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Build a Cloud within a Day


Today, many IT organizations have reached a high level of maturity with regard to virtualization and are starting to look into the automation, flexibility, and self-service capabilities that a cloud solution can provide. They see that this strategy provides them opportunities to develop and deploy new business strategies and delivery models that can enhance their ability to survive and thrive in a demanding and unpredictable world--a world where the cloud is a key component of their ability to accelerate innovation, to become significantly more agile and efficient, and to optimize costs across the enterprise.

Sponsored by HP and Intel®

Intel and the Intel logo are trademarks of Intel Corporation in the U.S. and/or other countries.

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Cloud: It's all about the Service


This is a task that's best achieved by striking a balance among IT domains, spanning traditional internal IT, private, and public cloud environments. But how do you achieve the right IT balance for delivering cloud services? Read this white paper to find out.

Sponsored by HP and Intel®

Intel and the Intel logo are trademarks of Intel Corporation in the U.S. and/or other countries.

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Five Myths of Cloud Computing


This white paper separates fact from fiction, reality from myth, and, in doing so, will aide senior IT executives as they make decisions around cloud computing. While dispelling cloud computing myths, they will answer tough questions: How hard is it to adopt a private or hybrid cloud? How difficult is it to maintain and secure a cloud? How will the cloud transform my business? Do I have the right skill sets in place? What are some of my cost considerations? HP and Intel are committing extensive resources to helping customers with all of their questions and concerns around cloud computing.

Sponsored by HP and Intel®

Intel and the Intel logo are trademarks of Intel Corporation in the U.S. and/or other countries.

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Five Steps to a Private Cloud


Before setting a course for cloud computing, preparation can ease navigation. This paper sets out five fundamental steps, ranging from standardization to virtualization to automation, that can help you establish the under pinnings of a successful cloud environment and arrive at the place where the benefits of cloud computing are possible.

Sponsored by HP and Intel®

Intel and the Intel logo are trademarks of Intel Corporation in the U.S. and/or other countries.

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IT Operations Managers Must Rethink Their Approach to Private Cloud


This Forrester report reveals the latest virtualization trends so you can see how far your peers are in their journey to the private cloud. Read on and discover best practices for improving virtualization in order to prepare for the cloud.

Sponsored by HP and Intel®

Intel and the Intel logo are trademarks of Intel Corporation in the U.S. and/or other countries.

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The Cloud - Inevitable, But Not Ubiquitous


Read this white paper to separate the technology and business potential from the marketing fluff. Get answers to your most pressing cloud questions and better understand when and where the cloud makes the most sense for your organization.

Sponsored by HP and Intel®

Intel and the Intel logo are trademarks of Intel Corporation in the U.S. and/or other countries.

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16 Ways GPS Tracking Software Can Slash Costs, Boost Productivity For Businesses With Multiple Vehicles


Why is this important? How about:
  • Enhancing the customer experience through improved response times
  • Reducing service response times
  • Reducing fleet related operating costs
  • Increasing service related productivity
  • Extending life of service vehicles
In this informative guide from InsideUp, the GPS Fleet Tracking Software information experts, you will read the key benefits, drawbacks and questions to ask of GPS Software providers. And to provide you with everything you would need before making a decision, they'll also include several free, no obligation price quotes by e-mail/phone.

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Call Center Services and Why You Need Them


Get answers to questions that will help you decide: Which of the various call center types is the right fit for your needs? Should you have a shared or dedicated agent? What about the Onshore/Offshore issue? This guide will help you better understand the many advantages of Call Center services and make an informed decision.

To better understand your options, they'll also provide you with complimentary, no-obligation price quotes from top Call Center vendors based on your specific needs so that you'd be able to better compare the choices available to you.

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Five Important Keys To Choosing Your Business VoIP Vendor


Let InsideUp, the VoIP information experts, help you weigh the advantages and disadvantages of owning a VoIP system.

To better understand your options, they'll also provide you with complimentary, no-obligation price quotes from top VoIP System vendors based on your specific needs so that you'd be able to better compare the choices available to you.

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GPS Fleet Tracking - Why So Vital?


But finding the right software and provider is vital. Learn what questions to ask vendors and get expert insights before making your final selection. In this informative guide from InsideUp, the GPS Fleet Tracking Software information experts, you will read the key benefits and drawbacks of GPS Software, and key questions to ask vendors.

To better understand your options, they'll also provide you with complimentary, no-obligation price quotes from top GPS Tracking vendors based on your specific needs so that you'd be able to better compare the choices available to you.

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Key Answering Service Functions That Can Improve Your Business


A good answering service can help your business grow faster, maintain a professional image, and save on costs. This guide will equip you with the most crucial questions to consider when choosing an answering service.

To better understand your options, they'll also provide you with complimentary, no-obligation price quotes from top Answering Service vendors based on your specific needs so that you'd be able to better compare the choices available to you.

