Whitepapers

Server Infrastructure Virtualization

Need a solution to optimize your infrastructure? Server infrastructure virtualization strategies optimize your infrastructure while reducing costs. Server virtualization is worth considering. Itex's partners, HP and VMware, offer technology to consolidate server resources that drive maximum efficiencies. By... read more >>

Branch Office Consolidation

Looking to simplify your infrastructure? Organizations are adopting branch office consolidation strategies to improve service level to uses. Itex's partner, Riverbed Technology, contracted Forrester Consulting to test hypotheses around the goals of IT organizations in a time of both financial... read more >>

Server Consolidation with Vmware and HP Proliant

Virtualization solutions from HP and VMware enable you to create secure, fault resistant server partitions. These partitions are configured with independent, heterogeneous operating systems and virtual hardware that map directly to the physical hardware. Login Register Forgot? Login to download... read more >>

Deploying Riverbed and LeftHand iSCSI SAN Remote Disaster Recovery Solution

Deploying Riverbed and LeftHand iSCSI SAN Remote Disaster Recovery Riverbed optimizes TCP/IP over the WAN and this includes iSCSI traffic. This report outlines the performance improvements that a Riverbed Steelhead can bring to the remote replication feature that is part of the standard feature set in... read more >>

Feature Brief Riverbed QoS

Riverbed Steelhead appliances can enforce existing Quality of Service (QoS) schemes, or act as the QoS enforcer at the WAN edge. This allows Riverbed Steelhead appliances to help optimize real time or UDP traffic when the appliance?s other TCP/IP optimization technology cannot. Login Register Forgot? Login... read more >>

Six ways HP helps IT port environmental initiatives

There are certain advantages that come with working with the best. For example, because HP devices are reliable and easy-to-use, fewer IT resources are required to keep them up and running day-to-day. Similarly, HP?s Lifecycle Management Services can reduce the time your staff has to spend maintaining... read more >>

Four ways HP productivity tools can help increase IT availability

According to research conducted by Computer Economics, IT staffing increased at about half the rate of IT spending in 2006.1 It?s a fact that simply confirms what IT professionals have suspected for some time. Improving staff efficiency is essential if IT departments hope to meet business unit mandates... read more >>

How HP helps IT, Facilities and Procurement do more together for less

The high-tech tangle of old and new imaging and printing technology found in most organizations today is more complex and costly than ever before. Yet it is not uncommon for the responsibility to acquire, deploy, support and supply these devices to be split among IT, Facilities and Procurement. Further... read more >>

Putting a price on document-based business processes

Documents make business information actionable. As such, documents have become a kind of currency in today?s information-driven economy. Yet the labor costs that result from the various tasks necessitated by the creation, distribution and archival of documents can exact a steep toll. An IDC study1 into... read more >>

Why HP Instant-on Technology?

With a shift towards distribute and print, demand is growing for effective local printing. Instant-on Technology ? a standard feature of most HP LaserJet and HP Color LaserJet printers and MFPs ? delivers the fast output today?s information workers need while allowing organizations to reduce energy costs. Login Register Forgot? Login... read more >>

The Philosophy of Security

Many security whitepapers begin with an in-depth analysis of an algorithm or they begin by showing how easy it is to exploit various vulnerabilities. The intention is to scare you into performing the steps outlined by the whitepaper or buy the technology the whitepaper promotes. We are not going to do... read more >>

HP Document Capture Solutions

Information is the lifeblood of today?s business. Documents?whether paper or electronic?make that information actionable. Unfortunately, many organizations struggle with manual processes that can?t match the volume or value of the documents they now handle. These labor-intensive, error-prone processes... read more >>

Why HPs Universal Print Driver?

