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Lilien can provide overviews, white papers and other materials to help you become familiar with the various technologies and solutions we offer. The documents made available below are hand-selected, with many offering objective reviews of key solutions.  Please take a few minutes to view our selection, and contact us  for additional help in evaluating your options. 

Cloud

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Active The Bumpy Road to the Private Cloud
Bill Claybrook identifies the significant steps required for development of a true Private Cloud
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Active Cloud-based E-mail Archiving: A Practical Guide
White paper that discusses how cloud-based email archiving solutions can meet the regulatory and business requirements of long-term message storage, while offering clear financial and operational advantages over in-house solutions.
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Active The Value of Cloud Computing: CIOs Discuss Expectations and Payoffs
SearchCIO.com's 2011 survey of CIO's provides a variety of views of the Cloud
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Storage

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Active Cloud Leads 5 Storage Trends for 2011
Traditional methods of storage are proving costly, inefficient and unable to keep pace with client needs; and new, more efficient and intelligent methods of storage are beginning to take their place.
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Active Innovation in Storage 2011
Several Trends Worth Considering
While Storage is not known as a hotbed of innovation, technologies like solid-state storage, capacity optimization and automatic tiering are gaining prominence, and specialized storage systems for virtual servers are being developed. This article reviews these emerging technologies.
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Active Seven Ways to Lower Storage TCO
Compellent SAN White Paper
Compellent Storage Center - a highly integrated, feature-rich data storage solution-was designed to lower data storage TCO. Compellent's innovative storage platform helps organizations dramatically reduce both capital and operating expenses, while improving data availability and recovery.
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Data Management

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Active The Rising Impact of Virtualization on Data
Implications for Backup & Recovery Best Practices
With the majority of all applications now virtualized, data backup and recovery strategy needs to be readdressed.
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Active Deduplication's Business Imperatives
The Enterprise Strategy Group addresses data growth and the role deduplication plays in lowering costs of secondary storage
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Active Eight Questions to Ask When Considering an All-in-One Data Protection Solution
i365's Guide to All-in-One Data Protection Solutions
All-in-one data protection solutions are becoming increasingly popular because they are so easy and economical to procure, deploy, and maintain. But make sure to take a look under the hood as not all solutions are the same. This guide will help you make the right move.
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Enterprise Computing

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Active Business Value of Blades
IDC analyzes and helps quantify the benefits of HP Blades
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Active Why Buy Your Linux From Red Hat?
Red Hat Sales Guide
This overview takes your through the reasons why Red Hat enjoys a 97% loyalty rating, and why you should consider purchasing Linux through Red Hat rather then managing it as freeware.
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Active Unix Continues to Deliver Value to the Mid-Market
Survey shows many firms rely on Unix for their critical workloads
Gabriel Consulting Group 2010-11 survey shows how medium and small-sized organizations view commercial Unix systems.
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Microsoft

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Active 10 Reasons to Migrate to Exchange 2010
Keith Smith's brief 2010 article is still relevant
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Active Migrating to Microsoft Exchange
This Lilien PowerPoint touches on key considerations for an Exchange 2010 migration (contact us to elaborate!)
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Business Continuity

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Active Business Continuity And Disaster Recovery Are Top IT Priorities for 2010 and 2011
Six Percent Of IT Operating And Capital Budgets Goes To BC/DR
Stephanie Balaouras reviews survey results and discusses why now is the time for implementing or fine-tuning your business continuity / disaster recovery capabilities
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Virtualization

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Active Business Value of Virtualization
Realizing the Benefits of Integration
IDC finds significant potential savings by moving to a virtualized infrastructure
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Active Storage Virtualization: Experience Begets Benefits
Aberdeen Group's survey shows organizations get more out of storage virtualization the longer they use and understand it
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Active Desktop Virtualization From A to Z
Brian Madden's comprehensive overview of the benefits of Virtual Desktops
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Active A No-Budget Desktop Virtualization Plan for 2011
Virtual Desktop Infrastructure
Brian Madden, virtualization guru, discusses how to achieve an easy win when migrating to Windows 7
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Active Business Value of Virtualized Desktops
IDC's overview of the benefits of Virtual Desktop Infrastructure(VDI)
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Active Virtualization Overview
Virtualization primer from Global Knowledge
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Networking

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Active HP Advanced Data Center Network Architectures
Key Requirements for Building Modern, Virtualization-Optimized Data Center Networks
Tomorrow's virtualized data center demands more agile, efficient and scalable networking solutions. HP believes in a long-term approach with emphasis on continuity.
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Active Delivering Value from the Network Edge to the Core
IDC analyzes the ROI of a complete HP Networking solution
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