The New Paradigm Of Disaster Recovery And Business Continuity For The Small And Mid-Size Business
[ Source: Cornick, Garber & Sandler, LLP ]
November 2009-
This paper translates those disaster recovery methodologies employed by the big companies into more cost-efficient measures that many small to mid-size businesses can implement easily. The paper is primarily aimed at IT managers of small or mid-size companies who have to contend with budget limitations when designing and implementing a disaster recovery and business continuity plan.
6 Key Benefits of Intelligent File Storage Solutions
[ Source: Novell ]
April 2010-
Organizations need to better track and understand storage patterns, allocate and manage storage based on its relevance and value to the business, while saving money in the administration and procurement of storage resources. Learn how a commercial software tool helps unlock the hidden value in collaborative data—such as presentations, text documents, spreadsheets and videos — the primary output of employee creativity and the fastest consumer of enterprise storage today.
A Guide for Storage Admins using Novell File Reporter
[ Source: Novell ]
April 2010-
Novell File Reporter helps organizations more effectively manage network storage by providing administrators the ability to access a comprehensive set of information about their network storage so that they can determine the best means of addressing their storage content. When organizations know what files are being stored, where they are stored, when they were last accessed, how many versions of a file exist, etc., they are better informed to make decisions about where to store ...
Achieving a Single Citizen View
[ Source: Sun Microsystems ]
January 2008-
Establishing a single best view of appropriate citizen records or government service offerings should be an urgent priority for all government agencies - whether the ""citizen"" is an individual, an organization, a business, or even another government agency. Yet the ever-increasing complexity of today’s IT environment, combined with the distributed nature of agencies and their citizens, can make this holistic view of data difficult to achieve. This paper takes a closer look at the ...
Developing a Defensible Disposal Strategy - IT Teams Shouldn't Have to Make a Billion Choices
[ Source: PSS Systems ]
September 2010-
Too Much Data, Not Enough Value
It's commonly understood that data not subject to legal or regulatory requirement and without any business value should be disposed, and doing so is getting more important every day:
• 40 percent or more of corporate data is not subject »»to a specific legal duty and has no business value
• Corporate data volume grew by about 50 percent »»last year, while budgets grew by 0 percent
• IT spend averages 3.5 percent of revenues – data »»...
Toward An Identity And Context Virtualization Service: A Buyer's Guide To Virtual Directories
[ Source: Radiant Logic ]
July 2010-
The world of IT and security is changing. We're moving from highly centralized infrastructures to a more federated approach, where relationships are loosely coupled, identities are scattered across systems, and we all live and work in the cloud. But such a move has exposed weaknesses in our IT systems--and prevented us from taking full advantage of all these technological advances. The struggle between the push model of our traditional security infrastructure and the pull model ...
Network Access Control and 802.1X -- Advantages, Constraints, and Capabilities
[ Source: ForeScout ]
May 2011-
This whitepaper by Spire Security explains the advantages, disadvantages and limitations of 802.1x as it relates to network access control (NAC). In practice, 802.1x has proven to be costly and cumbersome to roll-out, particularly for large organizations. Furthermore, 802.1x does not include or address many important features of a full-blown NAC system. This whitepaper includes a case study of a large U.S. defense agency that tried rolling out 802.1x and then, after discovering significant ...
State of E-Mail/Messaging Management
[ Source: CA ]
December 2007-
Even as the already expansive volume of corporate data transmitted through e-mail and other messaging systems grows, government and corporate regulators are dictating that companies maintain this massive amount of information longer and rapidly produce specific messages for legal and regulatory purposes. Get this CMP Research report to learn if companies are keeping up with these requirements or are drowning in the deluge?
Business today literally runs on
e-mail. In the last decade, ...
Ten Guiding Principles For Knowledge Management In e-Government
[ Source: Global Development Network ]
January 2008-
This research paper states about the current e-government practice in developing economies is project-specific and not government-wide with the consequence that e-government impact often fizzles out at the level of a project and is not felt at the government level where decision-makers usually operate. A comprehensive government-wide approach to e-government is called for. For ushering in e-government in developing economies it is essential to prepare a comprehensive e-business plan, for improving internal government processes and ...
Preempt IT Security Threats
[ Source: ForeScout ]
May 2011-
This whitepaper by the Ogren Group examines issues related to endpoint security compliance management. A new generation of network-based compliance management tools is available which can help enterprises obtain real-time compliance information, automate the remediation of security deficiencies, improve security, and save money. Ogren Group evaluates the capabilities of ForeScout CounterACT to meet enterprise needs. This whitepaper includes two case studies of organizations using ForeScout CounterACT and describes the results that these organizations have obtained.