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White Papers
ComputerWorld eBook: Enterprise Management Flyover
Jun 2009
What are the key trends driving IT management? This eBook provides the answers with in-depth articles on how organizations are driving down costs, reducing risks and increasing quality of service...
Provided by Oracle
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White Papers
The Need for Profitability & Cost Management
Sep 2008
As indirect costs rise and economic pressures increase, the need for profitability and cost management (PCM) also grows. Read this white paper to find out more about how PCM drives business...
Provided by Oracle
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White Papers
Risk Management: Protect and Maximize Stakeholder Value
Feb 2009
Recent economic volatility has given risk management a new focus and eminence. The strongest companies are the ones that are able and willing to adapt, who actively integrate risk management as a...
Provided by Oracle
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Podcasts
Podcast: Globalization Challenges and Opportunities: A Conversation with The Boston Consulting Group's Hal Sirkin
Sep 2009
Listen to this podcast featuring Hal Sirkin, senior partner and managing director at The Boston Consulting Group, to learn about the new Era in international business competition. This podcast...
Provided by Oracle
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White Papers
The Surprising Risks of Counterfeit Software in Business
Mar 2009
In 2006, international market research firm IDC published a paper sponsored by Microsoft about the risks of obtaining and using counterfeit software1 The Business Software Alliance (BSA), a...
Provided by Microsoft
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Whitepapers
Managing 21st Century Business and Technology Innovation: Reduce Operational Risk, Enable Compliance, Protect Privacy With IBM System z
Mar 2008
Banking executives are faced with a growing set of risk management and compliance challenges. This paper explores these challenges and highlights how IBM and, more specifically, System z, improves...
Provided by IBM
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Whitepapers
Higher Customer Profits, Lower Risk: IBM Cognos Performance Perspectives Series
Apr 2009
What's top of mind for retail banks? More often than not, the focus is on customer profitability and risk management. Customers are key to higher branch profits. So it's no surprise that more...
Provided by IBM
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White Papers
After the Storm: A New Era for Risk Management in Financial Services
Jun 2009
Almost two years since the financial crisis first emerged from the sub-prime mortgage business in the US, the repercussions continue to be felt. Despite unprecedented efforts by governments,...
Provided by Economist Intelligence Unit
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White Papers
The Bigger Picture: Enterprise Risk Management in Financial Services Organisations
Sep 2008
Despite a growing appetite for enterprise-wide risk management among the world's largest financial services providers, there is some way to go before such practices are fully rolled out and...
Provided by Economist Intelligence Unit
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Downloads
Optimization Pack
Jan 2009
Virtualization success is all about balancing resource utilization and VM performance. VKernel's new Optimization Pack contains three powerful new applets (Wastefinder, Rightsizer, Inventory) that...
Provided by VKernel
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Whitepapers
Mastering Virtualized Environments
Sep 2009
Data centers are growing rapidly in size and complexity. At the same time, competitive and economic pressures are making cost control even more critical to the overall success of data center...
Provided by IBM
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Whitepapers
BSA LifeStructures Boosts Collaboration, Responsiveness to Customers with Unified Communications
Aug 2008
BSA LifeStructures provides architectural, engineering, and technology consulting services to the healthcare industry. Senior Management wanted to implement new technology that could help cut...
Provided by Microsoft
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Tools & Templates
Green IT Impact Calculator
Sep 2009
Quantify the Impact of Green IT Virtualization Investments. Welcome to the Green IT Impact Calculator. This worksheet enables you to estimate the impact of virtualization investments to drive...
Provided by Dell
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Case Studies
NetBenefit: Hosting Provider Uses Virtualization to Expand Services and Reduce Costs
Sep 2008
NetBenefit is a leading provider of managed hosting services in the United Kingdom. Faced with ever more expensive London data center costs, the company was looking for ways to expand the hosting...
Provided by Dell
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White Papers
Outsourcing Risk Reduction: How to Avoid Disasters and Ensure Solid Working Relationships
Jan 2009
With the right outsourcing arrangement, one can convert fixed IT costs to variable, gain access to scarce resources and increase service availability. But one needs to manage outsourcing risks. Of...
