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    Enabling End-to-End IT Management with Microsoft System Center and Quest Software Enabling End-to-End IT Management with Microsoft System Center and Quest Software
    One of the greatest challenges facing IT managers today is controlling complex infrastructures -- and doing it within a tight budget. And a lack of centralized support for numerous heterogeneous IT systems and devices only makes things worse. In the new Quest white paper, Enterprise Management Associates discuss how Quest can extend the power of Microsoft System Center for true end-to-end IT management.
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    Web Threats Challenges and Solutions Web Threats Challenges and Solutions
    This white paper describes Web threats, how they function and their impacts. It explains why conventional methods fail and describes the characteristics of a new approach required to ensure security, regulatory compliance and business continuity.
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    Trend Micro Gets Smart with a Hybrid Approach Trend Micro Gets Smart with a Hybrid Approach
    This brief provides an overview of today’s dangerous cyber crime world and outlines the challenges that security professionals face in developing solutions to address the growing number and variety of Web threats. Finally, this paper explores how the Trend Micro Smart Protection Network can deliver next-generation security to automatically protect against web threats.
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    The Ultimate Virtualization Buyers Guide The Ultimate Virtualization Buyers Guide
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    Disaster Recovery Solutions from VMware Disaster Recovery Solutions from VMware
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    In today's business environment having robust disaster recovery is no longer a luxury, it is a necessity. Given the high probability and variety of events that cause outages, including natural disasters and man made events, a disruption to business systems is not a question of if, but when. Disaster recovery needs to be core to your IT strategy. In this white paper you'll learn about the fast, reliable and cost-effective solutions offered by VMware.
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    Improving Business Continuity with VMware Virtualization Improving Business Continuity with VMware Virtualization
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    Implementing plans to ensure business continuity for IT infrastructure is an essential requirement for organizations today. Downtime of important applications is a costly proposition and extended downtime can even be fatal -- industry research has shown that a significant number of companies that experience extended interruption to IT services are likely to go out of business.
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    Architectural Requirements for a Datacenter-Ready Virtualization Platform Architectural Requirements for a Datacenter-Ready Virtualization Platform
    Server virtualization is rapidly entering the mainstream, as companies of all sizes adopt it to run everything from their development and test software to production level applications. Read why the Taneja Group Technology Analysts believe VMware has fundamental architectural advantages over competing virtualization platforms, which should enable VMware to remain the technology leader in this space for some time to come.
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    Five Steps to Determine When to Virtualize Your Servers Five Steps to Determine When to Virtualize Your Servers
    Server virtualization isn't just for big companies. Entry-level virtualization tools are free or low-cost and there are many benefits to virtualization (including saving money). It's not a quest of "if" you should virtualize your servers; it's a question of "when." This paper outlines five steps you should take to determine when to virtualize your servers.
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    Best Platform Brief: Microsoft Windows Runs Best on VMware Best Platform Brief: Microsoft Windows Runs Best on VMware
    VMware virtualization makes it easier and more cost-effective to deploy and maintain your Windows server infrastructure. VMware is the global leader in virtualization and offers a best-in-class hypervisor, centralized management and powerful array of load-balancing backup and recovery capabilities, giving you a dramatically better computing platform for delivering Windows-based services and applications. 
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    Qualcomm: Standardizing on Virtualization Qualcomm: Standardizing on Virtualization
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    Ten Ways SMBs Can Get More from Their IT Budgets Ten Ways SMBs Can Get More from Their IT Budgets
    Small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs) are always looking for new and innovative ways to cut costs, without affecting business output or future growth. This paper contains some well known cost savings opportunities -- and a few you may not have explored yet!
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    Oracle Application Express Overview 3.1 Oracle Application Express Overview 3.1
    Oracle Application Express, a feature of Oracle Database 11g, combines rapid web application development with the power of the Oracle Database. This paper describes the benefits, architecture and features of Oracle Application Express and how it can help you quickly develop web deployed reporting and data entry applications on consolidated data in an Oracle Database.
