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Tags: Business Continuity, Storage
Each month Send Word Now will feature an industry professional who will discuss best practices, and share stories from the trenches about crisis management and continuity of operations. Send Word Now’s first monthly session kicks off with Bruce Blythe, CEO of Crisis Management International, Inc. Widely regarded as a thought leader in the industry, Bruce has worked with hundreds of Fortune companies and other organizations in crisis prevention, preparedness and response. He is a former Marine, certified clinical psychologist and has served as a consultant to the FBI on terrorism and workplace violence. Blythe has been personally involved in crises such as the 1993 World Trade Center bombing, the Oklahoma City bombing, Hurricanes Andrew and Katrina, corporate and commercial air crashes, Ecuadorian jungle rescue of kidnap and ransom hostages, Coca Cola truck/bus crash in Texas that killed 23 school children, earthquakes in Los Angeles and San Francisco and multiple workplace shootings. He has also appeared on the Today Show, CNN, ABC’s 20/20, CBS’ 48 Hours, CNBC, NPR, The Wall Street Journal and USA Today. Presentation Take-aways:- The importance of organizational preparedness to address the needs of impacted employees responsible for recovery operations.- Dealing appropriately with human impacts, and the affect on a successful recovery.- Case history examples, empirical research findings, and lessons learned from real incidents. Take-and-use guidelines will equip attendees to better address the needs of their firm’s employees who may be adversely affected by a crisis or disruption.- Standards covered by legislation affection private sector preparedness.
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Tags: Security
This paper describes how the SAP NetWeaver® platform and its components help IT organizations align with their enterprise business requirements in the area of security. It demonstrates how the platform enables companies to leverage their existing assets to maintain an appropriate level of security in the face of the growing challenges posed by more open and flexible systems. This level of security can be achieved via an incremental rollout strategy based on user- and process-oriented security components and capabilities. The result: a secure, service-oriented architecture that lets the enterprise adapt to continuous change while at the same time containing costs. This paper shows how components of the SAP NetWeaver open-technology platform can help IT organizations put in place an incremental approach to security that prepares the enterprise infrastructure for a services-oriented future, where users and business processes grow in numbers and in diversity. This approach optimizes protection with minimal impact on productivity - even for the demanding collaborative and modular business processes companies will face in the future.
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Tags: Security
Email Archiving has become a key issue for many corporate decision makers. A driving factor for this is that many industries are impacted by federal regulations which require that email communications are archived and preserved for a statutory period of time. E-mail archiving regulations primarily pertain to publicly traded companies, financial institutions, healthcare facilities, and government agencies. This document discusses the reasons e-mail archiving is necessary, the benefits of archiving messages, the different options available for archiving, and how administrators can determine which option is best for a given company.
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Many organizations lack the tools necessary to effectively manage the Java software development lifecycle properly. They are often unable to overcome the complex challenges associated with this type of development, limiting their ability to eliminate discrepancies between environments and manage conflicts between multiple developers. This white paper measures the benefits associated with a variety of Eclipse-based Java IDEs.
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More than 80% of all data maintained by organizations has a location component. Location intelligence offers value to an organization, using economics, demographics and physical geography to detect patterns, risks and opportunities often difficult to see in a basic spreadsheet analysis. Yet many organizations still have not embraced this technology, limiting their ability to effectively manage location-based data. This white paper details the benefits associated with location intelligence.
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Organizations often lack an effective method for packaging, deploying, monitoring and controlling enterprise Java applications in virtual data centers. They are then limited in their ability to achieve flexible, dynamic performance from their Java applications for enhanced operational response times, availability and efficiency. This white paper explores methods for enhancing centralized governance and control over Java applications.
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Organizations often fail to realize the pivotal role static source code analysis plays in enhancing software quality and security. Without this level of code analysis, critical vulnerabilities can be exploited after release and coding mistakes can cause inventory turnaround, resulting in serious expenses. This white paper details the benefits associated with automated source code analysis, highlighting how it can be used to identify software errors before shipment
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Extend the benefits of consolidation to your most vital business applications including SQL Server, Oracle databases and enterprise file serving using HP's unique PolyServe shared data technology. Unlike conventional virtualization approaches, HP's technology reliably delivers the raw performance and assured availability that are essential to mission-critical environments. In this white paper, learn how HP's approach to virtualization can dramatically decrease your server, storage, software and IT operational costs.
