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Tags: Security
Traditional approaches to disaster recovery cannot meet today's requirements. Read this white paper to learn about a comprehensive end-to-end enterprise-wide data protection system for Windows and UNIX environments.
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Tags: Security
Traditional backup strategies are fast becoming obsolete. Read this white paper to learn about a new solution that revolutionizes data protection strategies compared to the technologies of yesterday.
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Tags: Business Continuity, Storage
This white paper details four enhanced disk-based backup architectures and provides guidance on how to determine whether or not those architectures would be an overall fit within your IT infrastructure. Download this white paper to learn more.
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Tags: Security
Have you been tasked with deploying a wireless LAN (WLAN) infrastructure at your company? Are employees and co-workers clamoring for wireless access but unable to get manager approval "because it is not secure and our data is too valuable?" You've probably done some research and might be looking at products from WLAN vendors such as Cisco® Systems, Aruba Networks®, Trapeze Networks™, Symbol Technologies, or others. While these WLAN vendors offer valuable products, you might not need their solution if you already have an SSL VPN device or appliance in place, or are planning to implement one (perhaps to replace your IPSec VPN). For most deployment scenarios, an SSL VPN appliance can provide many of the features and benefits of a special purpose WLAN controller for wireless access, but at a much lower cost and with greater flexibility. The basic premise is very simple: treat your wireless LAN (for example, 802.11g) users the same as you would treat a remote user accessing your network from home or a coffee shop. In other words, from an implementation and policy perspective, treat remote users and corporate wireless users exactly the same. This is also helpful for the end user because their user experience will be exactly the same whether they are accessing the network from home or over the corporate wireless network. They will not have to launch a separate client for wireless access or go to a different URL or portal. So how does an SSL VPN solution for WLAN access compare to what a WLAN vendor might offer? This paper describes the key selling points for WLAN solutions and offers an explanation of how SSL VPN can offer similar, complementary, or greater functionality.
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Tags: Security
Employee mobility is a modern business solution that can increase productivity and open new opportunities for revenue. Unfortunately, remote access also exposes companies to more risk, requiring proactive solutions that can help keep the network and sensitive data safe while giving users the access they need. Download this white paper and learn about: Options for proving remote user identity and how to choose the right tool for your company Security solutions for commonly used remote access methods Why passwords are ineffective for mobile security And much more
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This paper describes the challenges today's administrators face when planning data protection for their wireless networks. Learn about new solutions that meet and exceed the data protection expectations of enterprise-class administrators.
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Tags: Business Continuity, Storage
Network documentation is a tedious project...but it needs to be. Thorough network documentation is not only a benefit to your customer, but it can unveil hidden revenue opportunities and be your best defense should a customer ever file litigation against you. To help you take advantage of these benefits, networking expert Brien Posey has outlined the 10 essential steps you should be utilizing when presented with this task. Review this SearchNetworkingChannel.com Channel Checklist to put these 10 steps to use today.
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This reference document will provide you with detailed information on how to effectively manage your BlackBerry® Enterprise Server™ architecture, including: How to document the components Customize your environment What maintenance you should perform and when
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With today's advanced wireless video networks, public safety agencies can maintain round-the-clock visual monitoring of their communities from a centralized control center. When a problem is detected, officers can be dispatched immediately, helping to minimize response time and maximize safety and effectiveness. This white paper details how wireless video solutions are transforming the way public safety is run.
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Tags: Application Development
With today's increased emphasis on public safety and asset protection, the world has begun looking at security more closely and critically. In the wake of an unpredictable series of natural and man-made disasters, security has become a major priority worldwide. Municipalities, government agencies, businesses, healthcare systems, educational institutions and many others are looking for reliable systems to help them better protect people and property. These systems must also comply with stringent new mandates requiring significant improvements in security systems, functionalities and results. This white paper details how you can implement a type of wireless video system to comply with mandates as well as improve performance and security.
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According to IDC, growth in unstructured and semi-structured data averages 52% annually. To effectively manage this growth and leverage this data for business advantage, firms must apply disciplined, structured data management principles to this growing volume of information. Content archiving is a practical approach to meet these objectives. Applying structured data management principles to an organization's content can help derive business advantage from unstructured corporate content. This IDC white paper explores the benefits of content archiving. Read this white paper to learn about the rewards and capabilities of content archiving solutions, such as:Improves content for business value Reduces business risks Satisfies compliance and corporate governance record retention policies Reduces costs Ensures a scalable, performing, reliable and secure infrastructure And more
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UC4 Workload Automation Suite is tailor made for automating the data warehousing process. UC4 Workload Automation Suite is application aware and can ensure that application processes are run prior to data extractions. UC4 Workload Automation Suite can interface with ETL (Extract, Transform, Load) tools such as Informatica ensuring that ETL transactions occur at the appropriate times. ETL tool processes can be scheduled with knowledge of application processes and backups. There are many benefits to using UC4 Workload Automation Suite to control a data warehouse, including ensuring the proper execution sequence, resulting in fewer errors, fewer recoveries, and higher data warehouse availability.
