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Web Threats Challenges and Solutions
This white paper describes Web threats, how they function and their impacts. It explains why conventional methods fail and describes the characteristics of a new approach required to ensure security, regulatory compliance and business continuity.
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Trend Micro Gets Smart with a Hybrid Approach
This brief provides an overview of today’s dangerous cyber crime world and outlines the challenges that security professionals face in developing solutions to address the growing number and variety of Web threats. Finally, this paper explores how the Trend Micro Smart Protection Network can deliver next-generation security to automatically protect against web threats.
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Disaster Recovery Solutions from VMware
Transforming Disaster Recovery -- VMware Infrastructure for Rapid, Reliable and Cost-Effective Disaster Recovery
In today's business environment having robust disaster recovery is no longer a luxury, it is a necessity. Given the high probability and variety of events that cause outages, including natural disasters and man made events, a disruption to business systems is not a question of if, but when. Disaster recovery needs to be core to your IT strategy. In this white paper you'll learn about the fast, reliable and cost-effective solutions offered by VMware.
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Improving Business Continuity with VMware Virtualization
A VMware Solution Brief
Implementing plans to ensure business continuity for IT infrastructure is an essential requirement for organizations today. Downtime of important applications is a costly proposition and extended downtime can even be fatal -- industry research has shown that a significant number of companies that experience extended interruption to IT services are likely to go out of business.
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Architectural Requirements for a Datacenter-Ready Virtualization Platform
Server virtualization is rapidly entering the mainstream, as companies of all sizes adopt it to run everything from their development and test software to production level applications. Read why the Taneja Group Technology Analysts believe VMware has fundamental architectural advantages over competing virtualization platforms, which should enable VMware to remain the technology leader in this space for some time to come.
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Five Steps to Determine When to Virtualize Your Servers
Server virtualization isn't just for big companies. Entry-level virtualization tools are free or low-cost and there are many benefits to virtualization (including saving money). It's not a quest of "if" you should virtualize your servers; it's a question of "when." This paper outlines five steps you should take to determine when to virtualize your servers.
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Qualcomm: Standardizing on Virtualization
A customer case study
This paper discusses how the experiment in consolidating physical server computers proved successful, and how the Qualcomm IT department aggressively pursued virtualization starting in 2003. Read how VMware® Infrastructure offered extraordinarily good return on investment almost immediately.
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Ten Ways SMBs Can Get More from Their IT Budgets
Small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs) are always looking for new and innovative ways to cut costs, without affecting business output or future growth. This paper contains some well known cost savings opportunities -- and a few you may not have explored yet!
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Oracle Application Express Overview 3.1
Oracle Application Express, a feature of Oracle Database 11g, combines rapid web application development with the power of the Oracle Database. This paper describes the benefits, architecture and features of Oracle Application Express and how it can help you quickly develop web deployed reporting and data entry applications on consolidated data in an Oracle Database.
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ITIC Research Paper: VIPRE Takes Bite out of Bloatware
The remedy to bloatware is a better, more efficient and economical product that is specifically engineered to scan, detect and remove myriad security threats without impacting performance. Read this white paper by Information Technology Intelligence Corp. to learn how a new antivirus technology platform reduces bloat and high resource usage.
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How to Join Queries Across Multiple Platforms
A Step-by-Step Guide Using Toad® for Data Analysis
Finding data across multiple platforms can be challenging. In this new Quest technical brief learn how join queries across the entire enterprise -- regardless of platform -- to quickly and easily find the information you need when you need it.
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Information Governance for Microsoft SharePoint
Protecting data, streamlining compliance, gaining visibility and managing information lifecycle.
This NextLab paper discusses the goals and challenges of information governance in SharePoint environments and reveals four of the most common information governance objectives for SharePoint deployments. It examines the business problems, presents case studies and offers a solution for these challenges.
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A Technical Overview of HP Oracle Exadata Storage Server
The HP Oracle Exadata Storage Server is a revolutionary high-performance storage product that has been optimized for Oracle Database 11g. This white paper outlines how Oracle Exadata can deliver outstanding I/O and SQL processing performance for data warehousing applications by leveraging a massively parallel architecture to enable a dynamic storage grid for Oracle Database 11g deployments.
