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• How Fast Can Your IT Recover From An Outage?

  Business partners and customers rely on IT services such as email and database applications, making operational continuity critical. Find out how you can be prepared. Read more.

• Integrating Single Sign-on Across the Cloud

  We all know about Single Sign-on for traditional and on-premises applications. But across the cloud? Well, that’s a different story altogether. Discover more about it in this comprehensive white paper.

• You're Only As Protected As Your Weakest Link

  The latest release of Dell AppAssure provides a unified solution for backup and recovery. Find out what it can do for your business. Learn more.

• Virtual Data Protection Requires New Solutions

  Old methods for protecting data won’t cut it for virtual assets. How can you find out which technology is right? Let an expert help. Read on.

• 7 Steps for a Successful Migration from Domino to Exchange 2013

  In this new white paper, get a better understanding of the Domino to Exchange 2013 migration process, and learn the seven key steps to ensure success every step of the way.

• More Data Backup Is Going Virtual; Is Your Business Ready?

  How do you balance ease-of-use with staying ahead of the VM curve? We collected the best research to help you find the answer. Read on.

• Can One Backup Solution Do It All?

  In testing, openBench Labs found that Dell AppAssure 5 offered significant advantages in ease-of-use, backup speed and recovery time. Read their complete findings.

• Restore Your Data Faster, For Less

  The average time to restore data is roughly eighteen and a half hours at a cost of approximately $5,600 per minute. Find out how to protect your organization. Read more.

• Give Your VM Data The Protection It Deserves

  Learn how Dell’s holistic solution can backup and recover both virtual and physical data quickly and reliably. Read more.

• Big Data Is Getting Bigger; Is Your Backup Keeping Pace?

  In the event of a service outage, your IT will still be under pressure to restore services immediately and completely. Find out what you can do to stay prepared. Read now.

• Standardize Your Enterprise on the Best Enterprise PDF Reader

  Reading PDFs is part of everyday business now, but not enough companies consider standardizing the tools used to read PDFs. They should. Find out why in this white paper.

• Managing Multiple Operating Systems: Five Best Practices

  In this white paper read the five best practices to managing a multi-OS environment in an efficient, scalable and secure way. Learn more now!

• Avoiding the 7 Common Mistakes of Windows 7 Migration

  In this white paper learn how to avoid the seven common mistakes that may hinder you on your path to Windows 7 and keep your deployment plan on target. Learn more and read on.

• Enabling Safe and Secure BYOD

  Organizations are moving from being PC-centric to a user-centric model, where employees bring their own devices (BYOD) and choose those devices that best suit their specific needs. Learn how the KACE Appliances can help your organization say “Yes!” to BYOD. Read on.

• Overcoming the Challenges of Mobile Video Conferencing

  As more people use smartphones and tablets at work, organizations are looking for solutions that enable face-to-face meetings while on the go. This paper examines the issues IT leaders must consider when extending multi-party video conferencing to mobile devices. Read on.

• 3 Strategies to Protect Endpoints from Risky Applications

  Cyber criminals love third-party applications. Read about three strategies for protecting endpoint security from risky applications. Read on.

• A Smart Strategy for Streamlining and Accelerating Windows 7 Migration

  In this white paper learn how migration projects require many resources and what you will need to develop and implement a strategy for Windows 7 migration. Read on.

• Creating a Well-Stocked, Well-Managed Enterprise App Store

  Read this white paper for factors you need to consider to ensure the successful launch of an enterprise app store and give employees a rich selection of approved applications, yet still have the right controls in place to minimize risk and optimize software spend.

• TRUSTe Finds Time Savings and Independence with RingCentral

  In this concise case study, learn how leading online privacy provider TRUSTe discovered and implemented RingCentral’s hosted phone system and the benefits it gained from the solution. Read now.

• Amerivest Realty: Simplicity and Savings with RingCentral

  This case study reveals how and why Amerivest Realty took its phone system into the cloud and what the results were. Read the rest of the story in this white paper. Read on.

