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• Restructuring, Consolidating, or Merging Active Directory Domains

  This Quest Software white paper discusses what to consider before changing your AD domains. Get the best practices you need for a carefully planned and properly managed migration. Read it today.

• A Smart Path to Virtualization

  Learn how Dell helps organizations chart a smart path to virtualization in this paper. You’ll find out about Dell virtualization solutions and how to tap into Dell’s extensive pool of best practices and innovative tools. Download now.

• Getting Started with Microsoft Windows Server 2008 Hyper-V on Dell Servers

  This article provides an introduction to Hyper-V virtualization, discusses the overall architecture and underlying technologies, and offers guidance on best practices for deployment on Dell™ PowerEdge™ servers. Read today.

• Unleash the Power of Active Directory Groups

  This free whitepaper details best practices for managing distribution and security groups in Active Directory. As the importance of AD in any size organization grows, learn to manage AD groups properly and unleash the power of Active Directory. Learn more.

• Protecting and Recovering Virtual Servers

  Server virtualization technology is here! The increasing penetration of virtual server technology is driving a new set of enterprise level recovery requirements. Learn more about a single, integrated solution.

• Service Availability Tool

  When users have issues connecting to the network, browsing the web, opening files, or starting a custom application, the IT staff needs a tool to quickly verify and troubleshoot these services. Learn more.

• Guide to Deploying 802.11n Wireless LANs

  This comprehensive guide covers the fundamentals of 802.11n – what you need to know when planning or preparing for an 802.11n deployment or migration. Learn more.

• Efficiency and Cost Control in Network and Application Management

  Industry analyst Enterprise Management Associates white paper discusses how to shift from being efficiently reactive to problems towards a proactive, preventive approach. Learn three key strategies to gaining efficiency and cost control in network and application management. Learn more.

• Guide to Troubleshooting Application Problems

  This comprehensive 94 page guide is a how-to resource handbook for network engineers. Learn the fundamentals of how applications work, how they flow, where applications fail and best practices and methodologies for troubleshooting network and application problems. Learn more.

• Diagnosing the Cause of Poor Application Performance

  When it comes to troubleshooting applicationperformance issues, there are two steps you cantake to make diagnosis easier, faster and more accurate. First, understand the common causes of application performance problems; and, second, use the right tool to diagnose them. Learn more.

• Overcoming Exchange Failures: Beyond Traditional Backups

  Investigate the probability and impact of Exchange failures that cause e-mail downtime affecting business continuity and revenue-related tasks. Understand how to mitigate challenges, ensuring adequate data protection. Learn more.

• Free Software Trial: AdminStudio 9.5

  AdminStudio® allows IT to quickly prepare virtual and MSI packages for error-free rollout. A complete application readiness toolset, AdminStudio provides tools to ensure application portfolios migrate smoothly to Windows 7.

• Saving the Forests: Think you’ll never need to recover an entire Active Directory forest?

  In this new Quest Software white paper, learn why it’s essential to have a solid forest recovery plan in place before disaster strikes. Read the white paper today.

• Ten Things to Look For in a SharePoint Recovery Tool

  In this Quest white paper, learn 10 things to look for when evaluating third-party SharePoint backup and recovery tools. Don’t risk your company’s critical data. Read this white paper today.

• Virtualized Datacenter: Real-World Optimization

  Optimizing your IT infrastructure has become imperitive for competitive advantage and survival. This playbook provides IT decision-makers with an overview of the benefits , technology options and best practices for datacenter virtualization. Learn more.

• Virtualization Best Practices: Real-World Experiences Offer Insights

  Virtualization has become so widespread that clear best practices have emerged. Propelled by the technologies that VMware/Intel have pioneered, virtualization has rapidly gained market acceptance. Learn more.

• 7 Steps To Windows 7

  This free guide offers seven steps to simplify the transition, eliminating the potential headache that comes with migration. Learn more about assessing your environment, preparing applications, and capturing user settings. Learn more.

• Looking for Business VoIP? Compare Leading VoIP Phone Systems

  Compare and review VoIP companies like AT&T, Aptela, Vocalocity, Packet8 and more. Our detailed analysis will assist in finding the right system for your company. Learn more.

• Buying a Phone System? Compare the Top 27 Business Phone Systems

  Quickly see differences between brands like Nortel, Mitel, Cisco, Avaya, 8x8, Toshiba, etc. For small to big businesses, our chart also compares PBX and Business VoIP systems side by side. Learn more with this chart.

• Forefront Protection 2010 for Exchange Server. Free trial!

  This next generation version of Forefront Security for Exchange Server helps provide fast and effective protection against malware and spam. Download the free trial today.

• Forefront Threat Management Gateway 2010 - Try it FREE!

