The Business Analyst's Guide to Hadoop
Rapidly emerging as a transformative technology framework for storing and processing massive amounts of structured and unstructured data, Apache Hadoop plays a central role in ......
BPM for Dummies
[ Source: IBM ]
August 2012-
Unleash the power of technology as a competitive advantage! Learn how your entire enterprise can become far more agile, helping you meet your goals with Business Process Management (BPM).
Download Business Process Management For Dummies, IBM Limited Edition, now and learn how BPM creates value through growth, improved performance, better productivity, higher staff effectiveness, and better customer service.
You discover why changing to BPM now makes sense for your organization, how ...
How To Build a Mission-Critical Data Center
[ Source: HP ]
May 2012-
Infrastructures must be able to quickly and cost-effectively adapt to evolving needs. Unfortunately, many companies cannot achieve this response with their current data center network architectures. The traditional three-tier model of access, aggregation, and core switching is an operational nightmare.
This white paper unveils a solution that streamlines the design of next-generation data centers to ensure the superior resiliency, performance, and agility that enterprise networks now require.
Sponsored by:<...
Avoiding the 8 Common Mistakes of Windows 7 Migration
[ Source: Dell/Microsoft ]
September 2011-
The recession put important things on hold for many organizations, like upgrading to new client systems. Now organizations such as yours are ready to upgrade and gain from better performance and efficiency by purchasing new laptops and notebooks with Windows 7 factory-installed.
Before you move dozens - or hundreds - of important business applications into a new environment, find out how other organizations tackled this challenge.
Download "Avoiding the 8 common mistakes of ...
Accountable Care and the Cloud: The Future of Medical IT
[ Source: Siemens ]
July 2011-
In this podcast, Dan Emig and David M. Hamilton of Siemens Medical explain how the cloud can help healthcare providers significantly improve business performance by shifting allocation of their limited budget and human resources away from lower-value back-office operations in favor of higher-value clinical and patient-facing services.
The cloud does this by 1) allowing healthcare IT organizations to leverage the economies of scale offered by shared, on-demand infrastructure and 2) providing turnkey access to state-of-the-art ...
Advanced Malware Exposed
[ Source: FireEye ]
May 2011-
This handbook shines a light on the dark corners of advanced malware, both to educate as well as to spark renewed efforts against these stealthy and persistent threats. By understanding the tools being used by criminals, we can better defend our nations, our critical infrastructures and our citizens. The "Operation Aurora" incident represents an example of how the threats have escalated, revealing how advanced malware is being used in a systematic, coordinated fashion to achieve ...
Creating a Timeline for Deploying Windows 7 and Eliminating Windows XP
[ Source: Dell/Microsoft ]
February 2012-
Windows XP support ends April 8, 2014. Therefore, organizations must decide when to begin their migration to Windows 7, set a target date to have Windows XP out and define the scope of the project.
This research paper reviews Gartner's key findings and recommendations for deploying Windows 7.
CISO Guide to Next Generation Threats
[ Source: FireEye ]
May 2011-
Over 95% of businesses unknowingly host compromised endpoints, despite their use of firewalls, intrusion prevention systems (IPS), antivirus and web gateways. This situation-the new status quo-results from criminals leveraging multiple zero-day vulnerabilities, commercial-quality toolkits and social media to perpetrate next-generation threats. These threats move "low and slow" and use several stages and channels to duck traditional defenses and find vulnerable systems and sensitive data.
Read this paper and learn how to regain the upper ...
8 Things That Could Affect Your Business IT Security In The Next Two Hours
[ Source: NETGEAR ]
August 2011-
Discover the secrets over-priced security consultants don't want you to know. Network security is not just about preventing a breach, it's about making every working day as productive as possible by preventing external threats.
Where should you start? Download this security brief and NETGEAR will show you the 8 things to do to improve your security posture right now.
Gartner Magic Quadrant for Enterprise LAN
[ Source: HP ]
May 2011-
Major LAN purchases and upgrades should not take place without a full competitive review. This Gartner Magic Quadrant reviews the strengths and weaknesses of the major players; including, Alcatel-Lucent, Avaya, Cisco, Extreme Networks, HP and Juniper Networks.
