White Papers

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Expert Guide on Backing up Windows Server in Hyper-V by AppAssure Software

Download this white paper from Microsoft MVP John Savill, avoid bad choices, and learn how to effectively protect your virtualized data and systems successfully.

VMware and Hyper-V Backup: How Can VM-Level Be Better Than Host-Level? by AppAssure Software

What’s the best approach to backup and restore a virtual server? Host-Level, right? Wrong – though you’re not alone in thinking so. Read this guide to learn why.

VMware Backup: 5 Misperceptions of Agentless Backup by AppAssure Software

Flawed comparisons and new backup schemes warrant another look at agentless claims. Download this report to learn more.

7 Expert Tips on VMware Backup by AppAssure Software

Download this guide and learn 7 time-tested VMware infrastructure backup tips from virtualization backup pros.

The 7 Myths about Backup & DR in Virtual Environments by AppAssure Software

This white paper will serve as your myth-busting tool to expose and correct the 7 most common untruths about backup & DR in virtual environments.

Cisco, Citrix, Microsoft, and NetApp Deliver Simplified High-Performance Infrastructure for Virtual Desktops by Cisco

In this whitepaper,Learn how Cisco Unified Computing, Citrix XenDesktop, and Microsoft Private Cloud combine to deliver a highly scalable, secure, streamlined platform for desktop virtualization.

2012 IT Skills and Salary Report by Global Knowledge

Download your copy of this survey and gain valuable insight into IT compensation and job satisfaction trends.

Meeting the Challenges of Endpoint Security by Symantec

Download this FREE whitepaper and understand the challenges of delivering endpoint security in an increasingly mobile environment.

Cloud, Appliance or Software: How to Decide Which Backup Solution is Best for Your Small or Mid-Size Organization by Symantec

Read this whitepaper to better understand which deployment option could best suit your needs.

When Good Backups Go Bad: Data Recovery Failures and What to Do About Them by Symantec

Successfully backing up critical systems and data is key to disaster recovery and business continuity. Read When Good Backups Go Bad: Data Recovery Failures and What to Do About Them to understand backup challenges, impacts, and solutions.

2012 Endpoint Security Best Practices Survey by Symantec

The Symantec 2012 Endpoint Security Best Practices Survey reveals that organizations employing best practices are enjoying dramatically better outcomes when it comes to endpoint protection, and many of these best practices can—and should—be leveraged by SMBs.

Case Study: Affordable Backup for a Virtual Environment by Idera

Read this case study to learn how Applied Innovations, using R1Soft CDP, could not only compete it could win in price and still provide the quality and level of service its customers expected.

Five Key Features Your Backup Software Must Possess by Idera

This white paper provides a quick look at five of the top key features your backup software must possess.

5 Ways Your VMware and Hyper-V Backups May Fail You by Veeam

This NEW white paper explains common pitfalls of current backup strategies and what you can do to protect your VMs the right way.

Hybrid IT service delivery: A strategic thinking model for optimizing IT resources by HP and Intel

HP Hybrid Delivery strategy offers a structured approach to the development of your IT delivery model, taking advantage of the best of all the various business models and creating a safe pathway through the complex landscape of IT sourcing and IT delivery. Read this WP to learn more.

Delivering an Integrated Infrastructure for the Cloud by HP and Intel

Read this white paper to understand how the HP CloudSystem Matrix is an integrated IT infrastructure solution that meets this challenge head-on, enabling organizations to simplify their IT infrastructure, reduce their management burden, and streamline operating costs.

The Cloud - Inevitable, But Not Ambiguous by HP and Intel

Read this white paper to get answers to your most pressing cloud questions and better understand when and where the cloud makes the most sense for your organization.

Controlling User-Downloaded Applications by Lumension

This white paper discusses, the risks of uncontrolled applications, best practices for controlling applications, attributes of native, free/open source, and commercial application control tools and more.

File Server Migration: The Pain is in the Permissions by ScriptLogic

While modern backup and recovery solutions are perfectly capable of restoring permissions along with files, stuff just isn’t always that simple. Read this white paper to help your future migration.

