White Papers
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
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 Security Management
Valuable information you need to protect and preserve your network, your data and the life of your business.
IT/Business Alignment
Strategies to more closely align the functionality of IT with a company’s business objectives.
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.
Hot White Papers
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Success Story: Grant Thornton LLP
Grant Thornton needed to reduce computer loss rates and streamline IT asset management across 49 offices. Find out how they did it.
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Preventing Data Corruption in the Event of an Extended Power Outage
This white paper discusses various power management software configurations, and presents best practices aimed at ensuring system uptime.
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Buyer's Guide for Enterprise Single Sign-On
This white paper offers a thorough checklist that should enable potential ESSO implementers to deploy the right ESSO solution, to help eliminate sign-on problems, reduce helpdesk costs, maximize user productivity, strengthen security, simplify administration and accelerate regulatory compliance.
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Success Story: Deliver an Improved Buying Experience with Managed IT Services
Read this case study to learn how ONE-EIGHTY CORP was able to further leverage its SaaS automobile dealer management solution's success by utilizing managed IT services as a strategic advantage.
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Not All Malware Detection Is Created Equal
The Internet is now the number-one conduit for infecting users with malware. This white paper outlines the terms you need to know and the steps you should take to stay safe.
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Extreme Savings: Cutting Costs with WAN Optimization
Download this white paper on cost-savings through WAN optimization and discover how businesses of all different sizes have realized a return on investment in just a few months through significant hard cost savings in areas such as bandwidth reduction and IT consolidation.
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Application Server Choices: Important Considerations in Selecting an Application Server
This white paper examines the role of the application server, reviews some of the more notable offerings available, and suggests which criteria and considerations are most important in the selection process.
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Tape Fallacies Exposed — The Future of Tape Is Still Bright
Tape isn't going away anytime soon. This Mesabi Group white paper sheds light on the most common misperceptions about tape-based storage.
Hot Topics
From the Resource Centers
- Network Optimization
- Greening IT with Server Consolidation
- Cost-Effective Business Software
- Data Warehousing for Business Intelligence
- Enterprise Manager
- Virtual Workforce
- Service Oriented Architecture (SOA)
- Business Intelligence
- Database Management
- Tape Storage
- Data Center Management
- Decision Management
- Applications for Mid-size Businesses
- Application Grid
- Mobile Management
Disk and Tape Square Off Again: Tape Remains King of the Hill with LTO-4
This technology bulletin examines a 5-year TCO study of disk versus tape for long term data storage.
Benefits of Oracle Database 11g
Learn about some of our customers' favorite new features of Oracle Database 11g Release 2. Find out why this latest release is leaps and bounds better than Oracle Database 10g Release 2.
Matching Server Virtualization with Advanced Storage Virtualization
Read this white paper to learn how the combination of a clustered iSCSI SAN solution with VMware Infrastructure 3 provides availability, reduced complexity, and even better ease of use.
From the Greening IT with Server Consolidation Resource Center >
In Search of Clarity: Unraveling the Complexities of Executive Decision-Making
Read this research report from the Economist Intelligence Unit to learn how senior executives in different regions make decisions for their companies.