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White Papers
Cisco IOS VPDN Configuration Guide
Aug 2008
This paper describes the objectives, audience, conventions, and organization used in Cisco IOS and Cisco IOS XE software paper, collectively referred to in this paper as Cisco IOS paper. Also...
Provided by Cisco Systems
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White Papers
Using PRINCE2 and MSP Together
Oct 2010
PRINCE2TM is the Office of Government Commerce's (OGC) method for managing a project. Managing Successful Programmers (MSP) is OGC's framework for managing programmers. Although both are from OGC,...
Provided by TSO
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White Papers
Open Source Enhance MSP Offerings
Mar 2009
The tremendous increase in popularity of open source applications presents a strong challenge to traditional proprietary hardware and software solutions. This trend toward embracing open source...
Provided by bitRail
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Webcasts
City of the Future: A CIO Panel on Technology Strategies for Serving the Citizen
Jan 2010
The city of the future must be able to address the citizen of the future. In order to make that happen, CIO's across the globe are developing technology visions to support the municipality's...
Provided by Unisys
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White Papers
European Software Development Outsourcing Challenges 2010 Revealed
Jan 2010
According to the findings of IT Sourcing Europe's All-European IT Outsourcing (ITO) study 2010, delayed product deliveries and missed project milestones are reported to be the most critical...
Provided by IT Sourcing Europe
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White Papers
Expert Opinions on the Future of Central and Eastern European IT Outsourcing Market
Jan 2010
Central and Eastern European Outsourcing Association (CEEOA) has just pre-released its "Central and Eastern Europe IT Outsourcing Review 2010" aimed to improve business viabilities and the...
Provided by IT Sourcing Europe
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White Papers
Accelerating the Deployment of Intel Solid-State Drives Throughout the Enterprise
Oct 2010
As part of the mobile business PC strategy, Intel IT now requires all newly purchased laptops to be equipped with an Intel Solid-State Drive (SSD) and an Intel Core i5 vProw processor. To further...
Provided by Intel
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Case Studies
Fujitsu Services Plus - Helping Arnott's to Transform Its Business
Jan 2011
As Australia's favourite biscuit maker for more than 135 years Arnott's is a local icon. In recent years, Arnott's has faced cutthroat competition in the Australian grocery market, including a...
Provided by Fujitsu
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Case Studies
Fujitsu Vs Mission Critical System Failure
Jan 2011
Australian courts are under relentless pressure to achieve predictable court schedules and reliable operations in the face of escalating case numbers. South Australian Courts rely upon their...
Provided by Fujitsu
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White Papers
Implementing Green I.T.
Mar 2009
Implementing green technology is quickly rising to the top of every organization's agenda, and with good reason: It takes a tremendous amount of energy - and taxpayer dollars - to power data...
Provided by CDW
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White Papers
Green IT Report Regional Data - United States and Canada
May 2009
Green used to be associated with the color of money. Today it also refers to responsible, sustainable energy practices. For enterprise IT, these two meanings are additive and complementary. In...
Provided by CDW
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White Papers
Achieving Cost and Resource Savings With Unified Communications
Aug 2009
This paper identifies savings opportunities and actions for three broad categories of benefits: reducing out-of-pocket costs for communications services such as telecom and cellular bills and...
Provided by UniComm Consulting
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Case Studies
Virtualization for the Real-Time Enterprise
Sep 2010
UniCredit Group is one of the largest banking and financial services organizations in Europe with a network of 7,200 branches and strong local roots in 20 countries. To deal with a complex...
Provided by TIBCO Software
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Case Studies
Improving Application Performance for Wachovia
Sep 2010
A leader among its banking peers in creating shareholder value, Wachovia Corporation (NYSE: WB) is one of the largest providers of financial services to retail, brokerage and corporate customers....
Provided by TIBCO Software
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Case Studies
Gaining Speed, Scale and Market
Oct 2010
As a leading international bank, Standard Chartered focuses its attention primarily on the emerging markets of Asia, Africa, and the Middle East. Standard Chartered needed to be able to offer more...
