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.
Bandwidth Bandits
[ Source: MessageLabs, Symantec Hosted Services ]
September 2010-
This white paper will discuss how the Internet bandwidth is a finite and expensive resource that needs protection from spammers, criminals, hackers, time-wasters and employee misuse. Not only is it expensive and limited, but it is a vital business tool. This paper also explains the true cost of bandwidth bandits on businesses.
INETCO Insight of the Week #04 - Getting Down to Business with Transaction Metrics that Matter
[ Source: INETCO Systems Ltd. ]
July 2010-
Banks, payment processors and other financial institutions need to reduce the risk of undetected stand-ins, improve straight through processing rates, identify transaction slowdowns, and resolve application or network outages by quickly getting to the heart of business transaction metrics that matter.
Management of a complex payment transaction environment has traditionally required hours of resource-intensive data gathering and troubleshooting by capturing and correlating network, application and transaction --level messages and timings into one, consolidated view. This ...
Inside Remote Access
[ Source: SMB ]
June 2010-
Inside Remote Access
INETCO's Insight of the Week #3 - Seeking Shelter from the Blamestorm
[ Source: INETCO Systems Ltd. ]
June 2010-
It's common to have a variety of partners managing various pieces of your payment processing environment - such as the payment networks, data centers, the switch technology, authorization gateways, issuers, and the banking systems -- especially as new services are tacked on, and mergers and acquisitions continue to rock the payment processing industry. But verifying the performance of silo'd departments and third party partners responsible for major components of your ATM and POS payment transaction ...
THE MISSING LINK: What your Existing Monitoring Solutions Don’t Show
[ Source: INETCO Systems Ltd. ]
June 2010-
Is it time to evaluate the “next wave” of monitoring technologies?
This whitepaper was written to help IT teams, working in payment processing environments, answer the question:
“Is my current monitoring strategy missing critical information that could make, break or optimize our business?”
We start by taking a deep dive into internal and external factors shaping IT priorities within a payment processing environment.
The next section will help you evaluate existing monitoring strategies and problem ...
Not Just Words: Enforce Your Email and Web Acceptable Usage Policies
[ Source: MessageLabs, Symantec Hosted Services ]
May 2010-
Unmanaged employee use of email and the web can subject any organization to potentially costly risks including litigation, regulatory investigations, security breaches, lost productivity, business interruptions, and public embarrassment.
For responsible organizations operating in the age of email and the web, Acceptable Usage Policies (AUPs) are essential business tools. Clearly written and effectively communicated email and web AUPs—supported by employee training and enforced by proven technology solutions—can help employers minimize risks, ...
Cloud Computing and Web Application Performance: The Risks of Adopting the Cloud
[ Source: Gomez ]
May 2010-
Any business considering cloud computing to support its customer-facing Web applications must look beyond the cloud’s cost savings and scalability and evaluate how cloud adoption will impact the end-user experience.
This whitepaper addresses the Web experience challenges companies must address when adopting the cloud. It offers perspective and best practices to achieve world-class Web performance and assist in the evaluation of cloud providers and development of cloud performance SLAs.
Beating the Browser Wars: How to Win the Battle for Web Performance
[ Source: Gomez ]
May 2010-
With Internet Explorer’s dominance waning and Firefox, Safari, Google Chrome and a host of others catching up fast, managing browser diversity is becoming increasingly challenging. Plus there are multiple versions of each browser in use, underscoring a fact of life for website designers, web application developers, and your entire IT department: web pages can look and perform differently from one browser to another.
12 Steps to Ensure Successful SaaS Delivery — How to protect revenue, renewals, and customer satisfaction
[ Source: Gomez ]
May 2010-
SaaS leaders like Omniture, Monster.com, Salary.com and Webex have known for years that performance problems can impact customer experience and have a huge impact on revenues, renewals, brand perception and overall user satisfaction.
Savvy SaaS leaders know that overall Web performance — including availability, responsiveness and consistency — needs to be a top concern in order to protect their customer experiences and minimize Web performance issues before they have a catastrophic impact on ...