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Tags: Networking
Reviews important consideration when deploying a converged network focusing on IP vs TDM technology, IP Readiness, Network Design, Implementation and on going management.
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Tags: Security
The regulations listed above were designed to protect customers and the companies that serve them. Furthermore, compliance is required for doing business in today's litigious environment. The easiest route to compliance is by protecting your company's network and wireless devices through data encryption, user authentication and user-rights validation. Enacting best practices for wireless network, device and application security not only will ensure that your company complies with regulations, but will protect your network as well.
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Tags: Security
Protecting confidential data is nothing new to IT managers who they have been responsible for restricting access to corporate data and maintaining its physical security since the early days of computing. But in the last couple of years, it has taken on a whole new dimension-in large part due to the sheer volume of confidential data that is generated and moved around organizations today, the proliferation and tightening of corporate and federal regulations governing the protection of this type of data and the increasing number and visibility of data breaches often involving household name companies. Why use tape encryption? Encrypting in the tape drive hardware minimizes the performance overhead of the encryption process. By nature, hardware-based encryption is less compute-intensive than software-based approaches. Software-based approaches can put a burden on participating servers and can also make compression more difficult. Drive-level encryption is also more efficient than network-based encryption appliances from a processing standpoint. All of the encrypting is done offline, after data has been ingested by the tape drive. It is not done in-line in the network - potentially causing a traffic bottleneck in the network and delaying what ESG refers to as the time to DR process. This refers to the length of time it takes to get a copy of the data encrypted and off-site for DR purposes.
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Tags: Security
This white paper discusses a new approach to Network Access Control that overcomes both of these shortcomings of conventional NAC products. Mobile NAC, from Fiberlink Communications, is the first Network Access Control technology designed specifically for mobile and remote workforces. This includes: "road warriors" (executives, salespeople, consultants and other frequent travelers), "day extenders" (officebased employees who do some of their work at home or on the road), home workers, telecommuters and remote office workers. Mobile NAC is not a separate product, but rather an implementation of specific features of the proven Extend360 Mobility Platform. For several years the Extend360 Mobility Platform performed many of the main functions of a NAC product, including endpoint assessment, quarantine, and remediation. Enhancements introduced in early 2007 elevate this platform to a full NAC solution for mobile workers.
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Tags: Green IT
We're all aware of the rising energy costs in today's data centers and the growing concerns over global warming and other environmental issues. These problems have made green computing one of the hottest topics in IT right now. But what exactly is green computing and how does it affect IT infrastructures? To help you get a better understanding of the green computing phenomenon, this IT Briefing provides an outline on the concepts, benefits and business value of green computing. Explore this IT Briefing to learn about topics, such as: What is green computing and what are the benefits? An overview of green computing solutions The business case for going green How to implement a power management solution Why energy efficiency is so important And more
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Unified communications and collaboration strategies help organizations deliver more dynamic and flexible business systems, and can improve productivity and the user experience. Read this whitepaper to understand how to provide users with a single, integrated experience across business applications and communications and collaboration tools. Empower your organization to respond more quickly to emerging marketplace opportunities and competitive threats.
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This paper documents a real-world field study that concludes that the availability and call quality of VoIP over Multi-protocol Label Switching (MPLS) is comparable to that of VoIP over the public Internet.
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An Analysis of the Business and Financial Metrics of the Coming IPv6 Marketplace
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Tags: Business Continuity, Storage
This paper addresses the increased performance needs of a disaster recovery plan, and the common barriers to achieving success. It also addresses the performance gains that can be achieved by combining a F5 WANJet application acceleration solution with Double-Take® replication solutions from Double-Take® Software.
