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How To Build a Mission-Critical Data Center [ Source: HP ]
May 2012- Infrastructures must be able to quickly and cost-effectively adapt to evolving needs. Unfortunately, many companies cannot achieve this response with their current data center network architectures. The traditional three-tier model of access, aggregation, and core switching is an operational nightmare.

This white paper unveils a solution that streamlines the design of next-generation data centers to ensure the superior resiliency, performance, and agility that enterprise networks now require.

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Avoiding the 8 Common Mistakes of Windows 7 Migration [ Source: Dell/Microsoft ]
September 2011- The recession put important things on hold for many organizations, like upgrading to new client systems. Now organizations such as yours are ready to upgrade and gain from better performance and efficiency by purchasing new laptops and notebooks with Windows 7 factory-installed.

Before you move dozens - or hundreds - of important business applications into a new environment, find out how other organizations tackled this challenge.

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Accountable Care and the Cloud: The Future of Medical IT [ Source: Siemens ]
July 2011- In this podcast, Dan Emig and David M. Hamilton of Siemens Medical explain how the cloud can help healthcare providers significantly improve business performance by shifting allocation of their limited budget and human resources away from lower-value back-office operations in favor of higher-value clinical and patient-facing services.

The cloud does this by 1) allowing healthcare IT organizations to leverage the economies of scale offered by shared, on-demand infrastructure and 2) providing turnkey access to state-of-the-art ...

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Advanced Malware Exposed [ Source: FireEye ]
May 2011- This handbook shines a light on the dark corners of advanced malware, both to educate as well as to spark renewed efforts against these stealthy and persistent threats. By understanding the tools being used by criminals, we can better defend our nations, our critical infrastructures and our citizens. The "Operation Aurora" incident represents an example of how the threats have escalated, revealing how advanced malware is being used in a systematic, coordinated fashion to achieve ...

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Creating a Timeline for Deploying Windows 7 and Eliminating Windows XP [ Source: Dell/Microsoft ]
February 2012- Windows XP support ends April 8, 2014. Therefore, organizations must decide when to begin their migration to Windows 7, set a target date to have Windows XP out and define the scope of the project.

This research paper reviews Gartner's key findings and recommendations for deploying Windows 7.

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CISO Guide to Next Generation Threats [ Source: FireEye ]
May 2011- Over 95% of businesses unknowingly host compromised endpoints, despite their use of firewalls, intrusion prevention systems (IPS), antivirus and web gateways. This situation-the new status quo-results from criminals leveraging multiple zero-day vulnerabilities, commercial-quality toolkits and social media to perpetrate next-generation threats. These threats move "low and slow" and use several stages and channels to duck traditional defenses and find vulnerable systems and sensitive data.

Read this paper and learn how to regain the upper ...

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8 Things That Could Affect Your Business IT Security In The Next Two Hours [ Source: NETGEAR ]
August 2011- Discover the secrets over-priced security consultants don't want you to know. Network security is not just about preventing a breach, it's about making every working day as productive as possible by preventing external threats.

Where should you start? Download this security brief and NETGEAR will show you the 8 things to do to improve your security posture right now.

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Gartner Magic Quadrant for Enterprise LAN [ Source: HP ]
May 2011- Major LAN purchases and upgrades should not take place without a full competitive review. This Gartner Magic Quadrant reviews the strengths and weaknesses of the major players; including, Alcatel-Lucent, Avaya, Cisco, Extreme Networks, HP and Juniper Networks.

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PolicyWriter Overview: Changing the Economics of P&C Insurance Policy Administration [ Source: Adaptik Corporation ]
May 2010- The Adaptik Challenge: Your insurance product. Our software. Six weeks. See how quickly PolicyWriter can help your business thrive. PolicyWriter fundamentally changes the economics of P&C insurance policy administration. Our rapid implementation gives you unprecedented competitive advantage.

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Taking Policy Administration System Transformation 'One Bite at a Time' [ Source: Diamond Management & Technology Consultants ]
April 2008- Most insurance carriers are placing policy administration system (PAS) transformation near the top of their to-do lists for the coming year, and many of these companies will expect a dramatic change in business results by moving PAS to the forefront of daily business operations. However, it is critical that carriers do not underestimate the operational challenges associated with replacing an existing PAS platform, because it will require changes to nearly every business process and technical ...