Provided by TIBCO Software
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White Papers
Cutting the Electric Bill for Internet-Scale Systems
Aug 2009
Energy expenses are becoming an increasingly important fraction of data center operating costs. At the same time, the energy expense per unit of computation can vary significantly between two...
Provided by Association for Computing Machinery
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White Papers
The Total MSP: Why Providers of IT Services Should Embrace End Point Management
Dec 2010
The management of IT assets now comprises two distinct areas; data centres and end points. Comprehensive management and protection of information can only be achieved when both are under control....
Provided by Quocirca
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White Papers
Resource Management in Volunteer Computing Grids
Nov 2007
The success of Volunteer Computing (VC) grid applications depends greatly on the systems ability to effectively manage the resources available to it. The most popular middleware application,...
Provided by Drexel University
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Whitepapers
IT Consolidation in the Public Sector: How to Achieve IT Optimization
Apr 2010
In response to the current economic downturn, many public sector organizations are consolidating their IT operations - that is, reducing the complexity and number of assets in their...
Provided by Quest Software, now a part of Dell
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White Papers
Straight Talking - Green IT Isn't Dead Yet..
Sep 2009
The 'Green' hype seems so last year. Today's poor market conditions have refocused business minds on survival, rather than ensuring organisations have a solid environmental plan. Despite this,...
Provided by Quocirca
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Whitepapers
Optimizing the Business of IT
Mar 2009
IT organizations have always been "Under the gun" when it comes to serving their ultimate customer: the business. Pressures from budgetary constraints and an uncertain economic future fuel the...
Provided by F5 Networks
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White Papers
Text Mining in Supporting Software Systems Risk Assurance
Sep 2010
Insufficient risk analysis often leads to software system design defects and system failures. Assurance of software risk documents aims to increase the confidence that identified risks are...
Provided by Association for Computing Machinery
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White Papers
Make Your Organization GREENer With MIMIC Simulator
Jul 2008
Energy costs are increasing worldwide. Growing economies have resulted in unprecedented energy consumption. With mounting energy costs, diminishing power and space capacity, increased regulatory...
Provided by Gambit Communications
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Case Studies
IT Consultancy for Formulation of Three Year IT Strategy Plan
Jun 2010
SICOM, established over thirty years ago, is a Private Sector insurance company having its Head Office in Port Louis. SICOM had been carrying out its operations in a mixed mode - some of its...
Provided by CMC
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White Papers
Lowering the Service Delivery Costs of IT Outsourcers With Intel vPro Technology
Sep 2008
The IT Outsourcing (ITO) market is very competitive in North America and worldwide. The use of global IT resources, remote management tools, improved processes, and creative business models has...
Provided by Wipro Technologies
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White Papers
Resource Management in Complex, Dynamic Environments
Oct 2010
This paper describes an approach to the management of resources. The paper suggests that a resource should be viewed as a provider of a set of capabilities, where that set may vary over time and...
Provided by Association for Computing Machinery
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White Papers
Achieving Energy Proportionality in Server Clusters
Jan 2010
Green computing is a hot issue that has received a great amount of interests in the past few years. Energy proportionality is a principal to ensure that energy consumption is proportional to the...
Provided by Michigan Technological University
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White Papers
Green IT - Key Contributor to Campus Sustainability
Sep 2009
Although college and university campuses are increasingly focusing on sustainability efforts, the direct impact of IT on institutional carbon levels and the potential for new technologies to...
Provided by Indiana University
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White Papers
Early Experience With Mobile Computation Outsourcing (Preliminary)
Aug 2010
End-user mobile devices such as smart phones, PDAs, and tablets, offer the promise of anywhere, anytime computing and communication. Indeed, users increasingly expect their mobile device to...