• 5 Mistakes to Avoid When Selecting a Business Phone System

  Choosing a phone system for your business is an important and potentially challenging process. But avoiding a few common pitfalls can help ensure both simplicity and success. Read this paper to discover more.

• Buyer’s Guide: What Every Business Needs to Know When Selecting a Phone System

  Choosing a business phone system to meet your company’s needs isn’t an easy task, but it doesn’t need to be daunting, either. Learn how to do it in this buyer’s guide. Read on.

• The Benefits of Cloud Based Telephony

  Never thought about taking your business’s phone system into the cloud? Now is the time to think about it. Find out why in this report from Infonetics Research.

• Mobility & Cloud Communication Trends for Businesses

  This self-help guide will detail how cloud communication technology is empowering mobile workforces, and how you can apply this exciting new technology to your small business. Read on.

• Privileged User Activity Auditing: The Missing Link for Enterprise Compliance and Security

  Organizations need to ensure that every privileged session can be audited across their extended enterprise creating a high level of visibility on UNIX, Linux and Windows systems whether in the data center or in cloud computing environments. Read on.

• Windows Least Privilege Management and Beyond

  For Windows environments it is critical that organizations can delegate administration and establish granular privileges quickly and efficiently to restrict administrators so they only access the servers and resources required to perform their job. Read more.

• Securing Microsoft Exchange 2010

  There are many reasons why now is the right time to make the move to Microsoft Exchange Server 2010, including a host of administration and security improvements. However, as with Microsoft Exchange Server 2007, Exchange 2010 requires SSL certificates to ensure the security of all connections to the email server. Learn more.

• Extended Validation SSL Certificates

  Extended Validation SSL delivers the acknowledged industry standard for the highest level of online identity assurance processes for SSL certificate issuance. Find out how the EV standard increases the visibility of authentication status through the use of a green address bar in the latest high security web browsers. Learn more.

• The Hidden Costs of Self-Signed SSL Certificates

  In this white paper learn why Self-Signed Certificates are much costlier and riskier than working with a trusted security vendor. Learn more, read on!

• Condusiv’s V-locity 4 Accelerates Exchange by 60% on Virtual Machines without Additional Hardware

  openBench Labs recently tested Condusiv’s V-locity 4, seeking to validate the claim that V-locity I/O optimization software accelerates applications in virtual environments by 50% or more—with no extra hardware. Learn more.

• Condusiv’s V-locity Server Accelerates SQL Server by 55%

  openBench Labs tested V-locity Server, validating the claim that the I/O optimization software accelerates applications on physical servers by 50% or more—with no added hardware. Learn more.

• How to Boost Physical Servers by 50%—Without New Hardware

  IT faces immense data growth and heavier server workloads, but there is no longer a need to add hardware for performance: IT now has the ability to manage the I/O explosion and gain high-performance—overnight—with hardware they already have. Learn more.

• Transaction-Centric vs. Infra-Centric APM

  TRAC Research surveyed more than 400 organizations on key areas of web and application performance management. See the approaches organizations take to manage application performance.

• Beyond Web Analytics

  Learn how to address problems before they result in service degradation with visibility into customer behavior. Identify sources of customer frustration and gain insight into root causes of problems.

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

  Learn more about User Experience Monitoring and the need for advanced real-time predictive analytics to capture information and identify trends. Download this paper and discover vital recommendations.

• CIO's View of Application Performance Management

  In this new white paper, learn more about application performance monitoring (APM), and how it can immediately benefit your IT department. See how it’s the not-so-secret weapon for effectively supporting IT, and why APM allows IT to focus on increased business productivity and creating value for the company.

• How Foglight Makes User Experience Management a Reality: Three Case Studies

  This white paper includes interviews with three diverse companies using User Experience Monitoring (UEM). It underscores UEM’s diverse appeal, its values to IT, and Dell’s versatility in UEM.