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Lost Data Can Cost You Money - Remote Online Backup Can Save It


In this informative guide from InsideUp, the Online Data Backup Service information experts, you will read the advantages and disadvantages of remotely backing up your data and what type of service would best meet your needs.

To better understand your options, they'll also provide you with complimentary, no-obligation price quotes from top Online Backup vendors based on your specific needs so that you'd be able to better compare the choices available to you.

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Onshore or Offshore Call Center - Does It Matter Which You Choose?


Discover important advantages and disadvantages to each, and get tips to help you make the right choice for your business. This guide will help you better understand the variables of both national and overseas Call Center companies.

To better understand your options, they'll also provide you with complimentary, no-obligation price quotes from top Call Center vendors based on your specific needs so that you'd be able to better compare the choices available to you.

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Time-Saving VoIP Features Your Business Needs


Learn about the advantages as well as the drawbacks of owning a VoIP system in this informative guide from InsideUp, the VoIP information experts.

To better understand your options, they'll also provide you with complimentary, no-obligation price quotes from top VoIP System vendors based on your specific needs so that you'd be able to better compare the choices available to you.

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Forrester Research Report: The Future of Mobile Application Development


With more than 1 billion smartphones worldwide, and tablets numbering in the hundreds of millions, the scope of the mobile revolution rivals that of the move from monolithic systems to client/server computing in the 1990s. As in that period, we're now seeing massive changes to application architecture as companies modernize the way they build applications. Modern applications require multichannel clients, elastic infrastructure, and elastic licensing; they're composed of multiple service endpoints that are provisioned by developers with direct customer feedback on their convenience. The report also looks at how modern applications will evolve over the next few years and what development teams should prepare for now.

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Ship Your Products without Hassles: Order Fulfillment


Order fulfillment services does exactly what it says: fulfills your product orders for the customers. This guide will outline exactly what you need to know when choosing a fulfillment center, and give you great questions to ask potential companies.

When choosing a fulfillment center, you'll want to know the locations of your customer base and choose a center that is nearby. Fulfillment companies will track the product orders and returns, update your inventory and deliver reports to you. For e-commerce merchants and home based business owners, order fulfillment providers are a great solution. This guide provides answers, tips, and tricks and comes with no obligation price quotes by phone/email from order fulfillment companies – all pre-screened and qualified to best fit your order fulfillment needs.

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The Essentials of Agile


The Essentials of Agile, brings together the latest in information, coverage of important developments, and expert commentary to help with your Agile related decisions.

The following kit contents will help you get the most out of your Agile research:
  • Top 3 How-To Agile Planning Guides from Rally Software
  • Using Rally Software to Implement the Scaled Agile Framework®
  • The Forrester Wave: Application Life-Cycle Management, Q4 2012


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Advanced Analytics for Big Data with SAP Sybase IQ


SAP Sybase IQ 15.4 is revolutionizing Big Data analytics by breaking down silos of data analysis and integrating it into enterprise analytic processes. This version expands functionality with the following elements:
  • A native Map Reduce Application Programming Interface (API)
  • Comprehensive and flexible Hadoop integration
  • Support for Predictive Model Markup Language (PMML)
  • An expanded library of statistical and data mining algorithms that leverage the power of distributed query processing across a Massively Parallel Processing (MPP) grid based on Plex™ technology


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Design a Strategy for the Real-Time Data Platform


The road map service for database platform – delivered by the SAP® Services organization – brings you the deep software and hardware knowledge, database know-how, best practices, and experience you need to take advantage of the latest database technologies.

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How Mobility Can Transform Your Business


However, they also present significant challenges for IT around cost and security. Learn how you can create a comprehensive strategy to leverage Mobile.

INSIDE THIS PLAYBOOK:
  • The State of Enterprise Mobility
  • Key Ingredients of a Successful Enterprise Mobility Strategy
  • Case Study: Charité
  • Checklist of key next steps for deploying a mobile strategy


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Keys to a Fast, Clean Close


What is preventing companies from achieving a faster close? How can you speed up the process – so that you can create more time for analysis, and reduce the overall cost of your close? Request to learn more.

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Re-envisioning the Data Management Landscape: Road Map to the Real-Time Business


These are businesses that have the ability to use all relevant data when and wherever needed for up-to-the moment decision making. In today's hyper connected business environment, the demand for faster business cycles and deeper insight is driving a tremendous wave of innovation.

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The Essentials of Information Security Kit: Includes a Free PC Security Handbook - 2nd Edition eBook


The Essentials of Information Security brings together the latest in information, coverage of important developments, and expert commentary to help with your Information Security related decisions.

The following kit contents will help you get the most out of your Information Security research:
  • PC Security Handbook - 2nd Edition
  • The Forrester Wave: Endpoint Security, Q1 2013
  • Understanding SSL Certificates
  • Ransomware: Hijacking Your Data


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Lab Validation Report: Symantec Backup Exec 3600 Appliance


The report focuses on the out-of-the-box experience, ease of management, and cost-effectiveness.