Provided by University of Minnesota
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White Papers
Resource Management in an Active Measurement Service
Jul 2008
Many network services such as voice, video, and collaborative applications require an informed view of network characteristics for effective operation. Sharing a network measurement service across...
Provided by Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
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White Papers
Strategic Decisions Governing the IT Service Organization
Apr 2010
The art of decision making is one of the key attributes of a good manager. There are management decisions made that will impact the day to day operations, mid-term planning or might even be...
Provided by Pink Elephant
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White Papers
The Effect of Risky Assets to Operating Efficiencies for Listed Securities Firms in Taiwan Using the Data Envelopment Analysis
Jan 2011
This paper employs a the variable returns to scale DEA model to take account of risky assets and estimate the operating efficiencies for the 21 domestic listed securities firms during the period...
Provided by World Academy of Science, Engineering and Technology
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Whitepapers
Non-Interactive Verifiable Computing: Outsourcing Computation to Untrusted Workers
Feb 2010
Several trends are contributing to a growing desire to "Outsource" computing from a (Relatively) weak computational device to a more powerful computation service. For years, a variety of projects,...
Provided by IBM
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White Papers
Efficient Access Control of Sensitive Data Service in Outsourcing Scenarios
Feb 2010
With the rapid application of service-oriented technologies, service and data outsourcing has become a practical and useful computing paradigm. Combined use of access control and cryptography was...
Provided by Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications
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White Papers
Business Process Offshoring to India: An Overview
Apr 2008
Over the last 10 years, reduced international trade barriers have resulted in an increasingly interlinked global economy and intense global competition, putting pressure on business managers...
Provided by Infosys Technologies
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White Papers
Recruitment Process Outsourcing - The Right Talent Strategy for Your Organization?
Oct 2007
Recruitment Process Outsourcing is a type of Business Process Outsourcing (BPO). Business Process Outsourcing is defined as the contracting of a specific business task to a third-party service...
Provided by Nelson Staffing
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White Papers
Assessing the Role of CSR in Outsourcing Decisions
Nov 2008
How do organizations view Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) in IT outsourcing (ITO) decisions? That is the focus of this research paper. Organizations have recognized offshore outsourcing of...
Provided by EDSIG
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White Papers
Generalized Efficiency Bounds in Distributed Resource Allocation
Sep 2010
Game theory is emerging as a popular tool for distributed control of multiagent systems. In order to take advantage of these game theoretic tools the interactions of the autonomous agents must be...
Provided by Stanford University
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White Papers
Integrity Auditing of Outsourced Data
Sep 2007
An increasing number of enterprises outsource their IT services to third parties who can offer these services for a much lower cost due to economy of scale. Quality of service is a major concern...
Provided by Association for Computing Machinery
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White Papers
Evolution of State-Dependent Risk Preferences
Oct 2010
Researchers have invested much e ort in constructing models of the state-dependent (Sometimes risk-averse and sometimes risk-prone) nature of human decision-making. An important open question is...
Provided by Association for Computing Machinery
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Webcasts
CIO Magazine Webinar: CIOs Get a Green Thumb
Jan 2010
The presenter explores why and how technology executives should design more energy efficient data centers. The benefits of doing so - from cutting costs to improving performance - are manifold....
Provided by Sun Microsystems
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Webcasts
From Cost to Profit Center: Optimize Your IT for Success Webinar
Jan 2010
In these difficult economic times, companies must improve their business performance as much as possible. This webcast will help to turn the IT department into a profit center. The attendee will...
Provided by Sun Microsystems
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Webcasts
Reassessing Server Costs for Mid-Size Companies
Jan 2010
Current economic conditions might suggest that companies hold on to their installed servers longer. But doing so could actually drain the already limited IT budget, because operational costs and...
Provided by Sun Microsystems
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Webcasts
Don't Lose Your ROI With Antiquated Network Technology: Learn About New Technology From Sun and Intel
Jan 2010
It's knows that driving ROI is critical to the justification of the server refresh, upgrade, or virtualization project. Faster, more powerful servers comprise one piece of the solution, but...
