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

Comprehensive SMB Data Protection — Simplifying the D2D2T Paradigm

This white paper looks at the problems confronting IT managers in the SMB segment, describes a number of data protection technologies, and suggests data protection strategies that are particularly suited for small and medium business.

Oracle Data Guard with Oracle Database 11g Release 2

Read this white paper to learn about a unique data protection and recovery solution that creates synchronized standby databases that protect data from failures, disasters, errors, and corruptions, addressing both high availability and disaster recovery requirements.

Model-Driven Systems Development — Delivering Innovation with Demonstrable Business Value

Read this white paper to learn how model-driven systems development can help you deliver complex systems more quickly, while providing a structured and visual approach for collaborative systems design and development.

Examining Business Resiliency Management Best Practices

Read this white paper and learn to effectively manage people, process, and technology within a business resilience strategy.

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.

HP SiteScope Software Security Essentials

This white paper outlines how an agentless monitoring solution can securely transmit data and restrict access to satisfy even the most demanding security officer.

Data in Action: Making the Planet Smarter

Attend this virtual conference to learn more about today's enterprise data management challenges. View the featured webcasts, visit the solution pavilion, get questions answered, download collateral — all without leaving your desk!

Three Things You May Not Know about HP SiteScope

Access this webinar to learn three interesting ways to use HP SiteScope that can lower your IT cost for managing IT environments and is flexible to meet the needs of your changing IT 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 >

Power and Cooling Capacity Management for Data Centers

The ability to measure and predict power and cooling capability at the rack enclosure level is required to ensure predictable performance and optimize use of the physical infrastructure resource. This white paper describes the principles for achieving power and cooling capacity management.

From the Data Center Management 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.

From the Business Intelligence Resource Center >

Maximizing Customer Value with Oracle Business Intelligence (BI) Applications

This technology brief highlights how BI applications can integrate information across data sources and departments, provide a single, integrated view of customer and enterprise information, and enable greater alignment of decisions and execution to drive higher customer profitability and share of wallet.

From the Data Warehousing for Business Intelligence Resource Center >