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Managing Mobile Devices in a Device Agnostic World


BYOD presents a big management challenge for many companies. It changes who within an organization gets access to mobility and how they get it. It also affects the way a business operates, and it has implications that go way beyond the lonely guys in the IT department.

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Unlocking Business Value with Data Governance, Data Architecture and Metadata Management: Enabling Data Reuse Across the Enterprise


Data governance standards are critical for successful enterprise data repurposing. Ineffective oversight of data representations, semantics, and models introduces severe risks to key business applications. With that in mind, the huge demand for data repurposing means that data managed in an enterprise data warehouse must be trustworthy.

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Economics of Cloud Financial Software


Download the white paper "Economics of Cloud Financial Software" and learn from cloud expert, Brian Sommer, CEO of TechVentive, who breaks down the different types of cloud options for finance and accounting solutions. If you are considering purchasing any cloud solution, this white paper is required reading. The white paper will help you:
  • Understand, define, and explain the various flavors of cloud.
  • Quantify the upfront and hidden costs of on-premises, hosted, and SaaS deployment methods.
  • Discover the business and technical advantages of multi-tenant solutions.
  • Identify the critical factors you should know when selecting a cloud vendor.


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Creating Mobile Apps with jQuery Mobile--Free 30 Page Excerpt


The development focuses on creating a framework compatible with a wide variety of smartphones and tablet computers made necessary by the growing but heterogeneous tablet and smartphone market. The jQuery Mobile framework is compatible with other mobile app frameworks and platforms such as PhoneGap, Worklight, and more.

Creating Mobile Apps with jQuery Mobile reflects the author’s years of experience and exposes every hidden secret which will ease your mobile app development. With just a smattering of design and user experience thrown in, going through this book will allow you to confidently say, “yes, I can do that.”

We’ll start out with effective mobile prototyping and then move directly to the core of what every one of your mobile sites will need. Then, we’ll move on to the fancy stuff.

After creating some basic business templates and a universal JavaScript, we will move into the more interesting side of mobile development but we always try to keep an eye on progressive enhancement. jQuery Mobile is all about reaching everyone. So is this book.

"Creating Mobile Apps with jQuery Mobile" will take your basic mobile knowledge and help you make versatile, unique sites quickly and easily.

Packt Enterprise books can be summed up through the tagline "Professional Expertise Distilled". They take in-the-trenches knowledge from experienced software professionals, and distil it into a single, easy to follow manuscript.



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Dreamweaver CS6 Mobile and Web Development with HTML5, CSS3, and jQuery Mobile--Free 26 Page Excerpt


These technologies have radically reconfigured the process of designing web content and function in the widest possible range of browsing environments, ranging from desktops to mobile devices.

"Dreamweaver CS6 Mobile and Web Development with HTML5, CSS3, and jQuery Mobile" is essentially three books in one: an introduction to building websites; Dreamweaver CS6: HTML5, CSS3, Responsive Design; and an in-depth explanation of how to build inviting, accessible mobile sites with Dreamweaver CS6, responsive design, and jQuery Mobile.

This book serves both as the essential reference for Dreamweaver CS6, and a valuable addition to even the most extensive set of resources for modern web design, with or without Dreamweaver.

The book starts off by teaching you to create sites and pages with Dreamweaver CS6 and how to use HTML5 for page structure. Then we will learn some cutting-edge design and animation with CSS3.

The book also shows how to create and enhance mobile sites with jQuery Mobile. You will also learn to customize themes with ThemeRoller.

"Dreamweaver CS6 Mobile and Web Development with HTML5, CSS3, and jQuery Mobile Mobile" covers the entire spectrum of web design with Dreamweaver, with an emphasis on multi-media (full screen and mobile) design and jQuery Mobile.

Packt Enterprise books can be summed up through the tagline "Professional Expertise Distilled". They take in-the-trenches knowledge from experienced software professionals, and distil it into a single, easy to follow manuscript.



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HTML5 iPhone Web Application Development--Free 41 Page Excerpt


Work through real world examples with references, and in-depth discussions on the approach; including its benefits and drawbacks.

"HTML5 iPhone Web Application Development" strives to teach all levels of developers, beginners and professionals, the process of creating web applications for iOS Safari. Utilizing current industry standards for frontend development, learn to take advantage of HTML5, CSS3 and JavaScript to create compelling software.

Start with reviewing current industry standards for frontend development, and end with creating a native application using the same codebase.

Your journey will begin with an overview of current industry standards for frontend technology, quickly moving to solve real world issues; from creating a resizable or responsive gallery, to creating a single page application that utilizes the popular Backbone.js framework.

"HTML5 iPhone Web Application Development" aims to make you an expert in developing web applications for the iOS Safari platform.