Provided by ExecutiveBrief
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White Papers
Which UPS is right for the job?
Sep 2009
Traditionally, data center managers and facilities managers could choose from three UPS topologies: standby, line-interactive and double-conversion—offering widely varying levels of efficiency,...
Provided by Eaton
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White Papers
Saugatuck - Evaluating SaaS Solutions
Feb 2008
In this paper we discuss the relevant criteria for evaluation of SaaS solutions targeting small-to-midsize businesses, and we raise the key questions that should be asked. It is important to...
Provided by SAP
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White Papers
Think Strategies - SaaS - A Primer for IT and Business Decision Makers
Jan 2008
Because of the growing track record of success of SaaS solutions, Gartner predicts that 25% of new business software will be delivered as SaaS by 2011. However, many midsize businesses are...
Provided by SAP
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White Papers
Saugatuck - SaaS Realities-Business Benefits for Small and Midsized Business
Feb 2008
In this paper, we consider the business advantages of moving to a Software as a Service (SaaS) model for improving business operations, and to better meet the challenges of growth, competition and...
Provided by SAP
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White Papers
Sustainable IT: An interactive eBook from Intel and Symantec
Sep 2009
Here you will find content that outlines how companies can reduce costs, lower TCO, and decrease power consumption. In the latest issue of the Intel/Symantec eBook you can discover how the two...
Provided by Intel
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Webcasts
Reduce Costs With Good Systems Management Practices in Hard Economic Times
Sep 2009
As budgets are being slashed, IT is still expected to do more with less to support the business. With good systems management practices in place using products from Symantec such as Altiris Client...
Provided by Symantec
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Case Studies
Dynamic Survey Solutions Upgrades Software Protection
Feb 2008
Dynamic Survey Solutions, Inc. develops the GPSeismic suite of software applications for the seismic survey industry. The challenge was to minimize the risk of 'Free' software becoming available...
Provided by SafeNet
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Case Studies
Sentinel Keys Provide Vital Defense of Revenue for ECOSOFT's Cost Engineering Application
Jul 2008
Founded in 1984, ECOSOFT provides integrated solutions for information management with software and market research. ECOSOFT's main focus is to address the business challenges of stakeholders in...
Provided by SafeNet
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Case Studies
VASCO's VACMAN Controller and DIGIPASS Go 1 Protect Real Estate Database and Revenue of B-to-B e-Commerce Company
Apr 2009
A U.S. based online provider of commercial real estate information wanted to offer its customers secure online access to a database with critical corporate real estate information. The challenge...
Provided by VASCO Data Security
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Case Studies
University of Missouri Reshapes Hospital Supply Chain Management to Reduce Cost, Increase Effectiveness
Aug 2009
University of Missouri (UM) wanted to improve supply chain management systems, which had operational issues and limited the ability to control supply costs and improve operating rooms' inventory...
Provided by Oracle
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Case Studies
Taking Auto Insurance to the Next Level
Oct 2008
In December 1999, Esurance launched its Web site to harness the power of the Internet and revolutionize the way people purchase insurance. Esurance needs to stay in constant contact with its...
Provided by Dell
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White Papers
Dramatically Improving the Business Document Management Experience: How a Flexible Software as a Service Approach Minimizes Business Risks and Lowers Operating Costs
Sep 2008
This white paper will describe the benefits associated with Software as a Solution (SaaS) approach to Electronic Document Management Systems (EDMS) implementation that addresses industry wide...
Provided by Lexmark International
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White Papers
Implementing DHCP Redundancy to Sustain Critical Operations - DHCP Redundancy: Choosing Between the Split-Scopes and Alcatel-Lucent Failover DHCP Configurations
Nov 2007
IP network administrators are understandably concerned with providing redundancy in the event of the failure or inaccessibility of their frontline Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol (DHCP)...
Provided by Alcatel-Lucent
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Webcasts
VMware Virtualization: The Right Investment for a Tough Economy
Jul 2009
Now more than ever, IT organizations must find a way to cut costs quickly and dramatically. In this tough economic environment, budgets are being squeezed and IT departments are expected to "Do...
