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Data Deduplication: Top CIO Priority for 2009
sponsored by Data Domain
 | Analyst Report: | Posted: 29 Sep 2009
| | Published: | 01 May 2009 | |
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Deduplication is one of the few IT solutions that cuts costs quickly and improves service levels. ESG believes CIOs and IT executives should look to deduplication for cost reduction projects in their environments.
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Optimizing the Data Center for Cost and Efficiency
sponsored by Dell India
| White Paper: | Posted: 29 Sep 2009
| | Published: | 14 Apr 2009 | |
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The current state of the datacenter demands a transformation that helps in improving space utilization and lowering power consumption while still providing the scale and availability the business requires. Read this report to learn how your organization can optimize data center efficiency and lower costs.
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Why CIOs Should Look To Data Deduplication
sponsored by Data Domain
| Analyst Report: | Posted: 29 Sep 2009
| | Published: | 01 May 2009 | |
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An investment in data deduplication products is easy to rationalize. These products cut data protection capital and operating expenses, facilitate consolidation of distributed backup operations, and slash server virtualization-related storage costs. Data deduplication offerings should be on every CIO?s project short list in 2009.
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Evaluating the Costs and Benefits of Backup and Deduplication Storage
sponsored by Data Domain
| White Paper: | Posted: 29 Sep 2009
| | Published: | 01 Jul 2008 | |
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Unreliable backups and recovery times that are too long have long plagued IT organisations. This paper takes a look at the costs and benefits of backup with deduplication storage as strategic assets for data protection.
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Chapter 1: Cloud Risks and Rewards - CIO Strategies for the Cloud
sponsored by SearchCIO.com
| eBook: | Posted: 29 Sep 2009
| | Published: | 29 Sep 2009 | |
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Some pundits foresee a future in which all data center computing is done in the "cloud," but that future is a long way off. Most organizations have just begun to venture into the cloud. Many others remain skeptical because of security and quality-of-service concerns. Read this ebook to learn what CIOs can to do now to prep their own environments.
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Configuring High Availability for Windows Server 2008 Environments
sponsored by Marathon Technologies
| White Paper: | Posted: 28 Sep 2009
| | Published: | 28 Sep 2009 | |
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All organizations are becoming increasingly reliant upon their computer systems. The availability of those systems can be the difference between the organization succeeding and failing. This series will examine how we can configure our Windows Server 2008 environments to provide the level of availability our organizations need.
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Cost Effective Security and Compliance with Oracle Database 11g Release 2
sponsored by Oracle Corporation
| White Paper: | Posted: 28 Sep 2009
| | Published: | 28 Sep 2009 | |
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With Oracle Database 11g powerful privileged user and multi-factor access control, data classification, and data masking, organizations can deploy reliable data security solutions that do not require any changes to existing applications, minimizing the costs associated with regulatory compliance and the deployment of strong internal controls.
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Recommendations for Optimizing a Virtual Environment
sponsored by IBM
 | Video: | Posted: 28 Sep 2009
| | Premiered: | 25 Sep 2009 | |
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In this videocast, learn how to optimize your virtual infrastructure performance by allocating resources properly. Gain insight into essential steps you should take to begin the optimization process. Learn how to meet business requirements while increasing resource efficiency.
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FREE Software Download - Wastefinder
sponsored by VKernel
 | Software Download: | Posted: 25 Sep 2009
| | Published: | 25 Sep 2009 | |
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Quickly finds where resource capacity (CPU, memory, and storage) are being wasted in the virtual infrastructure. By identifying zombie VMs, expired snapshots, and other wasteful consumers, users can reclaim expensive capacity to optimize virtual environments and achieve a better, faster ROI.
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Lower IT Costs with Oracle Database 11g Release 2
sponsored by Oracle Corporation
| White Paper: | Posted: 25 Sep 2009
| | Published: | 01 Sep 2009 | |
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Learn how you can transform your business, budgets, and service levels with Oracle Database 11g Release 2. You’ll discover how its new options and features can help you reduce server and storage costs, improve query performance, and ensure availability during database application upgrades.
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Red Hat Open Source Security
sponsored by Red Hat
| White Paper: | Posted: 24 Sep 2009
| | Published: | 24 Sep 2009 | |
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The open source development model allows innovation to happen rapidly in all areas—including security. The Red Hat development process leads the industry in providing innovative and secure solutions, and includes a dedicated Security Response Team whose speed and reliability is among the best in the industry.
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Premier Issue of the CIO Decisions Midmarket Ezine - "The Green Monster"
sponsored by CIO Decisions
| Ezine: | Posted: 24 Sep 2009
| | Published: | 01 Jun 2008 | |
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This document highlights what you need to know about power consumption, server virtualization and outfitting data centers to make the most of the new technologies.
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Migrating Large Enterprise (LE) Applications from UNIX to Linux with Minimal Downtime
sponsored by Dell, Inc. and Intel
| White Paper: | Posted: 24 Sep 2009
| | Published: | 01 Jul 2009 | |
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The knowledge gained from this paper will assist in formulating strategies and methodologies to achieve near-zero downtime dynamic database migrations to Oracle10g or Oracle11g. Read this white paper to learn more.
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eBook - Chapter 4: Pay-Per-Use in the Cloud – Cutting Infrastructure Costs
sponsored by SearchCloudComputing.com
| eBook: | Posted: 24 Sep 2009
| | Published: | 24 Sep 2009 | |
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Buying Infrastructure as a Service is a mouth-watering prospect for CIOs and IT
departments eager to drive down costs and speed up provisioning. But once IT is outsourced, keeping control of it is a major challenge.
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Optimize energy use for the data center through enhanced measurement and management
sponsored by IBM
| White Paper: | Posted: 23 Sep 2009
| | Published: | 01 May 2008 | |
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Along with an in-depth discussion of energy measurement and management, this white paper provides a brief overview of IBM solutions that can help organizations support their initiatives for developing energy-efficient and environmentally responsible data centers.
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