Provided by Sun Microsystems
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Webcasts
Consolidation and TCO Reduction With Sun SPARC Enterprise Servers
Jan 2010
Poor server utilization, deployment complexity and scalability issues increase total cost of ownership and adversely affect the organization's goals. The presenter will share all the information...
Provided by Sun Microsystems
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Webcasts
Customer Success Story: Driving Immediate Cost Savings Through Vendor Management
Mar 2009
Vendor spending represents over 50% of IT spend, yet vendor management remains one of the most immature disciplines in IT organizations. Even if one has deployed asset management, one may be...
Provided by BMC Software
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Webcasts
Move IT Operations From Reactive to Proactive and Reduce IT Costs
Jun 2009
The attendee of this webcast will hear more about how real-time analytics can detect performance abnormalities in the IT environment, deliver early warning of degrading systems performance and...
Provided by BMC Software
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Webcasts
GREEN IT: Power-Efficient IT With BMC Performance Manager
Oct 2009
Energy costs have become the top expense in datacenters, before human resources. The attendee will learn how BMC Performance Manager provides unmatched visibility on the electricity consumption of...
Provided by BMC Software
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Case Studies
Petrofac Limited Translates Risks Into Business Opportunities
Dec 2009
Petrofac wanted to improve corporate budgeting accuracy by incorporating risk-adjusted forecasts into budgeting for all seven business units and calculate both the predictable and random elements...
Provided by Oracle
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White Papers
Host Access Evolution: Cut Emulation Costs by Evolving Host Acess
Jun 2008
Host access choices range from rich, full-featured, tried and true "Fat" clients running on windows desktops to "Thin" and "Zero footprint" browser-based clients. Evaluating the options and...
Provided by Micro Focus
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White Papers
5 Proven Ways to Reduce IT Costs Now
Feb 2008
Through a combination of advances in platform technology and application tooling, opportunities for companies to make dramatic reductions in their IT costs continue to present themselves....
Provided by Micro Focus
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White Papers
Strategic Host Access Evolution: Cost Savings and Productivity Through Evolution
Jul 2009
Traditionally host access choices ranged from "Green screen" clients running on windows desktops to browser-based clients. Given the maturity of the terminal emulation market and the years of...
Provided by Micro Focus
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White Papers
How to Manage Effectively Operational Risk
Sep 2008
Operational risk cannot be managed successfully with a few spreadsheets or databases developed by an internal risk management department. In fact, one of the biggest mistakes an institution can...
Provided by easy2comply
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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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Webcasts
Maximize SharePoint ROI With Atmos Cloud
Dec 2009
Microsoft SharePoint natively stores both content BLOBs (Binary Large OBjects) and related metadata within the SQL database. This creates planning, operational, scalability, and performance...
Provided by EMC
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Case Studies
Leveraging Software to Reduce Energy Consumption
Oct 2009
Environmentally responsible IT business strategies, or "Green" initiatives, continue to gain momentum at Microsoft. MSIT has been addressing Environmental Sustainability (ES) issues for some time,...
Provided by Microsoft
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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
Virtual Campus Solution Delivers Return on Investment in First Year of Operation
Nov 2009
E-learning specialist Aula Salud wanted a highly available, robust, and cost-effective solution to deliver education programs with video streaming for healthcare professionals in Spain. Aula Salud...
Provided by Microsoft
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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
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
To Green or Not to Green. That Is the Question
Oct 2009
Green IT impacts costs, compliance, and customer perceptions, making it a top business priority for Executives across the world. The attendee will learn how the Renault F1 Team has successfully...
Provided by Symantec
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Webcasts
How Fraud Management Can Provide Real ROI
Jan 2009
The presenter of this webcast explores how device-based fraud management provides a real ROI. The 7th annual Internet Crime Report by IC3 found that US losses from online fraud jumped more than...
