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17 mars 2010 : Stacking Up Against the Competition - Actuate BIRT vs. Business Objects, Cognos, Microstrategy, Jaspersoft, and Pentaho

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16 mars 2010 : Virtualized WAN Optimization - The Road to Cloud Computing

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11 mars 2010 : Combating Fraud & Data Theft in the Financial Services Industry

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10 mars 2010 : Selecting Server Processors to Reduce Total Cost

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9 mars 2010 : Websense Web Security Gateway Demo

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9 mars 2010 : Websense Security Labs State of Internet Security 2H09

Do you know just how adept Web adversaries have become in using the Internet to spread malware in their attacks? Understand where the true threats lie with this report which summarizes the significant findings of Websense researchers using the ThreatSeeker(TM) Network during the six-month (...)

8 mars 2010 : Smarter Products: The Building Blocks for a Smarter Planet

As a way to differentiate their offerings and optimize business returns, manufacturers across all industries are delivering a new generation of "smarter products".

8 mars 2010 : Driving product strategy from the top-down: How to align business objectives with technical objectives

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5 mars 2010 : The Top Five Benefits of Video Conferencing

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4 mars 2010 : Five Creative Performance Strategies for Managing Your Cloud

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2 mars 2010 : Searching for a Competitive Edge Case Study

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26 février 2010 : Maximize ROI for Web Applications

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26 février 2010 : Virtualization Technologies and their Impact on Disaster Recovery Planning

As projects for server virtualization are realized, the need to protect these virtualized systems is paramount. Organizations may not understand how vulnerable their data and business remain to disaster. This whitepaper discusses the challenges of protecting virtualized workloads and how (...)

25 février 2010 : Windows 7 Early Adopter Case Study

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24 février 2010 : Vmware View with PCoIP

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23 février 2010 : Taking Control of Email Security

It's critical to protect the valuable, often confidential, information contained in your email systems, and yet with data volumes increasing, housing all that information can be overwhelming. This paper addresses a "hybrid" approach to email security, where control is divided between your site (...)

19 février 2010 : XenApp Extends Virtualized Application Delivery

Citrix XenApp provides new application virtualization capabilities, allowing organizations to extend application delivery to more users and applications. Application Streaming, for example, augments delivery to users' desktops and makes server farm management more efficient. Download this (...)

19 février 2010 : Improve Delivery of Advanced Web Applications

The demands for high availability, reliability and security of application access drive the need for load balancers providing traditional networking traffic management functions and a comprehensive set of network-level and application-level (...)

19 février 2010 : Enterprise Network Time Synchronization Made Easy

This white paper explores various operational areas of network time servers and the EASY aspects that you should expect when you deploy them. This paper tells you why you need accurate, secure and reliable time and what to look for in a network time server for easy set-up and (...)

18 février 2010 : Develop effective user management to demonstrate compliance efforts and achieve business value

With IBM, organizations can develop comprehensive solutions to help gain visibility into business continuity risks, achieve control over utilization of sensitive business assets and automate a variety of processes for managing access to critical assets and data. Read this white paper to learn (...)

17 février 2010 : The Virtual Connection Concept

A virtual connection defines the interconnection between networking and server elements. The concept of a virtual connection abstracts an application's environment settings from its physical location with a pod, as the policy is applied wherever and whenever the server or VM running the (...)

12 février 2010 : No Harmony in Harmonics

Harmonic currents generated by non-linear electronic loads increase power system heat losses and power bills for end users. These harmonic-related losses reduce system efficiency, cause apparatus overheating, and increase power and air conditioning costs. As the number of harmonics-producing (...)

11 février 2010 : Introducing the HP ProLiant G6 servers

The sixth-generation (G6) of HP ProLiant DL, ML, and BL servers is the broadest range of servers in the industry based on the Intel Xeon processor 5500 series. The ProLiant G6 server lineup includes rack, tower, and server blades that provide industry-leading energy efficiency, extreme (...)

10 février 2010 : WAN Governance Executive Primer

Given the dependence on wide area networks for operational performance and enterprise growth, WAN Governance, a strategic and business-driven approach to network management within IT Governance, will become even more critical for executives to achieve business (...)

9 février 2010 : Why BI is Ripe - Now! - For Businesses of Any Size

Oracle's range of offerings to mid-size and emerging companies reflects its vision that BI and EPM solutions can be embraced by companies of all sizes.