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    ITIC Research Paper: VIPRE Takes Bite out of Bloatware ITIC Research Paper: VIPRE Takes Bite out of Bloatware
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    Serving New Business Is Easier with Zenith Infotech Serving New Business Is Easier with Zenith Infotech
    See and Listen as Billy Adams of ACS Services explains why Zenith Infotech makes flat-fee billing attractive to clients as well as managed service providers.
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    Application-Involved Networks and Winning the Performance Wars Application-Involved Networks and Winning the Performance Wars
    One of the most persistent and intractable problem faced by IT organizations today is Web application performance. Fixing them can be technically difficult, time-consuming and expensive. This Technology Strategy Research paper provides the information you need to identify, optimize and accelerate your network applications.
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    Compliance and Data Loss Prevention in UC Solutions Compliance and Data Loss Prevention in UC Solutions
    Your employees depend on e-mail, instant messaging and conferencing to communicate across your enterprise. But what's at risk and how can you minimize data leaks and loss of intellectual property? Read this paper to learn the compliance challenges you face and how to implement a solid DLP strategy.
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    How to Join Queries Across Multiple Platforms How to Join Queries Across Multiple Platforms
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    Finding data across multiple platforms can be challenging. In this new Quest technical brief learn how join queries across the entire enterprise -- regardless of platform -- to quickly and easily find the information you need when you need it.
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    Information Governance for Microsoft SharePoint Information Governance for Microsoft SharePoint
    Protecting data, streamlining compliance, gaining visibility and managing information lifecycle.
    This NextLab paper discusses the goals and challenges of information governance in SharePoint environments and reveals four of the most common information governance objectives for SharePoint deployments. It examines the business problems, presents case studies and offers a solution for these challenges.
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    A Technical Overview of HP Oracle Exadata Storage Server A Technical Overview of HP Oracle Exadata Storage Server
    The HP Oracle Exadata Storage Server is a revolutionary high-performance storage product that has been optimized for Oracle Database 11g. This white paper outlines how Oracle Exadata can deliver outstanding I/O and SQL processing performance for data warehousing applications by leveraging a massively parallel architecture to enable a dynamic storage grid for Oracle Database 11g deployments.
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    Oracle Database 11g on Windows: Development and Deployment Oracle Database 11g on Windows: Development and Deployment
    Oracle Database 11g offers unprecedented flexibility for customers to choose the .NET application tools and architecture that fit their requirements without sacrificing performance, scalability, ease of use and security. Read this white paper to learn more about how Oracle Database 11g provides seamless interoperability between the operating system and the database.
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    Hosted Solutions: Break the Chains of IT Complexity Hosted Solutions: Break the Chains of IT Complexity
    Virtual Environments and Real IT Solutions
    Get insights on an emerging challenge -- how to deal with overwhelming complexity in the IT environment. Data center infrastructures are faced by rapid information growth and increasingly elaborate processing, storage and connectivity challenges. Managed hosting, cloud computing, virtualization can be the solutions for your IT complexities.
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    Acresso AdminStudio -- Citrix XenApp Benchmark Conducted by The Tolly Group Acresso AdminStudio -- Citrix XenApp Benchmark Conducted by The Tolly Group
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    A Comprehensive Approach to Practicing ITIL Change Management A Comprehensive Approach to Practicing ITIL Change Management
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    SMART, Modular, Cost-Effective Steps to Workload Automation SMART, Modular, Cost-Effective Steps to Workload Automation
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    Legal Considerations for  E-mail Archiving Legal Considerations for E-mail Archiving
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    Implementing an e-mail archiving system is vital for compliance requirements. However, there are additional benefits: the reduction of e-mail storage needs, better use of limited resources and centralized e-mail control. In this white paper learn the legal considerations for managing e-mail and how a strong archiving solution provides enterprise-wide benefits.