The Proactive Migration to Windows 7 by ScriptLogic

In this whitepaper we will discuss a very different migration strategy to moving your users and their desktops to Windows 7; one that takes a very proactive approach that will result in a faster migration, a more standardized environment, and more productive users.

The Help Desk Management Personality Quiz by ScriptLogic

The Help Desk: IT’s first line of defense to keep your users productive, and to keep your computers running smoothly. Help desks deal with a range of difficult problems, and without the right management in place it’s easy for them to become a pit of despair and inefficiency. Take our personality quiz to see how your help desk rates!

2012 State of the Endpoint by Lumension

The findings of this study reveal the enormous challenges IT practitioners face when trying to improve the security posture of their organizations. Read the full report to learn more.

Unruly USB: Devices Expose Networks to Malware by Lumension

Read this white paper to learn how, by enforcing usage policies for removable devices such as USB flash drives and other removable me­dia such as CDs / DVDs, you can control the flow of inbound and outbound data from your endpoints.

Think Your Anti-Virus Software Is Working? by Lumension

Studies show that even though most organizations use AV, more and more are succumbing to attacks. It’s time to shift from the status quo to a new, more effective endpoint security approach, called intelligent whitelisting, which affords greater protection, productivity, and efficiency. Read this white paper to learn more.

The CISO’s Guide to Measuring IT Security by Lumension

This white paper offers guidance for accurately measuring your security posture and communicating in terms of business risk as opposed to bits and bytes.

Improving Mobile Device Security and Management with Active Directory by Centrify

As more and more employees bring personal devices to work for increased productivity and mobile access, organizations must quickly respond to the security and compliance risks posed by largely unmanaged access to corporate information. Read this whitepaper to learn how.

Continuous Availability for SQL Server by Neverfail

This whitepaper provides details about how you will have a reliable, affordable, easy-to-use SQL Server high availability and disaster recovery solution.

Continuous Availability for SharePoint Farms by Neverfail

This whitepaper details how the Neverfail Continuous Availability Suite offers a complete solution designed to deliver continuous availability for business critical applications, SharePoint included.

Continuous Availability for Business Applications by Neverfail

This white paper looks at an approach that would use a complete Solution, from a single vendor, to protect your entire business application ecosystem.

The E5000 and the Cloud by HP

Learn more about a robust platform for deploying Exchange 2010 servers as part of an Exchange 2010 hybrid-mode deployment. Paul Robichaux reviews the E5000.

Best Practices for Monitoring VMware with SCOM by Veeam

Download this NEW white paper and discover the 6 key concepts to get the most out of VMware vSphere and Microsoft System Center Operations Manager.

Raising the Hyper-V Backup Standard by Veeam

Download this report to find out how enterprises using Hyper-V can now leverage the power of Veeam Backup & Replication to enable server virtualization to improve the standard of data protection and lower its costs.

Backup and Recovery for Microsoft Hyper-V Using Best Practices Planning by Veeam

Download this FREE whitepaper by Brien Posey and learn best practices for backing up Hyper-V.

Binary Tree E2E Complete vs. Quest Migration Manager for Exchange by Binary Tree

In this paper, written by Paul Robichaux, the goal is to help both internal IT staffs and the business partners, consultants, and system integrators they hire to understand migration tools for Exchange from three perspectives: their architecture, the mechanics of how they deal with migration operations, and how they assist administrators with the project management tasks associated with migrations.

How You Can Harness Clouds Without Creating Storms? by CA ARCserve

This paper discusses how CA cloud solutions can accelerate your path to agility, efficiency, and control by helping you assemble, deliver, secure, assure, and support services across public and private cloud environments, spanning your diverse virtual and physical platforms.

What Can an SLA Do for IT? by CA ARCserve

This paper highlights the importance of an SLA to meet the needs of the business, for system, application, and data recovery and availability.

Roadmap to the Cloud by HP and Intel

This white paper reveals the key steps you need to take in order to build an effective cloud computing infrastructure.

