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Forrester White Paper: Server Virtualization Security

Sponsor: Tripwire

Perhaps the biggest concern with securing x86-based virtual server environments is updating existing management and security processes to cope with relatively new technology. Forrester believes that updated security practices will adequately protect most organizations’ systems.


ITCi White Paper: Challenges and Opportunities of PCI

Sponsor: Tripwire

Learn how to align PCI compliance with business processes for a more streamlined and reliable IT infrastructure with this whitepaper from the IT Compliance Institute.


7 Practical Steps to Mitigate Virtualization Security Risks

Sponsor: Tripwire

Tripwire founder/CTO Gene Kim provides seven practical steps that IT organizations can take to mitigate the unique security challenges of virtualization. While some are directed specifically at virtualized environments, many of these steps are solid best practices that apply to both physical and virtualized environments.


IT Service Management: Metrics That Matter

Sponsor: Tripwire

Learn how your IT organization measures up against the best performing IT organizations and what you can do to improve efficiency, sustain compliance and security, increase system availability, and reduce the frequency of outages.


Configuration Assessment: Choosing the Right Solution

Sponsor: Tripwire

Configuration assessment lets businesses proactively secure their IT infrastructure and achieve compliance with important industry standards and regulations. Learn why configuration assessment is so important, why organizations find it difficult to control system configurations, and what types of configuration assessment solutions are available.


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Mobility @ the Speed of Business

Sponsor: HP

Many organizations are turning to embedded broadband modems as the most cost-effective, easiest to manage solution to connect workers to the right applications. Learn more in this new Technology Briefing, available for a limited time only.


Unified Communications

Source: ShoreTel

Sponsor: ShoreTel

Download this white paper, compliments of ShoreTel, for a limited time!


Unified Communications Guide

Source: ShoreTel

Sponsor: ShoreTel

Download this free pocket e-Guide, compliments of ShoreTel, for a limited time!


IP Telephony from A to Z

Source: ShoreTel

Sponsor: ShoreTel

Download this white paper for a limited time!


Learn About Open Source Alternatives for Your Business

Source: Groundwork Open Source

Sponsor: Groundwork Open Source

In this analysis, learn how organizations are saving up to 87% over HP with open source systems and network monitoring alternatives. Get a comparison of license, application, network and device monitoring, and licensing, maintenance, subscription and support cost comparisons between open source and HP, BMC, CA and IBM.


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AISO founders envisioned a Web hosting company that was environmentally friendly. While the company employed energy-efficient innovations like solar panels, its infrastructure produced unacceptable power and cooling requirements. Find out how AISO leveraged AMD technology to overcome their challenge in this case study white paper.

In this whitepaper, Scalar explores the opportunity to change the landscape with respect to mission critical databases built around Oracle. Leveraging technologies such as Linux, high-end commodity processing power and Oracle RAC technology to architect, design, build and maintain database infrastructure that delivers maximum availability, reliability and performance at a fraction of traditional cost.

On a typical day, weather.com, the Web site for The Weather Channel in Atlanta, serves up between 15 million and 20 million page views. But in September 2004, when back-to-back hurricanes ransacked Florida, the peak traffic on one day more than tripled: over 70 million page views by more than 7 million unique visitors. Read the full success story now.

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