  Microsoft Forefront Threat Management Gateway 2010, the next version of ISA Server, helps enable employees to more safely use the Internet without worrying about malware and other threats. Download the free trial today.

• Recovery Manager for Exchange

  Don’t risk fruitless data searches, unhappy executives and legal ramifications! Put together a strong e-mail discovery strategy today. Learn how – read this new Quest Software white paper. Learn more.

• Improving Messaging System Availability in Three Simple Steps

  You’ve increased productivity and decreased costs by integrating your diverse communications technologies. Now, learn to ensure their reliability! Read this Quest white paper today. Learn more.

• Fulfilling Compliance by Eliminating Administrator Rights

  BeyondTrust is the leading provider of Privileged Access Lifecycle Management (PALM) solutions for Unix, Linux and Windows environments. With solutions that secure data, BeyondTrust helps move companies beyond the need to trust users with excess privileges or passwords. Learn more.

• Try Fluke Networks' EtherScope Analyzer on your network FREE

  First responders to network emergencies rely on the EtherScope Series II Network Assistant when it's time for action - a handheld portable, network analyzer combining essential tools that help network professionals quickly solve the wide range of problems they encounter. Learn more.

• The Constructive Road to Business Continuity

  Learn about the steps you need to take to ensure business continuity – from defining business continuity and building a continuity plan, to putting it into action. Get the details today.

• When Less is More: Why Small Companies Should Think Outside the (Red/Yellow) Box for Protecting Endpoints

  Read this research paper to learn why Aberdeen Group recommends small enterprises be open to endpoint security solutions from vendors other than McAfee and Symantec. Read more.

• Key Issues in Messaging Archiving

  This document describes key issues in the archiving industry, including some of the reasons for archiving messages and some of the drivers in the industry. Learn more.

• Comparing Email Management Systems that Protect Against Spam, Viruses, Malware & Phishing Attacks

  In this whitepaper, Sunbelt Software engaged Osterman Research to survey organizations that are using five different email management systems in order to understand different perceptions about various email management systems. Learn more.

• Cloud Computing—What is its Potential Value for Your Company?

  Cloud computing may be new, but one thing hasn’t changed: management’s insistence on justifying IT investments by return on investment and total cost of ownership. You still weigh a solution’s advantages/disadvantages and benefits/costs. Learn more.

• Best Practices for Deploying SSDs in a Microsoft® SQL Server™ 2008 OLTP Environment with Dell EqualLogic™ PS Series Arrays

  This white paper discusses the performance improvement on using Dell EqualLogic™ SSD arrays to deploy Microsoft® SQL Server™ 2008 database and discusses some of the best practices for deploying SSDs in an OLTP environment. Read it today.

• Best Practices for running Microsoft® SQL Server® and Microsoft® Hyper-V on Dell™ PowerEdge™ Servers and Storage

  This white paper discusses the key points to consider when designing a virtualization strategy. It also provides an overview of best practices as reference architecture for virtualized database OLTP workloads. Download now.

• Using Dell EqualLogic™ Auto Replication to Synchronize Remote Offices and Headquarters

  The paper talks about different methods of synchronizing the headquarter database with the branch office database, using the tools available from Dell EqualLogic. Read it today.

• Dell Hardware and Microsoft Customer Lab Partnership Push the Database Envelope

  Find out how Dell and the Microsoft SQL Server Customer Lab provide a powerful test environment where database customers can bring in to test and fine-tune their enterprise applications running on Dell hardware. Read this case study.

• Faster Business Intelligence

  Find out how Acosta boosted productivity by 50% in loading data, business intelligence analysis, and processing data loads with Dell PowerEdge servers in this case study. Read it today.

• Staying on the Fast Track

  How does the nation’s largest career site stay ahead? CareerBuilder opts to keep growth strong by leveraging business intelligence to deliver thousands of reports up to 30 percent faster with solutions from Dell and Microsoft. Get the details. Learn more.

• Hosted CRM Can Be Your Secret Weapon to Success!

  Choosing the right hosted CRM provider reduces costs and improves sales, marketing and customer loyalty. Get this paper today.

• Cisco vs. ShoreTel: Who Really Delivers Value for Large Enterprise Companies?

  Get the side-by-side comparison of industry’s leading Enterprise PBX solutions and vendors. Our product specialists evaluated the leading players across 30 feature categories. Find out about the results.

• Comparison Guide Enterprise VoIP PBX

  Take the mystery out of upgrading your phone system to a hosted PBX solution. This information-packed guide compares the top 12 VoIP phone system and IP PBX providers for the enterprise. Read it today.

• SMB Phone Systems Buyers Guide and Comparison Guide

  The Phone Systems Buyer’s Guide and Comparison Guide help take the mystery out of upgrading your phone system to a VoIP solution. Download your comparison guide and buyer’s guide now. Read today.

