Data Management

This whitepaper outlines issues that arise when planning for growth of IT infrastructure and explains how the colocation of data centers can provide scalability, enabling users to modify capacity quickly to meet fluctuating demand.

With these ten critical questions as your guide, you can cut through the marketing hype and zero in on the key features and benefits that should guide your decision.

This white paper explains some of the key concepts of data loss prevention (DLP), including the problems organizations encounter in implementing an effective DLP policy and how to alleviate them.

Provides 10 tips to proactively tune Siebel CRM software and the infrastructure Siebel CRM is deployed on

This white paper explains the 12 criteria that allow you to identify and select the solution that will meet these expectations.

In this document, you'll learn to enable the successful execution and completion of IPT Deployment projects through a standardized set of processes and methodologies based upon Information Technology Infrastructure Library (ITIL) standards.

IT organizations today must meet ever-growing business ex-pectations and are under pressure to provide high-quality 24x7 services. At the same time, there exists deep emphasis on reining in costs and lowering total cost of ownership (TCO).

What changes are ahead for BI in 2011? Find out from Focus Experts, who share their predictions for business intelligence.

All things that can be automated will be automated. Beyond the careful choreography of sophisticated workflow, managing myriad simultaneous requests puts unprecedented demand on the software that must schedule and perpetually deliver against well-defined service levels, in real time. Gone are the days of simple batch processing. Welcome to the oh-so-very-flat world that is embracing service-oriented architectures, grid architectures, expansive ecosystems, and end-to-end processing. Workload scheduling has got to grow up.

Companies globally must determine the approach to compliance with mandated use of XBRL and significantly accelerating financial reporting. Here are 23 reasons to why an integrated approach towards external reporting is required by organizations today.

Get more out of your information when you need it, and get rid of it when you don't. IBM's Smart Archive strategy will save you time, money and resources with a unified, enterprise-wide approach to archiving and information governance.

Security experts estimate that 90% of successful attacks against software vulnerabilities could be prevented with an existing patch or configuration setting. In this whitepaper, we'll explain three best practices for improving your security and compliance with patch assessment.

This paper outlines the specific elements of wireless LAN security (perimeter control, access control, date protection, and monitoring) and WLAN management (configuration, fault diagnostics, network usage, and policy enforcement). Reader will gain a keen understanding of how to effectively lockdown a wireless LAN and manage it for peak performance.

No longer is it simply OK to focus on Microsoft products - organizations must extend their protection to all of their third-party extensions.

Register today for a 30-minute webinar hosted by Aternity - the company that redefines real end user experience management. Aternity will present use cases and a live demonstration of Version 5.0 of its Frontline Performance Intelligence (FPI) Platform.

This white paper, discusses attributes of 3PAR Utility Storage that make it particularly suitable for virtual server environments, and talk about how it addresses future user requirements uncovered in Taneja Group research.

New report issued by Fortrex, Emagined Security and Solidcore reveals the cost of PCI compliance is justified. These PCI requirements exist to protect sensitive data - yet, research indicates that these are among the least satisfied requirements across Level 1 merchants, with almost 40% non-compliance. 

Sign up for the webcast and you will learn: The strategic benefits of a robust information infrastructure for performance management, How to take immediate action if your operating reporting has data latency challenges, How to drive broader adoption in the business by addressing critical data challenges, Why the combination of IBM and Cognos, an IBM company, accelerates the delivery and quality of the information needed to drive business performance.

Whether due to problems with hardware, attacks from external influences, viruses or a poorly written application can cause information to become corrupt. Download this white paper to learn the five keys to preventing data corruption.

5 Must Haves in your Information Management Strategy

Traditionally companies had just two choices for their integration needs, complex and expensive platforms like EAI or write custom code. Learn about the "hidden costs" of custom code and discover five reasons why companies are switching to Integration Appliances that use a simple “configuration, not coding” approach to integration.

Until recently, System i high availability solutions were reserved mostly for large enterprises. Now that high availability is dramatically easier to use and less expensive to own and manage, the picture has changed.

The classic definition of information security states that the goal is to protect information from possible breaches in confidentiality, integrity, or availability. This paper provides some context, then five simple solutions to help mid-sized organizations keep their end point security under control.

This whitepaper is directed to technology executives and team members who are looking to increase the efficiency and operational maturity of their IT operations. It will discuss in detail the following five steps, each required to fully realize the potential of your technology investments.

Many businesses struggle to guarantee application and data availability for Windows applications. They may protect the application from one type of outage (like a disk failure) while ignoring other risks. Or they can end up deploying multiple point solutions to handle different aspects of availability, increasing overall cost and complexity.