Strategic Planning Research
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CFO Guide to Improve Decision-making, Reduce Risk, Enhance Performance
Sponsored by: TideMarkIn this CFO guidebook, learn how you can leverage mobile, cloud, social media, and big data to dramatically improve business results and drive insight-fueled transformation.
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Planning, Budgeting and Forecasting – A Software Selection Guide
Sponsored by: IBMThis guide outlines a systematic approach to software evaluation and selection that aligns best practices and leading-edge technology with planning activities.
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Four EHR Change Management Mistakes (And How to Avoid Them)
Sponsored by: HP & Intel®The question is no longer if your healthcare practice will make the transition to EHR, but when. Careful planning and effective change management can help keep missteps – and the stress and costs that come with them – to a minimum. This white paper presents strategies for avoiding common EHR implementation problems.
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Expert Guide to Managing the Challenges of Server Virtualization
Sponsored by: DellEMC and Intel®This expert e-book examines the challenges that come with server virtualization, including virtual machine sprawl, virtual machine lifecycle management and resource provisioning, as well as management strategies to help you overcome these obstacles.
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Evolving SRM to Meet Enterprise; IT's Long-term Challenges
Sponsored by: IBMIn this white paper, you will gain insight on how storage resource management (SRM) application has been evolving over the years to address the challenges expressed by IBMs storage productivity center administrators who are tasked with managing growth, complexity, and storage environments in the most cost effective way possible.
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Increase in digital info creates need for more advanced storage management
Sponsored by: IBMAccess this white paper to learn about a storage management approach to effectively manage storage systems and drive business forward. Read now to discover more.
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What to Look For in a Data Protection Solution for Virtual Environments - Data Sheet
Sponsored by: Symantec CorporationThis three page white paper provides you with four "must have" features to consider ensuring your backup and recovery solution provides the best data and system protection for any virtual environment.
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Best Practices in Disaster Recovery Testing
Sponsored by: TechTarget Disaster RecoveryThis Handbook offers guidelines for disaster recovery testing today, with a look at the variety of technologies and practices in use. You will find an expert Q&A outlining technologies that can make DR testing more effective. Another piece takes a look at how one company's quarterly DR test helped prepare them for Hurricane Sandy.
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Why Data Domain
Sponsored by: FusionStormThis paper focuses on Data Domain technology leadership and differentiation and why it matters to you. The purpose of this paper is to explore the technical and financial reasons why Data Domain systems are ideal for backup and archiving in your environment.
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NetApp Delivers Scale-Out Storage for Today’s Demanding Workloads
Sponsored by: IntelIn this brief white paper, you will discover how to seamlessly and affordably implement an innovative scale-out storage solution that effectively manages insurmountable data growth and pace of business.
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Storage Magazine: How to improve your virtual server storage setups
Sponsored by: IBM.In this expert e-zine, featuring server virtualization and storage expert, David Davis, you will gain insight through the process of tweaking virtual server storage setups and discover ten tips that provide practical guidance you can use today to improve the performance of several virtual storage systems.
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Integrated Computing Platforms: Infrastructure Builds for Tomorrow's Data Center
Sponsored by: EMC CorporationIn this white paper, you will gain insight into increasingly dynamic environments that require infrastructure integration that demands a high level of expertise – relinquishing IT professionals from their DIY mentality to implementing ICPs for optimal efficiency. Read now to learn more.
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Solid State Storage: Usage Trends, Market Options, and Issues to Consider
Sponsored by: ViridentThis report documents ESG Lab's hands-on validation testing of Virident FlashMax II PCI Express (PCIe) SCM drives, with a focus on their multi-dimensional performance capabilities.
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Hitachi's Approach to Storage Capacity Efficiency
Sponsored by: Hitachi VantaraThis report examines and details the Hitachi approach to delivering storage capacity efficiency via its USP V and VSP platforms. In doing so, it will highlight how Hitachi looks at the overall economics of storage by reducing relevant operating expenses which they address with the characteristics of their storage systems and software.
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Benefits Management: How to increase the business value of your IT projects
Sponsored by: TechTarget ComputerWeekly.comThis book extract explains how organisation can uses benefits management techniques to increase the value of IT projects to the business.
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Computer Weekly – 8 January 2013: Digital strategies to drive CIOs in 2013
Sponsored by: TechTarget ComputerWeekly.comIn this week's Computer Weekly, we look ahead to the challenges facing IT leaders in 2013 and examine how the shift to digital will change the role of the CIO. A new report details how CIOs must adapt to work more closely with business colleagues. And our first buyer's guide of the year focuses on software as a service. Read the issue now.
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Business-driven BI: Using New Technologies to Foster Self-Service Access to Insights
Sponsored by: BeyeNETWORKWayne Eckerson explores the challenges of implementing self-service BI tools in this e-guide. Read it today to discover ten key best practices for self-service BI, including what you need to know about the two main types of users, the realities and challenges of self-service BI, and much more.
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IT leaders modernize BI systems with high quality data
Sponsored by: IBMBusiness intelligence (BI) has become more essential than ever before as organizations strive to extract meaningful information from growing stores of data. Inside this e-guide, gain strategic insight from the BI implementation experiences of your peers.
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Making your business intelligence strategy a success
Sponsored by: IBMBusiness intelligence (BI) offers IT leaders the chance to achieve greater strategic decision-making through the use of dashboards, data analytics, reporting tools and much more. So how can IT leaders plan for a seamless BI deployment? Inside this e-guide, uncover expert tips that will help ensure long-term BI success.
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E-Guide: CIOs weigh in on virtualization and big data
Sponsored by: DellEMC and Intel®CIOs are buzzing about virtualization technologies and tools for big data analysis due to benefits in areas such as productivity, business agility and customer service. Inside this exclusive e-guide, learn how your company can take advantage of both virtualization and big data analysis for a clear competitive advantage.
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HP Executive Scorecard: Real-time insights for IT management
Sponsored by: Hewlett Packard EnterpriseCIOs often struggle to gain business insight that will allow them to make well-informed decisions. This video presents a scorecard tool that tracks the business value that IT provides, including customer satisfaction and operational excellence. Learn how to gain visibility across your organization for greater IT and business alignment.
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Readying your Portals for Social Business
Sponsored by: IBMSocial networking, high-speed mobility and smarter devices are changing the way we do business. Read this paper now to learn how you can create value for your business through building robust social and real-time collaboration capabilities into portals.
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E-Guide: Business intelligence management: Strategic advice for CIOs
Sponsored by: SAP America, Inc.For organizations with stores upon stores of untouched data, there’s one essential tool: Business intelligence. Unfortunately, inconsistent or irrelevant data can turn BI in the wrong direction. This e-guide outlines essential components for a foolproof BI management strategy.
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E-Guide: How to prepare for business intelligence 3.0
Sponsored by: SAP America, Inc.Next-generation business intelligence has the potential to be a game-changer for predictive analytics because it solves the latency issues that plagued traditional BI platforms. Access this e-guide for expert insight into planning for BI that works alongside social media, mobile devices and context-aware computing.
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Getting Started: A Manager's Guide to Implementing Capacity Management
Sponsored by: TeamQuest CorporationMany IT departments have chosen to throw hardware at performance and capacity problems. In the past, that approach has worked, however times and management challenges have changed; demanding a different approach – capacity management. This guide is designed to help those IT leaders who are now looking to assemble a capacity management approach.