• Vendor Management Reduce Complexity for Your Clients

  In just about any infrastructure, software tends to build up a bit, as do the vendors who provide it. IT service providers can help their clients with this problem by offering vendor management. Read more

• Mastering Mergers and Acquisitions

  During a merger or acquisition, your challenge is to seamlessly restructure important infrastructures like Active Directory and Exchange email systems. In this paper, see how to develop and implement a rock-solid restructuring policy. Learn more.

• 11 Ways to Migrate Lotus Notes Applications to SharePoint and Office 365

  A lot can go wrong with content migration, but not if you know the right approach and tool. Read this paper to learn how to complete your Lotus Notes migration accurately, completely and trouble-free. Read more.

• Mastering Exchange Migrations

  Are you ready to make the move to Exchange 2013 and enjoy its new, powerful features? Learn about the 10 most common pitfalls in this new white paper. Read now.

• Avoiding the Top Three Challenges of Custom-Coded SharePoint Applications

  SharePoint is excellent out of the box, but you’ll need customizations to get the most from your investment. Now you can learn how Dell helps you get more from your investment and still slash development costs and timelines. Read more.

• The Move to Exchange 2013: Migraine or Migration?

  Deciding on whether to migrate your Exchange messaging solution is not easy, and pulling it off without a hitch is no simple task. Read this Dell® white paper to learn how to decide and how to migrate successfully. Learn more.

• How to Beat a Cloud Skeptic: Four Steps Towards Rationalizing the Great Cloud Debate

  IT professionals looking to embrace the cloud inevitably encounter skeptics who resist the move. This paper details four key steps to dispelling skeptics’ fears so your organization can take advantage of the cloud’s many benefits. Read on.

• Top 10 Steps to Ensure a Successful Migration to Exchange 2013

  Migrating to Microsoft Exchange 2013 is such an important project, there’s little margin for error. Read this Dell® white paper to discover the 10 essential steps to ensure a path to Exchange 2013 migration success. Learn more.

• Mastering AD Migrations

  With Active Directory, each new release of Windows Server means you either update the OS or migrate data into a new directory structure. In this paper, see how to smooth the migration process. Read now.

• Ensuring a Successful Migration, Consolidation or Restructuring with Dell

  Organizations increasingly face IT infrastructure consolidations, restructuring, and migrations. This brief explores the benefits and risks of these projects and how Dell migration solutions can help mitigate and manage the risks. Read on.

• Five Ways to Prepare for SharePoint 2013

  In this new white paper, discover five specific steps you can take – right now – to prepare for SharePoint 2013. See how you can make your migration quick, easy and cost effective. Read this paper today.

• Restructuring, Consolidating, and Merging Active Directory, What You Need to Know Before You Start

  Changing Active Directory domains can be risky. This guide details the challenges of restructuring domains, explains critical planning considerations, and shows you how to perform a migration using Quest Migration Manager for Active Directory. Learm more!

• Killing Administrator: Solving Three Problems by Eliminating Administrative Rights

  In this new white paper, discover three problems that disappear when you eliminate administrative rights – and why a granular approach to privilege management is more precise and powerful.

• Active Directory Auditing: What it Is, What it Isn't

  Finding what you need in Active Directory’s native audit log can be a nightmare. There is a better way. Read this paper to learn seven essential audit needs, and how Active Administrator meets them. Learn more.

• Balancing Desktop Standardization with User Needs: Variety - The Spice of Life, the Bane of IT

  Users need freedom, but IT needs control. The corporate standard desktop helps - but what about users with unique desktop needs? In this white paper, learn to tailor settings and configurations by user, computer, network and more. Learn more.

• Windows 7 Migration: The Complete Picture

  Being proactive for your Windows 7 migration is a great way to ensure success. In this ebook learn about a proactive approach that results in a faster migration, a more standardized environment and more productive users. Read more.

