ROI Analysis for Intelligent File Virtualization

published by F5 Networks Inc on Oct 09, 2008

A Closer Look at the Financial Benefits of Intelligent File Virtualization with F5 ARX

Switch to VoIP for the Right Reasons

published by QuinStreet on Aug 13, 2007

Is VoIP right for your company? This paper examines some of the factors that drive the adoption of VoIP technology. Learn more today!

The Total Economic Impact of the Tripwire Enterprise Solution

published by Tripwire on Jan 10, 2007

Hear from a leading industry analyst how your company can quickly enjoy a substantial return on investment from implementing Tripwire’s configuration audit and control solution.

Tips for Cost Effective Customer Retention Management

published by QuinStreet on Mar 08, 2007

This white paper examines the details of how to gain improved customer retention and acquisition for a lower overall investment by defining basic CRM functionality needed by most organizations to achieve their customer goals and objectives.

Tiered Storage and Virtualization in the Real World

published by Hitachi Data Systems on Jun 27, 2007

Understand how Fidelity National Information Services achieved payback within months by deploying a virtualized, tiered storage architecture from Hitachi Data Systems. Furthermore, the storage solution is projected to save FNIS more than US$27 million over three years.  Learn more about the technologies and business factors that are driving this amazing return on investment.

Advancing Return on Investment Analysis for Government IT: A Public Value Framework

published by SAP on Sep 27, 2006

Discover a framework for conducting public ROI assessment for government IT projects in this white paper, developed by the Center for Technology in Government (CTG) through SAP's sponsorship.

Application Ready Network Guide Microsoft Office Sharepoint Server 2007

published by F5 Networks Inc on Dec 18, 2007

Hundreds of organizations around the world use Microsoft® SharePoint® with  over 80 million implementations, allowing them to develop intelligent portals that seamlessly connect users, teams, and knowledge. With the release of Microsoft Offi ce SharePoint Server 2007, F5 has specifi cally developed and tested a comprehensive Application Ready infrastructure that enhances the security, availability and performance of SharePoint deployments, whether it’s over the LAN or across a global WAN.

Application Ready Network Guide Microsoft Exchange 2007

published by F5 Networks Inc on Dec 18, 2007

Microsoft® Exchange® Server is the undisputed industry leader in corporate messaging. With the release of Microsoft Exchange Server 2007, not only does Exchange continue to provide rich, effi cient access to e-mail, calendars, attachments, contacts, and more, but Exchange Server 2007 adds some exciting infrastructure and performance improvements as well. F5’s comprehensive Application Ready infrastructure for Exchange Server 2007 allows organizations to easily provide additional performance, security and availability, to ensure maximum ROI with the minimum amount of work.

Bridging the Gap between Business Processes and the IT Environment

published by BMC Software on Nov 16, 2006

Business owners want to talk about business processes. IT wants to talk about technology. This difference in perspective has created a communications gap between IT and line of business owners. Read real-world examples of organizations that have bridged the gap and are reaping the benefits.

Co-Marketing with Channel Partners

published by SAP on Jan 08, 2008

Take a look at how brand owners and their channel partners are improving their collaboration on co-marketing with a streamlined closed-loop process supported by the SAP Customer Relationship Management application. Brand owners improve monitoring and can better measure their ROI, while partners can speed up the entire exercise.

Developing a Business Case for Data Center Transformation Through ITIL Best Practices & Automation

published by Evergreen Systems, Inc. on Dec 02, 2008

The paper comprehensive white paper applies automation and ITIL best practices to the data center and reviews current industry trends, server automation energy usage issues and a variety of optimization strategies for data center improvement.  The effects of virtualization are explored in-depth.  Includes detailed sections on increasing operational efficiency using workflow analysis, automating and optimizing server change management, reducing infrastructure complexity and developing security, disaster recovery and business continuity procedures.  Step by step instructions for developing metrics and a business case to justify data center and server automation are included.