8 février 2010 : Data in Action: Making the Planet Smarter

Date: Wednesday, March 3, 2010 Time: 8:00 a.m - 12:00 noon Pacific/11:00 a.m. - 3:00 p.m. Eastern. At the Data in Action Virtual Conference, you will hear from technology leaders, clients and business partners on today's enterprise data management challenges and how leveraging IBM's data (...)

6 février 2010 : Quantifying the Business Value of VMware View

The paper is an analysis of organizations adopting a centralized virtual desktop (CVD) computing environment with the use of VMware View. It demonstrates that investment in the technology can result in significant business value with very high return on investment (...)

2 février 2010 : 8 Tips for Virtualization Under Control

In this webinar, we propose 8 tips for IT managers, administrators, and security professionals to help build a more secure virtual infrastructure in order to accelerate the virtualization of business-critical applications. Topics covered include security planning, policy management, access (...)

2 février 2010 : Getting to One 10-minute Webcast, "Cloud Computing: Beyond the Hype"

Ready to get past the cloud hype and get down to business? Listen to Novell's 10-minute Webcast with James Staten, Principal Analyst from Forester Research, and Ron Hovsepian, President & CEO of Novell, as they discuss this new economic and service paradigm - from security and compliance to (...)

29 janvier 2010 : Diagnosing the cause of poor application performance

Are users constantly complaining that your network is too slow? Or that they can't connect or can't stay connected? Are network applications hanging and slowing productivity? Do you spend way too much time trying to isolate the source of the problem and to prove that often the issue isn't the (...)

28 janvier 2010 : Asia-Pacific Enterprise Network Solutions: China, Singapore, Japan, Malaysia, Indonesia, Australia and more...

Learn through this Webcast how your business can achieve reliability, performance and value in hard-to-reach locations within the Asia-Pacific region.

28 janvier 2010 : Overcoming Single Provider MPLS Limitations

Frost & Sullivan review the limitations associated with a single-provider approach to MPLS networks and its impact on the enterprise. They then examine Virtela's Global Service Fabric - a multi-carrier network approach that provides a best-of-breed global MPLS network (...)

28 janvier 2010 : Best Practices for Database High Availability

Your business needs to be online 24x7, 365 days a year. If critical applications, servers, or data becomes unavailable, your entire business might be jeopardized. Lost revenue, dissatisfied customers, penalties, and negative press will have a lasting effect on your organization"s reputation. In (...)

26 janvier 2010 : Mainsoft Webcast w/ Forrester Research: Drive SharePoint Adoption in Lotus Notes Shops

February 16th, 1:00 pm ET. Lotus customers that have adopted Microsoft SharePoint are struggling to meet their collaboration goals. Mainsoft CEO Yaacov Cohen and Rob Koplowitz, featured guest analyst from Forrester Research, discuss how to promote SharePoint adoption by integrating it with (...)

25 janvier 2010 : IBM Enterprise Content Management Buyer's Guide

Once you've decided to implement an ECM solution, you want to choose one that's right for your organization. This buyer's guide provides a list of criteria to assist you in your decision.

22 janvier 2010 : Drive SharePoint Adoption in Lotus Notes Shops

This whitepaper explores the opportunity to promote SharePoint adoption, without demanding a wholesale change in users' behavior, by integrating SharePoint with your email client. The paper details best practices for measuring the impact that email integration with SharePoint has on user (...)

22 janvier 2010 : IBM Tivoli Foundations Application Manager

IBMTivoli(R) Foundations Application Manager provides entry level monitoringfor the growing medium-sized organization looking for the right functionality in an easy to use and cost effective solution. It provides key capabilities to implement application management inthe IT environment (...)

21 janvier 2010 : WhatsUp Gold v14.1 & WhatsConfigured

Does network management have to be complicated? We don't think so. Find out how WhatsUp Gold's network management suite, including the new configuration and change management plug-in WhatsConfigured, will make your job easier!

21 janvier 2010 : The Essentials Series: Solving Network Problems Before They Occur

The Essentials Series: Solving Network Problems Before They Occur discusses common solutions to environmental problems-before they occur. Relating personal experiences from his long history in IT, author Greg Shields offers a look at network integrations from SNMP to WMI to configuration (...)

21 janvier 2010 : The Evolving Role of Disk and Tape in the Data Center

Learn about best practices in backup and archive for today's energy and cost conscious data center including performance, data protection and TCO.