Packt Enterprise books can be summed up through the tagline "Professional Expertise Distilled". They take in-the-trenches knowledge from experienced software professionals, and distil it into a single, easy to follow manuscript.



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Joomla! 3 Beginner's Guide--Free 34 Page Excerpt


It’s a free, fun, and feature-rich tool for anyone who wants to create dynamic, interactive websites. Even beginners can deploy Joomla to build professional websites. Even though it can be challenging to get beyond the basics and build the site that meets your needs perfectly, this book will guide you through it all.

Completely updated for Joomla! 3, this practical guide helps you to create professional and good-looking websites with Joomla!, whether you want to build a personal blog site or a full-featured company or club website.

The Joomla! 3 Beginner’s Guide will help you to get started with Joomla! quickly. It’s presented in an organized, easy-to-read manner. The book doesn’t focus on what Joomla! can do – it focuses on what you can do using Joomla!.

You learn how to get Joomla! up and running, how to organize content, add new menus, add new features, change the design and much more. Real-life examples and tutorials will spark your imagination and show you what kind of professional, feature-rich websites any web builder can achieve with Joomla!. The focus is on clear instructions and easy-to-understand tutorials, with minimal jargon.

Using the "Joomla! 3 Beginner’s Guide" you’ll quickly gain the knowledge needed to build your own site, perfectly tailored to your specific needs.

Packt Enterprise books can be summed up through the tagline "Professional Expertise Distilled". They take in-the-trenches knowledge from experienced software professionals, and distil it into a single, easy to follow manuscript.



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Learning JavaScriptMVC--Free 14 Page Excerpt


As it does not depend on server components, it can be combined with any web service interface and server-side language.

"Learning JavaScriptMVC" will guide you through all the framework aspects and show you how to build small- to mid-size well-structured and documented client-side applications you will love to work on.

This book starts from JavaScriptMVC installation and all its components are explained with practical examples. It finishes with an example of building a web application. You will learn what the JavaScriptMVC framework is, how to install it, and how to use it efficiently.

This book will guide you on how to build a sample application from scratch, test its codebase using unit testing, as well as test the whole application using functional testing, document it, and deploy the same. After reading Learning JavaScriptMVC you will learn how to install the framework and create a well-structured, documented and maintainable client-side application.

Packt Enterprise books can be summed up through the tagline "Professional Expertise Distilled". They take in-the-trenches knowledge from experienced software professionals, and distil it into a single, easy to follow manuscript.



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Responsive Web Design by Example--Free 33 Page Excerpt


You can now create your very own responsive website quickly and efficiently, allowing you to showcase your content in a format that will work on any device with an Internet browser.

By following our detailed step-by-step instructions in this structured reference guide, you will learn how you can build engaging responsive websites. With coverage of Bootstrap, Skeleton, and Zurb Foundation you'll learn about three of the most powerful responsive frameworks available today.

Leading you through by practical example, you'll find that this essential reference develops your understanding by actually helping you create beautiful websites step by step in front of your very eyes. After going over the basics, you'll be able to choose between creating your own responsive portfolio page with Skeleton, building a stunning product page with Bootstrap, or setting up your own professional business website with Zurb Foundation. Ultimately you'll learn how to decide which framework is right for you, and how you can deploy and customize it to your exact specifications!

Packt Enterprise books can be summed up through the tagline "Professional Expertise Distilled". They take in-the-trenches knowledge from experienced software professionals, and distil it into a single, easy to follow manuscript.



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The Professional ScrumMaster's Handbook--Free 30 Page Excerpt


A professional ScrumMaster relaxes this tension using the Scrum framework so that the team arrives at the best possible outcome.

"The Professional ScrumMaster’s Handbook" is a practical, no-nonsense guide to helping you become an inspiring and effective ScrumMaster known for getting results.

This book goes into great detail about why it seems like you’re fighting traditional management culture every step of the way. You will explore the three roles of Scrum and how, working in harmony, they can deliver a product in the leanest way possible. You’ll understand that even though there is no room for a project manager in Scrum, there are certain “management” aspects you should be familiar with to help you along the way. Getting a team to manage itself and take responsibility is no easy feat; this book will show you how to earn trust by displaying it and inspiring courage in a team every day.

"The Professional ScrumMaster’s Handbook" will challenge you to dig deep within yourself to improve your mindset, practices, and values in order to build and support the very best agile teams.

Packt Enterprise books can be summed up through the tagline "Professional Expertise Distilled". They take in-the-trenches knowledge from experienced software professionals, and distil it into a single, easy to follow manuscript.



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jQuery Hotshot--Free 32 Page Excerpt


It has become the standard tool for web developers and designers to add dynamic, interactive elements to their sites, smoothing out browser inconsistencies and reducing costly development time.

jQuery Hotshot walks you step by step through 10 projects designed to familiarise you with the jQuery library and related technologies. Each project focuses on a particular subject or section of the API, but also looks at something related, like jQuery's official templates, or an HTML5 feature like localStorage. Build your knowledge of jQuery and related technologies.

