The Benefits of Private High Bandwidth Managed WANs (Wide Area Networks) for Educational IT Infrastructures
[ Source: Sunesys, LLC ]
November 2009-
Today, educational IT professionals are being asked to shoulder increasing responsibility for the delivery of key services to schools and school districts. Yet many financial and operational obstacles can make fulfillment of these new services highly complex. The current recession has put increasing demands on school district IT professionals. Yet even with today’s flatlined or shrinking budgets, they are being tasked with delivering additional educational and administrative applications. How will you respond to these challenges? ....
Passing the Test for Better Software & Lower Costs
[ Source: Capgemini ]
November 2009-
Commit to a formalized, testing discipline that lowers cost and time-to-market. Obtain a proven testing framework that will work for your company. Download this whitepaper now.
Why Email Must Operate 24/7 and How to Make This Happen
[ Source: MessageLabs, Symantec Hosted Services ]
May 2009-
Email communication is essential. Unplanned email outages or even routine maintenance can cause huge disruption not only to your business, but also to your customers. Our reliance on email has grown and the full impact of an email system going down is often not realized until it is too late.
In this new Osterman Research paper, sponsored by MessageLabs, now part of Symantec, you’ll learn about some of the issues organizations face regarding email ....
Privacy Seals: Opt In or Opt Out
[ Source: TRUSTe ]
October 2006-
Consumers are getting more and more concerned about how businesses use and share their personal data. Firms should build consumers' trust and gain their future business by posting a consumer-friendly privacy policy and living up to their promises. TRUSTe and BBBOnLine (offered by the Council of Better Business Bureau) are the big names in the business, but there are many other lower-priced options. Currently, brand recognition and price are the major points of differentiation among ....
Transforming LoadRunner Data Into Information And Action
[ Source: XBOSoft ]
May 2007-
Today’s online Web applications need to deliver high efficiency and stability while supporting thousands of users simultaneously. Rather than going live and hoping for the best, it’s better to test applications beforehand in a test environment. HP’s LoadRunner can help do this by simulating hundreds or thousands of concurrent users applying workloads to a system using relatively few hardware resources. With LoadRunner, a tester can divide performance testing requirements into end user scenarios that replace ....
Seven Strategies For Planning Your Business Web Site
[ Source: bwired ]
April 2008-
Most successful businesses start with a plan. They begin with the end in mind. A Web site is no different. It simply functions in the online world, rather than the physical world. Here are seven key strategies for planning your online business.
Telstra & WWF: Using ICT To Drive Your Sustainability Strategy
[ Source: Telstra Enterprise and Government - Sustainability ]
April 2009-
As the issue of climate change becomes an increasing focus of government, public, and industry concern, savvy organizations are recognizing the imperative to have an effective sustainability strategy. Taking mitigating action, through investment in technologies that could help reduce carbon footprints, such as network-centric ICT, will be central to achieving real and quantifiable sustainability and productivity inroads. This whitepaper released by Telstra and the World Wildlife Fund (WWF) Australia highlights how Information and Communication Technology ....
Software As A Service (Saas) Vs. Traditional Licensed Software Application
[ Source: e-bizsoft ]
June 2008-
Software as a Service (SaaS)-based applications are gaining widespread acceptance; as a rough indicator of this trend, the Gartner Group predicted that by 2011 one in every four software applications purchased will be SaaS based, up from one in every 20 in 2005. There are many reasons for this growth, but at the forefront are the speed at which SaaS-based applications can be deployed and their ability to pay themselves off quickly.
How Services Are Helping Organizations Accelerate Adoption Of Next-Generation Data Protection Solutions
[ Source: EMC ]
February 2009-
A perfect storm of expanding data volumes, rising cost pressures, demanding recovery and compliance objectives, and infrastructure complexity is focusing new attention on data protection. Fortunately, next-generation backup, recovery, and archiving technologies are helping to address these issues, while significantly reducing costs, improving energy efficiency, and simplifying and automating operational control. Yet interdependency and overlap among these new and emerging hardware and software technologies require an integrated approach that goes beyond fragmented, point and product-based ....
Demystifying Open Source
[ Source: Impetus Technologies, Inc. ]
January 2009-
An estimated 25,000+ stable and actively developed open source projects are in existence today. Having moved beyond the realms of academia and research projects into the mainstream world, numerous businesses now look at open source as a viable option for leveraging best-of-breed solutions, lowering costs, and increasing profitability. Despite the simplicity behind the concept, using open source has become increasingly difficult.