Backup and Recovery Challenges with SharePoint  by Mimosa Systems UK

October 01, 2009 - This whitepaper will discuss the challenges you can have to backup and protect using native tools and how you can successfully protect your SharePoint environment using Mimosa NearPoint™ for SharePoint.

Bankinter turns to Intel® Core™2 Processor with vPro™ technology to strengthen IT services support for desktop PCs  by Intel Technology Provider

May 09, 2008 - Bankinter, a multichannel bank, chose to work together with Intel and Infogroup in order to benefit from Intel® Core™ 2 Processor with vPro™ technology which it believed could meet its desktop platform manageability challenge.

Beijing 2008 delivered - Ready for the next stops!  by Atos Origin

November 24, 2009 - Watch this video to learn some of the steps Atos Origin took to make sure the Beijing 2208 Olympic Games were successful and learn some of the steps they are taking for future Olympic Games, including Vancouver 2010 and London 2012.

Best in Class Virtualization: Using Intel-based HP G6 Servers with VMware vSphere 4  by HP, Intel, & VMware

June 05, 2009 - Read this brief paper to get the details about an HP and VMware solution that both enhances service and reduces cost, while positioning operations for growth when the economy turns around.

Best Practices and State of the Art Tools for Modern GUI Creation  by Instantiations

February 04, 2009 - GUI building tools allow developers to spend less time and money creating Java GUIs, because they can focus on creating application-specific functionality rather than coding the low-level logic required for GUIs to run.

Best Practices for a Data Warehouse on Oracle Database 11g  by Oracle Corporation

January 19, 2009 - In order to ensuring the EDW will get the optimal performance and will scale as your data set grows you need to get three fundamental things correct, the hardware configuration, the data model and the data loading process.

Best Practices for Building Partnerships Between Network Providers  by Alcatel-Lucent

October 02, 2009 - Network providers must re-examine how they can speed up innovation and time to market by working with trusted partners and developer communities. But energizing such an ecosystem takes careful planning. This podcast discusses the lessons learned in the market for working well with application developers, and best practices for network providers.

Best Practices for Cost Effective Mainframe Management and Upgrading  by BMC Software, Inc

July 17, 2009 - In this expert E-Guide, brought to you by SearchDataCenter.com and BMC, you will discover best practices for comprehensive and cost-effective mainframe management, maintenance and upgrading. Explore cost-effective mainframe upgrades and gain insight into approaches essential for adding flexibility to today's mainframe applications.

Best Practices for Deploying anSAP Landscape Using The c-3000 Blade Enclosure and the MSA2000 (Windows/MS-SQL)  by Avnet, HP and Partners

February 13, 2009 - This white paper discusses detailed best practices for deploying a 150-user, 250-GB, three-tiered SAP® Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) landscape.

Best Practices for Event Management  by BMC Software, Inc

April 23, 2009 - This BMC webcast will present a methodology for identifying the metrics that have the most impact on critical business applications and for creating exception events to notify of critical application problems.

Best Practices for IT Governance in a Global Organization  by SkillSoft Corporation

December 01, 2008 - This ExecBlueprint discusses the evolving role for the technology executive and what now constitutes "effective IT governance." The authors share effective strategies for building a good relationship with the CEO, planning projects, and managing the technology staff.

Best Practices for Managing Data Center Costs via Application and Server Consolidation  by Sun Microsystems, Inc. and Intel Corporation

September 17, 2009 - This paper shows how next-generation Sun servers, based on the Intel Xeon processor 5500 series, allow IT organizations to meet these challenges by delivering game-changing performance and virtualization improvements that help enable companies to leverage best practices for IT management, application deployment, work processes, and cost control.

Best Practices for SAP Upgrades & Migrations with HP and Novell  by Hewlett-Packard Company

October 02, 2009 - Join experts from HP and Novell in this webcast as they discuss how to empower your SAP solutions, deliver the right information to the right people at the right time, and execute upgrades and migrations successfully.

Best Practices for Virtualizing Distributed Environments: Enterprise-Class Virtualization for Remote Office and Branch Office Infrastructures  by VM6 Software

October 27, 2009 - This whitepaper provides the 4 best practices that IT leaders of ROBO organizations need to consider when virtualizing their businesses, providing ROI tips and establishing a roadmap for reducing the Total Cost of Ownership for virtualizing the distributed ROBO environment.