Provided by VMware
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White Papers
Oracle Real Application Testing 11g Release 2
Jan 2009
Change is relentless in today's rapidly evolving IT environments. But it doesn't have to be difficult for data center managers and administrators. Oracle Real Application Testing helps...
Provided by Oracle
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White Papers
Risk Management on Enterprise Architecture and System Integration
Apr 2009
This paper highlights and consolidates interesting risk management topics for enterprise information systems from enterprise architect and system integration perspectives. The paper first...
Provided by Project Perfect
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White Papers
Reducing the Cost of Achieving PCI Compliance with Lumension Compliance and IT Risk Management
Sep 2009
Reducing the Cost of Achieving PCI Compliance with Lumension® Compliance and IT Risk Management Organizations across the globe are required to demonstrate PCI compliance to ensure that cardholder...
Provided by Lumension
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White Papers
A Quick Primer on Data Center Tier Classifications
Oct 2009
Today, a number of companies are either consolidating their data centers or implementing new data center projects. Their decisions are often based on the appropriate "tier level" of the IT...
Provided by Switch and Data
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White Papers
Secure Email and PKI Certificate Management Made Easy by Comodo
Apr 2009
Business-sensitive information is often distributed by unsecured email, and in doing so it's placed at risk. The same ease and utility that allows internal users, partners and customers to...
Provided by Comodo
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White Papers
Data Security for Libraries: Prevent Problems, Don't Detect Them
Apr 2009
No one can physically overturn an online catalogue. But they can corrupt it - and over the Internet they can do it from miles or continents away. Fortunately, in the absence of a strike or unrest,...
Provided by Comodo
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White Papers
Cyber Liability & Higher Education Aon Professional Risk Solutions
Dec 2008
Due to the nature and complexity of operations and the academic culture of open access, educational institutions, and in particular, large research-oriented universities, face unique exposures...
Provided by Aon
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White Papers
A Risk Management Perspective: The Inpatient Prospective Payment System Final Rules for 2008 and 2009
Nov 2008
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) of the Department of Health and Human Services issued a final rule on August 1, 2007, which revises the acute care hospital Inpatient...
Provided by Aon
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White Papers
Insider Risk Management: A Framework Approach to Internal Security
Aug 2009
Internal security risks are a complex challenge facing organizations of all industries and in all regions. Unfortunately, no single technology will solve the wide range of risks posed by...
Provided by IDG (International Data Group)
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White Papers
6 Best Practices for Preventing Enterprise Data Loss
Apr 2009
Protecting a company from enterprise data loss is a strategic necessity. The risks, including potential monetary losses and damage to customer confidence and brand value, are far too great to...
Provided by RSA Security
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White Papers
Information Risk Management: A Practical Approach for Enabling Business Innovation and Managing Information Risk
Sep 2008
Across the information security industry, there has been extensive discussion about the potential of information risk management strategies to enable business innovation and address the failures...
Provided by RSA Security
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Whitepapers
HP's next-gen healthcare data center network
Aug 2011
Healthcare organizations of all sizes are challenged to expand the amount and types of services they can offer without driving up their budgets or jeopardizing data protection. Many new...
Provided by Hewlett-Packard (HP)
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Whitepapers
Cerner transforms healthcare - and healthcare IT delivery
Aug 2011
"For us, it's all about availability. These are life-critical systems that we're hosting, used 24x7. The HP Mission Critical Partnership helps us meet the challenge." Bill Graff, vice...
Provided by Hewlett-Packard (HP)
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Whitepapers
Successful EHR Change Management
Aug 2011
There are many important factors to consider when rolling out an EHR implementation, and one of the most important is getting your people behind the change. This paper walks you through the...
Provided by HP and Intel®
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Whitepapers
Medicare or Medicaid? Getting on the Right Path to Federal EHR Incentives
Aug 2011
In 2011, the US government will begin paying out more than $36 billion in incentives to qualifying healthcare providers who implement or upgrade electronic health record (EHR) systems. There's...
