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• Workload Automation: The Heart of Enterprise Operations

  Workload Automation (WLA), or enterprise scheduling, is an essential capability for large and small IT departments. Read this white paper to learn the key criteria for your workload automation vendor short list. Learn more.

• Using BDNA Normalize CM to Improve Software Stability and Supportability

  Finding and updating old software is potentially a huge time and money saver. You might think that System Center Configuration Manager can handle the task, but it doesn’t quite go far enough. BDNA Normalize CM does. Discover more in this white paper.

• Five Essential Steps for Mastering SharePoint Migration Planning

  Migration for SharePoint doesn’t involve packing up and driving a truck cross-country, but it has to involve careful planning if it’s going to succeed. Learn in this white paper five best practices for developing a SharePoint migration plan.

• Microsoft SharePoint Server on AWS: Reference Architecture

  This technical guide will provide you with assistance on how to set up and deploy the components of a typical SharePoint Server farm on Amazon Web Services (AWS). Read more.

• ERP Buyer's Guide

  In this guide easily compare ERP solutions for Enterprise, Mid-Market and Small business solutions in the new CompareBusinessProduct.com Buyer’s Guide. Read on.

• BYOD: Focus on User Experience, Not the Device

  There’s more to bringing outside devices into your IT infrastructure than just attaching them to your network. For BYOD to really work, you need a comprehensive plan. Discover more in this research report.

• 5 Ways Your VMware and Hyper-V Backups May Fail You

  This white paper explains common pitfalls of current backup strategies and what you can do to protect your VMs the right way. Learn more.

• Miercom Report: Avaya Ethernet Fabric

  Miercom’s report on Avaya’s Shortest Path Bridging protocol found that SPB “considerably simplified the process of configuring large data center networks” compared to SMLT and MSTP. How considerably? The numbers and a lot more are all in this white paper. Learn more.

• The Avaya Collaborative Cloud

  The cloud isn’t just about ditching on-premises software anymore. It’s about people now: how employees work, how they communicate, and how IT can enable their interactions. Find out in this white paper why Avaya’s cloud is different.

• Miercom Report: Avaya Plug and Play Switches

  Miercom put an Avaya switch up against competitors from HP, Cisco and Juniper and found that Avaya’s product delivered lower total cost of ownership and more energy savings. Discover more in this detailed report. Read on.

• BYOD and the Wireless Revolution

  Is your company ready for the wireless revolution? Ready or not, the trend of employees using their own devices for work is here. Find out how to use the revolution to your advantage in this white paper.

• Choosing the Best Web Content Management Solution

  How do you choose among the sea of CMS solutions available today? This white paper provides an overview of choices and requirements both IT and marketing decision makers should consider. Read on.

• Web Analytics Business Executives Must Know

  In this white paper learn how to use your website to impact company success. You have to know your company’s strategic themes and strategic objectives. Once you know these, you can tailor how your website makes its impact. Learn more.

• Content Management: The New Governance Manifesto

  Many things need to happen before a CMS is chosen, yet most organizations rush into this technology decision unprepared.In this white paper learn from digital industry veterans how to avoid top “site-killer” disasters. Read more.

• Gartner Magic Quadrant Identifies Leaders in WAN Optimization

  Get Gartner Analyst firm's perspective on where the market is heading, each vendor's strengths and weaknesses, and the most important factors for evaluating vendors. Read more.

• Quest Migration Assessment Tool

  The Quest Migration Assessment Tool compares features with other solutions and your existing Exchange 2003/2007 environment. It’s browser based and free! Try it today!

• Office 365 Migration Guide: Approaches, Techniques and Challenges

  In this white paper, discover the four most important things to consider when planning your Office 365 migration. Then, see which solutions are the right fit for your business. Learn more.

• Centrally Controlling, Securing and Auditing Access to Cross-Platform Systems and Applications

  In this white paper learn how to leverage an infrastructure you already own to strengthen security, enhance regulatory compliance initiatives, reduce IT expense and complexity, and improve privileged user and administrator productivity. Read more.

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

  In this white paper learn how the actions of privileged users is critical in today's environment of IT outsourcing and off-shoring. Learn more and read on.

• Miercom Report: Avaya WLAN

  Avaya’s WLAN 8100 outperformed counterparts from Cisco, Aruba and Juniper in a series of tests. Its voice and video performance were unmatched. Discover the results and a lot more in this Miercom report.