The Industrialization of IT by HP and Intel

This paper explains how standardization helps meet the demand for deploying services quicker and at a lower cost.

Why You Need a Better Way to Manage Email Attachments by YouSendIt

This white paper discusses the important requirement to implement an attachment management solution and why such a solution is needed.

SCCM 2012: User-Oriented Administration by BDNA

This paper gives you a leg up on SCCM 2012’s capabilities, letting you augment your existing administrative processes to simplify the transition to this new management paradigm.

SSL 101: A Guide to Fundamental Website Security by Geotrust

Read this guide to learn about what SSL does, how it works, and how it can help build credibility online.

Securing Multiple Domains with SSL by Geotrust

Read this guide to learn about typical situations where multiple domain certificates are the ideal solution, how multiple domain certificates work, and how to select the right multi-domain certificate for your needs.

E-commerce 101: A Guide to Successful Selling on the Web by Geotrust

This guide reviews the basics of setting up, securing, and promoting your e-commerce site.

Stop Phishing: A Guide to Protecting Your Web Site by Geotrust

In this guide, you’ll learn more about Phishing and how SSL and EV SSL technology can help protect your site, your business and ultimately, your bottom line.

Choosing a Cloud Provider with Confidence by Geotrust

Download this paper to better understand where and when to use cloud solutions and the ways in which SSL can help you conduct business in the cloud with confidence.

The New Way to Protect and Scale Storage by Drobo

Read this white paper to learn about a new technology to protect and scale storage that creates a foundation for easy and affordable storage growth as the demand for digital data continues to rise.

Cost-Effective VMware Storage for the SMB by Drobo

This white paper explains how storage does not have to be costly for SMBs to take advantage of new technology on the market.

Shared Storage for Small Business Server Bundles by Drobo

Read this white paper to learn how to adopt shared storage without additional cost. In doing so, the environment is prepared for future server growth, with a foundation for virtualization and high availability.

Survey: All’s Not Well at Endpoints by Autonomy

Read the results of this study to learn how CIOs need to go beyond simply accepting that endpoint data is both an asset and a liability to their organizations.

Protecting Faculty and Staff with Connected® Backup by Autonomy

Read this case study to learn how Autonomy's Connected Backup product provides the ideal solution for backing up both Mac and PC desktops and laptops.

Car Dealer Saves 70% in Data Backup and Recovery Costs by Autonomy

A popular south Boston-area Toyota dealership faced increasing tape backup capacity and reliability limitations and required a seamless data protection solution for its server and PC environments. Read this case study to learn how Autonomy solutions proved to be very simple to install with no need for professional services.

Financing Company Benefits from Cloud-Based Backup and Recovery Solution by Autonomy

Read this case study to learn how the results of its cloud-based data backup and recovery solution from Autonomy have been significant.

Why Cloud and How to Choose a Cloud Vendor by Autonomy

This white paper explores the benefits of cloud-based storage and offers tips for choosing the correct cloud vendor.

How to Measure ROI for Online PC Backup and Recovery by Autonomy

This White Paper helps managers build a compelling business case for deploying online data protection services rather than continuing current methods of backup and recovery—or implementing other onsite alternatives.

A Three-Step Plan for Migrating to Microsoft Exchange 2010 by Mimecast

This whitepaper explores the risks involved in migrating to Exchange 2010 and takes a look at what actions businesses can take to mitigate them.

Exchange 2010 Migration Guide by Mimecast

This guide details the best practices to follow when migrating from Microsoft Exchange 2003 to Microsoft Exchange 2010.

Vendor Profile: Mimecast by Mimecast

Read the profile to learn how Mimecast has established itself as a strong player in the HMS market. You’ll learn about Mimecast’s HMS services, its strengths, and its weaknesses.

Product Review: Mimecast Unified Email Management by Mimecast

Read the product review to learn about how Mimecast’s Software-as-a-Service solution is all-in-one with features that really just take the worry out of your hands as an administrator.