19 janvier 2010 : IBM Systems Makeover Analysis for SAP Environments

Craft an IT infrastructure that allows you to create and sustain market leadership. This brochure will get you started with the IBM Systems Makeover Analysis for SAP Environments. This analysis will give you in-depth insight into your current application performance and the levels of (...)

18 janvier 2010 : Achieving Data Center Optimization with Visual Modeling

Growing complexity in today's dynamic data centers has challenged IT mangers to develop effective methods for problem identification, capacity management and cost reduction. Fortunately, new visual modeling tools have come of age to simplify these management practices by providing a visual (...)

15 janvier 2010 : Create Mashups in ISV Applications

End users are starting to demand from their business applications the same level of user experience and interactivity that they receive from consumer applications. This webcast will reveal how ISVs can use BIRT to leverage new innovations in information visualization and web application (...)

15 janvier 2010 : Customer Video: HP Pelzer

Hear how HP Pelzer Group, a manufacturer of automotive interior trim and acoustic components, finds DB2, Intel and SAP to be an easy to use, efficient, stable environment for their increasing data volumes. Learn how Business Partner Heitkamper EDV helped them put it all (...)

14 janvier 2010 : Enabling Ongoing PCI Compliance

Avoid penalties and facilitate cost-effective compliance with an integrated solution set for access control, data privacy, auditing, logging, security, and more. Radware's solutions help companies become PCI DSS compliant in a cost-effective manner and are fully integrated into the existing (...)

13 janvier 2010 : 802.11n: Lessons Learned from the First 1,000 Xirrus Installations

This webinar reveals the lessons learned from the past 2 years of over 1,000 Xirrus 802.11n installations. Download to learn real world insights, network and architecture considerations and overall recommendations for making the move to 802.11n or deploying a wireless network for the first (...)

13 janvier 2010 : Deploying High-Density Zones in a Low-Density Data Center

New breakthroughs in power and cooling technology allow for a simple and rapid deployment of self-contained high density zones within an existing or new low density data center. The independence of these high density zones allows for predictable and reliable operation of high density equipment (...)

12 janvier 2010 : Business Case Study: Assessing Storage Efficiency within NetApp's Data Centers

This report looks at ways NetApp IT was able to put into practices what the company has been saying to its customers for some time: That the use of NetApp storage offers such efficiency that it can save companies significantly more money and management time than the use of an alternate storage (...)

9 janvier 2010 : Data Center Virtualization - from Physical to Virtual to Cloud

Live Webcast: 2/3/2010 2:00pm ET/11:00am PT -- Virtualization promises tremendous benefits, and its deployment is transforming data centers. The benefits of lower cost, flexible and scalable infrastructure are well understood, but there are many challenges to fully realizing the benefits of (...)

9 janvier 2010 : Gartner -- Planning for the Security Features of Windows 7

Microsoft has added significant security enhancement to Windows 7. This Gartner research note details the capabilities available (many are only available to EA/SA subscribers), which features should be activated and where some security holes still (...)

8 janvier 2010 : Four Promising Alternatives to the Lead Acid Battery

UPS makers have long been searching for an alternative standby power technology that's smaller, simpler and "greener" than lead acid batteries, yet no more expensive to operate. Today, that hunt just may be nearing its end. Several exciting new standby power solutions, all rapidly approaching (...)

8 janvier 2010 : BRM: What You Can Do To Reduce Risk In Challenging Times

Businesses cannot eliminate risks entirely, but they may reduce the probability of these types of events bringing operations to a halt with business risk mitigation, a method of addressing business risk. Key Speaker: Jean S. Bozman, Research Vice President, (...)

7 janvier 2010 : Storwize/IBM Technical Validation Report

Storwize appliances, deployed on IBM hardware, compress data in real-time as it is passed to the storage system. Storwize has placed special emphasis on the performance of the storage system with the STN product line to ensure that Storwize compression does not impact performance. This (...)

7 janvier 2010 : Peace Corps Cut Bandwidth Costs by $180,000 First Year Using WAN Optimization

Peace Corps enabled global collaboration across 26 countries while cutting costs of WAN bandwidth.

6 janvier 2010 : ITCi White Paper: Challenges and Opportunities of PCI

The Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI DSS) provides an enterprise structure for improving operational, security, and audit performance. The benefits of the PCI DSS go beyond audit costs and results, however. As a security model, PCI requirements can help companies control (...)

5 janvier 2010 : Connecting to Better Customer Service

Less than a third of surveyed IT executives believe their companies are "highly effective" at adapting to changing customer needs and priorities. Businesses that build a robust voice and data network infrastructure can achieve a high level of responsiveness, and transform customer information (...)