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    Protecting Data with  2-Factor Authentication Protecting Data with 2-Factor Authentication
    Guarding Against Weakness of User Credentials and Achieving Compliance with 2-Factor Authentication
    Data is the virtual lifeblood of business which means that it also must be protected. Two-factor authentication provides an extra layer of protection, but can be cumbersome and costly to implement. This white paper addresses how to provide secure authentication in a simplified and cost effective manner.
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    Virtualization Everywhere Virtualization Everywhere
    Many mid-sized companies have hesitated to adopt server virtualization because of concerns about cost, complexity and vendor lock-in. In this paper we discuss how Citrix XenServer™ provides powerful, economical server virtualization for any IT environment. Start realizing the benefits now: reduce costs while improving business agility and disaster preparedness.
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    Securing Email Against Today Securing Email Against Today's Threats: A Wake-Up Call on the Benefits of Comprehensive Messaging Security
    Today's messaging security products must provide broad protection from a wide range of threats to enterprise security. A recent IDC survey was designed with the aim of revealing, understanding, analyzing and presenting the predominant issues relating to perceptions about messaging security, both positive and negative. The survey revealed that most organizations lack adequate protection against spam and data leakage. Download this paper to read IDC’s analysis of the survey results and recommendations for action based on the study’s findings.
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    What is Policy-Driven Self-Service? What is Policy-Driven Self-Service?
    This paper addresses the IT Service Dilemma and how to fulfill both IT missions -- maintain mission critical production initiatives and support infrastructure needs of non-production "application lifecycle users" -- with a self-service solution that empowers lifecycle users. Learn how IT is attempting to address the issue today and how a policy-driven self-service solution solves the IT Service Dilemma.
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    Avoid the Top 10 Exchange Migration Headaches Avoid the Top 10 Exchange Migration Headaches
    Is your business planning a migration to Exchange Server 2007? It's one of the most complex projects your enterprise can undertake. Read this white paper to see how proper planning and execution can help you overcome migration challenges such as cost, compliance, integration and lack of time and resources.
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    The Evolution of the SQL Server DBA -- What Will You Be Doing 10 Years From Now? The Evolution of the SQL Server DBA -- What Will You Be Doing 10 Years From Now?
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    Delivering Secure Messaging Services for Enterprise Process and Collaboration Delivering Secure Messaging Services for Enterprise Process and Collaboration
    Building a comprehensive workflow strategy using existing messaging infrastructure.
    Are you still running your messaging in-house? If so, it may be a great time to switch. This Technology Strategy Research paper examines the advantages offered by a new generation of e-mail and messaging services that work as not only a cost-efficient and secure service, but also as a collaboration tool.
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    Configuration Assessment: Choosing the Right Solution Configuration Assessment: Choosing the Right Solution
    Configuration assessment lets businesses proactively secure their IT infrastructure and achieve compliance with important industry standards and regulations. Learn why configuration assessment is so important, why organizations find it difficult to control system configurations, and what types of configuration assessment solutions are available.
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    Practical Steps to Mitigate Virtualization Security Risks Practical Steps to Mitigate Virtualization Security Risks
    Tripwire founder/CTO Gene Kim provides seven practical steps that IT organizations can take to mitigate the unique security challenges of virtualization. While some are directed specifically at virtualized environments, many of these steps are solid best practices that apply to both physical and virtualized environments.
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    The EVTX Log Format and Its Radical Impact On Existing Compliance Strategies The EVTX Log Format and Its Radical Impact On Existing Compliance Strategies
    Microsoft® has completely re-designed its event log with the new EVTX format. This white paper details the shift from EVT to EVTX and a solution for overcoming the resulting disruptions in log file management strategies -- whether designed for compliance, automation or just plain convenience.
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    Ovum Summit: Making the Case for Oracle Database on Windows Ovum Summit: Making the Case for Oracle Database on Windows
    This paper explores core integration capabilities that Oracle offers to users deploying its databases within Windows-based environments and discusses why Oracle on Windows is the right combination for many companies.