• Changed Your Service Account Password Lately?

  The fact is that managing Window service accounts is time-intensive and tedious, so managing them well is nearly impossible—without the right third-party tools. Learn how to take control and make services easy to manage. Read on.

• In Desktop Management, One Size Does Not Fit All

  In this white paper, learn to easily manage the configurations and profiles of users who move between physical desktops, terminal servers/VDI or office to office. Learn more.

• The Privilege Management Conspiracy: The Secret War over Elevated User Privileges

  In this white paper, see how to best manage elevated privileges – and how doing so will save you time and frustration. Read on.

• Nightmare on Delegation Street with Native Active Directory Tools

  Maintaining, customizing, and auditing Active Directory permission delegation can be a real nightmare. But there is a better way. Read how the right tools can help you to automate and take control of AD delegation. Learn more.

• Top Five Questions You Should Ask Before Purchasing a Two-Factor Authentication Solution

  You’ve made the choice to implement two-factor authentication, but where do you go from here? In this tech brief you’ll discover the top five questions that you should ask before choosing a two-factor authentication solution. Learn more.

• Secure Copy Trial

  Take Secure Copy for a spin and see firsthand how this automated data migration solution can help your administrators and IT team migrate data quickly and easily. Try now!

• Active Directory Recovery: What it Is, What it Isn't

  Are you prepared for common Active Directory failure scenarios? Learn what you can and can’t do with AD native tools, and how the right third-party tools can automate recovery and put you back in control. Read more.

• Security Explorer Trial

  Take Security Explorer for a test drive, and see how it can deliver a unified solution for complete access control and security management across your entire Windows network. Try now!

• Are You Spending More Than You Realize on Active Directory Management?

  Active Directory is critical to your IT infrastructure, but is it costing you much more than you realize? Learn about how the right tools can make managing AD easy and cost-effective. Read more.

• Maintaining AD: An Ounce of Prevention or Pound of Cure?

  Have you ever had problems replicating Active Directory or recovering AD objects? In this Dell technical brief, learn about three critical tasks administrators often overlook – and why doing them helps automate AD maintenance. Read more.

• Information Retention and eDiscovery Survey Global Results

  This whtie paper provides key survey highlights and presents an overview of the challenges that organizations may face if they fail to implement an effective information retention strategy. Read more.

• File Server Migrations: The Pain is in the Permissions

  Moving server files to a new server with permissions intact can be an awful, manual-intensive process. Learn about a set of products that provide a complete solution to this and other permission problems. Learn more.

• Active Administrator Trial

  Take Active Administrator for a spin and see for yourself how this powerful, all-in-one solution allows you to control auditing, security, recovery, and health for Active Directory. Try now.

• Discovering What Your Users Have Access To

  If you’ve ever had to determine the extent of an employee’s access, you know how tedious, time-consuming and error-prone a thorough manual research can be. Learn about a solution that makes permission management easy. Read on.

• The Right Way to Prove Identity and Establish Trust

  Proving identity is a high security challenge. In this tech brief, discover identity solutions that can be seamlessly integrated and scaled to fit your business needs, as well as how to build a business case. Read now.

• Desktop Authority Management Suite Trial

  Empower IT to proactively manage and provision a secure and flexible Windows user environment! Desktop Authority Management Suite ensures your infrastructure is safe, and consistent, for each user. Try it today – for free.

• The Definitive Guide to Logon Script Replacement

  Stop wasting time writing, testing and debugging login scripts, while simplifying group policy settings. In this new white paper see how to meet these challenges, and learn about a better alternative to login scripts. Learn more.

• Gartner 2012 Magic Quadrant for Enterprise Information Archiving Solutions

  Access the full report to find out which vendors Gartner positions as Leaders, Challengers, Visionaries or Niche Players based on their ability to execute and completeness of vision.

• Securing Active Directory: An Ounce of Prevention or a Pound of Cure?

