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BPM for Dummies
[ Source: IBM ]
December 2011-
Unleash the power of technology as a competitive advantage! Learn how your entire enterprise can become far more agile, helping you meet your goals with Business Process Management (BPM). <br><br>
Download Business Process Management For Dummies, IBM Limited Edition, now and learn how BPM creates value through growth, improved performance, better productivity, higher staff effectiveness, and better customer service. <br><br>
You discover why changing to ...
How To Build a Mission-Critical Data Center
[ Source: HP ]
November 2011-
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.<br><br>
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.
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.<br><br>
Before you move dozens - or hundreds - of important business applications into a new environment, find out how other organizations tackled this challenge. <br><...
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.<br><br>
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 ...
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 ...
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.<br><br>
This research paper reviews Gartner's key findings and recommendations for deploying Windows 7.
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. <br><br>
Read this paper and ...
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. <br><br>
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.
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.
Financial Services: Where's your Emergency Response Team?
[ Source: Sprint ]
December 2008-
Hurricane Katrina. A terrorist attack. A market panic. Even a planned presidential visit can disrupt communications. The costs can be extraordinary. Within minutes, a bank can lose millions of dollars due to disrupted financial transactions. Customers unable to reach a live agent can cause waves of panic within an insurers’ customer base. Sprint’s Emergency Response Team (ERT) ensures that financial services organizations will never miss an email or phone call. The team, staffed with ...
Leveraging data for internal and external threat detection
[ Source: IBM ]
February 2012-
In this technical white paper from IBM, learn how predictive analytics can be used to detect internal and external threats to your organization. You will learn how techniques including cluster analysis, anomly detection, time series analysis, social network analysis, predictive models and scoring can be used to detect suspicious activity in real-time so your orgnization can take action to minimize risk and increase positive outcomes.<br><br>
As a final step, ...
Predictive Threat and Risk Management: Meeting the Challenges of a Smarter Planet
[ Source: IBM ]
February 2012-
With organizations facing a multitude of threats - from the economy and financial risk to data security and insider fraud - that are increasing in number and severity, it's no suprise threat and risk mitigation a top priority for business.<br><br>
The best defense is a systematic approach to reducing exposure and minimizing negative impact. You must be diligent about managing the threats you are aware of as well as ...
The Security Stack: A Model for Understanding the Cybersecurity We Need
[ Source: CSC ]
January 2012-
Information security is no longer a mere compliance matter or the cost of doing business. It has become the primary business challenge that financial organizations must address.<br><br>
In the new era of cybersecurity threats, highly sophisticated adversaries seek not only to do harm but also to reside in the background undetected, so they can access your intellectual property, operational resources and mission-critical data. <br><br>
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Strengthen your Governance Risk and Compliance Program
[ Source: SAP ]
September 2011-
Read how insurance companies can gain added value through governance, risk and compliance, which embed rules, processes and controls in keeping their operating policies and strategic objectives. This provides greater transparency into daily operations helping identify potential risks and address them quickly.
Are You Sabotaging your ECM Conversion? Common Excuses that Guarantee Loss of Revenue
[ Source: Optical Image Technology - DocFinity ]
July 2009-
This article reveals common excuses that become stumbling blocks for successful ECM adoption, and shares tips for overcoming them so your organization can succeed. It also shows how organizations that have previously experienced a failed ECM implementation can avoid having a repeat failure.
Ease and Speed of Implementation Are Key Factors in Royal Liver's Selection of Axios Systems Solutions (Case Study)
[ Source: Axios Systems ]
May 2006-
Royal Liver Assurance formed a selection and evaluation team to choose the best product based on three key selection criteria:
Compliance with the IT Infrastructure Library (ITIL)-- Royal Liver required a product purpose-built to support ITIL, rather than one that had been adapted from a Help Desk
tool.
Integration -- Configuration, Incident, Problem and Change Management had to be integrated from a single source to allow comprehensive reporting and incident life-cycle
management.
Ease and ...
3 Best Practices for Reducing Exchange Downtime
[ Source: appAssure Software ]
August 2008-
Messaging has rapidly become the one, true business critical application in use today by many, probably most, enterprises. Even more so than Enterprise Resource Planning or other cross-business applications, any failure in the messaging system is noticed by, and affects everyone. Learn how to proactively approach disaster recovery for Microsoft Exchange.
11 Myths About Microsoft Exchange Disaster Recovery
[ Source: appAssure Software ]
April 2008-
For as long as Microsoft Exchange Server has existed, so too, has the market seen its share of products for backup and recovery. Over the years there have been a number of products that have failed to come through when needed most - during an Exchange failure. Making proper backups is part of the process, ensuring that when you have an outage, it will be the shortest possible. But, with the large variety of products ...
Financial Services: Where's your Emergency Response Team?
[ Source: Sprint ]
December 2008-
Hurricane Katrina. A terrorist attack. A market panic. Even a planned presidential visit can disrupt communications. The costs can be extraordinary. Within minutes, a bank can lose millions of dollars due to disrupted financial transactions. Customers unable to reach a live agent can cause waves of panic within an insurers’ customer base. Sprint’s Emergency Response Team (ERT) ensures that financial services organizations will never miss an email or phone call. The team, staffed with ...
Technology and the Genesis of New Vulnerabilities
[ Source: HTM ]
May 2006-
For every new technology deployed, one or more new unforeseen problems are created. These problems, in turn, result in new vulnerabilities. Each vulnerability introduces a new threat potentially leading to serious and possibly permanent damage. This paper will provide several examples how and why technological solutions introduce these unforeseen problems.
This paper will demonstrate how a well-intentioned technological solution to a problem interacts with social and technical infrastructures to create new and often more threatening ...
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