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    Oracle Database 11g High Availability Oracle Database 11g High Availability
    This paper reviews the common causes of application downtime. It discusses how technologies available in the Oracle Database can help avoid costly downtime and enable rapid recovery from unavoidable failures.
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    Database Security: Preventing Enterprise Data Leaks at the Source Database Security: Preventing Enterprise Data Leaks at the Source
    This IDC white paper presents a pre-emptive approach to information protection and control (IPC). It discusses the growing internal threats to business information, the impact of government regulations on the protection of data and how enterprises must adopt database security best practices to protect sensitive customer data or company information.
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    Oracle Database Vault Oracle Database Vault
    This white paper discusses how Oracle Database Vault, the industry's leading solution for protecting business data, addresses regulatory compliance and concerns over the insider threat. It provides the flexible, transparent and highly adaptable security controls required in today's global economy. Learn more today.
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    Virtualization Technologies and Their Impact on Disaster Recovery Virtualization Technologies and Their Impact on Disaster Recovery
    Read this white paper to learn how your business can leverage virtual technologies to achieve complete confidence in the unparalleled data protection, availability and recoverability while simplifying your overall IT management.
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    LIVEWIRE: Full-Server Protecting and Recovery in Real-Time LIVEWIRE: Full-Server Protecting and Recovery in Real-Time
    Read this free white paper to learn about a cost effective solution that will keep your second tier servers up-to-date on disk and ready to recover to any physical or virtual machine in just hours -- or less -- depending on the size of the server to recover.
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    Protecting SharePoint with Double-Take for Windows 5.0 Protecting SharePoint with Double-Take for Windows 5.0
    Microsoft SharePoint® streamlines online collaboration making it possible to create remote project teams with only an Internet connection. But if your teams can't access the data, time and money are lost. Learn how to use Double-Take Software as a cost efficient way to protect your SharePoint data and access.
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    Server Virtualization Security: 90% Process, 10% Technology Server Virtualization Security: 90% Process, 10% Technology
    In this paper Forrester Research discusses how security virtualization has created some growing pains and disruption and how they believe that it will have a positive effect on security in the longer term.
    Find out why in this paper.
    Oracle Database 11g for Data Warehousing and Business Intelligence Oracle Database 11g for Data Warehousing and Business Intelligence
    This white paper provides an overview of Oracle Database 11g’s capabilities for data warehousing, and discusses the key features and technologies by which Oracle-based business intelligence and data warehouse system can integrate information, perform fast queries, scale to very large data volumes and analyze any data.
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    The Value of Workflow Solutions The Value of Workflow Solutions
    Read this white paper and learn how workflow solves issues, streamlines operations and saves money. Learn about the benefits of workflow automation and the common scenarios where it can be applied. More importantly, discover the financial benefits of implementing a workflow automation solution.
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    Five Essential Considerations For Exchange 2007 Implementations Five Essential Considerations For Exchange 2007 Implementations
    Are you planning an Exchange Server 2007 migration? Consider how the Exchange 2007 e-mail infrastructure will address high availability, archiving, recovery, compliance, e-Discovery and the growing costs of storage management. This white paper addresses critical considerations for crafting a new messaging strategy and infrastructure within the Exchange 2007 environment.
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    LiteSpeed for SQL Server: Five Fantastic Features of 5.0 LiteSpeed for SQL Server: Five Fantastic Features of 5.0
    LiteSpeed™ 5.0, the ultimate backup and recovery performer, is here! It's faster, easier and expands backup tuning capabilities with just a few clicks. See for yourself -- check out five incredible aspects of this new release in the technical brief, "Five Fantastic Features of 5.0," today.
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    Oracle Database 11g Architecture on Windows Oracle Database 11g Architecture on Windows
    An Oracle Technical White Paper
    Oracle Database 11g for Windows provides an optimized database solution for deployments that require enterprise scalability, reliability and high performance. Learn more about the architecture of the Oracle Database on Windows and how it differs from its counterparts on UNIX and Linux in this white paper.