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Tags: Green IT
According to the Environmental Protection Agency's (EPA's) newly released report on data center efficiency, unless the nation changes the way it designs, builds and operates these energy hogs, annual data center electricity costs, which have grown twofold since 2000, are predicted to reach $7.4 billion in 2011. Data centers now consume roughly 1.5 percent of the nation's electricity, or about 60 billion kilowatt-hours in 2006, the EPA said. The EPA report includes a set of recommendations that raise awareness and highlight the need for industry cooperation. The recommendations include: The creation of standard metrics so data center operators can measure and assess their energy consumption and performance. The agency calls for the federal government and industry to establish these metrics. And the federal government should be the first to report on its energy performance at its data centers Calling on private-sector CEOs to conduct energy-efficiency assessments at their companies' data centers, implement improvements and report energy performance of their data centers The distribution of "objective, credible information" about the performance of new technologies and how they will impact data center energy consumption and performance The development of standardized energy performance measures for data center equipment More research by government and university researchers, along with utilities, to develop technologies and best practices for data center efficiency The development of federal purchasing specifications for energy performance at outsourced data centers Considering state and local regulations to measure data center energy consumption Asking electric utilities to consider offering incentives to companies that run energy-efficient data centers
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This series is designed to educate technical and business professionals about new business intelligence technologies, concepts, or approaches that address a significant problem or issue. Research for the reports is conducted via interviews with industry experts and leading-edge user companies, and is supplemented by surveys of business intelligence professionals.
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Service-oriented architecture is clearly the gateway to step improvements in IT solution development, but it requires more than just a new approach to how IT works with business users. It calls for a radically different approach to IT governance. Accenture observes that while most leading companies' IT organizations are well on the way to adopting service-oriented architecture (SOA) capabilities, many find their progress slowed by big questions about who now owns the business services - and who controls them. While there are plenty of scenarios in which applications ownership and control is muddy, the questions are much trickier when they touch on who is in charge of and who pays for IT development in an SOA environment. And those questions are downright difficult when they get into who foots the bill for ongoing changes and maintenance. When IT takes a services perspective, clarity of ownership becomes very cloudy. A high-level business service will combine component services and multiple business processes that span several different systems and applications. So how does IT know it is exposing the right services for a given business process - and that those services are documented, managed and maintained properly? At the same time, multiple departments and functions may benefit from the service. Everyone - and therefore no one - may own the actual business service that IT is supporting. IT leaders are learning that if they are to achieve high performance with an SOA strategy and implementation, they must update and extend their IT governance structures so they provide guidance for the development and maintenance needs unique to SOA. SOA governance supports more efficient management of the overall SOA journey. Just as important, such governance supports better ways of funding, managing and operating the IT organization in support of SOA implementation. Accenture's experience shows that organizations that adopt an SOA governance discipline increase their efficiency, improve their business responsiveness and realize their SOA business case sooner - and with less risk.
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Cut costs, increase productivity, and save time while you reduce your Oracle E-Business Suite Administration team's stress level by ensuring that your change management process passes six key checkpoints. Understand how you can streamline and automate the change management process and its control points using Oracle E-Business Suite solutions for governance, risk, and compliance. This white paper, describes best practices for creating and managing a systematic and enforceable process for Oracle E-Business Suite Application Lifecycle Management that meets the audit requirements of Sarbanes-Oxley and will ensure that your next audit is ulcer-free.
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Tags: Security
More companies are coming to realize the importance of strong policy enforcement for governing compliance and usage of IT assets at the edge of the network. An integrated approach to managing PC policy, process, and performance ensures companies can achieve maximum availability and compliance while enhancing user productivity and more tightly aligning IT with business goals and objectives. The process of implementing an automated PC policy enforcement, desired state (corporate standard configuration), or compliance on connect is highly desired. Today, most organizations take either a manual, reactive, or locked-down approach, while some blend a combination of all three. These approaches leave companies open to service gaps and create inefficiency that may leave the business vulnerable to unnecessary risk before policy breaches are identified. Furthermore, they can have a negative impact on user productivity and satisfaction. Completely locking down users PCs or employing a one-size-fits-all policy approach is not always practical. This approach oftentimes impairs end-user productivity. Automating PC policy enforcement and desired state ensures that local and remote desktops and laptops remain compliant and maintain optimum availability. As a result, companies can reduce PC support costs, gain demonstrable control over assets, ensure compliance with licensing and government regulations, and enhance user productivity and satisfaction.
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SAP® Solution Manager solves many lifecycle management challenges. Newmerix™ Automate! for SAP enhances the Solution Manager Change and Transport System (CTS) enforcing flexible, robust workflows that meet the complex needs of compliant change management processes. Newmerix simplifies the orchestration of interdependent tasks involved in authorizing and migrating constant changes through productive landscapes and across parallel systems.
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Organizations require agility to adapt rapidly to innovative new business models and fluctuating customer expectations. Those businesses that do not effectively deploy evolving SOA technologies and governance models are unable to respond quickly and intelligently to evolving market opportunities and regulatory compliance. This white paper discusses SOA deployment best practices and lessons learned. Explore SOA implementation principles based on real-life deployments and experiences with this loosely-coupled architecture. Discover how SOA operates as a business-driven IT architectural approach that supports agile business innovation and optimization. Learn how this architecture allows an organization to respond quickly and efficiently to changing market opportunities, competitive threats and evolving regulatory constraints.
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Today's organizations face a diverse range of challenges. Markets around the world have become increasingly volatile, competition has grown in intensity, and mergers and acquisitions demand revisions in business plans and the IT infrastructures that support them. Organizations that lack flexibility in business models and business processes are unable to capitalize on changing market opportunities and manage costs in the face of increased budgetary pressures. This white paper discusses how the implementation of an SOA allows an organization to address the challenges associated with this rapidly changing business world. Discover technologies that allow your organization to integrate business processes across the company and with key partners, suppliers and customers. Explore how to develop a flexible SOA environment that supports rapid development and deployment of new technology. Gain insight into how to effectively: Align business processes with strategic goals Standardize, automate and integrate business processes Scale quickly to meet business demands
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