Maintaining only current active data in production environments improves service levels, increases availability and improves disaster recovery initiatives. Archiving allows organizations to reclaim valuable capacity, reduce risk, and lower costs, while historical data remains accessible until retention periods expire.

Download this free whitepaper to find out how to easily manage and store archives on the most cost-effective media.

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The use of advanced virtualization technology, together with increasingly sophisticated systems management tools that manage both guest environments and the virtualization engines themselves, can significantly extend the benefits of virtualization.

Read this IDC analysis to learn more about the potential to lower IT costs by moving to a virtualized infrastructure.

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The NERC deadline is approaching. Are you ready for the new 2009 cybersecurity regulations?

Find out how to prepare for the new North American Electric Reliability Corporation (NERC) cybersecurity regulations. All bulk power system owners, operators, and users are responsible for compliance with regulations, measures and standards developed by NERC starting July 2009, including preparations for auditable compliant requirements in 2010.

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Predictive analytics is a powerful tool that helps organizations solve key challenges by using business knowledge to drive efficiencies and strengthen their competitive advantage. Read this best practices paper and discover 10 ways predictive analytics will make it easier for your organization to:

• Gain a more complete view of your business
• Find hidden value in your data
• Build stronger customer relationships
• Reduce your exposure to risk and fraud
• And much, much more...

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Are you a mechanical design engineer looking for ways to cut time and reduce costs associated with prototyping? Explore life in 3D.

The merging of 3D printing technology with Windows-based computer-aided design represents a paradigm shift for the role prototyping will play in all product development disciplines to come. This paper explores the trend via case studies from Timberland, Black & Decker, and Continental Tire.

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In a tight economy, IT managers are faced with more challenges than ever. Budgets are shrinking, Web and email threats are increasing, and administrators are tasked with providing more support with fewer people. As organizations rethink how they manage critical functions like Web and email security, industry experts are recommending the Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) model.

This informative paper discusses how the Software-as-a-Service model can help you stay ahead of Web and email threats without breaking the bank on infrastructure and management by:

• Improving Web and Email Security in Tough Times
• Learning How SaaS Marks the Next Step in the Journey
• Getting the Most from SaaS

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What's the value of unprotected data on your network? In today's technology-oriented world, sensitive information isn't restricted to desktops and server rooms. To protect your organization and your customers from a data breach, you need to protect data where it's most vulnerable - laptops, smartphones, portable devices, and USB drives. Download CREDANT Technologies' FREE Data Risk Assessment Tool to:

• Determine where your data is at risk
• Understand the dollar amount of the unprotected data on your network
• Use a customizable or industry standard pre-configured risk assessment tool

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No matter what role you have within an organization – be it engineer, salesperson, consultant, HR officer, brainstormer or bottle washer – you've acquired a second responsibility: project manager. But managing projects has become more challenging than ever.

Why? Because we don't work in "departments" as much as we work on projects, and projects mean lots of people sharing loads of information across offices and time zones. It means, frankly, that there's a great demand for effective, efficient project management.

Read this white paper and discover seven ways that you can optimize project team productivity with customizable, Web-based project management applications. By taking advantage of easy-to-learn, easy-to-use software that's expressly designed for effective project collaboration and communication, your teams can stop swapping spreadsheet files and exchanging emails, reduce their dependency on IT application support, and increase their ability to work – and succeed – together.

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What questions should you ask before you buy Enterprise Resource Planning software? The Inside-ERP To-Do Checklist is the one decision tool you'll need to cover all your bases including:

• What ERP modules should you buy first, and which ones can wait?
• Who should be involved in the purchase and implementation decision?
• What roles should different departments and project stakeholders play?
• What pre-implementation decisions are critical to project success?
• What about SOA considerations and future needs such as training and software updates?

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This brief yet highly informative interactive presentation discusses the Unified Threat Management Market, the fastest growing part of the information security market in the United States.

Unified Threat Management Box seeks to consolidate what you might already be doing with multiple point solutions like web, email filters, VPN and firewall. If combining all of these technologies on to a single easy to use platform sounds like a better idea to you, then you are not alone.

This presentation will take you through some of your options and discuss how Astaro Security Gateway provides immediate protection for your network, web access and email traffic. Learn why more than 100,000 IT security experts in 60 countries entrust their network with Astaro's Unified Threat Management solutions.

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Avoid wasting resources on strategies and messages targeted at the wrong audience. The best communication begins with understanding what makes your prospects tick. If you don't do this, the rest of your marketing doesn't much matter.

This white paper from an industry leader in online demand management lays out tried-and-true insights into audience identification and segmenting, offering a step-by-step guide on how to:

• Uncover the key attributes of your most valuable customers
• Create buyer personas to help focus your marketing efforts on finding more of them
• Avoid wasting valuable resources on messages that won't work

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CIO Digest is Symantec's quarterly magazine containing strategies and analysis for senior and C-level IT leaders around the world.

Each issue of CIO Digest includes an exclusive interview, an industry feature, a solutions feature, customer case studies from thought leaders around the globe, an update from Symantec Technology Security & Response, and more.

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MX: Issues Update is a twice-monthly e-newsletter serving the business needs of executive-level medical technology decision makers around the globe, providing medtech news and perspectives from the editors of MX.

With a focus on timely information and complementary features about current business trends and policy issues associated with running a medical technology business, MX: Issues Update is especially designed to meet the needs of busy executives in medical technology companies worldwide. Key areas of coverage encompass the full spectrum of medtech business activities--from executive recruitment all the way to product distribution--including market intelligence, corporate funding, intellectual property management, business planning, information technologies, sales and advertising, and a whole lot more.

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Greenhouse Product News Weekly serves the floriculture industry, including growers, retailers/dealers, wholesalers/brokers, and suppliers and manufacturers. Greenhouse Product News Weekly provides increased and steady coverage to the commercial grower industry's top buyers.

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