White Papers

Forrester on the Converged Infrastructure

To understand infrastructure and operations (I&O) perceptions of converged infrastructure (CI), Forrester Consulting surveyed 200 I&O decision-makers from six different countries. Decision-makers were asked about their expectations of benefits and barriers to implementation of CI and those who have implemented CI were questioned on their actual experiences. This white paper reveals the results of this study and explains why Forrester believes that CI should be considered for any major infrastructure refresh or net new investment.

Sponsor: HP

A "YouTube-like" Experience For Employees

Leading research firms are predicting that video is becoming a key component of workplace collaboration. More and more, employees are creating and sharing video in the workplace to increase productivity. At the same time, business leaders are seeking to increase productivity and reduce costs.

Sponsor: Qumu

A Comprehensive Framework for Securing Virtualized Data Centers

Understand the real need for security solutions that can address the reality of expanding virtualization. You will also learn how HP TippingPoint's secure virtualization framework allows organizations to gain control of the virtual environment by introducing in-line security policy enforcement.

Sponsor: HP

IDC White Paper: Delivering an Integrated Infrastructure for the Cloud

In an IDC White Paper sponsored by HP, IDC covers how cloud computing is one of the prevailing IT trends today and how HP is helping organizations address this trend. By providing greater levels of provisioning and automation, cloud computing can help organizations become more nimble, reduce operating costs, improve application performance, and efficiently allocate their compute resources.

Sponsor: HP

Gartner on the Network Infrastructure Market

Analyzing the functional and financial differences between vendors is key for building a network that best fits business requirements. This white paper reviews the enterprise networking market dynamics and reveals Gartner's recommendations on how to proceed.

Sponsor: HP

Solve the 6 top problems in your data center Business White Paper

Whether your data center is large or small, it faces a similar set of roadblocks to efficiency, uptime, and ROI. This white paper reveals the six most common and intractable problems facing the data center and explains how to rectify them while improving efficiency and uptime.

Sponsor: HP

The Reasons CMDBs Don't Work: A Comparative Report of Traditional CMDBs and ITinvolve's Revolutionary Approach

There is no shortage of reasons why CMDB initiatives fail. A lack of trust in the data, the time consuming nature of these projects, and the inability of end users to see their value are frequently cited. Discover how the features of a revolutionary, cloud approach compare to a traditional CMDB and learn how it can handle complex IT environments and improve change, incident, and asset management.

Sponsor: ITinvolve

The CFO Guide to Budgeting Software

A mid-sized business needs the same financial performance control and measurement capabilities as a large corporation, but in a solution that's affordable, easy to implement and scalable. This guide simplifies the search by helping CFOs understand the 10 must-have characteristics of today's best financial performance management solutions.

Sponsor: Centage Corporation

Transition from Spreadsheet Budgets to Packaged Application

This white paper details the problems that go with spreadsheet-based budgeting as well as the advantages of packaged applications. It also proposes a road map to help start the transition of your budgeting from a spreadsheet platform to an enterprise packaged application. The goal is to help SMBs plan their transition to a budgeting solution that delivers more collaboration but with more control, accountability, and budget compliance.

Sponsor: Centage Corporation

Better Cash Flow Management: Recession-Proof Your Business

Cash is the lifeblood of most small to mid-sized organizations. So why rely on error-prone spreadsheets for forecasting cash flow and risk making the wrong decisions? This white paper explores what a best-in-class budgeting and planning application could offer in the spreadsheet's place.

Sponsor: Centage Corporation

Security Strategies to Virtualizing Internet-Facing Applications

The IT organization at Intel has set a goal to transition their enterprise to a private cloud for their Office and Enterprise applications. The goal is to virtualize 75% of the environment by the end of 2012. This paper highlights the steps they are taking to overcome security challenges of virtualizing Internet-facing applications.

Sponsor: Intel

Cloud Security Planning Guide

Cloud security considerations span protecting hardware and platform technologies in the data center to enabling regulatory compliance and defending cloud access through different endpoints. This guide provides recommendations for strengthening data, identity, and platform protection and will also walk you through seven key steps to plan your cloud security strategy from the ground up.

Sponsor: Intel

Cloud Security Vendor Round Table

This vendor round table guide will help you to evaluate different cloud technology vendors and service providers based on a series of questions posed to three cloud infrastructure providers, three managed or hosted infrastructure providers, and three cloud technology providers. Compare their answers to questions on data protection, compliance, ROI and more.

Sponsor: Intel

Planning Guide - Technology for Tomorrow's Cloud

This cloud planning guide will introduce you to data center technologies that address challenges of networking, storage, security, and power management. It's based on Intel's experience working with IT managers, cloud providers, and security and power management vendors-as well as the experience Intel has gained building and deploying its own cloud technology.

Sponsor: Intel

Cloud Security Insights for IT Strategic Planning

The survey results of 200 IT professionals highlights the key business and technology drivers behind implementation plans, the importance of security, and the level of investment in security required. This benchmark data can be used for your own cloud security planning.

Sponsor: Intel

Centage/IOMA Budgeting Survey: Benchmarks and Issues

How are other financial professionals dealing with the issues you face? This report offers you an inside peak into what the minds at over 200 financial executives are thinking and doing to impact their own bottom line.

Sponsor: Centage Corporation

Creating Community Within Your Business Partner Network

Learn how you can connect with customers and suppliers for business-to-business e-commerce more affordably with SAP Information Interchange OnDemand. Using prebuilt profiles, you can make changes within your supply chain quickly using a minimum of your valuable resources.

Sponsor: SAP

SAP Customers Move to Managed Cloud Services to Cut Costs and Improve Efficiency of B2B Integration

Changes in business objectives and advances in technology compel many businesses to reassess their B2B integration capabilities to seek further process efficiency and better adaptability. Other organizations are just starting down the road to B2B integration. In our research, we find that very few enterprises make a large change to their B2B integration process for a single reason; instead, multiple factors combine to create the need for change. Read this white paper to learn the top reasons why enterprises make a change to their current process. The findings are based on interviews with 23 enterprises that chose to outsource B2B integration.

Sponsor: SAP

Defining the 21st Century Sales Person

Do you know what seller types you have and what it takes for them to succeed? Online information sources and social networks have made basic product information and recommendations so readily available and ubiquitous that the role of the 21st century salesperson is now more so than ever defined in terms of his or her ability to add value to the customer. Forrester developed and tested a hypothesis that B2B selling is really about the transfer of information between a vendor and a buying organization. In examining a variety of different B2B businesses, Forrester identified two major variables that determine the role of the seller in the value communication process - the number of products and services involved in a purchase; and the degree of the knowledge exchange required to make the transaction. Read about the results of this research and the four different archetypes of salespeople of the 21st century: the expediter, the specialist, the consolidator, and the conductor.

Sponsor: SAP

Capture-Enabled Business Process Management

Organizations today must deal with a vast amount of incoming information from many different sources. Efficient, automated business processes are critical to managing it, improving productivity and serving customer needs. But getting there can be a challenge. Each step may contain internally and externally generated information, combined with human interactions and decisions that can cause processing delays, introduce potential for error and pose a compliance risk. This Kofax whitepaper shows how these challenges can be resolved through capture-enabled business process management.

Sponsor: Kofax

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