Best Practices Guide - Intel® Xeon® Edition: VMware Reference Configurations for Midsize Companies  by Sun Microsystems, Inc. and Intel Corporation

September 01, 2009 - This white paper proposes a spectrum of reference configurations using Sun servers based on Intel processors, the broad range of Sun storage systems and appliances, and the VMware suite of virtualization products to configure cost-effective information systems for these businesses.

Best Practices in Creating a Strategic Finance Function  by SAP AG

January 23, 2009 - the following article will share the results of SAP research as well as APQC's Open Standards Benchmarking Collaborative (OSBC) research. The OSBC research is the first global set of common standards for business processes and data, giving organizations an independent, authoritative resource for evaluating and improving business practices.

Best Practices of the Best-Run Sales Organizations  by SAP AG

June 01, 2009 - Leadership teams in today's strongest sales groups have discovered best practices to achieve exponential results. This SAP Executive Insight looks at leading-edge companies and examines how they excel in areas where most sales organizations struggle.

Best Practices: VMware Monitoring with Operations Manager 2007 and MOM 2005  by Veeam Software

November 10, 2009 - This document describes an end-to-end solution for monitoring and managing VMware vSphere or Virtual Infrastructure 3 using a full integration with Microsoft Systems Center Operations Manager (Ops Mgr) to produce a comprehensive image of system health with minimal impact on your operations staff.

BEX Data Reduction Solutions: Achieve Data Reduction Before the Data Transfer  by Syncsort

October 21, 2009 - Syncsort BEX source side data reduction can be used to significantly decrease the amount of data sent to a backup target, reducing network traffic and CPU impact. Read this solution sheet for details.

Beyond Boundaries: A New Role for Finance in Driving Business Collaboration  by SAP AG

June 01, 2008 - In June 2008, CFO Research Services conducted a research program among senior finance executives in the United States, Europe, Asia, and Australia. The research looked at what kinds of alliances companies are forming and how finance sees itself working with internal and external partners to establish and assess successful alliances.

Beyond Supply Chain Visibility: Response Management Is the Key  by SAP AG

September 17, 2008 - Supply chain visibility ranks as one of the top two application focus areas for companies as part of their supply chain technology investment plans. Supply chain executives view visibility as the main goal for supply chain executives within supply chain initiatives. Read this paper for more.

Beyond the PCI ‘Check list’ – A Path to Achieve Higher Levels of IT Security and Compliance  by Skybox Security

September 18, 2009 - PCI DSS is an opportunity for security professionals to leverage compliance initiatives to improve security and risk management. The webcast illustrates how organizations must go beyond 'checklist' compliance to improve security and IT efficiency - through automation, prioritization, and focused attention on the most critical issues.

BeyondTrust PowerBroker: Root Access Risk Control for the Enterprise  by BeyondTrust Corporation

January 01, 2009 - Businesses must invest in threat control to address security threats and compliance requirements. In this paper, analysts examine a more comprehensive solution designed to close gaps for the enterprise with provable control.

BI in a Down Economy? Take a Smarter Approach  by Sybase, Inc.

July 08, 2009 - This webcast presents tips on smarter business intelligence in a down economy. Learn how to position your organization on a "platform of believability" with a single, reliable view of company-wide data. This approach allows for the right information at the right time, making agile, high-risk decisions easier.

Bitpipe Research Guide: EAI and Web Services  by Bitpipe

November 30, 2006 - Research has shown more than 30 percent of IT spending is on integration, with software costs running into the millions of dollars for large enterprises.

Bitpipe Research Guide: Storage  by Bitpipe

November 30, 2006 - Storage challenges for IT professionals are particularly complex in today's environment of rapid obsolescence of storage hardware and digital media.

Bloor InDetail: Talend Open Studio - an independent analyst review  by Talend

February 10, 2009 - Talend is an open source provider of data integration products or, in traditional parlance, ETL (extract, transform and load), although the product also supports an ELT approach.

Bloor Research - Data Integration Platforms Market Update  by Talend

February 10, 2009 - Talend is an open source provider of data integration products, it has a business model and organisation that more closely resembles that of a conventional software vendor, while still leveraging the open source model.

Blue Bell Creameries® Improves its Inventory Management and Standardizes Procedures with an Automated Data Collection System  by TAKE Supply Chain

October 14, 2009 - To improve inventory management and standardize procedures, Blue Bell turned to TAKE Supply Chain's Gemini Series™ for OPM mobile software solution. Read this case study to learn more about the benefits Blue Bell experienced from switching to TAKE Supply Chain’s Gemini Series™, and learn how your company can do the same.