Learn a large swathe of the API, up to and including jQuery 1.9, by completing the ten individual projects covered in the book.

Some of the projects that we'll work through over the course of this book include a drag-and-drop puzzle game, a browser extension, a multi-file drag-and-drop uploader, an infinite scroller, a sortable table, and a heat map.

Learn which jQuery methods and techniques to use in which situations with jQuery Hotshots.

Packt Enterprise books can be summed up through the tagline "Professional Expertise Distilled". They take in-the-trenches knowledge from experienced software professionals, and distil it into a single, easy to follow manuscript.



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Solving the Big Data Challenge of Sensor Data


Attend this webcast on June 26, 2013 at 1:00PM EST/10:00am PST to learn about emerging sensor data applications, the unique attributes of sensor data and the big data challenges they present. IBM has a comprehensive portfolio of offerings to solve challenges that span the big data dimensions of volume, velocity, and variety. This webcast will focus on sensor data applications and IBM's differentiated offering to solve the IT challenges of sensor data for better business insight and competitive advantage.

Speaker Information:

Bernie Spang
Director, Strategy and Marketing, Database Software and Systems


Bernie Spang is currently Director, Strategy and Marketing, Database Software & Systems for IBM Information Management. He has held various engineering, business development, strategy and marketing roles at IBM over 25 years. He also earned a Masters of Computer Engineering from Syracuse University during that time. Prior to joining IBM, he earned his Engineering degree from Stevens Institute of Technology.

Kevin Brown
Chief Architect, Informix


Kevin has over 30 years experience in the database field. Before coming to IBM, Kevin worked at Britton-Lee where he helped develop the world's first dedicated database machine. He went on to Illustra where he worked on extending the capabilities of traditional relational databases. Since coming to IBM, Kevin has introduced TimesSeries and real-time capabilities into IBM's relational database products. Kevin is currently the chief architect for Informix and is responsible for driving the technical strategy and direction of the Informix product set. Kevin received his degree in computer science from the University of California at Berkeley.

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Agile Business: A Leader's Guide to Harnessing Complexity


Agile Business is an introduction to Agile from a business perspective. It contains real-world advice from over 30 coaches, executives, developers and managers. Learn how your company can succeed where other companies have failed.

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Comparison of Avaya and ShoreTel Unified Communication Solutions


Unlike ShoreTel's all-in-one, all-IP solution, the Avaya platforms have been adapted from legacy technology and assembled piecemeal. The result is a complex solution that can require extensive time and resources to manage.

By contrast, the ShoreTel Unified Communications system was designed from the ground up expressly for IP to provide a single, all-in-one solution that integrates a full range of communications capabilities.

The white paper walks you through direct apples-to-apples comparisons of different aspects of each solution, including:
  • Deployment and management
  • Redundancy and availability
  • Scalability and upgrades
  • Overall Total Cost of Ownership (TCO)
  • Customer satisfaction ratings
The paper also demonstrates that ShoreTel UC offers numerous advantages that enable businesses to capitalize on the benefits of unified communications without adding costs or complexity.

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Comparison of Cisco and ShoreTel Unified Communication Solutions


In a side-by-side comparison of these two solutions, this white paper demonstrates that organizations in need of comprehensive UC solutions can avoid Cisco product shortfalls.

The flagship Cisco Unified Communications Manager (UCM) solution was assembled with technologies accumulated from several corporate acquisitions. The result is a complex solution that provides multiple user interfaces and requires extensive resources to manage. The ShoreTel UC system, by contrast, was designed to provide a single, all-in-one solution.

Offering a seamless, integrated environment for users, and a unified, easily managed solution for IT administrators, the ShoreTel UC system integrates a full range of communications capabilities, including voice, video, instant messaging, and conferencing, plus advanced tools for mobility, presence detection, and collaboration.

These factors enable businesses to capitalize on the benefits of unified communications without adding costs or complexity.

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Demystifying Unified Communications


Enterprises have committed to IP telephony, and completing the conversion to VoIP is just a matter of time and money. VoIP equipment sales surpassed TDM in 2003, and Infonetics projects that 89% of worldwide enterprise voice lines will be IP-PBX based for calendar year 2008. However, while IP telephony is moving into its second decade with enormous momentum, most users are still waiting for full convergence and voice-enabled applications. Increased network efficiencies have been the primary benefit of IP telephony to date as enterprises struggle with infrastructure and organizational issues. These first-generation benefits have been considerable, but the focus is now shifting to converged applications, with the initial spotlight on Unified Communications (UC).

Learn more about Unified Communications and how users and businesses can achieve next-generation benefits.

