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| | | The online customer experience, Web 2.0 and the consumerization of technology are driving online sales strategies, as well as the demand for site redesigns and upgrades. Today's buyers desire Web sites to speed up the process of finding a product, enable comparisons of products, provide tools to help buyers understand the product, and have community-based information to help them to make the final buying decisions -- all with knowledge of "who" they're serving across multiple points of interaction. This magic quadrant compares 20 e-commerce solutions to help buyers find the best value, performance and feature set for their specific needs. | |  | | | | Like most businesses of any size in this economy, mid-market players seek operational cost savings to reduce growing infrastructure costs and almost any means to reduce the workload of their IT staff. They also want to avoid the chance that a new technology will create as many or more problems than it solves -- or trigger a wave of other upgrades that they cannot afford. In addition, they have become particularly concerned about their current readiness for disaster and their plans for better business resiliency. Virtualization can help with all of these aspects of the mid-sized business, as well as a few surprise benefits. | | | | | | | For enterprises today, reducing costs and complexity is key to maximizing the business value of IT systems and services. One particular pain point applicable in this context: energy costs in data centers. Today's data centers commonly generate 10 to 30 times the electrical overhead of a typical office building -- the fastest-growing element of the data center cost picture. This is an area that can -- and should -- be reduced in order to minimize unnecessary spending and waste. | | | | | | | Today's enterprise data centers must be more responsive than ever to changing business dynamics. Organizations must be agile and flexible in order to stay competitive in this changing global business economy. At the same time, however, they must be aware of expenses, and maximize the ROI on every system and solution installed. Data centers have traditionally been built on separate systems, with very little connectivity and shared resources. The problem with this model is the way IT must deal with these various infrastructure siloes -- it becomes very difficult to solve complex issues when there are so many disconnected moving parts. | | | | | | | The need for de-duplication is increasing for many organizations as they gather ever-growing volumes of data. At the same time, they are looking for ways to reduce storage costs, improve efficiencies and provide adequate disaster recovery capabilities. De-duplication works by identifying variable-length blocks or segments of data across different files and file types. It then stores unique blocks a single time, replacing redundant blocks with "data pointers." | | | | | | | Companies have become almost totally dependent on computers to conduct their business. Revenue and expenditures are recorded in transaction processing systems. When applications appear to be slow, frustrated users waste time and energy. Slow applications cause lost time which, in turn, means lost money. Also, IT staff time is misspent. In some instances, help desk or PC analysts expend much of their time rebooting client stations or checking IP configurations and cabling connections. This guide will help IT organizations troubleshoot application problems more quickly and more efficiently, leaving companies with more uptime in their business-critical applications. | | | |
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