What's your Social IT maturity?
[ Source: ITinvolve ]
November 2012-
Some believe social media in business is just hype, and some say it's the future. By reading this thought leadership paper you will gain new understanding into how social IT is defined, its benefits, and how to assess your own social IT maturity.
IBM WebSphere Application Server V8.5 Concepts, Planning, and Design Guide
[ Source: IBM ]
October 2012-
This IBM® Redbooks® publication provides information about the concepts, planning, and design of IBM WebSphere® Application Server environments. This book is aimed at IT architects and consultants who want more information for the planning and designing of application-serving environments, ranging from small to large, and complex implementations.
This book addresses the packaging and features in WebSphere Application Server and highlights the most common implementation topologies. It provides information about planning for specific tasks ...
Bring Your Own Device (BYOD) & Business Networks
[ Source: Blue Coat ]
October 2012-
Learn how to control, optimize and accelerate BYOD traffic and minimize its impact on business applications.
Securing Social Media in the Enterprise
[ Source: Interop ]
May 2012-
As corporations continue to struggle over the decision to ban or allow unrestricted access to social media, the medium continues to build momentum as a modern business tool. Further, employees are increasingly mobile, accessing social applications from their own devices on the corporate network. It's a runaway train, so businesses are on the hook to enable social media in a way that balances security and privacy concerns with productivity and business enablement.
The ...
What's Next: Goal-Oriented Social Software
[ Source: Enterprise 2.0 Conference ]
November 2011-
In an emerging trend, social software and social business principles are increasingly being applied to accomplish specific objectives. Measurable objectives. This is a change from the roles traditionally associated to social software: knowledge management, conversations, transparency, ermergence. These social principles have in many ways been the "end" themselves, or the means to a squishy, ill-defined end (e.g. "more collaborative"). What's changing is these principles are now the catalyst to achieving a tangible, defined end.
Designing Social Applications
[ Source: Enterprise 2.0 Conference ]
November 2011-
Part of becoming a social enterprise is understanding what makes social applications work, both for purposes of selecting commercial applications and for designing their own. Most organizations will adopt a commercial or open source enterprise social platform rather than trying to create their own, but they still will face the challenge of adapting it to their environment and integrating applications that predate the social software era.
The IPv6 Future Is Now: Are You Ready?
[ Source: CenturyLink ]
November 2011-
There are more people on earth than total IPv4 addresses, and they're expected to run out by the end of 2011. Preparing for the transition now can help you maintain business continuity during the changeover while taking advantage of immediate business benefits.
Solution Brief: Customer Benefits of the New Blue Coat WebFilter Categories
[ Source: Blue Coat ]
November 2011-
Blue Coat WebFilter helps you easily manage web content by categorizing it into a discrete number of categories. This enables you to set and enforce granular policies based on your business requirements. We work to minimize any disruption to customer environments. However, we occasionally find it important to introduce changes based on customer feedback and the dynamic changes occurring in the nature of web content.
Hadoop Challenges and Best Practices
[ Source: Dell ]
September 2011-
Hadoop is an ecosystem of components for implementing the Google MapReduce algorithms in a scalable fashion on commodity hardware. It enables organizations to store and process large volumes of data and analyze it in ways not previously possible with less scalable solutions or standard SQL-based approaches.
This white paper highlights common Hadoop challenges and uses and reveals a series of best practices to use when designing and implementing Hadoop solutions.
Moving Business Communication to the Cloud
[ Source: eFax Corporate ]
September 2011-
Cost, clutter and loss of productivity associated with traditional faxing are just a few of the problems facing companies that still use a fax machine today. Fortunately, there are several ways to tackle the traditional fax problem without spending big money.
Thanks to cloud technology, receiving or sending a fax can be as easy as the click of a mouse. After all, you don't expect your employees to go to the printer to ...