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Deploying Hybrid Storage Pools: With Sun Flash Technology and the Solaris ZFS™ File System
sponsored by Sun Microsystems, Inc.
WHITE PAPER: This Sun BluePrints™ article provides an overview of Flash technology, and discusses its introduction into a new tier of storage infrastructure.
Posted: 02 Dec 2008 | Published: 27 Nov 2008
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Realising the Promise of SOA and BPM
sponsored by Informatica
WHITE PAPER: In this comprehensive report Ovum discusses how to overcome various limitations by including real-time data integration and data services as part of a successful SOA and BPM strategy.
Posted: 30 Nov 2008 | Published: 27 Nov 2008
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Quicktour Demo: Key Differentiators between Microstrategy and SAS
sponsored by MicroStrategy Incorporated
WHITE PAPER: This tour provides an overview of MicroStrategy platform's uniquely powerful enterprise BI capabilities and illustrates the 12 key differentiators between MicroStrategy and SAS.
Posted: 26 Nov 2008 | Published: 26 Nov 2008
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Quicktour Demo: Key Differentiators between Microstrategy and Information Builders
sponsored by MicroStrategy Incorporated
EGUIDE: This tour provides an overview of MicroStrategy platform's uniquely powerful enterprise business intelligence capabilities and illustrates the 12 key differentiators between MicroStrategy and Information Builders.
Posted: 26 Nov 2008 | Published: 26 Nov 2008
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Quicktour Demo: Key Differentiators between Microstrategy and Hyperion
sponsored by MicroStrategy Incorporated
WHITE PAPER: This tour provides an overview of MicroStrategy platform's uniquely powerful enterprise BI capabilities and illustrates the 12 key differentiators between MicroStrategy and Hyperion.
Posted: 26 Nov 2008 | Published: 26 Nov 2008
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Quicktour Demo: Key Differentiators between Microstrategy and Business Objects
sponsored by MicroStrategy Incorporated
WHITE PAPER: This tour provides an overview of MicroStrategy platform's uniquely powerful enterprise business intelligence capabilities and illustrates the 12 key differentiators between MicroStrategy and Business Objects.
Posted: 26 Nov 2008 | Published: 26 Nov 2008
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IT Briefing: Expanding Your Business on the Web
sponsored by BuyDomains.com
IT BRIEFING: This paper is based on a Webcast entitled "Expanding Your Business on the Web," presented by BuyDomains.
Posted: 20 Nov 2008 | Published: 20 Nov 2008
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The Growing Importance of E-Discovery on Your Business
sponsored by Google
WHITE PAPER: The goal of this white paper is to focus on the key issues involved in developing an e-discovery capability and to help organizations plan to become better prepared for the rigors of the e-discovery process.
Posted: 14 Nov 2008 | Published: 14 Nov 2008
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Integrating Dell Equallogic™ Sans with Citrix XENSERVER: Realizing Virtualization's Full Potential
sponsored by Dell | EqualLogic
WHITE PAPER: XenServer enables consolidation of server and other infrastructure resources, by combining servers and storage into resource pools that can be apportioned to the applications with the highest business need.
Posted: 10 Nov 2008 | Published: 10 Nov 2008
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Understanding Litigation Rules and Regulations: The Federal Rules of Civil Procedure Adapt to a Digital Age
sponsored by Google
WHITE PAPER: The technology foundation for an enterprise ESI strategy must include the ability to automate and enforce data migration between online systems and a variety of storage devices, and to implement global retention and disposition policies.
Posted: 17 Oct 2008 | Published: 17 Oct 2008
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eBook: Chapter 7- Exploring E-Discovery Tools
sponsored by Symantec Corporation
WHITE PAPER: Staying on top of legal requests and litigation holds doesn't have to be so complicated. This paper examines a number of tools that can help provide an enterprise-wide preparedness for E-Discovery.
Posted: 08 Oct 2008 | Published: 08 Oct 2008
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Reporting for Midsize Organizations: Reporting Solutions That Work the Way You Do
sponsored by Cognos, an IBM Company
WHITE PAPER: IT managers, striving to decrease their costs and the complexity of their reporting environment, have been looking for a reporting solution that can address all of their reporting needs. Read this white paper for the solution.
Posted: 23 Sep 2008 | Published: 23 Sep 2008
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Delivering Trusted Data across the Enterprise - Business Objects Data Services
sponsored by Business Objects
PRODUCT LITERATURE: BusinessObjects Data Services XI 3.0 is your solution for delivering trusted data across the enterprise. It allows you to address initiatives such as ERP, BI, data warehousing, data migration, and master data management. Learn more in this whitepaper.
