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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

New Data Protection Strategies

This white paper discusses how continuous data protection (CDP) can cost-effectively improve data security with minimal impact to business.

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.

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.

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.

From the Data Management Solutions Resource Center >

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.

From the Laptop Security Resource Center >

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.

From the Tablet PCs Resource Center >

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.

From the Data Center Management Resource Center >