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    Innovate Faster with  Oracle Database 11g Innovate Faster with Oracle Database 11g
    Organizations are under increased pressure to lower costs and increase quality of service, often entailing bringing on technologies to aid in this process. Oracle Database 11g extends Oracle's unique ability to lower the cost of computing while improving quality of service with grid computing; and allows companies to innovate faster with Oracle Real Application Testing.
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    Zenith Infotech: "The Right Tool for the Job" Zenith Infotech: "The Right Tool for the Job"
    From employee quality-of-life issues, to customer satisfaction with prices, Andrew Birch of Tech Structures has high praise for Zenith Infotech.
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    Enterprise IP PBX Buyers Guide:  Features and Services That Matter Enterprise IP PBX Buyers Guide: Features and Services That Matter
    Learn the critical features and differentiators for Enterprise Class IP PBXs and the issues you should consider during your decision-making process. Download this Buyer's Guide now to get started with your research and evaluation of IP PBX Systems.
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    Enterprise PBX Comparison Guide Enterprise PBX Comparison Guide
    This comparison guide features the leading PBX systems from established vendors like Siemens, Cisco, Avaya and Nortel as well as cutting edge systems form new vendors like Shoretel and Fonality. Download this comparison guide now to help you in your evaluation
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    Hosted PBX Buyer Hosted PBX Buyer's Guide
    Discover the critical features and services that your small or medium business needs in a new hosted phone system.
    This guide covers the important features, benefits, technologies and market background to help you make sense of this confusing market and narrow your search down to the vendors that can really solve your communication problems. Learn about new technologies like click to call and find-me-follow-me that can make a huge difference to how you run your business.
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    Compare Hosted PBX Systems for Small and Medium Businesses Compare Hosted PBX Systems for Small and Medium Businesses
    The VoIP-News Hosted PBX Comparison Guide looks at hosted PBX systems from leading vendors like Packet8, Aptela, Covad, Bandwidth.com and others to help you make a straightforward comparison as part of your research and evaluation of which system to invest in for your small or medium sized business.
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    Deployment Guide for Migrating SQL Server 2000 to SQL Server 2008 on Windows Server 2008 Enterprise Deployment Guide for Migrating SQL Server 2000 to SQL Server 2008 on Windows Server 2008 Enterprise
    This deployment guide reviews the approach that Principled Technologies® (PT) and Dell recommend for a tested and validated migration of SQL Server 2000 databases to SQL Server 2008 on the Dell PowerEdge R900 server and Microsoft Windows Server 2008 Enterprise.
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    Protecting Against the New Wave of Malware Protecting Against the New Wave of Malware
    This Osterman Research white paper examines why older, traditional anti-virus approaches don't work and why a new approach to endpoint security is required to better protect your users, your data and your long-term viability as a company from malicious threats. Learn about the scope of the malware problem and strategies that can help you defend against evolving malware threats.
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    How to Design a Mission-Critical Microsoft Exchange 2007 Infrastructure from the Ground Up How to Design a Mission-Critical Microsoft Exchange 2007 Infrastructure from the Ground Up
    Exchange 2007 is more than a new e-mail system. Instead, it will be the platform for many organizations' unified communication strategies for years to come. However, the move to Exchange can be risky if organizations do not follow best practices. This white paper focuses on the specific practices and technologies that can make the move to Exchange 2007 successful.
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    Extend the Value of Microsoft Office Applications with Avaya Unified Communications Extend the Value of Microsoft Office Applications with Avaya Unified Communications
    A step-by-step guide for IT leaders on the considerations, options and benefits of unifying communications.
    Unified Communications is driving the next major advancement in individual, team and organizational productivity in today’s 24x7, always connected and increasingly mobile environment. This paper describes how Avaya and Microsoft are working together in the Unified Communications space and how to successfully implement Avaya Unified Communications in Microsoft environments.