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Tags: Health IT
ST. PAUL, Minn.--Lawson Software (Nasdaq: LWSN) today announced that Mayo Clinic has completed its implementation of the Lawson S3 Human Capital Management Suite, including the Employee & Manager Self-Service applications. The new applications will help the healthcare provider maximize employee potential, and provide decision makers with the data they need to make informed, rapid decisions about the workforce that directly support business operations. The implementation marks the completion of phase two of the Mayo Administration Goal for Integrated and Coordinated Systems (MAGIC) initiative, an organization-wide effort to streamline business processes and improve data sharing, reporting and regulatory compliance. The first phase of the initiative, completed in 2006, included deployment of the Lawson S3 Enterprise Financial Management and Supply Chain Management Suites. Mayo Clinic is one of the largest integrated, not-for-profit group practices in the world with major sites in Rochester, Minn., Jacksonville, Fla., and Scottsdale/Phoenix, Ariz. and a network of hospitals and clinics under the Mayo Health System name. Collectively, the sites treat more than half a million people each year. The unified Lawson system will serve more than 3,400 physicians, scientists and researchers and 48,200 allied health staff at the organization. Lawson’s Web-based Employee & Manager Self-Service applications give employees ownership of their personal information, such as benefits enrollment, vacation balances, and electronic pay statements. “Lawson Human Capital Management offers healthcare organizations a comprehensive business system to better manage its people, financial resources, and supply chain processes,†said Stacey Hicks, healthcare marketing director for Lawson. “Our deep industry expertise enables us to provide the technology that healthcare organizations require to help efficiently and effectively allocate limited resources and deliver the highest level of patient care.†Lawson serves more than 500 healthcare industry customers representing more than 4,500 facilities, including eight of the top 10 integrated delivery networks. The company also serves managed care systems, academic medical centers, hospitals, clinics, physician group practices, home healthcare, long-term care and other health services enterprises. Lawson solutions help healthcare organizations manage their business so they can focus on their patients, automate and streamline materials management for a better bottom line, and overcome the challenges of the labor shortage. About Lawson Software Lawson Software provides software and service solutions to 4,000 customers in manufacturing, distribution, maintenance and service sector industries across 40 countries. Lawson's solutions include Enterprise Performance Management, Supply Chain Management, Enterprise Resource Planning, Customer Relationship Management, Manufacturing Resource Planning, Enterprise Asset Management and industry-tailored applications. Lawson solutions assist customers in simplifying their businesses or organizations by helping them streamline processes, reduce costs and enhance business or operational performance. Lawson is headquartered in St. Paul, Minn., and has offices around the world. Visit Lawson online at www.lawson.com. Forward-Looking Statements This press release contains forward-looking statements that contain risks and uncertainties. These forward-looking statements contain statements of intent, belief or current expectations of Lawson Software and its management. Such forward-looking statements are not guarantees of future results and involve risks and uncertainties that may cause actual results to differ materially from the potential results discussed in the forward-looking statements. The company is not obligated to update forward-looking statements based on circumstances or events that occur in the future. Risks and uncertainties that may cause such differences include but are not limited to: uncertainties in Lawson's ability to realize synergies and revenue opportunities anticipated from the Intentia International acquisition; uncertainties in the software industry; uncertainties as to when and whether the conditions for the recognition of deferred revenue will be satisfied; increased competition; uncertainty regarding potential future deterioration in the market for auction rate securities which could result in additional permanent impairment charges, global military conflicts; terrorist attacks; pandemics, and any future events in response to these developments; changes in conditions in the company's targeted industries and other risk factors listed in the company's most recent Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q and the most recent Annual Report on Form 10-K filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission. Lawson assumes no obligation to update any forward-looking information contained in this press release.
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CORAL GABLES, Fla.--Auxis, a management consulting firm, announced that it has been named as a finalist in the South Florida Business Journal Technology (SFBJ) Awards. SFBJ recognizes the advancements made by innovative South Florida companies. Auxis was recognized for its VIPER solution – Virtual Integration Planning & Execution Room Solution. VIPER is the result of combining Auxis’ technology capabilities with its merger & acquisition, due diligence and integration knowledge services. The VIPER offering begins with the end in mind for a client’s need to execute a successful transaction. “VIPER allows stakeholders from across multiple organizations to share information, track progress, automate data capture, share knowledge and provide a secure infrastructure for critically sensitive data,†said Nancy Wolff, Senior Director IT Strategy and Enterprise Architecture. Auxis has blended together the competencies of merger integration professional services with Enterprise Content Management (ECM) capabilities to develop a robust offering. VIPER is the central management solution for managing mergers and all of the related activities such as analysis, integration and reporting. “VIPER’s integration of exceptional pre and post merger & acquisition professional services combined with powerful technology helps get deal returns expedited,†said Baird Lobree, President & CEO. About Auxis Auxis is a management consulting firm that creates value and enables growth for its customers. Auxis works with top management to develop and implement robust business models that generate superior business performance. Auxis’ core belief is that success is measured by the ability to deliver practical, measurable and sustainable financial results. Auxis is headquartered in Coral Gables, Florida with offices in Plantation and Tampa, Florida as well as Houston, Texas. For more information about Auxis visit www.auxis.com.
