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Think it, Plan it, Build it: The Fastest Way to a Drupal Site If you're new to Drupal, maybe you're already impressed with Drupal's power and flexibility, and you'd like to try your hand at setting up a website that goes beyond a simple blog. This white paper will give you a small planning toolset and a few tips to help get you oriented. The fastest way to get a Drupal 7 website planned and online today is with Drupal Gardens. It saves you from the technical overhead and lets you dive into how Drupal works, exploring the administrative interface and learning how to organize content. View this resource now A Cloud With a Brain Although IT departments play a crucial role in nearly every aspect of revenue-generating operations from processing transactions and generating business intelligence to developing, customizing and maintaining software all too often they're viewed as cost centers. This article from IBM Systems Magazine features cost-savings with Cloud through advanced virtualization, data center consolidation, and workload optimization technology. View this resource now Top 5 New Features of vSphere 5: A Buyer's Guide vSphere 5, the next version in the ESX and ESXi and vCenter family of products builds on the strengths of Version 4. First, you will get an overview of vSphere 4; then you will be introduced to five new features of vSphere 5. The author uses discussion, examples, and diagrams to explore his Top 5 list, which includes: vSphere Storage Appliance (VSA), Policy-driven Storage, High Availability, vCenter VA (Linux), and ESXi Host Deployment (Image Builder and Auto Deploy). View this resource now Top Resources of the Week Open Source Social Publishing: The Real TCO More and more, Open Source presents not only a cost alternative, but instead an innovation alternative, to proprietary enterprise software products. This paper compares the total cost of ownership of the Open Source Social Publishing Drupal solution to various proprietary Content Management systems, Social Business Software alternatives, and other community building software platforms. If you are about to make a decision on a Social Publishing or social business software platform, read this paper first. Get the facts and compare the alternatives. READ MORE >>> Is Your PC Showing Its Age? 5 Reasons to Go All-in-One Over the last few years, the tough economic conditions have forced many companies to tighten spending and hold off on new PC purchases. Now, they find their aging fleet of PCs is increasingly expensive to maintain and becoming more inefficient by the day as these older computers often hinder productivity because of performance limitations. Unfortunately, IT budgets are expected to remain tight, IT staffs expected to remain lean, and IT departments are facing even greater pressure to rein in costs. This is where Lenovo All-in-One PCs can play a significant role. READ MORE >>> IDC: Building in Web App Security From Start to Finish Over the past dozen years, the World Wide Web has transformed from a playground for technologists into a business platform. Unfortunately, the ability for anyone to create content is also the greatest weakness of the Internet. There is a lot of badly written software resulting in software vulnerabilities that make Web applications inherently insecure. This IDC white paper highlights the growing IT challenge of protecting web applications through software improvements and testing. It explains the problems associated with web application insecurity, driving factors encouraging improved web application security, and the means to validate application security. It also describes how the IBM Secure by Design initiative offers organizations the tools to improve web application security. READ MORE >>> What's Killing Your Helpdesk? Today's modern enterprise seeks both efficiency and productivity -- constantly looking for new and effective ways to boost employee workflow. Many businesses employ legacy remote control tools that come bundled within a suite of applications. These tools were not built for the helpdesk and are not designed to support the growing number of end-users who work beyond the corporate firewall. Explore the challenges of supporting a remote workforce with legacy tools such as RDP, pcAnywhere, VPNs and VNC and identify best practices you can use to choose helpdesk tools that better support today's workforce while also cutting costs. READ MORE >>> eNewsletter Information To avoid any problems with your newsletter delivery, please add newsletters@response.webbuyersguide.com to your address book. 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