The demands of a distributed globalized marketplace have altered the way organizations communicate with colleagues, supplier/partners, and customers who may be separated by long distances. A global survey conducted by The Economist Intelligence Unit, sponsored by Cisco, assessed 862 business leaders’ sentiments about the value of in-person meetings and their impact on more than 30 ...

Get simple, practical advice on recruiting with social media – from creating and implementing a social recruitment strategy, to fostering a truly aspirational employment brand. Learn to: * Use social networks to recruit talent and tap into your employees’ networks * Find the right tools to scale your efforts * Institute best practices for your ...

80% of CEOs and CFOs want the head of HR to be key in their company’s strategic planning. This statistic shows that many executives have high expectations of their human resources leaders. Download this infographic for more facts about the relationship between the C-suite and HR. Subscribe to the Daily Tech Insider Newsletter Stay up ...

Aware that their backward-facing defenses fall short, several IT security vendors are touting their sandbox products. But rather than adopting a truly fresh approach, most are merely grafting a sandbox onto their legacy strategies, which routinely fail to catch these attacks. While sandboxing advances the signature-based approach of the past, these new attempts fail due ...

In a complex environment, many components need to work together effectively. Proactive Care is designed specifically to support these environments and bring together services for problem prevention, rapid problem awareness and notification, rapid connection to expertise, and expedited resolution. Learn about Proactive Care in this paper. HP is the sponsor of this material. By submitting ...

Today, service providers and enterprises need to efficiently provision application services based on the demands and needs of individual subscribers and services. Successful management of network and application infrastructure requires flexibility and dynamism across data centers, clouds, and managed environments. Learn how application delivery can evolve in alignment with emerging application and network models. Subscribe ...

You’ve thought long and hard about the investment you’re making in Unified Communications. The promise of what it can do for your company is high — but so is the imperative to get solid ROI. How can you ensure that your people buy into this, adopt, and own everything UC can do for each of ...

IT organizations face the constant challenge of juggling two almost opposing priorities: continuously delivering business-critical application services while keeping IT expenses in line with budget constraints. The primary function of IT departments is to supply core infrastructure and applications to attract new business, generate revenue, and facilitate profitability—and IT managers strive to meet this goal ...

This white paper outlines the technical approach we use to deliver Symantec™ Email Security.cloud and protect your business from emailborne spam, phishing, malware, and targeted attacks without the need for on-premise software or hardware. Subscribe to the Cybersecurity Insider Newsletter Strengthen your organization's IT security defenses by keeping abreast of the latest cybersecurity news, solutions, ...

As customer data storage requirements have risen exponentially, data and document retention and how long data should be stored for is becoming increasingly important. Not only must organisations ensure that they adhere to the wide-ranging legal requirements for retention but they should also have appropriate data retention policies so as to save themselves significant storage ...

Cyberspace is now a full-blown war zone as global governments race to assert their supremacy on a new shadowy frontline. In this new war, battles are fought with bits instead of bullets, malware instead of militias, and botnets instead of bombs. And the list of casualties – which already includes some of the biggest names ...

AWS is a comprehensive cloud services platform that offers compute power, storage, content delivery, and other functionality that organizations can use to deploy applications and services cost-effectively with flexibility, scalability, and reliability. AWS self-service means that you can pro-actively address your internal plans and react to external demands when you choose. Subscribe to the Developer ...

An easy way to get started using Amazon Web Services (AWS) is by deploying development and test workloads. This solution briefing outlines some of the challenges that customers face with these workloads and how AWS can help address them. In addition this whitepaper provides an overview of Amazon Web Services, highlighting some key services for ...

In May 2012, IDC Financial Insights conducted a CXO Roundtable among financial services institutions in Singapore. The Roundtable focused on the key trends happening in the industry at large, and how these are reflected in the technology priorities of banks in the short-term. This paper presents eight salient points of the discussion, and follow-up conversations ...

We are pleased to present the 2013 Cost of Cyber Crime Study: Australia, which is the second annual study of Australian companies. Sponsored by HP Enterprise Security, this year’s study is based on a representative sample of 33 organisations in various industry sectors. Read the complete report to see why Cyber Crime is becoming an ...