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Exploring the Universe of SQL Server 2008 Opportunities
A Partner's Guide to SQL Server 2008
With the release of SQL Server 2008 this year, Microsoft added features to nearly every functional area of its flagship database and opened up entirely new categories of capabilities. In this editorial special report, Redmond Channel Partner magazine lays out the new business opportunities for partners in the 2008 release of SQL Server.
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Storage Virtualization and the HP StorageWorks Enterprise Virtual Array
This white paper presents an overview of storage virtualization at the controller level of a storage system. Virtualization technology allows companies to respond quickly to ever-changing storage capacity requirements. Virtualization has multiple definitions and many different implementations in a storage area network (SAN). This document describes how HP defines virtualization technology and how it applies to the HP StorageWorks Enterprise Virtual Array (EVA) storage system.
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Total Cost of Ownership White Paper: EMC, NetApp, and HP Midrange Storage Arrays
Read about a variety of disaster tolerant reference architectures for various operating systems -- all with the HP Integrity server as the foundation. In each case, whether for HP-UX 11i, HP OpenVMS, Linux or Windows, learn how the architectures are built out from a basic high-availability environment all the way to an extreme wide-area disaster tolerant configuration.
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Enterprise IP PBX Buyers Guide: Features and Services That Matter
Learn the critical features and differentiators for Enterprise Class IP PBXs and the issues you should consider during your decision-making process. Download this Buyer's Guide now to get started with your research and evaluation of IP PBX Systems.
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Five Ways to Ensure Your Virtualization Initiatives Effectively Support Applications and End Users
Do you want to get benefits from virtualization without sacrificing application performance and end user satisfaction? The purpose of this white paper is to help application owners, operations managers and data center managers to better understand virtualization initiatives, and how they effectively support applications and end users.
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Enhancing Operational Recovery with TimeData CDP
This white paper addresses the current challenges for operational recovery and introduces a fast and efficient software-based Continuous Data Protection (CDP) product, TimeData™, which allows companies to easily recover their data from any point in time.
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Protecting Microsoft Exchange
While it was once just a convenient way for employees to communicate internally, today e-mail systems like Exchange are tightly integrated with other business applications and are one of the primary methods for communicating with current and prospective customers. Protecting Exchange against costly downtime has become a top priority for more IT departments. So how do you ensure that your Exchange environment is always protected?
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Windows Server Multi-Site Clustering with GeoCluster
Microsoft Windows Server 2008 includes new features that provide significant improvements for managing clusters in multi-site architectures. However, improvements to failover clustering do not yet provide a way to replicate the shared data used by a cluster which is truly the "last mile" in terms of building multi-site cluster architectures. GeoCluster provides a way to efficiently replicate these data changes and allow cluster nodes to quickly restore application services after a failure.
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Fixing the Pain in Fax and Mail Automation
Discover the hard return in automating these time-intensive tasks.
Paper-based mediums such as faxing and distributed mail are still key components in today's networked business environment. Read how fax and mail automation can save your business time, money and hassles.
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U.S. Data Centers: The Calm Before the Storm
According to Gartner, the majority of existing data centers in the United States have not been designed to handle future energy demands. Strategic decisions, including the implementation of virtualization, must be made quickly. This research outlines why energy and floor space constraints will cause considerable disruption to U.S. data centers during the next three years.
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How IT Management Can "Green" the Data Center
An independent report from Gartner
Data centers consume large amounts of energy so it is imperative that IT management establishes energy efficiency goals and an integrated approach to energy-saving initiatives. This Gartner research provides IT managers with an outline of the trends affecting data centers and offers strategies with which to address these changes.
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HP StorageWorks Virtualization
The term "storage virtualization" is in broad use, but it can mean many things. This paper describes some of the basic concepts, technologies and implementations that are included under the virtualization umbrella. It also looks at an Extensible Storage Virtualization Stack that models the HP view of storage virtualization.