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Winning the Battle for Consumers, Online Interactivity: The Carrier's Secret Weapon [ Source: Priority Data ]
July 2010- Millions of consumers who want to work directly with an agent are still beginning their search for insurance quotes online. They are tech savvy, and expect to find user-friendly, interactive websites that deliver the information they want quickly, without having to pick up the phone or wait for a call. Regional and super-regional carriers have been slow to offer an option to consumers who research online. They have relied on their independent agents entirely. This ...

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CSC's Java-based POINT IN J - End-to-End Policy Administration [ Source: CSC ]
October 2008- Long thought of as the 800 lb. gorilla in property and casualty insurance systems, CSC has demonstrated that it is a fast moving and agile 800 lb. gorilla. POINT IN J, introduced during Connect 2008, is CSC's Java-based end-to-end policy administration system that runs on Sun Microsystem’s Solaris operating system and Sun hardware. POINT IN J takes advantage of technologies not typically seen in the insurance industry and will appeal to both legacy insurers and new entrants ...

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Smarter Underwriting: New Strategies for Cost Control and Pricing Precision Using Decision Management [ Source: FICO ]
January 2010- Today insurance carriers are extending the efficiencies achieved through back office automation to point-of-sale (POS) decision making across all channels, including self-service websites, in-house sales and agent/distributor networks. New Decision Management solutions not only facilitate straight-through-processing, by improving the quality of inbound data, they also increase the accuracy, objectivity and consistency of underwriting and application decisions, even when business volume is rising rapidly. In addition, by providing deeper insights into loss risk, Decision Management ...

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Decision Management for Insurance: Revenue-Generating Decisions Begin at the Point of Sale [ Source: FICO ]
January 2010- A new generation of technology solution—Decision Management—is bringing revenue-generating decisions to the point of sale with precision pricing and straight-through processing.

In this white paper, you'll learn how Decision Management can deliver deeper insights into risk exposure, enabling you to expand risk tiers, assign more accurate pricing and rapidly bring innovative products to new markets. You’ll also see how Decision Management can help you contain costs by allowing business users ...

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CSC's Java-based POINT IN J [ Source: TechWeb ]
January 2009- CSC introduces POINT IN J, a Java-based policy administration system that has wide-spread appeal both to legacy insurers and to new entrants to the insurance industry. POINT IN J heralds a new era of policy admin systems.

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Western Agricultural Insurance Company Rapidly Launches Commercial Agriculture Insurance Product with CSC's BPO Services [ Source: CSC ]
March 2007- The trend toward vertical integration of farming has created both challenges and opportunities for insurance carriers. Western Agricultural Insurance Company of West Des Moines, Iowa, saw an opportunity to introduce a new integrated insurance product for commercial agriculture, giving policyholders much greater flexibility than anything offered by competitors. Unfortunately, Western Ag’s commercial lines operations weren’t set up to support the company’s new initiatives. The company had grown through mergers, resulting in three ...

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Thelem assurances and CSC Join Forces to Develop the P&C Version of GraphTalk A.I.A [ Source: CSC ]
March 2007- Formed in 2004 from the merger between Assurances Mutuelles de l’Indre and Mutuelles R?gionales d’Assurance, Th?lem assurances needed to replace its administration system with a solution that was scalable to support business growth. The answer was to team with CSC to develop a P&C software solution based on GraphTalk A.I.A, which had a proven track record in the life sector. The result was increased flexibility, accelerated response time, enhanced ...

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Norwich Union Extends Processing to Brokers, Call Operations and Banks [ Source: CSC ]
March 2006- After a series of high-profile mergers, Norwich Union needed to consolidate large books of business on an administration system capable of processing 5 million policies. Rather than cobble together multiple legacy systems, Norwich Union talked to CSC about co-developing a Web browser-based administration system. Collaborating with Norwich Union and three other carriers in the United States, CSC invested three years and $28 million in CSC’s Exceed, an integrated set of software components designed to extend, enhance ...

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Cypress Property & Casualty Grows from Startup to Regional Carrier with CSC's BPO Services [ Source: CSC ]
April 2008- CSC’s Business Process Outsourcing (BPO) operations provided full back office support for Cypress Property & Casualty Insurance including call center, billing, accounting, reporting and compliance. Behind the scenes, CSC’s property and casualty BPO operation uses CSC’s POINT IN software, the leading policy administration system for mid-sized companies.

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