End User Performance: Building and Maintaining ROI

published by SAP on Feb 05, 2007

Explore how organizations are achieving strong ROI on their IT by emphasizing user performance. These companies ensure that users are prepared even before the software implementation, and understand the importance of a user-training strategy, not just a user-training delivery system.

elearning security - the protection of elearning courses from intellectual property theft

published by LockLizard on Oct 21, 2008

NetMasterClass, as with all advanced elearning providers, have to be able to offer their training courses at any time with total availability – across the Internet.  NetMasterClass have made a significant investment in the development of proprietary training methods and techniques and have already experienced having their IPR stolen and made publicly available.

Explore the impact virtualization can have on your bottom-line

published by QuinStreet on May 25, 2006

This paper will clarify how adopting VMware infrastructure – the combination of server, storage and networking virtualization technologies — as a fundamental IT strategy helps organizations to achieve these goals.

Learn how to leverage virtualization for a 74 percent savings in TCO

published by QuinStreet on Feb 16, 2007

VMware has been providing world-class virtualization solutions since 1998. This paper examines how VMware virtualization software reduces total cost of ownership (TCO) in server environments and provides almost immediate return on investment (ROI). 

Pratt & Whitney Canada

published by SAP on Mar 21, 2007

Pratt & Whitney Canada, poised to begin manufacturing of a new generation of engines, realized that greater speed of production and real-time analysis of parts quality would be necessary to sustain this initiative.

Datacenter Power & Cooling Problems? Here are 3 Innovations

published by HP BladeSystem on Sep 14, 2006

Download this IDC white paper from HP, that cites 3 new technologies designed to quickly identify and address the key TCO operating expense issues facing today's data centers, including server management costs, interconnect complexity, power and cooling.

Guide: WAN Optimization Vendor Selection

published by Shunra on Feb 07, 2007

"Best Practices for Selecting a WAN Optimization Solution: Benchmarking Performance ROI" includes best practices for defining requirements and comparing alternative solutions, and offers a metric that IT organizations can use to select the WAN optimization solution that delivers the greatest value.

11 Criteria For Selecting The Best ERP System Replacement

published by Epicor on Apr 19, 2006

An ERP system is your information backbone and reaches into all areas of your business and value-chain. Replacing it can open unlimited business opportunities. In this white paper are the 11 criteria that will allow you to identify and select the ERP system replacement solution that will meet these expectations.

5 Steps for Small and Mid-Sized Businesses to Successfully Leverage Managed IT Services

published by mindSHIFT on Nov 10, 2006

To successfully adopt managed IT services to meet your business objectives, small- and medium-sized organizations (SMBs) should follow five straightforward steps.

Realizing ROI from Automating Business Processes

published by LANDesk on Dec 01, 2006

This white paper examines some of the business benefits and potential cost savings that can accrue to an organization that implements a BPM solution.

Reducing the High Cost of High Availability

published by DataSynapse on Jan 05, 2007

High availability (HA) configurations seek to bring downtime to zero - but can increase complexity across the IT organization, often in the form of excess technology, financial, and human capital investments.  Learn how application virtualization can reduce planned and unplanned downtime, and deliver greater flexibility.

Reducing the Cost to Serve the First WiMAX Subscribers

published by WiMAX 20/20 on Sep 27, 2007

This white paper presents how a radically consolidated, scalable core network architecture based on multi-core processor technology can significantly reduce the cost of the core network and thereby reducing the cost to serve the first WIMAX subscribers.

ROI Evaluation Report: WebEx Support Center

published by WebEx Communications on Mar 14, 2005

Through remote desktop sharing WebEx Support Center enables companies to manage and resolve remote support issues — whether they be external customer-driven or internal user-driven. Support personnel can initiate a session with a remote user by sending them an e-mail or providing a URL.

Download this Paper to Learn More About a Support Center.

ROI and Other Cost Benefits of Reputation-Based Services

published by Secure Computing on Feb 19, 2008

Reputation systems add a critical first line of advanced protection to help organizations accurately detect and block all types of threats to their messaging, web, and network environments.  In simplest terms, deploying a reputation service at the network edge is analogous to having a peephole in the front door of your house.  You let in people you know and trust, question the ones you don’t know and shun the ones who look suspicious.  Just by taking these simple measures you reduce your risk.