Provided by HP and Intel®
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Whitepapers
HP's prescription for next-generation data center networks
Aug 2011
Healthcare organizations are expected to expand the amount and types of services they offer without driving up their budgets or jeopardizing data protection. Healthcare organizations that want to...
Provided by Hewlett-Packard (HP)
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White Papers
Anatomy of a Data Breach
Aug 2011
A whitepaper documenting enterprise security. Touches on the risks of data breaches, why these breaches occur, and what companies can do to protect their sensitive information.
Provided by CDW & Symantec
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Whitepapers
Strategy Guide to Converged Infrastructure in Government
Aug 2011
This is the point where citizens are most aware of how well their local government serves them. The quality of their experience at that office is likely to influence their opinion of whether they...
Provided by Hewlett-Packard (HP)
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Webcasts
When Good Backups Go Bad
Jul 2011
This webcast addresses the top reasons backups fail, the repercussions of those failures, and why it doesn't have to be this way. Attendees will attain a broad understanding of backup and data...
Provided by Symantec
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White Papers
IDC Executive Brief: Improving Small Business Profitability by Optimizing IT Management
Mar 2011
This IDC Executive Brief gives an overview of IT Infrastructure and resource costs for small business and helps you understand what is needed as your business grows. You will discover the major...
Provided by Symantec
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White Papers
Modeling Cloud Cost and Performance
Mar 2010
Architecting applications for the Cloud is challenging due to significant differences between traditional hosting and Cloud infrastructure setup, unknown and unproven Cloud performance and...
Provided by NICTA
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White Papers
IT Essentials for Data Center Trends and Innovations
Aug 2011
Once upon a time, the words "data center" described a pretty common facility, regardless of industry or enterprise. Today, however, the words "data center" can describe an overheated small closet...
Provided by TechRepublic
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Whitepapers
Defining a blueprint for a smarter data center for flexibility and cost-effectiveness
Aug 2011
The hallmarks of a smarter data center include flexibility, cost effectiveness, and the capability to actively monitor and manage operations for continual improvement. Read this white paper to see...
Provided by IBM
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Whitepapers
Raleigh Leadership Data Center
Aug 2011
Are you looking for a cost-effective solution that will integrate your IT infrastructure and data centers, and that will manage information intelligently? The Raleigh Leadership Data Center is a...
Provided by IBM
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Whitepapers
IBM Data Center Family solutions
Aug 2011
How will your business respond to more requests for IT capacity? Modular design can help you pay-as-you-grow, optimize life cycle costs and flexibly support technology change, matching business...
Provided by IBM
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Whitepapers
Gartner Research Paper -- "User Survey Analysis: Key Trends Shaping the Future of Data Center Infrastructure Through 2011
Aug 2011
In August 2010, Gartner completed an extensive primary research study designed to drive a greater understanding of what's happening in the data centers for large enterprises worldwide today. To...
Provided by IBM
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White Papers
Should you invest in GRC Tools?
Aug 2011
An organization's GRC strategy is only as good as the tools used to implement it. Home grown GRC tools, perceived by many as a quick fix to undertake complex compliance requirements, often fail to...
Provided by ANXeBusiness Corp
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Whitepapers
Managed data backup using cloud-based solutions: Help protect your data with a cost-effective, managed backup solution
Aug 2011
How does your organization manage and protect mission critical data? This can be a challenge when faced with rapid information growth and potential outages. This data sheet discusses how IBM can...
Provided by IBM
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Webcasts
Conversations around the IBM Global IT Risk Study
Aug 2011
IT is becoming increasingly central and critical to the business operations of companies. But how well is the risk associated with IT being managed? Watch this video as Rich Cocchiara and Sam...
Provided by IBM
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Whitepapers
BPM guide: Three steps to take project to programme
Jul 2011
Companies are moving beyond business process management (BPM) projects and this IBM white paper explains requirements and examples of how to expand them into larger-scale BPM programmes. BPM...
Provided by IBM
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Whitepapers
Make business process management simple
Jul 2011
IBM Business Process Manager is a simple, scalable, centralised process management system that can help organisations perform better. How do you account for the cost of inefficiency? More than...
