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Three Ways BYOD Changes Company Architecture

|   The Bring Your Own Device (BYOD) trend is really taking root among companies everywhere. It’s a trend that has challenged IT departments to change the way they think about enterprise IT. I spoke to three companies that have found unique solutions in managing the BYOD trend without compromising...

Virtualization: Bump Up Your Server Utilization for Big Enterprise IT Gains

|   Are you getting all the savings out of your virtualized servers that you expected? You may be surprised to learn that there's much you can do to make your data center even more efficient. That's what higher server utilization can do for you.

Cloud Computing: What Data Center Hardware Should You Keep?

|   Enterprises today have so much to think about when designing their overall data center strategies.  It’s critical that a holistic approach be taken when laying out a data center design.  The challenge for many CIOs and their IT organizations today is working with their partner to determine the...

How to Set Cloud Expectations For Your CFO

|   Enterprises today are challenged with gaining and maintaining a competitive advantage, while at the same time reducing overall costs, especially IT costs.  Technologies such as virtualization and tools allow for automation of processes, capacity planning and resource management, amongst other...

MIT CIO Symposium: Why Silos Must Go

|   "At the end of the day, a CIO's #1 job is to be a business person, with specialty in technology"

At EMC World, New Steps to the Private Cloud

|   At EMC World last week, there was much buzz about the journey to the private cloud. EMC rolled out a vision of how they, along with their partners, plan to bring private cloud to the enterprise. The conference focused on demonstrating what EMC brings to the table in their partnership with Cisco. A...

Cloud Mergers Heat Up: IBM Buys Cast Iron

|   This past week, IBM acquired Cast Iron, a company focused on software and services integration of on-premise and cloud computing platforms. Cast Iron’s core capabilities include being able to connect on premise applications to public cloud services, in a simple and seamless manner. Cast Iron has...

VMForce, Explained: A Faster Path to Apps in the Cloud

|   Tuesday, in a much anticipated joint public announcement, VMware and Salesforce.com leveraged their enterprise expertise and came to market with VMforce, a platform-as-a service offering designed to enable Java developers to create and deploy new enterprise applications in the cloud with the ease,...

Look Beyond Cloud Labels: Prepare for Hybrid Journey

|   Today’s enterprises have many challenges they must overcome, while at the same time, remaining competitive. With the macroeconomic crisis still plaguing many enterprises today, it’s imperative that every resource be utilized to its fullest extent. Cost centers are being evaluated and fat is,...

Outsourcing the Management of Your Data Center’s Power Supply

|   A few months ago, I got to hear about a partnership between IBM and Syracuse University (SU), which had teamed up with the New York state to build a green data center.

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Cloud computing has emerged as one of the most significant game changers to hit the technology landscape in the past 20 years. With this massive expansion of the cloud, the perception of the IT organization is shifting from a utility player to a change agent. This eBook breaks down five ways progressive organizations are using cloud-based IT Management solutions to help drive innovation and become more strategic, including: adding visibility and analytics, speeding up time-to-value, lowering costs, improving prioritization, and providing a blueprint for future cloud deployments.
Read the white paper to see how IBM helped Citigroup deliver new services and enhancements to their 200 million customers faster.
There are 3 ways to modernize legacy applications: rewrite completely, acquire packaged solutions or migrate existing code. This paper explains why it's best to migrate and how IBM® Rational® software can help.
Accommodating specific lines of business can result in a hybrid ecosystem of applications and servers. The resulting complexity of this architecture makes for an environment that is costly to maintain and difficult to change when addressing new challenges.
This whitepaper will help you to define a mobile device passcode policy. Security managers must attempt to reconcile two opposing goals. They must: 1) create a passcode policy that is strong enough to protect the device if it is lost or stolen, while: 2) not annoying users with needless length or complexity.
This whitepaper, authored by The Radicati Group, looks at the key reasons organizations should consider moving to a cloud-based archiving solution. Email archiving solutions enable organizations to store, monitor, and collect electronic data exchanged by their users to comply with internal policies and regulations.
ATERNITY will showcase a 30-minute demo on how Fortune 500 companies are leveraging its award-winning FPI Platform to deliver a user-centric approach to Proactive IT Management.
For businesses to move forward and tap into the ever-expanding universe of Internet users and network-enabled devices, it's critical to learn how to make the transition to IPv6. Learn the critical steps your organization must take to make a seamless transition-and keep your business world connected.
Learn how IT teams can protect against spear phishing tactics. Harry Sverdlove, chief technology officer of Bit9 offers a frank discussion about spear phishing - the most common technique used in today's advanced attacks.
Learn how to build a solid business case for your migration to Red Hat Enterprise Linux so you can run leaner, innovate faster, be more flexible and own the New Now.
Social media isn't about you; it's about everything around you. As you consider how your customers want to communicate with you, social media is something that can't be ignored. But what should your strategy be? Is social media "just another channel?" What kind of a plan makes sense for your contact center and for your customers? Join our experts as they share their insight and research results.
Hardware tokens were a popular method of strong authentication in past years but the cumbersome provisioning and distribution tasks, high support requirements and replacement costs have limited their growth. The additional log-in steps that hardware tokens require and the resulting user frustrations have limited adoption and make them impractical for larger scale partner and customer applications.

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