White Papers

Overcome Top 7 Admin Challenges of Active Directory

As Active Directory's role in the enterprise has drastically increased, so has the need to secure the data. Gain insight on creating repeatable, enforceable processes that reduces administrative overhead and enables robust, customizable reporting and auditing capabilities. Brought to you by NetIQ.

Sponsor: NetIQ

Insiders Can Ruin Your Company. Take Action.

Did you know that 80 percent of threats to an organization come from the inside? The threat from insiders is often overlooked in organizations worldwide. This white paper from NetIQ, discusses key technology solutions that help to prevent and detect insider threats.

Sponsor: NetIQ

Top Solutions and Tools to Prevent Devastating Malware

Custom malware frequently goes undetected. According to Forrester Research, the best way to reduce risk of breach is to deploy file integrity monitoring (FIM) tools that provide immediate alerts. This white paper has been brought to you by NetIQ, the leader in solving complex IT challenges.

Sponsor: NetIQ

Streamline Compliance and Increase ROI

Streamline, simplify, and automate compliance related activities; especially those that impact multiple business units. This white paper from NetIQ, outlines solutions that will help your business gain the maximum return on investment possible while aligning your compliance programs.

Sponsor: NetIQ

X-Ray of the PCI Process-4 Proactive Steps

This white paper from Forrester Research Inc., helps break PCI into understandable components. Security and risk professionals will gain knowledge and insight into creating a compliant and secure IT environment. Follow these four proactive steps now before your next audit. Brought to you by NetIQ.

Sponsor: NetIQ

Five Myths of Cloud Computing

In recent years, cloud computing has been as visible as any topic in IT. Its front-page news status has been accelerated by Amazon, Salesforce.com, Yahoo, and Microsoft®, among other firms, aggressively vying for leadership in providing cloud infrastructure or services. However, this race for mindshare has obscured cloud computing facts. Many admit to the haze surrounding cloud computing.

This white paper separates fact from fiction, reality from myth, and, in doing so, will aid senior IT executives as they make decisions around cloud computing. While dispelling cloud computing myths, we will answer tough questions: How hard is it to adopt a private or hybrid cloud? How difficult is it to maintain and secure a cloud? How will the cloud transform my business? Do I have the right skill sets in place? What are some of my cost considerations? HP and Intel are committing extensive resources to helping customers with all of their questions and concerns around cloud computing.

Sponsor: HP & Intel

Smarter Commerce is redefining value chain visibility

Smarter Commerce is redefining the value chain in the age of the customer. It starts with putting the customer at the center of your operations - which of itself is not a new idea - however, truly operationalizing this strategy is not easy. It requires synchronizing your entire value chain to deliver consistent and predictable outcomes and necessitates improved collaboration and visibility for your customers and partners.
IBM Global Business Services, through the IBM Institute for Business Value, develops fact-based strategic insights for senior executives around critical public and private sector issues. This executive report is based on an in-depth study by the Institute's research team. It is part of an ongoing commitment by IBM Global Business Services to provide analysis and viewpoints that help companies realize business value.

Sponsor: IBM

Digital Transformation: Creating New Business Models Where Digital Meets Physical

Individuals and businesses alike are embracing the digital revolution. Social networks and digital devices are being used to engage government, businesses and civil society, as well as friends and family. People are using mobile, interactive tools to determine who to trust, where to go and what to buy. At the same time, businesses are undertaking their own digital transformations, rethinking what customers value most and creating operating models that take advantage of what's newly possible for competitive differentiation. The challenge for business is how fast and how far to go on the path to digital transformation.

Sponsor: IBM

IBM Synchronizes its Commerce 2.0 Strategy with 'Smarter Commerce' Initiative

In this paper, IDC Insight highlights the important elements of the IBM Smarter Commerce announcement and looks at the implications of the announcement in the context of a powerful movement that is occurring in the commerce solutions marketplace, both business to business (B2B) and business to consumer (B2C).