• Free Trial: Remotely Manage and Monitor Multiple PCs with Ease

  Managing multiple computers and remote systems can seem like a never-ending battle. Now there’s a way to win the war for once and for all.

• IDC: The Case for Real-Time Networking

  Say goodbye to your current network, and say hello to the real-time network of the future. How can you do that without negatively affecting service or breaking the bank? Find out in this IDC report. Read now!

• Yankee Group: The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the new Data Center Network

  The fully virtualized data center is the next step in the evolution of computing, and it will be the most important since the birth of the Internet. This white paper from Yankee group will walk you through the most important steps in virtualizing your data center. Read more.

• Internet Filtering vs. User Activity Monitoring

  Simply filtering the Internet isn’t enough anymore to prevent employees from abusing your network. You need something that targets the employee, not just Web sites: User Activity Monitoring. Find out more in this white paper.

• Bringing Your Internet Acceptable Use Policy up to 2012 Standards

  One of the most essential elements of monitoring employees’ online behavior is crafting a strong, updated policy for Internet use. Learn how to do that in this SpectorSoft white paper.

• Active Directory Forest Disaster Recovery: What You Don’t Know Will Hurt You

  In this white paper from Quest Software, noted AD expert Gary Olsen provides examples of why forest failures can be so devastating and warns administrators to prepare for them.

• Mitigating the Top 5 Threats to Your Business

  What’s the biggest threat to your business? Would you believe your own employees? Keeping an eye on their activities can save you time, money and lots of trouble. Learn more in this white paper.

• Diskeeper 2011 Professional Edition FREE 30 Day Trialware

  Diskeeper 2011 Professional edition provides essential performance and efficiency increases that all business desktops and laptops need to function productively. Discover more and try now.

• FREE Disk Performance Analyzer for Networks

  What's slowing your network down? Find out fast with powerful, free software that gives you a network-wide at-a-glance view of fragmentation accumulation. Learn more.

• Increasing Efficiency in the IT Environment

  The Condusiv Technologies Corporation flagship product Diskeeper® 2011 data performance technology and V-locity® virtual platform disk optimizer improve performance so significantly that no study of site efficiency is complete without considering their impact.

• 24 Technical Considerations for Selecting a Performance Optimization Solution

  The principal purpose of this white paper is to compare the enterprise-targeted technologies in the Diskeeper® performance software product line with the basic defragmentation solution offered in Windows’ more recent operating system releases. Learn more.

• Condusiv Diskeeper 2011 Server Edition FREE 30 Day Trialware

  Diskeeper 2011 Server edition provides essential performance and efficiency increases for the most powerful systems in a network - the servers. This edition is streamlined from the ground up to focus on fast and efficient performance management of Windows® server operating systems. Learn more.

• V-locity 3 Virtual Platform Disk Optimizer FREE 30 Day Trialware

  Virtual infrastructures must be dynamic, efficient and above all else, fast because they process the most critical company data. But underlying resource use must be optimized or the platform can slow to a crawl. V-locity 3 brings an unprecedented depth of resource awareness and new technology for peak performance in any virtual environment. Try now.

• Backup and Recovery for Microsoft Hyper-V Using Best Practices Planning

  Download this white paper by Brien Posey and learn best practices for backing up Hyper-V. Explore some common "gotchas" that can undermine your disaster recovery initiative. Learn more.

• The Active Directory Management Personality Quiz

  Test your directory’s attitude and your management maturity with our quick Personality Quiz! Take the quiz today.

• Windows 7 Migration: The Complete Picture

  This eBook examines a different migration strategy for moving your users and their client computers to Windows 7; one that takes a very proactive approach that will result in a faster migration, a more standardized environment, and more productive users. Read on.

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

  This white paper discusses the challenges of native tools and the seven key capabilities that you need so that you can effectively audit Active Directory. Read on.

• The Definitive Guide to Logon Script Replacement

  Logon scripts have definitely outstayed their welcome. From the days of simply managing a network drive or two, too many logon scripts have grown into complex, difficult-to-manage beasts that tackle all kinds of tasks that don't seem possible otherwise. But they are possible. Read on.