Best Practices for SP Development and Customization by Quest Software

In this Quest Software white paper, discover best practices for empowering SharePoint users to customize their own sites with less “hands-on” developer assistance. See how to create a flexible, powerful SharePoint change solution – so you can focus on the rest of your day! Read it today.

Exchange Virtualization Reconsidered: Is It Right for You? by HP

In this paper, written by Paul Robichaux, we'll explore the benefits of reduced license cost, reduced server sprawl, and lower overhead that come from using the simple, cost-effective HP E5000 system to host your Exchange mailbox and client access services on physical hardware.

Reap All The Savings from Private Cloud by HP

This whitepaper, written by Mel Beckman, shows you all the ways to save costs by moving to a private cloud enterprise computing model.

The Role of Network Management Systems in Virtualized Environments by Quest Software

This report from TRAC Research analyzes the impact of virtualization technologies on network management and examines capabilities that are becoming increasingly important in virtual environments.

Out with the Old: Replacing Servers as Part of Consolidation by HP

This paper discusses the unique advantages of the E5000 series and explains how deploying E5000s as part of your Exchange 2010 deployment can give you both lower operating costs and more capacity for users.

Creating an Enterprise-Class IT Infrastructure for SMBs by HP

In this paper, we’ll look at critical components and principles of a successful IT Infrastructure for SMBs.

Cloud Computing - Competition of IT? by HP and Intel

This white paper discusses the opportunities that can be had with a cloud infrastructure and reveals the changes that need to be made to ensure a truly successful cloud infrastructure.

Enterprise CloudSystem Solution Brief - The most complete hybrid cloud solution for infrastructure and application provisioning by HP and Intel

This paper introduces a hybrid cloud solution that can help you build and manage services across a cloud environment. Read on and learn how to turn your hybrid cloud vision into a reality.

Forrester Whitepaper: IT Operations Managers Must Rethink Their Approach to Private Cloud by HP and Intel

This Forrester report reveals the latest virtualization trends so you can see how far your peers are in their journey to the private cloud. Read on and discover best practices for improving virtualization in order to prepare for the cloud.

Be an SCCM Toolkit Wizard by BDNA

IT sysadmin expert Mel Beckman describes and illustrates SCCM tools in this information-packed white paper.

Implementing a Service Catalog is Essential for Cloud Computing Success by CA/ARCserve

CA cloud solutions accelerate your path to agility, efficiency, and control by helping you assemble, deliver, secure, assure, and support services across public and private cloud environments, spanning your diverse virtual and physical platforms. Download this Whitepaper now to learn more.

Data Deduplication: An Essential Component of Your Data Protection Strategy by CA/ARCserve

This white paper will help you review the different deduplication technologies on the market and choose a solution that is able to integrate seamlessly into your backup environment, in a cost effective way.

SMB Guide to Continuous Operations by CA/ARCserve

This paper highlights some of the issues around implementing SMB business continuity practices and provides guidance on developing an effective BC strategy.

Devastating Downtime: The Surprising Cost of Human Error and Unforeseen Events by CA/ARCserve

Backup plans often take a back seat to other projects that are deemed to have higher priority. It can be difficult for small and medium-sized businesses to justify the expense of a comprehensive backup solution, but the need becomes clearer once the true cost of downtime is calculated. Download this whitepaper to learn more.

Why Cloud Backup: Top 10 Reasons by Autonomy

This white paper discusses the top 10 reasons why organizations are turning to cloud server backup.

How to Measure the ROI of Cloud Data Protection by Autonomy

This white paper helps managers demonstrate the profitability of reducing operational costs in server backup and recovery through investment in cloud server data protection (subscription), rather than traditional backup methods.

CA Business Continuity Planning: IT Survival Guide by CA/ARCserve

Are you sure your mission-critical business processes are protected? Protect your business today. Download the IT Survival Guide now.

Unlocking the Minds of Storage Users by EMC

The study surveys end users to chart emerging trends and to capture end-user acceptance of emerging technologies and market offerings.

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