Have you considered the suitability of spreadsheets for business planning and more importantly, the danger they pose to the security and competitiveness of your organization? If not, here are six questions you should ask yourself.

The Farmers Insurance Case Study tells the story of Perimeter's progressive relationship with Farmers Insurance and Perimeter's messaging suite of services. The relationship first began about 10 years ago, when Farmers signed up for Hosted CMS to boost productivity and create a consistent corporate brand for their agents. Download this case study now to find out how working with Perimeter can simplify your IT needs.

Learn how to unburden your VDI infrastructure and gain added security, network performance improvements and optimizations, while improving the architecture for non-VDI application specific systems.

Without effective monitoring of your virtual environments, the benefits you gain from virtualization are offset by the costs and complexity of using several tools to track and monitor the performance of your environments. Explore the new monitoring challenges that virtualization presents, and learn how you can address them with best practices.

Read this white paper and get proven strategies and approaches for getting all three right. Based on the lessons of veteran service provider executives, this paper offers specific guidelines service providers can implement to boost their chances for success.

According to Forrester Research, "end-user experience has to be the benchmark for enterprise application performance*," which of course makes perfect sense, given that enterprises are spending billions of dollars to enable productivity and automation gains as specifically directed by end-users. Read to find out more.

The ITMaaS segment is a part of the broader SaaS world. However, the adoption drivers and emerging market characteristics of the segment mimic those of IaaS and PaaS to a greater degree than the enterprise SaaS market.

The broker-dealer selects the products the advisors offer, provides expertise, training and collateral, and delivers a technology platform for its advisors. These unique characteristics allow them to give its affiliated advisory firms the flexibility and resources of a large brokerage, while preserving the culture of personal service that customers expect from smaller companies.

EMA provides research and analysis of today's End User Experience (EUE) and Application Performance Management (APM) technologies along with a thoughtful presentation on the Top 10 Myths to dispel before purchasing any monitoring tool. Guest speakers include Julie Craig, EMA Research Director, and Trevor Matz, President and CEO of Aternity.

An organization cannot sustain long-term success without managing its information effectively... Building a foundation for information governance is your next step.

Asking the right questions early in the vetting process is essential for selecting the solution that can best meet your business goals and IT requirements.

Today's IT investments require bottom-line, quantifiable truths. Unified communications (UC) is no exception. Moving to UC means not only determining which solution best fits your organizations needs - but means creating a solid business case that demonstrates a strong return on investment (ROI) and a low total cost of ownership (TCO). This white paper tells you how to understand the benefits of UC in your organization, identify the preferred modes and means of communications, and then use that criterion as a guide to seek out the best UC solution. Most organizations find that UC enhances user productivity or business processes - or both. * UC for user productivity (UC-U) concentrates on helping individual users better manage their communications. These UC capabilities include as presence status, click-to-communicate, instant messaging, and rapid set up of audio, video and Web conferences. * UC for business processes (UC-B) focuses on integrating communications capabilities within workflows and processes in order to enhance business activities. Many organizations begin by focusing on using UC to enhance user productivity, but they soon find that both productivity and business processes can be improved by UC.To achieve breakthrough results, it's important to think about communications in a new way. Unified communications is not so much a system as it is a way of thinking about the impact of the next generation of communications capabilities on businesses large and small. This white paper helps you change your thinking.

Best Practice Guide for Choosing the Best Unified Communications Solution for Your Organization. Asking the right questions early in the vetting process is essential for selecting a Unified Communications solution that can best meet your business goals and IT requirements. Understanding and thoroughly evaluating multiple UC solutions can help ensure that you select the right solution for your business and avoid issues later.

Read this whitepaper to learn three simple steps Small to medium size businesses can take to heighten business performance and increase brand office productivity.

Read the informational story now and learn why companies like MasterBrand Cabinets chose Steelhead® WAN optimization appliances for superior performance.

With the help of solutions from Riverbed Technology, Constangy, Brooks & Smith consolidated and virtualized many different servers, and eliminated the expense and difficulty of remotely managing hardware and software. Learn how you can too.

The term virtualization refers to the creation of virtual machines, virtual networks, and virtual disks (logical images of physical resources) that can execute work and then be returned to a shared resource pool. Cloud computing makes use of virtualization but cloud computing also focuses on allowing computing to be delivered as a service.

IBM Tivoli Netcool/OMNIbus is a "manager of managers" designed to collect and correlate events and provide a holistic "single pane of glass" view into the health and performance of the entire business IT and network infrastructure, with its increasingly instrumented devices.

Integrated Services Management, or ISM, is a major evolutionary force guiding management technology and practice progress in enterprises today. The implications of ISM are broad, but the essence of the initiative is a re-thinking of how IT delivers value to the organization it serves, and a re-framing of all IT contributions around the concept of services.

IBM IT service management solutions help control costs, enhance performance and increase security in the virtual environment, with software for IT provisioning, IT monitoring, virtual storage, IT security, usage and accounting, software license management and more.

Recent trends in the distribution industry are forcing companies to continually re-evaluate their processes and value propositions and strategically chart new courses.

Read this white paper to separate the technology and business potential from the marketing fluff. Get answers to your most pressing cloud questions and better understand when and where the cloud makes the most sense for your organization.

Thanks to the emergence of cloud computing, IT environments must now be a broker of IT services across the enterprise. But how do you achieve the right IT balance for delivering cloud services? Read this white paper to find out.

Why do industry analysts agree Silver Peak is the WAN Optimization vendor of choice for offsite data replication? It starts with a unique, next generation architecture. Conceived from the ground up to optimize all IP applications, regardless of transport protocol or application version.

Read this white paper to learn how bursting can bring your business users and IT back into strategic alignment, as you jointly exploit new business opportunities enabled by private, public, and hybrid clouds.