Desktop Virtualization

Technology moves at breakneck speed. Technology upgrades typically do not. While there’s no doubt that having the latest technology increases productivity, remaining competitive requires a significant capital outlay to purchase new hardware and deploy it. For small and medium sized companies that have limited budgets and IT staff, keeping up with technology can be challenging, if not impossib…

Key Considerations in Selecting a User Management Platform Solution

The rise of the social consumer creates tremendous opportunities for organizations to develop deeper relationships with their customers in support of their business objectives. Whether your goals are to acquire new users, increase on-site engagement, or collect and leverage customer insights (or all of • What are your business objectives? • What are you trying to achieve on your site? • …

Building “Bring-Your-Own-Device” (BYOD) Strategies

This is the first part in a series designed to help organizations develop their “BYOD” (bring-your-own-device) strategies for personally-owned smartphones and tablets. This chapter provides an overview of eight components that our customers have found to be the foundation of a secure and scalable BYOD program. Many organizations are considering personally-owned mobile devices for busin…

5 Ways Your VMware and Hyper-V Backups May Fail You

When you think about protecting virtual machines, what’s the first thing that comes to mind? For many IT professionals, that first thought probably centers around high-availability, or HA, technologies. Each of the major virtual platform vendors has its own representation of HA, and although each vendor’s tactics in accomplishing the task might be very different, the result is effectively t…

Silver Peak’s Virtual Acceleration Open Architecture (VXOA)

The major IT initiatives of today – data center consolidation, cloud computing, unified communications, virtualization, and disaster recovery – share a common theme: they all presume a well performing Wide Area Network (WAN). The reality though is that most WANs are unable to compensate for the increased packet loss, latency, and bandwidth problems endemic to publicly shared infrastr…

The Growing Importance of E-Discovery on Your Business

Discovery is the process of identifying, preserving, collecting, reviewing, analyzing and producing information during civil legal actions. The goal of discovery is to obtain information that will be useful in developing relevant information for pre-trial motions and for the trial itself. Information sought during discovery can include documents, testimony and other information deemed necessa…

Document Process Management

Business documents are vital strategic, financial, operational and intellectual assets that are essential to daily business processes. They constitute the lifeblood of an organization. Yet half of organizations rate their document management practices as less than effective. This is why document process management is becoming an outsourcing strategy that enables organizations to reduce cost…

THE BUSINESS CASE FOR PROJECT PORTFOLIO MANAGEMENT

The expression “better, faster, cheaper” is commonly associated with supply chain initiatives, where companies have developed an edge by getting products to market faster and more efficiently than their competitors. However, in the new world of cloud computing, more companies are looking at their IT department as a competitive differentiator by enabling them to quickly deploy hosted appli…

Combine ITIL and COBIT to Meet Business Challenges

IT organizations are under increasing pressure to meet the business goals of their companies. This challenge can be particularly daunting because it involves complying with regulations, such as the Sarbanes- Oxley Act (Sarbox) and Basel II. Compliance requires strong corporate governance capabilities that are demonstrable to outside auditors. Because IT plays such a major role in business proce…

Four steps to Developing a Service Management Strategy for Midsized Business

In today’s competitive business environment, small and midsized businesses that want to grow and sustain an edge in the market must continually streamline and improve core business practices. In many instances, technology-based solutions are integral to achieving operational efficiencies and to furthering key business objectives. As businesses progress from small to midsize organizations,…

Stretching the Software Budget: A Practical Guide to Enterprise License Optim…

Software is of tremendous importance to today’s IT-intensive organizations. In fact, the appetite of organizations for software is growing at a faster pace than software budgets—especially in light of current economic conditions. It is therefore more critical than ever for software buyers to get maximum value out of every dollar they spend on software.

The Importance of a Print Management Strategy

Today’s rising overhead expenses drive organizations to find practical ways to reduce costs. Profit-conscious executives face the challenge of either reducing headcount or reducing overhead expenses. Much of the time, either of these strategies can have a negative impact on productivity and morale. Every so often a strategy appears that can provide significant expense control and enhance prod…

The State of Resilience and Optimization on IBM Power Systems

The AS/400 and RS/6000 platforms have evolved greatly over 20 years, and now IBM has brought them together to create the Power Systems server line. The technologies and methods for data protection and system optimization for both platforms have seen great changes as well. Even as transaction and data storage volumes have increased, ensuring that the right data protection and management practice…

System i Optimization Best Practices

System i is at the heart of the IT infrastructure for many organizations. Companies around the globe depend on the platform to provide reliable performance for their sales, operations, human resources, accounting, shipping and other critical applications. While it is true that System i is one of the easiest to manage business systems in the world, it is still far from entirely self-managing or …

The Essential Guide to Disaster Recovery

For today’s small and mid-sized businesses, the risk and effects from any unplanned outage (downtime) grow with each additional critical application, network enhancement or system upgrade. We don’t have to look back very far to see the consequences of sudden or unexpected disasters affecting the IT infrastructure of major cities and businesses of every description. Consequently, IT man…

