benefits of using Windows Server 2008 R2 for virtualization? Learn more in this presentation transcript.
November 25, 2009 - In this presentation transcript, learn how virtualization can benefit your disaster recovery and high availability strategy. Discover the differences between physical and virtual environments and learn about architectural considerations to support virtualization.
December 03, 2009 - This presentation transcript explores several virtualization applications, and details 10 common use cases for virtualization and it can help your company improve their IT infrastructure. Discover how to enhance your disaster recovery and high availability plans without draining the IT budget.
April 07, 2011 - In this transcription of a webcast, Dell explores this “Next Generation of End User Computing.” Gain insight into how the evolving workforce is facilitating changes within IT. Learn how desktop virtualization can deliver the improved efficiency, stability, reliability and availability that is now critical for business success.
February 01, 2005 - Protecting computer systems with Uninterruptible Power Supply (UPS) hardware is part of a total data center solution, but power management software is also necessary to prevent data corruption after extended power outages.
May 31, 2011 - This real-world case study gives true insight into how an insurance industry IT organizations is applying new ideas to reduce the usage of physical space, power and cooling by updating their server infrastructure.
November 04, 2011 - In this paper, discover what is a Potentially Unwanted Application (PUA) and explore the differences between threats posed by malicious types of software such as computer viruses and worms, and those which are classified as being potentially unwanted.
November 30, 2011 - Securing corporate data is a top IT imperative and with more employees working from alternative locations, the mobile security challenge has become a critical focus for IT. Read this white paper to understand how local virtual desktops based on Citrix XenClient should be a part of your security strategy.
February 01, 2012 - Access this whitepaper to learn more about the changing landscape for mobile devices and platforms, and how remote support can help improve customer service.
October 27, 2011 - By deploying a converged infrastructure solution, one organization in the public sector upgraded its server environment to support growth and reduce server footprint. Read this resource and discover how this helped them handle data growth, and accelerate deployment time.
September 09, 2011 - Read this white paper to learn about how to intelligently manage and protect data and information across locations, heterogeneous applications, hypervisors, operating systems and infrastructure from a single console.
The Provergent Communication Asset Management Suite helps to manage the planning, procuring, provisioning, auditing & delivering of communications services. Provergent allows you to build accurate & easy to manage centralized inventories, backed up by automated provisioning processes to manage all moves, adds, changes & deletes in the inventory.
January 10, 2012 - This white paper outlines a methodology for comparing the total cost of ownership (TCO) of endpoint management technologies including IBM Tivoli Endpoint Manager. Learn why the TCO of Tivoli Endpoint Manager is much lower than other solutions on the market, delivering superior functionality at a fraction of the cost of competitive offerings.
March 17, 2010 - In the early days of the beta version of what became known as Exchange 2007, the internet was littered with rumors and speculation about the demise of Exchange Public Folders. In this white paper we will examine Exchange Public Folders and consider where they fit in our plans for a messaging infrastructure.
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