Provided by IOVATION
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Webcasts
Forrester Reports 321% ROI Through Device-Based Fraud Management
Jan 2009
With online fraud growing by 20% each year, online merchants continue to invest in more tools to mitigate their risk of chargebacks, stolen credit cards, and shipping fraud. If one has not...
Provided by IOVATION
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White Papers
How to Navigate Risk Management and Compliance Complexity
May 2009
PwC's extensive industry and systems knowledge positions itself to enhance and streamline process control's complete functionality. It leverages a global repository of SAP and industry leading...
Provided by PricewaterhouseCoopers
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White Papers
Hedge Funds to Reconsider Administrators for Valuations and Risk Analytics
Dec 2008
The lingering credit crisis has surfaced issues for hedge funds that will have reverberations far into the future. The immediate impacts are already telling, for example in valuation. Hedge fund...
Provided by PricewaterhouseCoopers
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White Papers
Risk, Responsibility & Opportunity: The CEO's Guide to Climate Action
Jan 2009
Thanks to science it now has an increasingly clear and ominous picture of how climate is changing. As their knowledge continues to evolve, scientists have issued stronger and more compelling...
Provided by PricewaterhouseCoopers
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White Papers
Managing Fraud Risk in a Time of Economic Crisis
May 2009
As often happens in times of economic distress, the risk of fraud - both internal and external is greater than it has been in a number of years. Many insurers already have controls and systems in...
Provided by PricewaterhouseCoopers
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White Papers
Fraud Risk Management
Mar 2009
Despite widespread coverage in the press, and government's and regulators' efforts to reduce fraud, economic crime continues to be a menace to businesses in Canada and around the world....
Provided by PricewaterhouseCoopers
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White Papers
Embedding Risk Management: Solutions to Suit Your Needs
Dec 2008
Tremendous advances have been made in risk analytics over the past decade, but there has been less progress in the way organisations use this information. Too often, it remains confined to a...
Provided by PricewaterhouseCoopers
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White Papers
Leveraging Technology to Integrate Governance, Risk and Compliance
Mar 2008
PwC and Oracle's collaboration provides a community of practice with a strong technical and business focus on governance, risk and compliance. PricewaterhouseCoopers is a leader in providing...
Provided by Oracle
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White Papers
Everything You Wanted to Know About Management of Risk: Guidance for Practitioners (M_o_R) in Less Than One Thousand Words
May 2009
The M-o-R guide is intended to help organisations put in place an effective framework for taking informed decisions about the risks that affect their performance objectives across all...
Provided by TSO
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White Papers
Developing an IT Management Strategy for Success
Dec 2007
Choosing an IT management strategy would seem to be a critical component of achieving both IT and, by extension, business success, but strangely, many enterprises have not embraced this powerful...
Provided by Enterprise Management Associates
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White Papers
Measuring the Value of IT Service Management (ITSM)
Jan 2009
The purpose of this paper is to present a method for reducing risk and increasing IT contribution during uncertain times and to assist readers with measuring the value and building a business case...
Provided by Enterprise Management Associates
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White Papers
Fraud in a Downturn: A Review of How Fraud and Other Integrity Risks Will Affect Business in 2009
May 2009
The impact of the credit crunch and the global economic slowdown is challenging even most robust institutions. Those charged with the governance of some of largest private sector companies have...
Provided by PricewaterhouseCoopers
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White Papers
Turning Risk Into Reward: Gearing Up for a New World Order in Financial Reporting, Risk Management, and Capital Management
Sep 2008
Many analysts, investors, and other observers view financial reporting within the insurance industry as baffling, opaque, and ineffective at providing information about the underlying financial...
Provided by PricewaterhouseCoopers
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White Papers
Sharing: Global Sourcing Trends
Jan 2009
Economic and social drivers such as labor arbitrage and tax incentives, as well as access to global talent and global markets, have fueled off-shoring during the past 20 years. Today, as cost...
