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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!


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Five Key Considerations for Selecting a Data Loss Prevention Solution

RSA® The Security Division of EMC has identified 5 key considerations to help organizations simplify the evaluation process for selecting a DLP solution that is right for their business.


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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.


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Why the Target on your Network is Growing: Security in an Economic Downturn

The same economic downturn that has slashed IT spending has helped generate greater and increasingly more sophisticated hackers and cyber-criminals. Get five ideas to help you meet soaring security demands with a tight budget. These methods will help you reinforce critical network security functions and help you prepare for rapid future investment.


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When Corporate Network Safety Starts at Employees' Homes: Protecting Your Network from Home Wireless Hackers

Learn eight essential tips for nailing down security for off-site wireless users. Share it with your remote users today to help them work from home safely.


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

On-Demand Video Webinar Available Now! Gartner Research along with Double-Take Software present: “Maximize Your Strategy for Migration, Virtualization, Availability, and Desktop Management”. Hear real-life experiences and a testimonial from a TOP industry CIO. Don’t miss out!


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Inside SQL Server 2008 - Exploring High Availability and Scalability Enhancements

SQL 2005 introduced High Availability and scalability enhancements, such as database mirroring (this version) and improved failover clustering from earlier versions.


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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.


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QUEST GroupWise Product Demo

In this on-demand video, see how GroupWise Migrator for Exchange helps your organization conduct a successful, cost-effective, low-impact and on-schedule migration from GroupWise to Exchange and Exchange Online.


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Developing a Dynamic, Real-Time IT Infrastructure with Red Hat Integrated Virtualization

Red Hat eliminates the barriers to adopting virtualization throughout the enterprise. Organizations get better performance and scalability from their virtualization infrastructure without requiring investment in new hardware or software licenses.


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Real-Time Protection for Hyper-V

To provide disaster recovery for virtual machines running on a Hyper-V host, look to Double-Take for Hyper-V from Double-Take Software to protect your workloads with real-time replication and automated failover for virtualized workloads.


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Thinking Beyond Tape: The Case Against Tape Backup

Many companies are already backing up their main and branch office systems to tape, but what they don't understand is just how vulnerable their data and their business remains. This whitepaper explores the high cost, complexity and potentially dangerous shortcomings of a strategy based only on tape backup.


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More Functionality, Less Infrastructure: Managed IT with Double-Take Flex

Download this free whitepaper to learn about a cost-effective and flexible solution that will allow you to better manage desktops or servers by booting them from images stored on any iSCSI storage area network.


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Quest MessageStats™ - Reporting and Analysis for Your Messaging Environment

Over 15 million Exchange mailboxes worldwide have benefitted from the power of MessageStats™. See why - download a no-cost trial of the industry’s best messaging reporting and analysis tool today.


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Backup and Recovery Options in a Multi-Platform Environment

This white paper discusses different backup and recovery strategies and outlines the solution that adheres to best practices and maximizes resources to stretch your budget. Download now.


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The Active Directory Recycle Bin: The End of Third-Party Recovery Tools?

Windows Server 2008 R2 provides an Active Directory Recycle Bin feature for recovering accidently deleted objects. But is this new feature as user-friendly as it sounds? The paper explores the requirements and capabilities of this new feature.


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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.


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The Benefits and Challenges of Pursuing Unified Communications

Are you considering deploying Unified Communications? NetIQ delivers survey results exploring the benefits and challenges experienced by many of your peers – costs concerns, user experience, and adoption of management tools.


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Your New Generation ERP solution is here

Implementing an ERP system is a challenging experience for any organization. Find out how Universal Labeling worked NG erp to implement a full ERP solution. Read today.


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Business Case for VoIP Readiness Assessment

Enterprises and equipment vendors are learning the value of a complete readiness assessment before deploying VoIP across an organization.


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Consolidating SQL Server 2000 Databases onto Dell PowerEdge R610 using Microsoft's Hyper-V

This guide provides techniques to successfully consolidate your SQL Server 2000 database servers to a virtual environment on a Dell PowerEdge R610 Server running Hyper-V. Download it now. No registration required.


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Consolidating Multiple SQL Servers onto a Dell PowerEdge R610 Servers using Microsoft's Hyper-V

This guide provides techniques to successfully consolidate your SQL Server instances to a virtual environment on a Dell PowerEdge R610 Server running Hyper-V. Download it now. No registration required.


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Consolidating SQL Server 2000 Databases on Dell PowerEdge 2650 Servers to a Dell PowerEdge R610 Server

Principled Technologies conducted a hands-on benchmarking study that revealed substantial savings when consolidating 13 legacy Dell PowerEdge 2650 servers onto a Dell PowerEdge R610 server with two EqualLogic PS5000 iSCSI storage arrays. This whitepaper provides the hard performance data from the study. Download it now. No registration required.