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Five Ways Dropbox Could Cost You Your IT Management Job


5 Ways Dropbox Could Cost you Your Job

Many employees like the ease-of-use of online file sharing, frequently taking advantage of these new tools to send large company files or folders. These free file sharing tools may appear harmless – until you discover the reality behind these seemingly innocent solutions.

Find out what you never knew about online file sharing. This FREE white paper will tell you what you’ve been missing and why it could cost you your job:

·       What keeps IT in control of data security

·       IT manager’s biggest fears surrounding file sharing

·       Tracking the whereabouts of your company data

·       What prevents IT from knowing its data is secure

Download this white paper to gain insight on file sharing security and cloud collaboration.



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A Whole Team Approach to Quality


Agile teams are cross-functional and share a common goal of delivering a high quality product that drives business value. Learn how developers, testers, product owners and managers work together.

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Mac OS X Keyboard Shortcuts Cheatsheet


One of the best things about Mac OS is the number of keyboard shortcuts it supports. 

Keyboard shortcuts are great because you can perform a function right from the keyboard, which will save you a lot of mouse clicks. For example, why should you have to go to the File menu and then search for the option you’re looking for, when you can just use a quick keyboard shortcut that will do the same thing? Even though there are times when you can simply use your mouse, because the option is right there, in most cases a keyboard shortcut will save you time and is more convenient.

To help you boost your productivity when using your Mac, Make Tech Easier is providing you with a cheat sheet featuring all of the top and most important keyboard shortcuts for Mac OS.



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Windows 8 Keyboard Shortcuts Cheatsheet


Welcome to the Windows 8 keyboard shortcut cheat sheet! Here, you will learn all the keyboard shortcuts available in Windows 8! 

Some of them you’ll recognize from Windows 7, but many of them are fresh and new. Perhaps these keyboard shortcuts will help mitigate the shortcomings of working with a system that is more designed for touchscreen environments.



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WordPress Security Checklist


WordPress is becoming one of the more popular CMS for new websites.

Not only is it easy to use, it also comes with many plugins and themes for you to choose from, making it extremely customizable. However, like all other popular platforms, it is also more prone to hacking. For those who are not sure how to beef up your WordPress security, download the checklist to follow how to keep your site safe.



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2013 Annual Webinar Benchmarks Report


Webinars have become a top-tier tool for marketing, training and corporate communications. As the global leader in webcasting solutions, ON24 supports over 25,000 webinars a year, giving a unique view of what makes a successful event. Download this annual benchmark report and get insight into the webinar results of hundreds of companies from all industries.

With this 2013 edition, you'll receive detailed insights and performance metrics, including:
  • Best practices on driving webinar registration
  • Benchmark data on registration, attendance and participation
  • Lists of the most popular social and enterprise interactivity tools
  • Tips and tricks for delivering successful events


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Brick Marketing SEO Newsletter


The SEO Newsletter is jam packed with free and useful SEO tips from the Brick Marketing President, Nick Stamoulis and the Brick Marketing SEO team, who have over 12 years of SEO experience. The Brick Marketing SEO Newsletter features SEO articles about: On Site SEO, White Hat Link Building, Content Marketing, Social Media Marketing and much more! Each Brick Marketing SEO Newsletter includes exclusive discounts to SEO workshops, trainings, services and much more!

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Top 7 Trends Transforming the High Tech Industry


The high tech industry has traditionally been on the cutting edge of techniques and processes. Unfortunately, a lot of these advancements relate directly to the products that they create and the desire to maintain their razor-thin margins while staying competitive. In today's market, simply maintaining manufacturing efficiency is not enough to stay competitive. Supply chains must be managed tighter and still cover the hyper-growth of new markets, plants must be re-tooled quicker to leverage new techniques, and constricting compliance standards and regulations require flexibility and micro control.

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4 Simple Steps to VoIP Vendor Selection


Download this free white paper, 4 Simple Steps to VoIP Vendor Selection, to completely educate yourself about VoIP trends so that you can determine the perfect solution for your company.
  • Discover the top 2 choices for exactly how to best move voice and video over an IP network.
  • Learn the basic features to expect when shopping for a VoIP package. Understand what to anticipate at a minimum and what other helpful additions you could choose to add on.
  • Uncover the critical questions you must ask yourself, the vendors, and vendor references to fully understand VoIP products, services, and support options.
Moving your voice and video communications system to VoIP can save you money, improve communication, and offer your employees new, time-saving tools. This white paper, 4 Simple Steps to VoIP Vendor Selection, will help you make the right decision for your company as you migrate to an enterprise VoIP solution.

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Unified Communications Guide: Staying On-Premise or Going to the Cloud


The right solution will need to be flexible-able to support both the applications you need today plus the ones you may require tomorrow. By understanding the pros and cons of each deployment path, you can determine what's right for your business and in turn be better prepared to evaluate the offerings from today's leading UC vendors.