Provided by PricewaterhouseCoopers
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White Papers
Breaking New Ground: Increasing the ROI of Mobility by Moving Complex Data
Mar 2009
Every organization needs to automate business processes and distribute content and data to their employees. This is particularly critical in enterprises with significant mobile deployments. While...
Provided by iAnywhere Solutions
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White Papers
Rights Management: A History of Rights Management and DRM
Jan 2009
Although it seems pretty obvious to some people that one should be able to decide who can read information that one has created, and perhaps pay for that pleasure, it helps to understand a little...
Provided by LockLizard
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White Papers
Trust, But Verify: How to Manage Risk in Outsourced Applications
Sep 2007
Save money. Speed development. Augment staff resources. Tap expertise not available internally. The reasons for outsourcing application development are many and varied. Outsourcing can be a...
Provided by Ounce Labs
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White Papers
The ROI Case for Alternative Messaging Systems
May 2009
This white paper, sponsored by Ipswitch, offers an overview of the key features that will meet the needs of smaller organizations, and it offers a compelling Return-on-Investment (ROI) model for...
Provided by Osterman Research
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White Papers
Achieving Cost and Resource Savings With Unified Communications
Aug 2009
This paper identifies savings opportunities and actions for three broad categories of benefits: reducing out-of-pocket costs for communications services such as telecom and cellular bills and...
Provided by UniComm Consulting
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Case Studies
Virtualization for the Real-Time Enterprise
Sep 2010
UniCredit Group is one of the largest banking and financial services organizations in Europe with a network of 7,200 branches and strong local roots in 20 countries. To deal with a complex...
Provided by TIBCO Software
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Case Studies
Improving Application Performance for Wachovia
Sep 2010
A leader among its banking peers in creating shareholder value, Wachovia Corporation (NYSE: WB) is one of the largest providers of financial services to retail, brokerage and corporate customers....
Provided by TIBCO Software
-
Case Studies
Gaining Speed, Scale and Market
Oct 2010
As a leading international bank, Standard Chartered focuses its attention primarily on the emerging markets of Asia, Africa, and the Middle East. Standard Chartered needed to be able to offer more...
Provided by TIBCO Software
-
White Papers
Cutting the Electric Bill for Internet-Scale Systems
Aug 2009
Energy expenses are becoming an increasingly important fraction of data center operating costs. At the same time, the energy expense per unit of computation can vary significantly between two...
Provided by Association for Computing Machinery
-
White Papers
The Total MSP: Why Providers of IT Services Should Embrace End Point Management
Dec 2010
The management of IT assets now comprises two distinct areas; data centres and end points. Comprehensive management and protection of information can only be achieved when both are under control....
Provided by Quocirca
-
White Papers
Resource Management in Volunteer Computing Grids
Nov 2007
The success of Volunteer Computing (VC) grid applications depends greatly on the systems ability to effectively manage the resources available to it. The most popular middleware application,...
Provided by Drexel University
-
Whitepapers
IT Consolidation in the Public Sector: How to Achieve IT Optimization
Apr 2010
In response to the current economic downturn, many public sector organizations are consolidating their IT operations - that is, reducing the complexity and number of assets in their...
Provided by Quest Software, now a part of Dell
-
White Papers
Straight Talking - Green IT Isn't Dead Yet..
Sep 2009
The 'Green' hype seems so last year. Today's poor market conditions have refocused business minds on survival, rather than ensuring organisations have a solid environmental plan. Despite this,...
Provided by Quocirca
-
Whitepapers
Optimizing the Business of IT
Mar 2009
IT organizations have always been "Under the gun" when it comes to serving their ultimate customer: the business. Pressures from budgetary constraints and an uncertain economic future fuel the...
Provided by F5 Networks
-
White Papers
Text Mining in Supporting Software Systems Risk Assurance
Sep 2010
Insufficient risk analysis often leads to software system design defects and system failures. Assurance of software risk documents aims to increase the confidence that identified risks are...
