Managing Application Performance by Understanding Applications
[ Source: Shunra ]
April 2008-
IT organizations are considering application delivery from new perspectives due to the automation of key business processes, and the fact that acceptable application performance is continually becoming more difficult. The goals of this white paper are to:
• Identify some of the key issues that make ensuring acceptable application performance so difficult.
• Describe how IT organizations can use WAN emulation tools to improve application performance, plan for change and improve relationships ....
Considering Third-Generation Discovery: Two Approaches For Evaluating eDiscovery Offerings
[ Source: Orange Legal Technologies ]
December 2008-
With the many products and services available in the marketplace today, the need to be able to uniformly contrast and compare electronic discovery offerings continues to grow. Even though more and more vendors are providing pricing comparison tools that can help in considering their offerings, there continues to be a need for comparison frameworks to help electronic discovery professionals systematically evaluate offerings beyond pricing and through the lens of additional factors to include capability, delivery ....
PaaS-onomics: A CIO's Guide To Lowering Costs Of Application Initiatives
[ Source: LongJump ]
October 2008-
This whitepaper discusses how Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) can help CIOs address the long tail of IT projects, and provide significant ROI to the business. PaaS offers a very demonstrable ROI while also strengthening operations. Both these factors should have CIOs taking a closer look at PaaS not only for its economic benefits, but as an opportunity to improve information management and processes across the enterprise.
IT 2010 vs. IT 2020: Will Business Reality Drive–or Derail–a New Performance Management Paradigm?
[ Source: ASG ]
May 2009-
Businesses expect IT management to demonstrate their contributions to end-user benefits and the bottom line while addressing immediate needs and long-term performance management goals. This white paper presents IT2020, a new performance management paradigm for meeting both of these expectations.
State of Business Process Outsourcing
[ Source: Transformation Enablers ]
July 2008-
Saving Costs and Adding Value: Companies increasingly are considering how business process outsourcing can help them not only decrease costs, but also increase profits and help them transform their business.
SOA and Web Services: The Performance Paradox
[ Source: CA ]
August 2007-
Loosely-coupled service environments provide unique benefits to the organizations that utilize them, while at the same time, they introduce new challenges. See how IT teams — operations, application support, architects and developers — gain control over complex, composite applications upon which so much business depends. Read this white paper on SOA and Web Services for more in-depth information.
FileWorks Online Helps Company Improve Customer Service And Reduce Costs
[ Source: FileWorks, Inc. ]
May 2008-
One company was looking to safely transfer sensitive health care and personal information to clients and business partners and Maintain secure lines of communication between the company, clients, and carriers. It needed to provide a means to securely review employee lists and establish new client accounts for health insurance. It was able to secure online data storage with FileWorks Online simplified secure information transfer and provided a secure backup system for business-critical data.
Protecting Your Network Against the Growing Danger of Web Attacks
[ Source: MessageLabs, Symantec Hosted Services ]
May 2009-
Web-borne malware is now more common than malware that enters an organization through email. The number of Web sites discovered per day, that carry malware increased 400% in 2008. This drastic increase in infected sites can cause serious issues for your business. Organizations need to proactively protect their networks both by instituting acceptable usage policies for employee web usage as well as implementing a solution to combat these malware intrusions.
This report explains:
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Six Myths About Cloud Computing
[ Source: Advanced Systems Group ]
November 2009-
When it comes to technology these days, the cloud is the place to be. Cloud computing has emerged as a hot trend, right alongside virtualization and service-oriented architecture (SOA). Vendors are racing to cash in.
As a result, market misinformation abounds, creating confusion among organizations that might otherwise benefit from the new technology. And as with any emerging technology, much remains in flux. Standards are still evolving, prices and pricing models vary widely, and ....
Network Exchanges Reporter - Network Nodes Traceability Product
[ Source: ShowTrail ]
April 2008-
For many years, in most industries, traceability is essential, and very often is mandated by the State. And since Sarbanes Oxley, traceability is mandatory for the information systems bound to financial transactions of a company quoted on the stock market. In most of our systems, traceability is done with logs which provide the history of all transactions. But for networking, it seems that traceability is unknown. Currently, we don't get an accurate ....