DDM White Papers

WHITE PAPER: How will platform and content access interruptions affect productivity, revenue, and compliance-related exposure? This document will analyze common consequences of such interruptions and discuss why successful SharePoint deployments require effective management, vigorous protection, diligent compliance protocols, and continuous availability.

Posted: 11 Jun 2009 | Published: 01 Aug 2008

WHITE PAPER: The current economic climate is forcing more systematic thinking about costs in general, including those associated with overall complexity and the security and resiliency of large distributed infrastructures. These trends intersect in powerful ways; a new wave of computing is gathering momentum as a result. And open source is playing a major role.

Posted: 18 Jun 2009 | Published: 09 Jan 2009

WHITE PAPER: Companies need to reevaluate traditional methods of protecting branch office and PC data such as tape backups and other localized do-it-yourself solutions. Read this white paper to learn about remote on-demand services.

Posted: 27 Oct 2008 | Published: 27 Oct 2008

WHITE PAPER: This paper discusses critical factors every IT decision maker needs to know when upgrading to NetWeaver, to ensure system performance and availability, and to balance cost with the risks of downtime.

Posted: 16 Jul 2008 | Published: 16 Jul 2008

WHITE PAPER: Storage area networks (SAN) deliver consolidated storage and advanced storage management features. This paper explains the benefits of three different server boot operations provided by one advanced SAN configuration. It counsels that you should weigh the benefits and drawbacks of each before committing your organization's storage system to one.

Posted: 25 Mar 2009 | Published: 25 Mar 2009

WHITE PAPER: With the acquisition of Diligent Corporation, IBM has put itself in the rather unique position as the only vendor that can offer to the enterprise a complete backup/recovery solution with servers, disk, tape, software, and data deduplication technology, all rolled into one.

Posted: 01 Apr 2009 | Published: 01 Apr 2009

WHITE PAPER: In this white paper learn how sequential performance provides customers with improved data transfer rates for applications such as data warehousing, streaming video, high-performance technical computing, and backups and restores.

Posted: 07 Aug 2008 | Published: 01 Aug 2008

WHITE PAPER: This white paper highlights two new additions to the Cisco Small Business Network Storage System (NSS) line of products. The Cisco NSS2000 Series is a 2-bay network attached storage (NAS) system, and the Cisco NSS3000 Series is a 4-bay system.

Posted: 25 Mar 2009 | Published: 25 Mar 2009

WHITE PAPER: In this white paper, we advocate a new definition for Enterprise 2.0. We explain the business drivers and demographic changes that are forcing new, collaborative business models. We identify the technological capabilities required for an Enterprise 2.0 platform, and highlight the transformational abilities of such a platform.

Posted: 05 May 2009 | Published: 01 Dec 2008

WHITE PAPER: This white paper proposes a 5-step approach to automate an accounts payable operation, describing the typical costs of processing invoices manually and the saving that can be achieved with each of the incremental steps.

Posted: 03 Feb 2009 | Published: 03 Feb 2009