Blue Coat and SAP: Network Infrastructure Enhancements for Successful Enterprise SOA Deployments  by Blue Coat

May 01, 2008 - This paper is based on the results of an SAP Enterprise Services Community program project, in which a number of leading network and test solution vendors and SAP teamed up to build a production-like enterprise SOA-based application landscape.

Blue Coat Application Delivery Network Infrastructure  by Blue Coat

May 14, 2009 - IT organizations like yours are under pressure to deliver fast and responsive applications to users wherever they are. But you also have to protect data, systems and applications from malicious threats to ensure all your users can confidently transact business across your distributed network.

Blue Coat: The Technology Leader in Application Delivery Networking  by Blue Coat

June 17, 2009 - Check out this comprehensive microsite to view white papers, videos, press releases, case studies, and webcasts highlighting Blue Coat's application delivery networking solutions.

BMC Enhances its Performance Assurance for Mainframes solution  by BMC Software, Inc

April 17, 2009 - This research brief examines the new release of the BMC Performance Assurance for Mainframes product. We assess its overall significance and describe the reaction of two early users.

BMC MAINVIEW: Exploiting zIIPs for Cost-Effective Monitoring  by BMC Software, Inc

July 10, 2009 - Monitoring mainframe performance is something every data center does. This quick video explains a set of software solutions that can help out with mainframe monitoring by observing and managing performance, providing visibility, and improving availability while reducing costs. Watch the video now to learn more.

BMC SQL Performance for DB2: A Review of the Potential Return on Investment  by BMC Software, Inc

November 20, 2009 - The ever present demand to maximise the value delivered by business-critical applications requires that we optimise the use of all the resources that execute and manage them. BMC Software is one of the major vendors offering such support and has a highly regarded set of solutions collectively called BMC SQL Performance for DB2.

Book Chapter: SAN for Dummies Chapter 14 Continuous Data Protection  by FalconStor Software

February 10, 2009 - In this chapter on Continuous Data Protection, you will learn how to use recent technical innovations to instantaneously recover data while enhancing overall data protection to make it faster, easier and more efficient.

Boost ROI with Faster, Easier, VISUAL Analytics  by SPSS Inc. Worldwide Headquarters

February 24, 2009 - Join us at this live webcast and learn how you can:<ul> <li>Use RFM analysis to quickly rank customers for high-return marketing</li> <li>Use advanced visualization techniques to uncover segments and patterns in your data, and apply these insights to growth, acquisition, and retention planning</li> <li>and more</li></ul>

BPM Technology Taxonomy: A Guided Tour to the Application of BPM  by SAP AG

March 01, 2009 - This paper provides a survey of the practices and technology related to business process management (BPM). Basic concepts are explained, the transformational effect on the enterprise is examined, and the value that BPM can create is analyzed. The paper then presents a survey of the vast array of technology that is related to BPM.

Branch Modernization  by Microsoft

June 01, 2009 - Your organization can reduce information technology (IT) costs, improve IT service levels, and enable new business scenarios by adopting best practices that will enable you to modernize your branch infrastructure. These best practices presented in this paper include virtualization, centralized management, and increased network efficiency.

Breakthrough Data Recovery for AIX - Vision Solutions  by Vision Solutions

April 09, 2008 - The purpose of this podcast is to provide a roadmap to the most effective strategy and technology to protect data and provide fast recovery for data which is lost or corrupted due to accident and malicious action.

Bridging the Gap Between Change Activity and Change Management: Real Time Accountability and Change Prevention  by McAfee, Inc.

August 17, 2009 - Check out this paper to learn about McAfee Change Control, an operational-friendly, low-touch and low overhead software that can be deployed on a wide range of hardware platforms. McAfee Change Control provides change control on servers, network devices (including switches, routers and firewalls), and databases.

BT Embraces Web 2.0 with Blue Coat Systems  by Blue Coat

December 02, 2008 - Read this case study to learn how BT selected Blue Coat ProxySG for its flexibility in combining user and application visibility, with extremely granular levels of security and control, to enforce rules that allowed undisruptive use of recreational applications and safe access to sites previously considered off-limits, such as MySpace.