Provided by IBM
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Whitepapers
Become a business process management expert
Jul 2011
Are you ready to tackle Business Process Management (BPM) for your enterprise? Do you want to improve efficiency, enhance agility, and also be more profitable? If so, you've come to the right...
Provided by IBM
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Whitepapers
Improve results with BRMS in five key areas
Jul 2011
Business rule management systems (BRMS) allow companies to automate complex decisions, freeing up time for the IT department to improve their products and save money. Business is becoming...
Provided by IBM
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Whitepapers
Five IT projects to help CEOs succeed
Jul 2011
This IBM white paper examines proven projects in five key areas for business agility and will prepare you to meet the needs of your CEO, from cloud computing to decision management. IT life is...
Provided by IBM
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Whitepapers
How to Align Corporate Strategy with Project Execution
Jul 2011
Business leaders are charged with making sure their employees are focused on work that adds to the strategic goals of their organization. Download this white paper to learn the critical success...
Provided by AtTask
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White Papers
Enterprise Mobility: Finance Executive Perspectives on Mobile Business Applications
Jul 2011
This research report offers perspectives of senior financial executives on the widespread use of mobile devices such as smart phones and tablets in the workforce. It also determines what finance...
Provided by SAP
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Whitepapers
Proof Positive - Extended Validation SSL Increases Online Sales and Transactions
May 2010
With the threat of identity theft and other types of fraud rampant on the internet, many consumers are reluctant to release their details, even if that means abandoning a sale. Read this white...
Provided by VeriSign
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Whitepapers - Video
Tivoli Live Monitoring Services - Improving Service Delivery with Fast Return on Investment Expert Video
Jul 2011
IBM® Tivoli® Live monitoring service is a unique software as a service (SaaS) solution offering a monthly subscription service delivered by IBM Global Technology Services. The solution...
Provided by IBM
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Whitepapers
St. Lawrence College Goes Green with Energy-Efficient Data Centre - A CFO's Perspective
Jul 2011
Canadian-based St. Lawrence College needed to increase IT capacity to support a growing student base while minimizing risk, reducing energy costs and demonstrating a commitment to environmental...
Provided by IBM
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Whitepapers
Tucson Electric Power's state-of-the-art data center
Jul 2011
Tucson Electric Power, a subsidiary of UniSource Energy, needed a new data center to better serve their base of over 600,000 customers. IBM's design, engineering and constructing expertise...
Provided by IBM
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Whitepapers
Portable modular data centers - Add capacity where and when you need it, quickly enabling a flexible, physically secure, environmentally isolated, containerized data center
Jul 2011
There are times when an organization may need extra data center capacity installed to support new and changing business and IT demands. This paper describes how a data center infrastructure...
Provided by IBM
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Whitepapers
Modular data centers: providing operational dexterity for an increasingly complex world Increase flexibility, pay as you grow, add new technology and rapidly deploy capacity
Jul 2011
Because demands for IT capacity are often unpredictable, CIOs have found it difficult to design an optimum data center to meet future needs. How can you design a data center to last 10 to 20 years...
Provided by IBM
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Whitepapers
Data center consolidation restructures your IT costs for continued growth: New discovery tools determine logical and physical move dependencies to help limit risk
Nov 2010
A more operationally efficient data center can provide the foundation for the future growth of the enterprise. This paper describes the challenges infrastructure managers face when relocating data...
Provided by IBM
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Whitepapers
Extending the life of your existing data center assets: How the IBM Lexington data center grew IT capacity eight times without expanding its energy footprint
Jul 2011
Built with the expectation that they would last 20 to 30 years, many older data centers are struggling to keep up. This paper describes the challenges data center managers face, and details how an...
Provided by IBM
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Whitepapers
Site and facilities services from IBM: Rapidly deploying cost-effective, flexible data centers to meet unpredictable changes in demand
Jul 2011
To meet application performance demands, many organizations are implementing high-density computing solutions. But this places greater demands on the data center's power and cooling needs, adding...
Provided by IBM
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Whitepapers
The evolving roles of IT Managers and CIOs. Findings from the 2010 Global IT Risk Study
Jul 2011
Mounting regulatory demands, the growth of 24x7 online business and the constant shadow of an uncertain economy underscore the importance of managing risk in all its forms. This overview of the...