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

Get introduced to Microsoft Hyper-V technology, a simplified virtualization platform integrated directly into the Microsoft Windows Server 2008 OS on Dell PowerEdge hardware.


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Highly Available Virtualization with Microsoft Hyper-V and SCVMM2008

Discover how Microsoft Hyper-V and SCVMM 2008 on Dell PowerEdge servers can produce high availability critical to avoiding lost revenue, maintaining productivity, and protecting data from system failure.


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11 Things to Know About Active Directory Recovery

This paper explores what you MUST consider when creating and testing your Active Directory recovery plan and discusses the strengths of Microsoft’s native recovery tools and how to restore data using them. Download today.


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Top 10 Tweets About Active Directory

“Tweeting” about Active Directory (AD) issues? You’re not the only one! Read about the top 10 AD “tweets,” and then get solid advice about how to best resolve them. Read this white paper today.


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Microsoft Worldwide Partner Conference

Attend the Microsoft Worldwide Partner Conference, July 13-16, 2009 in New Orleans, LA. Hear from senior executives like Steve Ballmer and Kevin Turner as they outline the Microsoft roadmap for the next year. And, ready yourself for key product launches like; Windows 7, Mobile 6.5, and Office 2010 with exclusive partner ready materials. Be the first to find out how the Microsoft partner program will be changing to better meet partner needs. Use registration code PTATX38F and SAVE $245 off the regular $1,795 rate.


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Total Economic Impact of VMware Virtual Desktop Infrastructure

Forrester takes an in-depth look at the potential benefits of a virtual desktop infrastructure based on VMware technology in this paper. Get it today!


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Five Reasons Why You Need Citrix Essentials for Hyper-V Now

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. Download the white paper and extend the benefits of Hyper-V.


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Total Economic Impact of VMware Virtual Desktop Infrastructure

Find out how a VMware healthcare customer used VMware® View™, formerly VMware Virtual Desktop Infrastructure, to reduce costs, free up office space and increase worker productivity in its remote offices. Forrester takes an in-depth look at the potential benefits of a virtual desktop infrastructure based on VMware technology.


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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.


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Seamless Coexistence Between Lotus Notes and Microsoft Platforms

When planning a Notes to Exchange migration, you need both to peacefully coexist. This Quest on-demand webcast discusses how to reach this interoperability goal. Watch it today.


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The New Age of Compliance

Prepare your organization for a new era of increased accountability and enforcement. This free paper examines the current state and changing landscape of IT compliance. Read now!


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Best Practices: Migrating from Lotus Notes to Microsoft Exchange & SharePoint

When migrating from IBM Lotus Notes to Microsoft Exchange and SharePoint, proper planning is crucial. In this Quest white paper, learn best practices for a cost-effective, on-schedule and error-free migration.


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Migrating Notes Applications to SharePoint: Understanding Application Complexity and the Value of Consolidation and Automation

Migrating complex applications from Notes to SharePoint can be a challenge In this white paper, learn best practices to reduce the risks and costs of a Notes to SharePoint migration.


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Stop Taking the Heat: Six Steps to Avoid the e-Discovery Inferno

Is your business prepared when e-Discovery is necessary for litigation and investigations? Quest’s new white paper discusses e-Discovery best practices and provides solutions to help find critical information quickly and easily.


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Create Supported SQL Server 2008 Virtual Machines

The Microsoft SQL Server product team has published guidelines for virtualizing the SQL Server database engine. Learn how to move forward to create supported SQL Server virtual machines that can be hosted on Dell PowerEdge servers. Read it now. No registration required.


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Out of the Box: The Reality of Implementing SharePoint

This paper covers the “fact versus fiction” around SharePoint implementations. It will discuss the main components of an effective governance plan, key organizational considerations and thinking beyond “the box” when it comes to your implementation. Read it today.


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Hosted CRM Comparison Guide

Compare the leading CRM systems. What you need to know before you make your CRM investment. Discover which CRM vendors deliver the best choice for CRM software and services and which vendors do not. Get this paper.


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Best Practices in Index Maintenance

Learn about index fragmentation, why native and custom-coded approaches aren't ideal and what you can do to effectively defrag indexes for better database performance. Read the paper today!


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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Mainframe Budget and Resources Tapped? Microsoft SQL Server 2005 Customer Solution Case Study

Make the case to move off your mainframe to Microsoft SQL Server run on Dell PowerEdge Servers powered by multi-core AMD processors. The ROI for a migration project this large will pay for itself within months while increasing your operations performance by 20 to 40 percent. Download this Microsoft case study today. No registration required.