• The Server Security Management Personality Quiz

  With the right tools and techniques, you can stay high, dry, and efficient – test your server security management maturity with this personality quiz, and see how you rate!

• Crystal Ball: The Future of SharePoint

  Join us for a panel discussion with industry experts where we’ll talk about what it takes to make SharePoint and your content future-ready. Watch now.

• ESG Product Brief: Quest vRanger 5.3 brings Enterprise Class VMware Protection to SMB’s

  In this white paper learn how virtualization impacts SMBs, and strategies for enterprise-class VMware protection. Learn more.

• Optimizing Offsite Disaster Recovery with Virtual WAN Op

  In this white paper learn why one of the world’s largest media companies chose Silver Peak virtual WAN Optimization for their cross country replication challenges including an on-demand media database requiring 7 x24 access. Read more.

• Five Ways to Optimize Offsite Storage and Business Continuity: A WAN Optimization Primer for Storage Professionals

  Supported by results from specific case studies, this white paper shows how you can finally meet your recovery objectives, provide seamless failover between multiple sites, improve remote application performance, and lower your ongoing bandwidth costs in WAN optimization. Learn more.

• Virtualization Changes Everything: Enter the vWOC

  From the data center to the branch, virtualization is enabling a revolution in how WAN optimization is acquired and deployed. In this white paper noted author Jim Metzler reports on the emergence of vWOCs, or virtual WAN Optimization Controllers. Learn more.

• Dissolving Distance: Silver Peak’s Technology Overview

  What is the secret sauce of WAN Optimization (WAN Op)? First time users are always amazed at the performance results. Long time users know they risk the wrath of their colleagues if they take it out. Read this white paper now and see what makes it such a special tool. Learn more.

• Silver Peak: A Foundation for Universal WAN Optimization

  In this white paper learn how Silver Peak’s open architecture dynamically leverages the performance of standard CPUs, general-purpose hardware, and standard hypervisors to provide customers the most comprehensive options for deploying WAN optimization on any platform. Learn more.

• Silver Peak’s Advantages in a Disaster Recovery Environment

  Why do industry analysts agree Silver Peak is the WAN Optimization vendor of choice for offsite data replication? It starts with a unique, next generation architecture. Conceived from the ground up to optimize all IP applications, regardless of transport protocol or application version. Learn more and read on.

• 3 Tips for Surviving a Software Audit with SCCM

  In this white paper learn how to take the frustration out of your internal and external audits and how a solid configuration management solution can be a blessing in disguise. Learn more.

• Simplify User-Centric Application Management

  Today's organizations are facing a new workforce, one that uses computing devices in all parts of life, not just work. This white paper focuses on how to accelerate the transition to this new model. Learn more.

• Spector 360 - Free Software Download

  Spector 360 is User Activity Monitoring software that monitors and records user and user group activity including email sent and received, chat/IM, websites visited, applications/programs accessed, web searches, file transfers, and data printed/saved to removable devices. Try it now.

• Active Directory Security Challenges...Solved

  As your business grows, so do the Active Directory security challenges. In this white paper, see how to deliver high IT service levels and a secure Active Directory environment. Learn more.

• Reaching the Tipping Point for Two Factor Authentication

  In this white paper, learn to make an informed decision when adopting two-factor authentication for your company. Be ready when two-factor authentication becomes the norm. Read it today.

• Integrate Active Directory with Linux, Unix and Macs

  This white paper helps you select the best Active Directory Bridge solution for your company. Read it today and enable your Unix, Linux and Mac systems to coexist with your Windows infrastructure.

• The Right Way to Prove Identity & Establish Trust

  In this white paper, see why two-factor authentication is superior for proving identity and establishing trust, and what you must consider when selecting a two-factor authentication solution. Learn more.

• The 12 Essential Tasks of AD Domain Services

  In this white paper, learn 12 essential Active Directory tasks. Then, see how you can reduce workload through automation, proper management and administration tools. Learn more.

• LiteSpeed for SQL Server

  LiteSpeed for SQL Server delivers expanded tuning capabilities, high-performance compression and more, saving time and money right now. Download your free trial today.

• Office 365 Migration For Dummies!

  In this limited edition book from Quest Software, get the information you need for a successful and secure migration to Office 365. Get your copy today.

• Quest vRanger Trial

  When disaster strikes don’t waste hours and dollars recovering critical data. vRanger delivers blazing-fast speed and granular recovery for your VMware applications and data. Get your free trial today.