Provided by IBM
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Whitepapers
Total Economic Impact of IBM social collaboration tools: Forrester Consulting
Jul 2011
Learn about the Forrester findings in their study of IBM social collaboration tools in business.
Provided by IBM
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Whitepapers
Comprehensive IT operational risk assessment
Jun 2011
With the increasing threat of IT operational risks, including events driven by business, data and technology, it is important to pinpoint where your business is most vulnerable. Read this data...
Provided by IBM
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Webcasts
Platform Manager Overview Video
Jan 2011
Platform Manager simplifies board management design significantly by integrating programmable analog and logic to support many common functions, such as power management, digital housekeeping and...
Provided by Lattice Semiconductor
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White Papers
Online Peer-to-Peer Lending: A Lenders' Perspective
Apr 2008
Online Peer-to-Peer lending platforms claim to be beneficial for both borrowers and lenders by eliminating expensive intermediaries and reducing transaction costs. However, are the often...
Provided by Fraunhofer ISST
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White Papers
A Software to Manage Risks in Project's Negotiations
May 2008
The constant changes in social, economic and political scenarios have influenced how negotiation is discussed in organizations. In this paper, decision-making processes usually require great...
Provided by Federal University of Rio de Janeiro
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White Papers
Force.com Cloud Platform Drives Huge Time to Market and Cost Savings
Sep 2009
IDC believes that the rise of Cloud computing has the potential to be among the most transformative developments in the world of information technology in the last 20 years. To date, Cloud...
Provided by IDG (International Data Group)
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White Papers
Privacy in the Clouds: Risks to Privacy and Confidentiality From Cloud Computing
Feb 2009
Cloud computing has significant implications for the privacy of personal information as well as for the confidentiality of business and governmental information. A principal goal of this analysis...
Provided by WORLD PRIVACY FORUM
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White Papers
Solutions Brief: Storage Consolidation and Data Protection for the Remote Office/Branch Office (ROBO)
Nov 2009
Driving Enterprise-level efficiencies and capabilities beyond the corporate data center.
Provided by Dell EqualLogic
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White Papers
Long Range Ultrasonic Testing Reduces Risk of Unplanned Shutdown
Jan 2009
To minimize the risk of costly unplanned shutdowns, SGS conducts Long Range Ultrasonic Testing (LRUT) of risers for Chevron Nigeria, one of the world's largest energy companies. This relatively...
Provided by SGS
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White Papers
Is an energy wasting data center draining your bottom line?
Nov 2009
New technology options and power distribution strategies can dramatically reduce the cost and carbon footprint of your data center. An unforgiving economic climate has left many organizations...
Provided by Eaton
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Case Studies
University of Utah Writes New Thesis on Risk Management
Sep 2009
The University of Utah is ranked as one of the top public research universities in the nation. It's also the oldest and largest institution of higher education in the state. The challenge was the...
Provided by Qualys
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Case Studies
Relies on QualysGuard to Conduct Weekly Scans of Its Critical Banking Systems to Meet Growing Bank Regulations and Reduce Risk
Jan 2009
In the first quarter of this year, 1,220 new software vulnerabilities were uncovered. More than 80 such vulnerabilities that place business-technology systems at-risk are discovered, on average,...
Provided by Qualys
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Webcasts
Healthcare: How Cerner Cuts Costs With VMware
Oct 2009
Cerner, a leading provider of healthcare information technology solutions, deploys world-class healthcare applications in the datacenter and on the desktop. The attendee will learn about a desktop...
Provided by VMware
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Webcasts
Technical Track: Dramatically Simplified Capacity Management
Oct 2009
How to simplify capacity management in a virtualized environment? The attendee of this webcast will learn about new capabilities that enable IT to align virtual infrastructure capacity with...
Provided by VMware
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Webcasts
Public Sector: Getting Your Agency to Accurate, Flexible IT Cost Measurement
Oct 2009
To create business accountability for the IT resources in a virtualized environment, one needs accurate, flexible cost measurement. The attendee of this webcast will learn how the agency can make...