Workload Automation: The Heart of Enterprise Operations
[ Source: Skybot Software ]
April 2012-
EMA's leading Research Director, Charlie Betz, outlines the mission-critical features of modern workload automation, including event-driven approaches, integrated file transfer, and application-level integration. Learn the key criteria when creating your vendor short list, and which EMA-recommended vendors offer the best price-for-performance.
Running Business-Critical PHP Applications on the Cloud with High Availability (HA)
[ Source: Zend ]
September 2011-
In this white paper, we describe in detail the three key areas you need to understand to successfully launch and manage business-critical PHP applications in the cloud.
• How to understand and minimize complexity when migrating PHP applications to the cloud
• A customizable best-practices approach to deploying and managing PHP applications in the cloud for High Availability
• A joint solution from RightScale and Zend that helps organizations deploy and manage ...
Moving an MS Access Database Application to the Web with Alpha Five Version 9
[ Source: Alpha Software ]
February 2009-
Alpha Software’s latest white paper details how businesses can smoothly transition their Microsoft Access database applications to the Web using Alpha Five Version 9. Alpha Five is an all-in-one integrated tool that allows users to build secure and highly customized database applications with full reporting for the desktop or the Web quickly and easily.
Nexaweb Advance: End-to-End Application Modernization
[ Source: Nexaweb ]
March 2008-
Legacy applications built with technologies like PowerBuilder, ColdFusion (v5 and older) Oracle Forms, COBOL and Visual Basic are costing enterprises millions to maintain, and more to upgrade. Modernizing these systems to fully functional Web applications, however, is not as simple as adding flashy UIs and deploying them in a browser. It requires well-designed procedures to transform the legacy code to a common language, and utilize that data and business logic to deploy highly-functional, interactive applications ...
SandStorm: Load-Testing Tool
[ Source: Impetus Technologies, Inc. ]
July 2008-
The performance of a Web application under heavy traffic has become one of the most crucial factors that define its success. The challenges faced by these online applications include ensuring faster response time during peak hours and maintaining the basic level of quality and reliability of services. This white paper discusses various aspects of Web load testing and offers an insight into Impetus’ SandStorm Web load-testing tool.
Modern Data Center Cost Cutting Tips
[ Source: Oracle ]
December 2009-
Dramatically reduce data center sprawl and drive down operational costs by instituting an application grid methodology. Access the methodology to reduce costs here.
Meeting Compliance Requirements With Document Management Software
[ Source: Cabinet NG ]
October 2009-
Compliance is of primary concern to financial service, healthcare, and government organizations. Meeting compliance regulations have historically been perceived as an onerous burden. Today, leading companies are taking a broader approach to meeting compliance and are even embracing the benefits compliance offers. Meeting compliance must be a systemic process that touches all aspects of an organization. Most governmental regulations deal with the handling of business and personal information. Regulations are designed to protect against a ...
Achieving Better Information Security with Content-Aware Database Monitoring
[ Source: NitroSecurity ]
September 2008-
Protecting your data is the end goal of most information security efforts. Using a content-aware database monitor, you can build rich logs of database activity, monitor these logs in real time, and provide value-added alerts and reports that can be used for security, compliance or systems management.
Application Modernization and Retirement Strategies
[ Source: Capgemini ]
November 2010-
Legacy Applications Are Eating Away Your IT Budget and Future of Your Company. Take Charge Before It is Too Late.
IT has always been in the forefront of innovation and agility. New applications fuel an organization’s growth and productivity, automate key business processes and provide competitive edge. But inevitably, the cutting-edge systems of yesterday become today’s legacy applications, and the once organized landscape of an ‘application city’ becomes outdated and plagued ...