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Oracle Database 11g on Windows: Development and Deployment
Oracle Database 11g offers unprecedented flexibility for customers to choose the .NET application tools and architecture that fit their requirements without sacrificing performance, scalability, ease of use and security. Read this white paper to learn more about how Oracle Database 11g provides seamless interoperability between the operating system and the database.
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Hosted Solutions: Break the Chains of IT Complexity
Virtual Environments and Real IT Solutions
Get insights on an emerging challenge -- how to deal with overwhelming complexity in the IT environment. Data center infrastructures are faced by rapid information growth and increasingly elaborate processing, storage and connectivity challenges. Managed hosting, cloud computing, virtualization can be the solutions for your IT complexities.
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Acresso AdminStudio -- Citrix XenApp Benchmark Conducted by The Tolly Group
Optimize the packaging of applications for streaming.
In lab tests conducted by The Tolly Group, AdminStudio® from Acresso Software reduced the time required to convert an application into a Citrix XenApp™ profile by up to 60 percent and can deliver significant savings in time and resources when deploying a broad set of virtualized applications. Learn more in this application virtualization benchmark study.
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A Comprehensive Approach to Practicing ITIL Change Management
Read this compelling white paper from Enterprise Management Associates to learn best practices for integrating your batch process automation and change management solutions. The recommendations accommodate all mission-critical business services, reducing unexpected downtime, improving availability and reducing the cost of change.
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Watch What's New in XenServer 5?
Join Simon Crosby for a lively discussion about the exciting new features in Citrix XenServer 5 including unique, built-in high availability for workloads and management, dynamic workload streaming and the ability to dynamically manage the storage environment. Find out how XenServer 5 delivers powerful features with the best TCO.
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Legal Considerations for E-mail Archiving
Why implementing an effective e-mail archiving solution can help reduce legal risk.
Implementing an e-mail archiving system is vital for compliance requirements. However, there are additional benefits: the reduction of e-mail storage needs, better use of limited resources and centralized e-mail control. In this white paper learn the legal considerations for managing e-mail and how a strong archiving solution provides enterprise-wide benefits.
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Protecting Data with 2-Factor Authentication
Guarding Against Weakness of User Credentials and Achieving Compliance with 2-Factor Authentication
Data is the virtual lifeblood of business which means that it also must be protected. Two-factor authentication provides an extra layer of protection, but can be cumbersome and costly to implement. This white paper addresses how to provide secure authentication in a simplified and cost effective manner.
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Virtualization Everywhere
Many mid-sized companies have hesitated to adopt server virtualization because of concerns about cost, complexity and vendor lock-in. In this paper we discuss how Citrix XenServer™ provides powerful, economical server virtualization for any IT environment. Start realizing the benefits now: reduce costs while improving business agility and disaster preparedness.
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What is Policy-Driven Self-Service?
This paper addresses the IT Service Dilemma and how to fulfill both IT missions -- maintain mission critical production initiatives and support infrastructure needs of non-production "application lifecycle users" -- with a self-service solution that empowers lifecycle users. Learn how IT is attempting to address the issue today and how a policy-driven self-service solution solves the IT Service Dilemma.
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Avoid the Top 10 Exchange Migration Headaches
Is your business planning a migration to Exchange Server 2007? It's one of the most complex projects your enterprise can undertake. Read this white paper to see how proper planning and execution can help you overcome migration challenges such as cost, compliance, integration and lack of time and resources.
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Delivering Secure Messaging Services for Enterprise Process and Collaboration
Building a comprehensive workflow strategy using existing messaging infrastructure.
Are you still running your messaging in-house? If so, it may be a great time to switch.
This Technology Strategy Research paper examines the advantages offered by a new generation of e-mail and messaging services that work as not only a cost-efficient and secure service, but also as a collaboration tool.
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Configuration Assessment: Choosing the Right Solution
Configuration assessment lets businesses proactively secure their IT infrastructure and achieve compliance with important industry standards and regulations. Learn why configuration assessment is so important, why organizations find it difficult to control system configurations, and what types of configuration assessment solutions are available.
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Practical Steps to Mitigate Virtualization Security Risks
Tripwire founder/CTO Gene Kim provides seven practical steps that IT organizations can take to mitigate the unique security challenges of virtualization. While some are directed specifically at virtualized environments, many of these steps are solid best practices that apply to both physical and virtualized environments.