Provided by VMware
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Webcasts
Small and Medium Business: Cost-Effective Ways to Deliver Always on IT
Oct 2009
How to deliver affordable high application availability and data protection to the business? The attendee of this webcast will learn about cost-effective packages designed exclusively for SMBs....
Provided by VMware
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Case Studies
Surgutneftegazbank ZAO Automates Business Processes and Improves Financial Decision-Making
Nov 2009
Surgutneftegazbank ZAO wanted to enable swift analysis of bank business activities to support intelligent decision-making in the financial planning process and deploy an automated budgeting system...
Provided by Oracle
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Case Studies
Software Company Efficiently and Cost-Effectively Delivers Software-Plus-Services
Nov 2009
Acumatica is a software company that develops enterprise resource planning and business accounting software. Acumatica developed its Web-based software using the Microsoft .NET Framework and...
Provided by Microsoft
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Case Studies
Insurance Agency Improves Disaster Recovery, Lowers Costs With Server Solution
Oct 2009
Minnesota-based Security-Victor Insurance needed to replace its aging server hardware. When considering a new solution, the agency decided to improve its disaster recovery capability and simplify...
Provided by Microsoft
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Case Studies
Accounting Services Firm Upgrades Messaging to Improve Availability, Reduce Costs
Nov 2009
Baker Tilly, an independent firm of chartered accountants and business advisers, has more than 2,200 employees in 25 locations across the United Kingdom. Effective communication and collaboration...
Provided by Microsoft
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White Papers
Cultivating Risk Intelligence for Competitive Advantage
Dec 2009
You needn't be a seer or sage to perceive risk. It's as predictable and as devastating as a Florida hurricane and as far-reaching as a corporate scandal. But you do need to be a visionary to see...
Provided by SAP
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Webcasts
All Things On Demand
Dec 2009
Traditional customer relationship management (CRM) systems fall short when it comes to usability, deployment and payment speed. Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) 1.0 offers such features, but it is...
Provided by Oracle
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White Papers
The True Cost of Printing - The IT Manager's Guide To: Waste Reduction & Cost Efficiency
Oct 2009
The aim of this paper is to highlight the inefficient printing habits which are rife in UK organisations and the cost savings and environmental benefits that can be harnessed through proper print...
Provided by Doxense
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Whitepapers
EMA Faster Better cheaper: IT Operations with Event Consolidation and Process Automation
Aug 2009
Get the latest insight as EMA shares research focused on the top 5 issues driving CIOs to invest in better data center management and one key to solving many of these top level issues.
Provided by Hewlett-Packard (HP)
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Webcasts
Bridging the Embedded Software Development Gap
Dec 2008
Forrester Senior Analyst Roy Wildeman as he discusses how embedded software raises both the rewards and risks of product innovation. During this Webcast you will learn from Forrester about key...
Provided by IBM
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Case Studies
Automotive Case Study
Jun 2009
Delphi unites global teams for more cost-effective component reuse with IBM Rational DOORS.
Provided by IBM
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White Papers
Study on the E-government Security Risk Management
Jun 2008
The implementation of e-government is based on information technology, how to solve the security problem of the e-government system is becoming an extremely urgent subject. This paper, from the...
Provided by Institute of Policy and Management of Chinese Academy of Science
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White Papers
Hidden Relationships and Networks: Financial Institutions at Risk
Oct 2009
Protecting a financial institution, its employees, customers, and assets would have been much easier if criminals were identifiable by behavior and activities. However, financial criminals and...
Provided by Oracle
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Whitepapers
A Robust Risk Minimization Based Named Entity Recognition System
Jan 2009
This paper describes a robust linear classification system for Named Entity Recognition. A similar system has been applied to the CONLL text chunking shared task with state of the art performance....
Provided by IBM
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Whitepapers
Best Practices for Benchmark Factory® for Databases
Dec 2009
With IT budgets being stretched to the breaking point, you're being asked to do more with less while minimizing downtime... and application and database performance problems are out of the...