Top Ten Reasons to Go Green in IT

IT equipment accounts for nine percent of all energy consumed by businesses—the third-largest source of power for the commercial sector. With the right power management policies in place, you’ll have better control over your entire network–not only over how much power is consumed, but also how–and when- computers are powered down. This new control allows you to more successfully exe…

TAKING THE "ENTITLEMENT" OUT OF ENTERPRISE SOFTWARE

Enterprise software changed the face of business over the last decade. However, afters of aggressive enterprise software buying, corporations are now saddled with a large portfolio of solutions that are expensive to upgrade and have become equally expensive to maintain and support.

Solving the Password Management Paradox

Organizations need to protect their data and restrict access to enterprise resources to authorized users. Many companies attempt to address their security concerns by simply implementing stronger password policies, requiring employees to remember more and stronger passwords for all applications. However, most employees can not remember more than one or two strong passwords, so they won’t f…

Sarbanes-Oxley Simplified

The Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002 (“SOX”) puts a new emphasis on timeliness and transparency in financial reporting, and the importance of internal controls in managing a public company. As of November 2004, SOX became a requirement for larger companies traded on a U.S. stock exchange; smaller public companies have until July 2007 to comply. This whitepaper provides an overview of, and s…

SPAZIO FILE AUDIT & CONTROL DEFINITION & BENEFITS

Over the years a variety of file transfer tools and techniques have been utilized to support the file transfer needs of internal systems as well as file transfers with external partners. The file transfer process has become complex, involving differing platforms, technologies, processing methods and support. Each process has been developed separately to meet differing requirements resulting in …

Optimizing IT Performance

Over the last few years, corporations have been under incre- ased pressure to optimize resource utilization while at the same time adapting more quickly to changes required by the business. This pressure has direct impact on IT organizati- ons faced with more complex installations that need to be implemented, enhanced and managed with fewer allocated resources. Most organizations have invested…

Actual Storage Utilization and your IT Bottom Line

IT budgets are shrinking even as the reliance on data availability grows. Now more than ever, IT managers must spend carefully to keep from negatively impacting the bottom line. One area where IT departments can realize significant savings is in storage. This document provides a simple breakdown of the actual costs paid for storage when real-world utilization and performance numbers, in additi…

HOW TO GET ITIL DONE

Few would argue over the crucial role of IT in today’s economy. In our lifetime, we have witnessed IT evolve from a limited service function into a critical core competency of modern organizations. Stepping out of the shadows and into the limelight has created new challenges for IT, however. Expectations have risen dramatically throughout all levels of the organization and its ecosystem of…

5 Steps to Protect Your Automation Applications from Downtime

If you are involved with managing process automation, building automation, or security systems, you know the complexity of your IT systems can often create failures and indecision that result in downtime. And downtime can blow your production schedule, put lives at risk, and your company in financial peril. Redundancy is a time-tested method to ensure availability of PLCs, monitoring, control…

The Data Quality Imperative in Governance, Risk, and Compliance (GRC)

More than ever, organizations require trusted, high quality data to satisfy governance, risk, and compliance (GRC) initiatives. Organizations are discovering that poor quality data has a significant impact on their ability to support business processes, comply with industry regulators, and to make accurate decisions and are raising the visibility of data quality activities within their enterpri…

GROUNDWORK OPEN SOURCE VS. HP SOFTWARE

According to Gartner Dataquest* IT Operations Management software consumed $12.9 billion in spending in 2007. Of this, $4.3 billion, or 33%, was spent on availability, performance, and network management, representing the largest portion of IT Operations Management software spending. Just over $3 billion of this, or 70%, was spent amongst only four vendors: BMC, CA, HP, and IBM, also known as …

IT Automation Success Kit

It’s no surprise that the downturn in major world economies poses a threat to business growth. As Price water house Coopers revealed in its 11th Annual Global CEO Survey published in 20081, the percentage of CEOs who say that they are 'very confident' about the potential for business growth has fallen for the first time since 2002. Competition is not diminishing, however, and CEOs continue …

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The Cisco Smart Business Roadmap

The rate of change and the amount of competition in the business world is escalating. Small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs) need to ensure that the technology solutions they buy meet today’s business needs and are flexible enough to grow with this rapidly evolving business environment. The Cisco® Smart Business Roadmap provides a structured, planned evolution path to help organizations ta…

The CyberAngel® Encryption & Tracking Software

The CyberAngel with Wi-Trac ® ® Security Software utilizes our unique Alert..Lock..Locate technology to provide Real-Time Security and Tracking & Recovery of your computer in the event of loss or theft. The CyberAngel® with Wi-Trac® will detect unauthorized access of a protected computer and immediately protect all sensitive or confidential information on that computer, as well as locking …