February 14, 2008 - This paper considers the business advantages of moving to a Software as a Service (SaaS) model for improving business operations, and to better meet the challenges of growth, competition and regulatory compliance faced by small-to-midsize businesses.
February 15, 2010 - With both Oracle and SAP trying to attract small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs) to their enterprise applications, many have wondered: can they deliver successful deployments to smaller customers? Nucleus Research decided to answer that by investigating the success SMBs are having today with Oracle and SAP enterprise applications.
July 21, 2009 - Each month many companies, big or small, well known or unknown, experience a data security loss with the potential exposure of thousands to millions of sensitive customer or employee records. This brief examines cryptographic methods, specifically tape data encryption, to combat such security losses.
September 28, 2009 - Executives at small and midsize companies are making critical business decisions every day based on the information available to them. This information can come from a variety of sources: opinions from peers and colleagues; a personal sense of intuition or business judgment; or data derived internally or externally to the organization.
June 02, 2009 - A 2007 report conducted by the Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU) found that nine out of ten corporate executives admit to making important decisions on the basis of inadequate information. This whitepaper will discuss what information visibility can do for your organization as well as the three critical strategic areas of business decision making.
November 14, 2008 - This paper provides guidance on how to develop a good, simple strategy to evaluate and choose the right ERP software package for your company.
May 01, 2008 - In this report, Clabby Analytics explains why Hyper-V will overtake VMware in just a few years to become the x86 server virtualization market's leader.
December 01, 2009 - Nebraska-based Chemistry Advertising implemented Windows Server® 2008 R2 Foundation to address the issue of a lacking centralized file storage system. The company now has an easy-to-manage system that helps employees to better organize and collaborate on projects. Read this case study to learn more!
March 05, 2010 - This webcast explores how to effectively mitigate architecture, security, and management risks to ensure a successful Windows Server integration into your cloud computing environment. Protect your organization from risks to customer data and liability issues and learn how to better manage virtualized and cloud environments.
March 04, 2010 - This webcast explores the virtualization benefits of implementing Windows Server 2008 R2 in your organization. Receive best practices for how to effectively integrate R2 into your current infrastructure. Discover how this integration can enable your organization to increase the performance and reliability of its virtualized environment.
March 08, 2010 - This webcast explores the security implications of integrating a Windows Server into an existing infrastructure. Gain insight into steps that organizations can take to minimize risks and facilitate a successful integration.
November 18, 2009 - With Microsoft SQL Server 2008, small and mid-sized businesses have a variety of options for creating state-ofthe art strategies for ensuring high availability and disaster recovery for their databases. This article explains why upgrading to SQL Server 2008 may help IT sleep better at night.
November 20, 2009 - This article explores ways in which small and mid-sized businesses can improve the performance of their databases — and their businesses — by upgrading to SQL Server 2008.
November 20, 2009 - If you're a small or mid-sized business thinking about virtualization, particularly in the world of Microsoft, it makes sense to upgrade your database servers as well. This article explains why to upgrade and provides several
examples of companies that have successfully made the move.
February 16, 2010 - Business intelligence is a hot topic in 2010, especially with the upcoming release of Microsoft's SQL Server 2008 R2 being dubbed as the "BI release." In this e-zine, one SQL Server expert breaks down exactly what goes into self-service BI, where it works and where it falls short.
September 01, 2008 - Security managers worldwide working for midsize or large organizations share a common goal: to better manage the risks associated with their business infrastructure. This session discusses new and emerging network and application security attacks and ways organizations can protect themselves against Web application and network security threats.
July 25, 2009 - Even if you have a disaster recovery plan in place already, you may wonder if it is good enough to keep your business running without any downtime. This paper walks through the steps every organization needs to take to ensure business continuity in the event of a disaster.
December 30, 2009 - Check out this learning guide for how-to information on developing an effective data center strategy, including tips on outsourcing storage, cost-effective data security measures and the various storage vendors offering SMB-level products.
January 05, 2010 - Small and midsize businesses (SMBs) have unique storage and data management requirements and need an approach to data management uniquely tailored to their requirements and capabilities. Download this podcast to learn how to design a storage strategy that extracts the most performance and reliability from your existing resources.
August 01, 2009 - In this presentation transcript, Brian Greenberg, President and CEO, General System Dynamics, explores the distinctions between scale-out and scale-up systems, major use cases for this technology and an assessment of new scale-out/clustered storage systems from major vendors.
March 16, 2009 - Are your company's printers secure? Today’s networked printers and multifunction devices (MFDs) are an easy yet powerful way to offer cost-effective and more capable printing capabilities to employees. Read this paper to learn about security risks associated with printers and what you can do to heighten security.
January 25, 2010 - SMBs are often left in the dust when it comes to D2D backup – the price is too high, setup too taxing on IT resources, and vendors don't have lower-capacity offerings suited to SMBS. Not anymore. This podcast highlights a new D2D backup solution that is an ideal match for the needs of an SMB.
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