Build Effective and Highly Available Disaster Recovery Solutions using Microsoft Virtualization  by Microsoft

November 24, 2009 - Does your organization have a reliable and cost-effective site recovery system? This presentation transcript explores how site recovery tools along with virtualization enables IT pros to deliver secure application and data availability, implement site-wide disaster recovery and automate fail-over and fail back.

Building a Best-Run Finance Organization  by SAP AG

June 01, 2008 - This SAP Executive Insight examines the changing role of the finance organization in today's business environment. Further, it describes how companies can develop best-run finance organizations.

Building a Home Lab Environment for Cisco Unified Communications  by Global Knowledge

February 10, 2009 - This paper explains the need to select Cisco IP Phones, switches, routers for your home lab and explores how to configure the options of VMware so that you can load Cisco Call Manager and Cisco Unity virtual machines in a lab environment.

Building a Smarter Storage Infrastructure  by F5 Networks UK

September 10, 2009 - This whitepaper explains how building a smarter storage infrastructure based on the business value of data can enable you to address your data storage requirements efficiently and at the lowest cost.

Building Mission Critical Aerospace and Defense systems with IBM Rational Quality Management Products  by IBM

August 05, 2009 - Start smart: get powerful techniques to improve your mission critical systems and product development process by viewing the On Demand Webcast, Building Mission Critical Aerospace and Defense systems with IBM Rational Quality Management Products.

Building Proven Data Protection Strategies  by Data Domain

September 01, 2008 - This paper compares traditional data protection options and provides an overview of the impact data deduplication is having on the storage industry. Deduplication is quickly gaining momentum in the growing disk-to-disk backup market and offers several significant improvements over traditional data protection methods.

Building the Cloud - It takes more than an API - Secure, Reputable Support for ISVs and Application Developers  by Iron Mountain Digital

October 14, 2009 - ISVs eager to unlock the potential of cloud technology have latched onto APIs that allow them to integrate cloud technology with their own applications. Ultimate success depends on choosing the right cloud storage provider. Read this Opinion Paper from the Taneja Group to learn more.

Business Analytics and Optimization for the Intelligent Enterprise  by IBM

April 08, 2009 - Executives recognize that new analytics capabilities, coupled with advanced business process management, signal a major opportunity to create business advantage. Those who have the vision to apply new approaches are building intelligent enterprises positioned to thrive.

Business Case for IBM Virtualization Solutions: Bottom Line Impact for Enterprise Infrastructures  by IBM

July 09, 2009 - The IBM Dynamic Infrastructure initiative is a combination of programs, products and services designed to improve service to users, reduce costs and more effectively manage risk across all components of organizational IT infrastructures.

Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery: Best Practices and Technologies are Evolving...Are You?  by Sun Microsystems, Inc.

December 03, 2009 - Too many organizations fail to recognize the difference between business continuity and disaster recovery. The two scenarios are actually vastly different in terms of hardware and management needs. View this webcast to ensure you're prepared for any outage - whether hardware failure or full-scale disaster - and learn the differences of BC and DR.

Business Fitness Gets in Shape with GoToMeeting Corporate with GoToWebinar  by Citrix Online

March 23, 2009 - This new case study explores how Citrix® GoToMeeting® Corporate with GoToWebinar® has transformed Business Fitness's sales and marketing efforts, enabling the company to significantly reduce costs, speed up the sales cycle and vastly improve nurturing efforts.

Business Intelligence - Now More Than Ever  by SAP BusinessObjects

December 19, 2008 - The goal of this white paper is to explain why business intelligence is a sound investment for any IT manager to make, especially now. Budgets are tighter and demands from executives to see immediate results from IT implementations are increasing. This paper outlines the benefits of a BI solution and its impact on a company. Read on to learn more.

Business Intelligence for the Small to Medium Sized Business (SMB)  by SAP AG

June 02, 2009 - Based on feedback from almost 650 end-user organizations, this report serves as a roadmap for SMBs looking to improve their analytical capability and achieve Best-in-Class performace through the deployment of BI.

Business Intelligence: Actionable Insights for Business Decision Makers  by SAP AG

January 23, 2009 - To gain greater business insight and transparency, organizations urgently require a new generation of business intelligence tools and applications that allows cross-enterprise, interenterprise and external data to be integrated and analyzed.

