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Rethinking People Costs in Enterprise IT
sponsored by Rackspace Technology
WHITE PAPER: This white paper explores how to assess your IT people spend and position IT as a central driver of business growth.
Posted: 15 Oct 2014 | Published: 12 Aug 2014

Rackspace Technology

Outsourcing IT Projects to Managed Hosting or the Cloud
sponsored by Rackspace Technology
WHITE PAPER: View this white paper to discover 12 critical success factors when outsourcing IT to managed hosting or the cloud.
Posted: 09 Jan 2015 | Published: 07 Jun 2014

Rackspace Technology

Mobilizing I.T. Support to Achieve Efficiency, Speed, and Effectiveness
sponsored by BMC Software, Inc.
WHITE PAPER: To survive in today's economy, your IT organization will face increasing pressure to do more with less and work from anywhere at anytime. Imagine how much more productive your service desk personnel could be if they were able to periodically manage and respond to issues from the field, rather than having to check in at their desktops.
Posted: 26 Jan 2010 | Published: 26 Jan 2010

BMC Software, Inc.

The Software-Defined Data Center is Key to IT-as-a-Service
sponsored by Avaya
WHITE PAPER: This white paper provides an in-depth look into the migration to a software-defined data center. Discover how driving business growth has necessitated advancements in the technology infrastructure to allow IT to be delivered as-a-service.
Posted: 19 Sep 2013 | Published: 31 Aug 2013

Avaya

Forming an Agile IT Function
sponsored by Hewlett Packard Enterprise
WHITE PAPER: This brief resource explores the important considerations that CIOs need to keep in mind when taking steps to bring in agility into IT function. Learn how to form a roadmap to IT success by reading on now.
Posted: 06 Nov 2013 | Published: 06 Nov 2013

Hewlett Packard Enterprise

ASG-Discovery and Dependency Mapping (ASG-DDM)
sponsored by ASG Software Solutions
WHITE PAPER: This paper explains ASG's unique, automated solution for discovery and dependency mapping for change and configuration management.
Posted: 23 Feb 2010 | Published: 23 Feb 2010

ASG Software Solutions

Ease of Use in Web Conferencing – The Cost Benefits Of Making Usability a Priority
sponsored by IBM
WHITE PAPER: The benefits of Web conferencing have motivated many to become proficient at its use. But the economic downturn has brought a new urgency to finding ways to cut costs and work together efficiently. This study examines the role of usability as the major issue that stands in the way of truly beneficial adoption of web conferencing by the mainstream.
Posted: 18 Jun 2010 | Published: 18 Feb 2009

IBM

3 Tough Questions to Ask Your ICT Support Provider to Ensure Its Services Match Your Needs
sponsored by Dimension Data
WHITE PAPER: This whitepaper reviews 3 tough questions to ask your IT services provider to ensure that they are meeting your organizational needs.
Posted: 03 Feb 2014 | Published: 03 Feb 2014

Dimension Data

The State of IT Systems Management
sponsored by Kaseya International Limited
WHITE PAPER: This white paper is the culmination of results from a survey conducted - which asked IT professionals about their priorities, concerns and goals regarding the dynamic world of IT systems management - painting a complete and accurate picture of the most common IT issues affecting IT professionals and Kaseya’s solution to solving these problems.
Posted: 29 Mar 2011 | Published: 29 Mar 2011

Kaseya International Limited

VMware vSphere 5.5 Data sheet
sponsored by Dell and VMware
WHITE PAPER: This brief white paper explores a leading virtualization platform for building cloud infrastructures. Find out how this virtualization platform accelerates the shift to cloud computing for existing data centers and how it reinforces compatible public cloud offerings, forming the foundation for the industry's only hybrid cloud model.
Posted: 20 Sep 2013 | Published: 31 Aug 2013

Dell and VMware