Top 5 Considerations for Automating Key Business Processes

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Top 5 Considerations for Automating Key Business Processes
Business process automation - BPA - can help any business do more with less. However, successfully automating a business process requires more than just technology. Read how taking five straightforward steps to BPA planning can root out inefficiencies to improve key processes and give your business a clear competitive advantage.

Obtain Fortune 500 Type Security on a Budget You Can Afford
The responsibilities of network administrators and security managers at today's mid-size companies can seem like a no-win situation. They are accountable for securing their organization's network technologies with limited budgets and even more limited staff resources. This white paper explores how your mid-sized company can have a Fortune 500  type security solution on a budget you can afford.

2012 Essential Checklist for Backup and Recovery
In this new eBook, Greg Shields, Microsoft MVP and VMware vExpert, reveals the essential checklist of 10 capabilities any company's backup and recovery approach needs to include. Find out if your recovery solution can deliver all ten of these key capabilities and when to consider an upgrade to your backup and recovery approach.

Paving a Successful Migration Path to VoIP: Five checkpoints to make your migration the right move
Generating phone calls over the Internet really does work, and enterprise CIOs and IT chiefs are finding Internet Protocol (IP) telephony and voice over IP (VoIP) to their liking. Lower costs. Reliability and scalability. Central administration, easier moves, adds and changes, and intuitive desktop productivity tools for users. Read about five migration checkpoints that will make your move to VoIP the right one.

De-Mystifying Cloud Computing
This ESG paper de-mystifies some of the confusion surrounding cloud computing with a specific focus on the network and WAN optimization. WAN optimization will play a major role in the transition to the cloud becoming a virtual service, support mobile users, support innovative applications and protocols, and provide network visibility at a granular level.

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[TechRepublic] Deep troubleshooting with Windows 8

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[TechRepublic] Embed custom fonts with the @font-face property

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[TechRepublic] Embed custom fonts with the @font-face property

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[TechRepublic] Embed custom fonts with the @font-face property

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