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Microsoft System Center for Your Enterprise -- Try It for Free Today

By providing end-to-end management solutions, the Microsoft System Center Server Management Suite Enterprise (SMSE) supports you as you implement the best practices that will lower your operational costs, while improving the availability of the vital data center services and applications that you deliver to your business.


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Create Fault-Tolerant SQL Server 2008 Installations

With the release of SQL Server 2008, Microsoft has extended the database fault tolerant features making them easier to use and implement. After reading this white paper you can better determine your fault tolerant configuration options and how best to protect your database environment running SQL Server on Dell PowerEdge servers. Get it today from the Tech Library no registration required!


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Defender 5: The Right Way to Prove Identity and Establish Trust

Are you positive it was YOUR employee who just accessed your network resources? This paper explains how you’ll know, every time, who exchanges information with your company. Read today!


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Exploring the Upside of 'Certified for Windows Server' Software Logos from the Enterprise Customer Perspective

In this series of articles, Peter Varhol explores the Windows Server software certification program, the certification process, free test tools, and tales from the test labs. Read it.


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Reduce Your Server Footprint with SQL Server 2008

With its new unified management and auditing tools, SQL Server 2008 makes it easier to manage multiple instances on fewer servers. And by hosting these instances on Dell PowerEdge Servers powered by multi-core processors, you can guarantee the best levels of availability, as well as ensure the best possible performance. This free 9-page guide will show you how consolidating your SQL Server databases and instances will also reduce the hardware, software, maintenance, support power and cooling costs, as well as assist with compliance. Download it now. No registration required.


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Consolidating SQL Server® 2005 onto Dell™ PowerEdge™ R900 and PowerEdge™ R905 Using Microsoft's Hyper-V™

This 36-page guide provides the techniques you need to successfully consolidate your Microsoft SQL Server 2005 databases from multiple machines onto a single Windows Server 2008 server system using Microsoft's Hyper-V. Read it right now. No registration required.


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How-To Guide: Consolidating Multiple SQL Server® Systems onto Dell™ PowerEdge™ Servers Using Microsoft's Hyper-V™

Dell has partnered with Principled Technologies to perform hands-on testing and research and draw on real-world experiences to document best practices and help you take advantage of the features of Hyper-V to consolidate multiple SQL Server instances onto a single physical system. Get the 39-page guide now. No registration required.


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Don't Miss Your Chance to Win for Each New Forefront Product Trial You Download

Microsoft Forefront delivers end-to-end security and access to information through an integrated line of protection, access and identity management products. Download a Microsoft Forefront product trial and enter to win* great prizes, including a $10,000 server system for home! *No purchase necessary. Open to U.S. residents 18+. For full rules, see Web site.


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Consolidating SQL Server® 2000 onto Dell™ PowerEdge™ R900 and PowerEdge™ R905 Using Microsoft's Hyper-V™

This 29-page guide provides the techniques you need to successfully consolidate your Microsoft SQL Server 2000 databases from multiple machines onto a single Windows Server 2008 server system using Microsoft's Hyper-V. Download the guide now. No registration required.


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Data Protection Options for Virtualized Servers

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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PowerEdge™ R905 Using Microsoft's Hyper-V™

This Guide provides the techniques you need to successfully consolidate your Microsoft SQL Server 2008 databases from multiple machines onto a single Windows Server 2008 server system using Microsoft's Hyper-V. Download the 36-page guide now. No registration required.


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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. Click here and go directly to the guide. No registration required.


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Achieving Successful Coexistence Between Notes and Microsoft Platforms

Whether planning a Notes to Exchange migration -- or if you just need them to peacefully coexist! -- interoperability is key. This new Quest white paper discusses the challenges of coexistence and how automation can help you reach these goals.


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Squeezing More out of Your SharePoint Investment

In this new solution brief, learn how two innovative Quest SharePoint management tools can drastically reduce the time, cost and resources needed to manage this critical platform. Download it today.


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Microsoft Exchange 2007 and EMC SourceOne: Unifying Platforms for Compliance, Storage Management and User Productivity

Get insight into Microsoft Exchange 2007's compliance features and the benefits, and the added benefit to coupling the EMC SourceOne Email Management application with Exchange's live data. Get this paper.


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Realizing and Maximizing an E-mail Archive ROI with EMC SourceOne Email Management

Learn how EMC SourceOne Email Management help organizations with e-mail archive implementations maximize returns at the lowest possible cost. Read the paper today!


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EMC SourceOne Email Management: A Next-Generation Email Archiving Solution

This technology spotlight by IDC looks at the differences between the EMC EmailXtender and the new EMC SourceOne Email Management offering. Get it now!