• Video Webinar: Ensuring the Availability of Hyper-V Virtualized Workloads

  Please join Double-Take Software together with Microsoft to hear an overview of Double-Take Software and the Double-Take replication technology, as well as a detailed explanation of the Double-Take for Hyper-V product. Learn more.

• Protecting your Exchange Environment: Ecosystem Protection - Now and Forever

  Hear it from the source: Microsoft and Double-Take Software have teamed up to bring you this highly informative Exchange Ecosystem Protection webinar. Learn more.

• Free Trial of Toad for Data Analysts 2.5: The Multi-Platform Database Query Tool

  Become a data detective! Get your free trial of Toad for Data Analysts 2.5 – the multi-platform database query tool that accesses data from any source – and enter to win a $100 American Express gift card! Get your 30-day trial today.

• Double-Take Workload Portability: X2X Server and Storage Migration Solutions

  Double-Take® Move provides migration functionality that dramatically reduces the impact and risk of migrations in the data center and across any geographic distance. Double-Take Move has a patented and award-winning replication engine that provides real-time, byte-level data replication and ensures transaction consistency without affecting users and production applications. Learn more.

• Disaster Recovery Planning with Virtualization Technologies

  Leveraging real-time replication and application availability for disaster recovery using solutions from Double-Take Software is a cost effective way to ensure that a mission-critical application’s RPO and RTO goals are adequately met. Learn more.

• Reducing the Costs and Risks of Branch Office Data Protection

  Proven technologies such as Double-Take® Backup from Double-Take Software make it possible to reliably and cost effectively back up branch office from a central location, in real-time to disk or tape – and even utilize existing tape backup solutions. Learn more.

• iPrism Web Filter Live Demo: Get a T-Shirt and Enter to Win San Diego Trip!

  Save 500 IT Admin Hours this Year with iPrism Web Filter. Have time to visit San Diego Next Year. Attend an Online Demo of iPrism & You Could Win a Trip to San Diego. Learn more.

• Creating and Implementing an Audit Strategy for Exchange

  To protect sensitive data, your company must have a strong auditing and compliance policy in place. Learn how to implement a solid Exchange audit strategy - Read this white paper!

• Citrix Adds More Beef to its Virtualization Menu

  This Lunch Break Series features articles from our editors that discuss the hypervisor market, the various products that serve this market, and in particular, how Citrix is beefing their offerings in hypervisor market. Read it today.

• Minimizing the Pain of eDiscovery with a Proactive Strategy

  This paper focuses on important considerations around eDiscovery including recent court rulings, how the US government is changing eDiscovery, and advice on how to develop an eDiscovery plan. Get the details.

• Maximizing the Value of Hyper-V with Citrix Essentials

  Citrix Essentials™ for Microsoft® Hyper-V™ adds advanced capabilities to Hyper-V to create, integrate, manage and automate virtual datacenters at half the cost of other solutions. Extend the benefits of Hyper-V - view the webcast now.

• Five Key Considerations for Selecting a Data Loss Prevention Solution

  This paper identifies the five key considerations to help organizations simplify the evaluation process for selecting a DLP solution that is right for their business. Download the paper.

• The Cost-Based Business Case for Data Loss Prevention

  This Aberdeen Group Report provides the criteria you need to make the business case for deploying a loss prevention solution in your enterprise and showcases a mini-case study focused on the TCO of an RSA DLP customer. Download now!

• Strategies to Mitigate Information Risk: Data Loss Prevention and Enterprise Rights Management

  As data breaches continue to plague organizations worldwide businesses must consider every weapon available to combat information threats. Enterprise Management Associates highlights the complementary values of Data Loss Prevention and Enterprise Rights Management as a strategic approach to information risk control.

• Maximize Your Strategy for Migration, Virtualization, Availability, & Desktop Management

  Watch this on-demand video webinar available now! Gartner Research along with Double-Take Software present this webcast. Hear real-life experiences and a testimonial from a TOP industry CIO. Don’t miss out!

• Maximizing Business Continuity and Minimizing Cost with Neverfail® and Microsoft® Hyper-V™ Technologies

  Virtualization brings a new level of flexibility that addresses your business continuity needs. Find out more how Neverfail and Microsoft partner together to help you expand your virtual infrastructure.

• The New Generation of x86 Servers

  Learn about IBM's new servers and solutions. You’ll hear from developers and customers in this collection of demos, analyst reports and white papers.

• Agentless Application Virtualization: Enabling the Evolution of the Desktop

  Read about the pros and cons of virtualized client computing, and learn how desktop and application virtualization can enable a dynamic desktop environment, improve storage efficiency and simplify management.

• Big Brother Is Watching -- and It's a Good Thing

  Learn about high-end, low-cost monitoring to monitor any server, any device on any network in real-time to improve uptime, meet SLAs, and solve problems before your users even know they've happened.

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