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  • Proactive Planning for Big Data
    Source: CDW
    White Paper: Big data is less about the terabytes and more about the query tools and business intelligence needed to make sense of massive amounts of data. This guide dives into the impact big data will have on government, highlighting how legacy business models and systems will be disrupted and the methodical steps agencies can take to create an effective strategy.
  • Business Intelligence Shows its Smarts
    Source: CDW
    White Paper: Today's Business Intelligence (BI) tools provide a new way to think about data with self-service capabilities and user-friendly analytics that can be used by nearly everyone. This white paper offers a primer on BI, from understanding how it compares to analytics and the tools required for effective BI, to overcoming common barriers to success.
  • Harness IT -- An Introduction to Business Intelligence Solutions
    Source: CDW
    White Paper: 80% of self-service business intelligence (BI) applications offer more flexibility than traditional BI tools. Learn the key selection criteria required to provide your organization with the capability to address structured data, unstructured data and mobile demands so that employees can view and manipulate data on their own, from virtually any location.
  • 5 Challenges to Developing Flexible Data Center Networking
    Source: Level 3 Communications
    White Paper: Enterprises are expanding geographically through growth and acquisitions at an unprecedented rate. Simultaneously, they're forced to comply with increasingly stringent government regulations. Consolidating business information into connected data centers can reduce costs, enhance security, and simplify management. It also can enable the infrastructure to address mandates. In this whitepaper, Level 3 discusses 5 common datacenter networking challenges and how to solve for those issues.
  • What Separates Network Provider Leaders From Laggards? A WAN Buyer's Guide
    Source: Level 3 Communications
    White Paper: When it comes to making a wide area network (WAN) purchase decision, you should consider more than just price per bit. Modern applications demand low latency, availability and scalability. In addition, preparing for future applications without paying too much is the key to developing a Smart WAN - an intelligent, cost efficient, elastic and adaptable network environment. In this guide, we provide a list of questions you can use to evaluate the merits of providers and make a thoughtful decision.
  • The Intelligent WAN: Big Data and Network Challenges
    Source: Level 3 Communications
    White Paper: WAN consumption patterns have evolved from predictable, point-to-point transactions to bandwidth-hungry, always-on, many-to-many interactions. Unfortunately, very few organizations have taken a holistic, systems-based approach to the WAN. IDC believes that as the content and data become bigger, the WAN must include active/active architectures supporting continuity, high performance to facilitate real time file distribution and network intelligence to meet capacity and quality-of-service demands.
  • Business Assurance Technology Infographic
    Source: Blue Coat
    White Paper: IT Leaders See security as barrier to enabling employees. However with new Business assurance technology you are able to give Continuity, Agility, and Governance.
  • Security Empowers Business
    Source: Blue Coat
    White Paper: For decades, fear has dominated the discussion of cyber security. Every magazine article, presentation or blog about the topic seems to start the same way: trying to scare the living daylights out of you with horror stories, alarming statistics, and doomsday scenarios. The result is that most IT shops and security vendors think security is only about what you prevent. They think it's about blocking, prohibiting, controlling, constraining, excluding, outlawing, and forbidding. Hence IT's reputation as the "Department of No."
  • Turn your information into enterprise value
    Source: HP Autonomy
    White Paper: The ability to apply policies consistently can lead to effective information governance, but there are challenges that can deter the implementation of sound governance processes. Because most systems today only manage content in their own repositories, information is decentralized-and there's the added complexity of new formats like audio, video, and social media. Download this HP Autonomy white paper, "Turn your information into enterprise value: HP Autonomy's Policy-Based Information", and learn more about how policy-based information governance delivers a next-generation approach that can give you a higher Return on Information, with less risk.
  • Mission Possible - How HP conquers the demon of explosive structured data growth
    Source: HP Autonomy
    White Paper: Database is critical to business operations across the enterprise. As the data foot print grows, a myriad of challenges emerge. Application performance degrades and drives down business users' productivity. Capital and operating expenses eat up an increasing portion of the budget which hampers innovative investments. Backup and recovery windows lengthen which increases IT overhead and operational risk. HP was not immune to these crippling headaches. It established an archiving process in 2009 and has been able to achieve reductions in query time (89%), storage (48%) and full backup window (37%). Find out how from this HP IT best-practice whitepaper.
  • HP 3PAR StoreServ Storage designed for mission-critical high availability
    Source: HP and Intel® Xeon® Processors
    White Paper: HP 3PAR StoreServ delivers 99.999 percent high availability. This technical paper details the architecture's efficient, autonomic, and multi-tenant features and explains their positive impact on mission-critical applications. Learn how HP 3PAR StoreServ, powered by Intel Xeon processors, sets the standard for thin provisioning ensuring thin volumes and thin copies stay thin over time.

    Intel, the Intel logo, Xeon, and Xeon Inside are trademarks or registered trademarks of Intel Corporation in the U.S. and/or other countries.
  • HP 3PAR StoreServ Storage for SAP Systems
    Source: HP and Intel® Xeon® Processors
    White Paper: SAP environments are challenged with storage issues in a number of areas. Sponsored by HP and Intel, this technical paper describes tests that HP performed to demonstrate the benefits and capabilities of an HP 3PAR solution resulting in a high-performing, easy-to-manage storage solution for an SAP environment with the most efficient resource utilization.

    Intel, the Intel logo, Xeon, and Xeon Inside are trademarks or registered trademarks of Intel Corporation in the U.S. and/or other countries.
  • ESG: The Business and Operational Benefits Achieved With HP StoreVirtual 4000 Storage
    Source: HP and Intel® Xeon® Processors
    White Paper: Brought to you by HP and Intel, ESG summarizes insights from in-depth interviews with HP StoreVirtual 4000 users. ESG's conclusion: Organizations reported savings that run into the tens of thousands of dollars per year. Learn how HP StoreVirtual, features deliver time and resource savings, faster recovery capabilities, reduced outages and an impressive and quantifiable ROI.

    Intel, the Intel logo, Xeon, and Xeon Inside are trademarks or registered trademarks of Intel Corporation in the U.S. and/or other countries.
  • Taneja Group: Ensuring Business Continuity of SAN Storage with the HP 3PAR StoreServ 7000 Family
    Source: HP and Intel® Xeon® Processors
    White Paper: The Taneja Group examines what business continuity means in storage systems. The approach most vendors take is piecemeal - costly, unreliable and complex to manage. Built from the ground up with business continuity in mind, Taneja reviews the HP 3PAR StoreServ 7000 array, powered by Intel Xeon processors, and highlights how its capabilities deliver a high level of business continuity.

    Intel, the Intel logo, Xeon, and Xeon Inside are trademarks or registered trademarks of Intel Corporation in the U.S. and/or other countries.
  • Edison Group: Stepping Up to the Next Generation: The Business Value of Upgrading from HP EVA Storage to 3PAR StoreServ Storage
    Source: HP and Intel® Xeon® Processors
    White Paper: HP EVA Storage users who face performance and scalability tradeoffs should consider an upgrade to 3PAR StoreServ Storage, powered by Intel Xeon processors. Designed for cost-effective, single-system scalability from the ground up, it is the only platform that offers the performance required to double VM density on physical servers and scale capacity automatically.

    Intel, the Intel logo, Xeon, and Xeon Inside are trademarks or registered trademarks of Intel Corporation in the U.S. and/or other countries.

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