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BOSTON, MA -- (Marketwire) -- 12/12/12 -- Aberdeen Group, a Harte-Hanks Company (NYSE: HHS), today announced the publication of new research reports from its IT Infrastructure/Virtualization and Cloud, Enterprise Mobility and Communications, Retail and Consumer Markets research practices.

"Four Steps to Proactive Datacenter Management,"one of three reports authored this month by Dick Csaplar, Senior Research Analyst for the Aberdeen IT Infrastructure/ Virtualization and the Cloud research practice, reveals that leading companies are more likely to allow their management software to take proactive steps to correct or optimize infrastructure performance. Generally they follow a pattern of defining success, capturing the required data, preparing for dynamic optimization, and automating the management of their infrastructure. To obtain a complimentary copy of this report visit: http://www.aberdeen.com/link/sponsor.asp?spid=30410182&cid=8262&camp=2.

Next from Csaplar, "How the Best-in-Class Deploy their ERP Systems" shows that organizations have three basic choices as a computing platform on which to deploy their Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) applications. These choices are physical servers, virtualized servers, or the Public Cloud. Best-in-Class organizations choose virtualized servers of physical deployments, and are much more likely to use the Public cloud. To obtain a complimentary copy of this report visit: http://www.aberdeen.com/Aberdeen-Library/8259/AI-deploying-enterprise-resource.aspx.

Also authored by Csaplar, "How the Best-in-Class Protect their ERP Systems from Application Downtime" outlines that organizations have four alternatives to protect Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) applications. They can choose not to add any additional downtime protection, use high availability (HA) features from hypervisor vendors, deploy cluster software, or deploy their ERP applications on fault tolerant servers. leading organizations are more likely to deploy a high availability option to protect their ERP apps and use hypervisor software HA features. To obtain a complimentary copy of this report visit: http://www.aberdeen.com/Aberdeen-Library/8260/AI-application-downtime-protection.aspx.