4 janvier 2010 : Power Efficiency Gains by Deploying 415 VAC Power Distribution in NA Data Centers

Greater cabinet densities, increased power costs and in some markets reduced power availability are all driving efficiency within the Data Center. Greater efficiencies and the advantages that result such as lower TCO, postponing capital expenditures, and public recognition for showing (...)

1er janvier 2010 : File Integrity Monitoring: Secure Your Virtual and Physical IT Environments

Learn how integrity monitoring software solutions enable IT organizations to achieve and maintain configuration control. Tripwire Enterprise is the first solution to effectively combine configuration assessment and file integrity monitoring, enabling automated and sustainable configuration (...)

30 décembre 2009 : Executive Guide - Perfecting Application Performance

The enterprise application scene has become increasingly complicated over the years. Things have changed with the rise of Web services, SOA, Virtualization and cloud computing. This complexity makes app performance management all the more difficult. In this Executive Guide featuring articles (...)

28 décembre 2009 : Virtualize Microsoft Applications on VMware

Join NetApp and VMware on February 4, 2010 for a live webcast and hear Grant Leathers from Kelley Blue Book discuss how he has cost-effectively grown his infrastructure to meet the demands of his business with a scalable Microsoft-applications mixed-workload solution built on VMware vSphere 4 (...)

28 décembre 2009 : SOC/NOC Convergence - an Service-Oriented Approach

This report, written by research firm Spire Security, examines SOC/NOC convergence, the opportunity for the infosec professional, and the state of security information event management (SIEM) and logging technology to manage business risks and enhance service reliability. It will also examine (...)

23 décembre 2009 : Examine the benefits of cloud-based Wi-Fi

The pay-as-you-grow model is the perfect cost-conscious replacement for the pay-more-now, controller-based model that is so prevalent today. In this paper, learn how HiveManager Online gives financial control back to organizations by offering a cloud-based management platform with minimal (...)

22 décembre 2009 : How APM Today Prepares You to Succeed with Cloud Technologies Tomorrow

There is plenty of hype surrounding the potential benefits of Cloud Computing, but how do you realize those benefits? APM is a major part of that answer. Join featured speaker Gartner Research VP Milind Govekar for this On-Demand webcast to learn (...)

22 décembre 2009 : The approach to monitoring complex Java and .NET applications

Looking to gain key strategies for monitoring complex Java and .NET applications to ensure IT Operations can maintain the level of performance and availability end users demand? Download this whitepaper and start getting the visibility into your application tiers necessary to help your IT (...)

19 décembre 2009 : VoIP Optimization

Optimize and assure the delivery of Voice over IP services with a superior packet based management platform that delivers unified views and analysis of voice, video and data traffic.

19 décembre 2009 : Consolidate Your Servers and Storage to Lower Costs with Oracle Database 11g

Oracle Database 11g and Oracle Real Application Clusters (Oracle RAC) enables a single database to run across a cluster of servers, providing unbeatable performance, fault tolerance and scalability with no application changes necessary. Hear from Oracle experts on how consolidating your servers (...)

18 décembre 2009 : SMB Workload Performance Comparison: AMD Processor-Based Dell PowerEdge T105 vs. Intel Processor-Based Dell Vostro 220

This report from Principled Technologies shows the potential benefit and performance gain that a small business and end user would receive from upgrading to a server-class system like the AMD processor-based Dell PowerEdge T105.

17 décembre 2009 : IDC: Reducing Downtime and Business Loss: Addressing Business Risk and Effective Technology

IDC research shows that SMBs can experience an average loss of revenue of $70,000 per downtime hour. Assess internal and external risks, understand revenue impact, and learn how well-targeted technology initiatives such as management tools, server upgrades, failover clustering and thin clients (...)

16 décembre 2009 : Citrix and Microsoft: Leading the Desktop Virtualization Revolution

Have you started planning to migrate to Windows 7? Struggling to continuously update and patch endpoint devices for new application releases and devices? Continuing to follow the decades-old PC refresh cycle and traditional distributed desktop model is a poor choice for IT departments that face (...)

16 décembre 2009 : Case Study: Six Billion Slurpees and Counting

Managing remote users was a help desk nightmare for convenience storage giant, 7-Eleven. Read how 2800 new laptops were deployed in 30 days reducing help desk calls by 67%, decreasing management costs by 81% and increasing productivity by 30%. You¿ll even get the latest tally on Slurpees (...)