There are several compelling reasons to deploy a universal print driver throughout your organization ? improved user productivity, reduced certification, diminished helpdesk activity, greater IT control, and enhanced IT effectiveness. Login Register Forgot? Login to download this whitepaper Username:... read more >>

How HP helps IT secure printing and imaging environments

Remember when securing a printing and imaging environment primarily meant making sure copies of sensitive business information weren?t left lying around? Not so in today?s electronic age when networked printing technology has the potential to provide a launching pad for attacks. Long story short: the... read more >>

The top three reasons to secure business process printing

According to Forrester Research, in 2007, most firms plan to spend between 7.5% and 9% of their IT budgets on security, regardless of their size, geography, and industry. 1 It?s a sizable investment, especially when you consider that analysts expect IT spending on the whole to rise no more than 6%. 2... read more >>

A quick look at print authentication

Far from the innocuous single-function printers common in the late twentieth century, today?s networked printers and multifunction printers (MFPs) rival networked PCs in their ability to send and receive data. While it is doubtful that any organization would allow one of its PCs to be made publicly available... read more >>

What you should know to get the most from built-in security protection

According to an article published in the online journal ComputerWeekly.com, more than 70 percent of Fortune 1,000 companies in the US are increasing their security budgets to meet regulatory and audit compliance requirements such as Sarbanes-Oxley and the Payment Card Industry (PCI) data security standard.1... read more >>

Six ways HP helps IT support environmental initiatives

Practical considerations for imaging and printing security

The IT security climate has changed. While in the past the challenge has been to convince customers of the need for security, the current need is to show how a product?s security capabilities complement a customer?s existing security environment. Security measures have evolved through the years, from... read more >>

HP Job Tracking and Accounting Solutions

Your company has a significant investment in its printer fleet and needs to know the exact amount it spends on printing to optimize those printing resources. To do that the company must have accurate and reliable data and reports on each device–usage broken down by department, project, and even... read more >>

HP color access control features

Most organizations understand providing or expanding access to inhouse color imaging and printing resources can yield big rewards, but more than three quarters of those recently surveyed by InfoTrends/CAP Ventures ? 76.7% ? also fear it might increase costs at least minimally or have learned so from... read more >>

Using color access controls to maximize value

Organizations that are incorporating color into their printing and imaging environments would like to be able to control access to color printing in order to maximize the return on their investments in color. This doesn?t simply mean limiting access to color, or placing controls on who uses color and... read more >>

A quick look at print authentication

What you should know to get the most from built-in security protection

Improve interoperability with Oracle XML Publisher and HP Output Server

Use of XML as a primary data format is spreading rapidly. Combining Oracle� XML Publisher with HP Output Server creates an output management system that can effectively process and reliably deliver XML-formatted output to print, fax, email, web, and other output destinations. More and more organizations... read more >>

Dynamic Content Software Strategies Consulting

For many organizations, print is not planned up-front, but is addressed after the fact by buying additional printers and servers to support it. As one IT manager put it, ?Print is an afterthought of most people?s business and the way they fix it is to just throw print servers at the problems ? we ended... read more >>

Siebel integration with HP Output Server

Integrating the popular Siebel Systems customer relationship management (CRM) software with HP Output Server gives Siebel CRM users access to all of HP Output Server?s document delivery capabilities. HP Consulting and Integration builds the components during installation to fit the client?s specific... read more >>

Improve your business processes with HP Output Server and HP OpenView Business Process Insight

Executives want to know how well key IT-supported business processes are running and the impact on the business, not the event-by-event details of how well the computing infrastructure is behaving. They want to know the percentage of orders the customer received on time, the risk profiles of accepted... read more >>

Document archiving with HP Output Server

Long-term document archival is necessary for compliance with today?s federal requirements or other legal mandates. The HP Output Management Solution provides reliable, efficient, and cost-effective information delivery to optimize business workflows. Several features of HP Output Server (HPOS), the core... read more >>

Failover methodology for effective output management

Maintaining high availability of your enterprise output requires eliminating or minimizing interruption of output such as print, fax, e-mail and Web from business-critical applications such as SAP and Siebel. A company?s profitability and ability to compete often depends on the availability of the whole... read more >>

Reducing fax costs with HP Output Server

Every day, large organizations fax thousands of documents, such as invoices and purchase orders, to customers, partners, and suppliers. The total cost of sending these faxes is often quite high, especially if a significant percentage of them cross international boundaries. Organizations can reduce the... read more >>

