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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Software Forum: Information On Demand Virtual Experience
This interactive virtual forum presents leading IT experts providing the insights you need to turn your information into a strategic driver for innovation, business optimization and competitive differentiation.

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Lowering Your IT Costs with Oracle Database 11g Release 2
This white paper identifies the key capabilities a database management solution needs to successfully deliver more information with higher quality of service, make more efficient use of IT budgets, and reduce the risk of change in data centers.

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Managing and Auditing IT Vulnerabilities
This guide recommends specific management practices to help an organization achieve and sustain higher levels of effectiveness and efficiency and illustrates the differences between high- and low-performing vulnerability management efforts.

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Essentials for Smooth High Availability Operations
This research note examines the steps and components of HA data center creation, starting with the business requirements and then moving to the elements of software, servers, networking, and Internet connectivity.

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VMware Infrastructure: A Guide to Bottom-Line Benefits
Whether you're preparing a disaster recovery plan or simply trying to save money and avoid server sprawl, virtualization is the key to achieving your goal. Read this white paper to learn more now.

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Next-Generation Secure Web Gateway: Trends and Requirements
Read this study to understand how various factors and trends — including Web 2.0 usage, changing business requirements on the Web, and the prevalence of remote workers — impact users' views on and requirements of Web filtering technologies.

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Web Security SaaS: The Next Generation of Web Security
This white paper describes the next generation of Web security and identifies the critical elements that make for lower-cost and easier-to-manage Web security solutions.

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CRM without Compromise: A Strategy for Profitable Growth
Learn how organizations can maximize their results by taking a more structured, holistic approach to CRM across the enterprise to promote sustainable, profitable growth.
Hot Topics
From the Resource Centers
- Power Supply Solutions
- Energy Efficiency
- Cost Cutting through Server Consolidation
- Mobile Computing Optimization
- Business Intelligence
- Data Management Solutions
- Tape Storage
- Service Oriented Architecture (SOA)
- Security SaaS Solutions
- Optimized Infrastructure
- Responding to Change
- Application Grid
- Greening IT with Server Consolidation
- Laptop Security
- Enterprise Manager
- Security Information and Event Management
- Data Center Management
- Information Management
- Data Management
- Data Deduplication
- Decision Management
- Data Loss Protection
- Applications for Mid-size Businesses
- Tablet PCs
- Virtualization & Business Continuity
- Network Optimization
- Data Warehousing for Business Intelligence

Choosing a Standard for BI and Reporting: Simplify the IT Environment, Reduce Your TCO, Increase Your ROI
Read this white paper to learn how the right BI solution lets business users move among capabilities in a guided way, get the answers they seek, and collaborate while giving IT complete control over the BI environment.

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 >

ABCs of RFID: Understanding and Using Radio Frequency Identification
This white paper provides an overview of RFID technology and capabilities, identifies major standards, and introduces ways to take advantage of RFID to improve convenience, accuracy, safety and security.

Realizing Enhanced Productivity and Timely ROI from Your DLP Security Technology
Read this white paper to learn how using data loss prevention (DLP) technology will allow your organization to reduce the proliferation of sensitive data and enable your business operation to improve its data protection controls.