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Oracle Database 11g High Availability
This paper reviews the common causes of application downtime. It discusses how technologies available in the Oracle Database can help avoid costly downtime and enable rapid recovery from unavoidable failures.
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Database Security: Preventing Enterprise Data Leaks at the Source
This IDC white paper presents a pre-emptive approach to information protection and control (IPC). It discusses the growing internal threats to business information, the impact of government regulations on the protection of data and how enterprises must adopt database security best practices to protect sensitive customer data or company information.
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Oracle Database Vault
This white paper discusses how Oracle Database Vault, the industry's leading solution for protecting business data, addresses regulatory compliance and concerns over the insider threat. It provides the flexible, transparent and highly adaptable security controls required in today's global economy. Learn more today.
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Protecting SharePoint with Double-Take for Windows 5.0
Microsoft SharePoint® streamlines online collaboration making it possible to create remote project teams with only an Internet connection. But if your teams can't access the data, time and money are lost. Learn how to use Double-Take Software as a cost efficient way to protect your SharePoint data and access.
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The Value of Workflow Solutions
Read this white paper and learn how workflow solves issues, streamlines operations and saves money. Learn about the benefits of workflow automation and the common scenarios where it can be applied. More importantly, discover the financial benefits of implementing a workflow automation solution.
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Oracle Database 11g Architecture on Windows
An Oracle Technical White Paper
Oracle Database 11g for Windows provides an optimized database solution for deployments that require enterprise scalability, reliability and high performance. Learn more about the architecture of the Oracle Database on Windows and how it differs from its counterparts on UNIX and Linux in this white paper.
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Innovate Faster with Oracle Database 11g
Organizations are under increased pressure to lower costs and increase quality of service, often entailing bringing on technologies to aid in this process. Oracle Database 11g extends Oracle's unique ability to lower the cost of computing while improving quality of service with grid computing; and allows companies to innovate faster with Oracle Real Application Testing.
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Enterprise PBX Comparison Guide
This comparison guide features the leading PBX systems from established vendors like Siemens, Cisco, Avaya and Nortel as well as cutting edge systems form new vendors like Shoretel and Fonality. Download this comparison guide now to help you in your evaluation
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Hosted PBX Buyer's Guide
Discover the critical features and services that your small or medium business needs in a new hosted phone system.
This guide covers the important features, benefits, technologies and market background to help you make sense of this confusing market and narrow your search down to the vendors that can really solve your communication problems. Learn about new technologies like click to call and find-me-follow-me that can make a huge difference to how you run your business.
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Compare Hosted PBX Systems for Small and Medium Businesses
The VoIP-News Hosted PBX Comparison Guide looks at hosted PBX systems from leading vendors like Packet8, Aptela, Covad, Bandwidth.com and others to help you make a straightforward comparison as part of your research and evaluation of which system to invest in for your small or medium sized business.
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Protecting Against the New Wave of Malware
This Osterman Research white paper examines why older, traditional anti-virus approaches don't work and why a new approach to endpoint security is required to better protect your users, your data and your long-term viability as a company from malicious threats. Learn about the scope of the malware problem and strategies that can help you defend against evolving malware threats.
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Avaya Unified Communications: The Business Value of Unifying Communications
Get an overview of the business value related to Avaya and Microsoft's joint Unified Communications solutions. It includes valuable information for you to better understand the elements and steps involved in making the Unified Communications decision and covers the important factors that will help make your Unified Communications solution implementation a success.
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Resources for a Successful Unified Communications Deployment
To realize the value of unified communications most enterprises have to integrate new communications solutions within existing infrastructures from multiple vendors. Learn how to integrate these mixed technology/mixed vendor environments to quickly take advantage of the extraordinary benefits that unified communications can provide.
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Automated Platform Management in a Virtualized World
Server virtualization adds IT management complexities that can be difficult to grasp, especially if IT has not yet implemented consistent, repeatable processes. IT must use virtualization as a strategic practice that enables it to deliver on increasingly difficult requirements for the business. Comprehensive monitoring, analysis, diagnostic and alerting solutions across both physical and virtual servers make it possible to meet business requirements and become more proactive.
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Fax Software and Fax Services: Making the Best Choice
Read this free white paper and discover the latest fax automation technologies and get valuable information to make a decision about automated faxing -- whether you’re looking to replace fax machines, find a more capable fax solution, eliminate the need to maintain fax infrastructure or integrate production faxing with your existing solution.
