Hyper-V Cloud datasheet

– The implementation of pivate cloud services

Microsoft solutions for IaaS and provides an overview of Microsoft Hyper-V™ Cloud, a set of programs and initiatives to help customers and partners accelerate deployment of IaaS.

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Royal Mail virtualises server farm

– to save £1.8 million in four years

Microsoft virtualisation Royal Mail customer solution case study.

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Cloud power

– A comparative look at functionality, benefits and economics

Whitepaper with a detailed comparison on private cloud solutions from Microsoft and VMware.

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KCOM Group transforms business culture

– with collaboration framework

This case study explains KCOM Group's business solution for effective collaboration, reducing costs and competing successfully in all its markets.

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• Communication
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Driving Situational Awareness:

– Optimizing informational visualization to facilitate decisions at the executive level

Tools for stakeholder access to operational information that forges an understanding of how IT services are impacting the business outcomes.

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Transforming IT culture

– to assure business service quality and improve IT operational efficiency

Whitepaper that looks at new operational processes to overcome the drawbacks of traditional ‘siloed’ IT performance.

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Application Performance Management:

– The end user is king

Application performance management best practices and hat helps organizations focus on end-to-end monitoring and the end-user experience

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• Business transaction management
• APM
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Reshaping IT

– in a consumer driven era

Whitepaper on how Service Assurance solutions provide the agility required to anticipate emerging trends and adapt to rapid changing IT services.

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Video: Simplify decision making

– Business Decision Appliance from HP and Microsoft

A short animated feature on how Business Decision Applicance from HP and Microsoft can benefit your business' Intelligence and Data Warehousing strategies.

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Telecom Operator expects to boost service and revenue

– with enterprise data platform

Microsoft SQL Server customer solution case study on Telecom Operator.

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SQL server data quality services

– Help ensure data quality

Help ensure data quality with an easy to use tool designed to deliver credible, consistent data.

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• Server Data Quality Services
• DQS
• Server Integration Services
• Data Warehouse
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A real solution to big data management

– Microsoft big data solution sheet

This solution sheet details the challenges and best practice approaches to derive breakthrough insights from any data.

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Premier Mission Critical datasheet

– A scalable service and support program for the most demanding solutions

Improve business continuity by implementing an integrated support program for your most critical solutions.

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ITIC Data Warehousing research

– SQL Server vs. Oracle Exadata

Secondary research of independent data from publicly available sources, illustrating SQL Server 2008 R2 vs. with Oracle Exadata database machine.

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• ITIC
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The pace of change part 3 - Professional services

– Or, what cloud means for your company

Regcast discussing what cloud computing means to professional services.

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The pace of change part 2 - Media

– Or, what cloud means for your company

Regcast discussing what cloud computing means to the media industry.

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The pace of change part 1- Retail

– Or, what cloud means for your company

Regcast discussing what cloud computing means to the retailing industry.

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ITIC case study: Direct Edge Stock Exchange

– uses Microsoft SQL Server 2008 Parallel Data Warehouse to scale trading

Direct Edge Chief Technology Officer Richard Hochron interview about their experience in using SQL Server 2008 R2 PDW.

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IBM BladeCenter vs Cisco UCS

– A price and value discussion

How attention to blade systems design and choosing a better tuned blade environment can save enterprises money in acquisition and operational costs.

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Building tech for the flexible worker

– Half man half laptop

Live video webcast discussing what can you do to create the best possible flexible workers for your business.

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• Voip
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Bring Your Own iPad to Work

The technology is here, it is available but it is not yet adapted for corporate use

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• Ipad
• Apple
• Lan
• Wifi
• Wireless
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Data replication

no longer stuck on the wish list

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• Data replication
• Data management
• Sungard
• Data protection
• Security
• Enterprise Security
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The to-do list to make Private Cloud work

Unified infrastructure management

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• UIM
• Unified infrastructure management
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In Search of a Better Way to Enable Telework

An Osterman Research White Paper

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• Cloud
• Portable Workspace
• Teleworkers
• Data Networking
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Information management in financial services

Data deluge, data desert or both?

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• Freeform Dynamics
• Information Management
• Data Management
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