15 décembre 2009 : 10x Lower Disaster Recovery Costs: Cost-effective business continuity that spans from server to storage

View this on-demand Webcast and hear Jared Wray from Tier 3 discuss how his company shortened backups from 24 hours to one hour, slashed restores from three days to one hour, and delivers disaster recovery services at 10 times less cost with NetApp and (...)

15 décembre 2009 : Technical Report: NetApp and VMware Building a Virtual Infrastructure from Server to Storage

This document discusses the virtual storage solutions that reduce cost, increase storage utilization, increase fault tolerance, and address the challenges of backing up and restoring VMware ESX Server environments by using Network Appliance (...)

14 décembre 2009 : Performance, Scalability and Deduplication: HP VLS Deep Dive

Watch this webcast for a timely discussion on all things VLS. Areas covered include; Performance, Scalability, Grid Engine vs Clustered Architecture, Dedupication. Seamless Backup and Disaster Recovery. View today!

10 décembre 2009 : 10 Gigabit Ethernet Virtual Data Center Architectures

A consolidated, virtualized 10 Gigabit Ethernet data center will transform your infrastructure, budget and organization. Discover why when teamed with a service-oriented architecture, this approach will lower capital and operating expenses, and TCO; reduce requirements for space, power, (...)

9 décembre 2009 : Top 10 Threats to SME Data Security (and what to do about them)

For a no-nonsense perspective on the most common types of network and data compromises in small to medium sized businesses, read this white paper. It lists the ten most common vectors of data compromise, with practical techniques and defenses to counter (...)

8 décembre 2009 : Information Security and Multi-Compliance Prescriptive Guide

It's not unusual for information security managers to be held responsible for situations where they have little control or influence in the rest of the organization. This Prescriptive Guide outlines the steps information security managers can take to break the compliance blame cycle and build (...)

4 décembre 2009 : The True Cost of Voice Over IP

For six years, Nemertes has tracked how much companies spend on their IP-telephony deployments within the LAN and VOIP across the WAN. This paper reviews the latest deployment trends and costs associated with VOIP, and provides capital and operational cost details for midsize and enterprise (...)

3 décembre 2009 : Integrated Security for Broad Protection, Swift Response

If you were a hacker, would you rather attack Bank of America or Bob's Bike Shop? If you are a smaller organization, is your data less valuable? The reality: mid-size organizations face as many, if not more, threats. Why? You have less time and resources dedicated to protecting against every (...)

3 décembre 2009 : Optimizing Unified Communications to Transform Business

While the most organizations still use conventional communications systems such as email and desktop telephones, the number of organizations migrating to IP-based solutions, or unified communications, is increasing significantly. This webcast will discuss how to gain a competitive edge by (...)

2 décembre 2009 : The Four Trends Driving the Future of Data Center Infrastructure Design and Management

Does efficiency have to come at the expense of availability? Not according to this paper, which outlines the four data center infrastructure trends that are reducing design, operating and management costs while improving data center performance. Those trends are Infrastructure Management, Eco (...)

1er décembre 2009 : Traverse: Unified Network And Business Services Management For Managed Services Providers (MSPs)

Traditional providers of IT services, such as systems integrators, are expanding rapidly into the managed services arena, and becoming Managed Services Providers (MSPs). Two underlying developments are driving this transformation. IT service providers are under pressure to differentiate (...)

1er décembre 2009 : Making Way for the Next-Generation Data Center

Live Webcast: January 14, 2009 1:00 p.m. ET/ 10:00 a.m PT. Cloud computing is placing tremendous demands on the network infrastructure and more specifically on data centers. Traditional data centers do not scale cost effectively to support these new demands and virtualization models. Wouldn't (...)

30 novembre 2009 : Having challenges with virtual desktop performance?

With virtual desktop connected devices forecasted to grow to 66 million by 2014, or 15 percent of all traditional professional desktop PCs, enterprises are quickly adopting virtualization as a key component of their cost-containment efforts. Independent 3rd party test results show up to 7x (...)

29 novembre 2009 : U.S. Air Force Manages Aircraft Site Using Powerful Storage Virtualization Platform

Meet business demands more flexibly; manage data more simply and efficiently; and mitigate the risk of lost data with a storage area network (SAN) that pools, shares and centrally manages storage resources

25 novembre 2009 : Make Smarter Business Decisions with Root Cause Analysis

This webcast airs on Thursday, December 17th at 11:00am PT/ 2:00pm ET. positively Performance Management and Business Intelligence applications are vital to connecting the dots from the board room down to the front line. Join Jeffrey Hammond, leading analyst at Forrester Research, to learn how (...)