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Protecting (You and) Your Data with Exchange Server 2007
by Microsoft Exchange MVP, Steve Bryant
In this white paper, Steve shows you the bare and necessary facts you should know to proactively maintain your Exchange Server 2007 environment. In addition to providing critical strategies for predicting and responding to failures, he offers useful information for implementing proactive measures to ensure that your investment is well protected.
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Microsoft Partner Sales Resources
Use Partner Sales Resources to find sales resources such as assessments, value tools, demos, evidence and implementation resources aligned to small, midmarket and enterprise customer segments across technologies aligned to the IO model and a value-based sales process. Finding and using these resources efficiently will help accelerate your customer sales engagements.
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Leveraging Web 2.0 Securely
How small and mid-sized business can minimize risk and benefit from Web 2.0 technologies.
The core of Web 2.0 is built on a foundation of open collaboration and communication that blur network boundaries and increase risk. Learn about the risks involved and the steps you should take to eliminate or mitigate the security threats.
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Security Beyond Corporate Boundaries
Ironclad security in and out of corporate boundaries.
This exclusive guide shows you how delivering data from the datacenter improves security, gives you granular control of user access privileges and streamlines compliance.
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The End of Application Deployment
Secure and manage delivery of mission critical business applications.
Learn how to reduce the cost of delivering them anywhere, on any network or device. Increase security and performance.
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Virtualizing Microsoft Exchange Server 2007: Building a Better Platform with VMware Infrastructure 3
Today's messaging environments must be highly available, disaster tolerant, and cost efficient. Download this white paper based on real customer experiences running Microsoft® Exchange on virtual machines. Specific use cases demonstrate advantages of deploying Exchange on a VMware platform. Exchange administrators who read this white paper will learn how to simplify disaster recovery and decrease downtime and more!
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Combining Deduplication and VMware Disaster Recovery: Cascading Savings Improves Cost Effectiveness
The shift from physical servers to consolidated, virtualized server infrastructures has had undeniable IT benefits. However, the rapid move to VMware has caused traditional approaches to disaster recovery (DR) to become outmoded and added a layer of complexity to DR implementation.
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Like Stealing Candy: Recent Security Threats Leave Passwords in the Open
The mobile workforce has become a reality and the ubiquitousness of the Internet is fueling more cost effective remote solutions, the security perimeter is anywhere your employees can hang their hats. Although the latest remote access solutions give us a unique way to access our networks and applications -- these solutions can inadvertently provide hackers a portal to your entire network if the security features are compromised. Read how to add another layer of security and thwart the attacks.
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Business Savvy Continuity Planning
Presenting the business value of planning is more than explaining the details of the plan in terms and language that management understands. It requires a thorough-going effort to demonstrate "business-savvy" during strategy design and implementation. This paper suggests sound guidelines for fulfilling the continuity planning objective in a cost-effective way.
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Get In The Groove with SQL Server Consolidation
Is your business a victim of SQL Server sprawl? In Quest's white paper, "Get in the Groove With SQL Server Consolidation," learn how consolidation is key for multiple SQL Server implementations, and how to prepare and plan for your consolidation.
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Realizing the Value of Unified Communications
How information goes to work.
Microsoft and EMC are spearheading a technology and services effort to help businesses realize the benefits of unified messaging. Learn how you get better employee productivity, faster decision-making and more efficient IT administration with Unified Communications.
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Top Hosted PBX Phone Systems Comparison Guide
Compare Top Hosted PBX Phone Systems From Vendors like Aptela, Packet8 and Covad! Research the leading hosted PBX systems from major vendors and compare the features and services that are important to you.
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Compare Hosted PBX Systems for Small and Medium Businesses
Discover the critical features and services that your small or medium business needs in a new hosted phone system.
This guide covers the important features, benefits, technologies and market background to help you make sense of this confusing market and narrow your search down to the vendors that can really solve your communication problems. Learn about new technologies like click to call and find-me-follow-me that can make a huge difference to how you run your business.
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How Single Sign-On Will Boost User Productivity and IT Efficiency
Users employ more tools and systems and the security of your infrastructure is more difficult to manage. IT, users and others are all impacted. Read this white paper about how Quest Enterprise Single Sign-On can dramatically improve the security of your infrastructure, make life easiers for your users, and allow you to easily add new systems.
