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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Performance Under Pressure: The State of Enterprise Web Application Quality and Availability
This research study finds that Web application issues are an all-too-common problem and examines these Web-based enterprise application issues from two perspectives: that of an online customer and that of a site manager.
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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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Disarm the Threat of Identity Theft
This white paper outlines the costs associated with fraud and money laundering, the role of identity resolution in detecting these activities, and explores a software-based solution that searches and matches identity data to minimize these threats.
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Cost-Effective Security and Compliance with Oracle Database 11g Release 2
This white paper examines the defense-in-depth security controls within Oracle Database 11g Release 2 that enable organizations to transparently protect data.
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New Data Protection Strategies
This white paper discusses how continuous data protection (CDP) can cost-effectively improve data security with minimal impact to business.
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Turning Cost Centers into Dynamic Technology Assets
This white paper discusses how to build a personalized IT plan that embraces data center projects and technology initiatives related to consolidation, along with the initial steps needed to transform your data center into an adaptive infrastructure.
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A Greener Data Center with IBM Tivoli Software
This white paper describes the critical importance of managing energy consumption in data centers, along with insights and solutions that organizations can use to optimize their data center and facility energy requirements while maintaining service levels.
Hot Topics
From the Resource Centers
- Greening IT with Server Consolidation
- Cost Cutting through Server Consolidation
- Laptop Security
- Enterprise Manager
- Data Center Management
- Security SaaS Solutions
- Responding to Change
- Applications for Mid-size Businesses
- Tablet PCs
- Security Information and Event Management
- Data Loss Protection
- Service Oriented Architecture (SOA)
- Data Deduplication
- Power Supply Solutions
- Energy Efficiency
- Data Warehousing for Business Intelligence
- Decision Management
- Application Grid
- Network Optimization
- Business Intelligence
- Tape Storage
- Virtualization & Business Continuity
- Information Management
- Optimized Infrastructure
- Data Management
- Mobile Computing Optimization
- Data Management Solutions
SiliconFS: The BlueArc File System
This white paper examines how a unique file system approach delivers the performance and scalability benefits of a SAN with the ease of management and client neutrality of NAS, all in one unified solution.
Endpoint Security: When Encryption Isn't Enough
Missing laptops and digital devices continue to be the number one cause of data breaches. This white paper provides a case for endpoint security solutions that remain effective regardless of user reliability.
The Daily Fuel: Powerful Business Solutions
Visit the Daily Fuel coffee shop to learn more about how tablet computers and other powerful IT solutions can significantly improve your competitive advantage, mobility options, organizational productivity, and so much more.
Virtualization: Optimized Power and Cooling to Maximize Benefits
This white paper describes how the latest power and cooling systems not only provide effective support for a virtualized environment, but also efficient support — significantly leveraging the IT-layer efficiency gains that are the signature benefit of virtualization.