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Develop a Marketing Communications Plan

whitepaper Marketing communications (marcom) include customer-facing materials such as brochures, press releases, Web sites, and trade show presentations. The proximity of marcom planning to the customer makes it one of the most important activities that a...

Tags: business management

[15 May 2008]

Guidelines for Energy-Efficient Datacenters

whitepaper Power availability is one of the most important challenges facing datacenters today. In the past, datacenter floor space has always loomed as the primary issue. Now, more and more datacenters run out of power availability before they run out of...

Tags: data center

[15 May 2008]

Twinhead International Streamlines Supply Chain and Cuts Order Processing Time by 50%

whitepaper The biggest challenges facing the company are the number of customizations they undertake for each customer, and the fact that they often deal in small quantities with large variations. Taipei-based Twinhead International manufactures and markets...

Tags: erp

[15 May 2008]

EDS Cuts Time to Deploy Software by 92 Percent, Improves Security and Productivity

whitepaper Such a task is easy at a small firm, but daunting if one is facing a network with tens of thousands of seats. Part of the job of any IT department is installing and deploying software - from office productivity applications to specialized utilities.

Tags: monitoring systems

[15 May 2008]

Championing Energy Efficiency in the Data Center: An IBM Server Consolidation Analysis

whitepaper Many organizations around the globe are looking to reduce power consumption and many are even facing a data center power scarcity. Energy efficiency has long been a top priority at a large natural gas and electric utility headquartered in the...

Tags: server consolidation

[15 May 2008]

3Com Solutions: Taking the Guesswork Out of Deploying IP Telephony

whitepaper For these organizations, this is a time for facing readiness challenges and for "Tuning" their data network to Voice over IP (VoIP). The desire for cost control, higher user productivity, and advanced call center features is leading a growing...

Tags: voip - ip telephony

[15 May 2008]

eServGlobal Boosts Growth Potential and Cuts Development Costs With Embedded Database

whitepaper eServGlobal (LSE: ESG & ASX: ESV) invents smart communication and payment solutions to help telecommunications service providers operating on all-generation networks to grow new revenues, reduce churn, and lower costs.eServGlobal wanted to embed...

Tags: database management

[14 May 2008]

BMC Software IT Systems Management Express: Meeting Challenges in the Midsize Enterprise

whitepaper This IDC White Paper looks at the challenges facing midsize IT department customers in implementing and managing software changes in their IT environments. Midsize organizations face even greater challenges in managing end-user support than large...

Tags: monitoring systems

[14 May 2008]

Reduce the Total Cost of Ownership of Your Virtual Data Center With BMC Software and VMware Solutions

whitepaper This paper describes common business problems facing data centers, and explains how BMC, in its partnership with VMware, can help to identify and solve these problems. VMware technology works with the current infrastructure solutions by enabling to...

Tags: data center

[14 May 2008]

Global Manufacturer Restores and Enhances Directory Service With Remediation Strategy

whitepaper The absence of a proactive monitoring system also added to the problems facing BAT. Founded in 1902, British American Tobacco (BAT) is one of the world's largest cigarette manufacturers. The primary issue was the site replication topology, which...

Tags: customer support services

[11 May 2008]

Carphone Warehouse plans broadband boost

News Ian Fogg, research director at JupiterResearch, said Carphone Warehouse is facing big investment decisions in its broadband business if it is to keep up with the competition as ADSL2+ products hit the market.

Tags: talktalk, broadband, carphone warehouse

[09 May 2008]

The Journey From Requirements Capture to Right-First-Time Software Delivery

whitepaper The paper outlines concrete techniques for optimizing the QA and testing process by keeping test activities aligned with business-facing and performance-oriented requirements. Despite improvements in many parts of the life cycle, quality assurance...

Tags: software engineering

[09 May 2008]

Video: Tackling security threats

Video While at the annual Infosec show at London's Olympia, silicon.com asked security experts how businesses should tackle the biggest threats facing them today. Check out what the same experts said are the biggest threats businesses should be aware of.

Tags: infosec, business, threat, security

[07 May 2008]

The new CIO: Insights from the Center for CIO Leadership

whitepaper Read this white paper to see what Harvey Koeppel, executive director of the Center for CIO Leadership, says around the challenges facing CIOs today and the emerging role of the CIO as a business leader helping to drive change and innovation.

Tags: business strategies, cio, innovation, cios

[07 May 2008]

PCI DSS Compliance: A Difficult But Necessary Journey

whitepaper Since PCI DSS was launched, it has helped to expose serious security shortcomings, companies' failure to follow security best practice and a general lack of awareness of the security threats facing organizations today.

Tags: security standards

[06 May 2008]

Is Now the Time to Migrate to IP Telephony? Re-evaluating the Risks and Rewards

whitepaper If your business finds itself with one or more aging digital PBXs, you are facing the challenge of deciding when a migration to a new telephony environment makes sense for your specific business situation and objectives.

Tags: voip - ip telephony

[05 May 2008]

A Step-by-Step Guide to Starting Up SaaS Operations

whitepaper Software companies are facing the complex issues involved with building the service delivery capabilities necessary to support SaaS offerings. Faced with intensifying competition, as well as a desire for more stable revenue streams, software...

Tags: infrastructure management, service level agreements, outlines, recovery

[02 May 2008]

Video: Business security threats

Video silicon.com asked security experts attending the annual Infosec security conference at London's Olympia what they feel are the biggest security threats facing businesses today. There were some interesting answers.

Tags: industry, threat, business, security

[01 May 2008]

Dell and HP find ways to keep Windows XP alive

News Facing a 30 June deadline to stop selling PCs with Windows XP, the world's largest computer makers are getting creative. Taking advantage of the "downgrade rights" offered as part of the Windows Vista licence agreement, HP and Dell both plan to...

Tags: xp, vista, hp, dell

[28 Apr 2008]

A Guide to Next-Generation Backup, Recovery, and Archive

whitepaper It is likely that your organisation is facing dramatic information growth. With this growth, you may need to re-evaluate whether your backup and recovery systems can cope with this increase in size.Read this white paper for a guide of how to...

Tags: disaster recovery, backup, guide, evaluate

[25 Apr 2008]

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