Reliable Printing of Unicode-Encoded Documents with HP Output Server

The Unicode standard is a universal character set and encoding standard that encompasses all characters from all languages in the world. That makes it very attractive to global enterprises that work constantly with documents in many languages and many alphabets. SAP and Oracle are adopting the Unicode... read more >>

Getting the most from your SAP output using HP Output Server Solutions

Output-related problems are one of the top three support issues for customers using SAP enterprise software applications. HP?s integrated family of enterprise output management software products can help by providing reliable document delivery across the extended enterprise to output destinations such... read more >>

HP Output Management

This paper examines how enterprise output management can improve the efficiency and reliability of critical business processes, and enhance IT value. Login Register Forgot? Login to download this whitepaper Username: Password: Remember me Register... read more >>

Hewlett-Packard Breaks the Print Barrier of Global Operations

Global companies need an easy-to-manage, cost-effective, and reliable way to print documents from a central location to multiple countries in multiple languages. Now they have one. Login Register Forgot? Login to download this whitepaper Username: Password: ... read more >>

Clearing the Pipes: How Output Server Management Has Helped Moen Incorporated

Output management is critical to organizations hoping to eliminate output bottlenecks and is also a way to create efficiency in the output environment. In this document, IDC examines the experience of Moen Incorporated (Moen) in capitalizing on the benefits of output management through the implementation... read more >>

HP Spotlight on Costs Part 1

A recent InfoTrends study found that organizations perceived that they spend an average of three percent of their annual revenues on printing, copying and fax related costs. But in actuality overall document expenditures (including hardware, supplies and ?people? costs) averaged six percent of annual... read more >>

HP Spotlight on Costs Part 2

A lot has been said about the high cost of imaging and printing these days (as much as six percent annual revenue across all industries according to InfoTrends1). But what is perhaps less well understood is the specific nature of the costs that factor into the total. The UK-based IT analyst firm Quocirca... read more >>

HP Spotlight on Costs Part 3

Documents make business information actionable. As such, documents have become a kind of currency in today’s information-driven economy. Yet the labor costs that result from the various tasks necessitated by the creation, distribution and archival of documents can exact a steep toll. An IDC study1... read more >>

HP Spotlight on Costs Part 4

HP Web Jetadmin Solution and Feature Guide

As business infrastructures become increasingly complex, managing printing and imaging devices develops into a major challenge. Many companies aren?t sure how many printers are on the network, which type of devices are connected, and how those assets are being utilized over time. In addition, the complexity... read more >>

HP 10 Ways HP MFPs Save You Time and Money and Help Protect Your Information

Learn how you can consolidate and save with multifunction products from HP. Login Register Forgot? Login to download this whitepaper Username: Password: Remember me Register for Itex Whitepapers First Name: Username:... read more >>

HP Strategy Guide

In a global economy the competition never sleeps, so it?s not enough to simply keep pace with change; you have to discover innovative ways to turn that change to a competitive advantage. For IT and facilities managers the challenge is especially daunting. Not only must you enable the day-to-day functioning... read more >>

HP Charging Back: Making Color Pay For Itself

One way to control your costs for color printing is to charge them back to those who are doing the printing. Charging back these costs can help reduce operational costs in two ways. 1. Internal users who are billed for all or some of their color printing are likely to be more aware of, and more mindful... read more >>

HP How to Successfully Deploy a Distributed Document Capture Infrastructure

In most organizations valuable business content now comes from multiple sources operating in many locations using a variety of technologies. Distributed document capture solutions provide a simple way to capture content where its created, classify it so that it can be processed and reused easily and... read more >>

Exploring the Communications Ecosystem

Information is the life force of organizations. Documents are the means by which organizations harness this force and make it actionable. These days it is not uncommon for state and local government agencies to distribute information to employees in multiple offices in more than one geographical location.... read more >>

HP Turning a copier refresh into a strategic opportunity

Most organizations grapple with end-of-lease decisions once every three to five years. Although many key business drivers will have changed in the intervening years, it is common for organizations to follow the same replacement procurement process from contract to contract. Login Register Forgot? Login... read more >>