  Have you ever had problems securing Active Directory? In this Dell technical brief, learn about three critical tasks administrators often overlook – and why doing them helps maximize AD security. Read on.

• Avoiding the Top 5 Vulnerability Management Mistakes

  This white paper will outline the top five mistakes around vulnerability management and how to avoid them to protect critical IT assets and improve your security posture, while reducing costs. Learn more.

• Discover The Easiest Way to Rapidly Restore Servers

  Cornerstone Bank cut VM replication time by nearly 70 percent—and eliminated stressful, around-the-clock restore work—thanks to vRanger. Read the case study to see how they did it

• Alter Ego Finds a Practical Solution to Its Data Backup Dilemma

  With limited IT staff, Video production company Alter Ego needed to simplify data backup and recovery. It needed a solution that’s easy to operate yet doesn’t sacrifice functionality for simplicity. See how it achieved these goals in our case study.

• Tech Brief (FAQ): Windows Server 2012 Recycle Bin

  Find answers to your frequently asked questions about the Recycle Bin in Windows Server 2008 R2 and Windows Server 2012. Learn what it can and can’t do, and your options for fast and easy recovery. Learn more.

• Deduplication for DPM – CRUNCH™

  So, you think System Center 2012 Data Protection Manager (DPM) offers deduplication? Think again. Gain a deeper understanding of DPM’s deduplication limitations and how to overcome them using CRUNCH for DPM. Read on.

• Active Directory Recovery: Be More Prepared

  Are you counting on Active Directory’s Recycling Bin for recovery? If so, you’re ill-prepared for most failures. Read this paper to discover what you need to do to prevent failures and recover data more quickly. Read on.

• Ensuring High Availability of Your Active Directory Forest

  Are you prepared for an Active Directory forest failure? Read this white paper to learn what you need to know to be able to recover from the failure of an AD domain or entire forest, quickly and completely. Learn more.

• Sudo or Sudoesn't

  This white paper will highlight certain situations where sudo has its place in IT. It will also show where it sudoesn’t. Learn more.

• Take Back Control of Your Active Directory Auditing

  Every organization needs to have management tools that allow them seamless control over all aspects of their Active Directory environment. Uptime is extremely important for every organization and every minute that Active Directory is not functioning properly could cause a financial loss. Learn more.

• Does Your Schools Mobile Security Make the Grade

  Many of the mobile devices that connect to a school’s network have minimal antivirus protection, if any at all, introducing new risks that must be addressed with a comprehensive MDM solution. Read more

• Antivirus Evaluation Guide

  This easy testing program enables you to accurately assess and compare the capabilities of multiple antivirus solutions, so you can choose the antivirus software that's right for your organization. Read on.

• Strategies for Boosting Your Practices Information Immunity

  Rich repositories of personal, clinical and financial data, combined with relatively modest information management capabilities make medical practices prime candidates for cybercrime. Read more

• Cloud Security Myths and Strategies Uncovered

  Forward-thinking CSOs are embracing the right security strategy and exercising appropriate caution without dampening cloud optimism. By overcoming the number one perceived challenge—security—CIOs can move beyond their fears to pursue their IT transformation to cloud computing. Learn more.

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

  In this Quest white paper, discover the requirements and expectations businesses have for Active Directory and how to overcome the issues – while delivering security and ease of use. Learn more.

• The 12 Essential Tasks of Active Directory Domain Services

  In this Quest Software white paper, learn how automation and proper management/administration tools can reduce Active Directory Domain Services workloads! Read it today.

• Governance for All: Empowering IT and Business Content Owners

  “Governance for all” is more than an end goal written in a plan; it’s a strategy that unites IT and business content owners. Now, learn to create a governance strategy to suit your needs. Learn more.

• Best Practices for SharePoint 2013 Migration

  A SharePoint migration can be a seriously risky task. Understanding the best practices for your migration will help reduce stress while ensuring a successful migration. Now you can set yourself up for success. Read on.