Oracle Unveils Revolutionary Database Performance Technology
[ Source: Oracle ]
April 2010-
Learn how major technology advances make it possible to sustain maximum database performance, improve IT agility with comprehensive change management and lower IT costs through database self-management and automation
The Business Analyst's Guide to Hadoop
[ Source: Hortonworks and Alteryx ]
May 2013-
Rapidly emerging as a transformative technology framework for storing and processing massive amounts of structured and unstructured data, Apache Hadoop plays a central role in Big Data. However, most Big Data strategies stall with IT challenges. In order to harness Big Data for competitive advantage, organizations must enable more than a handful of scarce IT specialists and expensive data scientists to access the information.
By making Big Data usable by business decision-makers and ...
How to test and launch a world-class application
[ Source: uTest ]
May 2013-
Testing and launching a web application isn't getting any easier. In fact, with the assortment of new browsers, plugins, third party apps and programming languages, this process has never been more complicated. Unfortunately, it's also never been more critical for success.
The Evolving Landscape of Desktop Security
[ Source: McAfee ]
May 2013-
Over the last 20 years, as we have moved towards a knowledge-based economy, the security challenges of maintaining the fidelity of the IT infrastructure have grown dramatically. There has been a massive increase in the number of malware samples encountered by security researchers around the world, from thousands of malware samples in a year to thousands of malware samples per day. On an operational level, endpoint security (desktop/laptops) has grown more complex, and IT security ...
Silk Central: Visibly better Providing a unifying view of any test management landscape
[ Source: Micro Focus ]
May 2013-
Software must perform across more platforms than ever before,
so it must be stronger and more flexible than ever before.
It has to be future-proof and – of course – delivered yesterday.
Organisations must increase application quality and reduce the
time to market. It’s a problem. Perhaps that’s why, on average,
68% of projects don’t succeed, 50% are late and 40% require
rework. Fragmented infrastructure can prevent efficient testing
and disparate teams affect traceability and ...
McAfee Virtual Patching for Databases
[ Source: McAfee ]
March 2013-
Organizations store their most valuable and sensitive data in their enterprise database, yet a large number of organizations do not engage in the timely installation of vendor patches after those patches have been released by database management system (DBMS) providers, placing that sensitive data at risk. In fact, a 2010 survey by the Independent Oracle Users Group revealed that of the 430 database administrators, consultants, and developers who were surveyed, only 37 percent installed Oracle Critical Patch Updates ...
A How-To Guide on Using Cloud Services for Security-Rich Data Backup
[ Source: IBM ]
February 2013-
Although data growth can help improve efficiencies and expand market reach, it can also expose a business to more risks, such as data theft, fraud and service interruptions. Read this white paper to learn how you can develop a strategy that successfully balances opportunity and reputational risk.
Systems Management Buyers Guide
[ Source: Dell KACE™ ]
November 2012-
Organizations of all sizes struggle to find an effective systems management solution scaled to their needs. KACE has developed a Systems Management Buyers Guide to find the product that meets your needs. Read it today.
Application Consolidation: Consolidating and retiring applications: Effective Management Can Reduce Costs and Modernize IT
[ Source: IBM ]
November 2012-
Information, an essential asset in virtually all organizations, requires careful attention and robust processes to ensure it can reliably support business decision-making. Information arising from multiple sources must be integrated and governed to ensure it is a trusted source and in compliance with internal policies and external regulations and legislature. The process of the integration and governance of information provides a framework that incorporates acquisition, organization, control and use of information to create and enhance ...
Data Lifecycle Management Strategies - The importance of the complete business object
[ Source: IBM ]
November 2012-
It is critical that an organization understands relationships between data, its business value and how to ensure long-term and accurate data access. Every process - defined or otherwise - within the organization creates information as the process is executed. An organization's information can be grouped into many small units of related data, often referred to as the complete business object.
This white paper defines the complete business object as it applies to organizations ...
How Cloud, Mobility and Analytics are Driving New Approaches to APM
[ Source: OpTier ]
September 2012-
How 2012's biggest trends impact APM, from IDC Research. As computing becomes more pervasive with the advent of social business, cloud, mobility and big data/analytics - every end-user interaction counts! Learn how to keep enterprise IT focused.
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