Small and Midsize Businesses White Papers

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Myth Busted: Affordable, Easy to Manage Virtualization with High-Availability is a Reality
sponsored by Stratus Technologies
WHITE PAPER: SMBs want to take advantage of the benefits of virtualization but it can be costly to manage if they do not have the required skills in-house. Dan Kusnetzky takes a deep look at all of the benefits as well as the issues these businesses are facing, including the requirement to use automated systems, reducing complexity and maintaining availability.
Posted: 11 Aug 2011 | Published: 11 Aug 2011

Stratus Technologies

VMware Solutions for Small and Midsize Business
sponsored by CDW VMware
WHITE PAPER: SMBs need to ensure high application availability and manage an increasingly complex IT environment within a limited budget. Learn how VMware's vSphere offers SMBs built-in business continuity and simplified IT management at a low cost.
Posted: 21 Nov 2011 | Published: 21 Nov 2011

CDW VMware

Six Reasons to Get Smarter About Storage
sponsored by Cisco Systems, Inc.
WHITE PAPER: A growing trend in small businesses is to solve storage problems with a simpler, more elegant technology: network-attached storage (NAS). Continue reading to learn about NAS appliances such as Cisco® Small Business NSS 300 Series Smart Storage solution, as well as learn the reasons why it differs from other NAS storage method.
Posted: 21 Jan 2011 | Published: 21 Jan 2011

Cisco Systems, Inc.

How to Cut Overhead Costs Right Now: Connect Remote Workers, Using VPN Security
sponsored by Cisco Systems, Inc.
WHITE PAPER: Giving remote workers easy and secure access to your network with virtual private network (VPN) technology can result in big savings.
Posted: 14 Aug 2009 | Published: 14 Aug 2009

Cisco Systems, Inc.

2012 Endpoint Security Best Practices Survey
sponsored by Symantec Corporation
WHITE PAPER: Today’s SMBs are increasingly forced to invest in new measures to protect their endpoints and their business from cyber threats. This resource explores key findings from the Symantec 2012 Endpoint Security Survey and offers best practices and recommendations for reducing the risk of a successful cyber attack.
Posted: 29 Jun 2012 | Published: 29 Jun 2012

Symantec Corporation

Creating a Business Case for Virtualization in the SMB Data Center
sponsored by Dell, Inc. and Intel®
WHITE PAPER: This paper offers a guide for presenting the relatively high costs of expanding physical environments and the savings components of virtualization.
Posted: 28 Jan 2011 | Published: 27 Jan 2011

Dell, Inc. and Intel®

Clearing the Clouds for Midmarket Businesses
sponsored by EMC Corporation
WHITE PAPER: This white paper outlines the essentials in cloud computing for midmarket businesses to help you understand the advantages and disadvantages of each model and explains how to evaluate workload, performance and security needs when devising a best-suited cloud strategy for your organization.
Posted: 13 Jun 2013 | Published: 12 Jun 2013

EMC Corporation

Avoiding System and Data Loss with Windows Desktops and Laptops
sponsored by StorageCraft Technology Corporation
WHITE PAPER: This white paper outlines each of these issues, why they are important for SMBs to address and how to resolve them while maximizing business continuity and minimizing IT resources necessary to accomplish the demands of backing up and recovering Windows desktops and laptops in your environment.
Posted: 18 Feb 2011 | Published: 18 Feb 2011

StorageCraft Technology Corporation

HP X5000 G2 Network Storage System Evaluation
sponsored by HPE and Intel®
WHITE PAPER: Read this Tolly Test Report and how the HP X5000 G2 Network Storage System powered by Intel® Xeon® processors not only integrates with existing Microsoft, Unix, and Linux applications using CIFS and/or NFS, but also enables high-speed connectivity to a host of virtualization platforms, database applications, backup applications and more.
Posted: 16 Feb 2012 | Published: 15 Feb 2012

HPE and Intel®

VMware and Dell Solutions for Small to Medium Business: Ensuring Rapid, Reliable and Affordable Disaster Recovery
sponsored by Dell and VMware
WHITE PAPER: Affordable high availability and disaster recovery solutions are critical to the survival of all SMBs in the event of a disaster. Building on years of helping SMBs protect their information, VMware and Dell provide cost-effective and robust data protection, disaster recovery, and high availability solutions.
Posted: 22 Nov 2010 | Published: 22 Nov 2010

Dell and VMware