February 2010 - (Free Research) Software developers write code to power applications that drive today's businesses. Whether you are looking at ubiquitous applications such as Microsoft Word or your own in-house software, chances are that they are not very WAN-friendly. The focus of this paper is to highlight the TCP protocol's shortcomings for WAN transmission purposes.
September 2009 - (Free Research) Increased adoption of VMware infrastructure and continued performance advances in hardware and software have driven the virtualization of Microsoft Exchange. This paper will detail experiments that demonstrate the efficient performance and scalability of Exchange when running inside a virtual machine on a VMware vSphere™ 4 environment.
March 2010 - (Free Research) Qualys provides the most reliable and cost-effective way for you to audit your network security. CORE IMPACT Pro offers comprehensive, automated penetration testing across web applications, network systems, endpoints, end users and wireless networks.
August 2009 - (Free Research) Read this paper to find out how Instantis managed to accommodate rapid customer growth, deliver outstanding performance, ensure “five-nines” availability for customers around the globe, cut ongoing IT costs, and reduce the environmental footprint of data center operations through reduced energy consumption.
March 2009 - (Free Research) Yesterday's virus is today's custom malware, while denial of service attacks has been replaced with botnets. This paper examines the history of attacks of malware and the defenses needed to counter these attacks.
April 2009 - (Free Research) Mission-critical data processing relies in large part on the automated initiation, execution, management, integration, and recovery of batch-mode IT processing. Read about BMC Software's solution that integrates their batch process automation solution, BMC CONTROL M, with their CMDB solution, BMC Atrium.
October 2008 - (Free Research) This paper explains ITIL by describing its benefits, where it comes from, why you need to know about it, which types of IT organization can benefit from using it, and how to get started.
September 2009 - (Free Research) This Hurwitz and Associates whitepaper shares the successes, challenges and future plans of three companies - Sogeti Group, Accident Compensation Corporation (ACC), and Scotiabank.
June 2009 - (Free Research) The experiences of BPM leaders have created, for CIOs just beginning the implementation process, a road map to success: improved business and IT communication, an overall refresh of roles and responsibilities and greater process flexibility - those that do BPM right reap the ultimate reward of business innovation: competitive advantage.
August 2008 - (Free Research) The benefits of Agile methods are becoming more obvious and compelling. While the most popular practices were developed and proven in small team environments, the interest and need for using Agile in the enterprise is growing rapidly...
June 2010 - (Free Research) Now is the time to start evaluating your IT infrastructure and the role private or public cloud services might play for your company going forward. This white paper discusses the promise of cloud computing as well as the three types of cloud services and primary deployment models.
July 2010 - (Free Research) The industry has preached the need for software security and secure coding for several years now. After all, if software is designed securely from the start, it means fewer problems down the road. Read this paper now to learn more.
November 2009 - (Free Research) Organizations must now implement a secure user authentication system, which includes two-factor authentication, as a means to secure these remote connections to sensitive network resources and applications.
February 2010 - (Free Research) Read this paper by Global Knowledge instructor, John Hales, to learn how to build a home lab for VMware vSphere for study. This paper is broken down into three major sections; the first and most detailed is about the hardware required, the second is about the Workstation configuration, and the third is about installing vSphere and Virtual Center.
September 2009 - (Free Research) Core Security presents a special webcast briefing where John Gilligan and Alan Paller, two principal contributors to the CAG, will provide their insights into how you can best approach the guidelines. This one-hour webcast will include a Q&A session, with answers to your questions about understanding and implementing the various CAG controls.
June 2009 - (Free Research) This white paper looks at the top three reasons that CRM initiatives fail to achieve their goals and provides clear, practical recommendations for ensuring that your CRM initiative avoids these pitfalls and delivers desired returns.
February 2009 - (Free Research) This paper explains how, Customer Relationship Management (CRM) is first and foremost a strategy. This guide provides insight to help you take a more customer-centric view of your business.
February 2009 - (Free Research) This white paper provides core principles companies can use to help them select a CRM system that each sales user feels was built just for them.
February 2009 - (Free Research) This paper explores core principles companies can use to help them select a CRM system that each customer service user, from executive management on down, feels was built just for them.
April 2010 - (Free Research) Reliability and availability, data protection, performance, and scalability are all essential characteristics of a database management system. This paper looks at each one of those characteristics in detail and offers an implementation guide for SMBs that require a highly reliable database environment.
December 2009 - (Free Research) Microsoft Office SharePoint Server (MOSS) 2007 is one of Microsoft's fastest growing server products. In this document, we describe the implementation and best practices for virtualizing a typical medium-sized MOSS 2007 intranet farm deployment.
March 2010 - (Free Research) Read this paper for information on the project management office (PMO), the department or group that defines and maintains the standards of process, generally related to project management, within the organisation. This paper offers details and results from research conducted about PMO position in organizations and its value.
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