• Virtualization Data Protection Report 2011

  Read this year's Virtualization Data Protection Report and learn how disaster recovery is actually becoming even more difficult and as a result, tougher decisions must be taken around what is deemed as truly business critical. Learn more.

• IDC: Data Protection and Recovery for Physical and Virtual Environments

  Backup and recovery supporting a tiered-recovery model? This IDC Analyst Report examines the advancements in today's data protection technologies, and a backup/recovery solution that works across physical, virtual and cloud environments. Read on.

• Cornerstone Community Bank Cuts Replication Time by 70 Percent

  In this white paper see how vRanger helped Cornerstone Bancshares, Inc. cut replication time from days to minutes and how this translated to real time and money savings. Read more.

• Veeam Backup & Replication 6.0

  In this white paper find out how you can develop a backup strategy for mixed virtual infrastructures like VMware vSphere and/or Microsoft Hyper-V. Learn more and read on.

• Introduction to Flash Memory for IT Professionals

  This white paper explains the fundamentals of flash operation in a short and easy to understand format. Read on.

• The Challenges with SSD Caching and Tiering

  Read this white paper by George Crump, Senior Analyst at Storage Switzerland, to learn about the trade-offs for caching, tiering and all flash storage arrays. Read more.

• Can Flash Storage Prevent Server Virtualization Stall?

  Learn how flash memory impacts server virtualization in this white paper by George Crump, Senior Analyst at Storage Switzerland. Read on.

• How Flash Changes Everything

  Read this white paper to learn how you can take flash memory, which is inherently faster and more tolerant of random IO than mechanical disk, and also make it affordable. Learn more.

• The Impact of VMware and Hyper-V Snapshots on Backup Technology

  In this white paper gain a better understanding of the key differences and read about supporting multiple hypervisors and bridging the gap with Veeam Backup and Replication.

• Actionable SCCM Information is the Key to a Successful Windows 7 Migration

  Not only is Windows 7 here, but a new version is just around the corner. Those old Windows XP machines are in desperate need of an upgrade in order to remain secure, supported, and functional not to mention compatible with new applications and services. Learn more and read now.

• Active Directory Change Auditing

  This white paper will help you learn all about Active Directory change auditing. You will see why it is important based on real-life examples. Read more.

• File Auditing in the Enterprise

  Data housed in an organization's servers and storage devices contain massive amounts of information. This white paper explains why file auditing is important and describes required file auditing features. Learn more.

• ProductScope In-Depth Study: NetWrix Change Reporter Suite

  The paper analyzes in what way NetWrix Change Auditing Solution offers a different approach from native logging and how it addresses auditing challenges, including log consolidation, event gathering, log security, reporting, and more. Read on.

• 5 Ways to Make Your SCCM Data Work Harder

  If you’re trying to get a detailed inventory of your environment, Microsoft System Center Configuration Manager (SCCM) may not provide enough critical data. Learn five scenarios where SCCM is missing critical data and what you can do. Learn more.

• Best Practices for Monitoring VMware with SCOM

  Download this white paper and discover the 6 key concepts to get the most out of VMware vSphere and Microsoft System Center Operations Manager. Learn more.

• Backup and Replication v6 Data Sheet

  In this white paper learn how Veeam Backup & Replication for Hyper-V provides fast, flexible and efficient recovery of virtualized applications and data. Read on.

• The Impact of VMware and Hyper-V Snapshots on Backup Technology

  Download this white paper to gain a better understanding of the key differences between VMware and Hyper-V snapshot technology. Learn more.

• Faronics Deep Freeze and Anti-Executable and the Los Angeles Police Department

  The second largest Police Department in the nation turns to Faronics for its Layered Security Solution. By combining Anti-Executable and Deep Freeze, IT staff have substantially lowered their IT costs. Read more.

• Three Things That Will Break Your Windows 7 (or 8) Migration and How To Avoid Them

  In this white paper learn how to avoid three pitfalls that will break your Windows 7 (or 8) migration and how to avoid them, for a smooth transition. Learn more.

• Windows 7 Migrations: How to Re-Think Your Standard Desktop Image

  In this white paper learn how a Windows 7 migration can help setting up new images, and creating a fresh set up for you standard client configuration. Learn more.

