IT Budgeting and Spending White Papers

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The Top 3 Cost-Cutting Mistakes CIOs Make And How to Avoid Them
sponsored by Rally Software
WHITE PAPER: The current economic downturn has resulted in contraction of IT Department budgets and a mandate to allocate resources to only the most critical projects, then execute it flawlessly. In these tough times, it is imperative for CIOs to deliver more value as IT budgets fall.
Posted: 03 Apr 2009 | Published: 03 Apr 2009

Rally Software

Energy Logic: Calculating and Prioritizing Your Data Center IT Efficiency Actions
sponsored by Emerson Network Power
WHITE PAPER: This paper reviews the challenges of measuring data center energy efficiency and proposes a solution: a new metric called CUPS, or Compute Units per Second, that allows data center managers to calculate data center efficiency.
Posted: 07 Jul 2009 | Published: 07 Jul 2009

Emerson Network Power

Hardware Neutral Imaging with ImageX: The Ghost Killer
sponsored by Global Knowledge
WHITE PAPER: Learn how ImageX can help facilitate successful image management and lower the total cost of ownership of your Vista implementation.
Posted: 14 Mar 2007 | Published: 01 Mar 2007

Global Knowledge

Enhancing Business with Smarter, More Effective Communication
sponsored by Cisco Systems, Inc.
WHITE PAPER: To enable effective mobile communication, organizations are increasingly spending to ensure productivity and availability. Discover cost-effective applications that improve communications, connect workers, enable collaboration and streamline processes.
Posted: 27 Mar 2007 | Published: 01 Mar 2007

Cisco Systems, Inc.

Usage of Virtualization Technology at Small and Midsize Businesses
sponsored by VMware and Intel
WHITE PAPER: Virtualization technologies can allow small and medium-sized businesses to reduce hardware costs and optimize IT. If your business is not currently using this technology, checkout this survey to gauge how your peers are addressing virtualization issues.
Posted: 09 Nov 2007 | Published: 01 Nov 2007

VMware and Intel

Built-in Manageability and Proactive Security for Business Desktop PCs
sponsored by Intel Corporation
WHITE PAPER: Read this white paper to learn how built in desktop management can help address today?s key IT challenges such as avoiding malicious attacks, accurate inventory of assets, and the demand for IT services.
Posted: 05 Sep 2006 | Published: 01 Oct 2006

Intel Corporation

Advances in Data Warehouse Performance
sponsored by IBM
WHITE PAPER: Learn how DB2 can help you meet the demands of business intelligence by reducing query response time from hours to seconds, supporting real time data warehousing, and optimizing your storage while lowering operating costs.
Posted: 28 Nov 2007 | Published: 01 May 2007

IBM

Email Recovery: Doing More with Less- How to save Time and Money When Recovering Email
sponsored by Kroll Ontrack, Inc.
WHITE PAPER: This paper shows how the costs associated with recovering email messages from Microsoft® Exchange Server backups can be significant and also provides us with the practical information on how to minimize those costs.
Posted: 10 Feb 2009 | Published: 10 Feb 2009

Kroll Ontrack, Inc.

Server Consolidation Blooming in Production Environments
sponsored by VMware and Intel
WHITE PAPER: Learn how a virtual infrastructure empowers small and medium-sized businesses with the ability to transform, manage and optimize their IT infrastructure.
Posted: 15 Nov 2007 | Published: 15 Nov 2007

VMware and Intel

Four Principles for Reducing Storage TCO
sponsored by Hitachi Vantara
WHITE PAPER: This white paper shares proven strategies for storage infrastructure cost reduction. You will uncover four keys to minimizing storage costs and maximizing return on assets based on the tried and tested Storage Economics framework.
Posted: 16 Jun 2009 | Published: 01 May 2009

Hitachi Vantara