Provided by Association for Computing Machinery
-
White Papers
Make Your Organization GREENer With MIMIC Simulator
Jul 2008
Energy costs are increasing worldwide. Growing economies have resulted in unprecedented energy consumption. With mounting energy costs, diminishing power and space capacity, increased regulatory...
Provided by Gambit Communications
-
Case Studies
IT Consultancy for Formulation of Three Year IT Strategy Plan
Jun 2010
SICOM, established over thirty years ago, is a Private Sector insurance company having its Head Office in Port Louis. SICOM had been carrying out its operations in a mixed mode - some of its...
Provided by CMC
-
White Papers
Lowering the Service Delivery Costs of IT Outsourcers With Intel vPro Technology
Sep 2008
The IT Outsourcing (ITO) market is very competitive in North America and worldwide. The use of global IT resources, remote management tools, improved processes, and creative business models has...
Provided by Wipro Technologies
-
White Papers
Resource Management in Complex, Dynamic Environments
Oct 2010
This paper describes an approach to the management of resources. The paper suggests that a resource should be viewed as a provider of a set of capabilities, where that set may vary over time and...
Provided by Association for Computing Machinery
-
White Papers
Achieving Energy Proportionality in Server Clusters
Jan 2010
Green computing is a hot issue that has received a great amount of interests in the past few years. Energy proportionality is a principal to ensure that energy consumption is proportional to the...
Provided by Michigan Technological University
-
White Papers
Green IT - Key Contributor to Campus Sustainability
Sep 2009
Although college and university campuses are increasingly focusing on sustainability efforts, the direct impact of IT on institutional carbon levels and the potential for new technologies to...
Provided by Indiana University
-
White Papers
Early Experience With Mobile Computation Outsourcing (Preliminary)
Aug 2010
End-user mobile devices such as smart phones, PDAs, and tablets, offer the promise of anywhere, anytime computing and communication. Indeed, users increasingly expect their mobile device to...
Provided by University of Minnesota
-
White Papers
Resource Management in an Active Measurement Service
Jul 2008
Many network services such as voice, video, and collaborative applications require an informed view of network characteristics for effective operation. Sharing a network measurement service across...
Provided by Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
-
White Papers
Strategic Decisions Governing the IT Service Organization
Apr 2010
The art of decision making is one of the key attributes of a good manager. There are management decisions made that will impact the day to day operations, mid-term planning or might even be...
Provided by Pink Elephant
-
White Papers
The Effect of Risky Assets to Operating Efficiencies for Listed Securities Firms in Taiwan Using the Data Envelopment Analysis
Jan 2011
This paper employs a the variable returns to scale DEA model to take account of risky assets and estimate the operating efficiencies for the 21 domestic listed securities firms during the period...
Provided by World Academy of Science, Engineering and Technology
-
Whitepapers
Non-Interactive Verifiable Computing: Outsourcing Computation to Untrusted Workers
Feb 2010
Several trends are contributing to a growing desire to "Outsource" computing from a (Relatively) weak computational device to a more powerful computation service. For years, a variety of projects,...
Provided by IBM
-
White Papers
Efficient Access Control of Sensitive Data Service in Outsourcing Scenarios
Feb 2010
With the rapid application of service-oriented technologies, service and data outsourcing has become a practical and useful computing paradigm. Combined use of access control and cryptography was...
Provided by Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications
-
White Papers
Business Process Offshoring to India: An Overview
Apr 2008
Over the last 10 years, reduced international trade barriers have resulted in an increasingly interlinked global economy and intense global competition, putting pressure on business managers...
Provided by Infosys Technologies
-
White Papers
Recruitment Process Outsourcing - The Right Talent Strategy for Your Organization?
Oct 2007
Recruitment Process Outsourcing is a type of Business Process Outsourcing (BPO). Business Process Outsourcing is defined as the contracting of a specific business task to a third-party service...