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    Avaya Unified Communications: The Business Value of Unifying Communications Avaya Unified Communications: The Business Value of Unifying Communications
    Get an overview of the business value related to Avaya and Microsoft's joint Unified Communications solutions. It includes valuable information for you to better understand the elements and steps involved in making the Unified Communications decision and covers the important factors that will help make your Unified Communications solution implementation a success.
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    Resources for a Successful Unified Communications Deployment Resources for a Successful Unified Communications Deployment
    To realize the value of unified communications most enterprises have to integrate new communications solutions within existing infrastructures from multiple vendors. Learn how to integrate these mixed technology/mixed vendor environments to quickly take advantage of the extraordinary benefits that unified communications can provide.
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    Automated Platform Management in a Virtualized World Automated Platform Management in a Virtualized World
    Server virtualization adds IT management complexities that can be difficult to grasp, especially if IT has not yet implemented consistent, repeatable processes. IT must use virtualization as a strategic practice that enables it to deliver on increasingly difficult requirements for the business. Comprehensive monitoring, analysis, diagnostic and alerting solutions across both physical and virtual servers make it possible to meet business requirements and become more proactive.
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    Fax Software and Fax Services:  Making the Best Choice Fax Software and Fax Services: Making the Best Choice
    Read this free white paper and discover the latest fax automation technologies and get valuable information to make a decision about automated faxing -- whether you’re looking to replace fax machines, find a more capable fax solution, eliminate the need to maintain fax infrastructure or integrate production faxing with your existing solution.
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    IT Service Delivery: From Basic Automation through to Managed Services IT Service Delivery: From Basic Automation through to Managed Services
    Automating your IT services can empower you to reduce costs and increase profits. This white paper from N-able Technologies will be invaluable if you are interested in service automation and want to assess options and solutions for dramatically improving the competitiveness of your business.
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    The Benefits of SaaS Security: How Companies of All Sizes Can Save Money and Improve Efficiency with SaaS The Benefits of SaaS Security: How Companies of All Sizes Can Save Money and Improve Efficiency with SaaS
    Organizations must proactively defend their networks and data from relentless malware attacks, attempts at unauthorized access and other security threats. In addition, compliance mandates must be met. Get this white paper and learn how security software-as-a-service (SaaS) can represent a scalable, cost effective and efficient solution to meet your security and compliance needs.
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    Why Good Reporting Is Vital to the Health of Your E-mail System Why Good Reporting Is Vital to the Health of Your E-mail System
    This white paper explains how a good e-mail reporting system can help decision makers better understand their e-mail systems and enable them to: Reduce the cost of messaging capabilities, postpone or avoid infrastructure additions, improve service levels and mitigate the risk of non-compliance.
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    Visual Studio Magazine 2008 Readers Choice Awards and Buyers Guide Visual Studio Magazine 2008 Readers Choice Awards and Buyers Guide
    This special annual issue lists an astounding number of third-party products available to developers who use Visual Studio. This year's list includes more than 400 products and services from nearly 250 vendors, across 22 categories, plus our 2008 Readers Choice Award and Editors Choice Award winners.
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    Continuous Data Protection and Recovery for Microsoft Exchange Continuous Data Protection and Recovery for Microsoft Exchange
    In spite of advances in technology, most organizations are relying on backup techniques that are very similar to those used several decades ago. Although these techniques are known to be reliable, they are rapidly becoming impractical in today's world. In this white paper, Brien M. Posey discusses the reasons why tried and true backup techniques are no longer a viable option.
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    Data Protection Options for Virtualized Servers Data Protection Options for Virtualized Servers
    Demystifying Virtual Server Data Protection -- Best Practices and Technologies
    Server virtualization continues to be a popular industry focus. This Industry Trends and Technology Perspectives white paper from the StorageIO Group provides the answers you need to protect your data in a virtualized environment.