Business IP Telephony Cost Savings are Driving Unified Communications Beyond the Office Walls  by Sprint

November 13, 2009 - Mobile unified communications can take many forms, but it is essentially defined by the ability to deliver all the communication options of the office desk to workers outside the office. This pocket E-Guide details how to alleviate cost pain points of communications by implementing various aspects of mobile and unified communications.

Business Network Transformation: Rethinking Relationships in a Global Economy  by SAP AG

January 01, 2008 - The ability to operate effectively in business networks, be they coordinated or collaborative, is critical to sustaining competitive advantage in a commoditizing global economy. By focusing on their unique core capabilities, business network participants spend less on duplication and more on innovation, resulting in higher degrees of..

Business Process Management Best Practices  by PointSource

October 01, 2009 - The roles that business and IT play in BPM are significantly different and understanding those roles is critical to the success of a BPM Solution. This Pocket E-Guide will identify the role each side plays, why the combined roles are important and the effect that implementing a Center of Excellence (COE) plays in the process.

Business Process Modeling with UML  by IBM

November 13, 2009 - In this screencast, get the background on UML and BPM and see a demonstration of how activity diagrams can be used to model business processes.

Business Productivity with Microsoft Online Services  by Microsoft

September 15, 2009 - This data sheets examines how Microsoft Online Services can give your business the powerful productivity capabilities of Microsoft Exchange Server, Microsoft Office SharePoint Server, Microsoft Office Communications Server, and Microsoft Office Live Meeting —all hosted online.

Business Ready Configurations for Virtualization with Dell™ Poweredge™ Blade Servers, Dell Equallogic™ Storage, and VMware Infrastructure™  by Dell, Inc. and Intel

May 24, 2009 - This white paper provides an overview of recommended servers, storage, software, and services. It can be used to plan, scope, and procure the required components to set up a virtualization infrastructure.

Business Ready Solutions for Virtual Infrastructure Availability Using Dell™ Poweredge™ Servers, Dell Owervault™ Storage, and VMware vSphere™  by Dell, Inc. and Intel

July 24, 2009 - This white paper presents an example configuration and best practices for deploying and configuring a highly available architecture using an example solution configuration and then discussing how the configuration helps in maximizing uptime.

Business Resiliency for a Smarter Planet: New, Affordable Ways to Ensure IBM Power Systems Availability  by Vision Solutions

March 05, 2009 - Do you have the right technologies to compete in today's economic times? IBM's Dynamic Infrastructure™ initiative combined with Resilience 2.0 technologies from Vision Solutions deliver a secure, virtualized, energy efficient, and highly resilient IT environment for businesses of any size.

Business Rules with JBoss: Value Overview and High-level Technology Summary  by JBoss, a Division of Red Hat

July 17, 2009 - In this webinar you will learn about the features, capabilities, and value offered by JBoss Enterprise Middleware in the management of business rules. We'll introduce business rules management concepts and value, explore use cases, and dive deeper into the JBoss Enterprise business rules management technology.

Business Service Management: What It Is and Why You Should Care  by Global Knowledge

December 10, 2008 - The purpose of this business training white paper is to explain what BSM is and what it isn't and it will also describe BSM benefits.

Business Value of Compensation Management in the Insurance Industry  by CSSI

January 01, 2007 - Changes in the insurance industry have generated a real need for effective, automated commissions and incentive compensation management solutions. This CSSI white paper describes some of the dilemmas carriers, MGAs, producers and support staff face, and it presents the advantages of using an automated system.

Business Value of Storage Virtualisation: Scaling the Storage Solution; Leveraging the Storage Investment  by Hewlett-Packard Company

February 19, 2009 - This analysis looks at the positive business impact of networked storage virtualisation solutions that improve storage asset utilisation, reduce the administrative costs of provisioning new storage systems, and improve application availability.

Business-Driven Virtualization: Optimizing Insight and Operational Efficiency in the Dynamic Datacenter  by Hyper9, Inc.

November 17, 2009 - In this profile you will explore how to maximize future investment returns in more detail and review the key requirements for optimization solutions. You'll then be introduced to the Virtualization Management Maturity Model, an assessment and planning guide for achieving greater operational efficiency at any stage of virtualization.

Business-Ready Security: Information Protection Solution  by Microsoft Corporation India Pvt Ltd

November 25, 2009 - The Information Protection solution automatically discovers, protects, and manages confidential information throughout your organization by integrating with your existing platforms and applications.