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  • Power Efficiency Gains by Deploying 415 VAC Power Distribution in NA Data Centers
    Source: Server Technology
    White Paper:Greater cabinet densities, increased power costs and in some markets reduced power availability are all driving efficiency within the Data Center. Greater efficiencies and the advantages that result such as lower TCO, postponing capital expenditures, and public recognition for showing environmental leadership are now at the top of the priority list. This white paper puts forth an analysis on how 415/240V Line to neutral power infrastructure that is based a Global standard outside of North America and Japan can achieve efficiency gains for a North American datacenters utilizing existing solutions readily available in the marketplace today.
  • Why Managing Mobility Matters
    Source: Sybase
    White Paper:The recession notwithstanding, mobile devices continue to be purchased in record numbers, pouring into the organization. These devices are coming in a wide variety of hardware and operating system types, making their management and security a big IT challenge. This IDG Playbook is designed to help guide your strategy to manage and secure the booming mobile environment.
  • Information Security and Multi-Compliance Prescriptive Guide
    Source: Tripwire
    White Paper:It's not unusual for information security managers to be held responsible for situations where they have little control or influence in the rest of the organization. This Prescriptive Guide outlines the steps information security managers can take to break the compliance blame cycle and build an information security program that works. It also describes how they can achieve alignment among all stakeholders so that information security and compliance activities become integrated into daily business operations.
  • File Integrity Monitoring: Secure Your Virtual and Physical IT Environments
    Source: Tripwire
    White Paper:Learn how integrity monitoring software solutions enable IT organizations to achieve and maintain configuration control. Tripwire Enterprise is the first solution to effectively combine configuration assessment and file integrity monitoring, enabling automated and sustainable configuration control throughout virtual and physical infrastructures.
  • Executive Guide - Perfecting Application Performance
    Source: Compuware
    White Paper:The enterprise application scene has become increasingly complicated over the years. Things have changed with the rise of Web services, SOA, Virtualization and cloud computing. This complexity makes app performance management all the more difficult. In this Executive Guide featuring articles from Network World, ComputerWorld and InfoWorld explore how to get the best performance out of today's application environments.
  • SOC/NOC Convergence - an Service-Oriented Approach
    Source: AccelOps
    White Paper:This report, written by research firm Spire Security, examines SOC/NOC convergence, the opportunity for the infosec professional, and the state of security information event management (SIEM) and logging technology to manage business risks and enhance service reliability. It will also examine how advancements in datacenter monitoring and SIEM solutions, such as AccelOps, supports SOC/NOC convergence and service-oriented results.
  • The Fast Path to IT Service Management for Mid-Tier Enterprises: Beyond the Myths for What Really Works
    Source: AccelOps
    White Paper:This report by Enterprise Management Associates presents a pragmatic approach with clear takeaways on IT service management from a mid-tier enterprise perspective - relaying best practices and reviewing supporting technologies with a keen eye for the straightest path to service reliability, operational efficiency and effective ROI.
  • Examine the benefits of cloud-based Wi-Fi
    Source: Aerohive
    White Paper:The pay-as-you-grow model is the perfect cost-conscious replacement for the pay-more-now, controller-based model that is so prevalent today. In this paper, learn how HiveManager Online gives financial control back to organizations by offering a cloud-based management platform with minimal up-front management costs.
  • Lower costs with protocols instead of controllers
    Source: Aerohive
    White Paper:Instead of regurgitating an architecture where costly, centralized control platforms are needed, Aerohive followed the original intent of the 802.11 standard designers more closely and brought the technology to maturity. This paper explores how inter-AP protocols can execute the same functions performed by centralized controllers with lower cost.
  • Understand the network impact of 802.11n
    Source: Aerohive
    White Paper:As performance, throughput, and reliability increase with 802.11n, the WLAN becomes a viable alternative to the wired network for mission-critical applications. This paper describes the drawbacks of centralized controller-based approaches and how they will provide unavoidable roadblocks when faced with the increases in bandwidth provided by 802.11n.
  • Design using our FREE Wi-Fi Planner
    Source: Aerohive
    White Paper:Plan a Wi-Fi deployment using Aerohive's FREE web-based planning tool! This tool can give you an estimate of how many APs are needed in a deployment and where to place them. You can model the physical space you¿re in and start planning today.
  • The Storage Writer Brief: Secrets to Shrinking Your Storage for Microsoft Windows Server 2008 Hyper-V
    Source: NetApp
    White Paper:Learn how you can realize great capital and operational savings by leveraging Microsoft Windows 2008 Hyper-V.
  • ESG Report: Storage Efficiency Strategies for Microsoft Application Environments
    Source: NetApp
    White Paper:This paper addresses the many Exchange, SQL Server, and SharePoint implementations running on inefficient storage infrastructures, limiting scalability and complicating what should be fairly simple storage management tasks. Readers will also learn why recent changes in Microsoft infrastructures, including the introduction of a server operating system and a server virtualization solution (Hyper-V), create a compelling opportunity to improve underlying storage infrastructures right now.
  • NetApp Storage Best Practices for Microsoft Virtualization
    Source: NetApp
    White Paper:This technical report (TR) provides guidelines and best practices for integrated architectures and implementations of Microsoft Hyper-V with NetApp storage solutions. The NetApp technologies discussed in this technical report are important to achieving an integrated storage solution that is cost effective, operationally efficient, flexible, and environment friendly.
  • Network Security Overwatch Layer: Smarter Protection For the Enterprise
    Source: Trend Micro
    White Paper:Despite determined efforts to secure their businesses from attacks by cyber criminals and others seeking to steal private and confidential data for financial gain, enterprises continue to experience a steady stream of high-profile breaches against established security infrastructures. Read this IDC paper for background on today's threat ecosystem with an overview of network security threats, the impact of the threats on enterprises, and the operational challenges faced by IT.
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