WHITE PAPER - This paper discusses the growing tide of data security standards and regulations and the need for a sustainable security compliance strategy.
Posted: December 22, 2008 | Published: December 19, 2008


Topics:  Best Practices | Business Processes | Compliance (Systems Operations) | Compliance Audits | Compliance Software | Data Security | Enterprise | HIPAA

WHITE PAPER - Today, technology provides tremendous, previously untapped opportunities for a carrier to enhance the experience of channel members and ensures greater productivity. This paper describes the challenges carriers face in the area of loyalty and the ways technology enables carriers to address common agent frustrations in unprecedented ways.
Posted: December 15, 2008 | Published: December 15, 2008


Topics:  Best Practices | Insurance Applications Software | Insurance Industry | Productivity | ROI | Web Services

WHITE PAPER - This guide primarily focused on storage arrays based on their support for key virtualization features, such as high availability and virtual machine migration.
Posted: December 11, 2008 | Published: December 11, 2008


Topics:  Best Practices | Enterprise | High Availability | RAID | Storage Devices | Storage Virtualization | Virtual Machine Monitor | VM

WHITE PAPER - This Dell High Availability Solutions Guide for Microsoft Hyper-V introduces different options to implement HA for Hyper-V environments.
Posted: December 11, 2008 | Published: December 11, 2008


Topics:  Best Practices | Enterprise | High Availability | Memory | Operating Systems | SAN | SMBs | Testing | Virtual Machine Monitor

WHITE PAPER - This solutions guide details the four available networking configurations, and the advantages and disadvantages of each with an emphasis on typical Dell system configuration and the hardware offerings.
Posted: December 11, 2008 | Published: December 11, 2008


Topics:  Best Practices | Clustering | DHCP | High Availability | Network Configuration Management | SMBs | VLAN | Windows Server Software

WHITE PAPER - This article provides an introduction to Hyper-V virtualization, discusses the overall architecture and underlying technologies, and offers guidance on best practices for deployment on Dell PowerEdge servers.
Posted: December 11, 2008 | Published: December 11, 2008


Topics:  Best Practices | Data Center Management | DHCP | Enterprise | High Availability | Operating Systems | SAN | Server Virtualization | Virtual Machine Monitor | VMware

WHITE PAPER - This white paper explores how to change some of the default user experiences by customizing elements of both the Look and Feel and the site Navigation. Many additional "out of the box" customization elements are available.
Posted: December 10, 2008 | Published: December 10, 2008


Topics:  Best Practices | Databases | Enterprise | RSS | SQL | SQL Server

WHITE PAPER - This paper will explore the authentication methods available with WPA2 (Wi-Fi Protected Access 2) and identify several important best practices to consider when deploying a wireless network at home or in the enterprise.
Posted: December 10, 2008 | Published: October 11, 2008


Topics:  Authentication | Best Practices | LAN | Passwords | Security | WAN | Wi-Fi | WLAN

PODCAST - In this podcast, virtualization expert Anil Desai talks with WhatIs.com's Alex Howard about the many ways virtualization can be used to improve software testing and development.
Posted: December 4, 2008 | Premiered: December 3, 2008


Topics:  Application Deployment | Best Practices | Quality Control | Security | Software Migration | Software Testing | Software Upgrades | Software Virtualization | Virtual Machine Monitor

WHITE PAPER - This paper examines hot and cold air containment and highlights the reasons why hot aisle containment emerges as the preferred best practice.
Posted: November 20, 2008 | Published: February 3, 2009


Topics:  Best Practices | Computer Room Air Conditioning Units | Cooling Equipment | Data Centers | Downtime | Storage Capacity

WHITE PAPER - Backing up to disk instead of tape eliminates the hassles of tape, provides faster backups and restores, improves security and streamlines operations. Learn about the 7 critical questions to ask when considering a move to disk-based backup.
Posted: November 20, 2008 | Published: October 20, 2008


Topics:  Best Practices | Data Recovery | Disaster Planning | Disaster Recovery | Disk Backups | Disk Storage Systems | File Recovery Programs | Serial ATA | Tape Backups

CASE STUDY - CAPITAL Card Services wanted a solution that could help automate compliance, improve best practices and reduce unplanned work to meet this requirement it turned on to Tripwire as a result Capital was able to reduced unplanned work by 75%.
Posted: September 25, 2008 | Published: September 19, 2008


Topics:  Auditing (Finance) | Best Practices | Change Management | Credit Cards | Financial Services Industry | Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard Compliance | Portfolio Management (Finance) | Security | Security Systems

WHITE PAPER - This white paper introduces the steps that organizations must take to improve their systems and software development processes, by implementing key best practices and uniting development teams with Application Lifecycle Management (ALM).
Posted: July 10, 2008 | Published: April 1, 2008


Topics:  Application Life-Cycle Management | Best Practices | Change Management | Collaboration | Embedded Systems Hardware | Infrastructure Management | SOA | Software | Software Configuration Management

WHITE PAPER - This white paper details a strategy that enables companies to painlessly gain PCI compliance and ensure effective security.
Posted: July 3, 2008 | Published: June 19, 2008


Topics:  Best Practices | Compliance Audits | Continuous Data Protection | Endpoint Security | Security | Vulnerability Management

WHITE PAPER - We can define an effective marketing dashboard as one that enables marketers to visually display relevant and current campaign, customer, advertising and/or branding information needed to achieve marketing objectives.
Posted: June 4, 2008 | Published: June 1, 2008


Topics:  Best Practices | Dashboards | Marketing | ROI | Sales and Marketing Software | Security