White Papers, Events, and Resources
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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Platform-as-a-Service Private Cloud with Oracle Fusion Middleware
Download this white paper to learn how platform-as-a-service private cloud offers enterprises one of the best ways to take advantage of cloud computing.
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Try Office 365 for Free for 30 Days
Office 365 bundles familiar Microsoft Office collaboration and productivity tools and delivers them through the cloud. Take Office 365 out for a spin in this 30-day free trial and see how it helps your team work together. Test-drive it today!
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The Social CRM Playbook
This white paper provides an outline of the broad steps you should take in building a social CRM strategy and an overview of how you can pair that strategy with technology to enable your business to practice real social CRM.
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Preventing Data Corruption in the Event of an Extended Power Outage
This paper explains that the small effort involved in installing and configuring such software can be well worth it in the event of an extended power outage that exceeds the runtime of the UPS.
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Driving Down Enterprise Storage TCO with the IBM XIV Storage System
Read this white paper to find out how the XIV system's unique architecture and approach to storage enable it to accomplish a better bottom line for you and your business.
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TDWI Checklist Report - Consolidating Data Warehousing on a Private Cloud
This TDWI Research checklist report makes a case for private database clouds, especially as a platform for consolidated business intelligence and data warehousing applications.
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Information Integration: Effective Data Governance at the Speed of Business
In this webcast, join experts from IBM as they discuss information-intensive solutions that enable comprehensive data discovery and delivery to leverage information assets and better align IT with the needs of the business.
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Security as a Service: Business Decision Factors
This white paper reviews the business value of IT security, illustrates the business case for security-as-a-service (SaaS) over "do it yourself" premise-based solutions, and outlines what to look for in SaaS solutions you can adopt with confidence and count on as you grow.
Hot Topics
From the Resource Centers
- Human Capital Management
- Application Infrastructure
- Business Intelligence for Business People
- Cloud-connected Storage Services
- Converged Storage Solutions
- Database Management
- Enterprise Servers
- Data Warehousing
- Data Center Build-or-Buy Decision
- NAS & SAN Storage
- Server Management
- Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA)
- Enterprise Manager
- Tape and Archive Storage
- CRM
- Data Center Management
- Cloud Computing
The Data Center Build-or-Buy Decision: 6 Key Factors You Should Consider
This executive report will review six key factors that affect the data center "build or buy" choice, including those which extend beyond a basic TCO analysis.
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Strategies for Solving the Datacenter Space, Power, and Cooling Crunch: Sun Server and Storage Optimization Techniques
Read this white paper to learn about the range of technologies that can help you drive more efficiency in your datacenter.
TDWI Checklist Report - Consolidating Data Warehousing on a Private Cloud
This TDWI Research checklist report makes a case for private database clouds, especially as a platform for consolidated business intelligence and data warehousing applications.
10 Ways to Stretch Your Storage Budgets in Virtualized, Consolidated Environments
Increasingly, organizations are turning to storage consolidation for virtualized server environments in order to reduce data center costs and inefficiencies. Read this white paper to learn 10 ways to make your storage budget last.