Posted: 19 Sep 2008 | Published: 01 Jun 2008
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Enterprise Information Management: Strategy, Best Practices & Technologies on Your Path to Success
sponsored by Business Objects
WHITE PAPER: The goal of this paper is to paint the EIM landscape, noting its components but focusing on the importance of an overarching EIM strategy that focuses on corporate objectives while at the same time offering cross-functional support.
Posted: 19 Sep 2008 | Published: 05 Sep 2008
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A Broad Information Reach: The Gateway to Information Management
sponsored by Cognos, an IBM Company
WHITE PAPER: The first key to realizing the potential of your data is implementing a solution built for open data access, ensuring a broad information reach. This paper explains why this is the essential starting point for accessing, integrating, and organizing data.
Posted: 11 Sep 2008 | Published: 11 Sep 2008
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Security of Microsoft SQL Server 2008 Improves over Previous Versions
sponsored by Information Security Magazine
JOURNAL ARTICLE: Read about the security features in SQL Server 2008 in this article. By far the most significant change over its predecessors is its granular data security features: encryption, key management and meta data security enhancements.
Posted: 11 Sep 2008 | Published: 01 Sep 2008
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Keeping Pace with Changing Business Needs - Requirements Change Management
sponsored by MKS, Inc.
WHITE PAPER: This paper discusses the challenge that software engineering teams face in managing and responding to rapidly changing business requirements and the reason behind frequent changes.
Posted: 28 Aug 2008 | Published: 28 Aug 2008
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e-Book: Chapter 6 - Ten Hidden E-Discovery Hazards
sponsored by Symantec Corporation
WHITE PAPER: This paper explains Ten hidden e-discovery hazards reviewing everything from databases and storage to instant messages and smartphones which can help ward off e-discovery surprises.
Posted: 27 Aug 2008 | Published: 27 Aug 2008
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The Paperless Office-Turning the Page on Paper Use
sponsored by SpringCM
WHITE PAPER: This whitepaper explains the benefits of a paperless office using SpringCM. Learn how to establish an inbound e-mail address and fax number to capture paper and digital content, and have incoming transmissions routed to SpringCM, saving time and paper.
Posted: 12 Aug 2008 | Published: 01 Aug 2008
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Is a SharePoint-Based Solution Right for Your Organization?
sponsored by SpringCM
PRODUCT LITERATURE: As organizations build out their document management (DM), enterprise content management, and collaboration capabilities, they use Microsoft Office SharePoint Server (MOSS) 2007 which offers basic Web portal and intranet functionality.
Posted: 12 Aug 2008 | Published: 01 Jan 2007
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e-Book: Chapter 4 - ESI Datamap: Managing Litigation Risk
sponsored by Symantec Corporation
BOOK: This whitepaper explains how an ESI data map serves as a unifying document that ties together information about record locations, litigation hold instructions and retention. Businesses that create an ESI data map their risk of e-discovery noncompliance.
Posted: 01 Jul 2008 | Published: 01 Jul 2008
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The Foundation of High-Value Business Intelligence: A Description of the WebFOCUS 7.1 Architecture
sponsored by Information Builders
WHITE PAPER: Good architecture for information systems is as important as good engineering is for automobiles and with good architecture, applications can be scaled up with less hardware.
Posted: 19 Jun 2008 | Published: 01 Jun 2006
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The ROI of Data Governance: A Revenue Generation Perspective
sponsored by DataFlux Corporation
WHITE PAPER: Read this whitepaper to learn more about data governance, and when it is appropriate to measure data efforts with ROI or other metrics. Learn about an ROI calculator of data governance and how to test assumptions about data.
Posted: 11 Jun 2008 | Published: 01 Jun 2008
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QuickTour Demo: Key Differentiators between MicroStrategy and Cognos
sponsored by MicroStrategy Incorporated
WEBCAST: This tour provides an overview of MicroStrategy platform's uniquely powerful enterprise BI capabilities and illustrates the 12 key differentiators between MicroStrategy and Cognos.
Posted: 09 Jun 2008 | Premiered: Available On Demand
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IBM Information Management Software - The New Information Agenda
sponsored by IBM
WHITE PAPER: This white paper defines what an information agenda is, describes key considerations and best practices in creating and implementing an information agenda, and explains how IBM can help you to deliver trusted information enterprise wide.
Posted: 29 May 2008 | Published: 01 Jan 2008
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