24 novembre 2009 : Is an energywasting data center draining your bottom line?

New technology options and power distribution strategies can dramatically reduce the cost and carbon footprint of your data center. This white paper looks at two key ways that data center managers can improve end-to-end energy efficiency: by changing the voltage of power distribution and by (...)

23 novembre 2009 : Smart techniques for application security: whitebox + blackbox security testing

Whitebox & blackbox application security testing are two approaches for detecting vulnerabilities in Web-based and network applications. Both have strengths and weaknesses, but a combination of the two provides the most comprehensive application security coverage and facilitates the extension (...)

23 novembre 2009 : 3 Minutes with Free Tool Can Save Thousands!

The EBS ROI Tool quickly points out the benefits of upgrading to EBS R12 on IBM hardware. Uncover improved productivity and better value. See how you can improve decision-making while reducing your total cost of ownership through process efficiencies and technology (...)

20 novembre 2009 : Removing Barriers To Better Server Virtualization Efficiency

Based on research conducted by Tripwire, this whitepaper explores the common barriers to virtualization, and best practices around furthering virtualization in a secure and compliant environment.

19 novembre 2009 : Business-Critical Benefits of Workload Automation Solutions

For those who have automated job scheduling for a given platform or, better yet, consolidated job scheduling across multiple platforms and application software suites, the benefits are obvious - staffing efficiencies, error reduction, and simplicity. However, consolidated job scheduling is NOT (...)

17 novembre 2009 : Consolidate Your Servers and Storage to Lower Costs with Oracle Database 11g

Oracle Database 11g and Oracle Real Application Clusters (Oracle RAC) enables a single database to run across a cluster of servers, providing unbeatable performance, fault tolerance and scalability with no application changes necessary. Hear from Oracle experts on how consolidating your servers (...)

16 novembre 2009 : How To Build a Cloud-Ready Data Center Network

Achieving cloud readiness with a legacy data center network isn't easy. Today's multi-tiered data center networks have become overly complex (comprising too many devices and layers), inefficient, difficult to manage, hard to secure and costly to maintain. They're the antithesis of agile, (...)

12 novembre 2009 : Improving Healthcare Delivery with Role-Enabled Communications

Today, more healthcare IT organizations than ever are interested in implementing UC applications in a planned, cost effective manner. In order to meet their tremendous potential for improved healthcare delivery requires far more than UC; it requires role-enabled communications. Download NEC's (...)

11 novembre 2009 : Manage Critical Production Applications and Solve Slowdowns -- Fast

Warner Schlais, Datatrend President of IT Services, and Vic Nyman, BlueStripe COO, present a breakthrough application management solution. Get a new perspective on your distributed production applications in minutes, seeing application dependencies and accurate performance with real application (...)

11 novembre 2009 : Data Center Survival Guide

The Juniper Data Center Survival Guide shows IT professionals how to survive in this increasingly complicated environment. It explains how to simplify your infrastructure and network management now with Juniper Networks. It identifies four of the most difficult challenges you face today in your (...)

10 novembre 2009 : Managing Virtualized Infrastructure through Automation: a Network Manager's Approach

This webcast highlights the views of analyst Jim Metzler, Fiserv and HP on the trends driving network automation. You'll hear how a large and growing percentage of IT resources is expended merely maintaining the status quo, and how network complexity is making manual change and configuration (...)

10 novembre 2009 : Take Control of Change, Configuration & Compliance across Physical and Virtual Worlds

Live: Wednesday, December 9th 2 PM ET / 11 AM PT. Join Industry experts as they discuss how IT management can now automate continuous configuration compliance across their server infrastructures to maintain security, comply with regulations, follow configuration best practices, and meet (...)

10 novembre 2009 : Preventing Data Breaches in Privileged Accounts Using Access Control

It is critical that organizations are proactive in their approach to mitigating insider threats. Week-after-week there are disturbing, déjà vu-like stories of significant data breaches, arrests connected to insider attacks, or investigation reports emphasizing the necessity to control (...)

9 novembre 2009 : Why Print Management Matters

Print Management provides a breakthrough answer to today's top business challenge: reducing overhead without harming productivity. Jim Salzer of DocuAudit Intl. shows how Print Management allows you to control documentation expenses by outsourcing the management of your current print (...)