May 25, 2009 - (Free Research) In order to quantify the performance of several backup and recovery offerings, engineers ran a series of tests on a VMware ESX server environment configured with three virtual machines that were connected to a Fibre Channel storage area network. Read this paper to learn the results.
September 17, 2009 - (Free Research) Enterprises, particularly those that deal with personal or private data, are now squarely in the path of a perfect storm. The convergence of regulatory compliance, high-profile data breaches and increased sophistication of cyber-attackers has transformed data security from an interesting IT sideline to a bottom-line, corner-office priority.
December 01, 2008 - (Free Research) Spreadsheet models for financial reporting can be cumbersome. With Oracle Hyperion Strategic Finance, your finance experts will be able to focus on testing alternative strategies, building contingency plans, and understanding the impact of those strategies and plans on your company's long-term performance.
November 13, 2009 - (Free Research) This guide will walk you through evaluating EnterpriseDB's products, Postgres Plus Standard Server and Postgres Plus Advanced Server, to help you decide which product is right for you. This evaluation guide will also help with installation and testing and provide additional information on how to use the product.
August 2008 - (Free Research) This paper explores the challenges and rewards of test management and provides practical ways to help you implement an organized and structured testing process. It also discusses the benefits of HP Quality Center software.
May 2007 - (Free Research) HP TestDirector for Quality Center software drives a more effective and efficient global application testing process and supports high levels of communication and collaboration among distributed testing teams.
December 2007 - (Free Research) HP QuickTest Professional software is a useful tool for regression test and function test automation. This paper will briefly review the challenges or testing Windows Forms applications and review the functionality of HP QuickTest Processional and its .NET add-in capabilities.
February 2009 - (Free Research) HP's approach to application lifecycle management and the Center of Excellence model for quality, performance, SOA, and security eliminates repetitive processes and work. And it improves business results by helping leading organizations integrate knowledge, processes, and resources.
December 2008 - (Free Research) One of the banes of the anti-virus researcher's life is the widespread confusion about "correct" comparative testing of anti-virus and anti-malware products. Read this paper to learn one expert's opinions about anti-virus testing and test reviews.
August 2007 - (Free Research) Use the Sophos Threat Detection Test to quickly perform a scan and find any viruses, spyware, adware or zero-day threats that might have by-passed your existing protection.
December 2008 - (Free Research) This paper is aimed at helping senior management address its product ROI in a manner that can be directly applied to their everyday management practices. In this report, EMF presents a methodology for calculating the ROI for a development based on the direct cost of development, associative costs, extrinsic costs and a process for estimating risk.
June 2009 - (Free Research) Latency is an important metric that should be considered when evaluating web application delivery solutions. Through tests performed, Citrix NetScaler exhibited very low latencies and was at least 3x fast than F5 BIG-IP in almost all test scenarios.
October 2009 - (Free Research) Welcome to the Virtual Desktop Challenge with Brian Madden. Play this "Jeopardy" style game and test your knowledge in the virtual desktop space. Top point scorers are eligible for prizes so play now and see if you are an expert on virtual desktop!
July 2009 - (Free Research) This paper sets out a framework for evaluating a data center. It considers the special factors that apply to an on-demand infrastructure, many of which go well beyond the standards applicable to the average enterprise data center.
March 2009 - (Free Research) Dell and VMware have partnered to offer a cost-effective, high-availability architecture based on Dell™ server and storage clusters and VMware® vCenter Site Recovery Manager (SRM) - one designed to minimize scheduled and unscheduled downtime.
August 2009 - (Free Research) This white paper discusses how Real Application Testing — with Oracle Database 11g Release 2 — allows businesses to quickly adopt new technologies while eliminating the risks associated with change.
February 2009 - (Free Research) Virtualization offers multiple ways to save money including hardware purchase, power and cooling costs over time and staff time needed when providing a test and analysis environment to name a few.
March 2009 - (Free Research) Wells' Dairy needed to provide cost-effective services and promote business continuity and agility. It deployed the Windows Server 2008 Datacenter operating system and Hyper-V™ virtualization technology. Today, it has a scalable server consolidation solution and a data center that is saving more than US.$12,000 in annual electrical costs.
March 2009 - (Free Research) This network-based scanning utility provides comprehensive visibility into the IT environment through in-depth scans and the automated discovery of all assets, both managed and unmanaged. Scan up to 25 nodes.
March 2009 - (Free Research) In this transcript, senior enterprise IT architect Nelson Ruest breaks down VMware ESX Server, Citrix XenServer and Hyper-V, providing details on what each product has to offer.
April 2009 - (Free Research) In this paper, various configurations of Exchange Server 2007 are tested in physical and virtual environments to evaluate the performance scalability and to understand the sizing requirements for Exchange Server 2007 in a virtualized environment.
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