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The Many Faces of Single Sign-On
How can you help your company control multiple user identities and passwords? In this new Aberdeen Group research brief, learn about the ways single sign-on best controls and secures user access to systems, networks, data and applications.
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What Hackers Know about Control Systems that You Don't
The purpose of this paper is to address the issue of cyber security currently lacking in control system environments today and the reasons behind these vulnerabilities. This document describes some actual events that demonstrate current control system vulnerabilities. It also discusses how an Internet Reputation Intelligence (a trusted Internet reputation system that augments the protection of all cyber systems) creates a proactive security model for control systems where other, traditional and reactionary, technologies fall short.
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Small and Medium Business Made Simple
Learn how Nortel can help you provide innovative and strategic communications products and services to your small and medium business customers and partners. This paper also provides a series of resources and contact information to assist partners in achieving their sales, services and support objectives.
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The Impact of Messaging and Web Threats
This Osterman Research white paper discusses how messaging threats are evolving, both as independent threats and as a delivery mechanism for web-based attacks. Learn how the risks and costs caused by these threats can impact your business and discover the solution delivery models and layers of protection needed to provide a secure defense against spam, spyware, viruses and other forms of malware.
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InterScan Messaging Hosted Security
Trend Micro's hosted email security solution -- InterScan™ -- will help keep your email free from spam, viruses, phishing, and other email threats. As a hosted solution, it requires no hardware or software to install and maintain, thus greatly reducing your IT resource requirements and costs.
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Making the Most of Your E-Mail ... by taking the worry out of it
This white paper helps administrators narrow down the various services that are at their disposal for handling messaging within their organization. Traditional thought leans toward in-house solutions, while a modern approach involves hosted solutions like dedicated messaging, hosted e-mail, hosted Exchange or a combination of solutions. Learn how each may benefit your organization and what to look for in service providers for these hosted solutions.
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Building an Effective File Management Infrastructure
Where are all those files? It is one of the hardest questions in IT sometimes, and it is hammered on IT management from executives, auditors, lawyers, courts and stakeholders in the business. With the staggering growth in data, data center management needs tools to answer this question. This white paper from Brocade provides insight and tools to confront the questions and provide the answers.
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Secure the Perimeter and Weather the Storm(bot)
This paper reviews how malicious e-mail volume is rising at an alarming rate, both in terms of number and message size. Spam is now incorporated into the propagation strategies of blended malware attacks and increasingly sophisticated techniques are outwitting first-generation e-mail security solutions.
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Storm: The First Comprehensive Solution for Internet Fraud
The Storm worm, launched January 2007, was the first comprehensive solution for Internet fraud and attacks. Studying Storm helps us understand the current state-of-the-art hacking techniques and provides valuable lessons for the future.
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The Seven Major Obstacles on the Road to Managed Services
This white paper discusses the major obstacles to becoming a managed service provider, the true definition of managed services and the key components required to deliver high-value managed services.
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The Fundamentals of a Successful Managed Services Practice
Discover how the Velocity System transforms a break-fix service delivery model, with unpredictable service demand and revenues, into a proactive, profitable managed services business.
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Still Sneaking In: The Threats Your Security Tools Aren't Telling You About
Web 2.0 opens us up to many kinds of new attacks. IT Administrators have been forced to adjust their thinking in order to deal with these new attacks and keep systems and data secured. How can you ensure that your systems are safe in this new world of IT Threats?
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ROI and Other Cost Benefits of Reputation-Based Services
After reading this white paper you will not only understand the importance of securing the network edge with a global reputation service but will also appreciate the huge savings that can be realized.
