Lower Network Infrastructure Cost with Traceability
[ Source: ShowTrail ]
April 2008-
Since many years, in most of all industries, traceability is essential, and very often is mandated by the State. Besides, since Sarbanes&Oxley act, traceability is mandatory for the information systems bound to financial transactions of a company quoted on 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. Firstly, what is traceability ....
TEAMQUEST and ITIL: Part 3 - Implementing Capacity Management
[ Source: TeamQuest ]
January 2008-
Once a decision has been made to improve service by adopting ITIL frameworks and best practices, a plan must be developed to implement the changes to the organizations. The risk of a full implementation is that some processes may not operate immediately as expected and therefore impact business processes. Other ITIL proponents feel that IT and business leaders should choose a staged approach when implementing the ITIL framework and best practices because the impact of ....
Case Study: Metron Enterprise and Howard County, Maryland
[ Source: eTelemetry ]
July 2008-
Howard County, Maryland, has approximately 3,000 users on its County IT network. Users who engaged in streaming music and inappropriate surfing or had misconfigured PCs, for example, were straining the network and impacting employee use for legitimate work purposes. Limited resources and an inability to monitor network activity left Howard County without any reliable way of identifying the sources of these violations. The IT department would be routinely asked to analyze hard drives for evidence ....
Skechers, an IBM ECM Customer Case Study
[ Source: IBM ]
July 2008-
Skechers plans locally, deploys globally to achieve process efficiency and compliance.
Trendy, savvy and cutting-edge were not the words to describe Skechers’accounts payable process. The manual process was rife with inefficiency. Lost documents, duplicate copies, postal and courier costs, lack of standard process, inability to determine invoice status, the expense of storing paper documents and end-of-quarter surprises describe a process that was hardly Sarbanes Oxley (SOX) compliant. With over 6,000 ....
Security Information Management in the Payment Card Industry
[ Source: TriGeo Network Security ]
September 2008-
Simply deploying a security solution cannot guarantee meeting every Payment Card Industry (PCI) requirement in full. This whitepaper discusses the challenges of PCI compliance and how security information and event management (SIEM) provides the data visibility, log management, end-point security and active response needed to demonstrate and meet each of the 12 PCI compliance requirements.
The Power of Intelligent Automation - Why Automated Network and Systems Monitoring Is Critical to IT and Business Performance
[ Source: CITTIO ]
April 2008-
Despite the ever increasing complexity in the underlying infrastructure, IT is increasingly being called upon to do more with less. New network, systems, applications and multiple types of edge devices are being added daily. This infrastructure is essential to business operations making outages and slowdowns unacceptable during or after deployment. Also, the explosive growth and dynamic nature of many of the new infrastructure components makes traditional manual intervention inadequate.
Take a ....
Bloxx Internet Filtering Proves Best Fit for Easton-Bell Sports
[ Source: Bloxx, Inc. ]
October 2008-
Easton-Bell Sports was growing increasingly concerned about its bandwidth consumption, as well as the time IT staff members were spending removing malware from employees' computers. In addition, upper management was eager to assess employee Internet use and its affect on productivity. The rising importance of these issues caused the company to seek out a cost-effective Internet filtering solution.
After extensively evaluating a number of different web filtering solutions, Easton-Bell Sports' ....
Cutting Infrastructure Costs by Stopping Unwanted Mail at the Perimeter: Messaging Infrastructure Filtering: Part 4 of 4
[ Source: Sendmail ]
November 2008-
Sendmail’s podcast “Cutting Infrastructure Costs by Stopping Unwanted Mail at the Perimeter: Messaging Infrastructure Filtering” focuses on how businesses can significantly cut costs by modernizing their messaging infrastructure and stopping unwanted mail. This podcast is the fourth of four editions in this series and focuses on filtering techniques that business can take to reduce unwanted email.
Bob Boucneau – a senior messaging architect at Sendmail with previous experience at BEA Systems – ....
Using Directory Servers for Intelligent Email Management: Introduction to Directory Servers: Part 1 of 5
[ Source: Sendmail ]
October 2008-
Sendmail’s podcast, “Using Directory Servers for Intelligent Email Management: Introduction to Directory Servers” focuses on how businesses can leverage Directory Servers for a more secure and intelligent messaging infrastructure. This podcast is the first of five editions in this series and is a general introduction to Directory Servers.
Michael Donnelly – a senior messaging architect at Sendmail and expert on Directories, with over 20 years of experience in the computing industry ....
Special Report on Modernizing Messaging Infrastructures
[ Source: Sendmail ]
November 2008-
Sendmail's "Special Report on Modernizing Messaging Infrastructures" features a Gartner research note titled "Signs Indicate a Train Wreck Is Coming, Unless You Modernize IT" (Scott. D. Nelson, Valentin T. Sribar, and Andy Kyte, August 27, 2008) and success stories about how Sendmail customers have avoided potential IT messaging infrastructure train wrecks.
In this research note, Gartner outlines the top indicators of a potential IT train wreck in its response to the central question, ....