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SEPTEMBER 27, 2007

Issue 6

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As more 500-pound gorillas get into the game, there's a lot of concern about the deals they negotiate with the big guys. They want to make sure that while they get a good up-front discount, they don't get slapped with a bad contract down the road. Jim Browning, vice president and research area lead for the Small and Midsize Business Research organization at Gartner.

Midsize IT budgets continue strong growth
Your IT budget and those of your peers continue to out-grow large enterprise budgets, as new vendors and new solutions begin to come into the spending range of midmarket companies.
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E-mail and content retention strategies
With the extremes of e-mail retention policies being "save everything" and "save nothing," a happy medium is needed to save appropriate data. Making the wrong choices could cost mid-sized businesses big, though.
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How to spend less and get more out of security
How can you use technology convergence to spend less and become more secure? Where can so-called good enough security capabilities provided at low or no cost, enable you to spend less and become more secure?
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Curbing complexity in your IT infrastructure
Today's IT departments face the challenge of managing IT operations with scarce resources. Their staff are often generalists who are forced to wear many hats while lacking the time to specialize in a particular technology or process. This makes curbing complexity more difficult - and more essential.
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Solution Showcase gives vendors opportunity to talk shop with midmarket
A staple at Midsize Enterprise Summit, there was something for every IT executive in the Solution Showcase at this year's Fall Summit, with vendors old and new showing their wares.
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