• Social 101: Using and Managing Social in SharePoint 2013

  SharePoint 2013’s social features help accelerate SharePoint adoption, but are often misunderstood. Now you can better understand how “SharePoint social” works, the business uses and how to manage it while securing your business-critical data. Read more.

• 10 Steps to Cleaning up Active Directory User Accounts and Keeping Them That Way

  Maintaining Active Directory in a clean, organized, and secure state is difficult. But you can reduce costs while improving AD security and compliance! Learn more.

• Five Tips to Get IT Auditors Off Your Back

  Learn five useful tips that will ensure you are prepared for your next IT audit. Read and apply these practices to your daily IT activities, and you’ll reduce many long-term security risks to your organization. Read on.

• Six Reasons to Empower Your SharePoint Citizen Developers

  SharePoint users are increasingly becoming "citizen developers." Learn why you should them make their own customizations safely, confidently in order to reduce the risk of error and free IT resources for more valuable projects. Read on.

• Beyond Cost Savings: Four Compelling Reasons To Virtualize Your IT Environment

  Cost savings is a well-known benefit of virtualization, but what else can be gained from a shift to a virtualized IT environment? Find out how other results of virtualization, such as improved business continuity and simplified IT management, can also have significant effects, as told by VMware® customers in this white paper. Read more.

• Top 10 Considerations for Getting Started with Virtualization

  Moving your workloads from physical servers to a virtualized environment can help your business drive down costs, increase IT efficiencies and improve application availability but it's important to carefully plan the transition to virtualization in order to avoid any complications. Read these considerations as you plan your move to virtualization to ensure a smooth transition and a successful project. Learn more.

• Gartner - Magic Quadrant for x86 Server Virtualization Infrastructure

  Server virtualization offers immediate ROI and serves as a strategic foundation for infrastructure modernization. This Gartner paper offers insight into what you should consider when evaluating virtualization technology as well as the strengths and weaknesses of top solutions for virtualizing x86 server hardware or OSs. Read on.

• How Virtualization is Key to Managing Risk

  Read this eBook to learn how VMware® virtualization solutions can help prepare your systems for a disaster and protect your data if one does strike. Read more.

• Don’t Get Stuck on your Virtualization Journey: Where to Focus Next

  You've virtualized a significant number of server workloads and have likely experienced signficant cost savings and performance improvements so, what's next? Read this white paper to identify which phase of virtualization you are in and where you should be headed to reap even more business benefits with expansion of your virtual environment. Read more

• The Keys to the Kingdom: Limiting Active Directory Administrators

  In this white paper, discover why the job duties of data administrator and service administrator should never be combined – and how doing so affects Active Directory security. Learn more.

• Governance for All: Empowering IT and Business Content Owners

  “Governance for all” is more than an end goal written in a plan; it’s a strategy that unites IT and business content owners. Now, learn to create a governance strategy to suit your needs. Learn more.

• An Executive’s Guide to Remote Desktop Monitoring Strategies In the Teleworking Era

  Many organizations use Microsoft Remote Desktop Services to facilitate employee telework. Attempting to monitor and report on RDS activity is challenging, and requires a third party solution. Read on.

• Active Directory Recovery: Be More Prepared

  Are you counting on Active Directory’s Recycling Bin for recovery? If so, you’re ill-prepared for most failures. Read this paper to discover what you need to do to prevent failures and recover data more quickly.

• Create, Collaborate, Edit, and Secure PDF Documents

  The growth of PDFs has exploded; therefore the need to create, collaborate, edit, and secure PDFs has exploded as well. Read on to learn more.

• Reducing Hidden Operating Costs Through IT Asset Discovery

  A new report considers the risks to those companies yet to embrace IT Asset Management (ITAM) and outlines how to tackle the asset management challenge. Read on.