• A Guide to Modern IT Disaster Recovery

  This white paper provides insight and advice on how to build an effective disaster recovery strategy in the evolving world of virtual infrastructures, while mitigating the impact of so-called 'Black Swan' events in the datacenter. Practical, how-to best practices, real customer success testimonials and links to additional resources. Read more.

• Top 6 LiteSpeed® Features DBA's Should Know About

  LiteSpeed’s™ SQL backups are smaller, run faster and are more secure. Learn to get the most from its power, discover six features every DBA should know. Read this white paper now.

• Top 5 Requirements for Backup of Virtual and Physical Servers

  In this white paper Microsoft MVP and VMware vExpert Greg Shields shows you how to ensure guaranteed recoverability across physical as well as virtual infrastructures by taking a different backup perspective. Read more.

• How to Guarantee 100% Recoverability of Your Backup

  In this white paper Storage Switzerland Senior Analyst George Crump shows you that 100% recoverability is possible, and introduces you to the next generation tools and processes that make it so. Read on.

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

  There are new database sizing guidelines for SharePoint 2010. Learn how this guidance marks a shift in how Microsoft looks at SharePoint content and allows you to take advantage of RBS technologies. Learn more.

• Top 10 Best Practices of Windows Server Backup for Virtual and Physical Servers

  Read this white paper by Don Jones, a world renown author, speaker and Microsoft MVP about the top 10 best practices of backing up Microsoft Windows Server on virtual and physical servers. Read on.

• Microsoft Uses LiteSpeed® for SQL Server from Quest Software to Eliminate the Need for Additional Storage

  In this white paper read about Microsoft’s Enterprise Application Services Group, and how using LiteSpeed® increased database backup speed and performance while reducing the storage footprint. Read on.

• Top 12 Best Practices for Virtualizing Active Directory Domain Controllers

  Download this new white paper by Greg Shields, Microsoft MVP and VMware vExpert, and get the 12 best practices that will get you started toward the right configuration and design. Read on.

• The Suite Life of Software and its Impact on Your Windows 7 Migration

  Windows 7 migrations are in progress all over the world, as companies finally start moving off of their venerable Windows XP client computers. Read this white paper and learn how to avoid those troubling issues of trip ups and down time. Read more.

• Protect Your Critical Data For Free

  Time is money, especially when you’re safeguarding the critical data in your virtual environment. That’s why you need vRanger. It’s easy to install, grows with your ever-increasing virtualization needs and is blazing fast. Learn more.

• Active Directory Security Challenges Solved

  In this Quest white paper, learn about native toolset’s limitations, and see how a third-party solution delivers high IT services levels while ensuring Active Directory is safe and secure. Learn more.

• Desktop Modernization eBook

  This eBook looks at the challenges involved in delivering and managing desktops, today and in the future. Its goal is to demonstrate how VMware desktop virtualization can deliver a solution to address the requirements of IT and end-users without compromise.

• Desktop Total Cost of Ownership: 2011 Update

  Declining hardware and software costs have an impact on total cost of ownership. This Gartner white paper illustrates how a higher management level for desktops can achieve lower TCO and improved user productivity.

• Modernizing Application Platforms for Cost-Effective Cloud Readiness: IDC Report

  With increasing challenges and complexity confronting business, application platform modernization is no longer an option. IDC presents a closer look at the structural changes and functionality required in order to successfully evolve to a cloud-ready application platform. Read more.

• vSphere Storage Appliance

  This technical white paper covers the the vSphere Storage Appliance (VSA) architecture, deployment of a VSA cluster, and basic monitoring and management. Read more.

• Putting Windows 7 Migration on the Fast Track

  In this white paper learn how a Windows 7 migration will have a major impact on all aspects of your enterprise and it’s critical to gain complete visibility into your infrastructure to ensure a smooth and cost effective upgrade to Windows 7. Learn more.

• VMware and Microsoft VSS: What You Need to Know

  Download this new white paper by Microsoft MVP and vExpert Greg Shields and discover how VMware and Microsoft VSS work in a virtualized environment. Learn more.

• Mine the Gold in Microsoft SCCM Asset Data

  This white paper explores how IT managers and executives can quickly and reliably access actionable information on their IT infrastructure to make informed, rational decisions. Learn more.

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