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    Systems Management Buyer Systems Management Buyer's Guide For Medium Enterprises
    Finding and deploying an effective and scalable systems management solution is becoming a top priority within the medium enterprise market. KACE has developed this Systems Management Buyer's Guide to help articulate that buyer's criteria via a comprehensive feature/function checklist.
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    Shrink Your Internet Exposure: Nine Totally New Ways to Lower Your Network Risk with Geo-Location and Reputation Filtering Shrink Your Internet Exposure: Nine Totally New Ways to Lower Your Network Risk with Geo-Location and Reputation Filtering
    This paper discusses two exciting new technologies (Geo-Location and Reputation filtering) that will enable you to dramatically shrink your network exposure to attack. You will learn nine ways that these new technologies will protect your network from the Internet's vast reaches and risk, while providing the ultimate in flexibility for seamless access and bandwidth maximization.
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    Building a World of Trust: The Case for Outsourcing PKI Building a World of Trust: The Case for Outsourcing PKI
    The purpose of this white paper is to help you understand the security and operational issues related to implementing and managing internal public key infrastructures (PKI). This paper argues that it may be best for organizations both small and large to outsource their PKI requirements. Outsourcing saves time and money and in many cases makes it much easier to manage PKI overall.
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    Fixing the Pain in Fax and Mail Automation Fixing the Pain in Fax and Mail Automation
    Discover the hard return in automating these time-intensive tasks.
    Paper-based mediums such as faxing and distributed mail are still key components in today's networked business environment. Read how fax and mail automation can save your business time, money and hassles.
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    Protecting (You and) Your Data with Exchange Server 2007 Protecting (You and) Your Data with Exchange Server 2007
    by Microsoft Exchange MVP, Steve Bryant
    In this white paper, Steve shows you the bare and necessary facts you should know to proactively maintain your Exchange Server 2007 environment. In addition to providing critical strategies for predicting and responding to failures, he offers useful information for implementing proactive measures to ensure that your investment is well protected.
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    Leveraging Web 2.0 Securely Leveraging Web 2.0 Securely
    How small and mid-sized business can minimize risk and benefit from Web 2.0 technologies.
    The core of Web 2.0 is built on a foundation of open collaboration and communication that blur network boundaries and increase risk. Learn about the risks involved and the steps you should take to eliminate or mitigate the security threats.
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    Virtualizing Microsoft Exchange Server 2007: Building a Better Platform with VMware Infrastructure 3 Virtualizing Microsoft Exchange Server 2007: Building a Better Platform with VMware Infrastructure 3
    Today's messaging environments must be highly available, disaster tolerant, and cost efficient. Download this white paper based on real customer experiences running Microsoft® Exchange on virtual machines. Specific use cases demonstrate advantages of deploying Exchange on a VMware platform. Exchange administrators who read this white paper will learn how to simplify disaster recovery and decrease downtime and more!
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    Combining Deduplication and VMware Disaster Recovery: Cascading Savings Improves Cost Effectiveness Combining Deduplication and VMware Disaster Recovery: Cascading Savings Improves Cost Effectiveness
    The shift from physical servers to consolidated, virtualized server infrastructures has had undeniable IT benefits. However, the rapid move to VMware has caused traditional approaches to disaster recovery (DR) to become outmoded and added a layer of complexity to DR implementation.
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    Realizing the Value of Unified Communications Realizing the Value of Unified Communications
    How information goes to work.
    Microsoft and EMC are spearheading a technology and services effort to help businesses realize the benefits of unified messaging. Learn how you get better employee productivity, faster decision-making and more efficient IT administration with Unified Communications.
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    What Hackers Know about Control Systems that You Don What Hackers Know about Control Systems that You Don't
    The purpose of this paper is to address the issue of cyber security currently lacking in control system environments today and the reasons behind these vulnerabilities. This document describes some actual events that demonstrate current control system vulnerabilities. It also discusses how an Internet Reputation Intelligence (a trusted Internet reputation system that augments the protection of all cyber systems) creates a proactive security model for control systems where other, traditional and reactionary, technologies fall short.
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