The ERP Comparison Guide shortens the time needed to purchase ERP software for companies looking to get their quarter off to a successful start! Begin accurately controlling costs, inventory and revenue forecasts.

With the differing ideological approaches and so many solutions on the market, selecting the right backup and recovery solution for your organization can be a complicated affair. Our Midmarket/Enterprise Backup & Recovery Buyer′s Guide can help you select the correct solution based on your business requirements including budget, backup windows, platform support, key applications and SLAs (service level agreements).

Thinking of introducing or upgrading your ERP solutions? 2010′s the time. See what’s changed, what′s possible, and what′s right for your business with FREE Focus research.

Register now for Focus′ brand new ERP Comparison Guide to evaluate the top 17 ERP solutions -- in-depth, in a flash. Plus, you′ll get our Research Brief: What is ERP in 2010? for expert insights on the landscape of the ERP market today.

This white paper describes how Panasas Storage delivers high throughput to many concurrent backup IO streams to standard backup applications such as Veritas NetBackup™ or EMC® NetWorker™. It also offers an overall strategy for backup and restore taking into account the tape subsystem, networking, file system workload and administrative policy.

Tremendous effort has been made by IT organizations, and their providers, to make enterprise storage more efficient and effective, but the technical computing side of the organization has been left behind. This paper details the compelling benefits created by improving the efficiency and performance of the "Technical Enterprise" with a Scale-out NAS storage infrastructure.

Before committing to a business VoIP provider for your office phone system, get the industry’s Top 10 questions you have to ask before making a purchasing decision. Here is a sampling of the questions you will learn:

* What is the contract termination policy?
* What startup costs are there beyond setup and equipment fees?
* What day-to-day usage costs are not covered by my service plan?
* Plus 7 more important questions

This FREE in-depth Comparison Guide lines up the top 7 key vendors in the market and compares the most important factors in purchasing telephony products and services for companies of all sizes.

• Compare the top 7 vendors…easy to read and understand
• Costs for each vendor
• Features & Benefits
• Our expert analyst′s comments for each vendor
• And much more...

Is your current phone system still the right choice for your business? Focus research indicates that VoIP (Voice over Internet Protocol) has become an attractive alternative to older telephone technologies for SMBs. This information-packed guide compares the top 10 hosted VoIP phone system solutions for SMBs. Reviewing the key features and data points will help you to decide which solution is best suited to your business.

Phone systems are a critical part of any business infrastructure. While phone system buyers read the buyers guides, research the different brands, and create elaborate RFPs, there is no substitute for learning from other phone system buyers′ mistakes. Here is a list of 10 regrettable mistakes businesses have made when buying a phone systems.

At the Lustre Users Group 2010 Oracle announced that Lustre won′t be "free" beginning with the 2.0 version. What does this mean for Lustre users going forward?

On the plus side, Oracle′s approach validates the Panasas perspective that a quality storage system with integrated hardware and software is worth paying for and disproves the perception that customers can get a robust high-performance file system for "free".

On the negative side, Lustre users deployed on non-Sun hardware have some choices to make.

What should HPC users running Linux clusters do? How much effort and cost does that entail and will you be better or worse off relative to performance and stability after the migration?

Asking the right phone system buying questions before making a purchase can save you substantial money, alert you to phone system limitations, and ensure that your phone system quality is as you expect it to be. Because not all of us are phone system experts, or are involved in phone system implementations, it is critical to know the questions experts ask before investing in an expensive business phone system.

NETGEAR offers 4 of the 5 key components for a first-time virtualization environments. Learn how our partnerships along with our storage, switching and security products can simplify your deployment in this easy-to-read white paper.

Curious about what your peers are up to? Want to know who′s planning what this year? The Spiceworks State of SMB IT survey results can help you understand what′s going on in small business IT in 2010, and guide you as you benchmark you own plans.

Headlands Asset Management is a financial services company based in San Rafael, CA that handles more than $50M in assets. Learn how they use NETGEAR ReadyNAS storage in a Microsoft Hyper-V environment to consolidate servers, lower their storage costs and increase density – while adding offsite backup

It′s a good time for a change. Today′s enterprise-class VoIP phone systems allow integration with powerful features such as unified communications while helping the bottom line with significantly reduced long-term costs.

Round out your research before you invest with the in-depth market knowledge you need. Focus′ comprehensive Toolkit has it all: a guide to what features are right for your business, a side-by-side vendor comparison, and tools that will help you make a smart decision.

Informed decisions start here. Get fast, free access to Focus’ comprehensive Buyer’s Guide and Vendor Comparison Guide now.

You′ll learn:

* Phone systems essentials — top product, vendor and cost considerations
* Advice from real enterprise phone system buyers
* How the top 13 enterprise phone system solutions compare