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MIAMI--Terremark Worldwide, Inc. (NASDAQ:TMRK), a leading global provider of IT infrastructure services, today announced that Computer Sciences Corporation (NYSE:CSC), a leading IT services company, and Terremark have formed a strategic initiative to support select critical infrastructure customer requirements in the Federal marketplace. Following an extensive vendor review, CSC selected Terremark based on its proven track record of servicing the Federal and commercial markets, its carrier-neutral status, and the superior design and ideal location of the NAP of the Capital Region. CSC anticipates continued strong demand for IT infrastructure services and solutions and looks forward to this strategic agreement with Terremark in order to offer additional world-class solutions to their customers. The NAP of the Capital Region, which officially opens this June, will offer Terremark’s complete suite of managed services, its Infinistructure™ utility computing platform, and diverse connectivity options to Tier-1 network providers. The facility is strategically located in Culpeper, Va., 60 miles from Washington, D.C. and was specifically designed to exceed standards as a Federal data communications and hosting facility offering the ultimate in physical security. The 30-acre campus is the ideal location for government organizations, enterprises and Web 2.0 companies requiring managed infrastructure solutions engineered to meet the needs of today’s power, space and bandwidth-intensive mission-critical applications or hot/warm sites for disaster recovery/COOP environments. “We are very proud that CSC chose Terremark to help meet some of its significant IT infrastructure needs, and we believe that this relationship will help take Terremark to new heights,†said Manuel D. Medina, Terremark’s Chairman and CEO. “CSC’s selection of the NAP of the Capital Region for some of their federal IT infrastructure needs helps validate our strategy and underscores the many advantages this state-of-the-art facility provides for both Federal and commercial customers.†About Terremark Worldwide, Inc. Terremark Worldwide (NASDAQ:TMRK) is a leading global provider of IT infrastructure services delivered on the industry’s most robust and advanced technology platform. Leveraging data centers in the United States, Europe and Latin America with access to massive and diverse network connectivity, Terremark delivers government and enterprise customers a comprehensive suite of managed solutions including hosting, colocation, connectivity and security services. Terremark’s acclaimed Infinistructure™ utility computing architecture has redefined industry standards for scalable and flexible computing infrastructure and its DigitalOps® service platform combines end-to-end systems management workflow with a comprehensive customer portal. More information about Terremark Worldwide can be found at http://www.terremark.com. About CSC Computer Sciences Corporation is a leading IT services company. CSC’s mission is to be a global leader in providing technology-enabled business solutions and services. With approximately 91,000 employees, CSC provides innovative solutions for customers around the world by applying leading technologies and CSC’s own advanced capabilities. These include systems design and integration; IT and business process outsourcing; applications software development; Web and application hosting; and management consulting. CSC reported revenue of $16.1 billion for the 12 months ended Dec. 28, 2007. For more information, visit the company’s Web site at www.csc.com. Statements contained in this press release may constitute "forward-looking statements" within the meaning of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. Terremark's actual results may differ materially from those set forth in the forward-looking statements due to a number of risks, ability to cross-sell across an acquired customer base, ability to increase revenue yields within facilities, ability to refinance existing debt, uncertainties and other factors, as discussed in Terremark's filings with the SEC. These factors include, without limitation, Terremark's ability to obtain funding for its business plans, uncertainty in the demand for Terremark's services or products and Terremark's ability to manage its growth, the successful integration of operations of acquired companies. Terremark does not assume any obligation to update these forward-looking statements.
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