
What do today’s information workers want and need? It’s all about managing multiple means of communications, seamlessly.
Presented here are the Essentials you need to understand how innovations in Unified Communications are key to success, competitive advantage, and both employee and customer loyalty.
Discover the positive impact of Unified Communications on both day-to-day interactions as well as on higher level goals such as business process efficiency, customer loyalty and profitability. Explore the communications dilemmas faced by workers, management, technology teams, and organizations as a whole. Learn specific proven strategies for using Unified Communications to address these challenges, and gain useful insights for evaluating and building a compelling business case for Unified Communications in your organization.
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Provides storage professionals with the right decision-making information to evaluate, specify and/or integrate enterprise storage products and technologies.
InfoStor editorial is 100% storage, covering topics such as Storage Area Networks (SANs), Network Attached Storage (NAS), SCSI and iSCSI products, Disk-based Back-up, Back-up and Retrieval Software, Disaster Planning, RAID Systems, Tape Drives, Tape Libraries, Optical Drives, Storage Management Software, and other relevant topics important to IT storage professionals such as CIO’s, CTO’s, Storage/ Network Administrators, Network Managers, Service Providers, VARs/ Resellers and Storage Integrators in various industries.
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Learn essential aspects of putting into place a measurable and sustainable vulnerability management program.
Rapid changes within technology and the evolving sophistication of attack methods used to infiltrate systems create the greatest set of challenges faced by IT administrators trying to keep their systems secure and within regulatory compliance. That’s why—whether protecting five servers or 5,000—measuring the security status of your infrastructure and your organization’s ability to rapidly mitigate emerging threats need to be continuously monitored and measured.
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Utilize these web-based calculators for predicting efficiency and availability in your data center.
Introducing APC interactive TradeOff Tools ™, web-based calculators for predicting efficiency and availability in your data center planning. Get real-world, precision!
- Find out your data center’s actual carbon footprint
- Balance your power needs with what you have
- See what cooling solution will work for you
- Know how much you can save by re-designing
- See how much virtualizing will save you
- Learn how efficient is your current data center
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Learn how challenges are addressed when applying traditional test tools and processes to SOA.
Managing IT quality has always been a hard job. There are too many applications and not enough time and resources. And SOA means more things to test and more lifecycles to manage. Traditional test tools—designed to test application transactions—provide little help testing services with broad functionality and no user interface. Find out how one customer, Dr. Ferhan Kilical, test manager at Northrop Grumman Mission Systems, addressed the challenges she faced when applying traditional test tools and processes to SOA.
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Learn the key points to look for when selecting a PCI network testing service and how to conquer the PCI compliance battle.
This white paper reviews the basics of PCI, including who must comply, compliance requirements, validation requirements and penalties. It also examines key things to look for when selecting a PCI network testing service and introduces QualysGuard PCI.
Topics in this white paper include:
- Compliance Requirements of the PCI Data Security Standard
- Participation and Validation Requirements
- Selecting a PCI Network Security Testing Service
- Automating the PCI Validation Process with QualysGuard PCI
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A unified approach for IT, audit and operation teams.
Explore the internal and external regulatory challenges now faced by organizations, the scope of these challenges, and 4 key ways in which they can be addressed through better business processes and automation.
This paper discusses the challenges faced by organizations of all sizes – across all industries – and presents a Security as a Service (SaaS) approach to simplify and automate the convergence of security and compliance to:
- Define policies to establish a secure IT infrastructure in accordance with good governance and best-practice frameworks.
- Automate ongoing security assessments, and manage vulnerability risk effectively.
- Mitigate risk and eliminate threats utilizing the most trusted vulnerability management application in the industry.
- Monitor and measure network compliance in one unified console – saving time, assuring reliability and reducing costs.
- Distribute security and compliance reports customized to meet the unique needs of business executives, auditors and security professionals.
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Go From Spreadsheet Chaos to an Integrated BPM Application in Six Steps.
Many companies are poised to make a commitment in the near term to Business Performance Management (BPM) which could include a focused investment in people, business process improvements, data re-architecture and technology.
This white paper focuses on how to approach and carry out the transition from spreadsheets to a commercially developed BPM solution. The foundation for success is a structured approach with requirements definition, technology selection, vendor selection and product acquisition, implementation, rollout, and continual adaptation.
Published by: BPM Partners, Inc; Presented by: Infor
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Learn about some of the best tools and strategies for managing the diverse flood of demands that threaten to overwhelm IT organizations.
Harvey Levine is our featured expert on this webinar focusing on Demand Management. Register now for this exciting On-Demand Webinar.
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Is your company focusing on the technologies which will provide better execution and productivity to create a greater competitive advantage?
Companies are continually finding new ways to get the right goods to the right customers at the right time, and have developed many metrics to measure their performance in these areas. Most of these metrics show distribution productivity and accuracy are improving over time, which keeps raising the bar for service levels. This white paper explains how each aspect of perfect order performance can be improved through enhancements to data collection processes and technologies.
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