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IT Business Edge works with our vendor partners to provide informative white papers, sponsored research and webcasts on a wide variety of important business technology topics.
We feature these valuable IT resources in our topical Resource Centers, where they appear alongside our own exclusive IT blog entries and Executive Briefing interviews, as well as related news, commentary, and product reviews from across the Web.

In the Resource Centers you’ll find white papers and research on issues related to emerging computer technology, business communications management, in-depth TCO analysis of different technologies and strategies, open source systems, datacenter best practices, and virtualization solutions. The specific topics with their own dedicated Resource Centers include SOA solutions, IT offshoring benefits, SaaS, VoIP systems, and Sarbox compliance.

Key White Paper Topics

Application Management
Best practices and cutting-edge technology to manage the tools that make an efficient business day possible.

Budget Management
Budget allocation and cost-containment strategies to balance optimum IT efficiency with maximum business success.

Business Continuity
Ensuring your company's ongoing success with strategies for disaster recovery and 24x7 availability of your data.

Business Intelligence Strategies
The right information to the right people at the right time for informed business decisions.

Compliance
Industry best practices and success stories for meeting federal and marketplace-related regulations and requirements.

Data Management
Tips, technologies and best practices to safeguard and leverage the most from your indispensable intellectual assets.

Infrastructure Management
What you need to know to take care of your business-critical hardware.

IT/Business Alignment
Strategies to more closely align the functionality of IT with a company’s business objectives.

IT Security Management
Valuable information you need to protect and preserve your network, your data and the life of your business.

Server Consolidation/Virtualization
New breakthroughs for both application and storage servers.

VoIP and Telephony
Improving the flow of information to the parties that need it most, while reducing the TCO burden.

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End User Monitoring

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Risk Management

Security Auditing

Service Oriented Architecture

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:: HOT WHITE PAPERS ::

Five Business Strategies for Reducing the High Cost of Online Consumer Authentication
In deploying a two-factor consumer authentication solution, organizations must continually balance cost, complexity, risk, and user convenience. This white paper discusses strategies to address these considerations while helping reduce the high cost of two-factor authentication.

Reducing Desktop Power Consumption: How IT and Facilities Can Both Win
This white paper examines the ways in which a power consumption regulator solution can help companies meet their environmental objectives, and focuses on three areas: energy consumption, design features, and funding options.

Guide to PCI Compliance for Web Applications
Section 6.6 of the PCI DSS, covering web application security, will become a requirement on June 30, 2008. This white paper will help you to decide which application-layer firewall solution is right for your organization.

Service-Based Approaches to Improving Data Center Efficiences

Service-Based Approaches to Improving Data Center Efficiencies
This white paper discusses ways to improve data center cooling efficiencies to lower operating costs, increase capacity, and improve reliability.

Microsoft Dynamics® CRM Online
Watch this informative Webcast, as senior Microsoft management team members discuss the capabilities and benefits of the newest release of Microsoft Dynamic® CRM Online.

Top Ten Things to Know About Data Protection
According to the 2006 CSI/FBI Computer Crime and Security Survey, 46% of companies reported a laptop loss or theft. This white paper outlines the top 10 things you should know about data protection.

A Structured Approach to Service Lifecycle Management
This white paper presents a few of the salient highlights of EMA's structural vision as a basis for interpreting the more significant dimensions of an innovative business technology optimization portfolio.

The Forrester Wave™: Service Desk Management Tools, Q2 2008
In this report, Forrester evaluates the strengths and weaknesses of 13 service desk management tool vendors and proposes which vendors should be on the short list for large enterprises in search of full ITSM capabilities.

Operationalizing Compliance Through Business Service Automation
This white paper provides IT executives and staff with key considerations and best practices for reducing risk and improving compliance visibility across the IT service life cycle, along with insight into how aligning automation, change management, and configuration management can establish compliance as a procedure across the enterprise.