Today's White Papers & Guides...

• Weighing Your Options: Co-location Versus Managed Hosting | The facilities, equipment and personnel required to deploy and support the activities below the "application layer" of an IT infrastructure are proving to be too costly and too distracting for many organizations.  Colocation and managed hosting are viable and effective means of not only lowering the costs associated with these responsibilities, but are also an effective means of allowing for redeploymnet of resources to areas better suited to advance the business.
  Download this white paper and learn more about the key differences between colocation and managed hosting and determine the best for your organization. (courtesy of Internap)
• Symantec Vs. McAfee, Trend Micro & Kapersky: How Do They Measyre Up? | Not all endpoint security solutions are built alike. And unfortunately, if your solution is underperforming, you can be missing key opportunities to ensure your network is secure.
  Download this free report and compare Symantec against three other endpoint protection solutions for small businesses:
  • Symantec Endpoint Protection Small Business Edition (12.0.1)
  • McAfee Total Protection for Endpoint Essentials (4.5.0.1270)
  • Trend Micro Worry-Free Business Security (6.0 SP2)
  • Kaspersky Business Space Security (6.0.4.1424)
    (courtesy of Symantec)
• 5 Tips for Effective Backup & Recovery in Virtual Environments | Your virtual environment houses critical data, so you need an effective backup and recovery solution.
  This white paper offers five tips that will dramatically increase the effectiveness of backup and recovery in your virtual environment. From the amount of data you protect to the performance drains to watch out for, learn these tips and improve your backup efforts today. (courtesy of Quest Software)
• Exploring Backup & Recovery for Virtual Servers - White Paper | Today's data centers are in the midst of a revolution originating from the move to virtual server architectures powered by solutions such as VMware.
  Based on Datalink's experience protecting enterprise data centers, this white paper provides practical advice and considerations surrounding backup and recovery of virtual server infrastructures. Learn more about various options for data protection, including third-party software, VCB, and more. (courtesy of Datalink / NetApp)
• The Dark Side of Cloud Computing: Free eBook! | Commercial companies spend heavily on their own computing power or to access an online cloud so they can have enough capacity to support their employees and customers.
  But what can companies expect when the cloud has been infected by Botnets?
  Many users don’t realize that once their computer is compromised, it will also seek to silently infect and copy itself to other machines as well, allowing the Botnet to grow exponentially faster.
  Read this paper to learn how to protect the cloud against the threats of Botnets. (courtesy of astaro)
• Desktop Virtualization: Beyond VDI | Why throw yet more servers and storage into your datacenter when distributed desktop virtualization harnesses the power of your laptops and desktops without compromising user experience and gives IT an exceptionally easy-to-use PC management and support environment.
  In this video, prominent industry experts examine how this alternative approach overcomes the challenges of service-centric VDI. (courtesy of Virtual Computer)
• Poor Performance of Cloud Applications Impacts Revenue, Delays Rollouts | One of the biggest inhibitors to the widespread use of cloud-based applications is user frustration due to poor application performance. Low usage rates clearly have a direct impact on revenue and ROI, so the ability to effectively manage application performance should be a key component of every company’s cloud strategy.
  Download this free white paper and learn more about the cloud performance issues that many organizations report, and strategies for improving application performance. (courtesy of Compuware / GOMEZ)

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