Quickly see differences between brands like Avaya, Mitel, Cisco, ShoreTel, 8×8, Panasonic, etc and compare over 94 phone systems by 52 brands for small to big business. Our latest Spring 2010 edition of the chart also compares PBX and Business VoIP systems side by side so you can make an educated comparison of your options. This analysis is prepared in an easy to use Excel spreadsheet so you can edit and add information to suit your analysis and presentation needs.

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This white paper demonstrates how power, cooling, and real estate requirements are finally combining—to form a perfect storm for expensive, locked-in, proprietary hardware. But open storage appliances are based on industry-standard hardware and install up to 10 times faster than traditional systems, all while delivering twice the performance and capacity—and cutting power and cooling costs. To learn more, download your copy now.

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In this white paper, the experts at IDC examine why server-related costs like power, cooling, configuration, and management have grown all out of proportion to the size of the data center—which itself has grown by leaps and bounds! Their suggested solution: blade servers deployed within a virtualized infrastructure, to drastically cut operational costs while eliminating service bottlenecks. Learn how to do more with less—download your copy now.

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This webcast introduces the latest business intelligence technology that can help you discover your insight “needle” in a haystack of data. In under an hour, you’ll learn how to avoid expensive hardware and “forklift” upgrades, via an open-source platform; cut costs by storing more data on modest hardware; and effectively deploy a business intelligence implementation. Get the meaningful data you need, for less—view this free webcast now.

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A significant number of the servers shipped this year will replace existing ones, according to this white paper from the experts at IDC. More capable servers can bring down energy and real estate costs, while cutting operating expenses and supporting new server-intensive Web apps. Now learn the most cost-effective strategy for refreshing your servers—and when it makes more sense to refresh than to upgrade.

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The experts at IDC predict that external disk storage capacity will grow 50% through 2010—but with that capacity comes a new set of hurdles. In this free white paper, you’ll discover 4 key storage challenges for organizations facing the future; 4 important benefits of unified storage; and performance requirements to look for. Don’t drown in a sea of data—make it work for you. Download this free IDC white paper now.

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This free white paper reveals how the latest generation of open storage systems is helping businesses stay flexible and profitable. Learn how Web 2.0’s massive storage requirements are pushing businesses toward storage that’s affordable, reliable, and dynamic; how open source code gives you faster innovation, wider choice, and lower costs without vendor lock-in; and how 6 organizations around the world are successfully deploying it. Download your free copy now.

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In this free white paper, learn how a lower server count can keep the data center agile enough to cope with today’s dynamically changing priorities and pressures. Discover how consolidation can help deliver services faster while cutting costs, conserving energy, and reacting faster to new demands—and how one company realized a 10x improvement in price/performance and an 83% reduction in power usage and heat dissipation. Download your free copy now.

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This free white paper comes as companies adopt grid computing to deliver greater efficiency, minimize costs, protect investments, and adapt to changing business needs. Inside, you’ll learn 10 key questions to ask when evaluating a grid computing solution; how companies are using grids to maximize reliability, availability, flexibility, and performance; how to connect equipment to optimize scaling, throughput, and overhead; and best practices for grid design. Download your copy now.

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This free white paper from the experts at IDC posits solutions to the key problems posed by data center crowding. Learn how blade servers can help by drastically cutting energy costs, so you can reduce overhead and stay green; cutting down on deployment time, repairs, monitoring, and management; minimizing real estate; and even slashing operational costs. Download this free white paper and discover what blades can do for your business.

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This free white paper from the experts at IDC reveals the profound impact of social technologies—also known as Web 2.0—on enterprise IT. You can meet users’ new, more demanding requirements—if you’re ready. Learn 5 key Web 2.0 challenges; the specific software and hardware you’ll need to optimize your Web 2.0 deployment; and services to consider as you build out your social strategy. Download this free IDC white paper now.

This free e-book—an official release in the renowned "For Dummies" series—explores why virtualization is in such great demand and what it can do for your business. Discover 4 powerful and very different trends driving virtualization adoption; 3 key types of server virtualization; and 4 system resources you’d be crazy not to have plenty of. Learn how to save on servers, real estate, and energy—download your free copy now.

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The quest for efficiency improvement raises questions regarding the optimal air temperature for data centers. The ASHRAE TC-9.9 committee has recently adopted an extension of the recommended thermal envelope for server inlet temperature and humidity. A popular hypothesis suggests that total energy demands should diminish as the server inlet temperatures increase. This paper tests that hypothesis through the development of a composite power consumption baseline for a mixture of servers as a function of inlet temperature and applying this data to a variety of cooling architectures.

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The trend of increasing heat densities in data centers has held consistent with advances in computing technology for many years. As power density increased, it became evident that the degree of difficulty in cooling these higher power demand loads was also increasing. In recent years, traditional cooling system design has proven inadequate to remove concentrated heat loads (up to and greater than 20 kW per rack). This has driven an architectural shift in data center cooling. The advent of a newer cooling architecture that was designed for the higher densities has brought with it increased efficiencies for the data center. This article discusses the efficiency benefits of row-based cooling compared to two other common cooling architectures.

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Traditional methodologies for monitoring the data center environment are no longer sufficient. With technologies such as blade servers driving up cooling demands and regulations such as Sarbanes-Oxley driving up data security requirements, the physical environment in the data center must be watched more closely. While well understood protocols exist for monitoring physical devices such as UPS systems, computer room air conditioners, and fire suppression systems, there is a class of distributed monitoring points that is often ignored. This paper describes this class of threats, suggests approaches to deploying monitoring devices, and provides best practices in leveraging the collected data to reduce downtime.

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