Provided by Quest Software, now a part of Dell
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White Papers
Why Offshore Outsourcing Projects Fail
Oct 2004
Information Technology (IT) projects can fail for any number of reasons and in most cases identifying one reason, or even a small group of reasons, for failure is impossible. Typically, there are...
Provided by Global Sourcing Insights
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White Papers
Saas- Multi-Tenant And Single Tenant Deployment Models in the Age of Virtualized Instances
Dec 2009
Buying and provisioning services through the Internet has become the new standard, shifting the tradiotional view of software as a PRODUCT to its new conception as a SERVICE. This new software...
Provided by NaviSite
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White Papers
Risk Based Testing Deferring the Right Bugs
Aug 2009
It is a well known fact that even infinite amount of time and resources can not eliminate all the risks associated with releasing a product. Accepting the release readiness of the system would...
Provided by QA InfoTech
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White Papers
Risk Intelligence in the Boardroom: Take a Quick Test to Measure Your Company's Maturity
Dec 2009
Sound data, information and intelligence are clearly critical business success factors; however, is it getting to the right people? Too often it thinks of C-level decision makers as the ultimate...
Provided by Candela Solutions
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Case Studies
City Government Trims Costs, Enhances Services With New Operating System
Dec 2009
Faced with unprecedented budgetary challenges, officials at the City of Miami had to trim municipal operating expenses while continuing to provide the services that citizens needed more than ever....
Provided by Microsoft
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Whitepapers
Manage Energy and Reduce Risk in the Data Center With IBM Tivoli Software and Eaton Power Xpert
Dec 2008
This white paper describes the benefits of an integrated energy management offering and discusses the role of Tivoli software and Eaton Power Xpert. Specifically, it describes how configuration...
Provided by IBM
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Webcasts
Harmonizing Controls to Reduce Your Cost of Compliance
Dec 2009
Mounting regulations across the globe have increased the cost and burden on organizations. The high cost is especially felt by organizations which must adhere to multiple requirements - 75 percent...
Provided by Lumension
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Webcasts
Keys to Aligning Security and Compliance - How to Connect the Dots
Dec 2009
The pressure is on as organizations today face mounting demands to maintain an enterprise-wide security posture while adhering to the growing number of compliance regulations. Without the right...
Provided by Lumension
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Webcasts
How to Cut Costs and Save Time With Virtualization for SMBs
Nov 2009
Looking for ways to significantly reduce IT costs and improve business continuity? The attendee of this webcast will learn how to deliver unmatched reliability and performance using cost-effective...
Provided by VMware
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Webcasts
IT Manager Webcast: Modernizing Your Enterprise Applications to Reduce IT Costs (Level 100)
Dec 2009
In a fast-paced, user-driven, and diversified market, agility and time to market have never been more important. Modernizing the Adabas Natural enterprise applications can help one address these...
Provided by Microsoft
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Podcasts
Rapid and Sustained Cost Management: The Winning Edge in Uncertain Times Podcast
Dec 2008
In this podcast, the presenters explain about "The winning edge in uncertain times": rapid and sustained cost management. The presenters take a three-part look at how businesses transform struggle...
Provided by Accenture
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White Papers
The Three Ps of Evaluating Managed Network Services
Sep 2009
To reduce costs and keep IT resources focused on the core business, more organizations are choosing to outsource network management. To deliver on this promise, it's essential to choose the right...
Provided by Qwest Communications
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White Papers
Qwest Network Services for Healthcare Providers
Aug 2009
Demands for improved quality care and increased satisfaction require a sophisticated IT infrastructure, and Qwest is here to help. Read on to learn more about how Qwest can help you achieve...
Provided by Qwest Communications
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White Papers
Managing Risk: Protecting Your Archives
Oct 2008
This paper serves as an introduction to NetApp data protection service call "Cascading Snapshots". Archiving is the preferred solution to address application system performance, such as e-mail,...
Provided by NetApp
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White Papers
Data Leakage Worldwide: The Effectiveness of Security Policies
Oct 2008
Every corporate culture is different, and there is no one right way to create and enforce security policies. But each company must find a way to make its security policy strategy effective, or...
Provided by Cisco Systems