Provided by Nelson Staffing
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White Papers
Assessing the Role of CSR in Outsourcing Decisions
Nov 2008
How do organizations view Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) in IT outsourcing (ITO) decisions? That is the focus of this research paper. Organizations have recognized offshore outsourcing of...
Provided by EDSIG
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White Papers
Generalized Efficiency Bounds in Distributed Resource Allocation
Sep 2010
Game theory is emerging as a popular tool for distributed control of multiagent systems. In order to take advantage of these game theoretic tools the interactions of the autonomous agents must be...
Provided by Stanford University
-
White Papers
Integrity Auditing of Outsourced Data
Sep 2007
An increasing number of enterprises outsource their IT services to third parties who can offer these services for a much lower cost due to economy of scale. Quality of service is a major concern...
Provided by Association for Computing Machinery
-
White Papers
Evolution of State-Dependent Risk Preferences
Oct 2010
Researchers have invested much e ort in constructing models of the state-dependent (Sometimes risk-averse and sometimes risk-prone) nature of human decision-making. An important open question is...
Provided by Association for Computing Machinery
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White Papers
State-Dependent Risk Preferences in Evolutionary Games
Jan 2010
There is much empirical evidence that human decision-making under risk does not correspond the decision-theoretic notion of "Rational" decision making, namely to make choices that maximize the...
Provided by University of Maryland
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White Papers
Why Is Strategic R&D (Still) Homebound in a Globalized Industry? the Case of Leading Firms in Wireless Telecom
Feb 2010
The paper is structured as follows. The second section provides a brief conceptual discussion of major interpretations of R&D internationalization and a review of the major themes in the empirical...
Provided by University of California
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Incentivizing Outsourced Computation
Aug 2008
This paper describes different strategies a central authority, the boss, can use to distribute computation to untrusted contractors. The problem is inspired by volunteer distributed computing...
Provided by Association for Computing Machinery
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A Decentralized Auction Framework to Promote Efficient Resource Allocation in Open Computational Grids
Jun 2007
Computational grids enable the sharing, aggregation, and selection of (Geographically distributed) computational resources and can be used for solving large scale and data intensive computing...
Provided by Association for Computing Machinery
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Dedicated Print Appliances
Aug 2007
Voluminous print jobs with extensive use of charts or color printing require much bandwidth. This is why spooling has become a central task in networks. The use of dedicated print appliances is a...
Provided by SEH Computertechik GmbH
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A Risk Management Approach to RBAC
Oct 2008
Even if Role Based Access Control (RBAC) is employed properly, distributed database environments are still prone to illegitimate access attempts: in RBAC, users potentially carry the risk of...
Provided by IOS
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A Multi-Staged Approach to Risk Management in IT Software Implementation
Jun 2010
Software implementations in organizations are highly complex undertakings with non-trivial risk implications pertaining to data, applications and other resources. This research in progress paper...
Provided by State University of New York
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Risk Allocation for Multi-Agent Systems Using T?¢tonnement
Apr 2009
This paper proposes a new market-based distributed planning algorithm for multi-agent systems under uncertainty; called MIRA (Market based Iterative Risk Allocation). In large coordination...
Provided by Massachusetts Institute of Technology
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Stochastic Combinatorial Optimization With Risk
Sep 2008
The authors have presented efficient approximation schemes for a broad class of stochastic problems that incorporate risk. Their algorithms are independent of the fixed feasible set and use...
Provided by Massachusetts Institute of Technology
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Filecules in High-Energy Physics: Characteristics and Impact on Resource Management
Jan 2011
Grid computing has reached the stage where deployments are mature and many collaborations run in production mode. Mature Grid deployments offer the opportunity for revisiting and perhaps updating...
Provided by University of South Florida
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Resource Bundles: Using Aggregation for Statistical Wide-Area Resource Discovery and Allocation
Mar 2008
Resource discovery is an important process for finding suitable nodes that satisfy application requirements in large loosely-coupled distributed systems. Besides inter-node heterogeneity, many of...
Provided by University of Minnesota