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Webcast: WS_FTP Server Product Demonstration

Learn about the new features available with WS_FTP Server and see it in action. WS_FTP Server solutions are easy to use and implement, quickly enabling network administrators to deliver complete security, and more. Watch now!


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Service Availability Tool - Free Software

Verify network service availability with free software. Get this Service Availability Tool that helps network technicians and administrators verify and troubleshoot network services quickly and easily. Download now.


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Leveraging Your Investment in SharePoint

Learn about leveraging SharePoint and when to look beyond the free/inexpensive tools to move into a true enterprise-level portal in this on-demand webcast. Watch today.


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Office Communications Server & The Right Tools: Less Costs, Easy Management

Learn to extend the power of OCS. See how the right tools, and proper planning, are vital when creating a unified communications solution for OCS. Discover how you can reduce costs and simplify management. Get this paper.


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Six Steps to Reduce Risks and Improve Control over Real-Time Communications

In this paper you'll get best practices to reduce the risk of instant messaging. Learn six steps to reduce risk and improve control over your messaging environment while securing your network and decreasing costs enterprise-wide. Get it today.


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Webcast: Key Issues in Managing OCS Efficiently & Effectively

In this on-demand webcast from Quest Software and Osterman Research, see how Microsoft Office Communications Server 2007 -- plus a solid strategy and the right tools -- can help unify your communications platforms. Tune in today!


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Secure & Managed File Transfer in an Era of Regulatory Compliance

Learn how a secure and managed file transfer approach can help better meet the challenge of safely and reliably exchanging electronic business information. Download now.


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Key Issues in Managing OCS Efficiently & Effectively

This paper gives you the risks and best practices for managing a Microsoft Office Server 2007 migration. You'll learn about the goals, and risks, of unified communications, and how proper planning and the right tools help simply OCS migration. Read it today.


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Best Practices in Instant Messaging Management

Is your organization protected from IM's dangers, such as vulnerability to malware and viruses, diminished employee productivity and disregard for compliance/legal issues. Learn how to mitigate the risks and maximize the benefits. Get this paper.


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Fixing the Pain in Fax and Mail Automation

Read how fax and mail automation can save your business time, money and hassles and discover the hard return in automating these time-intensive tasks. Downaload the paper now.


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Improving Business by Improving Fax

Still faxing and mailing documents manually? Discover the time and cost savings of automated faxing -- whether you want to replace fax machines or integrate production faxing with your infrastructure. Learn how your business can get the most from fax technology. Read it today.


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Fax Software and Fax Services: Making the Best Choice

Get the latest fax automation technology information to help you make a decision about automated faxing -- from fax server to fax services for fax delivery straight from enterprise applications. Read this paper!


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Fax Purchasing Decision: Fax Server or Fax Service

Fax server or fax service? This overview details the options and pros and cons of each technology, so you can make an informed decision for your business. Get it today!


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Amplify System Center Operations Manager 2007: Managing Enterprise-Wide IT Services From a "Single Pane of Glass"

See how Quest expands the power of Microsoft System Center. Discover true end-to-end management of your entire heterogeneous IT environment -- servers, desktops, applications and other devices. Read the paper today.


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Free Book: The Know-It-All Guide to e-Discovery

Get this fun-to-read book and you'll have the information you need to successfully plan for eDiscovery in your company. Your meetings with legal will never be the same. Download this witty book!


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Meeting the Top Backup Challenges in Small and Medium Business Environments

This Solution Profile summarizes the top six challenges SMBs need to consider as they craft comprehensive data and system protection solutions, pointing out the technologies that can be used to address them. Read on.


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Comprehensive Backup and Recovery of VMware Infrastructure

Introducing Backup Exec 12.5 -- Find out how to protect your VMware environment with the solution of choice for thousands of IT administrators. Get this paper today!


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Microsoft Audit Collection Services: How Does it Stack Up as a Security Log Solution?

This on-demand webcast explores the Audit Collection Services (ACS) component to System Center Operations Manager (SCOM) 2007. You'll get an introduction to ACS and how it relates to other features in System Center 2007, and much more. Watch it.


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Securing and Managing the Endpoints - The Case for Convergence

If your current levels of investment in security and compliance have gotten out of balance, taxing your IT resources and effecting your organization's ability to deliver new products and services, then read this paper.


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Better Together: Auditing with Microsoft Audit Collection Services (ACS) and Quest Software

Microsoft's Audit Collections Services is a powerful component of Systems Center Operations Manager 2007. But did you know you can complement Microsoft's solutions for extensive reporting and auditing across your entire IT infrastructure? Read on.


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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. Read today.


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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. Read today.