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Why Good Reporting Is Vital to the Health of Your E-mail System
This white paper explains how a good e-mail reporting system can help decision makers better understand their e-mail systems and enable them to: Reduce the cost of messaging capabilities, postpone or avoid infrastructure additions, improve service levels and mitigate the risk of non-compliance.
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Continuous Data Protection and Recovery for Microsoft Exchange
In spite of advances in technology, most organizations are relying on backup techniques that are very similar to those used several decades ago. Although these techniques are known to be reliable, they are rapidly becoming impractical in today's world. In this white paper, Brien M. Posey discusses the reasons why tried and true backup techniques are no longer a viable option.
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Systems Management Buyer's Guide For Medium Enterprises
Finding and deploying an effective and scalable systems management solution is becoming a top priority within the medium enterprise market. KACE has developed this Systems Management Buyer's Guide to help articulate that buyer's criteria via a comprehensive feature/function checklist.
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Building a World of Trust: The Case for Outsourcing PKI
The purpose of this white paper is to help you understand the security and operational issues related to implementing and managing internal public key infrastructures (PKI). This paper argues that it may be best for organizations both small and large to outsource their PKI requirements. Outsourcing saves time and money and in many cases makes it much easier to manage PKI overall.
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Fixing the Pain in Fax and Mail Automation
Discover the hard return in automating these time-intensive tasks.
Paper-based mediums such as faxing and distributed mail are still key components in today's networked business environment. Read how fax and mail automation can save your business time, money and hassles.
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Protecting (You and) Your Data with Exchange Server 2007
by Microsoft Exchange MVP, Steve Bryant
In this white paper, Steve shows you the bare and necessary facts you should know to proactively maintain your Exchange Server 2007 environment. In addition to providing critical strategies for predicting and responding to failures, he offers useful information for implementing proactive measures to ensure that your investment is well protected.
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Leveraging Web 2.0 Securely
How small and mid-sized business can minimize risk and benefit from Web 2.0 technologies.
The core of Web 2.0 is built on a foundation of open collaboration and communication that blur network boundaries and increase risk. Learn about the risks involved and the steps you should take to eliminate or mitigate the security threats.
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Realizing the Value of Unified Communications
How information goes to work.
Microsoft and EMC are spearheading a technology and services effort to help businesses realize the benefits of unified messaging. Learn how you get better employee productivity, faster decision-making and more efficient IT administration with Unified Communications.
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What Hackers Know about Control Systems that You Don't
The purpose of this paper is to address the issue of cyber security currently lacking in control system environments today and the reasons behind these vulnerabilities. This document describes some actual events that demonstrate current control system vulnerabilities. It also discusses how an Internet Reputation Intelligence (a trusted Internet reputation system that augments the protection of all cyber systems) creates a proactive security model for control systems where other, traditional and reactionary, technologies fall short.
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Remote Control Software: A Primer
Remote control software helps IT professionals better manage help desk support, mobile computing, desktop management, software training, distance learning and system automation. Learn about the key features to look for while researching remote management solutions.
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Fax Purchasing Decision: Fax Server or Fax Service?
A White Paper Prepared by Davidson Consulting
This new resource by fax industry analyst Davidson Consulting, "Fax Purchasing Decision: Fax Server or Fax Service?" outlines key factors to consider in determining whether to go with a fax server or fax service. The paper also highlights Esker as a leader in offering both on-premise and on-demand fax solutions.
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Seven Design Requirements for Web 2.0 Threat Prevention
Drawing on customer experience, Forrester Consulting, and data gathered from TrustedSource™ (the Secure Computing® global Web and messaging reputation system), as well as third-party sources, this paper outlines the new Web 2.0 threats and explains why most security solutions in place today are not adequate to protect against these threats. The paper then goes on to propose a set of Seven Design Requirements for Web 2.0 Threat Prevention, and reviews Secure Computing’s relevant product and technology offerings.
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Internet Risk Management In The Web 2.0 World
An Internet risk study by Forrester Consulting
This FREE report details the prevalence of Web 2.0 in the enterprise and why the need for more effective Web protection has never been greater! Learn how to thwart the new malware that uses the Web to propagate a plethora of new threats undeterred by traditional security means.
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