• Antivirus: The Hippest New Apple Accessory

  2012 was a wake-up call for Mac users with a string of cyber-attacks that infected Apple machines around the world. IT admins need to secure the Macs and iOS devices on their networks. Learn more.

• Fire Preparedness

  We exited many years ago the era of fires destroying whole cities, but a blaze can still do a number on a business and its data. Find out here how to prepare for a fire.

• It’s Time Businesses Wake up to Mobile Security Reality

  Bring Your Own Device (BYOD) isn’t just a faze, nor are the associated risks. The pressure is on IT admins to manage and secure an array of new endpoints connecting to their networks. Read on.

• Tornado Preparedness

  Tornadoes don’t get the hype that some other storms get—but they also offer very little advanced notice and are extremely destructive. Find out in this white paper how to prepare for one.

• Flood Preparedness

  It doesn’t take much water to ruin a datacenter or destroy an office. Just an inch or two can do devastating damage. More than that can shut a business down for good. Find out here how to be prepared for when flood waters rise.

• Hurricane Preparedness

  Hurricane Sandy was a wake-up call for many organizations that weren’t up to speed on disaster preparedness. Unfortunately, that call came too late for some companies. Find out in this white paper how to prepare for one of nature’s most destructive forces.

• Online Enemy #1: Blackhole Exploit Kit

  Compromising unpatched systems with crippling, invasive malware is now among the top threats facing businesses around the globe. The solution is patch management. Learn more.

• Earthquake and Tsunami Preparedness

  Earthquakes are among the planet’s most devastating and sudden disasters. Massive earthquakes and the tsunamis they sometimes trigger still destroy entire cities and cripple entire nations. Find out here how to prepare your business to survive.

• Disaster Recovery Best Practices

  Organizations can outgrow their disaster recovery plans, putting at risk the very growth they worked so hard to achieve. But growth doesn’t have to lead to a lack of preparedness. Read more in this white paper.

• Avoiding Disaster Recovery Epic Fails

  Disaster recovery is important. That much is obvious. But why doesn’t it always work? This white paper looks at massive DR failures and educates readers about how to avoid them.

• Next Gen Firewall and UTM Buyer's Guide

  Implementing and managing a network protected by point solutions is far from simple. But complete protection doesn’t have to be complicated. This buyers guide explains how to choose a unified threat management (UTM) solution that simplifies network security and data protection by integrating security capabilities within a single platform. Learn more.

• 7 Shortcuts to Losing Your Data (and Probably Your Job)

  This tongue in cheek white paper explores data loss from a contrarian point of view - exploring the top 7 shortcuts you can take to ensure that you lose your data. Read more.

• Active Directory Auditing: The Need and Result

  This white paper discusses the need and importance of Active Directory Audit. Find out why Audit has become more and more prevalent among Organizations and how to perform a perfect and easy approach to AD Audit. Learn more.

• How Compliance Impacts Backup Strategy

  There have been few bigger concerns for IT in recent years than compliance. Combine that with an ever-expanding need for backup, and the two are going to clash eventually. Find out in this white paper how to rectify the conflict.

• How Cloud Changes the Game for Line of Business Managers in Midsized Companies

  In this white paper, explore midsize business challenges from the perspective, not of the IT department, but of the line of business managers they support. Using real-life use cases, learn show how cloud services—and, in particular, the IBM SmartCloud offerings—can help midsize business managers reach their goals and transform the business. Learn more.

• Cloud Computing for Midsize Business: Delivering Innovation and Efficiency whitepaper

  You may be considering a cloud computing solution or in the midst of specifying one or even implementing a solution. Read this white paper to see what IBM discovered about how companies like yours are adopting, implementing and using cloud computing solutions. Learn more.

• Executive Brief: The Power of Cloud

  Although cloud is recognized as a technological change, its potential for driving business innovation remains untapped. Cloud computing can have an impact on operations, customer relationships and industry value chains. Read this white paper to discover how the cloud can open the door to more efficient, responsive and innovative ways of doing business.