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Enterprise PBX Comparison Guide
This comparison guide features the leading PBX systems from established vendors like Siemens, Cisco, Avaya and Nortel as well as cutting edge systems form new vendors like Shoretel and Fonality. Download this comparison guide now to help you in your evaluation
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Mobile Workforce Productivity
Securing Mobile Connectivity with Two-Factor Authentication
Enterprises from all walks of life are proving the value of working remotely. As any road warrior will attest, staying connected to email, core applications, and customer data is critical to job performance and productivity. Two-factor authentication solutions offer a much-needed lock and key mechanism to protect user identity for remote access logins. Read this white paper and learn about solutions that make securing the remote access connection simple!
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Embracing PCI -- Making It Work for You
With the recent rise in data breaches and identity thefts, implementing a sound information security program is no longer optional. Companies processing credit card information must implement secure strategies to protect the confidentiality and integrity of payment information. This white paper provides guidance on how to achieve PCI compliance and gives a summary analysis of the 12 security requirements of the PCI security standard.
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Fax Purchasing Decision: Fax Server or Fax Service?
A White Paper Prepared by Davidson Consulting
This new resource by fax industry analyst Davidson Consulting, "Fax Purchasing Decision: Fax Server or Fax Service?" outlines key factors to consider in determining whether to go with a fax server or fax service. The paper also highlights Esker as a leader in offering both on-premise and on-demand fax solutions.
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Seven Design Requirements for Web 2.0 Threat Prevention
Drawing on customer experience, Forrester Consulting, and data gathered from TrustedSource™ (the Secure Computing® global Web and messaging reputation system), as well as third-party sources, this paper outlines the new Web 2.0 threats and explains why most security solutions in place today are not adequate to protect against these threats. The paper then goes on to propose a set of Seven Design Requirements for Web 2.0 Threat Prevention, and reviews Secure Computing’s relevant product and technology offerings.
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Gauging the Impact of Fragmentation
Defrag Tech Spotlight
Read this white paper and get detailed instructions and information about the fragmentation on your drives; discover how you can solve any fragmentation problems.
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Keeping Your SQL Server Databases Defragmented with Diskeeper
Defrag Tech Spotlight
How can you eliminate your SQL Server Databases' I/O bottlenecks, data gridlock, and bandwidth clogs? This white paper explains how fragmentation is responsible for many of these lags and more!
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Internet Risk Management In The Web 2.0 World
An Internet risk study by Forrester Consulting
This FREE report details the prevalence of Web 2.0 in the enterprise and why the need for more effective Web protection has never been greater! Learn how to thwart the new malware that uses the Web to propagate a plethora of new threats undeterred by traditional security means.
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Did you GET the memo? Getting you from Web 1.0 to Web 2.0 Security
The Web is becoming more dangerous. Read about the inherent security threats and design considerations for implementation of Web 2.0 application services and how to protect users within the enterprise network from the new security threats.
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2007 Salary Survey: Cheers! IT Salaries Up in 2007
The 12th Annual Salary Survey, a joint effort of Redmond and MCPmag.com, once again has good news to report: salaries, raises and bonuses went up again! And overall IT job satisfaction continues to be positive. In this year's report, you'll also find advice from a hiring manager, the outlook for hot certifications next year and more charts to give you the complete picture on salaries going into 2008.
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Building the Virtualized Enterprise with VMware Infrastructure
Adopted by over 20,000 enterprise IT organizations worldwide, VMware virtualization software has saved billions of dollars in hardware and operational costs. This paper clarifies how adopting VMware infrastructure as a fundamental IT strategy helps organizations achieve their cost- and space-saving goals.
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The Impact of Virtualization Software on Operating Environments
Virtualization of system resources aboard x86 servers is one technology that has the distinct potential to really change the dynamics of the industry in many ways. This paper presents IDC's assessment of how virtualization technologies will impact operating environments and the operating environment market over the near and longer term.
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The Federal Rules of Civil Procedure, E-mail Discovery and You
An Osterman Research Position Paper
E-mail is increasingly used in a variety of legal and regulatory proceedings. However, Microsoft Exchange provides a very limited tool set for the extraction and presentation of data on demand. This paper discusses the key issues involved in proper data retention and retrieval, and discusses Lucid8’s DigiScope offering that can satisfy these requirements easily and inexpensively.
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