In this free white paper, Unified Communications Guide: Staying On-Premise or Going to the Cloud, you'll find out whether a cloud-based, on-premise, or hybrid UC deployment method is best for your business.
  • Gain an understanding of the defining characteristics of cloud-based and premise-based UC deployments.
  • Compare several business scenarios and see how the pros and cons of each deployment path might add up for your business.
  • Learn the general types of offerings that make up the current market landscape for UC, and which vendor solutions are leading the pack.
Your choice of UC solution will depend greatly on which deployment method is best for your business. This white paper, Unified Communications Guide: Staying On-Premise or Going to the Cloud, will give you the information you need to move your UC initiative forward.

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Unified Communications Guide: The Business Case for Unified Communications in the Contact Center


Sometimes the hard part is distilling all of the benefits into a strong business case for management.

Download the free Unified Communications Guide, The Business Case for Unified Communications in the Contact Center, to:
  • Discover the benefits of implementing UC in a contact center
  • Find out the different business cases that are a great fit for UC and why
  • Learn about the different considerations you should make before you propose a new project


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The Password Management Guide


Unfortunately, most of us use either one password or a group of passwords for all of our major accounts. That’s dangerous. It doesn’t matter if the individual password is unique, or if it’s a long mix of numbers and letters; if you only use one password it won’t matter. When one account is compromised, all of your accounts will likely follow. The main reason people reuse passwords is that keeping track of many different logins (username and password as shortly both are called logins) is difficult, in fact it’s potentially impossible. This is where password management applications become crucial, especially in a business environment. You don’t want to use the same password with all of your online accounts, but it is also impossible for you to remember hundreds of passwords. So what should you do?

With this free guide you will also receive daily updates on new cool websites and programs in your email for free courtesy of MakeUseOf.



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Get Data Backup That Delivers Real ROI


Built for IT professionals who require a powerful, affordable and easy-to-use backup and recovery solution, AppAssure 5 lets you continuously protect all your business-critical data and applications via a single web-based console:
  • Recovery – at speeds exceeding 8Gb/s
  • Backup snapshots – backup every 5 minutes without overlapping
  • Simple data protection – virtual, physical & cloud environments


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Antivirus Evaluation Guide


This easy testing program enables you to accurately assess and compare the capabilities of multiple antivirus solutions, so you can choose the antivirus software that's right for your organization.

This offer is intended for business use only.

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Top 3 Network Security Threats That You Don't Know About


Join James Lyne, Director of Technology Strategy at Sophos on June 20, 2013 at 11:00 AM PT / 2:00 PM ET to understand what can be done to address these network security threats in real time. James will demonstrate and discuss:
  • The evolving threat landscape including the top 3 network security threats you don't know about
  • Practical advice on how to make sure you're protected against network security threats
  • What to consider when choosing a unified threat management solution for your business
Register today and be prepared for tomorrow.

Speaker Information:

James Lyne
Director of Technology Strategy, Sophos


James Lyne is focused on the 5-year technology strategy at Sophos in the Office of the CTO. Working with key business and technology trends and combining a detailed knowledge of threats, James extrapolates from the modern world of threat protection to explore the future security and technology requirements. Aside from technology strategy, James frequently engages with customers and industry forums to evangelize the security problem domains.

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Top Five Ways to Prevent Unnecessary Re-Hospitalizations


For those suffering from chronic or long-term health problems, there is often nothing quite as relieving as being sent home from the hospital – but also nothing quite as heartbreaking as re-hospitalization. Chronic conditions by their very nature need to be managed over time. Download this white paper and discover five ways video collaboration actually saves lives.

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Video Beyond the Conference Room


Video plays a huge part in every stage of disaster management:
  • Readiness Stage
  • Detection and Early Warning Stage
  • Analysis and Incident Response Stage
  • Recovery and Reconstruction Stage
Read this issue brief to find out how and view some real-world examples of video becoming an integral part of crisis management at every scale.

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Video Collaboration in Education: Building a Foundation for the Digital Age


Video collaboration prepares students with the skills to thrive in a future workforce that will depend on video collaboration technologies. Indeed, today's video collaboration is rapidly moving from a “nice to have” classroom enhancement to a “must have” necessity. It is essential to improving student achievement and preparing them as professionals in the global economy.

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Active Administrator Trial


Take Active Administrator for a spin and see how this powerful, all-in-one solution allows you to:
  • Control auditing, security, recovery and health for Active Directory
  • Centralize management of AD and Group Policy
  • Save time and take control over your AD environment
Your free trial is a Web-based, self-contained virtual test environment, so you can effectively evaluate Active Administrator.

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Secure Copy Trial Download


Take Secure Copy for a spin and see firsthand how this automated data migration solution can help you:
  • Migrate data quickly and easily
  • Run reports to effectively manage your data projects
  • Save time and effort by eliminating manual tasks
Your free trial is a Web-based, self-contained virtual test environment, so you can effectively evaluate Secure Copy. Start your virtual trial now.