• Security and High Availability in Cloud Computing Environments

  This white paper discusses security and availability-related challenges in cloud computing environments, including shared security responsibilities that exist between consumer and provider. Read on.

• Annual Virtualization Data Protection Report 2013 – Survey Results

  This independent survey of 500 CIOs conducted in November 2012 across USA and Europe found that enterprises are still not experiencing the full benefits that virtualization offers and the advances modern data protection tools can provide. Learn more.

• 5 Best Practices for VMware Admins: Microsoft Exchange on VMware

  vSphere administrators often avoid virtualizing Exchange because they are concerned about the impact this could have on the virtual environment. The good news is that even the largest Exchange environments can be safely and easily virtualized. Learn more.

• ESG Lab Review: Veeam Backup & Replication – Built for Virtualization

  Download the Veeam Backup & Replication March 2013 ESG Lab Review to learn how Veeam addresses today’s IT challenges such as exploding data volumes, shrinking backup windows and more stringent recovery time objectives (RTOs).

• 5 Fundamentals of Modern Data Protection

  Legacy backup is costly, inefficient, and can force IT administrators to make risky compromises that impact critical business applications, data and resources. Read this white paper to learn how Modern Data Protection capitalizes on the inherent benefits of virtualization. Read on.

• Adopting a Service-Centric Approach to Backup & Recovery

  What’s driving the need to move beyond traditional backup and recovery and adopting a services-centric view? Find out in this white paper focusing on protecting mission-critical applications and databases.

• Choosing the Ideal Backup Target for Your VM Backups

  Unless planned and built into a virtualization implementation, data protection and recovery can be extremely complex and even impossible after certain system crash scenarios. This is because the physical servers can be operating multiple virtual workloads that are creating unique data at a rapid pace. Learn more.

• Building Higher IT Business Continuity in the Face of Disaster

  Disasters come in all sorts of varieties—and sometimes without warning. The only way to survive one as a business is to be prepared. Read more in this white paper.

• How to Choose the Best Web Content Management System

  Like the Web itself, Web Content Management Systems (CMS) are rapidly evolving. They have to integrate into a system that delivers a comprehensive customer experience. Read in this white paper how to choose the right Web CMS.

• The Cloud Advantage: Five Ways the Cloud Is Better for Business When Disaster Strikes

  Learn the advantages of data recovery when using the cloud.

• Vendor Landscape: Virtual Backup Software

  Info-Tech Research Group explores one of the hottest and most important markets in the software industry and divulges who the contenders—and the pretenders—are. Learn more.

• Unifying Virtualized Backup, Replication and Recovery

  Very few data-protection solutions for virtualized environments manage to do more than one thing well. But at least one does. Read more about it here in a report from Storage Switzerland. Read more.

• Cut Costs by Building the Right SharePoint Infrastructure

  Read this white paper to see how the combination of EMC and Metalogix solutions can fill in the gaps and increase the value of your SharePoint investment. Learn more.

• Beyond Technology: Backup and Recovery Best Practices

  Learn about expert techniques used to run a successful backup and recovery program: assigning ownership, managing expectations, preparing for audits, and building redundancy into the team.

• Vendor Landscape: Virtual Backup Software

  Info-Tech Research Group explores one of the hottest and most important markets in the software industry and divulges who the contenders—and the pretenders—are. Learn more.

• Optimize Your SharePoint 2010 Content Using Microsoft's New Storage Guidance

  In this white paper, explore how to work within the new guidelines to provide a truly autonomous way to manage enterprise content and position SharePoint to be your go-to ECM system. Learn more.

• SharePoint High Availability

  Read this white paper to learn how you can achieve high availability within your SharePoint environment. Find out how to give your entire user community to continually access SharePoint, whether to submit new work, update or alter existing work or collect the results of previous work at all times. Learn more.

• Business Case for Desktop Virtualization: Information Guide

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