Sponsor: IBM

Identity Governance: The Business Imperatives

Security and compliance pressures continue to draw increased attention to Identity Governance issues regarding who has access to which sensitive resources.

This white paper describes the business challenges and opportunities that are driving interest in Identity Governance while discussing considerations your organization should make to help achieve project success.

Sponsor: CA Technologies

CA Technology Brief: CA Point of View: Content Aware Identity & Access Management

Content aware IAM is an innovative approach to protecting sensitive corporate systems, applications, and information.  It goes beyond traditional IAM solutions because it not only enables you to control user identities and their access, but also their use of information.  Information is protected based on use policies associated with each identity, and user access is controlled based not only on the user's role and entitlements, but also on the sensitivity of the information.  This paper explores the concept of content-aware IAM, describes the integrated architecture for this new approach, and highlights the benefits that this approach provides.

Sponsor: CA Technologies

Optimize Data Backup to Ensure Data Protection

Protecting data, a top IT priority, is made even more difficult as rapid data growth pushes traditional backup processes beyond their capabilities. Integrating virtualization into existing backup solutions can optimize data protection and reduce backup windows and costs up to 80%.

Sponsor: F5

Enabling Storage Flexibility to Better Manage Data Growth

Virtualizing file storage gives organizations the flexibility and data mobility required to reduce backup windows and costs, improve storage efficiency, and seamlessly integrate new technologies such as data deduplication and cloud storage.

Sponsor: F5

Case Study: Publisher Cuts Backup Times by 98 Percent

Learn how John Wiley & Sons, Inc., a leading publisher for scientific, technical, and medical communities, successfully reduced backup times from 36 hours to just 50 minutes, which lowered media costs by 90 percent.

Sponsor: F5

Case Study: Firm Optimizes Storage, Shrinks Backup Window

By optimizing its existing storage environment, multi-skilled architectural firm RHWL reduced backup times from 14 hours to 1.5 hours, slashed tape and offsite storage costs, and eliminated the need to purchase additional tier 1 storage.

Sponsor: F5

Forrester Total Economic Impact (TEI) Case Study - Oracle

In this paper, Forrester Consulting examines the total economic impact and potential return on investment (ROI) realized by three Enterprise organizations as they virtualized mission-critical Oracle databases on the VMware vSphere platform. The purpose of this study is to provide readers with a framework to evaluate the potential financial impact of VMware vSphere on their organizations.

Sponsor: VMware

The Hidden Truth About Virtualizing Business-Critical Applications

This IDG whitepaper highlights key findings based on the Quickpoll Survey conducted with more than 300 Enterprise and Commercial IT decision makers worldwide about the state of their virtualization of business critical applications. This paper answers such questions as: What drivers are pushing companies to extend virtualization beyond servers? and What value are they realizing? Central to the paper are key results that expose risks of the past (fears of limited ISV support, performance impact) no longer are a factor for companies moving to 80+% virtualized.

Sponsor: VMware

Top 10 Myths About Virtualizing Business-Critical Applications

Even though virtualization has brought positive change to enterprise IT over the last decade, some skepticism remains about how valuable virtualization can be in the way companies deliver and run business applications. Uncover the truth about how you can run your business critical applications with confidence without sacrificing availability or service quality-and at lower costs.

Sponsor: VMware

Enterprise Java Applications on VMware: Unix to Linux Migration Guide

This guide focuses on key considerations for IT Architects who are in the process of migrating Java applications from UNIX to Linux as part of their VMware server consolidation project.

Sponsor: VMware

Indiana University Virtualizes Mission-Critical Oracle Databases

The Kelley School of Business at Indiana University is a premier business school ranked in the top 25 nationally according to U.S. News and World Report. The Kelley School of Business at Indiana University wanted to decrease server deployment time for faculty special projects; reduce amount of physical hardware; reduce the power consumption across all infrastructure. The Kelley School of Business at Indiana University deployed VMware Infrastructure which decreases costs, streamlines server deployment, and reduces energy consumption.

Sponsor: VMware

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