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Security Explorer Trial Download


Take Security Explorer for a test drive, and see how it can:
  • Give you complete access control and security management capabilities
  • Provide you with a powerful, yet intuitive solution across your entire Window network
  • Simplify security management
Your free trial is a Web-based, self-contained virtual test environment, so you can effectively evaluate Security Explorer. Start your virtual trial now.

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Saving Time and Money with Savvy Use of Flash in Automated Storage Tiering


In this white paper, IDC examines EMC's FLASH 1st strategy — which pairs Flash drives with EMC's FAST VP tiering solution and FAST Cache, effectively an extension of the DRAM Cache, in its VNX arrays. Find out how your organization can leverage and benefit from this easy to manage storage insfrastructure.

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Recommended Use of Resource Pools in VMware vSphere DRS Clusters


Some scenarios describe examples of poorly configured pools. Other scenarios describe examples of resource pools that were well-configured to obtain the desired result. They will also briefly examine how Shares, Limits, and Reservations settings on a resource pool are applied.

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iPad CTO Kit - including the iPad Tips and Tricks Guide for IT Executives and Managers


The iPad CTO Kit brings together the latest in information, coverage of important developments, and expert commentary to help with your IT Management related decisions.

The following kit contents will help you get the most out of your IT Management research:
  • iPad Tips and Tricks - A Guide for Executives and Managers
  • HP StoreOnce is 'Better Together' with HP Data Protector 7
  • Mobile Is The New Face Of Engagement
  • Cloud Readiness Flight-Check


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Desktop Authority Management Suite Trial


Empower IT to proactively manage and provision a secure and flexible Windows user environment! Desktop Authority Management Suite automates user access to resources and applications, so your infrastructure is safe, and consistent, for each user. Also, you can automatically, package and test applications consistently and ensure that applications run only with the privileges and access needed. Try it today – for free.

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Business Solutions


Business Solutions' articles show readers how to sell new technologies and penetrate growing vertical markets. Business Solutions provides "actionable information" for VARs and integrators to increase sales, improve profits, and trounce the competition.

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Retail Online Integration


Retail Online Integration magazine provides readers with solid, how-to information, case studies and advice from leading experts on catalog creative, production/printing, e-commerce, fulfillment, merchandising, database marketing, lists and media and customer relationship management.

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Microsoft PowerPoint 2013 -- Free Quick Reference Card


Use this reference to brush up on the basics and to find alternative methods to your favorite commands. This printable quick reference is yours to use, distribute, and share at your organization!

Along with this free reference card, you will also receive a 30-day trial of CustomGuide training, including over 7,000 Online Skills Assessments and Interactive Tutorials.



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Microsoft Project 2013-- Free Quick Reference Card


This printable quick reference is yours to use, distribute, and share at your organization!

Along with this free reference card, you will also receive a 30-day trial of CustomGuide training, including over 7,000 Online Skills Assessments and Interactive Tutorials.



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Internet Explorer 9 -- Free Quick Reference Card


This printable quick reference is yours to use, distribute, and share at your organization!

Along with this free reference card, you will also receive a 30-day trial of CustomGuide training, including over 7,000 Online Skills Assessments and Interactive Tutorials.



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End-User Survey: The 'Real' Benefits of Video


This survey report of 4737 current business video users provides a top-level view of survey data, along with some additional findings and observations.

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Mobile Video Collaboration: The New Business Reality


A new business reality is emerging across all segments of the business spectrum, and it is creating opportunity and challenges that must be considered and planned for today. The new reality is the product of the convergence of mobility, video, and collaboration, driven by three mega trends:
  • The consumerization of IT driven by the use of consumer-oriented devices and applications crossing over into the SMB and enterprise markets
  • The increased adoption and usage of video conferencing across the consumer, SMB, and enterprise markets
  • Technology advances in the underlying foundation of mobile video driven by rapidly growing network broadband capacity and compounded by the growth of video-capable mobile devices such as smartphones and tablets


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Video Conferencing, A TCO Analysis: A Look at What Companies Really Spend


This research study looks at all of these cost areas, broken down by vendor, with data harmonized on a cost per endpoint basis, providing a snapshot of what actual companies are spending to deploy video conferencing. These costs focus on highly relevant areas including network investment, hardware investment, licensing costs, and ongoing maintenance expenses. The end result is a set of data that will assist IT leaders in evaluating the total cost of ownership of implementing solutions from leading video conferencing vendors.

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Retailing in a Social Media World


Despite the vast sums of money that retailers spend on marketing promotions and advertising, however, word of mouth remains the most powerful influence on consumer behavior. If a retailer wants to take the pulse of shoppers' desires, wants, needs, and perceptions to stay ahead of the game, they need look no further than Facebook, Twitter, or YouTube.

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