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  • Doing More with Less - Automating IT Services in Your Midsize Business
    Source: N-able
    White Paper:This whitepaper will serve as an invaluable reference tool for IT professionals who want to ensure their success with an automation solution that fully meets the needs of their midsize business - without breaking the bank. Learn how to address the "big four" pain points for IT managers, the perils of point solutions, the power of services automation , questions to ask before choosing an IT automation solution, key requirements of an IT automation solution, and how to optimize your IT infrastructure.
  • SIP Trunking is Key to Accelerating Unified Communications Deployments
    Source: Sprint
    White Paper:Overcome common unified communications (UC) deployment challenges by better understanding the cost and networking benefits of embracing UC as well as how SIP trunking plays a key role in accelerating your migration to UC.

    Also get recommendations on evaluating SIP trunking providers and how to successfully deploy this service.
  • How Your Business Can Attain Maximum ROI from Virtualization
    Source: VMware
    White Paper:Virtualization is one of the hottest solutions in IT because it reduces the cost and complexity of technology. This makes businesses more responsive and improves their ability to rebound from disasters. This white paper delves into these and more virtualization benefits available from VMware.
  • The Top Ten Most Forgotten Things When building a Disaster Recovery Plan
    Source: VMware
    White Paper:Every IT manager knows the importance of an effective disaster recovery plan. Organizations without one may find themselves out of business quickly after experiencing a major disaster. This checklist can help make sure you haven't missed a crucial step that could make the difference between staying open or going under.
  • Ten Ways to Get More from Your IT Budget
    Source: VMware
    White Paper:No matter the size of your business, you are always looking for new and innovative ways to cut costs. In addition to traditional cost-cutting strategies, this list contains cost savings opportunities you may not have explored, including virtualization from VMware, the leader in the industry.
  • Optimizing Data protection Operations in VMware Environments
    Source: VMware
    White Paper:In the areas of backup window, recovery point objectives, recovery time objectives and recovery reliability, data protection is critical for small and medium business customers. Server virtualization can offer some significant advantages. This Taneja Group Solution Profile identifies the data protection optimizations available in the VMware vSphere environment.
  • The Benefits of Virtualization: Why It's Time for IT to Move Now
    Source: VMware
    White Paper:Virtualization makes it possible for IT managers with fewer than 50 servers to be more responsive to their internal and external customers, provide higher-quality service and react quickly to business needs. As a result, adoption of virtualization is growing fast. This white paper reveals six major benefits of virtualization.
  • Saving Your Servers from Disaster using VMware Virtualization
    Source: VMware
    White Paper:Virtualization offers hardware independence - a huge time saver in recovering from a disaster. In addition, virtualization provides several other ways to protect your business from server downtime. This white paper takes a look at some of the key features of virtualization that help defend your IT environment against disaster.
  • A Security Blueprint Delivered From within the Network
    Source: Alcatel-Lucent
    White Paper:Rapid advances in communications have been accompanied by an equally rapid multiplication in security threats. To take advantage of the latest business models and ensure they are still protected enterprises must change how they view security, with a blueprint that provides a trusted environment for business.
  • The Five Dangers of Poor Network Timing
    Source: Symmetricom
    White Paper:This white paper provides a compelling argument for having accurate and synchronized time in an IT infrastructure. It discusses the technical and business consequences that can occur when clocks in a network fall out of synchronization.
  • Data Protection is not an insurance policy - you cannot buy-back lost data.
    Source: IBM
    White Paper:You need to maintain access to critical information to run your business and remain competitive. IBM's Comprehensive Data Protection Solution combines powerful and affordable server and disk platforms, and storage management software, to deliver a solution that is suitable for small to medium businesses who want a backup and recovery solution that is inexpensive and easy to deploy. Learn all the details by listening to our podcast featuring John Weber principle IT Advisor at Illuminata.
  • Deployment Guide: Cisco Application Networking for Microsoft SharePoint
    Source: Cisco
    White Paper:This deployment guide offers in-depth technical guidance on implementing a Cisco Network with Microsoft SharePoint. This joint solution provides:

    - Data center, branch and remote user application services - Improved recovery time and point objectives - Faster response time over the WAN - SOA security - Reduced capital and operational costs
  • Wireless vs. Wire Line - What's Right for Your Organization
    Source: Cisco
    White Paper:The next two years will see significant improvements in wireless LANs and wire line networks. Determine you own network roadmap by reading this report from ABI Research that covers the pros and cons of both technologies.
  • The 802.11n Ratification Checklist
    Source: Cisco
    White Paper:The ratification of 802.11n promises to unleash the power of mobility. This checklist advises how to avoid common pitfalls when integrating 802.11n into your network - from developing a 5-GHz strategy to selecting the right adapters and more.
  • Case Study: WAN Optimization and SAN Switches Return $700,000 Annual Cost Savings
    Source: Cisco
    White Paper:See how a 90,000- employee construction supplier transformed their data center by moving to director-class SAN switches. The results: network traffic savings of 3TB per month, massive server consolidation and $700,000 annual savings in operating expenses.

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